Sentences with phrase «as very forced»

While seeing characters like Rocket Racoon interacting with Dante may seem cool, unfortunately it comes across as very forced and corny.

Not exact matches

The Securities and Exchange Commission has ultimate authority in setting up the rules regarding equity - based crowdfunding, but the SoMoLend case should be a very clear reminder that state securities» entities may be potent as a regulatory force.

Unlike the public trashing that other women have gotten when accusing powerful men in the past — think Anita Hill, called «nutty» and «slutty» in 1991 or the long line of Bill Cosby accusers who, until very recently, were dismissed as gold diggers — Carlson's claims that Ailes ogled her and forced her out when she rebuffed him were taken seriously, listened to, and investigated.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro, author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»

The European Union recently agreed on new net neutrality laws which, though they are not yet in force, will ban operators from blocking content — unless it falls into very specific categories such as malware.

Still, Gavet had words of praise for Boyd, saying that «there's a very strong business case to be made» for his strategy, which she described as decentralized, forcing Priceline's subsidiary companies to compete with each other.

We very much look forward to testing the truthfulness of Mr. Trump's feigned lack of knowledge concerning the $ 130k payment as stated on Air Force One.

Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan said, «I think as our business is becoming more and more programmatic, our sales force is becoming consultant [s] to our clients, and I think that is very important because I think we have still a lot of work to do to educate the market and really teach the market how to create vertical video ad unit [s] that really, really works in mobile environment.»

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» Peter Navarro, President Trump's trade adviser, said on CNBC on Monday.

As exhibited by declining Treasury yields and very modest inflation, this is at odds with conventional market forces and investors» expectations for growth.

This week delivered two major blows to the already struggling Greenback, as the dovish Fed - statement was followed by a prelim GDP report that showed very weak inflationary forces.

That puts the company on very solid footing during the downturn, enabling it to wait out the storm as opposed to being forced to address its issues at the worst possible moment, like Freeport.

«His very first briefing as White House press secretary was a tour de force,» Conway said.

Though steep market declines tend to be indiscriminate (with even defensive stocks often acting as if they have a beta of 1.0), we recognize that «risk on» days can also be very uncomfortable when defensives lag the market and our hedges bite with full force.

I agree, that the premise of the strategy is very interesting as it «forces» you to buy solid out of favor companies that have relative high yields.

Your mistrust of a fellow human being based on your perceived superior position is the reason that religion is the most destructive force against the very thing you, as a Christian, hold dear.

You, personally, may not force your beliefs on other people, but your fellow - believers have never been shy about imposing their opinions on others who do not believe as they do, very often my violence.

A family in that day might very well include multiple wives, with the male head - of - house free to force slaves to satisfy him sexually as well.

Or do you believe the pharmacy must be forced to rehire the pharmacist, as the Christians demanded (using your very same argument) when this made news?

Of their very nature those blessed passivities which are my will to be, my inclination to be thus or thus, and the chances given me to attain to my own completion in the way I desire, all are charged with your influence — an influence which I shall come before long to see more clearly as the organizing force of your mystical Body.

Finally, in the justly famous, but very obscure section of «Force and the Understanding» known as the «Inverted World,» the metaphysical distinction inherent in all designations such as inner - outer, intelligible - sensible, noumenal - phenomenal collapses, and with it the attempt of substance or «essence» metaphysics to evade contradiction by locating «contradictories» (or contraries) in ontologically disparate realms.

Since at one particular point in itself, the stuff of the universe has an inner face, we are forced to conclude that in its very structure — that is, in every region of space and time — it has this double aspect, just as, for instance, in its very structure it is granular.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

As Max Weber has taught us, the monopoly on the use of force is the very definition of the state.

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

For this pope has made the Church» as some of his predecessors certainly did not» a great propulsive force in what has been a frequently very lonely, and for some a truly bitter, battle to increase the world's sum of freedom.

Because I could not hide this fact from myself and others, because I could not very well begin my lectures in Bonn with the salutation to Hitler, and because I could not very well swear an unconditioned oath of allegiance to the Führer, as I should have to do as the holder of a state office, I lost my position in the service of this state and was forced to quit Germany.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

-- who give heed to the meaning of the great racist persecutions and who try to understand this meaning, they will see Israel as drawn along the road to Calvary, by reason of that very vocation which I have indicated, and because the slave merchants will not pardon Israel for the demands it and its Christ have implanted in the heart of the world's temporal life, demands that will ever cry «no» to the tyranny of force.

One is called upon not to fear physical death, so as not to lose one's very self, panicked by fear of death (Q 12:4), which is the greatest threat of evil forces, from unbearable pain to dictatorships.

As the healthy - minded enthusiast succeeds in ignoring evil's very existence, so the subject of melancholy is forced in spite of himself to ignore that of all good whatever: for him it may no longer have the least reality.

How very sad you are to try so hard to force yourself into someone's pocketbook as a punishment for simply not agreeing with you.

Strings like, «There is something wrong with you if you don't speak in tongues» (a very unBiblical one that), you must have a full submersion baptism because the last baptism you had wasn't wet enough, you must sing naff choruses or it means you do nt» want to worship God, you must believe that the vast majority of people that have lived on earth are damned to everlasting Hell, you must not say anything controversial, you must not be too intellectually assertive if you're a woman, you must do as we say and believe as we say, you must force yourself to be attracted to people with a particular set of genitalia or be lonely and unfulfilled for the rest of your life.

Certainly nobody could deny that when they are presented in this fashion they have the capacity to force all of us to regard human existence, human decisions, and human actions as matters of very great importance.

Just as when armies crash against each other, the victory is that of superior power, so also the victory of love and grace against the very real force of evil, is a victory of a real superior force.

We can not escape from such passions; but we can submit them to brothers and sisters whose own history of distortion is very different from ours and as powerful in its defining force.

So, by the Bible, I am forced to conclude that Matt's approach is not from the wisdom of heaven... and if the theme of a Matt post started as «pure» [James 3:17], it is now very polluted.

But quite as often, and perhaps more characteristically, he resorted to the curved ball of a parable or the seduction of a riddle — that is, to the very cunning» of a story that forces the listener to come clean.

As I said in the fuller article, he believed — very rare in a French intellectual — that the desires for absolute freedom and absolute justice were and are the driving forces behind large - scale modern tyrannies and injustice.

This accords very well with Newton's third law of motion: we take it starkly as conservation of momentum; Newton more likely saw it as reciprocity between mass and force.

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

If a pharmaceutical could enhance one's capacity for self - control, such therapy could very well be thought of as a spiritual force.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

It would be premature to assert that this new force as yet plays any very explicit part in the course of political or social events.

Sometimes these are reminiscent of the tensions to be found in the relations of states and provinces to nation as a whole, sometimes to the more acerbic dissensions among the branches of the armed forces, all equally pledged to the defense of the country; sometimes they seem very similar to the tensions found among Roman Catholic religious orders; sometimes they seem like economic competition.

As a university preacher one is obliged to declare the thus mauled but persistent message at the very place where the forces which make it difficult to communicate, to hear, and to apprehend, enjoy the most open field, inform the most esteemed disciplines, and have access to the most mobile minds.

Somehow, I suspect your very simple - minded response would change if I claimed you as my personal property, restricted your personal freedoms, claimed any children you might have as my additional personal property, and forced you (using only that «necessary» amount of physical violence to maintain your compliance) to perform hard manual labor for 12 hours a day.

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»