Sentences with phrase «do nothing less»

The sermon, which laid the foundation for a lifelong crusade to do nothing less than right the wrongs of the Industrial Revolution, was titled «Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things.»

Seliger's paintings do nothing less than define their own necessity.

Seems easy enough, except there's a problem; a mob has formed outside on the street and begins to march around the block, spawning monsters as it goes that want to do nothing less than render us limb from limb.

Just as Road To Perdition aspired to be the Godfather of its time Jarhead set out to do nothing less than reinvent the war movie.

But the organisers of the Earth Summit, one of the largest gatherings ever of the tribal elders of Homo sapiens, want to do nothing less than change the direction of our economic development.

Recently, the diminutive engineer with the bushy black eyebrows, closely cropped hair and glasses sat in his Silicon Valley office and shared a vision to do nothing less than transform the future of computing.

You are concerned about your little one's health and growth, and want to do nothing less than the best.

Like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Kim Il Sung, he believed it was his task (appointed by history, destiny, or whatever sanctioned his willfulness) to do nothing less than change human nature.

I can do nothing less if I want them to be free.

We are called, as his followers, to do nothing less.

This peace can keep the most violent of us in check, even as I was once placed in check when, during 9/11, I wanted to do nothing less than track Osama bin Laden down, cut his head off and put it on a pole and parade it all over Afghanistan, or wherever I could catch him.

And that's because Otis's invention didn't just whisk people and freight up and down floors with unprecedented speed, it recast the landscape of civilization: It did nothing less than reinvent the city.

Julie has, in fact, invited you to hold her accountable, and you're doing nothing less than dismissing her entirely.

«You may not be comfortable with Jesus talking of «changing his theology» but in this instance he did nothing less than change the story of Israel» (JT)

You may not be comfortable with Jesus talking of «changing his theology» but in this instance he did nothing less than change the story of Israel.

Sport, Koss replied, is doing nothing less than trying to save the world.

It is almost inconceivable that a political party in Britain should use this type of language, which does nothing less than paint a picture of class war.

Spanning his nation's history through a series of heavily allegorical tales, Gomes's epic does nothing less than capture the soul of a battered but brilliant country.

Now the first The Good Dinosaur teaser trailer has arrived, and it does nothing less than alter history itself.

Give it time, and one suspects director Hettie Macdonald and her unexpected screenwriter, American Oscar - winner Kenneth Lonergan (of Manchester by the Sea renown), will have tapped into the unique power of a novel that does nothing less than refract English society, mores and values through the homestead of its title.Barely has episode one begun before the family pile of the title is conveyed in careful detail, as seems appropriate given the disparate people who will gather under its roof.

The 200 year history of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is wrapped inextricably to the struggles and triumphs of the African American community in the South, and they did nothing less than try to erase that entire history out of some perverse desire to not name racist terrorism inspired by the very worst in our national heritage for what it is.

The HCZ is «aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves.»

LittleBigPlanet 2 is a special game that entertains effectively, and does nothing less.

«By preserving and making accessible thousands of life stories chronicling the African - American experience, alumna Julieanna Richardson is doing nothing less than transforming the historical record into a far more inclusive and rich tapestry,» said Interim President Lisa M. Lynch.

Not exact matches

Our camera sits less than 10ft from our wifi hub in the same room so it has nothing to do with signal strength either.»

Most publishers see it as nothing less than an existential threat to their way of life, and they view users who do it as traitors and thieves.

But for serious collectors, nothing less than a tangible piece of the film's history will do.

After all, there's plenty of research showing that women get paid less than men, and for reasons that have nothing to do with their job performance.

The backup utility built into Vista and XP doesn't have a catchy name (it's called Backup Status and Configuration), but it's a powerful tool that gets far less attention than it deserves — and it costs nothing extra.

«After a few weeks of doing this (and discovering that nothing horrible happened), I became less emotionally resistant to the reduced hours,» she relates.

When the cards were dealt, all Ma had to do was bet more when the count was in his favour, and less or nothing when it favoured the house.

Declaring what we want to be and how we will get there causes us to somehow feel we are farther along the path of becoming who we want to be, and therefore less motivated — even though we've actually done nothing but talk.

But for us to do so requires nothing less than a very substantially heightened degree of direct political activism by people who really care about the survival of our country.

There is nothing a debt consolidation service offers that you couldn't easily do yourself for less or for free.

It has come to my attention that some economists claim that our sovereign federal government is more or less powerless to kickstart the economy because of our great dependence on the United States and therefore should do next to nothing: «Mr. Orr and other economists urged Ottawa to ignore pleas to boost stimulus spending further -LSB-...]

There's an assumption, among less experienced traders, that once your altbags are underwater, there's nothing to do but wait it out.

6) The more obvious a chart pattern, the less chance it will be helpful in figuring out what the future holds in store or the appropriate action (buy, sell, or do nothing).

When the company does nothing dramatic, a void is created — for instance less than half the shares were voted at the 2017 annual meeting — and that sets the stage for activism.

There is nothing we can do to make him love us more and there is nothing we can do to make him love us less.

It's also great that the New York Yankees have millions of fans, but I'm not really a sports guy, so their fanhood means nothing to me, or to them, and not only do I get by just fine not following sports, but I know that being a sports fan would actually make me less happy.

Tietjen himself writes, «I did not appreciate what I thought was less than candor in the seminary's repeated claims that nothing had really changed in C [oncordia] S [eminary] teaching.»

Either Jesus was a real man in history who we know absolutely nothing about, due the the Bible's completely innaccurate and conflicting accounts, or he didn't exist at all and was a lesser god that was created based on many of the tenets of the Cult of Osiris.

If I made nothing, i.e. I did not have a job or unemployment, I would get less then $ 200 a month towards food (I think the actual # is about $ 160).

Really you'd just be doing your job in the required attire, noting more, nothing less...

Just a thought — there is nothing I can do that can make Jesus love me anymore than He does right now, and there is nothing I can do that can make Him love me less.

But according to Schweitzer, if we are honest — and our situation demands nothing less — it does not.

It does seem to increase the success rate for those who were the most determined to stay sober prior to beginning the program but those who were less determined are actually better off seeking help elsewhere as the tend to fail more often when they attend AA than if they did nothing, and their suicide rates go up.

This does not mean that such discussions have accomplished nothing, but it does mean that no exact and reliable estimate of what they have accomplished (though it is, I believe, a great deal) is possible until we have granted full «belligerent rights» to second - type theism, as a no less qualified contender than either of the others.

But pointing out that Thomas's physiology is antiquated does nothing to impugn the basic insight that there is a difference between the intellect and the senses that has to do somehow with the intellect's being less directly linked to the physical world than are the senses.

I feel and I am convinced of one thing: that nothing is more dangerous for the future of the world, nothing moreover less warranted in Nature, than the affected resignation and false realism with which in these days a great number of people, hunching their shoulders and drawing in their heads, predict (and in so doing tend to provoke) a further catastrophe in the near future.