Sentences with phrase «empty promises of»

It's good that we're striving to better understand what we mean by «client value,» because that term can easily morph into a cheap talisman containing only fake empathy and empty promises of efficacy (some might say we crossed that bridge a while ago).

But even this room isn't without hints of subversiveness: Nina Chanel Abney's Si, Mister deftly addresses the politics of race and gender, two vintage Kenny Scharf paintings subtly mock the empty promises of 1950s suburbia, and Haring's Mickey — well, he just so happens to be holding his own mickey, a fact that has occasionally proven tricky to navigate for visiting school groups.

Sonic fans are demanding for a more «classic» Sonic design in Sonic 4 as Sega gave empty promises of a true sequel since Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Genesis.

Don't be fooled by the empty promises of the various vanity presses that lurk out there on the Internet.

I regret to inform you that you company's one sided, unconscionable contract, empty promises of peerless collaborative and tireless promotion and a pitiful advance against royalties I'm likely to never see, does not meet my needs at this time.

Occasionally, the empty promises of some studio suit will penetrate the bubble of Rick's sustained reverie.

So why not do away with that charade at the outset, and instead of making empty promises of anonymity, tell volunteers from the get - go that anyone could know who they were?

The neocons and the neolibs have let down both the liberals and conservatives with empty promises of leaving Afghanistan and bringing our troops home.

«Nobody is fooled by Cameron and Clegg's empty promises of reining in these greedy bankers.

«The Upstate Jobs Party will breathe new life into the American Dream for so many New Yorkers who have been betrayed by the empty promises of politicians on both sides of the aisle who say they will create jobs, but never do,» Babinec said today.

TWU 100 President John Samuelsen said the focus of the lobby day must be on «ending the scourge of assaults,» and on ensuring that the «empty promises of the M.T.A.» to install partitions and alarms would be filled.

continued his anual empty promises of winning titles, and convince poor Fabregas to stay.

Not a stupid 4th place finish or a Flimsy F.A CUP and empty promises of wining the League the nxt season.....

«Her legacy is in hundreds of thousands of women like me... She called us all to see the empty promises of the world's definition of womanhood and to accept the contentment of womanhood as God designed it to be experienced,» said women's ministry leader and author Dannah Gresh, who began reading Passion and Purity as a single college student.

His fictional National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.), a technocratic nightmare under the banner of progressive Scientism, slowly takes over common man, manipulating his insecurities with the empty promises of progress and technology, never asking where that progress will lead or what that technology should do.

I'm just tired of all the empty promises of always feeling God's presence and increasing in his favor.

But if you need empty threats of hell or equally empty promises of heaven in order to be a decent human being, then you go on ahead.

Given that a Democrat occupied the Oval Office between 2008 - 2016, and given that the economic condition of 90 % of all households declined during that period, it follows logically that empty promises of a Republican sounded better to the general population of voters than the empty promises of a Democrat.

Not only would I skip the empty promises of the self - help / personal development genre, I'd also steer clear of the entire Web 2.0, social media, user - generated content space.

If facts don't matter to you religion is a great option; no responsibility for one's actions and the empty promise of eternal life.

Perhaps the first lesson for us as «rich young men» is to realize the empty promise of our consumption.

The real horror of Fargo is that many of the characters have thoughtlessly bought into the «sunny» veneer of American culture and the empty promise of «the American Dream», but at the same time they seem unable to reconcile those impossible visions of optimism with the persistent troubles that plague their lives — often caused by their own lack of self - awareness.

Not exact matches

In an email to CNN on Thursday, passenger Jonath Evans of Reidsville, North Carolina, said «The cruise director is giving passengers very limited information and tons of empty promises.

It is common for investors to treat most of what comes out of politicians» mouths as empty promises, particularly during campaign season.

«The sooner you stop something dangerous, dumb or empty, the sooner you can start something awesome, smart and full of promise,» he concludes.

The WikiLeaks collection contains a mix of copious data and empty files marked «secret» that promised more details to come on attacks against more than 15 security software firms.

We strongly advise that you make use of a system that achieves genuine results rather than empty promises.

They are also on the FTC Operations Empty Promises list of companies being investigated for illegal activities.

You'd be surprised by how many people are capable of being decent, responsible human beings without empty supernatural threats and promises.

And go to the empty tomb, where there is the promise of a new life that will never die.

Don't try to bribe me with easy promises of eternal paradise, or empty threats of eternal torture for not believing.

Writing in The New York Times, Ross Douthat urges Amazon to think outside the box and select a city not on the basis of empty promises and publicity, but on the basis of what's good for the region and the country.

Many of these promises will never be fulfilled, hampered by political obstacles or possibly the candidate is just making a huge, empty claim to get the votes.

Just as his political rhetoric did not amount to much, as we still have a bad economy, war, and a bunch of other broken promises or empty words to consider.

With the promise of wild flowers and empty trails, he prodded the men to spend the afternoon's waning hours in the countryside.

Let's not brush of the hurts of others with an empty promise to pray that we'll likely forget.

Unless this process of proxy baptism is made transparent with adequate checks and balances, I as a non-Mormon do not feel their assurances are again worth more than empty promises.

The Church can truly sacramentalize the mystery of promise, the person of Christ, and the reality of God only to the extent that it, too, exists as an embodiment of self - emptying humility and defenselessness.

On what grounds can we claim to accept God's promise of eternal life and then reject the Scripture's claim that the sign of God's promise is the empty tomb?

Mark is a bit skimpy, starting only with baptism of Jesus, ending with empty tomb and promise of future sightings in Galilee.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.

But in God's self - emptying identification with a dead man, there is also the unassailable reality of an eternal love that promises victory over death.

Can theology point to anything comparably rigorous and objective as a context for testing the truth of faith's trust in the self - emptying mystery of God and the promises given to us in revelation?

The main reason that I believe that this collection of historically contingent documents is the inerrant revelation of God is because I believe Jesus rose from the dead and I have experienced the power of that event: therefore the prophecies weren't empty promises, the conquest of Israel wasn't just a powerplay under the masquerade of a divine mission, and the apostles really were guided by the Holy Spirit to expound further on all matters leading to salvation.

Yet this ascetic message is not difficult to promote, because liberal postmodern culture's promise of freedom is increasingly empty.

How fitting that the man who dedicated so much of his life to opposing the lie at the heart of communism's empty promises should be celebrated and remembered on communism's very own «feast day.»

Through humor, we can ridicule these idols of greed or indulgence or legalism, cut them down to size and expose them for what they are: empty promises, impotent objects of our worship.

Humans live by words — and the words of the great confessions help us rightly to read the scriptures as words of promise, not empty belief.

We can now begin to see how our twin themes of revelation as promise on the one hand and the image of God's self - emptying on the other converge.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness, as we noted at the end of Chapter 3, but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.