Sentences with phrase «by earnest»

HUD requires that all accepted offers be accompanied by an earnest money deposit equal to 5 percent of the bid price, not to exceed $ 2,000, but not less than $ 500.

Hiring managers have trashcans full of brag books left behind by earnest sales people.

The tsunami of stupidity and science denial that has washed over Washington, D.C., won't be held back by earnest calculations of long - run risks, or by the potential inundation of remote island nations, or by the news that polar bears and other iconic species are endangered.

Inspired by an earnest dedication and passion for art, the gallery consistently exhibits a high standard of contemporary art.

Defined by an earnest use of color and deft symbolism, his paintings and collages express modern sensibilities and blend European, American, and African art forms.

Earnest money deposit: Your offer for a home should be accompanied by an earnest money deposit to show the seller you are serious about buying their home.

Do not forget that the history of American education is checkered with examples of short - lived surges of zeal for reform, most of which died after brief bursts of spending accompanied by earnest talk.

Played nicely by an earnest Thomas Brodie - Sangster — part of an all - around laudable cast — Donald is brimming with all of the expected angst and confusion that afflicts any teenage boy.

Visceral, vital and anchored by its earnest performances, this is a potent portrait of a shameful historical truth.

Son of God's earnest - ness is not necessarily a strike against it; it was made by earnest people who want to spread the word.

The drive to make young scientists «specialists» is motivated by an earnest and genuine concern for their success.

Not by earnest effort, but by trusting him do we approach him.

The first stages of education for the Negroes were inaugurated by earnest Christians, black and white.

Not exact matches

Among the pearls of wisdom I've received from my father over the years, one stands out: Get out of debt by age 40 so you can start saving for retirement in earnest.

But after 1975 — when the Swedish state began to expand in earnest — Sweden's economy noticeably slowed, falling from the 4th richest in the world to the 13th by the mid 1990s.

Relief efforts, coordinated by the National office of Disaster Services along with the Red Cross, have started in earnest with multiple relief flights and vessels landing on Barbuda today.

By the time the bank started raising money for 1MDB in earnest three years later, corrupt officials had already sucked around $ 1 billion from the fund, the legal documents show.

If the recovery got underway in earnest and credit demand surged, we could slow down the rate of credit creation by raising the interest rate we pay on excess reserves.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

Renewed efforts to rein in shadow banking by China's financial watchdogs began in earnest last year following the Communist Party's 19th National Congress in Beijing.

This year, the reclusive state led by Kim Jong Un is expected to reap no more than half the foreign currency it did in 2016, when sanctions entered effect in earnest.

In an age when so much of hip - hop revels in thug life, an earnest warning by rapper J. Cole on the dangers of drugs has proven a runaway success.

Lightbody, clearly delighted by the crowd's boisterous reception, was a spastic source of motion, punishing his guitar and performing his vocals with the earnest energy of a man who knows his band's time has come.

It is only after he had begun to be disturbed by the indulgence sales that we find him for the first time considering sacramental issues in earnest in his lectures.

Some clergy are quite earnest and good at what they do but often get run off and run down by the controlling minority; other times they are the overbearing, dogmatic type who bully people into submission.

By rejecting the 1996 Application and asking for revisions, the Holy See has made it clear that it is in earnest in wanting canon 812 to be applied to the United States.

The Crisis of Modernityby augusto del nocetranslated by carlo lancellottimcgill - queens, 336 pages, $ 110 There is no greater ideologue, nor any more earnest in his self - delusion, than the pragmatist who thinks he is free of ideology.

Such inwardness is inexplicable save as one sees Jesus taking the principle of individuality in thorough earnest and conceiving the religious life as rooted inside persons, one by one.

The basis of Biblical ideas of substitution — one bearing the sin and penalty of all — was corporate personality, where in deepest earnest the sin of one was regarded as being the sin of all, the punishment due to one as being due to all, and the sacrifice of one, as in the case of Jephthah's daughter, as being offered by all.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

She was joined by a circle of earnest Christians, mostly of the Baptist persuasion, who....

Or if it were the youth that, with all the earnest devotion of his soul, fixed his trusting gaze on you, assured that if, you said it, it must be so, and in gratitude, bound by a solemn vow to follow the guidance of your counsel through life; would you dare give him any such counsel?

I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt when I assumed you didn't understand the nature of the discussion — because the alternative of course would be to discuss a lot of earnest scholarship and study by people gay and straight alike as mere rationalization.

The initial answer is: by studying the medieval masters in earnest.

We all sat around the table — and if an Elder needed to elder, he stood up and did so — but he was not only marked by his depth, wisdom, compassion and love — but his earnest haste — he could not wait to sit down again amongst us and be one of us - all of us at the feet of the Master Builder.

In addition (speaking as an atheist) I am told by proper, earnest, well - meaning evangelicals that it is an unforgiveable sin purely not to believe in God, and because of that, I'm beyond the pale and some kind of abomination in the eyes of God.

But something in me screams that if they did — the Spirit of God would be sought more in earnest by those who desire to continue to draw near.

From every s ~ ntence deep original and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high, holy and earnest spirit.41

This inspired me to start studying up on Judaism in earnest, and I've learned quite a bit from books by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, Anita Diamant, and other Jewish writers — Orthodox to Reformed.

The response by Christopher Tollefsen and Alexander Pruss to my piece, «Fig Leaves and Falsehoods» indicates, I hope, that the needed conversation about the morality of all false signification is underway in earnest.

In any event, we have no right to refuse this opportunity to any who, either by their own adult act of commitment or through the earnest decision of their parents, can be brought within the ambit of the Christian community where God's care, as made available through Christ's deed in the world, may have its effect.

It began in earnest in 1944 when the Anglo - American Petroleum Agreement wasgned by the US and Britain, dividing all the oil in the middle east between the two nations.

At a time when many writers of fiction appear content to spin out tales concocted by marketing firms, or else lose themselves in worlds of arch and arcane wordplay, Murdoch is extravagant, enthusiastic and earnest.

He often appears as the earnest reformer, someone who perceives the world as a never - ending series of problems and crises to be solved by the application of his reason and native ability.

It is the opinion of all, and so far as I dare permit myself to pass judgment it is also my opinion, that it is not the highest thing to enter the monastery; but for all that it is by no means my opinion that in our age when nobody enters the monastery everybody is greater than the deep and earnest soul who found repose in a monastery.

For if you are serious about behavior change, Gregory thought, you will work incrementally by small steps to modify actually revisable behavior as evidence of your earnest desire for change.

This essay does not purport to be a fully adequate encounter with Altizer's radical theology; but however small, I hope it will be a genuine contribution to the ongoing task of responsible theological reaction to the earnest questions and challenges put to the Catholic faith by members of the death - of - God movement.

From G4692; «speed», that is, (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness: — business, (earnest) care -LRB-- fulness), diligence forwardness, haste.

By and large, most earnest Christian people — and we must here include the clergy as well as the laity — are not very well equipped in this respect.

Thou art Re, and thou earnest them all away captive; Thou bindest them by thy love.