Sentences with phrase «by saying something about»

I want to end by saying something about the health promoting potential of universal services, such as the NHS and the free buses for kids, which might seem an odd thing to say at a time of cuts.

Specifically, identify up to three clients, three colleagues, and three friends who'd be willing to help you out with this project by saying something about you.

I was going to start this post by saying something about the new year, but, really, we're long past that!

I want to finish by saying something about the long term reform of our economy and how that relates to the fiscal challenge.

The lowest forms of despair, where there really was no inwardness, or at all events none worth talking about, the lowest forms of despair one might represent by describing or by saying something about the outward traits of the despairer.

So, by your rationale, Ozzie Guillen, by saying something about Hitler, is Hitler himself.

At ExecuNet, we were fortunate enough to be able to work with Maria as part of our resume review team for more than nine years, which in this day and age of shorter and shorter business relationships, all by itself says something about her professionalism.

Not exact matches

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

I can honestly say that there are times when I've been most excited by a failed promotion that taught me something critical about customer attitude and behavior.

«There's something weird about a space operated and controlled by men that feeds alcohol to women,» Thompson said.

«There's a recognition by a lot of the provinces that a lot of people are going to retire with inadequate pensions and they're going to have to do something about it,» said president Ken Georgetti, adding that workers his group spoke to supported a provincial pension plan.

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

Afterwards, invite the interviewer into conversation by saying something along the lines of, «I'd love to hear about the kind of public speaking this job involves.»

For example, if an interviewer asks about your greatest weakness, Welch says you can respond by saying something like, «I've always wanted to be a better public speaker.

Comey said on a CNN program that aired Wednesday — watched by Trump — that he was always concerned when someone lied to the FBI, particularly if it was about something that an agent never asked about, as he said was the case with Trump.

The best way to do this is by saying something that makes it clear you know about the person you are attempting to network with.

Carla Harris, Morgan Stanley's vice chairman of wealth management and senior client adviser, says that leaders often fail black women by not being candid about how their direct reports can improve at work, advance in their careers, or course - correct when something goes wrong.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

The younger man's trauma was reported to DeLaurentis and the embassy's diplomatic security chief, Anthony Spotti, on Dec. 30, State Department officials said, and followed by word that the two other CIA officers had experienced something similar about a month before.

«My hope is that we look at being thoughtful about what we're doing and not ram something through just to get something done before the year is out,» Kautz said of the plan being rushed through Congress by her own party.

He also rejected to bet against the virtual currency market by saying that «Why in the world should I take a long or short position of something I don't know anything about?»

In my brain I know god doesn't exist, so when I walk by a sign that says something about Jesus (which is quite often around here) ya know what I do?

There's a lot of talk in a lot of places about change, it's time for change, we want change, and what we're saying is what we do on Nov. 4 is important, but what's just as important is how we live on Nov. 3 and Nov. 5 and voting is something we do everyday by the way we live.

@ fimeilleur the carl sagan reference was more relevant before it became obscured by all the other posts.no one said any thing about a death bed conversion, that is something you assumed, (when you assume you make an ass of u and me) whether you believe in God or not is irrelevant, you will ultimately confront God, at that point in carls case after death you will know!.

When Jews and Christians have something in common to say to the world, especially when that message is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious public discourse fall by the wayside.

And it says something very important about marriage, which is under assault throughout the world by the forces of moral confusion, misconstrued «tolerance,» and societal deconstruction.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

It is a chance to say a word about their lives as a kind of testimony in miniature or to add a coda to the sermon by pointing out something that, in their opinion, the preacher left out or got wrong.

Somehow the parts of Scripture that really do have something to say about how we use our resources pretty much get bypassed because most of our available resources are consumed by the property - staff - programs triad.

Rosenberg, of St. Paul, Minnesota, said he wasn't surprised by the photo doctoring and only posted something about it because «it was a slow news day.»

And this laywoman really enjoyed reading it, and has been inspired and helped by it - not something I thought I would ever say about a book of sermons.

They take every opportunity to brag about Fox News's ratings and how conservatives dominate the radio waves but the second anyone points out something stupid or offensive said by one of the right's propaganda bullies, they scream «mainstream media bias» and «left wing conspiracy».

He said that whenever someone begins a conversation with him by saying that economics does not work in his country in the same way, he knows that the speaker is about to say something dumb.

Obviously, the professor (it was Dr. John Hart, by the way) then said something about how these verses can not contradict, and so we would need to understand both in light of the other and the overall message of 1 John as a whole.

and, if god is going to punish someone for something in which they have no choice (also a claim made by blog christians), what does that say about the nature of god?

Saturday morning, he began his first presentation by saying, «I want to tell you a story about something that happened last night.

Some basic statement like, «Accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior and you will be saved from your sins» is meaningless in any real sense unless the preacher says something about what he means by Jesus Christ.

The dubious provenance of these stories doesn't make them wrong, but we should be wary when a reporter says that he heard someone read a memo written by someone else about something Trump once said.

When Santorum couldn't admit he said he didn't want to improve black people's lives by giving them other people's money, even though the tape recording, taken together with the context of what he was saying, clearly shows that he said black, then that's dishonesty, that's lying, something that his christian faith should have informed him about.

So although I made it a post by itself, the very next sentance in the book says something about how it is impossible and even unwise to cancel all church gatherings.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

I believe that we can sum this up by speaking of repentance, commitment, and service; and I shall say something about each of these.

PJS: Before talking about the contents of the Reader, I have to say that I was struck by something you mentioned in the introduction: how terrible the readily accessible translations of many of these documents are.

«I want to think about something harmless in this world,» she says, and «except for an occasional request for color,» she utters nothing, silenced by color.»

«Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child - psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out «allegories» to embody them.

In my church, if I say something about, I will be tore apart by the other clan.

If the bible is the inerrant Word of God for all time then surely on what seems to be such an important issue concerning Christianity something would have been said about homosexuality by its leader.

Its ontological root and ground is different in kind from matter, that is to say can only come about by the creative positing (Denzinger 20, 170, 2327) of a truly new, original and different kind of reality, and not as something derivative.

I did find it a bit odd that the Doctor mentioned that this event in 2049 was what rebooted the space programs and sent humanity to the stars when he said something very similar in the Waters of Mars episode about Adelaide Brook's grand - daughter being inspired by their failed mission.

I am often speaking to an individual about someone they strongly dislike (even hate), and rather than refer to that other person in any way, either by their actual name or even some derogatory name (that fool, that idiot, that moron), the person I am talking to will simply say something like, «I can't stand to be around that... any longer!»