Sentences with phrase «doing noble things»

The UN can pass its time in doing noble things such as passing resolutions, sending representatives, and other forms of looking busy, but can do exactly nothing that really helps prevent or punish.

Their adoption guide will only talk with Chloe, not Josh, on the phone, and keeps saying that she's «making a selfless gift» and «doing a noble thing» by planning an adoption.

In 1984 the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute set out to do a noble thing: fight heart disease, obesity, and all the complications that come with it.

Disney even does the noble thing by also including a 2.0 Dolby Surround English that is truer to the original stereo theatrical soundtrack.

Is Penn doing the noble thing by taking down the criminals, or is he a rat bastard, disowning himself from the way of life and people who helped him along the way?

Mostly, it's a study of one man's self - imposed repression, but also a country still wrapped in tradition, where doing the noble thing didn't always coincide with what was the best thing.

Military training builds a young person up to do noble things, and it is with this in mind that we strive to support all aspiring veteran entrepreneurs in their goal of business ownership and success.

Not exact matches

State does not mean a country but environment and Islam is about cleansing of hindu filty state environment of the world, to eliminate parasites of hindusim illagality is not a crime but some thing of noble nature.

[To] have that faith to plow ahead and do the right thing no matter how painful is noble.

Many times those things are noble and good things to do, but sometimes they have negative side effects, or they don't work out, and then God gets the blame.

It is more noble to do good just to do the right thing and help another, than to escape the wrath of a vindictive pr.ick.

«Non-believers» run the risk of doing good deeds just so they can tell others they «do the right thing» or are «just as noble as believers».

Our Founding philosopher, John Locke, didn't actually say work was a good or noble thing, and so we can't help but look up to people who have either worked or lucked their way out of it.

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

But the interesting thing is that Bonhoeffer [the theologian who tried and failed to kill Adolf Hitler] never said that what he was doing was noble or holy.

We all want to be noble and beautiful and to do extraordinary things with our lives.

Duranty's morals are neatly summed up in one of his 1935 dispatches: «It may be objected that the vivisection of living animals is a sad and dreadful thing, and it is true that the lot of [those] who have opposed the Soviet experiment is not a happy one,» but «in both cases, the suffering inflicted is done with a noble purpose.»

It's a mentality of just because you CAN, and just because it would in theory be a NOBLE thing to do, that you'd better be doing it.

Here is the culmination of Israel's thought about natural law: a glorious day should dawn when man's jungle impulses would atrophy, when right would triumph deep in human nature, and society would pursue its happy course in a state of «anarchy,» of «no law,» because everyone would do the high and noble thing through his love for it, in obedience to the unwritten law inscribed on his heart!

«The two things you listen for in an opera singer are, does he have ping and does he have a noble sound,» says New York - based sports - caster Bill Mazer, who, when he was starting in the business in 1947, studied Husing and occasionally worked alongside him.

That is a most shameful thing for any noble man to do, an action worthy of thieves and rascals, who are punished for their evil deeds by hanging or otherwise, whenever they may be seen and taken.

And when my son faces something daunting and frightening one day, I will be able to tell him that it is a noble fight, to do the thing that scares you.

And if it comes to spending money on an already old and ailing pet vs. being able to provide for your family, I think getting rid of the animal is the most noble thing to do.

In fact, I think I was led to believe that the more I gave and the more that I said no and worked and achieved that the better mom I would become and that was the right and noble thing to do.

He added: «I think Andrea has done the very noble thing today.

Ted Brown, senior vice president of Noble Energy, also issued a statement supporting the rules: «We all want clean air, and we believe keeping methane in the pipeline and out of the air is the right thing to do.

I had some delicious things - thai chicken lettuce wraps from Noble Sandwich, barbeque ribs from Kerlin, something with apples and bacon, and don't even get me started on the dessets... Austin's famous Gourdough's was there, and so... [Read more...]

The one who writes those things doesn't have noble intentions and that's for sure!

Bogart delivers one of the silver screen's most memorable bastards in Dobbs, a braggart who boasts of his immunity to the charms of gold only to be unable to list one noble thing he'd do with his cash besides play the big shot for people who've wronged him.

The most noble thing that Gang - ok does is create an elaborate bartering network whose primary beneficiary is, well, him.

This makes him a complicated villain, one who does things for what he truly believes are noble reasons, although he is clearly doing some morally depraved things with his power, in fact, bordering on genocide.

«If the aim of Education be correctly defined as being to give a knowledge of the best and noblest things done or said in the world, then Education must keep a place for the Classics or be untrue to itself.»

«To the credit of Mopar, they continue to do tremendous things with that product,» said Eric Noble, president of automotive consultancy firm The Car Lab, when I called him for some perspective.

On the other hand, the Nook Tablet does pretty much the same thing for Barnes & Noble, though there is less focus on actually shopping for anything besides books, magazine and movies on the Nook Tablet.

Barnes & Noble does not have any new tablets to entice buyers with this holiday season, so the company is doing the next best thing by offering heavy discounts on its existing line up.

It was a noble thing to do.

Maybe one thing Barnes and Noble could do, is do a store within a store concept.

The one thing Barnes and Noble has really done well over the years is to give you an Android experience, but is heavily customized.

Other stores do the same thing, mainly the older ones such as the Sony Book Store and the Barnes and Noble store.

You have to sideload everything that does not come from Barnes & Noble anyway, so how is this a bad thing?

There was Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader and of course there's the iPad as well since among the many things that the iPad is able to do is to don the mantle of an e-reader.

Those who remember the aftermath of the Borders collapse may recall that not having its own specific digital reader was one of the things that many critics pointed to as its failure to embrace ebooks in the way that Amazon and Barnes & Noble did.

Barnes and Noble has a very well designed digital bookstore that does not have a million things on the screen to detract from discovering great new titles.

Inspector Chen's awareness of this quandary and his desire to do the right thing, coupled with his frequent revulsion at his occupation, are what make him a truly noble figure.

«Barnes and Noble» and «business strategy» that's two things you don't often hear in the same sentence (unless the latter is prefixed with the word «no» or «zero») LOL

Readers will love Norwegian master carpenter Thorstensen's humble yet noble tribute to the value of honest work and doing one's own thing.

Barnes & Noble does one thing, Amazon follows.

The crucial thing for me, a resident in Brazil, is «Barnes and Noble does not let people living outside the UK and USA to buy their products or access their online bookstore.»

I think Barnes and Noble did the right thing with the implementation of the touchscreen and they sure needed it.

Since he took the post in 2015 the only notable thing he did was fix the broken Barnes and Noble website and cut costs on the Nook.