Sentences with phrase «attempt at self»

About Blog The story of the Atherton family's attempt at self - sufficiency.

Can not have compliance with the law unless there is an attempt at self compliance.

It's an attempt at self - healing.

I soon realized that his only interest in snakes was a twisted attempt at self - aggrandizement, and as delicately as possible, I informed him that I wouldn't be selling him any of my animals.

One would open it up and judge it as an amateurish attempt at self - publishing — and it wasn't even self - published (the electronic version is just fine, thankfully!).

The writer Robert Penn Warren said, «For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self - understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»

Not bad for the first attempt at a self - designed cover, aye?

A movie that asks you to laugh at a creep (with whom you're also supposed to identify) murdering innocent young women out of some pathetic attempt at self - actualization better be damn funny, and Lucky isn't by an exceedingly long shot.

Every time you turn on the TV or open a film magazine he's asserting that this movie is «Raymond Carver soup»; worse still, in the pages of the New York Times Book Review last month, he actually remarked, in an attempt at self - disparagement, «I agree that real art is without irony,» one of the dumbest statements a director of his distinction has ever uttered.

Based on the memoir by Benjamin Mee, the film follows a freshly widowed father (Matt Damon) who, in an unconventional attempt at self - therapy, moves himself and his two children Dylan and Rosie (Colin Ford and Maggie Elizabeth Jones) into a decrepit zoo.

Strange as it sounds, inflammation is actually a necessary defense mechanism of the body: «Inflammation is the body's attempt at self - protection; the aim being to remove harmful stimuli, including damaged cells, irritants, or pathogens — and begin the healing process.»

Identify and treat the cause: Tolle Causam Symptoms of illness are viewed not as the cause of disease, but as the expression of the body's attempt at self - healing and should therefore not be suppressed through medical treatment.

Symptoms of illness are viewed not as the cause of disease, but as the expression of the body's attempt at self - healing and should therefore not be suppressed through medical treatment.

In an attempt at self - defense, they refuse entry to the insulin.

Each and every keystroke becomes part of our consumer profile; every attempt at self - expression is reduced to a brand preference.

Firstly its «higher ethic» is managerialism: any attempt at some epistemological break (Let's change what we call all these bits that make up «ourselves»), each attempt at self diagnosis (Why aren't we winning as things stand?)

Christ, who humbled himself by taking on human flesh, in direct contrast to Adam's attempt at self - exaltation.

Let me in this attempt at self - analysis go one step further and try to explore how the development of the world through the more than 50 years of my working life has reflected itself in my conception of this world.

Prayer, like worship, is primarily man's attempt at self - oblation to his god.

God justifies us by beginning a new history; therefore every attempt at self - justification violates the meaning of love.

It is not arbitrary, therefore, to see the novel that grew from these two journeys as in part an attempt at self - analysis.

«What is often expressed and understood by the term «gender» ultimately ends up being man's attempt at self - emancipation from creation and the Creator.

Very well, but to take the position (as he does later in an analysis of the issues in the case) that he was not only Baby Doe's Surgeon - General, he was also the Surgeon - General for the parents of Baby Doe as well as the Surgeon - General for all the physicians in Bloomington, Indiana, is a clumsy and ludicrous attempt at self - exculpation.

Even how she saved at least Rigsby from his noble attempt at self - sacrifice has to be weighed against her elation at «winning» even after so many have been lost.

Taken together, the two measures constitute one of the company's more significant attempts at self - regulation in its 14 - year history.

The danger is this: self - examination may spawn attempts at self - improvement, with...

The danger is this: self - examination may spawn attempts at self - improvement, with the result that looking at self replaces looking to God, and small measures of merit replace the immeasurable grace of God.

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

Tragically, in all of its attempts at self - protection, the Church too often completely misses this beautiful truth.

Moreover, due to the interference of the Portuguese missionaries in the life of the church, St. Thomas Christians were involved in internal dissentions and attempts at self - preservation.

The reigning tendency of current Protestantism, the so - called dialectical theology, denies every revelation of God outside the Christian Bible and looks upon the non-Christian religions as mere attempts at self - apotheosis which are under the judgment of God.

Respect his attempts at self - sufficiency and encourage his learning.

Respect his attempts at self sufficiency

And speaking of eating, get ready for toddler food throwing, food blowing, and massively messy attempts at self - feeding.

A new year means a new set of occasionally earnest attempts at self - improvement.

This helps motivate me to continue when my own attempts at self - motivation are failing.

Somehow the venture — like so many misplaced attempts at self - definition — struck me as an exceedingly worthy practice.

Others will find a few hilarious jokes surrounded by flimsy attempts at self - justification.

In short, our attempts at self - assessments were thought provoking on many levels but, in terms of self - regulation, they failed spectacularly.

Appreciate both of you, — it's been a great tour, and «Rules» is making a significant impact that it simply didn't with my previous attempts at self pub.

Finally, inflammation can affect the body's responses to other hormones such as cortisol and insulin, further unbalancing the body's attempts at self - regulation and influencing the amount and extent of pain dogs experience.

You could say that Leckey's early negotiations between image and substance, his early attempts at self - transformation, were a kind of preparation for life as an artist.

The husband argued on appeal that the wife should have established the condition precedent to a variation, namely that despite her best endeavours, her attempts at self - help — getting a job — had failed.

maladaptive attempts at self - soothing (e.g., rocking and other rhythmical movements, compulsive masturbation)

Not exact matches

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self - ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it will face the «punishment of history» for any attempt at separatism.

Waymo's strategy so far appears to be attempting to prove that Kalanick was fixated on beating Google and winning the self - driving car race at all costs, which could in turn serve to explain his motivation to conspire with Levandowski.

This set of more than 5,000 cases was used to train the machine to identify those at risk of attempted suicide compared to those who committed self - harm but showed no evidence of suicidal intent.

Levandowski will take the reins of self - driving departments at both companies in a focused attempt to see how the new tech can be fitted for personal transportation, delivery and trucking.

I am sorry there are people that have no faith in God, but I am more saddened by the efforts of ALL in this discussion to cast words of hate on others in some personal attempt at achieving self - worth at the expense of someone else's belief (or non-belief).