Sentences with phrase «at least a promise of»

Both symbols point to America as a land of liberty, or at least the promise of liberty.

Yet the knowledge that there were great people to rejoice in, a community where there was at least the promise of good things to come, makes all the difference at this juncture.

Tomorrows piece on Obama and Britain will entirely miss the point - what united people beneath Obama was (at least a promise of) non-partisan politics.

It is unfortunate that Blizzard chose to offer these loot boxes through micro-transactions, particularly when the cost / content ratio seems wildly off — $ 1.99 for two loot boxes with random cosmetic upgrades is pretty lame — but there is at least the promise of

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But best of all, from the interns» perspective, if you don't have the means or the intention to hire any of your interns, you should at least connect some of the most promising candidates with colleagues in your field and help them find their footing after they conclude their internship.

Let's be real: Every month, it feels as if a new dating app launches on the promise that it is the «non-creepy» (or, at the very least, «less creepy») version of Tinder, the ubiquitous photo - based mobile - matchmaking service that's taken the online dating world by storm.

But the promise of supersonic offers what Japan Airlines and at least several others could consider a more valuable luxury: travelers» time.

By promising to increase marginal rates on the very wealthy — essentially by allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reduction.

As a matter of fact, it could — or at least, it offered up a promising concept (though the details remain proprietary): flat - bottomed resealable bags that hang from a downward - angled rail; remove the first package and the rest slide neatly down.

Sony, at least, has recognized the issue and is promising that the upcoming PlayStation 4 will update itself and boot games in a matter of seconds.

Foreigners who invest a minimum of $ 500,000, and promise to create at least 10 jobs, are eligible for the EB - 5 program that often leads to permanent residency and eventual citizenship.

Though cameras and calls won't be built into the initial version of Home, Zuckerberg promised the software will be updated at least once a month to add more features and fix bugs.

The promise of future millions — or at least a decent salary — will keep good people around, especially if you build a headquarters that doubles as the adult equivalent of a romper room.

GM has promised an «unvarnished» report and said it will make at least some of the results public.

The House three - day rule was part of Republicans» 2010 «Pledge to America,» in which they promised to give «at least three days to read the bill before a vote.»

The promise of AI is finally here, at least as far as sales support is concerned.

But I can almost promise that at least one of those people will eventually help you professionally (and vice versa!).

One of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's last acts was to halt the EPA's Clean Power Plan, at least temporarily threatening the United States» ability to carry out promises made in Paris on curbing climate change.

Then the corporation applies the value of its new public stock to acquiring yet more little businesses in what, conceptually at least, promises to be a never - ending expansion.

Of course, since Bitfinex is (at least nominally) based in Hong Kong, this looked promising.

In order to fulfill the campaign promise of using growth to reduce the deficit, any tax reform plan should be at least revenue neutral before accounting for economic growth, so all the gains from growth can be devoted to deficit reduction.

Misguided by Keynesian falsehoods, they promise or at least create the illusion of a materialistic paradise on earth by simply increasing debt based money out of keystrokes of a computer.

«So if Trump were to make good on his promise, [the Canada-U.S. free - trade agreement] would apply to Canada-U.S. trade — at least until Trump pulled out of it too,» Mr. Kronby argues.

There was justification for some of this — economic data was supportive of risk assets and the new US administration is still promising a raft of measures that may support corporate earnings (at least in the short term).

In both cases, Conservative parties were defeated by parties promising moderate progressive platforms that included tax increases and significant increases to public infrastructure investment and explicit commitments to run deficit budgets, for at least the short - term period in the case of the NDP.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

Moreover, we could not even confirm that it can generate at least a portion of the promised profits.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

Harry Houdini, who could wriggle his way out of * anything *, PROMISED to come back and tell us (or his wife, at least) what's up.

Death threats issued to Pope Benedict XVI, Muslims burning the Pope in effigy, promises to conquer Rome and slit the throats of Christians, at least seven churches in the region of Palestine torched, a nun murdered in front of a children's hospital in Somalia, claims of Benedict participating in....

Through a failure to grasp the exact nature of this power newly bestowed on all who put their confidence in God — a failure due either to a hesitation in face of what seems to us so unlikely or to a fear of falling into illuminism — many Christians neglect this earthly aspect of the promises of the Master, or at least do not give themselves to it with that complete hardihood which he nevertheless never tires of asking of us, if only we have ears to hear him.

Something like this can also be done from the side of the theology of nature, and, as I have indicated, I believe this is the most promising starting point in the «theologies of» because, in principle at least, it is the most inclusive.

If there are evil people out there who want to destroy us — and we must admit that Osama bin Laden, at least, has explicitly promised that that is exactly what he wants to do — then any use of force to put a stop to them is justified.

You remember, of course, the wall: The central — or at least most attention - grabbing — campaign promise of Donald Trump.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

And I had to promise to stay for at least three years before they would accept the risks of working toward their vision.

The truth is that, as, for instance, in Rawls» A Theory of Justice, contract thinking engages ideas of promise and obligation that take on at least the appearance of being covenantal.

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

Even if the specific theories of contemporary physicists concerning the anthropic principle turn out to be scientifically unacceptable, a theology of revelation is obliged nonetheless to emphasize that the universe is at least in some way open to such promise from its very inception.)

Such a situation is the Christian fellowship, which even at its apparently least promising represents (however imperfectly) something of the goodness and grace of its Lord.

You, at least, try to console me, and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months go to confession and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the rosary and keep me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.»

(We are speaking here of the formal theology of revelation and not of the concrete life of faith in which, at least to some degree, the theme of promise remained alive, though not always in the biblical sense.)

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

A promising place to begin is found in two sentences in a report by the Rutgers National Marriage Project: «Most Americans continue to prize and value marriage as an important life goal, and the vast majority of us will marry at least once in a lifetime....

For the moment, at least, many groups hear something they like in the promise of faith - based reforms, but for very different reasons.

And from the biblical perspective at least, the meaning of history is found only in our pursuit of this promise.

History, at least insofar as it is a consequence of God's promise, is itself the Content, and not just the context of revelation.

Most Christian movies are trying to present at least a portion of the gospel (Jesus was the son of God, allowed himself to be killed as a sacrifice for man's sins and was the first raised from the dead with a promise to raise all those who believed and accepted his sacrifice).

The fundamental political calculus he endorses is no different from that of secular interest groups: Choose the candidate who promises the maximum good (or at least the minimum damage) without regard to extrinsic costs.

This, at least, is the promise of biblical religion.»