Sentences with phrase «earnest people»

And you really have no idea whether the procedures in place to safeguard whatever level of privacy we are allowed to have are actually working, other than the assertion of earnest people that they are, in fact, working.

My school was, in the main, filled with earnest people trying hard and failing.

Son of God's earnest - ness is not necessarily a strike against it; it was made by earnest people who want to spread the word.

As misleading as either intuition can be, they are still important indicators for mindful, earnest people just trying to find someone to love.

As for anymeaningful depiction of the war itself, the entire logic of why soldiers are marching anywhere in particular is eschewed in favor of yet another scene of Jackson, in the earnest person of Stephen Lang, who when not praying, is sweet - talking his wife (Kali Rocha) or staring rigidly straight in front of him as others talk, fight, or both.

If you're an earnest person who lives modestly and would like to fund clean energy or tree planting or landfill flares or whatever (even if someone carps that what you're funding isn't «additional») then her piece should not be aimed at you and you should not feel conflicted about whether offsets are good or not.

Not exact matches

It's very easy to roll one's eyes at the earnest «we're gonna fix it, for real, this time» proclamations of politicians when history has proven this to be an issue that sits, perennially, maddeningly, pretty low on the priority list of the people most equipped to solve it.

«I feel like people in their early - to mid-20s are very earnest.

Jobs began to consider his resignation in earnest in late July, according to people who know him, after he realized that he would not be able to go back to Apple full - time.

In person, McDonald is earnest and friendly — he remembers names and likes to lunch with lower - level employees at every stop he makes around the world — yet a bit uncomfortable.

Negotiations between Moonves and National Amusements Inc (NAI), through which the Redstones own an 80 percent stake of CBS (cbs) and Viacom (viab), have not started in earnest, and the exact terms that he will be asking for are not clear, the people said.

The purpose of this earnest money is to demonstrate the person is truly sincere about the purchase.

Mr. Trump's fund - raising team has already secured roughly $ 50 million in pledged donations since it began soliciting money in earnest last week, according to two people involved in the effort.

Neil Howe and William Strauss surveyed young people for their book Millennials Rising (2000); they found America's young to be generally a hardworking, cheerful, earnest, and deferential group.

A lot of people don't realize that if they are carrying debt, it may be best to first retire or control that debt before beginning to invest in earnest.

Jockeying to replace the region's most powerful people, including European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi, will begin in earnest in 2018.

Such education will not always succeed, as for instance there exist people who are unable to acquire a taste for Alexander Pope even after earnest striving, but the method is more likely of success than adverting to a list of beloved aphorisms.

People pray for their golf - score, so you would think their prayers during tornados and hurricanes would be much more earnest and heart - felt, yet christians have no more ability to survive natural disaters than the general population.

Some clergy are quite earnest and good at what they do but often get run off and run down by the controlling minority; other times they are the overbearing, dogmatic type who bully people into submission.

Such inwardness is inexplicable save as one sees Jesus taking the principle of individuality in thorough earnest and conceiving the religious life as rooted inside persons, one by one.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt when I assumed you didn't understand the nature of the discussion — because the alternative of course would be to discuss a lot of earnest scholarship and study by people gay and straight alike as mere rationalization.

White supremacists and trendy yuppie conformists are often NOT people who have earnest ignorance, but often have * willful * ignorance, people who intentionally gloss over the LACK of foundation for the notions and lifestlye which they espouse.

God reveals knowledge to mankind in science and medicine because people have asked God in earnest prayer for knowledge.

Maybe figure out how to speak in public better and do that smoky eye make - up, I'm tempted to come inside the stadiums and the conference centres and tell earnest and well - meaning people about the stuff I know.

By and large, most earnest Christian people — and we must here include the clergy as well as the laity — are not very well equipped in this respect.

Urging Christians to pray, the church's statement concluded: «Finally, we urge the Lord's people to make this situation a matter of earnest prayer, asking the Almighty that in His kindness He will grant that no mosque will ever appear in Stornoway.

A congregation that now averages over 100 people at a 7:00 a.m. Sunday service of Holy Communion began in earnest when the church offered a free breakfast to homeless people.

Moreover, earnest Christians fought the evils attendant upon the chronic wars between the rival dynasties and sought to check the exploitation of peoples by European conquerors, explorers, merchants, and settlers and make the contacts with Europeans accrue to the benefit of non-Europeans.

We firmly believe that a way may be found through the maze of divided Christendom out into the open spaces of Christian union only as the people of Christ follow the golden thread of an earnest desire to know and do his will.

«114 James emphasized that from the earnest minister, people «do not look for the flowers of rhetoric, but for the fruit of the tree of life» which establishes «his character as a useful preacher.

Be in earnest to be economical and encourage people to help one another; this is the most important preparation.

I can't vouch for what the Guy (pun intended) is like in person, but he seems like a cool enough dude, with an earnest interest in bold, spicy, flavorful food that regular, no - nonsense joes like me can appreciate.

Says Wilkie, an earnest man of 50: «There are few places where people can go and find hunting and fishing in the wilds.

I think people need to be prepared for this recruiting class to potentially start crumbling more when the staff changes start in earnest.

Few people I know work with Asha's intention and heart and earnest focus.

I talked about racial harmony and got very, very earnest about the need for white people to realize the deep racial fissures in American society.

In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.

«We all felt it was little more than a public relations exercise filled with people that were earnest but didn't know very much,» Murphy said.

[4] The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left - wing opinions has led to the use of the epithets «Guardian reader» and «Guardianista» for people holding such views, or as a negative stereotype of such people as middle class, earnest and politically correct.

The notion that the people at REBNY, who comprise some of the savviest investors in the world, are making random political contributions, either in befuddlement or out of earnest good will, seemed so ridiculous that I was forced to interrupt the council member to say so.

One of the more unpredictable outcomes of the rioting and looting that rocked the UK last week was an apparent earnest desire for people to understand «why» it happened.

Clinton is launching her general election campaign in earnest this week with a speech tomorrow in the battleground state of Ohio and a new TV ad that casts her as a leader who can bring the nation together, while Trump pits people against one another.

There were the earnest statements of intent and clunky catchphrases: «We want to build an economy that works for everyone, one in which people who work hard and play by the rules can expect to own a decent home of their own.»

Following the lingering crisis rocking the National Assembly, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called on the nation's civil society organizations and the generality of Nigerian people to commence in earnest the demand for holistic reforms in the management of the National Assembly's funds.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has began earnest search for a new leadership following its adopted resolutions to revive the former ruling party, coupled with its new bid to relax the principle of zoning in the election of a new national chairman.

Prior to the deadline the Electoral Commission said 1.65 million people had applied for a vote since the EU campaign began in earnest last month.

You could argue that a white person can never truly be woke and they should stop trying to be, and it is absolutely true that even the most earnest and self - aware white people need to tread carefully around the r - word.

Though Wang doubtlessly does not intend her debut novel as a treatise on the ills and failings of scientific training at high - powered research universities, she poignantly highlights many of the issues that make that process so trying for so many ambitious and earnest young people.

Time and again last October, some earnest, well - meaning lefty would take aim at Watson with a blunderbuss loaded with ignorance and bad science and end up hitting, and hurting, the very people he thought he was defending.