Sentences with phrase «distance itself from past»

Driscoll also distanced himself from past crude and misogynistic remarks, calling «the perception of what I think about women... entirely my own fault.

Imagine if Germany, after WW2, decided to reform its country to distance themselves from their past.

Embarrassing defeats in Brookhaven and other towns overshadowed the isolated success of Islip GOP, one of the only town parties to distance itself from past corruption and embrace fresh, young candidates with disciplined organization and fundraising ability.

Despite various attempts to distance himself from his past as Tony Blair's big thinker David Miliband is still regarded as essentially a Blairite.

Juror # 5 (Jack Klugman), like the defendant a product of «the streets,» hopes that his guilty vote will distance himself from his past.

As adults, Buster (Bateman) and Annie (Nicole Kidman, looking supernaturally restored to her Peacemaker days) have distanced themselves from their past and channelled any lingering impulses towards exhibitionism into the more legitimate avenues of writing and acting, respectively.

Even growth measures are about increasing the distance from the past, i.e., prior achievement levels.

It's still a Dragon Quest game, even if it did distance itself from past games, but the initial reaction from many goes to show just how closely every previous game has remained to that initial vision.

I soon realized that Broodthaers, although distancing himself from his past as a poet in order to be an artist, was still a poet by nature and used objects and words to disrupt our perceptions of the world in order to create something unique.

I've found that adding a personal touch to all you do with your members can help distance you from a past executive in the minds of your members.

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In the past, alcoholic beverage companies were distanced from consumers by a three - tier distribution system that required beverages to pass from their creators, to wholesalers, to retailers.

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.

I had to watch Prime Minister Trudeau's epic electoral reform meltdown from a distance over the past couple of weeks given my attendance at an international meeting of progressive policy leaders in South Africa.

Yes, he can intellectually understand the concept of the Gospel, but it's the emotional distance that he feels from his own terrible past and grace found in Christ that provide the film's real tension.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

«17 Therefore, a past system can exercise its influence across space and time from a distance, non-contiguously with its effects.

By characterizing oppressive people from the past as one - dimensionally evil, as hateful racist intentionally using the Bible to their own ends, we're able to distance ourselves from their way of thinking, and say «well we would never do that.»

Every determination of his nature which makes the God immediately knowable is indeed a milestone on the way of approximation, but one which marks an increase instead of a decrease in the distance; it does not measure toward the Paradox but away from it, back past Socrates and the Socratic ignorance.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Thank you for your tender handling of his death over these past months, and thank you for a fitting memorial to a man whom so many admired and loved, even if some of us had to do so from a distance.

As a result, in the past 30 years many clergy have been living within the professional middle class while keeping their distance from the professional label.

Justice Scalia is hoping that one day we will be as removed from the abortion controversy as we are today removed from past controversies over slavery and the internment of Japanese «Americans, and that this distance will be the consequence of having clearly and definitively rejected the injustice in question.

In seeking to distance itself both from the theologians of past biblical scholarship and from the ideological controversies of current literary criticism, it risks promoting a disturbing provincialism.

After a quiet summer off from classroom duties, at a safe distance from multinational corporations, secularized businessmen, and the as - yet - unredeemed American economic system, maybe — if this survey is accurate — the seminary professors will come back a little closer to This World and this world than they've been in the past.

«Lion has invested significantly in a range of initiatives and expects to realise the benefits of past site rationalisation during Financial Year 2013, however we are still a considerable distance from making an acceptable return, and this can not be delivered by a focus on costs alone,» he added.

Yet many people who looked at golf from a distance years ago with the fantasy they could gain access, they play today believing it has the same class and exclusivity of the past.

On loan, Wilshere should learn critical things like when not to try pushing past a blockade of opposition players, when to jump past tackles, when to shoot from a distance and the likes.

Once you know something about the Dublin swimming community in the years that Smith was developing her strokes, however, her desire to distance herself from her swimming past becomes understandable.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the former boss of Bolton, Stoke, Newcastle and West Ham did not try to pretend those past clashes had not occurred but he did try to distance himself from them and threw a bit of praise for his rival in as well.

The gamble paid off with Raheem Sterling, another obvious choice for both teams, waltzing through Redknapp's defence and slotting past Simon Mignolet from distance.

De Vries made a decent save turning a long - distance drive from Leandro Paredes past the post for a corner but when the Argentinean delivered his set piece into the box, Ivanovic rose to bullet in his header with centre - backs Jozo Simunovic and Kristoffer Ajer unable to get in a real challenge.

The Nerazzurri was quick to respond when Andrea Pinamonti drilled in a free kick from distance past Esbjerg keeper Mads Kikkenborg.

There was still time for Firmino to flash a shot past the post and fire over the crossbar from distance as Liverpool coasted to the final whistle.

Martial who has scored in the past few ganes and not easy goals well placed shits from distance as well top corner.

Daniel Sturridge is Liverpool's best striker by some distance, but given his past injury problems he's likely to need plenty of support from the squad in order to prevent more of the lengthy spells on the sidelines which have plagued his career so far.

After a stressful long distance move this past summer, this view was such a beautiful one: clean cloth diapers hanging from our new clothesline.

Ghannoushi has spent the past two decades distancing himself from the two contemporary — and rather disastrous — Islamic experiments: those of Iran and Sudan.

Yesterday, the state Democratic Party attacked Romney for statements he made in years past, in which he seemed to distance himself from the GOP as he campaigned in moderate Massachusetts.

Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller continued the campaign's effort to distance itself from Page, telling an investigative reporter for Yahoo News that Page «has no role» and adding, «We are not aware of any of his activities, past or present.»

Even some Republican Senate candidates — Assemblyman Greg Ball (40th SD) and Lee Zeldin (3rd SD)-- have sought to distance themselves from Paladino over the past week.

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

Other post-USSR countries, on the other hand, were founded on nationalist ideals, and their governments were quite committed to distancing themselves as far from their past as possible, so destroying statues was an important action to them and their electorate, and expenses were more justified in their eyes.

Republican attorney general candidate Dan Donovan, who has been reluctant to comment on Paladino in the past, also distanced himself from his ticket - mate, describing the statements as «offensive.»

The deal must still be heard in council and approved by members who, for the past two years, have distanced themselves from the issue in order to avoid being targeted by animal rights advocates or the powerful Teamsters union which represents the drivers.

Over the past decade, researchers have carefully calibrated the intrinsic luminosity of type Ia supernovae, so the distance to one of these explosions can be determined from its apparent brightness.

The new VLBA observations, made in 2014 and 2015, measured a distance of more than 66,000 light - years to a star - forming region called G007.47 +00.05 on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the Sun, well past the Galaxy's center, some 27,000 light - years distant.

For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT's Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems — from a camera that can see around corners to one that can read text in closed books — by using «time of flight,» an approach that gauges distance by measuring the time it takes light projected into a scene to bounce back to a sensor.

Lars Chittka and Karl Geiger of the Free University of Berlin say that bees measure the distance from their hive to a food source by counting landmarks as they fly past them.

If these glaciers retreat at a similar rate to what they did in the past decade, 30 of them would disconnect from warm ocean waters by the end of the century with that kind of travel distance, it says.

The radar images were taken as the asteroid flew past Earth on October 31 at 1 p.m. EDT at about 1.3 lunar distances (300,000 miles, or 480,000 kilometers) from Earth.