Sentences with phrase «desperate people in»

«If the communication skills we developed in the crisis negotiation arena are successful in convincing the most desperate people in the world to cooperate with a 90 % success rate, then surely some of these you know active listening skills, these de-escalating cooperation building skills certainly have applicability in the world of business and in people's personal and family lives.

To continue the steady stream of moving images here comes an E3 trailer for Dead Space Extraction, the prequel to last year's Dead Space from the recently rechristened Visceral Games, which shows what a good horror game should always have — desperate people in shaky situations.

Unscrupulous debt management companies often prey on desperate people in financial trouble.

Not exact matches

But being involved with a nonprofit helping people in desperate need wasn't alien to me, either.

«I was summoned to a working - man's cafe in London, and all around me, people were eating bacon and eggs and beans and chatting about the football scores, and I put these headphones on and I was transported into another world where Diana talked about her eating disorders, about desperate cries for help, about her loneliness, about her childhood, about her royal life, about Prince Charles.

The «Social» tab in my Gmail inbox is just one increasingly desperate come - on after another: Did you see [person I don't like] commented on his own status?

One wonders if Facebook's embarrassing social - engineering experiment last spring, in which users» feeds were edited in an attempt to lift their moods, wasn't a desperate ploy to keep people coming back.

«We need to work together to break down barriers to care and information for the millions of people desperate to take ownership of their sexual and reproductive health, and tackle disparities in health care access and outcomes.»

Well let's be honest, unless you are a desperate seller and you have complete confidence in the person buying your business, it is not going to happen.

But many desperate people also buy lottery tickets as a matter of hope, in a desperate attempt to get themselves out of poverty.

Roseau — Two weeks after Hurricane Maria obliterated Dominica, people affected by the Category Five hurricane are still in desperate need of assistance.

People in Dominica affected by the Category Five hurricane Maria are still in desperate need of assistance.

But the truth is that there are plenty of people who find themselves in desperate financial straits despite having initially had every intention of paying their creditors.

Many desperate people are surviving due to mining the cryptocurrency in order to buy food.

People were in desperate need of help.

People back then were in desperate need of hope... I don't blame them.

Several weeks of jungle adventure followed as the pair made their way north through hazardous terrain in a desperate bid to reach the coast and freedom, often relying upon the hospitality of the rural people they met on their way.

Anything along the lines of a phrase like «when God closes a door, He opens a window,» may be intended for encouragement, but I would suggest that it lacks the depth people actually need in those desperate moments when everything feels like a setback.

«At Tearfund we work in more than 50 countries, serving people of all faiths, who are in desperate need.

Even modest legal controls have, for the most part, been rejected, with the infertility industry bringing in people who are desperate to be parents to testify at legislative hearings.

At first this moved me to anger but over time that has moved to sympathy and love... atheists are a people lost within themselves and this anger seems to be the desperate flailings of a people trying to find something to fill the hole in their soul where God should be.

There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps people to find healing from addiction through faith in Jesus.

don't you see the trouble that most people are in and that they just want you for their own advantage but I swear to you we're different from all of them come join us I can tell you are lookin» for a way to live where truth is determined by consensus full of codified arbitrary directives come join us all we want to have is your small mind turn it into one of our own kind you can go through life adrift and alone desperate, desolate, on your own but we're lookin» for a few more stalwart clones come join us come join us come join us

Which is just a reminder to all of us to not get carried away when we see a person in a desperate situation for which we have gone through extensive training to assist.

Those words would have been charged with meaning for people living in fear under the Roman tribute system just as they are for people desperate for liberation today.

Proceeds benefit Charity: Water — specifically the people of Central African Republic who are in desperate need of clean drinking water.

Even when the petitions of the Old Testament concerning public matters are not vindictive, they are commonly nationalistic, as, for example, the Isaian plea for divine interposition in Israel's desperate need, (Isaiah 63:15 - 64:12) or Daniel's great prayer for his people, (Daniel 9:4 - 19) or the ejaculatory supplications of Ezekiel, (Ezekiel 9:8; 11:13) or the elaborate petitions in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

In many similar cases, a pastor can render invaluable stopgap aid to a person in desperate neeIn many similar cases, a pastor can render invaluable stopgap aid to a person in desperate neein desperate need.

Conversion therapy is hatred and bigotry dressed up in religiousity and made palpable because that religion has made people desperate to become something other than who they were born to be, stigmatizing them and calling them filth until they can no longer stand themselves so much that they beg to be made clean.

Douglas below is desperate because he's been loosing the argument on the belief blog so he has to post it where ever he can in hopes people won't point out his continued lying.

There's a big difference between noticing compatible people and busting out the black book to start running down the list of single guys you know in a desperate attempt to pair us up with someone.

As people of faith, we can not turn our back on those in desperate need.

Because I've grown up in religious circles, I can smell the desperate arrogance that some religious people have when their theory is questioned.

He suggests that as people grow in faith they are sent to defend far more desperate posts with far less help.»

«I think the reason lies in the fact that this present globalized economy leaves masses of people uprooted and abandoned on the periphery of ever growing large cities, where they are engaged in a desperate struggle for daily survival.

This is another example of simple - minded people distorting the truth in ANY way they can in a desperate attempt to prove their own fallacious theories.

In a culture where people are desperate to find satisfying personal relationships, a congregation can be a light shining in the wilderness of modern family lifIn a culture where people are desperate to find satisfying personal relationships, a congregation can be a light shining in the wilderness of modern family lifin the wilderness of modern family life.

In such a cold, uncaring environment, more and more desperate people sense that their own lives are simply more than they can bear by themselves alone.

The result is that people are being left in desperate situations without support.

People like this think that their religion is above criticism, especially in situations like this where people seek to manipulate those who have fallen on hard times and are desperate for ANY explanation that there's a reason fPeople like this think that their religion is above criticism, especially in situations like this where people seek to manipulate those who have fallen on hard times and are desperate for ANY explanation that there's a reason fpeople seek to manipulate those who have fallen on hard times and are desperate for ANY explanation that there's a reason for it.

The desperate humanitarian needs of people caught up in conflict in Gaza, Iraq and Syria and the work Christian Aid partners are doing to meet these needs will be uppermost in my mind as I run.»

People of all ethnicities and socio - economic classes are standing in the street, holding up signs that read «We are the 99 %» and «People Before Profits» and they are desperate for something or anything or everything to change in our economic system.

In the past, we would have seen this as a desperate cry for help, a sign of depression, a sign that the person needs help not to die but to live better.

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

It tells me I'm a sinner, and that we live in a corrupt world of people that are in desperate need of a Savior.

Both neighborhood regeneration and Psalm 51 begin with people in desperate straits («crushed bones»).

But here's part of why I love this work: in the focus on loving our neighbors, especially people who have desperate needs and great potential, there's a profound opportunity for unity.

But because this covenant was offered to people wandering in the desert in desperate circumstances, it is renewed in Joshua 24, in which the next generation of Israel has the opportunity to freely choose to accept it.

The camera pans to four desperate looking people standing in front of a large house.

I help in various recovery groups which is why I see a lot of desperate people.