Sentences with phrase «by performing acts»

Let your significant other know how much he means to you by performing acts of kindness on a regular basis.

All of the artworks being shown will be available only by performing acts of kindness — ranging from playing with animals at a shelter to volunteering at a nursing home to assisting a gallery during open hours.

A dash of tower defense — During gameplay credits can be earned by performing acts such as melee kills, repairs, and control point captures.

It would appear that the Church goes about being this mission in the world in two ways: first, by articulating through verbal signs the gospel message (kerygma) and, secondly, by performing acts of concerned, involved service (diakonia).

Perhaps the main issue with diving in some of the cases with the most public outcry has been the idea that the diver has gained something by performing the act.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Users are encouraged to engage in actions that will benefit other members and the community as a whole by rewarding such actions with Soma Community (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensation.»

McDonald authorized an efficiency study that assessed every act and function performed by every employee and then reduced the number of «business processes» needed to run the company to 88.

Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, who was one of the first professionals to use the word, defines it as «the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.»

The problem is doing what is ethical vs. acting out of self - interest can get commingled in an under - performing director's mind, or even a founder's mind, or even other directors» minds (who have been captured by the entrenched director colleague), without an objective measurement.

Givers, by contrast, perform all sorts of selfless acts with no expectation of reciprocity.

Under the Affordable Care Act, the exchanges perform a vital role, determining whether consumers are eligible for premium tax credits, which, in most cases, are paid directly by the Treasury to insurance companies on their behalf.

They have performed beyond our expectations, acting like a true marketing partner in our business by expanding the amount we can get done, helping us stay on top of opportunities to brand and grow our business, as well as being an effective sounding board.

In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging growth company» as defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.

Judas performed an act that was required in order for all of us to have our sins forgiven once and for all by Jesus.

Of course, you notably worded it as «won't let us catch them», when what is really meant by calling the terrorists cowards is how they hide amongst civilians, perform heinous acts of terrorism against civilians and then run off and hide in tunnels, houses, caves, etc, forever afraid to show their faces.

Both spiritual perspectives hold that supernatural acts aren't performed by people, but rather that the supernatural manifests through people.

But we can not either reduce God's speech to scripture alone, or for that matter ignore the fact that «speech» must itself be thought of in terms of «speech - acts,» the deeds which are performed by the fact of speaking at all...»:

The act of the magisterium is not the same as the act of the Church, but the act of the magisterium is a certain species of the acts which are performed by the individual members of the Church and constitute the action of the Church in a true sense.

In my national sample of 246 AG pastors, 66 percent prayed in tongues daily (only 3 percent did so less than weekly); 93 percent said they had been used by God to prophesy to their congregations; 79 percent frequently received answers to specific prayer requests; and 54 reported regularly experiencing God's direction to perform specific acts.

Most AG members have personally experienced these gifts: 65 percent claim to pray in tongues; 61 percent have personally experienced divine healing as a result of prayer; 55 percent regularly receive definite answers to specific prayer requests; 32 percent say they are regularly «led by God» to perform specific acts; and nearly 30 percent believe they have been used by God to prophesy.

If, said Mr. Chicken, «for every criticism of the Pope you wished to make online, you were to pay for the privilege by first performing an act of real charity for someone in secret (for you can not be certain that the comment you planned on making is such), then we would have a holier Church and a lot more gentle comments.»

On the basis of an argument that partially parallels my own up to this point, Boers concludes that in this passage «acts that are as such non-Christian, even though performed by Christians — they were not done in the name of Christ — are used to interpret the meaning of the confession of Christ» (6:72).

It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.

Each miracle is less a sign to excite wonder than it is an act of genuine service, a deed done by the son of God to benefit those in whose behalf it is performed.

Fabricated accusations about a demonized enemy; failures of coalition building; acts of torture and barbarism performed by the alleged defenders of justice; misplaced expectations of popular support from a conquered people; an enemy unified by the very attacks intended to divide it; inadequate planning for postconquest rule; and rampant and chronic instability after victory has been won.

theological work does not merely begin with prayer and is not merely accompanied by it; in its totality it is peculiar and characteristic of theology that it can be performed only in the act of prayer.

No disciple is present; only a few sympathetic women look on from a distance; the last acts of piety are performed by a respectable Jew who probably never knew Jesus.

By his faith he determines the meaning he will give to life as a whole, thus creating a framework of value and expectation (that is, of love and hope) in the spirit and power of which all particular acts of freedom are performed.

The act is special because it is not necessary and because it can not be performed by the one who is resurrected.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

Once the psychic act of distancing is performed, the subject is open to being formed by what is given in the object.

It would seem that there is no particular necessity to accept responsibility for our past acts, since they were performed by a numerically different entity.

The image of a trusting child being led away to have gross, disgusting, perverted acts performed on him by someone he trusted should be forever before our eyes.

(Tirmizi) Every Muslim should avail oneself of this wonderful opportunity by performing as much Ibadah (acts of worship) as he or she can during this period.

For instead of learning from this terror that he is not capable of performing the great deed and then plainly admitting it (an act which I can not but approve, because it is what I do) the manikin thinks that by uniting with several other manikins he will be able to do it.

He writes, «Every man, no matter how innocent he may be, owes God more than his life; and so, although these persons do not will it by any explicit act, yet they perform an act that is owed, since all men are obliged to give their blood and their life whenever God's honor demands it.»

In performing an act that is traditionally limited to God, as Job 9:8 indicates, Jesus by his use of «I AM» reveals the identity and destiny of the new humanity, that community of «life - giving spirits» that is willed by God to be transformed into the image and stature of the risen Lord.

And when this act was performed by God Himself, a new life indeed came into the world.

I shall propose that we look at it not so much as acts or constructs performed by human beings on the face of a cosmic terrain that is intrinsically indifferent to religion, but, primarily as expressions of the universe and the earth.

Modleski concludes: «By working on a variety of fronts for the survival and empowerment of women, feminist criticism performs an escape act dedicated to freeing women from all male captivity narratives, whether these be found in literature, criticism, or theory.»

Idi Amin required some of the condemned to perform sexual acts of his own devising before they were pounded to death by cheerfully wielded sledgehammers.

This line of thought suggests that the products of minds are best conceived as issuing from constructive acts performed by «embodied psyches,» in which psyche and soma resolve their tensions and oppositions with the help of «radical imagination.»

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

It's a law passed by Congress, performed annually by the President, broadcast nationally as a government - initiated act.

One can perform the act denoted by the f - word with anyone (indeed, with any thing).

Television is able to affect the salience of an act by: (1) demonstrating the act to be performed and (2) attaching negative or positive values to the act through perceived consequences and perceived reality of the act.

Of course, I might be holding back out of fear of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insulin)

A Church of England school has been told by the government that it's acting illegally in throwing out under performing pupils half way through their A-levels.

Takana, a rabbinic forum established in 2003 to clamp down on s - exual misconduct by Orthodox educators, went public February 15 with allegations that Mordechai «Moti» Elon had taken advantage of his influence over male students and performed «acts at odds with sacred and moral values.»