Sentences with phrase «by a grain of»

common sedimentary rock formed by grains of sand compacted or cemented with material such as clay.
One trim is inspired by the grain of a Japanese paper called washi, while a leather grain finish is also available.
Armory Show: Wolfgang Laib, small marble object placed on the floor, surrounded by grains of rice; at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City
This large kitchen lends itself to a stunning central island with integral wine storage, dishwasher and recycling cabinets, beautifully complemented by the grain of the granite worktops.

Not exact matches

Whether it's dividing up large Costco meat packages or hauling 50 - pound bags of grain from a feed store, there are lots of ways to save by bulk buying.
In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.
«Some of you may be shocked by the amount of grains because of carbohydrates,» Malo says.
The number of traders licensed by the Canadian Grain Commission, for example, has increased to 87 from 73 over the past 18 months.
Grain handling cooperative CBH Group has opened itself up to increased competition in the provision of grain transport services, following a review by the competition watcGrain handling cooperative CBH Group has opened itself up to increased competition in the provision of grain transport services, following a review by the competition watcgrain transport services, following a review by the competition watchdog.
A pearl is created by the irritation of a grain of sand.
As with any projection of future costs in cyberspace however, such studies come with grains of salt by the silo - full.
Though my guards bustled me about rapidly to keep me from becoming a sitting target for kidnappers, they did take me for an hour's walk on the Lido, one of the most beautiful strands of fine - grained, wave - washed white sand I've ever seen, lined by formerly luxurious villas, not one of which had retained four intact walls or glass in their windows.
Made by one of the top pet food manufacturers in the United States, these Orijen Tundra Freeze - Dried Cat Treats are packed with premium proteins and completely free from grains and carbohydrates.
The Wheat Board is one of the last obstacles to total dominance of world grain markets by agribusiness and was targeted by the U.S. and the E.U. for elimination in the Doha round.
After 1980, Chile did indeed begin to break up its large landholdings, but in a way dictated by Chicago monetarists emphasizing export crops wine and vegetables rather than grain to feed its population by a policy of import displacement.
The grain was followed closely by palladium — used primarily in the production of catalytic converters — which gained 24 percent.
Furthermore, the huge amounts of grain and water needed to raise cattle is a concern to experts worried about feeding an extra 2 billion people by 2050.
The coalition of business associations is urging Ottawa to refrain from issuing an order, however, which was last used in 2013 - 14 by former prime minister Stephen Harper when grain shipments were similarly backlogged.
But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»
Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.
The actual position of your fingers on the handle will be determined by how heavy the razor is, the length of the handle and whether you're shaving down (with the grain) or up, although generally speaking you should hold the shorter handled razors with three fingers and use four fingers for razors with a longer handle.
Likewise with the seed giants Monsanto et al, who seized our common heritage of staple grain seeds and is now holding the world at large ransom for «their» product, which is sterile and needs to be grown with a chemical bath of toxins sold only by Monsanto.
By the 1920's, there was a roaring trade across the Pacific in grains, lumber, metals and other staples of Canada's growing resource economy, as well as in manufactured goods.
All of these sites should be taken with a grain of salt, and once again, abide by the rules and don't give away the farm trying to get these free tokens.
Continued selling across the energy and soft sectors was countered by renewed buying of metals and continued buying of grains.
We have supported free trade ever since our foundation in 1843 when we opposed Britain's corn laws, which sought to keep the price of grain high by limiting imports.
If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.
It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological wherein «activists» sometimes revolt against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.
Always was and is and will ever be no matter what matters of materialized shapes to tend to seemingly clutter up His spiritual abundancy It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmologies as protruding «activists» are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.
It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological «activists» sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.
Perhaps the late medieval church, but their sins were greatly exaggerated by the Humanists of the Enlightenment (as well as the Protestants) and so we have to take the reports with a grain of salt and also make sure that we don't condense several hundred years of bad history into a single solitary condemnation.
(And I might just add that Facebook seems to have a grain of reality in it in my opinion and should not be dismissed as it sometimes is by people) Salvation is how God draws me back to the real and holds me there.
I should emphasize that there is nothing methodologically wrong with this assertion, although it does go against the grain for many New Testament scholars, who, as J. Z. Smith has observed, are still dominated by the essentially apologetic (and Protestant) myth of Christian autochthony.
Thus we have a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses which together make up a sort of super-consciousness; the earth not merely covered by myriads of grains of thought but enclosed in one single enveloping consciousness so that it forms, functionally, a single vast grain of thought on a sidereal scale of immensity, the plurality of individual acts of reflective consciousness coming together and reinforcing one another in a single unanimous act.
The poor that oppressed the poor is like a man trying too gather grain in a driveing rain storm, islam religion when I see these same country poor opperressing the poor by breaking up store shops turning over cars and setting cars on fire of the poor really sad
It says this: «You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.»
We all got a problem with our own cultural supremacy, but if we really want to learn how to preach a fuller Gospel that really invites people to revel in the fact that they are alive and they are created in God's image, then we have to take the truth that we know is owned by the author of truth and we have to go and begin to participate with people who have a gram, a grain of that golden truth.
From the beginnings of civilization, farmers have been intervening in the course of evolution by producing hybrid grains, and stock breeders have been domesticating animals that live longer or work harder or run faster.
And he concludes: «This experience taught me, a conservative evangelical, that when Christian witness is done in a spirit of vulnerability, service, and openness to others, it is evangelism... Proselytism, in contrast, is motivated by a spirit of churchly pride which goes against the grain of the Gospel.
The five top corporations are presently involved in class - action suits brought by wheat farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who accuse them of rigging grain prices.
It is clearly an analogy to indicate a large number, rather than an actual indication of an infinite number (by the way, the number of stars in the Universe must be infinite) unless Tropher believes there are an infinite number of grains of sand on Earth.....
He knows that people of faith will serve the culture best by nurturing convictions that sometimes go against the cultural grain.
Cut off from real communication with others, they feel like grains of sand, washed back and forth by the waves of impersonal forces, having friction with others but no organic relatedness.
Book Review: With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology By Stanley Hauerwas.
Here the disciples are accused by the Pharisees of breaking the law prohibiting the reaping of grain on the Sabbath.
They did this by rubbing the heads of grain between their hands in order to separate the grain from the chaff.
Many people could raise their general level of wellness at the same time they enhance their appearance and self - image, by doing two things — drastically reducing or eliminating the intake of junk food, refined sugar, and other carbohydrates, saturated fats, alcohol, and nicotine; and adding more healthful foods to their diets including vegetable proteins, whole - grain cereals and bread, raw vegetables and fruits, and high fiber foods.
«Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth by itself alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit.»
We can all lead better lives by taking mainstream media's corporate general m.o. with a big grain of salt...
By faith I make renunciation of nothing, on the contrary, by faith I acquire everything, precisely in the sense in which it is said that he who has faith like a grain of mustard can remove mountainBy faith I make renunciation of nothing, on the contrary, by faith I acquire everything, precisely in the sense in which it is said that he who has faith like a grain of mustard can remove mountainby faith I acquire everything, precisely in the sense in which it is said that he who has faith like a grain of mustard can remove mountains.
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