Sentences with phrase «by promising future»

While the technology might not be ready for primetime quite yet, researchers are energized by its promising future.

Nestlé promised to changes it practices by 2015 (typical of its strategy of diverting criticism by promising future action — in 2000 it promised to stop child slavery and labour in its cocoa supply chain within five years, but has not done so).

As it becomes more apparent that making an immediate profit from the Olympics is nearly impossible, cities are justifying the costs by promising future tourism benefits from the increased exposure.

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Shares in OTOC have jumped by 20 per cent after the company released a promising earnings guidance and gave a positive insight into future operations.

By promising to increase marginal rates on the very wealthy — essentially by allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reductioBy promising to increase marginal rates on the very wealthy — essentially by allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reductioby allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reduction.

Republican Presidents, including Trump, have promised to balance future budgets with gigantic reductions in discretionary spending, a category that includes both outlays for defense, and all other areas that are voted each year (as opposed to entitlements that provide benefits guided by a fixed formula).

The vote will represent a choice between Broadcom's strategy, under Tan, of acquiring companies and focusing on boosting profits, or Qualcomm management's promise of future growth fueled by investment in new products and technology.

Ownership of a patent, proprietary process or trade secret may, by promising exceptional future cash flow, increase the value of a business.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Beer - maker Anheuser - Busch InBev (BUD) is hedging its bets for the future by recruiting promising leaders straight out of college, including foreign nationals while they are living outside their home countries.

The Fed has long been turning away from QE and putting greater emphasis on forward guidance; in other words, trying to affect consumer and businesses behaviour by making promises about the future course of monetary policy.

A new incentive policy backed by Federal and State governments, combined with tangible initiatives such as the Jervoise Bay industrial complex, holds out the promise of more progress in future.

Founded as recently as March 2016 by former executives from Tesla, Apple and Google, Future Mobility (which will now operate its EV business under the name Byton) has already garnered a huge amount of interest from investors, securing $ 200m to achieve its promise of launching autonomous vehicles on the market by 2020.

But on October 5, the New York Times released an extensive report alleging that Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax and one of the entertainment industry's most powerful executives, has spent the past three decades using his position to sexually harass women by dangling the promise of future success.

* For employees it is a way to persuade current executives into getting pay raises in a way that hits the bonuses current executives, who are signing their employment contract, less than the bonuses of future executives and shareholders, who will have to pay those raises; hoping that future executives and shareholders will not renege on the promises of deferred compensation by previous ones.

That's why, in 2008, we became solely focused on the emergence of mobile as the computing platform of the future, which means we partner exclusively with entrepreneurs who see the promise and opportunity enabled by mobile computing to disrupt existing industries and create new markets.

Pay - as - you - go system: A retirement system in which benefits for current retirees are funded by taxes on today's workers in return for the implicit promise that those workers will receive retirement benefits funded by future workers.

The main points here are that QE has encouraged the dramatic overvaluation of virtually every class of investments; that these elevated valuations don't represent «wealth» (which is embodied in the future stream of deliverable cash flows, not in the current price); that extreme valuations promise dismal future outcomes for investors over a 10 - 12 year horizon; and that until a clear improvement in market internals conveys a resumption of speculative risk - seeking by investors, the current combination of extreme valuations and increasing risk - aversion, coming off of an extended top formation after persistent «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes, represents the singularly most negative return / risk classification we identify.

The $ 10 million acquisition of MarketMotive, by Simplilearn clearly indicates how promising the future of online education is.

A recent study by Wes Gray and Jack Vogel, Dissecting Shareholder Yield, makes the stunning claim that dividend yield doesn't predict future returns, but more complete measures of shareholder yield might hold some promise.

It shows that despite his scanty and lukewarm disclaimers Taylor is entirely consumed by the promise of technology and a glorious, global, disembodied future.

Replace them with the promises of God instead by returning to Scripture to read what God has to say about your future and your security in Him.

But the self's vision of the promise of life is surrounded by an awareness of the many ways in which the future is being shaped by forces and circumstances that can neither be predicted nor controlled.

Israel was a pilgrim people liberated from Egyptian bond - age in quest of a promised land that was to be theirs by a Providential Will that directed them toward a glorious future.

In an election year when reality seems as remote as a Pluto flyby; a year already marked by bombastic promises of walls, jobs, «a future to believe in» and free stuff for everybody, maybe we should take a quick break from the narcoleptic snooze imposed on us by the mass media.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Which is more likely — that the Anglo - American people will respond to a world that satisfies no one by becoming Niebuhrian realists, or that some leader in the not too distant future will mobilize Anglo - American power and sense of religious mission by promising to eliminate once and for all the unsatisfactory realities that oppose the special destiny of the dynamic, liberal and capitalist world?

How could God promise that He would be merciful to us by forgiving and Forgetting our sins if He planned to bring them back up in the future?

In one long sentence, he has told us that our future is secure by the promise of the Father, we have salvation by the work of the Son, and as a guarantee, we have a sealing, or a deposit in the form of the Holy Spirit.

The deposit of revelation is said to be finished or fixed, but this can be a salvific teaching only if it means that there is sufficient evidence in our past history to convince us that we live within the horizon of a promise which by its nature always looks to the future for fulfillment.

As we have seen several times before, the criterion of genuine hope in God's promise consists of a willingness to temper the sacramen - talism of our dreams by a willingness to look mystically into the future symbolized by our images, by a steady posture of patience and silence, and by a transformative praxis that refuses to escape from the troubles of present history.

Even if Jesus promised heaven to everyone, past, present, and future, it would not make up for the suffering caused by God in the Hebrew Testament.

God's power appears in the power of the promise by which we are drawn into the future.

Gregory Baum states that «the redemption brought by Jesus to mankind in the present is prophetic or anticipatory of the future glory; it is a token, a pledge, a first installment of the complete redemption promised in the Scriptures.»

The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

But if you leave the faith, if you stop putting your hope in a future which is promised by God but which is a mere illusion, if you will make a pact with me and work for me — the prince of the world — then you will find happiness.

Here, the data from which the hypothesis of revelation is construed by faith have their proper origin in the domain of the promised future.

«A promise by its nature looks to the future, something not yet complete,» Manus explains.

It implies nothing less than that the absolute and unsurpassable future promised by God from the beginning is now entering into our life in a decisive way.

And by surrendering to the mystery of fidelity that faith perceives in the promised future, we are thereby given the courage to conquer the anxiety that goes with all true freedom.

It affirms that the «greatness of our nation» is rooted in the «legacy of our forebears» and will be measured by the «promise of future generations.»

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

An adequate Christian theology of history and revelation maintains that only by trusting in the promise of history, without either fleeing it or nullifying it, do we find a security proportionate to the incalculability of God's future, as well as to our deepest human aspirations.

Moltmann and Pannenberg, the leading exponents of the theology of hope, make less of social evolution but believe that Christians are summoned to action in society by the promise of an eschatological future.

What stands out is that revelation comes in the mode of a promise of future fulfillment to which we can relate only by adopting the posture of hope.

By offering a new future, the biblical word urges us to move actively toward the realization of the promise it announces.

In the history of Israel, as we saw earlier, the ultimate mystery of the universe is grasped primarily by way of the narration of historical events that promise future fulfillment.

«Beset by an advancing Islam in the East, having lost the larger proportion of its wide - flung communities in Asia, and suffering from corruption and indifference in the church which represented it in the west, in AD 1500 Christianity did not seem to face a promising future.

This community, the Church, is itself founded by the revelatory promise and is itself a sign or «sacrament» of God's fidelity to the promise of an ultimately fulfilling future for the world and history.