Sentences with phrase «complicate our lives by»

As an adoptive parent, why would you complicate your life by having birth parent around — people who have a seeming competing claim on your child.»

It doesn't complicate your life by giving you a million different options to confuse you.

Yet as one reader pointed out (hat tip to Jas), some investors complicate their lives by using dividend reinvestment plans in non-registered accounts.

These problems are probably unavoidable, but there is no need to further complicate life by getting enmeshed in a legal dispute.

Not exact matches

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

Life is complicated, which is why the best advice is often so incredibly simple you can remember it even when surrounded by the whirlwind that is everyday experience.

While Carrie and the gang returned from Abu Dhabi to their failing marriages, stressful careers, complicated sex lives and the tedium of motherhood — all of which were miraculously resolved by the time the credits rolled — La Vie en Rose returned with a real fairy - tale ending.

The tax reform bill they are pushing through the Senate will live and die by a complicated rule — known as the «Byrd Rule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate.

It's a complicated, but potentially life - saving project thought, created and proven successful by a group of undergraduate student researchers at FGCU.

To complicate the situation, your nest egg is threatened by low interest rates, a steady bull run in the stock market, longer life expectancy, and the looming threat of inflation.

People are making their lives complicated more than they need to by making world problems their problems; go to some small town and ask farmer's wife what is her biggest worry when she wakes up!!

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

Climactic though this is, however, to the special development we have been tracing, human life is far too complicated to be comprehended by an individualistic formula.

Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

By far the most complicating factor in the debate is that conservatism lives and dies as the antithesis to liberalism, the modern Antichrist.

We continue to live in a complicated world that contains a multiplicity of expriences; one that demands that we seek out new answers by informing religions traditions with innovative insights that speak to our own lives.

By this new world of complicated relationships the lives of all of us are encompassed.

As the co-writer of «In Christ Alone» Keith Getty has remarked on the need for children to sing complicated hymns: «By engaging in something fundamentally, and yet enjoyably, higher than their own life stage, children learn a key lesson: that life is deeper.

While the Fairchilds» conversations with a genetic counselor provide them with many details regarding the life they may choose to receive, the daily material help given them by their own parents and siblings renders this choice for very complicated parenthood logistically imaginable.

right... and complicated living organisms somehow by chance converted from gaseous lifeless matter..

Plots also complicate their story line by recognizing elements in life that counter its simple unfolding.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

The phenomenon of growing consciousness on earth, in short, is directly due to the increasingly advanced organisation of more and more complicated elements, successively created by the working of chemistry and of Life.

I stare at the cover pages, wishing I could find words that are meaningful and true, words that are worthy of each unique, infinitely complicated and beautiful life that passed by me at the signing table, each very.

His notes show him moving away from Biel's (and many others») complicated scheme which, while saving God's prerogative, maintains that the «natural» man has a chance of doing something worthwhile by «doing what is in him», back to an idea that God's «prevenient Grace» is always available and always necessary for a life worthy of man and God.

We all know that numbers are complicated and people can easily make mistakes with them, so why not make your lives easier by simply availing the accounting software that will assist in all your accounting matters.

Regardless of what he said his intention is not to enable the club to compete at the higher levels as he takes cash from the club but adds nothing by way of real investment, He's NOT the only culprit though the rest of the baord are as complicate in this as Silent stan The idea that the author is prpomoting is a great idea if there was any cohesion between the fans groups and someone who had enough capitol to back it up into some action, sadly we live in a world where 80 % of the worlds wealth is controlled by 20 % of the worlds population and silent stan is one of those 20 % he ai nt going anywhere any time soon and thats the sad fact.

Sport as a microcosm of or a metaphor for life is most complicated during an Olympics, especially when the competition gets swallowed by nationalism.

These include people who simply seek the benefits of a meditation practice throughout their pregnancy, or who have a meditation practice and find it easier to maintain it in a group context, or who have lot of fear around childbirth, or who are experiencing a pregnancy complicated by other health factors, or are challenged by other stresses in their lives at home or at work.

Children's life chances will be influenced by a complicated, shifting mesh of family characteristics (and many other factors outside the family).

Granted, it's much more complicated than that but for me, I have chosen to help educate those around me by being a resource to answer their questions and simply by living by example.

I think this rings true to most moms, whether they have a complicated or fairly straightforward birth, the moment your child is born, mommies and daddies tend to have tunnel vision, and are memorized by this little life they've been waiting to meet for the last 9 months.

So instead the law would likely say that they expect a tax to be payed by these large company whenever they process a transaction for a US citizen (actual law would be a bit more complicated since someone living in Germany who buying a service from another German citizen who just happens to also be a US Citizen shouldn't be taxed, but the general idea of calling out which transactions the US claims tax on still applies...)

Preventing a demagogue is hard in democracy, because democracy requires informed electorate, and many people do not care (or are prevented by economic hardships of life) to get informed enough, and / or many questions are really complicated and might have complicated long - term consequences (like: will abandoning Pacific Trade agreement allow China to control trade in Pacific by bilateral agreements)

This Article Is Part Of The Perspectives Series By Jonathan Richardson Author Of The Thought Provoking Book: The Complicated Life Of The African - American Man (What's on his mind)

No 10 needs to recognise that life is difficult enough without complicating it further by taking affront whenever someone nudges the party line.»

His fellow Republicans cheered his arrival, but they had already complicated his political life by eliminating the district in which he won and forcing him into what has become a complicated and ugly race with Felder.

She works at the murky stage of care known as end - of - life, where decisions about additional treatment can be complicated by fear and pain.

The search for more of these factors is complicated by the rarity of brain samples from suicide victims and the lack of an animal model — humans are unique in their wilful ability to end their lives.

But that plan was complicated by the fact that he lived in a distant time zone across the world, and my own availability was limited as well.

Determining when life begins is complicated by a process that unfolds months before a sperm meets an egg

One idea, championed by psychologist Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford, is that complicated social lives require big brains (pdf).

Despite the results, however, the issue of timing complicates our understanding: While Karabo was estimated to be living shortly before fossils of Homo show up in South Africa, there are Homo fossils in East Africa that precede it by hundreds of thousands of years.

At a recent meeting in Gibraltar, however, some researchers held that recently redated fossils from a cave in Spain paint a more complicated picture, with two or more ancient human species living side by side in Europe for thousands of years.

«It's a more complicated picture, but broadly it means that there are going to be winners and losers in the oceans as its chemistry is modified by human activities — this could have the effect of altering major ocean ecosystems on which both we and a large part of marine life depend.»

The flu can be further complicated by sepsis, a life - threatening reaction to an infection that happens when bacteria have entered the bloodstream.

Construction is complicated and costly, yet our approach was to «honor» our piece of land by not harming the vegetation and wildlife that lives on it.

years later life got complicated and i stopped focusing on my issue and let life it slip by not getting blood work, and taking synthroid here and there, etc not consistent.

Furthermore, even if you were not able to get off the Thoroxine, switching to a healthy diet would help keep you healthy in other areas of your life so that your life doesn't get even more complicated by other health issues.