Sentences with phrase «failure upon failure»

Failure upon failure and, really, my cat could make a better job of managing our former honourable and well run club (a decade and more ago).

Not exact matches

The mixture is volatile and can produce giant explosions upon failure.

By embracing the failure of our launch concept and pushing toward the bright spots, we stumbled upon a form of advertising that advertisers, publishers and consumers benefit from.

No business's success should be predicated upon its own customers» failure.

«Our success is primarily dependent on audience acceptance of our films, which is extremely difficult to predict and, therefore, inherently risky... Our business is currently substantially dependent upon the success of a limited number of film releases each year and the unexpected delay or commercial failure of any one of them could have a material adverse effect on our financial results and cash flows.»

While at least one class action has been filed by users against Ashley Madison for its failure to property [sic] secure the hacked information, this action deals with a different injury inflicted upon Ashley Madison users by persons and entities who have obtained the stolen data, repurposed it such that it is more readily accessible and searchable by the media and curious Internet users, and actively distributed it for their own gain.

Without failure you would have nothing to improve upon.

Our authors are experienced entrepreneurs drawing upon their successes and failures to provide practical, in - the - trenches strategies for all knowledge levels.

That's the beauty of having the financial cushion to fall back upon — failure doesn't hurt so much, since it's not as far to fall.

Again, the confusion arises from the failure to make qualitative distinctions regarding the degree of reflectiveness, the reliance upon principles, and the balance of internal and external influences upon behavior.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

It is only when you are agonizedly aware of the failure of your own effort that God begins to move upon you.

The very decline of the influence of the Christian Church, itself partly due to failure to find a new synthesis of faith and reason, and then to live it in fervour of spirit, has thrown increased formative responsibility upon the State.

Our conviction is rather that the difficulty arises simply from a failure resolutely and consistently to found religious ideas upon shareable human experiences.

So the failure of the comprehensive whole does indeed follow upon the breakdown of prerequisite biochemical processes.

Upon the failure of the Temple, the early church in effect returned to tents, for «Christianity had no identifiable places of assembly for at least two hundred years.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Pure chaos is the failure of rational thought to recognize any intelligible patterns or explanations, but such recognition or failure of recognition is itself dependent upon the principle of rationality.

And I think a 10 % failure rate, depending upon actual contraceptive method, would (could?)

Widely criticized upon its release, history has been kind to the epic, which now looks less like a colossal failure than it does a frequently messy but nevertheless fascinating passion project.

My failure to realize what was happening to my mind sooner, has to do with the fact that Christians are told that they must draw close to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to do.

Karl Barth famously attacked apologetics — the attempt to offer a persuasive account of Christian belief on mutually agreed - upon grounds of reason — as a misguided task, part of the failure of theological liberalism.

Planned Parenthood promises its customers a highly desired but improbable package - inexpensive freedom, safe sex and personal autonomy - which, upon failure, produces substantial revenue and abortions 90 - plus percent of the time.

The failure of the leaders of that society to take seriously that tremendous responsibility, or not to fulfill it adequately, literally invites the alienated people of the society to overturn it and impose an egalitarian principle upon it.

Hayek made a sharp distinction, however, between those failures of justice that involve breaking agreed - upon rules of fairness and those that consist in results that no one designed, foresaw, or commanded.

Some years ago Alasdair MacIntyre wrote that the «new dark ages [are] already upon us»» a darkness brought on not by religion, but by the vanity, moral confusion and failure of the Enlightenment.

But the emphasis is not upon these others, despite the interpretation of the story in the tradition, it is upon the original guests and their ultimate failure to accept the invitation.

We strut for a tiny moment upon a tiny stage, well knowing that all our aspirations are doomed to ultimate failure and that everything we have achieved will perish with our race, leaving the Universe as though we had never existed....

Its progress, like every progress of love, must be an angular progress — in which each step is a precarious step into the unknown; in which each triumph contains a new potential of tragedy, and each tragedy may be redeemed into a wider triumph; in which, for the making of that which is truly an «other,» control is jeopardised, lost, and, through activity yet more intense and vision yet more sublime, regained; in which the divine creativity ever extends and enlarges itself, and in which its endeavour is ever poised upon the brink of failure.

«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.

Saul's failure to establish himself and his descendants at the head of the monarchy is due to his disobedience and the consequent divine judgment upon it.

How did God look upon his failure to admit his sin and his apparent bragging about his good deeds?

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

after that all you seem to be able to preform is projecting upon others your own failures acting as if they are accomplishments in you but failures in others!

He can not exercise a magic influence upon God through conscious striving, and such striving is itself a proof of his failure.

Upon the ATF's failure to execute the search warrant, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The failure to realize a higher form of perfection is preferable for Whitehead: «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feelings.

But before we examine this failure let us see the extraordinarily fragile foundation upon which the humanist position rests.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

Reconciliation through atonement places our ultimate acceptability upon a different plane from the judgment of our success or failure in terms of our initial values, thereby enabling us to aspire to those values with greatly reduced risk.

The success or failure of every dairy farm depends upon the good health and contentedness of its cows.

Our failure against the unfancied French club Monaco is fresh in the memory again as the second legs of the tournament are upon us and maybe that is why our Big Effin German has brought up the topic in a statement on the Arsenal website.

The Action Network Group's failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.

at least I'm consoled in the fact that upon yet more failure, the disgraced clown of a manager will be left demonstrably red - faced having exhausted all excuses and perhaps seek to do the needful — pack his bags for the next flight to France — for we shall resist / reject any calls for a renewed contract for such a faux notion of a manager.

Yes he did steady the ship after the calamitous spell under David Moyes but ultimately it has to be looked upon as a failure.

Not every breakup has to be a «failure,» especially ones that are mutually agreed upon, and so it's likely there wouldn't be any bitterness or resentment either.

We must be humble and embrace our weaknesses, our failures, realizing there is always something to improve upon.

The announcement was merely another indicator of the AFL's determination to avoid accepting the true risks posed by head injury, and so its failure to look after those its success as a sport depends upon.

Not every breakup has to be a «failure,» especially ones that are mutually agreed upon.