Sentences with phrase «by nothing so»

(What a paradox it is, in a society where we swear by nothing so much as the acceptance of difference, to perceive difference as a problem.

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It's not so much a case of being instructed as it is one of needing to be regularly reminded that (a) nothing good happens by itself and (b) you are the person primarily responsible for making the right things happen.

If that's true, nothing I can teach you today about the importance of saving for retirement — and the importance of starting to do so right now — will compare to the life lesson you'll have learned by the time you actually reach retirement.

So many vacations, he said, particularly luxury vacations, are characterized by «doing nothing and having everything done for you and happen around you.»

They came with nothing but each other and a lot of gratitude... Well that young man, who is not so young anymore, was joined by his life partner three days ago as they stood on the perch of the New York Stock Exchange, rang the bell and took their company public.

It all reminds me of the famous comment by onetime Yankees minority owner John McMullen, who noted that there is nothing so limited as being a limited partner of George Steinbrenner's.

(By contrast, the «do - nothing» Congress of 1947 - 49, so dubbed by President Harry Truman, passed more than 900 billsBy contrast, the «do - nothing» Congress of 1947 - 49, so dubbed by President Harry Truman, passed more than 900 billsby President Harry Truman, passed more than 900 bills.)

It's all so brand new that there's nothing to go by yet.

But for us to do so requires nothing less than a very substantially heightened degree of direct political activism by people who really care about the survival of our country.

So far nothing has happened notwithstanding that tax simplification would meet all the criteria set out by Mr. Flaherty.

There seems nothing to be done about banks impoverishing people by extortionate credit card rates, junk securities and a debt burden so heavy that it will require one bailout after another over the next few years.

What happens is that by definition, there are no stocks above their 52 - week high, so there is nothing to counteract the stocks that are down 30, 40, 50 % or more.

This is one of the reasons I am so concerned about the widespread focus on operating earnings, which often have nearly nothing to do with the actual stream of cash flows that is claimed by stockholders.

So investors might have believed that the extraordinarily depressed market valuations of 1974 and 1982 were «justified» by recession and high interest rates, but that did nothing to prevent the S&P 500 from enjoying remarkably high returns in subsequent years.

-- Nothing in this title shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Defense to develop, prepare, coordinate, or, when authorized by the President to do so, conduct a military cyber operation in response to a malicious cyber activity carried out against the United States or a United States person by a foreign government or an organization sponsored by a foreign government or a terrorist organization.

Federal interest rates are set by law, so they have nothing to do with your income, credit score or any of the other factors private lenders consider when determining your interest and fees rate.

Nothing in the rules specifies that the amount paid has to exceed any particular sum and so the amounts typically contributed by founders should generally qualify.»

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

This week's school shooting, and we have to say, «this week's,» because there are so many, prompted this Facebook post of a depressingly familiar cycle: mass shooting followed by calls for thoughts and prayers, Facebook debates, everyone forgets, Congress does nothing, crickets chirping, and then another mass shooting.

Of course, the status quo is so corrupted and intransigent that perhaps nothing that is said — including by the transcendent voices of these young survivors — will make a difference.

So you know by now (if you didn't realize upon reading the first 2 paragraphs in this review), that the Daily Trader Club is nothing but a scam.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

You are so right if someone insulted my family I would probably get my revenge by killing people who had nothing to do with it.

So, again, nothing is mysterious, but we can be equally (if not MORE) be in aw and be seduced by the grandiose of nature.

It's also great that the New York Yankees have millions of fans, but I'm not really a sports guy, so their fanhood means nothing to me, or to them, and not only do I get by just fine not following sports, but I know that being a sports fan would actually make me less happy.

So what was God doing all by itself for the ETERNITY that proceeded it's creation of the universe from nothing?

If that is so it can mean nothing else but that he is in hell today and always will be, for if he could / would ever make into heaven by whatever means, it would certainly be «good» for him that he was born.

Giving or taking access to items doesn't matter (so long as the item itself isn't evil) but a firearm is nothing but a tool... no different than a hammer or a saw... using it for self defense is openly condoned by the Bible.

Both of these statements are nothing more than declarations, like so many others often used by Christians, to add the semblance of authority to a belief which in reality has no basis whatsoever.

Regardless of your beliefs and views, is it not tasteless for CNN to run this as their lead story on Easter morning??? Americans are appalled by anything done to insult Islam believers, so why is this felt to be appropriate??? There is nothing wrong with the article, but its timing makes it a poor and inflammatory choice of journalism, and would be taken as «persecution» if was directed toward any other belief system.

So your alleged «god» was created by NOTHING for NOTHING just so it / he / she could allegedly create all that we currently know as the Universe just to trip us up in order to BURN the majority of us for eternitySo your alleged «god» was created by NOTHING for NOTHING just so it / he / she could allegedly create all that we currently know as the Universe just to trip us up in order to BURN the majority of us for eternityso it / he / she could allegedly create all that we currently know as the Universe just to trip us up in order to BURN the majority of us for eternity?!

Your degree is not in history, so don't go making an ass of yourself by speaking on something you know nothing about.

So they see nothing wrong with continuing to commit so many Satanic acts, since they are already condemned to be eaten by the worm for ETERNITSo they see nothing wrong with continuing to commit so many Satanic acts, since they are already condemned to be eaten by the worm for ETERNITso many Satanic acts, since they are already condemned to be eaten by the worm for ETERNITY.

So we can say — «I am saved by Christ's atonement» and now nothing else matters?

All right, so hell is a created thing, presumably created by God through the incarnate Word: «Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.»

You have foolishly tried to excuse that behavior by attacking me, but in doing so all you've really demonstrated is that all your believing in God has done nothing to make you a better person than I am, at best.

From the at of two people, Adama dn Eve, Or from the acts committed by people having nothing to do with Adam and Eve and the so - called Fall?

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

An awareness so acute and, because the eyes were supremely vulnerable, so absorbing that he had nothing to spare for the inner light or the horrors and vulgarities revealed by it.

So it was God casuing God to come to be, because God is a part of Pure energy which is eternal, He was able to transpose Pure Energy into matter, First by creating Nothing and then Matter.

Another «elephant in the room» problem with the «virgin» business, is the question of why, if the point of the text in Mathew is that Mary was a virgin, (to say nothing of the problem raised by the fact that the gospels say he had «brothers», ie James etc), but why does Mathew spend so much time going througn the geneology.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Only by reducing the love affair Americans have with guns can we start to reduce the macho gun owner mentality (and I know many gun owners... most are hunters, and I have no issue with that, but no deer was ever so formidable that anyone ever needed an assault rifle to take it down (and I've caught wild turkey with nothing but snare traps) People get up in arms caliming their rights are violated when some law limits guns, but that does not remove the right to bear arms, simply limits it to reason within the spirit of the amendment.

(5) Evolutionary theory is similarly influenced by the reductionistic bias of science, with its tendency to try to understand phenomena in terms of the simplest explanation (the law of parsimony) and to do so by always explaining higher orders of things in terms of lower orders — as if nothing significant were being omitted.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

there is nothing to be proven by any notion of slavery what so ever.

That's one of the things that make this whole issue so absurd — religious people demand the right to government - led prayer (a prayer that meets with their approval, of course), but the things they'll typically ask for in their prayers can't be by accomplished by their god anyway, so it's a lot of unnecessary trouble over nothing.

and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»

Everything is waiting to be hallowed by man, for there is nothing so crass or base that it can not become material for sanctification.