Sentences with phrase «exert yourself»

In all probability you habitually exert a certain amount of self - discipline of your own thoughts and feelings, and probably you do not see why others can not readily do the same.

God's wrath is poured out upon humanity in the fact that by the very zeal we exert to do our duty and excel in our vocation, we contribute to the dynamics of sin and death in the world.

It also enables connection with others, participation in shared causes and the ability to exert an influence.

This concept is not found in all churches, but where it is, the pastor often uses the idea to exert his authority and control the lives of others.

The development model which the newly independent countries accepted has helped them and they exert considerable pressure on the policy decisions of the Third World countries on globalization.

Again, I'm glad that Acts 29 chose to exert some accountability, but lopping off a branch and some bad fruit isn't taking the axe to the root of the tree... it's just a bit of pruning.

There is no globalisation of political regulation, state or democratic institutions which provide guarantees and exert control over decisions affecting the various regions and populations of the world, in the general interest of the world at large.

Without a doubt there are brands of religion, including Christianity, which does desire to exert influence on the whole public.

It is inevitable that some people will exert a bad influence.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

It is not possible now to say whether or not the value of community will exert a more powerful persuasion in human life than other seemingly opposed values.

In their essential interdependence, human beings exert power and influence on other persons.

The debate surrounding the shroud's history continues to exert a fascination on the public and new theories emerge year on year.

Slowly colonial powers began to exert military and political control over most of the countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.

While the Churches were seeking common grounds in missionary work and doctrinal discussion, they found an area where they could exert even greater co-operation — the life of working together in facing the social tasks of the Church.

But local expressions of the universal Church that organize for evangelism, ministry, discipleship, accountability, worship, etc. still exert an influence in our relationships, just not the primary one.

The shape of his utterance (he had been likening acceptance of God's will to freedom and resistance to imprisonment) can exert more force than its content.

«Because if we weren't so well - rehearsed going into this tour... we wouldn't be able to exert ourselves and play so mindlessly, effortlessly.»

We find ourselves in different stages and manifestations of that grief — disbelief, anger, stunned silence, the need to do something, the need to exert some kind of control in a world that seems so desperately out of control — and so we have to be patient with one another, gracious when our grief takes different forms.

It came from early church leaders who wanted to exert their power, authority, and control over other people.

Rather, abusers commit abuse in order to exert power and control over another human being.

We thumb our nose at the World Court when it tries to exert some authority in relation to us.

I take seriously the psychological / spiritual manipulation of leaders who exert influence to control others for personal gain.

The obverse of this fear of contact with the media is the fascination they exert on left - wing movements in the great cities.

I've had a couple of traumatic, triggering experiences this week which have had me thinking again about just how much I struggle against institutions, so - called authority figures, and what I perceive to be (or are) obnoxious agents trying to exert «control» over my freedom of expression and thought and behaviors.

Shame and guilt is your weapon and you wield it as freely as any fundy preacher attempting to exert control by brow beating their congregation.

Dreher is not wrong to alert us to the destructive power individualism and unbridled desire exert on the social fabric, but he would do even better to recognize that, by God's grace, new forms of order manage to emerge out of the apparent chaos of social fragmentation.

It will determine if I would exert a «little effort».

It isn't your call, much as you'd LOVE to exert control over every last inch of everyone else's life.

The priest claimed the Church of England didn't necessarily view the cathedral and others like it favourably because of the independence they might exert financially or theologically.

Go bash away at your futile attempts to exert «authority» over any person on this world.

But the claim with which Keister begins her study» that a person's religious beliefs will exert some influence on whether he will pursue material wealth and how he will go about doing so» seems eminently reasonable.

They are getting raped because a man wants to exert his power over a woman.

And while it is an unfortunate fact that those with the most money are able to exert an undue amount of influence on political processes, it does not make them a part of the government.

Adding a block to the Blockchain requires Bitcoin «miners» to exert significant computational effort.

To undo past transactions in a block recorded on the Blockchain, a malicious actor would have to exert tremendous processing power in re-solving each block in the Blockchain starting with and after the target block and broadcasting all such blocks to the Bitcoin Network.

While the relatively strong performance of our stock selection approach has been an important factor in the Fund's returns since inception, even a single holding in a portfolio of over 200 can exert an effect on a day - to - day basis.

The Fed asserts (see above), that its QE operations are not inflationary, since it merely «swaps assets» — it is held that further asset purchases will merely increase the level of excess reserves, which by dint of not entering the money supply proper can not exert an effect on the economy.

Gold prices have started moving higher once again as the bulls continue to exert a lot of control on the prices.

Indeed, the mere shift of 1/16 inch of the bucket either up or down will exert a directly alter the mixing speed of the brush, the quality of the mix produced and the shutter efficiency of the brush breech.

The higher the degree of customization you can exert over your trading, the closer that you will be to this above scenario.

If one were to believe that Bitcoin's performance is linked to the situation in Greece, then yesterday's proposal «should» diminish the uncertainty and exert downward pressure on Bitcoin as the deal between Greece and its creditors seems closer now than it was a couple of days ago.

B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark promised to exert political pressure on Ottawa to reverse their decision as a central plank of her «Families First» agenda.

In contrast, the professional managers that operate downstream of individual investor flows, and that manage the various investment vehicles that provide those investors with equity exposure, probably exert less control over the market's absolute valuation.

Therefore, the price movement of crude oil, gasoline and heating oil exert the greatest influence on DBC.

Reaching a 5 % ownership of a company may make exiting the stock difficult in the future but can help to exert influence on running the company if necessary.

«Under these circumstances we exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline.

Conversely, they probably exert greater control over the relative valuation of shares inside the market, given that source investors often step aside and leave the task of making relative trades in the market to them, based on their expertise.

Historical experience suggests that cycles in construction activity (defined as housing together with non-residential construction) exert a strong influence on the manufacturing sector (Graph 7).