Sentences with phrase «closer at hand»

Bradley has been approached about the possibility of developing this reference as an app or multi-media in order to keep the information closer at hand in situations that arise.

It is my firm belief, and a belief that I think is shared by most people in this room, that the end of cancer is actually closer at hand than anyone outside of this room even realizes,» Parker said at the gala.

«This is more of an eye - opener, the changes we have been concerned about, they are stronger and closer at hand than many of us want,» Chan said.

This case may serve as an analogue for interpreting situations closer at hand.

The atrocities we can critique from afar frequently fail to illumine our minds sufficiently to steer us away from those closer at hand, for self «interest, ideology, and pride are far more powerful blinders than we realize.

Does Cobb's diagnosis and prognosis so privilege historical and theological modes of explanation that something much closer at hand is missed, namely religious insti tutional dynamics?

If the back - up you are looking for doesn't need to be physically close at hand, you have a whole lot more options to choose from.

Apparently the early Bitcoin adopter likes to keep his cryptocash, ahem, close at hand.

A Walkman with a recording feature did eventually hit the market in 1982, but the decline of the Walkman personal stereo was close at hand — Sony's compact disc player, the Discman, was introduced in 1984.

For less than $ 20, you get a high - quality armband so you can keep your smartphone close at hand while working out.

Whether he's in his house or in the middle of one of the nine - mile long walks he takes daily, Tim Jones, CEO of IT and network security solution provider Cybrix, makes sure he has writing materials close at hand.

Imagine a general sending his troops onto the battlefield willy - nilly, just striking out at whatever is close at hand.

Seven years into the current economic expansion, speculation is growing that a recession is close at hand.

She suggests having almonds or other unsalted nuts, apples, bananas, chia bars, protein bars, or other fruit and nut bars close at hand.

This I know from seeing it close at hand.

But if anything, her comments anticipate not the distant future but the shape of the Nixon administration and the national backlash against civil rights legislation and the sexual revolution — events close at hand in 1970.

(26) At length, when they see it close at hand, grieved will be the faces of the Unbelievers, and it will be said (to them): «This is (the promise fulfilled) which ye were calling for!»

In any case we devote ourselves inevitably to the people, the needs, and the problems that are close at hand, and where it seems we can make a difference.

I am, to use the case closest at hand, a professor of religious studies in a large state university.

Yet even in these moments of exposure, our self - justifications are still close at hand.

Now that this capital is almost exhausted, one wonders, to borrow a favorite biblical phrase from the Puritan preachers, if the «day of trouble» may be close at hand.

Similarly, if we can see evidence on a biofeedback thermometer that something other than the physical is affecting body temperature, the metaphysical possibility of prayer's efficacy may be close at hand.

Decades later, I still keep it close at hand and reread favorite passages.

When the pastor in question is the pope, this perception will always be close at hand, justly or not.

In Eastern depictions of space, the area most distant from the viewer is spread out as the world expands in the distance, while the area close at hand is narrow and confined.

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.

If the authorities were to act, they must act quickly, if possible before Passover, which was now very close at hand.

They move from observing death at a distance to reckoning with its possibility close at hand.

This problem, too, exists close at hand.

They make the first demands upon us and our emotions because they are close at hand.

In between these dangers, whether remote or close at hand, lies overpopulation, the maldistribution of the natural resources of the world including food, and as a result the malnutrition of over half — some say two - thirds — of the world's population.

And the temptation lies close at hand to behave in the same way in prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; we like the feeling of being approved by others.

Just when victory was close at hand for Ali's side, Mu`awiya turned the battle by means of a devilish trick.

An example of the danger lies close at hand.

The biblical ambiguity is close at hand, for in 26:7 - 8 it is promised that Israel will put its enemies to flight in war.

Let Sarah be a man, and with that the demoniacal is close at hand.

But through Christ we know that God, the Creator of the world, who governs the affairs of nations, is also close at hand so that we may know Him well.

My ethics mentor in seminary, John Bennett, made an indelible impression on me when he offhandedly remarked that many liberals seem incapable of relating affectionately to the persons most close at hand.

I turned this way and that in the darkness, and groped mentally for the familiar sense of that higher mind of my mind which had always seemed to be close at hand as it were, closing the passage, and yielding support, but there was no electric current.

The answer, if we are honest, is close at hand.

For those who do not have a Bible close at hand, «Me» was pointing to the Lord's Prayer.

«As a church, we've got all kinds of missions and ministries we want to do, this is the closest at hand.

He is richer and fuller in his life than any awareness of him which is possible for us, yet he is not far off but close at hand.

But the things close at hand are... well, close at hand.

Then comes the statement: God raised him up, and manifested him to certain chosen witnesses, his disciples, who were now commissioned to preach to the people and to testify that he was the one «appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead; to him all the prophets bear witness, that through his name everyone who believes on him [trusts in him] shall receive remission of sins» and so be saved in the last great Day, now close at hand.

John Updike might seem just another writer clever in his use of words and in his ability to capitalize on sex, but he has faced today's spiritual malaise by exploring what is close at hand — family, tradition, loves — in the hope of uncovering spiritual truth.

There are scenes where the occasion to do so lies painfully close at hand.

In those times, it's good to have the Sadler family close at hand.

It worked in my favor this time and I will be keeping this recipe close at hand!

(a traditional italian summer drink made with almond syrup), we do eat watermelon and blackberries, but the pine grove, the woods and the beach are not always close at hand, and instead we have heat waves, damp weather and weepy children...