Sentences with phrase «by false hopes»

Zhao uses what happened to Easter Island's Rapa Nui civilization that led to their extinction as an analogy for what may happen to us post Race to the Top, given both sets of people are / were driven by false hopes of the gods raining down on them prosperity, should they successfully compete for success and praise.

This is the classic «romance scam», where the user is enticed by false hopes of romance to send money abroad.

Some might have been driven crazy by the false hope that may have been offered.

Even in the grasp of death, they are not taken hostage by the false hope of religion.

None of us want climate to change as fast as it's happening; rather than grasping at straws, we inspect them — really closely — lest we be fooled by false hope and fake assurance from business - as - usual PR guys.

Not exact matches

More than anything, this represents the false sense of «hope» that was engendered by the election of Trump.

But without that false hope, you really have to work on your problems and solve them by your own.

The teaching following 21.7 is designed to combat false hopes that the End is to be expected in connection with the fall of Jerusalem, and is here preserved by Luke because it is in agreement with his general anti-apocalyptic thrust.

Though we confess today in humble penitence and know ourselves cleansed by God's forgiveness, we must know also, if we are not blinded by arrogance or false hopes, that tomorrow we shall need to say again:

The self righteous self serving people who refuse to discuss anything that has not been «taught» to them by pastors... I hope people are wise to their false love and bait they use to get you in....

«I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security... More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: «Give them something to eat.»»

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.

Any «agreement» with the Catholic Church was entered into by the Church in the false hope that appeasement would save lives.

We would wage war upon false optimism; on the base hope of happiness coming to us ready made; on the notion of a salvation by knowledge alone, or by material civilization alone, vain symbol as this is of civilization, precarious external arrangement, ill - fitted to replace the intimate union and consent of souls.

I hope that those who believed and were deceived by Harold Camping will open their minds and realize that Camping is nothing but a FALSE PROPHET Deut.

His second book, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hopes, is set to be published by Moody in April 2011.

The Christian is a coward who when confronted by difficulties takes refuge in the bosom of his God, in false hopes and an illusory protection.

«More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving.»

They also, by raising among Jews the false hope that a simple doctrinal adjustment by the Church (rather than real accommodation by Israel to the reality of Palestinian peoplehood) will resolve the issues diplomatically, do a real disservice to the Jewish community both in Israel and here in America.

But it was also unnecessary for Sixers president Bryan Colangelo to permeate false hope throughout the Philadelphia fan base by claiming Simmons» January foot scan would be his last.

He can learn to adapt by making strong efforts to sign players we need rather than having some false hope that the players we have will suddenly turn water into wine.

At least there's no false hope to be snatched away from us by June or July.

Arsenal were also out played by the Germans but we rode our luck and that may have seen us start the new season with false hope and confidence.

We can either take the blue pill, essentially hit reset, wake up believing Arsenal are on the cusp of success repeating the same season of false hope all over again; you know premier league contenders in September, out of the running by march.

They were fed false hopes and lies by Wenger to lure them to join Arsenal.

we bottle it by feb / march - then finish strongly to give false hope for the new season then rumours of a warchest, ivan says funds are available

The board has sent their PR guys on a media campaign to dowrse the rising agitatation amongst the fans by giving them false hope of great signings in the summer to ensure season tickets and merchandise are sold.

«They were all cheated, they were all beguiled by all this false advertising, marketing activities that seduce them to buy their formula, believing the testimonials of celebrities so they were always hoping and wishing that they would have healthy babies,» Fernandez adds.

I simply hoped to point out that often you can receive the best advice from people who DO have something to GAIN and A LOT to lose by giving false or bad cloth diapering advice.

The dēmokrateo of it all isn't stoppable by anodyne calls for «dialogue», or false hopes populism will somehow burn itself out.

In the last week, three very competitive races ended up centering around the unverified — and in some cases, just false — claims made by the Democratic candidates hoping to win next month.

He observed that NPP's track record only proves they enjoy inciting «false hope» in Ghanaians by introducing programs they can not complete.

Attorney General Jerry Brown, the Democrat hoping to take the seat being vacated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, called his Republican opponent's latest ad, taking on his record on taxes, «completely false.»

For a 2014 Scientific American article, «False Hope,» I calculated that to compensate for the drop to zero sulfur emissions by the end of the century, we have to meet a CO2 target of about 405 ppm — just slightly above current levels.

The participants in the group with «explicit conditions» read an article with explicitly false information — the Zika epidemic in Brazil was caused by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes by a subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company that was hoping to profit from a future vaccine.

This would remove the false hope given by mavericks to patients.

So if you do decide to keep the date, don't allow it to end by giving that person a false sense of hope.

I was more entranced with the fine lines both moles had to walk — the moral complications, the fear of death and discovery and the hope to be accepted by a loved one under false pretenses.

Alas, Jacob's news spreads like wildfire, and this film, which was directed with much passion by Frank Beyer from Holocaust survivor Jurek Becker's script, goes on to reveal what a double - edged sword hope can be when it is after all false and when the threat of deportation to concentration camps is constant.

They may wish the urban districts well and hope matters improve, but their taste for bold reform is limited by a false contentment with their own situation.

Murray warns against false hope: «Some say that the public schools are so awful that there is huge room for improvement in academic performance just by improving education.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

One such example of false hopes that Jorgenson (2003) wrote about, and can be found in the research conducted by McCabe and Castel (2008), states that educators should be aware «that much of the brain based information in the field of education is developed and promoted by educational consultants, few of whom have credentials in the field of neuroscience.

It shows the cruelty of the false hopes raised by those masters pretending to «humane» treatment, through promises of manumission extended as a calculated tool to secure loyalty when an owner took the risk of educating a slave for office work, for example; or the deceitful «kindness» used to secure compliance of seemingly freed slaves, in perpetuating programs of sterilization, medical experimentation, and of course cheap labor.

I see two big issues with the mindset of indie authors today: (1) their expectations seem to be out of whack because of the false hope given by KDP Select after - free promotions, and (2) they're looking for the easy path to success.

Vanity Publishers give writers false hope by praising their manuscripts, just as Austin Macauley did with me.

Finally after being ran around with false hope I was finally told by employee # 21917 that there was nothing I could do or could have done to reverse the outcome.

A lot of traders get a false sense of hope by adding additional funds to their trading accounts or by just thinking that «this time will be different».

But the hopes raised by the adjuster were false.

Pin bars, by making a short - lived break of the levels, give false hope to traders in the wrong direction.