Sentences with phrase «even approached by»

I was even approached by a few real estate agents to look at the condos.

My partner and I were even approached by someone who thought we should do an ICO.

Finally, my little series there is fully justified, but not an assumption, just an example that the worst case is not even approached by David's piece.

In fact Mane6 was even approached by the head of the art team of the TV series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, not to stop the team from developing the game, but offered help to design the characters that will be a legal iterations of Hasbro's magical ponies.

Not exact matches

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

That doesn't mean you can't keep your pedal pushed firmly to the metal as you drive full - throttle towards success... but it does mean you may want to change how you approach achieving all of your goals, even if just by tiny degrees.

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

Instead, empathize with their approach to life, which you can do even if you don't agree with their beliefs, and then reciprocate by revealing more about yourself.

Even though their skills are in hot demand, you'd be surprised by the number of people who approach freelancers to build «Instagram - meets - Facebook - meets - Uber, but for dogs,» Cho jokes.

«Even as we grew by leaps and bounds, the Hertz people vowed up and down that our approach wouldn't work,» Avis recalled in his 1986 autobiography, Take a Chance to Be First.

«Clearly, the film carried the risk that an unflattering camera angle, unwelcome question or even an obvious omission by Mr. Scorsese would become a blemish to Mr. Clinton's legacy or provide fodder for Clinton critics as the 2016 campaign approaches,» the Times» Amy Chozick and Michael Cieply wrote.

Those expectations have become deeply anchored and, some argue, encouraged by the Fed's reluctance to increase rates even as the economy has approached its employment and inflation targets.

Small businesses could even be boosted by the public works project he described that hearkens back to a New Deal - approach to creating jobs and an effort to renovate 35,000 new schools.

It is a holistic approach that can be led with product functionality (think Apple), customer service (think Nordstrom), creating an affinity group or lifestyle association (think Harley - Davidson), creating an experience (think Disney theme parks) or even by creating a bridge to the customer with ancillary products, services, content or experiences that are important to the customer (think food companies with time - saving recipes), depending on what is of most importance to customers.

Even more impressive is the fact that this is the first ever book that takes a case - based approach to entrepreneurship written by, for, and with insights from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.

Meanwhile, Fitbit — which by the way is well off of the summer lows after having formed a triple bottom and even approached the 200 - day simple moving average Monday — has announced a high - end offering in the smartwatch space.

Even if a company doesn't meet best practices, this approach by investors gives the firm a chance to explain how it operates — more along the lines of the «comply or explain» model often seen in Europe, he explains.

It seems to me that it would be, well, inconceivable for such an investor to even approach the returns earned by an index fund.

When brought in as a motivational sales speaker, Marc teaches salespeople to focus on avoiding those objections altogether — by helping the prospect articulate the exact value of solving their key challenges before even approaching the cost of the solution.

The approach was based on a technique pioneered at Cambridge University by data scientists who claimed it could reveal more about a person than even their parents or romantic partners knew.

What measures are you prepared to take to ensure an even - handed approach by the CRA?

Even now, the current situation could be handled quite well by widespread use of a flexible inflation - targeting approach.

Mercy names a depth of God's love that we can not approach by any other term, and therefore it is most fittingly applied (maxime attribuenda) to God, even beyond justice.

As we saw in South Hadley, instead of challenging these definitions, or even the kind of cruelty endured by kids like Phoebe Prince, teachers and administrators often adopt a hands - off approach.

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

But even a quick scan of the piece shows that Meacham actually focuses on the decline of «Christian America,» by which he means an approach to public life that is governed solely by Christian principles.

Having been trained in a very critical approach to the New Testament that saw the material as largely shaped by the early church in the light of the resurrection, I have come to think that Jesus was indeed aware of a unique vocation, even if he did not consciously think of himself as the unique Son of God.

When speaking about the relation between liturgical and «private» prayer we should not forget that there is also a private prayer of groups (for example a family rosary or a devotion approved by the bishop) which may itself approach in various degrees to liturgical prayer, even to being virtually identical with it, so that there is only a verbal difference between the two.

If you compared my writing from ten years ago with the writing I do today, I use different terminology, different approaches to proving my point, different vocabulary, and I even have different theological beliefs, supported by reading passages of Scripture in different ways, all to accomplish different goals in the minds and hearts of those who read.

Of course, the impoverishment of vast sectors is accelerating day by day in those same countries, even approaching those who a long time ago were very much below the tragic line of poverty.

The way in which Virginia approached the question of religious liberty was very different from the path chosen by Massachusetts and other states, but the Virginia way has become the standard by which American liberals today measure the relations of church and state» and even of religion and society.

And I take it as established that Hausman has shown a means whereby we can understand Bergson's approach as both metaphorical and rational2 As I am certain the reader does, I have questions I would like answered in light of their important insights and these interpretations of Bergson, but the issue I will examine presently is how Gunter's thesis and Hausman's elaboration might affect our understanding of Bergson's influence on Whitehead.3 The view of Bergson Gunter seeks to supplant is very widely held, and indeed was held, (if not really defended) until recently even by Professor Hausman (see the «Dialogue» below).

Even though it is by way of a relentless assault on anthropocentrism that most contemporary environmental criticism begins, such an approach may not be very effective in the long run.

By contrast Jesus in Gethsemane approaches death declaring he «is troubled, even to death» (Mark 14:33).

In each of these cases, a careful historical study of the origin and growth of the movement is helpful, even indispensable, but no one approach by itself provides the answers.

O'Malley seeks to produce an even - handed introduction to the Council and its work but it is obvious his sympathies lie with «progressive» teaching rather than with those papal or curial interventions that seem unduly influenced by traditional approaches.

Not even this mode of attack is new; it was the approach taken by López Trujillo before Puebla, both through his network of communication with other bishops and in his Liberación o Revoluciön?

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

Even when the doctrine of original sin has been purged of literalistic errors, Niebuhr's approach has been rejected by the Pelagian temper that the free will can attain righteousness.

So in the final chapter, Lanzetta questions post-Conciliar approaches to ecumenism where the «dogmatic» (to do with knowing the truth) is juxtaposed to the «pastoral» «which starts out from the historic and pragmatic fact, and on behalf of this aims at possible dialogue, without changing teaching, but de facto neither improving understanding of it, but even with the risk of altering its significance by virtue of the dialogue method chosen...».

Even though this approach highlighted the «speaking» of God, it was still largely uninformed by, and should not be confused with, the biblical notion of «God's word.»

In spite of the excesses of the propositional approach at the level of theological articulation, the lived experience of Christians throughout the ages has been one in which revelation, even when it is not called by this name, has been experienced predominantly in a personal, dialogical way.

When the terrible enemy, death, approaches, He does not want to be forsaken even by the disciples whose human weakness He knows.

Gingerly, I approach this problem of the subjective immortality of the «resurrected» into an everlasting God by envisioning God's continuous process of becoming as comprehending the regions defined by all of the processes of becoming that are God's creatures, even as the spacio - temporal regions coordinated by and responsive to the «presiding occasions» of our bodies include the regions defined by our various bodily occasions.

The harm brought about by militant atheists imposing their beliefs on others will never even remotely approach that brought by militant Christians and Muslims imposing their beliefs and punishments on others.

The Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town is a rambling Bermudan pink structure, approached up a long drive guarded by soaring royal palms and surrounded by its own garden alive with songbirds even in winter.

This complacency, which Cobb acknowledges with his typical candor (supra), was being encouraged by Ford, albeit unconsciously, even before my use of the systematic approach had produced a significantly new interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics — one gleaned from all of Whitehead's books from The Principles of Natural Knowledge to Modes of Thought, and one which, whatever its merits are finally judged to be, constitutes a strong, thoroughly argued, and well - documented challenge to the whole range of traditional interpretations.

They are regarded as so unclean, that they are thought to convey pollution to their fellow creatures, not only by contact, but even by approach.

Then, too, my last publisher, Simon and Schuster, has been assimilated by Gulf and Western, and consequently I don't think I'd even approach them.

We are by now beginning to get quite good answers to this question as regards bacteria, and are even approaching it for higher organisms.