Sentences with phrase «becomes more an act»

That unflattering exposure prompts the targeted crime family's head, Alfonse Fiorello (Andy Garcia), still mourning the death of his son years ago, to mount up a response, which becomes more an act of desperation when it is learned that the seemingly least fruitful of robberies has yielded a list of names and phone numbers of every key figure in the crime syndicate.

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The simple act of leaving the house to run an errand, grab lunch with a friend, or even just to take a walk becomes a much more involved process, requiring everything from diaper bags to bottles to bibs to a spare set of clothes in preparation for inevitable messes.
«The solo row houses became more than monuments to dying neighborhoods; they had become an act of defiance,» he said.
Waleska Collazo, the principal of La Escuela Rafael de Jesus, expressed her gratitude for Huddleston's simple act of kindness that became so much more.
After the Lord's Day Act was struck down in 1982, and Sunday shopping became common in the early»90s, more and more Sunday papers began to appear.
Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.
It's been a little more than a year since Rule 506 (c) of the U.S. Securities Act (implemented pursuant to Title II of the U.S. JOBS Act) became effective.
1996 - Sustainable Fisheries Act After this extension of the Magnuson - Stevens Act, coastal fisheries reduced bycatch and became more sustainable.
Under 5 U.S.C. 553 (d)(Administrative Procedure Act), an agency may determine that its rulemaking should become effective more quickly than the 30 days after publication that is otherwise required.
Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.
Low longer - term inflation expectations, if allowed to become entrenched, would act as a restraint on actual inflation making it more difficult for us to meet our inflation objective.
If the market can recruit more favorable trend uniformity, we will quickly become more constructive, but we don't act without evidence, and there is no such favorable evidence as yet.
When Airbnb and Amazon become the self - proclaimed voices of public morality — a trend we're seeing in America more broadly — the pressure on megachurches to act with no less magnanimity is even stronger.
As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.
Short - term high grade corporates have become relatively more attractive lately due to a number of technical factors, chief among them a one - time shift out of short - maturity corporate bonds as companies bring home cash held outside of the United States as a result of the recent tax act.
Virtual currency transactions may therefore become more credible through the improvement of the market environment as a result of the Act.
Managing lots of money acts as an anchor on returns because the opportunity set becomes smaller when managing more money.
Since the Civil Rights Act, discriminationhas become a dirty word» no matter that it is no more than an upscale, polysyllabic synonym for choice.
The story becomes even more tragic, though, when the trail of evidence leads him to Dave Boyle, a boyhood friend who was molested as a child and has been acting strangely ever since the recent murder.
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying....
If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.
This concerns the very experience of love, attraction and erotic desire; that experience which is sadly more and more becoming the main criterion by which the act of sex is evaluated.
But with more propriety may it be called the act of unition itself, or the uniting act, by which Christ and the believer become one.
The more God acts effectively upon me, the freer I become.
The misrepresentation becomes all the more apparent in light of Aquinas» unequivocal affirmation elsewhere that the marriage act, provided that it meet the requisite conditions established by right reason, embodies an action that is both virtuous and meritorious.
Stoic morality, Plato's language of the Good, Aristotle's metaphysics of act and potency — all became richer and more coherent when emancipated from the morbid myths of sacrificial economy and tragic necessity.
Haman's plan to destroy the Jewish people, which we will encounter later, may have been acting more out of fear for his position and fear for what would become of Persia as much as anything else.
It does not cure our ills without our cooperation, freeing us from all responsibility in the process of becoming more god - like in our thinking, feeling and acting.
When we abstract from the concept of time measurement, we obtain a more general principle that involves just the concept of temporal order: the principle that every act of becoming is such that there is another act of becoming that is immediately later.
There is no reason why an indivisible act of becoming can not contain many phases of becoming, some of which are more determinate than others.
This is the phenomenology, particularly as practiced by Max Scheler, of which Wojtyla became a student, and which would in time lead him into novel, but orthodox, expositions of sexual ethics (Love and Responsibility), and into even more novel, though no less orthodox, expositions of the human person as the self - possessed locus of action and thought (The Acting Person).
The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.
In the twentieth century, the Austrian school of economics — notably Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek — became famous for stressing the subjective element of economic life, particularly in personal action, and more especially in the personal act of enterprise.
God does not become more divine, of course; but God has other and more varied opportunity to adapt the divine Loving to the creatures, so that in any and every circumstance there is the renewed possibility of novelty, with the emergence of a greater capacity to act instrumentally for God's intentions in the world.
Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.
With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.
Thank you and agree with you about all but not about me talking to extremes since no words would change the brainwash they went through by their imams to prepare then fighting the Russians from Afganistan... It is only responsible for adjusting that mentality is their same programers imams otherwise it would be like talking to a brick wall or tackling a camal... The main thing is that you are to take a good care of Muslims in the state and never let them grow fears from you or become jobless since such acts would assist the penetration of extremism in to their mentality... check which branches of Islam you have and mosques they operate and then read more which of all branches are the most extremes that are to be handled with care, but what I am saying not all branches of Islam be accused of extremes when only a branch or two doing all the mess.
Thus the revelation in Christ, at first received as an act of God in and through an event of which Jesus was the heart and center, tends more and more to be interpreted as God himself become a man.
As just one example, happiness could become a prime measurement of «wellness,» potentially opening the doors for ever more intrusive regulations under the Affordable Care Act as part of the legal requirement placed on the government to cut medical costs.
A man could become «one flesh» with more than one woman, through the act of intercourse.)
Tobias acted bravely, stoutheartedly and chivalrously, but any man who has not the courage for this is a molly - coddle who does not know what love is, or what it is to be a man, or what is worth living for; he had not even comprehended the little mystery, that it is better to give than to receive, and has no inkling of the great one, that it is far more difficult to receive than to give — that is, if one has had courage to do without and in the hour of need did not become cowardly.
The enactment, however, must still at some point include a «speech act» pointing out the meaning of the action, and here once more Shakespeare is able to exploit the resources of folk wisdom, to turn it into music, and to place it in the mouth of one of his characters, who at that moment becomes the chorus commenting on the meaning of the play.
For through this shift in the way of thinking about them, «things» actually become for the most part more «natural» because seen in terms of originary and self - acting units of process.
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
So when I saw the faces once again of so many with whom thirty years before and in the decades that followed I had - so often bitterly embattled against the Establishment - faced that challenge, men from whom inevitably I had become separated on my own conversion to Rome; and when I saw their profound happiness at the Pope's great and apostolic act, and their excitement at the prospect before them, I could not fail to remember once more a famous passage from the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which the agnostic George Eliot said she could not read without tears; and certainly, I can not:
With the collapse of the earthly City of God, such a balancing act becomes more difficult.
Others become more tolerant when they see someone act as this pastor did and think to themselves, God's love must be even more powerful than this man's hate.
and in the act of praying, the enemy becomes more like oneself, less a threat, less a terror.
Every thing is becoming possible since they our earthly lords wanting to act as Gods replacing believers only God and satisfying atheists beliefs in their Earthly Gods more than the God of Heavens.
Thus, complexity in types and relations between acts of minding may have grown exponentially with the evolution of «higher» organisms as the imaginative element in the construction of reality became more socially diffused; i.e. as the construction of reality became more participatory - negotiary in character.
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