Sentences with phrase «do well attempting»

During Sunday night's NBA All - Star Game, the four - time NBA MVP and two - time NBA Finals MVP did his best attempt at a back - heel kick of a basketball that rolled towards him, only for the attempt to fail in spectacular fashion and swat the ball away in frustration.

Not exact matches

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

This is all good information, but I would like to offer a caveat — do not attempt to create a handbook yourself if you have no HR background or training.

Hammer was a bit lazily written: He's jealous of Tony Stark and will do anything to damage Stark's reputation, and attempted to build a bigger, better version of Stark's Iron Man suit.

It required that one extra attempt, and that wouldn't have happened without the best advice anybody ever gave me, which is don't give up.»

That didn't sit well with the NHL, which twice thwarted Balsillie's past attempts to purchase a team.

My first attempt at homemade brunch may not have been as «Insta - worthy» as $ 16 avocado toast, but everyone was well - fed and happy, and my friends didn't spend a penny.

Former «Bachelor» Arie Luyendyk Jr. apologized after his attempt at an April Fools» Day Prank didn't land well.

It doesn't attempt to hold the reader's attention for an extended period of time, and this is important if you're presenting to a potential investor who will have other plans he or she will need to read as well.

The best way to do this is by saying something that makes it clear you know about the person you are attempting to network with.

Or better yet, as Kevin Fleming pointed out «Starting a business is like attempting to climb up a mountain during a hurricane,» which tempts me to ask what he does to relax.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

Self - consciousness can cause us to put on a mask or attempt to please those whom we perceive as having greater status or power than we do, while simple laziness makes it easy to overlook the average Joes or Janes on the street and offer them less than the best version of yourself.

Who knows: after a few attempts you may even come to appreciate flights as a chance to do good work.

It is such a high crime, it doesn't lead to charges often — and some, like John Brown, actually had pretty good reasons for attempting it.

One is an attempt to make sure that its presence among us actually does some good — that it's not just meeting some demand, but actually contributing to human well - being.

But take it as a learning experience and attempt to do better in the future.

Businesses may actually end up buying more online ads on Facebook to promote themselves, because simply creating content and attempting to share it on the news feed for free will no longer work as well as it once did.

Fortunately for your brand and your audience, you don't have to rely on a team without video production credentials to throw together its best attempt at video if you outsource to the right partner.

The problem occurs when brands attempt to gather as many followers, likes and retweets as possible through the use of content, including material that does not provide true value, as well as questions.

Both attempt to categorize those transactions to help you better manage your money, but Mint does a much better job with its budgeting feature.

Investor Junkie does attempt to take a reasonable and good faith approach to maintaining objectivity towards providing referrals that are in the best interest of readers.

What does seem to be new is Wylie's personal account of his experience with the company, as well as reports of Facebook's ongoing attempts to get CA to destroy the data it harvested.

Graham's full selection process (it's more than the above formula) attempts to correct this and does a good job of providing solid guidelines.

However, Great Lakes is backed by the Better Business Bureau and does attempt to resolve customer issues in a timely manner.

asked Zuckerberg for the record how attempting to gut the law is consistent with Facebook's promises to do a better job of protecting privacy.

As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leads the NHL into its latest war of revenge against Jerry Moyes for trying to recoup his losses by attempting to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to the outlaw buyer, Jim Balsillie, it is well to remember that his triumph in the courts over the now three time loser didn't change one ugly fact: the Phoenix Coyotes still lose huge sums of money every year.

For investors, learning not to chase performance (by buying funds that have done well in the past) and avoiding attempts to time the market can boost performance over time.

Any newbie attempting to enter the payments business will have to answer the dual questions: what makes you better, faster and cheaper then bitcoin and do you have greater consumer acceptance?

So does that mean Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway is attempting to use funny accounting quirks to make the results appear better than they actually are?

While we do believe the New York Agreement (NYA) and Segwit2x proponents have the best of intentions in attempting to improve Bitcoin's protocol and have contributed so much to the development of the Bitcoin industry as a whole, we do not agree with the process by which they chose to enforce these changes.

You get to practice your silly religion all you like, it's just when you attempt to inject that into my school, my courthouse or my government that I will stand up and shout in your face, so don't act all surprised when it happens like «Oh, well, we just didn't know, we thought everyone wanted us to force our religion on the rest of society...»

It is true, as you note, that parents may legitimately attempt to space their births for good and sufficient reasons (saving the money to buy a second SUV does not count).

i do know dave that you are making attempts at a logical debate but don't throw the name - calling technique in the fray as well, usually to people it is the most memorable thing in a statement, and the next post will likely be insulting as well.

They are attempting to turn us into a nation of dependents, and doing a good job of it thanks to people who hold opinions such as yours.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&raWell aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&rawell as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

The problem is that all attempts to do so have all resulted in hopelessly arbitrary basis for human rights that would in turn invalidate all other attempts to protect human rights (after all, they would be arbitrary as well).

You attempted to claim that Humanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having done to them.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

I am not a Catholic, but I also know that all priest do not engage in this behavior so your futile attempt at sick humor was dumb at best.

Me as well devin, but at base level I do think you would rather attempt to have an honest discussion, I think you and I just butt heads a bit hard at times.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

If God is perfect, why did he consider his first attempt to populate the earth such a colossal failure he wiped out all by eight people so he could start over hoping to do better the second time around?

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

@tru — Yes, you got the gist of what I was wanting to say, except that I attempted to explain as best I could what you summarized in the first two points, but as for the «don't ask» part, I still think this is a very important question.

Well, precisely: since Sheerman says that «faith education works all right as long as people are not thatserious about their faith», it is obvious not only that that is exactly what he is attempting to do, but also that Bishop Roche is absolutely right (other bishops please note) to resist him.

Very well, but to take the position (as he does later in an analysis of the issues in the case) that he was not only Baby Doe's Surgeon - General, he was also the Surgeon - General for the parents of Baby Doe as well as the Surgeon - General for all the physicians in Bloomington, Indiana, is a clumsy and ludicrous attempt at self - exculpation.

He said: «If more Christians... were more active in making sure they did write to people like Boots, but also any other group that is attempting to expand the use of this sort of drugs, they would have an effect as well.»

While the Holy Spirit can and does work through every one of our meager attempts, continually experiencing the Good News in our own soul — especially as believers — is part of God's continual kingdom work, too.

Such repeated failure of human attempts to end war merely emphasizes the truth of Jeremiah's words: «I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong.