Sentences with phrase «book out of hand»

We have to almost pry the book out of their hands so that we can finish it, even though they don't really have anything left to change.

Let me get this straight: The parents of teens (every one of whom has access to the Internet, where they can find every word ever printed, in addition to exposure to some of the most vile human behaviour known to Mankind) are trying to keep a BOOK out of their hands?

In less than six months since my first publication I have already sold a few dozen books out of hand and to museums through Moraine's Edge Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, etc..

In fact, there have been so many that we've got to the point of almost rejecting such books out of hand, thinking that you, BookBrowse's wonderful members, might be overdosing on the subject.

She loved reading so much that while growing up, her sister had to grab books out of her hands to get her to pay attention to her; later; her three children often found themselves doing the same thing.

Convert A Book's eBook promotion services take the hassle of marketing your book out of your hands.

I am less than impressed with those trying to wrestle the book out of my hands and into theirs, using shame, guilt and manipulative techniques, for a huge fee of course.

And I'll say a couple more things for the public library — they won't yank back a book out of my hands while I'm borrowing it, and they won't collect and store information about my reading choices and habits.

Not exact matches

Having a couple inspirational books on hand that can motivate ambition and reaffirm priorities is nice to have, even if they don't pick them up for the first month or so that they're out of school.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

Out of all the books I have read around entrepreneurship, business, and leadership success, this has hands down had the most impact on the growth of myself, our business, and the development my own leadership skills as our team has grown from a startup to a global company with offices in London, Singapore, and New York.»

We're not actually driving donation loads of books and handing them out to people who need them.

In her book, Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, Anne - Marie Slaughter advises: «Don't drop out, defer... if you keep your hand in the workforce while you are devoting more of your time to care, it will be easier to ramp up than to get back in.»

Executives at Ovitz's companies would routinely hand out copies of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, using the book and others like it to teach lessons.

The National Council of Training and Leadership (NCTL), a body which deals with professional misconduct by teachers, heard how Wrigley treated Pupil A as a «teacher's pet», allowing the girl to collect spelling sheets and hand out books.

Holding hands with a special someone, getting a hug, giving a hug, taking a nap, reading a good book, working out, knitting something, taking a good picture, baking something for someone, sitting and talking with people I love — all of these things bring me joy and leave me feeling content.

I meant non existent since no one knew how to read unless you were wealthy and why would they want to suppress this book that had the beliefs that kept the poor eating out of their hands.

Apparently, you get Thom Rainer to write a book about it, and get 23 prominent church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» classes.

The great challenge, the one that took me a book to articulate and which I suspect will take me a lifetime to work out, is to hold every piece of my faith experience in love, even the broken bits, even the parts that still cut my hands and make them bleed.

During Lent, radical Muslims handed out large numbers of Qur «ans on street corners and announced plans to distribute 25 million German - language copies of their holy book in order to win Germans to their faith.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

And I felt like Chris articulated much of how I feel about that little yellow book, and even my own ongoing work: I want to create the pipeline, to build the bridge, to hold out my hand and say walk a while with me and see for yourself.

bootyfunk your and idiot because that passage in mathew 10 its a parrable he is trying to get people to realize that God needs to be the most important thing your life because with him you would not be period so to say that Jesus Christ the son of God is promoting volience is ridiculous, it tares me up that people like you take bit's and peices of the bible and make sound like you want it to if your going to read the Christian hand book then read it all do nt take stuff out of contence just to suit your life style your truly and always be a devoute Christian

Even if those little copper books that have been in the news lately turn out to have something inscribed by the hand of Paul or Peter or John that warns the church to have no buildings, I doubt most groups would leave their buildings.

On the other hand, Christian faith is often; defended by repeated assertions that «the Bible says...» without any attempt to recover the historical situation in which the books of the Bible were written or to get beneath the surface to find out what God really is saying through it.

Then John sees, in God's right hand, a book sealed with seven seals; the opening of the seals, and the consequent events, are described in 5:1 - 8:5 (chapter 7 deals with another sealing, that of 144,000 men out of the twelve tribes of Israel).

«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.»

One of the many books I read told the story of when the writer started out writing Christian books, he lived a hand to mouth existence and did not think he should tithe to the Church he attended as he could not afford it.

After it was published I experienced what literary critics often point out, that any work of art — a poem, a painting, even a book of theology — quickly escapes its creator's hand and takes on a life of its own.

So they developed the doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture to prove that the Bible was a special sort of book which needed special attention and care, and to justify their decision to pull Scripture out of the hands of the people, thus making it available only to the «educated priestly class.»

I love the idea of handing out comic book Bibles in prisons, to people on the street, and to children in orphanages and such.

The books andwebsites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of «the baby», my midwife talks about listening to the baby's heartbeat and at the 12 - week scan, the time at which the majority of abortions are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my baby's head and spine and tiny hands were pointed out on a screen.

I am a one - man show, however, and so this book gave me some ideas of what I can do to help get my books out faster, better, and into the hands of more people.

p.s. taught in Ezekiel 14:14 - 20, Jeremiah 31:30, and in Deuteronomy 24:16, «no man can die for another man's sins, we ae all responsible for our own righteousness» So now tell me why would the Almighty YHWH say this through His true prophets from Genesis - Malachi the book of remembrance named in Malachi 3:16, the so called OT; then turn around and say that anyone, or jc died for our sins, rationalize people, YHWH is not contrary He does it all Deuteronomy 32:39, and Isaiah 44:24 alone, He is the Holy One taught in Isaiah 43:3,15, and Isaiah 43:13, «No man can be delivered from out of His hands».

By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development of the content of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.

Becuase we see in The Book of Daniel with Nebachanezzar's dream where The Hand of God hewns out a ROCK to destroy the «image»»; we also see where Jesus says it is better that you «Fall upon THE ROCK and be broken (referring to Himself), than for THE ROCK to fall upon you and be crushed; we see Jesus saying THE ROCK (The Stone) that the builders rejected have become THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (referring to Himself) and in all instances when we see THE ROCK or ROCK OF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to Himselfof Daniel with Nebachanezzar's dream where The Hand of God hewns out a ROCK to destroy the «image»»; we also see where Jesus says it is better that you «Fall upon THE ROCK and be broken (referring to Himself), than for THE ROCK to fall upon you and be crushed; we see Jesus saying THE ROCK (The Stone) that the builders rejected have become THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (referring to Himself) and in all instances when we see THE ROCK or ROCK OF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to Himselfof God hewns out a ROCK to destroy the «image»»; we also see where Jesus says it is better that you «Fall upon THE ROCK and be broken (referring to Himself), than for THE ROCK to fall upon you and be crushed; we see Jesus saying THE ROCK (The Stone) that the builders rejected have become THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (referring to Himself) and in all instances when we see THE ROCK or ROCK OF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to HimselfOF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to Himself).

We can still speak of interpretation because, on the one hand, the mystery contained in the book is made explicit in out experience and its actuality is confirmed here, and because, on the other hand, we understand ourselves in the mirror of the word.

Our discussion tended to get out of hand unless we had a book, chapters of which we could read before we met.

He was handing out his book on the gifts of the Spirit at MacArthur's conference where they were criticizing them.

In the Book of Psalms, on the other hand, the psalmists also describe their deliverance, although particulars are generally left out, and then quickly turn from their personal experience to the character of God.

9:29 Fight [q - t - l] those among the people of the Book [Christians] who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden and do not profess the true religion, till they pay the poll - tax out of hand and submissively.

No. 6: In this story from the Book of Judges, an Israelite leader, Jephthah, makes a rash vow to God, which has to be carried out: «And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, «If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord's, to be offered up by me as a burnt - offering.»

The excommunication and the burning of books on both sides shared in stimulating the flood of pamphlets which now began to pour out from the presses from many hands.

Have you ever set out to read through the Bible — as I know some of you are doing this year — or have you ever set out to study through a certain book of the Bible or a certain passage — and after struggling with it a bit, you throw up your hands in frustration and give up?

A Methodist preacher in those days, when he felt that God had called him to preach, instead of hunting up a college or Biblical institute, hunted up a hardy pony of a horse, and some travelling apparatus, and with his library always at hand, namely, Bible, Hymn Book, and Discipline, he started, and with a text that never wore out nor grew stale, he cried, «Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.»

Glad you are safe and well and that the book is making its way out to us (it will take a bit longer to reach those of us in, ahem, Thailand), but I can't wait to get my hands on it!

And when Heidi at 101 Cookbooks mentioned The Many Little Meals of Rose Bakery, the book looked so charming I had it in my hands before the week was out.

Haisley told Bennie to get his Bible and open it to the Book of Psalms; then he handed the phone to his wife and rushed out the door.

I believe Arsenal had to sell players in the last few years in order to balance the books, but last summer's sales of Fabregas and Nasri were not borne out of necessity anymore: other factors forced Kroenke's hand this time round.