Sentences with phrase «felt they had gained»

What do you feel you have gained from doing so yourself?

With my open adoption I still have a relationship and I feel I have gained a family instead of losing a child.

«He feels he has gained so much power and strength in the process,» Kastor said.

In addition, all participants felt they had gained valuable and transferable communication skills.

I am (usually) a very fit active person running, triathlons etc but due to how rubbish I feel I have gained weight and lost my fitness.

When you feel you have gained enough strength, move on to phase 2.

basically my point is, after this week of terrible eating i truly feel i have gained weight in my stomach area and face excessively.

However, after reading your lens I feel I have gained a lot of useful information to put my Kindle to use now.

We were with a great group of people, and feel we have gained new friends that we hope to meet on another trail some day.»

Going into UA2, I had a basic idea of the story from the comics» crossover, but by the time the game was over, I didn't feel I'd gained much insight beyond the framework I had at the beginning.

I feel I have gained a lot of knowledge since the day I first walked in through the doors.

I feel I have gained the respect of not only agents, but brokers throughout our area.

Not exact matches

Massenet said in a statement: «I've felt for a while that I wanted to apply the brand - building experience and network I've gained over my career to today's evolving retail landscape.

That shopper is still feeling pinched despite the strengthening economy, which has seen gains in employment and the stock market.

But even though I have years of experience, a track record and gained recognition for my ability to start and grow businesses, I felt like I did not belong there.

Sure, those who feel they have been hurt by free trade agreements are probably more motivated by their losses than the benefactors of free trade are motivated by their gains.

Do you feel like you've gained nothing after receiving feedback from your boss?

But they also symbolize the state of a company where, through tough times, employees have gained a newfound feeling of corporate citizenship.

It's difficult to remember information when you're overworked and feeling stressed, but if you can't remember what you've learned, you'll never gain the knowledge needed to solve unfamiliar problems.

But on the behalf of entrepreneurs, who have so much to gain from intelligent reform of America's broken immigration system, you can understand how they feel.

Organizations can have their employees complete this questionnaire to gain an understanding of how safe employees feel at work.

I think in my experience we have gained a lot of value in the long - term search traffic for posts, and we feel like having a short, keyword - rich URL is key for this.

Jerry Brito, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, feels that entrepreneurs have a lot to gain from bitcoins.

I hit a time in my life where I felt that I had gained enough skills and experience from my education and graduate job that I was ready to start my own business.

These efforts made us feel good because we were doing something but the programs were not producing significant, measurable results.At the same time, drawing on publishing experience I had gained in my prior position as Asia marketing director for the online division of Knight - Ridder, at the time one of the largest newspaper companies in the world, I quietly created content - rich marketing and PR programs on the Web.Against the advice of the PR agency professionals we had on retainer (who insisted that news releases were only for journalists), we wrote and sent dozens of releases ourselves.

Even if you are already an index tracking investor, for some of you getting an internationally diversified portfolio may have involved combining multiple products in a bit of an ad hoc way to gain international exposure (perhaps based on gut feel of which markets will outperform).

«Many developers feel the operating system is elegantly designed, and is a respected platform... However, our WebOS devices have not gained enough traction in the marketplace with consumers, and we see too long a ramp - up in market share.»

While certainly not a killer month, we felt the small gain was pretty good, especially considering how unbelievably choppy the market has been.

The combination of fear, social proof [other investors are selling], loss aversion [we feel losses twice as much as gains] and recency bias [we overweigh what has happened recently and underweigh or ignore the long term evidence] counteract the average investors attempt to make a rational decision.

Though sticking with a stable job may feel like the path of least resistance, you're still going to utilize the skills you've gained that helped you build a successful career to launch a business.

We think, in contrast to Saverin and Loyola, of Christopher Hitchens» moving essay «For Patriot Dreams,» written after 9/11, when he announces his desire to become a citizen of this country, not because he seeks any gain» he was already successful as an expatriate Brit» but because the murder of so many Americans had made him realize that he already felt the citizen's love for this nation.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

Get lost in people's eyes today and in swaths of sun on any afternoon, and lose track of time and get lost in a good book, and smile abundantly, till your cheek hurts, because you are alive after all, and you have time to feel wind on your face and you have time to reach out to one person and remember how we all belong to each other and each of us gets a place to belong and the abundance of your life is not measured in the ways you gained — but in what you gave away.

If you have been burned by religion, have suffered from the manipulation of religious leaders, or feel that God has lied to you, left you hanging, and can not be trusted, begin the path toward understanding God's heart for you, and gaining the true freedom He wants for you today.

Then, surprisingly, he said: «Even though I disagree with the chaplain's position on draft resistance, and in this instance deplore his style, I feel that the quality of the Yale educational experience and the Yale atmosphere has gained greatly from his presence.

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.

Not only are you gaining a better understanding of their opinion, but you're also giving them an opportunity to feel heard and to possibly convey their thoughts in ways they've never been asked to.

But odds are there was a carpenter named Jesus who did gain some following but was likely married much like nearly all of the other supposed messiahs of that time period, as there were many, for the Jewish people had been awaiting his arrival for hundreds of years and were then feeling the boot of Rome on their necks and assumed this was the time the messiah would come as the true King of Israel and throw off the shackles of Roman tyranny.

Nevertheless the bee, or any other social animal, would in our supposed case gain, as it appears to me, some feeling of right and wrong, or a conscience....

The position of those who would affirm sax - sex relationships in the church are not putting a heavier reliance on «feeling» than others, and are not denying that there are «carnal» desires of all sorts which may gain an unhealthy control over any of us.

Unfortunately I feel that this is the lasting image that my generation and future generations are going to have when the poster boys of the Christian name are those who flaunt it for gain in the political arena.

Researchers in the latter field have known for some time that people don't think like adding machines, tallying up potential positive and negative outcomes («gains» and «losses»), but feel worse about a given unit of loss than about a corresponding unit of gain.

«So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings,» John Stuart Mill observed, «it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

Furthermore, how do you feel about continuing to try to gain converts from Native Americans by telling them that they have Israeli ancestry when it has been genetically proven that Native Americans do not have common ancestry with people from the Middle East?

Imagine if Jesus was in our world right now and he headed right over to someone who cooperated with and benefitted from oppression, someone who had traded integrity for political power, someone we distrust, someone who we feel is dangerous, someone who stole from people in a socially acceptable and governmentally blessed way, someone who took the very religious or national identity that we cherished and basically stomped all over it for his own gain.

«While We're At It» had a familiar feel, and I was gaining strength.

Unless a man realizes this he will spend all his time in this world receiving hardship and troubles and will leave this world bare - handed and despondent, feeling at the moment of departure that he has wasted his life and has not gained anything worthwhile.

In most cases, you won't end up actually sending the letter to the person, but the process of writing it will help you gain perspective on your feelings, and might even help you frame a conversation you need to have.

Like so many writers early in their careers, O'Connor felt she had to leave home to gain a broader perspective than the one afforded her by rural Georgia life.

Couples whose need for ventilating negative feelings and gaining elbow room in the marriage is relatively mild tend to have short fights.