Sentences with phrase «for little acts»

Perhaps her call at the event for little acts of kindness and working «from the ground up» — starting with young people — to create a new culture is the answer.

It was also an excuse for a little acting out:

Not exact matches

Having read the riot act to the corporate elite, our superstar central banker can depart for London, secure in the knowledge that Canadian companies will eventually have little choice but to start spending all that accumulated cash.

For example, when one account executive at Synergy was perceived as acting a little too hostile toward her support staff, Gordon sat down with her and her graph.

Like the Affordable Care Act, it was passed on a purely party - line vote, via a truly ugly process, with little time for legislators to figure out what's in it.

We appreciate their acting skills, but know little about their behind - the - screen roles, most importantly their flair for business.

In for «intelligent» machines to appear human, they have to act a little dumb.

«For example, mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers acted as intermediaries who, once the mortgage was sold for the purposes of securitization, had little or no responsibility for ensuring payments.&raqFor example, mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers acted as intermediaries who, once the mortgage was sold for the purposes of securitization, had little or no responsibility for ensuring payments.&raqfor the purposes of securitization, had little or no responsibility for ensuring payments.&raqfor ensuring payments.»

According to Geist, Industry minister Maxime Bernier has thus far shown «little appetite» for inserting any such language into the Telecommunications Act.

Now, the market for initial public offerings is starting to heati up, but the law, the Jump - Start Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, has had little to do with it.

Trump's most significant legislative achievements may be his use of the Congressional Review Act — a previously little - used power that makes it easier for Congress and the president to overturn federal regulations.

Had Niskanen had his way, Congress would have done away with Fannie and Freddie, the Community Reinvestment Act, and U.S. support for the IMF; and I'm pretty sure that with a little more digging the list could be made much longer.

The 1970's saw a rise in the price of commodities generally, and gold acted as a barometer for how little people trusted the new financial system that replaced one of the rarest metals on earth with «made up money».

The board spent very little time on safe sport issues and «does not act independently to hold management accountable for protecting children.»

The deadline for the administration to act on possibly imposing tariffs on washing machines from around the world, and particularly from China, comes a little more than a week later, on Feb. 3.

For all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentanFor all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentanfor the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentance.

This very act is a blessing for us as we are drawn into the life of the Blessed Trinity and our own lives are conformed little by little to God's purposes, shaped by his grace and guided by his providence.

That will be offensive to some people but, when I use it, the «effing» has very little to do with the act of intercourse, it's about emphasis, and (for me at least) there's no word in our limited lexicon that allows for the raw, heart - thumping emotion it conveys.

The right attitude for the search is not to act the scientist or philosopher making conditions or stipulations for belief, but to act like a little child.

How would it be possible for Cornelius to act in this manner if he was born a DIRTY LITTLE SINNER; inclined only to do evil, and was totally depraved?

For all are ordered together to one end, but it is as in a house, where the freemen are least at liberty to act at random, but all things or most things are already ordained for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - For all are ordered together to one end, but it is as in a house, where the freemen are least at liberty to act at random, but all things or most things are already ordained for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - 23)

Two fold, firstly, you've helped another person live for a little longer by protecting them from the cold, but for you personally that didn't get anything out of it you could look at it from another perspective, anyone could have seen you and acknowledged you benevolence either by saying something or just thinking how nice it was you did that and then maybe also passing along an act of kindness.

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

About the only solace these House Democrats can take is that so many moderate colleagues were ousted that there is little chance for severe acts of recrimination.

The Judges were only a little lower, for the spirit came powerfully upon them and they acted, so we are expected to believe, in certainty of their divine guidance.

Frankly, if you do get offended by it, I would want nothing to do with you, have little respect for you, and I would seriously question what kind of person you were to be so «offended» by an act of kindness and compassion.

In the light of all the «genuine & exemplary act of humility, kindness and love from» priests for little boys, this looks a lot more like an act of PR and damage control

For most people — it's no big deal, and they live good happy lives and such, but sometimes, this little seed of unreason seeps into the rest of the mind, and infects it with its unreason, causing the person to think, say, and sometimes act in ways that are totally unreasonable.

And then we promptly acted like a couple of weirdos in the aisle, taking pictures, mugging for the camera, hugging and dancing a little bit among...

And all too often we act as if that is true, and the body of Christ is just another marketing tool, useful to ideologues but having little place for poets, let alone prophets.

With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.

The true explanation is much more beautiful: the angle of refraction and reflection depend on wavelength; so waterdrops act like little prisms and spread the colors out for us.

At the tender age of 16 the maxim struck me forcefully, for I had already observed how often I accomplished little when I acted quickly.

Tobias acted bravely, stoutheartedly and chivalrously, but any man who has not the courage for this is a molly - coddle who does not know what love is, or what it is to be a man, or what is worth living for; he had not even comprehended the little mystery, that it is better to give than to receive, and has no inkling of the great one, that it is far more difficult to receive than to give — that is, if one has had courage to do without and in the hour of need did not become cowardly.

This was a heroic act, even if there was involved a little personal grievance for the fact that he had not sent her the ring.

Our ordinary, pre-revelational images of God are often little more than expressions and legitimations of those powers before whom we act out our heroic performances in an effort to gain the significance for which we crave.

For instance, our short - lived acts can have cumulative effects upon our atmosphere — each breath we take changes its composition a little.

And then we promptly acted like a couple of weirdos in the aisle, taking pictures, mugging for the camera, hugging and dancing a little bit among the stacks, and rearranging the bookshelf (who?

So although when we have discussions like this, sometimes it sounds like I may be acting rude... most are honestly asking for those who talk this way to wake up a little bit and find something that your rational brain can grab onto.

The outbreak of a particularly vicious and meaningless little war in Asia that stymied America's leadership both militarily and politically for years on end, acted as a catalyst but did not cause the crisis.

For you and many good people of means the situation calls for a supreme act of selflessness, and let us be honest selflessness is little rewarded here in this liFor you and many good people of means the situation calls for a supreme act of selflessness, and let us be honest selflessness is little rewarded here in this lifor a supreme act of selflessness, and let us be honest selflessness is little rewarded here in this life.

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

That executives and bureaucrats often act in a self - serving manner and with mixed motives needs no further empirical proof, but we in the grass - roots communities and churches do not have to continue to give our national officers the responsibility for solving everything and then condemn them for solving so little.

Greater critical attention needs to be given to Turner's little - noted Thomist tendencies, apparent in passages where he posits, for example, a condition in which «the pure act - of - being is directly apprehended.»

Churches have had too little concern for understanding why people behave as they do and have been most relentless in their condemnation of acts contrary to social standards, with the result that many have responded with intense guilt feelings.

Churches have had too little concern for understanding why people behave as they do and have been most relentless in their condemnation of acts contrary to social standards with the result that.

For example, those priests really did bugger those little boys and the pope and others in the RCC did act to try to hide the facts.

He does have a weakness for desserts, but his cravings don't vary much; he pretty much only ever requests one specifically (brownies), and he always acts a little let - down when something doesn't contain chocolate.

I like this because the yolk acts as a dressing for the rest of the dish, and provides a little fattiness where there otherwise isn't any, but keep in mind that runny yolks may make the «burrito» a little messier to eat.

After one week of that, I finally got my act together to make life a little easier for myself, at least at home.