Sentences with phrase «even than the present»

The actual real estate market is much worse even than the present price statistics show, because many people are frozen in with negative equity.

Not exact matches

Be realistic about financial estimates and projections: «When you present a plan to bankers and financiers, or even to your employees, people will get way more excited about what's real rather than some huge thing that's never going to happen,» says Ciccarelli.

Some days you can find a burger or lasagna oozing with cheese in the Cantina — we haven't taken an abstinence - only approach to nutrition management — but on an average day, more than half of our employees eat a salad, even when presented with yummier choices.

«Sometimes even the initial discussion is enough to shake people up and say, «this is a lot bigger than I thought if it is presenting itself in the workplace,»» Dr Boyd says, but he also warns business owners that a positive response is far from universal: «Denial is something that is endemic in drug use, so it's the norm not the exception.»

«When the war is over, then there will be in all countries a pursuit of secret war preparations with technological means which will lead inevitably to preventative wars and to destruction even more terrible than the present destruction of life,» Einstein wrote.

As part of its pitch, the company explains to potential customers that the so - called «net present value» of a $ 7,000 saddle is actually less than the all - in cost of using an ill - fitting one — expenses that include frequent vet bills, replacement saddles and even the costs associated with the premature death of the animal due to saddle - related health problems.

Even in Shakespeare's play, «The Merchant of Venice,» written more than 400 years ago, the character Antonio demonstrates his understanding of the concept when he says: «I thank my fortune for it — my ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place, nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year.»

He mentioned his first mentor, Speros Drelles, investment chief at Pittsburgh National Bank, taught him to focus on the future rather than the present with investments, and also that central bank policy moved markets even more than earnings.

Understand also that the evidence pointing to steep market risk over the completion of this cycle is quite robust, as the valuation criteria in the overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we now observe would be satisfied even if stocks were significantly lower than they are at present.

Jay Taylor has been able to more than double his newsletter's model portfolio from 2000 to the present even as the S&P 500 was in the process of losing 50 % of its value!

Even so, I believe that it's essential to carry a significant safety net at present, and I'm also partial to tail - risk hedges that kick - in automatically as the market declines, rather than requiring the execution of sell orders.

As a result, even though expected returns on stocks were actually negative on a 10 - 12 year horizon in 2000, and are presently 0 - 2 % on that horizon, the expected return on a traditional portfolio mix is actually lower at present than at any point in history except the 1929 and 1937 market peaks.

Still, even a run - of - the - mill completion to the present market cycle would wipe out more than half of the market's gains since the 2009 low, so whatever gains the market experiences in the interim are likely to be transitory, and few investors will retain them by exiting anywhere near the top.

This instance may be different in the near term, but a century of evidence argues that the completion of the market cycle will wipe out the majority of the gains observed in the advancing portion to - date (even without valuations similar to the present, the average, run - of - the - mill bear market decline has erased more than half of the market gains from the preceding bull market advance).

«Despite this inequity and the challenges it presents, minority businesses thrive at similar levels and even grow more quickly, in some cases, than non-minority firms,» said Rice.

As I noted last week, the average historical outcome of similar combinations has been negative, largely because the deterioration in economic pressures tends to trump technical action even when it has been more favorable than it is at present.

The biggest advantage Mr. Bush had over the present incumbent was a general feeling among the public that his heart was in the right place, even though he could be clumsy with words, and his administration's relief efforts were less than stellar.

However, if presented with new evidence, I am more than able to adapt and even change that conclusion if provided with evidence to the contrary.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Even so, what is needed for a present - day reading of Kierkegaard is something more important than the crutches professors typically offer to the reader of the works of a genius: an historical introduction that would focus not so much on the circumstances of the inception, but rather on the conditions of the appropriation, of his works.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Rather than aristocratic images of noble birth, we are presented with a laborer's wife, from a poor village, the status of which — even among Jews — is suggested by the phrase, «Can anything good come out of Nazareth?»

The result might well prove to be even more destructive both of our personhoods and of society's well - being than our present externally directed work agenda.

Even if you think Jesus had some nice ideas, these writings from someone who rarely presented Jesus» ideals well has done little more than divide people over the centuries.

My aim in the present paper is twofold: first to argue, pro Sherburne and contra Deleuze's reading, that there is no place for God — even for Whitehead's God — in a «chaosmos» worthy of the name; but secondly, following Deleuze and departing from Sherburne, to outline one way in which the operation of «decentering Whitehead» might lead to somewhere other than to a naturalism.

But this act is at least as much present in martyrdom, even more so than in the Eucharist, because it is «guaranteed» to be actually there.

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.»

They're satisfied enough with their present existence that they have no ambition to make history; they can't even imagine a social or political world better than the one they inhabit.

Presenting ourselves as holier than everyone else will never allow another to even feel comfortable to learn what it is that we believe and as to why we do.

While you may scoff at trying to form a personal relationship with any large cosmic force greater than yourself, thinking them innate stardust whose signals can not even propagate fast enough for such communication, others marvel it's effectiveness and capable mechanisms which remain out of reach for human science at present.

In ways even more relentless and entangled than at present, arguments about what we insist are «other» questions will be emerging from and returning to the question of abortion.

Yet even admitting all this, I suspect that there is no part of the Old Testament about which scholars are in less agreement than this present passage, for none of the ordinary rules by which the scholars separate the Yahwist document, the Elohist document, and the Priestly document, for example, seem to pertain to this passage.

Even though I perceive one - twentieth of a second all at once, I, and my awareness, are still in time, because my specious present is of only finite duration, and, in fact, of much shorter duration than I.

For example, the aforementioned Moore noted that, yes, Christian sexual ethics might increasingly be seen as strange, but that cultural dissonance would present an opportunity to winsomely affirm that we believe things, like the Resurrection and the Second Coming, «that are even stranger than that.»

In other words, personal liberty, located in the right to privacy, is now presented as being more important than even the protection of innocent life.

(CNN)- A top evangelical leader who is close to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says the candidate's Mormon faith will be even more of an issue in the general election than it has been in the primary, predicting that the focus on Romney's faith will present a challenge to Romney.

This second trait of freedom in the light of hope removes us further than the first trait did from the existential interpretation, which is too much centered on the present decision; for the ethics of the mission has communitarian, political, and even cosmic implications, which the existential decision, centered on personal interiority, tends to hide.

The arguments against evolution have been so explicitly and thoroughly expounded in the Catholic theology of the last eighty years, that it is not to be expected that later on they will become even more evident, in relation to the Church's awareness of what she believes, than they are now, and so become capable of providing new and certain grounds for rejecting the theory of evolution of a kind that have been declared to be not yet at present available.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

Her show is edgy, funny and presents news - focused comedy that has more punch than even more established political satire outlets.

For if our faith in the resurrection has any vitality or validity, it is nothing less than the conviction that there is even now present and knowable within the Christian fellowship through «the Holy Spirit, which is given unto us,» the full concrete personal meaning of «Jesus Christ and him crucified.»

im not atheist... nor catholic... even called a christian is borderline nowadays... also i seen things beyond the unexplained... but to act as if im holier than thou is act within itself especially when darkness is present...

However, revelation is present in preliterate religion in an even more fundamental sense than just ecstatic eruptions.

You provided not not shred of truth nor willingness to even seek honesty when presented with a view different than yours.

But for our present purpose, it is enough to say that when we are thinking about the last things, our thought must include much more than human existence and human personality in its body - mind totality, even in its social relationships.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

Our obligation is even more emphatic if we are the victimizers — or the beneficiaries of past or present victimizing carried out by others — rather than just good Samaritans who tend to the afflicted after the crime has been committed and the perpetrators have fled.

I would emphasize, if anything even more strongly than Niebuhr, the empirical church, the communion of the saints that has come down in unbroken continuity from apostolic times, so that we see the resurrection through the eyes of the disciples, because they and all the intervening generations are still present to us.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.