Sentences with phrase «bearing the weight of»

The Upside Down Pyramid strategy flips that model on its head by placing the leader (s) at the bottom, bearing the weight of the company infrastructure on their shoulders.

The new EEOC guidelines are intended to bring to bear the weight of anti-discrimination law to prevent such practices, even when the actions are based on benevolent reasons, such as assuming that a working mother wouldn't want to move to another city, even if it would mean a promotion.

Then again, few beyond Campbell could grasp the scope of the project, which involved managing unparalleled technical intricacies and bearing the weight of accompanying «national, political, financial, legal, and media complexities.»

In a terrific 1985 book, To Engineer is Human — The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski argues that every structure that engineers build is a hypothesis — an educated guess to the effect that «yes, indeed, this bridge is strong enough to bear the weight of all that traffic on a daily basis.»

Then I discovered that Christ had already borne the weight of my sin, and that once I accepted His gift, He would never leave.

Is your faith / religion so tenuous as to be unable to bear the weight of a little inquiry?

Freedom goes hand in hand with responsability, with bearing the weight of the consequences of your actions.

However, after reading Dr. Al Mohler's excellent reflections on Mrs. Osteen's faux pas («The Osteen Predicament — Mere Happiness Can not Bear the Weight of the Gospel,» Sept. 3), I gave the matter more thought.

Unable to bear the weight of their shame, they divert attention away from themselves by pointing to another.

A God who deals with sin in the crucifixion of Christ since we could not bear the weight of his law ourselves.

Causation is indeed too obscure a principle to bear the weight of the whole structure of theology.

And then the Doctor's farewell to Robin, their discussion of what is real and how maybe it's better to just be a story instead of bearing the weight of history reminded me of my favourite moments with the Eleventh Doctor.

But, as the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, «no mere creature can bear the weight of God's eternal anger against sin» (Q&A, 14), and «Only those are saved who by true faith are grafted into Christ and accept all his blessings» (Q&A, 20).

Or, it could resist «death» by moving toward a form of playfulness which bore the the weight of tragic images.

What Rapp discovers bears the weight of the decision that gave rise to her research: «This technology turns every user into a moral philosopher, as she concludes her fears and fantasies of the limits of mothering a fetus with a disability.»

«Because you can not bear the weight of this ministry in your own strength but only by the grace and power of God, pray earnestly for his Holy Spirit.

Every moral decision has some impact on the whole and bears the weight of that responsibility.

While acknowledging the humanity of the participants, the attorney ought to construct a linear argument, a coherent and exhaustive arrangement of empirical facts that can bear the weight of scientific scrutiny.

It has of course been said — as many said of Platonism and later Aristotelianism and more recently existentialism — that because football is not of truly Christian origin it is essentially irredeemable; it could not bear the weight of the gospel; it would by mere association pervert the Good News and make it Bad.

When the chorus sings «The glory of the Lord is upon thee,» the word thee is hardly sounded, as if the human creature can scarcely bear the weight of God's glory.

Because of this, we remain completely unconvinced that this one point will bear the weight of the whole «transcendent sovereignty of the Son of man in Jewish apocalyptic», especially in view of the facts that Son of man is not used as a title in IV Ezra and that there are no other points in common between the two figures.

The plant will not have to bear the weight of the pods removed, will continue flowering and setting fruit throughout the remainder of the season, and the total weight of pods produced by each plant will be greater.

The jump seat or platform can bear a weight of 50 pounds.

Weighing under 12 lb, you can be assured of smooth rides all the time, so you do not have to bear the weight of a large stroller.

Also this single stroller can bear a weight of 50 pounds of one child.

It is very hard to turn the stroller while walking because the swivel wheels get stuck for some reason when they bear the weight of the baby.

Many of us suffer in silence and bear the weight of this overwhelming grief behind closed doors.

For too long he has had to bear the weight of other people's expectations.

When a speaker was last elected in 2005, Brooklyn lost out on many of the spoils, and Mr. Seddio, who was recently elected, is now bearing the weight of that history and looking to regain lost ground, the source said.

Rather than building a hefty metal machine that bears the weight of a load — and that can get in the way of normal movement — Walsh and his team are using fabric, flexible cables, and small motors to inject an extra shot of energy into each stride while letting a person move freely.

He found that the eggs of small and medium - sized oviraptorosaurs could have borne the weight of an adult sitting on a nest of a dozen or so tightly packed eggs.

One branch came to bear the weight of walking whereas the other retained the gills.

Some days my muscles are so inflamed that I can hardly bear the weight of clothes.

Feel the talon of the heel and sense the stacking of bone on bone as you line up your structure to bear the weight of your body with lightness, using as little muscle activation as is needed to remain upright.

SI joints are weight bearing because the sacrum bears the weight of the spine and transfers it through those joints to the pelvis and then down into the legs.

You are asking your lumbar discs to bear the weight of your head (heavy), cervical / thoracic spine (heavy), ribcage (very heavy) plus brain, organs, etc..

It's not your obligation to bear the weight of those who do not value you.

I wanted to feel pretty and fresh and light while bearing the weight of facing everything baby times two (Twin girls.

As is, the core gameplay (even coupled with Bunnylord's ravings) isn't quite frantic or satisfying enough to bear the weight of the entire game on its shoulders.

Despite being surrounded by a talented cast Spall outshines them all and bears the weight of the film on his shoulders.

I liked it at first well enough but it's one of those films that can't bear the weight of all these honors and thus you begin to turn on it.

That's basically the conceit, even if Unsane can't bear the weight of comparison.

Whether challenging his handler (Frank Langella) in order to protect his family or negotiating his affair with an employee of FBI counterintelligence (Alison Wright), Rhys» Philip bears the weight of Cold War in every gesture, every line of his increasingly haggard face.

I've seen my coworker Cecilia's worn - down GameCube controllers, bearing the weight of thousands of Smash Bros. battles, but I imagine that's an extreme case.

George Lucas» Leia couldn't wait to defend her world; Johnson's Leia, by contrast, must visibly bear the weight of her world.

He exudes enormous power and pain, and as such is the emotional fulcrum of the movie, bearing the weight of the struggle between du Pont and Dave.

However, they can not bear the weight of the entire online training program.

For answers, we turned to the professionals — both inside and outside the schoolhouse — who bear the weight of education's much more comprehensive history.

FHA is the only loan that allows a «non-occupying coborrower» to bear the weight of the total debt.

As is, the core gameplay (even coupled with Bunnylord's ravings) isn't quite frantic or satisfying enough to bear the weight of the entire game on its shoulders.