Sentences with phrase «by the disappointment of»

This was the true solution of the problem presented to the Church by the disappointment of its naïve expectation that the Lord would immediately appear; not the restless and impatient straining after signs of His coming which turned faith into fantasy and enthusiasm into fanaticism; but a fuller realization of all the depths and heights of the supernatural life here and now.
Mourinho, however, is reportedly confident that the 23 - year - old can rediscover his form next season and could be spurred on by the disappointment of missing out on this summer's Copa America tournament through injury.
The Mayoral selection in London — a choice that was distinct and untainted by the disappointments of national politics — saw soft left Sadiq Khan convincingly triumph over centrist Tessa Jowell with hard left Diane Abbot trailing far behind.
«I do so with respect for our difference, with admiration for the passion and principle of an opposing view strongly held, and with the recognition that the joy of the majority be tempered by the disappointment of the minority.
Opportunities caused by disappointments of short - term market expectations are good targets.

Not exact matches

According to the Financial Times, «JPMorgan executives are particularly concerned at the disappointment felt by Bear's rank and file, many of whom are shareholders, at the low takeover price.»
In a review co-authored in 2011 by Yale psychologist June Gruber, researchers found that the pursuit of happiness can actually lead to negative outcomes — not because surrounding yourself with positive people, mastering a skill, smiling, getting therapy or practicing self - governance aren't conducive to happiness, in and of themselves, but because «when you're doing it with the motivation or expectation that these things ought to make you happy, that can lead to disappointment and decreased happiness.»
To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.
Now, Brian lives by this credo: Feast upon uncertainty, fatten upon disappointment, invigorate in the presence of difficulties and enthuse over apparent defeat.
Once you have been through that process a few times — of dealing with disappointment, examining what went wrong and then relaunching your project by building on what you've learned — it's more likely that your company will take off.
Yesterday, Goldman's chief US equity strategist David Kostin warned in a note cited by Bloomberg about the consequences of such a disappointment: «Financial market reconciliation lies ahead,» he wrote.
You won't know what the client wants and expects until you ask — and by defining «succes» in advance, you'll eliminate feelings of disappointment later.
«We're at a very important point with the company and its perception,» said one shareholder into the microphone, noting the disappointment felt by investors after the excitement of the BlackBerry 10 launch quickly dissipated when financial results were posted.
Starting in 1999 with the debut of The Phantom Menace, the new Star Wars prequels were a critical disappointment and have often been heartily mocked by superfans of the original Star Wars trilogy.
The homeownership rate of households headed by people aged 30 to 34 fell to 46.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018, a disappointment for those who hoped the upward turn in the fourth quarter of 2017 (to 47.1 percent) was a sign of better times to come.
A severe disappointment by any of them — and it's happened before — or the unraveling of one of the pre-IPO «unicorns» (Uber in particular, whose bad - boy CEO, Travis Kalanick, resigned under investor pressure Wednesday) could spark panic selling that would spread way beyond the friendly confines of Silicon Valley.
Combined with pressures we observe on profit margins, my impression is that investors may be surprised at the number of companies that attempt to offset earnings disappointments in the coming weeks by pairing those reports with cost - cutting, in the form of layoff announcements.
My own view is that the palpable sense of disappointment being felt by many leveraged investors in residential property is likely to grow further for the next year or so, possibly longer.
What might be surprising is that the stock selection performance depicted above was my primary source of disappointment last year, and largely explains the tepid returns achieved by the Strategic Growth Fund in 2006.
«The announcement of a buyback is refreshing, and will be welcomed by financial markets given yesterday's disappointment by BHP Billiton,» BMO Capital Markets analyst Tony Robson said today in a note to clients.
Moreover, the discontent expressed at last year's AGM was also connected to other factors, including pay - for - performance concerns raised by a proxy advisor and a general disappointment with the (not so restraining) effects of the Minder regulation.
By some financial metrics, Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) has frustrated investors, but one Wall Street analyst said a string of disappointments represents an opportunity to buy shares.
Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.
In October, its board authorized the sale of its activity to some of its managers and staff, because of the disappointment of the shareholders, headed by Gal Erez, who held a 9 % stake and was appointed chairman after the sell off.
Though the 156,000 jobs added in August's labor market report fell short of the figure predicted in consensus forecasts, any disappointment was muted by the historical tendency of data in August to be adjusted at a later date, with the initial level of hiring revised higher in five of the last six years.
By lumping all persons who act out of a sense of duty and obligation derived from membership in a reference group together in their normocentric orientation, the authors fail to distinguish those who act from the standpoint of a reflective and self - chosen set of commitments (i.e., in accord with a reasoning approach) from those whose membership is a matter of fate and socialization (i.e., out of a fear of group exclusion, disappointment, or exclusion).
The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.
A self - described Christian, he expressed disappointment that the «religious Georgetown» run by the Jesuits was in reality «falling off the left end of Christianity.»
Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.
Not surprisingly, some of the diocesan Catholics felt threatened by the sudden influx of 72 ex Anglicans and there was some disappointment, too, for some of the Ordinariate Catholics because there were people from St Barnabas who had been going to come, but did not.
Most Convicting (nominated by Alise Wright): David Nilsen with «Coping with Disappointment When Calvinists Refuse to Be Jerks» «I think one of the problems with most of us who consider ourselves progressive Christians is that we live in constant expectation of being judged by our fellow believers who are more conservative.
As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.
Here, too, was rooted his disappointment and impatience with the social revolutions of 1848 that believed by an upheaval of mass external arrangements to be able to resolve the basic problem of men.
But it is also sobering to recall that the one aim that, by his own avowal, has always lain closest to his heart» reconciliation between the Eastern and Roman Churches» has proven to be the source of his gravest disappointment, and probably the only manifest failure that can be placed in the balance over against his innumerable successes.
But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.
Many modern marriages run a downhill course from the high romance and ecstatic satisfaction of newly - weds, through the progressive frustrations and disappointments of people who measure one another by benefits received, to the divorce court.
I have to say also that I am utterly baffled by the anxiety, disappointment, or hostility he clearly inspires in certain American Catholics of a conservative bent (using «conservative» in its distinctly American acceptation).
Whether he did it for the money, or to force Jesus into a situation where he could display his divine power and so bring in the kingdom by force, or out of personal disappointment at the apparent failure of the mission, or because he was evil from the beginning (but then why did Jesus call him in the first place?)
The disappointments hurt tremendously, and by the grace of God, I have been able to heal from the situations.
(2 Corinthians 10:12) Life, in all of its disappointments and mountaintops, will never be fully described or understood by what we choose to project or observe online — so stop comparing your life to others.
Had he stopped with late antiquity I would have expressed no such disappointment, but Fowden invites some criticism by concluding an intelligent and erudite book with a set of superficial and strained reflections on multiculturalism and the global village.
Descartes» disappointment over his formation at school and university taught him to learn to mistrust the senses, that is to say the technique of interpretation of material things by means of the senses.
But to the disappointment of those theological exporters, this fish was not attracted by the bait.
The feminism of the 1970s was decisively shaped by a demographic phenomenon that brought heartbreak and disappointment to two large groups of women.
The «in spite of,» which holds us ready for disappointment, is only the reverse, the dark side, of the joyous «how much more» by which freedom feels itself, knows itself, wills to conspire with the aspiration of the whole of creation for redemption.
I am not saying disappointment on your article, my only point is that its faith, and only God can judge the correctness... The word of God cultivates the mind, and the seed of faith should bloom in its natural way, urging anything to study by words and its meaning is in - vain because the use of that will not gain you anything from God, but yes maybe in politics and people like you.
Disappointments felt by preachers and listeners are probably due to the fact that dialogical methods are rather easily postured while embracing the dialogical principle requires a radical reassessment of one's role as a preacher, one's view of the congregation as the people of God, one's understanding of whether the sermon is the preacher's or the church's, and one's theology of the Word; that is, does the Word of God occur at the lips, at the ear, or in the sharing of it?
By mid-life everyone has experienced an abundance of mistakes, failures, missed opportunities, and disappointments.
So when one learns that the Synod of Catholic cardinals and bishops summoned by the same Pope has returned the conversation to the culture wars of the West — though with unmistakable overtones of capitulation on many of the bishops» part — it is, to say no more, a disappointment.
Sifton went to Radcliffe College and the University of Paris before starting a career as an editor at Viking Press, but her memoir is pervaded by a feeling of disappointment.
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