Sentences with phrase «encouraging thing for»

The most encouraging thing for me to come from this paper is not the variance in percieved GHG and related forcing levels that may or may not constitute Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference, but the acknowledgement of the rate of change in emissions due to fuel price increases and the exponential growth of public awareness.

The encouraging things for me were our counter attacking, Giroud's link up play and a pretty solid defensive performance.

There were many positive signs in preseason, but going from low - intensity preparation matches to the best team in Europe is quite the jump, so all we're looking for from Barça is a few encouraging things for the season ahead.

Not exact matches

«We were encouraged by many pieces of the bill that align with what we've been saying, in particular a ban on paid prioritization and blocking are things we have advocated for,» says Althea Erickson, Etsy's head of public policy.

That's why it's especially encouraging for me to occasionally stumble upon a story worth sharing that suggests there are still people in our business who actually give a damn about the things that really matter.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

«I encourage you to take a look and say, «If I were to budget yearly, about how much money would I need for these different things?»»

But in a society like ours that bombards kids with advertising and continuously pushes materialism and a narrow view of success, how can you encourage your children to stop wanting more things and start being thankful for the things they already have?

A basic employee wellness program focuses on two things: encouraging and providing the opportunity for daily exercise, and access to healthy foods.

«Anything that is encouraging deployment of new technologies is ultimately a good thing for entrepreneurs in the space,» says Neichin.

The game encourages you to inspect and question things you take for granted in your environment («Why was there a bowl of pickles on the table before we even sat down?»)

Encouraging perfection will slow things down for your startup.

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

That bill would, among other things, help establish a system of «rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies,» and «a FinTech Leadership in Innovation Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies.»

I encourage you to read the whole thing, especially Mark's «Ten Surprises» for 2015.

For bulls, the weakness in the Yen and gold could be an encouraging sign, as the main safe - haven assets are not confirming the selloff in equities this week, but forex markets could look different in a day, as the FED will likely stir things up substantially.

«One of the things that encourages me about our country,» he said, «is that for over half [our history] we wasted half our talent.

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When I bought Wal - Mart (WMT) a bit more than a year ago, I wrote an article for Financial Times where I laid out my theses: Wal - Mart currently appeals mostly to lower income demographics, and this is where things will change the most... Cleaner, better, more appropriately merchandised stores will attract new customers... encourage shoppers to......

Listen, I KNOW your whole thing is about drawing people in with inflammatory pieces then encouraging comments for EVERY article so we'll waste our time on your site (like I'm about to do no more) but TRY, just try to remember that you were credible once.

You are criticized for believing such things and encouraging other people to do so.

Catholics today are encouraged to give up for Lent «favorite things» that are often less tangible than «whiskers on kittens» and «warm woollen mittens.»

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

The first thing pastors should do during tough economic times is «pray for, comfort and encourage» parishioners, he said.

She continues to question all things spiritual, cares deeply about living a Christ - centered life, and creates all kinds of problems by living out loud; she blames her family for continuing to encourage her.

Eventually things got so cozy for the Hebrew exiles that even after they were encouraged to go to Jerusalem most of them didn't want to go back.

Recently this seems to have involved a clearer call for a modern «apologetic» in defence of Christianity, encouraged, among other things, by the poplar success of Richard Dawkins» recent book The God Delusion.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

This will be such a relief to them, that it might be just the thing they need to hear to encourage them to seek God and follow Him intentionally for the first time in their lives.

While that sort of thing is encouraging for some of us to hear, really they too need to go to the scripture to see what the witness is and whether the instruction makes sense.

I prayed that it would be beneficial for the church to consider and that it would bless and encourage the younger members who were walking through similar things.

And I speak up when a few vocal evangelical leaders say hateful things about LGBT people or encourage bullying or condone misogyny because I feel like I have this investment in the community and it's important for those invested in the community to speak up when its leaders are hurting our witness to the world... But I'm not sure I can do that anymore.

I think that one of the problems with the organized church, is that it has encouraged in many ways for man to be «god», to use and exploit at will, in the name of us being God's most important thing, and therefore all else is subservient to us.

In such a situation, the important thing for the church school teacher is to recognize the severity of the disturbance and to do everything possible to encourage the parents to obtain professional help for themselves and the child.

Darwinism is no more beneficial for the scientific enterprise than it is for theology, encouraging biologists to blind themselves to the exquisite functionality of living things anytime it doesn't fit their preconceptions.

One thing members of the LDS faith are encourage to do, unlike some other religions, is to know for themselves what is true and to not rely on what someone else says is true.

In a phone interview from his boat, he said he wrote the book to «to encourage people that have wandered away or lost the confidence in the things that have been on their heart for years.»

I'm not often enamored of change in a thing I love and have enjoyed for a long time, but I am pleased and encouraged by the redesign.

That last thing I want is for your church to disband, for the pastor to lose his job, and the people who attend there to no longer have a place to worship, learn, and be encouraged.

While the verses tell the story of Christ's birth, the rousing chorus encourages people to praise the God who «has done great things for me».

Everyone encouraged Job to believe that God had done these things to punish Job for some supposed «sin», so he should curse God.

Mental health concerns should motivate a layman to encourage his minister to do those things which are consistent with his mental health — a regular «preacher's sabbath» away from the telephone, at least a month's vacation for recharging his emotional and intellectual batteries, sufficient money and freedom to enjoy the legitimate recreational resources of the area, and enough privacy to protect the minister and his family from excessive living - in - a-goldfish-bowl pressure.

He is more often encouraged to find the thing that he is «with» and that does have durable meaning for him.

I would like to know: what is the most encouraging (and maybe surprising) thing said to or done for you by fellow Christians since your coming out?

In trying to account for it I propose to say some things in the last lecture about practical facts in modern American church life which operate to encourage, if not to demand this deadening and guilt - begetting circumstance.

@ Bruce «A couple of things about belief and evidence for belief from the scriptures: (1) the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events»

For example, the small group I belong to was encouraged to pray these two simple phrases at different points: «Order my day» and «What's the one thing?»