Sentences with phrase «by ordinary things»

Any small differences in their divorce rates and divorce rates in the general population can easily be explained by ordinary things such as Christians encouraging behaviors that increase the chances a marriage will be successful.

So, we've been fooled: this extraordinary thing was, in fact, just an ordinary thing followed by another ordinary thing.

Not exact matches

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

Of course, a special act of God is to some extent an expression of God, but so is every event; the thing that differentiates a special act of God from an ordinary one is not at all due to anything done by God.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

For a person mentally ill and confused, there is healing by just coming into the presence of real objects, ordinary identifiable things.7

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

One begins to suspect that the contemplation of any ordinary thing, made extraordinary by attention and love, can become an occasion for glimpsing the profound.

• «The ferocity about economic competitiveness, its promotion into a standard by which to measure things it can not measure... is resulting in a loss of respect for ordinary work and a soft contempt for ordinary people,» Wieseltier continues.

I firmly embrace and retain each and every thing which has been proposed by the church regarding the teaching of faith and morals, whether defined by solemn judgment or asserted and declared by the ordinary magisterium, especially those things which concern the mystery of the holy church of Christ and its sacraments and the sacrifice of the Mass and the primacy of the Roman pontiff.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

And those players that achieved greatness under the Scot - Van Nistelrooy, Keane, Scholes, Ronaldo - are or were, to a certain extent, extraordinary by virtue of their capacity to do the ordinary things of football almost as well as they could possibly be done.

Because only a system allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and if we don't enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things by way of energy efficiency or clean power and conservation, you'll never ever achieve the scale of change we need, to address the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, petro - dictatorship etc.,

As long as many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstraction.

Winning money from Congress depends on two things: showing that the spending will bring investment and jobs to the districts and states represented by influential members of Congress, or exciting the interest of ordinary voters.

It is 16 - year - olds from not well - off families, those who find it difficult to afford ordinary things, and those who have been affected the most by the recent economic crisis, who were also most likely to suffer from poor mental health and to have self - harmed.

The explosion of connected items, especially those monitored and controlled by artificial intelligence systems, can endow ordinary things with amazing capabilities — a house that unlocks the front door when it recognizes its owner arriving home from work, for example, or an implanted heart monitor that calls the doctor if the organ shows signs of failing.

Many viewers will be turned off by the film altogether, as it is surreal and stylized, with even ordinary conversations about ordinary things getting the Wes Anderson treatment.

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

Other oddities: how Jackson sets up each segment in a very overdramatic way, how the other commenting celebrities appear in a moving parchment of sorts, how some of the questions are either no - brainers or a stretch in relating to the movie, how the ordinary kids are strangely posed and filmed, and how the whole thing is both bordered by oak and letterboxed.

Forster and his collaborators deserve credit for plunging us into the thick of things: the Lanes learn that society is collapsing when a seemingly ordinary urban traffic jam is jolted into surreality by an explosion, a stampede of terrified civilians and their vehicles, and a furious attack by people who've been infected by a virus that turns them into ravenous ghouls.

«We wish for all the ordinary expected things that so many other children simply take for granted... When we dream for our children — all of our children — I just think it might be worthwhile for us to remember that the deck is by no means evenly stacked and that dreams are relative.

«I do think it's important to preserve some of these things, just as a moment in time when there was a unique form of communication that evolved by ordinary people scribbling in books.»

The Last Dead Girl, the prequel to Harry Dolan's critically acclaimed Bad Things Happen, plucks an ordinary guy from an ordinary life and draws him into an amateur investigation of his lover's death, an investigation discouraged in no uncertain terms by the cop assigned to the murder.

He's led an ordinary kind of life — not much by way of adventures, but some silly things.

Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers in which scary things happen to ordinary people and is inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Ira Levin, Ruth Rendell and Linwood Barclay.

The occasional unusual instructional piece is almost one of those things you can't imagine until one goes bombing by on your Twitter stream and you realize you've seen something out of the ordinary.

Electronic paper goes by many names, all of them describing the exact same thing: a technology that mimics the appearance of ordinary ink on paper.

If you have a balance sheet behind you that is not worried about liquidity, you can do interesting things by buying assets that most ordinary managers won't touch, because the issue is too small.

Upon such termination, the lessor may recover from the lessee: (1) The worth at the time of award of the unpaid rent which had been earned at the time of termination; (2) The worth at the time of award of the amount by which the unpaid rent which would have been earned after termination until the time of award exceeds the amount of such rental loss that the lessee proves could have been reasonably avoided; (3) Subject to subdivision (c), the worth at the time of award of the amount by which the unpaid rent for the balance of the term after the time of award exceeds the amount of such rental loss that the lessee proves could be reasonably avoided; and (4) Any other amount necessary to compensate the lessor for all the detriment proximately caused by the lessee's failure to perform his obligations under the lease or which in the ordinary course of things would be likely to result therefrom.

Only thing I want to add is that a lot of investment properties are owned by «ordinary» people, not skilled investors.

As a follow up to my article «Frugal Tips: How To Make 10 Ordinary Things Last Longer ``, I bring you this awesome guest post by Mrs. Accountability.

But there are still the concerns about generating «too much of a good thing» in the form of tax losses that are limited by the $ 3,000 limit the IRS puts using short - term losses as offsets for ordinary income.

One thing we've seen on the ground repeatedly are groups helping caregivers, as well as rescue work conducted by people unaffiliated with any organization — ordinary individuals who see an animal in need and take the initiative to respond compassionately.

The eight categories for 2016 are: Arson Dogs, sponsored by State Farm ®; Emerging Hero Dogs, a category that pays tribute to ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, sponsored by Merial, maker of NexGard ® (afoxalaner) Chewables; Guide / Hearing Dogs, sponsored by Clover Stornetta (which is also the «Mootastic» sponsor of the 2016 Hero Dog Awards); Law Enforcement Dogs, sponsored by the RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Program ™ from Zoetis; Military Dogs, also sponsored by the RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Program from Zoetis; Search and Rescue Dogs; Service Dogs, sponsored by Modern Dog magazine; and Therapy Dogs, sponsored by Chicken Soup for the Soul Pet Food (which is also the Official Pet Food of the 2016 Hero Dog Awards).

Since 2001, the Community Heroes Awards have honored 40 recipients (including our 2010 winners) by recognizing ordinary people who do extraordinary things to preserve, protect, and raise awareness about the urban environment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Ordinary Men, by Wilson Skomal For Wilson, John Carpenter's The Thing is a rewarding horror movie because it lacks heroes.

As Schnabel explains: «It is about the power to take ordinary things, and by arranging them, to produce a transcendence of their ordinariness.

«It is about the power to take ordinary things, and by arranging them, to produce a transcendence of their ordinariness.»

By insinuating passion for ordinary material, the exhibition title (I like plastic) is intended to signal an attitude towards things rather than a specific medium.

Ordinary Things is curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Institute, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring essays by Lisa Le Feuvre, Deborah Orr, Anne Wagner and Gilda Williams.

This exhibition will also present the recent works by Hu Weiyi, Liao Fei, Liu Ren, Liu Jianhua, Ni Youyu and Su Chang, which they trace the threads of the material world and use the ordinary and common things to broaden people's perception of objects, exploring the nature and essence of them, and evoking the metaphysical thinking.

This being my first Congressional hearing I've attended, I found myself surprised by a few things that didn't make sense to me and probably wouldn't to an ordinary citizen:

Once things have settled, I suppose that because such an investigation can be provoked, scientist will be much more careful not to give way to biased research, and that again could happen to be of great relief to ordinary people who might have their life negatively influenced because of bad science adopted by policymakers as the «truth».

«We as lawyers not only have to cope with ordinary stresses like everybody else, but we also have to cope with the stress associated with things like state bar and attorney advertising regulations, which differ greatly from state to state, and can result in a lawyer losing his or her license because some CLE credits were approved by one state, but not by the other.