Sentences with phrase «cutting yourself off from»

But after nearly two decades cut off from the outside world, Buari is admittedly a Luddite.

Because by barring SNC - Lavalin for competing for contracts, just for the pure punitive joy of it, the government would also thereby be cutting itself off from a large, competent, Canadian engineering contractor.

Today, seniors making $ 114,670 are cut off from OAS payments completely.

Although sanctions on Iran are not as heavy as they used to be before the 2015 nuclear deal with the West, Iran is still mostly cut off from major international payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard, and services such as PayPal.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

You can feel cut off from others whatever your age, sex, race, or geographic location.

If you fall in the latter group, and you're a business owner, you can't cut yourself off from messy reality — your business requires you to stay plugged in.

Why do companies radically cut themselves off from the surrounding community?

Discount brokers were disadvantaged, it said, because they were effectively cut off from the MLS, and consumers wanting to list but handle the rest of the process themselves were forced to pay high commissions.

The majority, if not all, of our social networking options essentially operate within their own universe, cut off from the wider web.

And if technological civilizations can actually develop in these interior ocean worlds, they would naturally be cut off from us because of the shell of rock and ice above their ocean.

«All transactions are done through the dollar and no one wanted to take the risk of being cut off from dollar clearing.»

Christchurch was a symbolic launch site because some residents were cut off from online information for weeks following a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people.

Instead of feeling more of a part of things, at least in the beginning, entrepreneurs often feel isolated, cut off from everything but the drive to birth their new enterprise.

Eventually both joy and sadness find themselves cut off from influencing Riley, leaving anger, disgust and fear to run the show.

If you are cut off from any of your emotions you block out valuable information and may miss out on important opportunities.

Investors should have a backup plan in case they are cut off from the internet, according to investment research firm Zacks.

The lack of banking services has resulted in most Nigeria being cut off from basic financial services.

People with lower credit scores won't be completely cut off from earning cash back, but should expect lower - rate cash rewards programs in the range of 1 % to 1.5 % for a flat - rate card.

A premature close - out means that the client is cut off from recovering an immediate loss due to short - term market anomalies.

The number of workers who will lose out if countries are cut off from America far exceeds the number who stand to gain from the pending tariffs.

Cut off from the world economy by sanctions, Pyongyang is looking for ways to get its hands on cryptocurrency.

Conversely, smaller exchanges faced being cut off from the market through lack of compliance as banks failed to cope with demand.

Whether you approve or disapprove of the deal, you have to recognize that this could be a huge opportunity for many companies that, up until now, have been cut off from doing business with the Middle Eastern country.

The arrival opens a new era of U.S. - Cuba travel with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55 - year - old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the...

The settlement, announced on April 21, allows the ride - hailing service to continue treating drivers in California and Massachusetts as independent contractors, while creating new safeguards against cutting them off from the Uber app without warning and allowing them to form drivers» associations.

Positioned things in a way that people would be cut off from water.

Nor would I want to be cut off from the broader church community, only able to fellowship with those with whom I shared one particular belief because of my orientation.

(No hosenfeffer for you) Lev 17:10 Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood — I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community.

Jesus understood that the Messianic King of Psalm 2 was also the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 — a sacrificial lamb who would be rejected and cut off from the land of the living.

For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

I've experienced this myself several times... being cut off from others because...

I will draw my sword from its scabbard and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked

And their instinct is perfectly sound, for the food - crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.»

Rep. Antonio Parkinson began to call the amendment «vile» and «racist» before he was cut off from boos by his peers, according to the Associated Press.

A dark place cut off from God where you lost your personality, which kinda rules out having an everlasting soul as Christians understand it.

It may be that in the course of history certain dimensions of saving truth become obscured and must be recovered but it is impossible for a theologian to stand apart from tradition and begin his work ab initio; to do so would be to cut himself off from the Church, which is the source sine qua non of theology, and to deny the historical givenness of Revelation.

Because Judy has decided that God wants her to be miserable, she has cut herself off from conversation with God and written her own prescription: her mother's death is the solution for her troubles.

I have never been so quickly hated, defamed, cut off from friends and family, lied about in private circles when I am not present in order to alter others» perception of me, etc etc, as when I have threatened the facade of a narcissist.

If I am to be who I am truly meant to be, being cut off from one or both of my parents can have a lasting effect on me in my human development.

But since most philosophers and theologians have cut themselves off from science, few outside the process group pay much attention.

Of course the very chapter you cite (Leviticus 18 as well as 20) would have required Abraham himself to be cut off from his people since he married his sister.

Last night the loon was crying for you, one call after another, a ripple of clearest water virgin and pure, cut off from the source, a mouth of tumbled grief.

Beware of anyone who claims they do, for if you follow them, you will cut yourself off from all other avenues of knowledge.

Many of the ones who didn't initially die from exposure, or kill themselves because they were permanetly cut off from their friends, family and culture, turned to drugs to numb the pain, and died in many other horrific ways.

As pure form God is, from the perspective of the metaphysical matter - form hierarchy, cut off from the universe as from any «matter» (NMMS 110f.).

More recently, most antipoverty research has been oriented to verifying the theories of William Julius Wilson, a prominent sociologist, that the ghetto is poor because it is cut off from mainstream society.