Sentences with phrase «fall out of a ditch»

Holding a low PE stock is less risky because «it's hard to fall out of a ditch».

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LED technology soon fell out of favour once LCD screens arrived on the scene, and Bond sheepishly ditched the timepiece forever.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Therefore, if you were of Christ then you truly have fallen away and could it be that now Thee Lord is calling you back by giving you a hand out of the ditch you got yourself into:

The men's talk is distorted by the music of raindrops falling over thousands of trees in the ditch, their leaves held out like waxy green tongues.

He wrote, «A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one.

Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as a top - runner in the console market, it represented the company's last - ditch attempt to reclaim its former glory.

When he regained consciousness, he backed up, came out of his collar, slipped on ice and fell down an embankment into a ditch.

But with the issue seemingly getting out of control, Cupertino might fall into the same ditch as Samsung by being forced to replace a significant number of affected iPhone 6S, iPhone 6 and iPhone 5 handsets.