Sentences with phrase «for noble reasons»

This was undoubtedly done for both noble reasons (The American Dream, affordable shelter, supporting family structure, etc) and some more shady reasons (help builders, mortgage brokers and banks make a bundle in the process).

They're doing it for noble reasons.

Moreover, even though most teachers enter the profession for noble reasons and with great enthusiasm, many of those in urban schools know little about their students and find it hard to reach them.

There could have been some that invented them for noble reasons, but pharmaceutical companies definitely have money on their mind.

I understand the importance of wealth - creation — but wealth must be created for a noble reason.

«It is for this noble reason that our organisation felt to celebrate the state and Mr. Governor on this investiture ceremony as a sign of appreciation towards making education the bedrock of development.

Not exact matches

«The secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.»

It's perhaps the noblest reason for cooking the books in movie history, but of course still a legal nightmare.

Noble Group Ltd. has announced plans for its CFO Robert van der Zalm to step down for health - related reasons.

The Secretary did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.

I've heard that in other ancient flood stories, people were saved for other less noble reasons.

Those that I have known who have left traditional church did so for less noble reasons than your post describes.

While conservatives may balk at her religious identity for any number of reasons — and have done so, no citation needed — Christian leaders Perry Noble to megachurch pastor Zachery Tims have both publicly suffered from addiction (the latter eventually succumbing to the disease).

But I'm thankful for it for another, more important, reason: they will not be coerced into doing something they don't want just to fulfill some expectation, no matter how virtuous or noble.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

In a recent reconstructive essay on Hinduism, Sudhanshu Ranade suggests a connection between the not - so - noble function of «the political branch of Hinduism» in Vedic times, and «the trap the BJP is leading us into today».9 This involves the task of consolidating a hierarchically - ordered socio - political structure for Hindu society reflecting true religious Dhanna and controlling these classes / castes in order «to keep people in their place [so as] to keep them from getting above themselves».10 Perhaps this is the reason that nationalism, in its Orientalist form, is so pervasive in contemporary India.

Shall we abandon the lofty and noble conception of reason for which Socrates gave his life?

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

Martyrs are those who suffer but their groans, far from being a disavowal of what they were, express the noble reason for their deaths and change the apparent fatality into an absolute proof of loge.

Noble underlined that the absence of Dimitri Payet can not be used as a reason for losing the first - leg tie.

That your preschooler will steal, and not for noble Robin Hood - give - to - the - poor reasons?

For whatever reasons, women and some of their men are turning to what they perceive to be the «gentler» and more «natural» ways of birthing and parenting (fairly noble goals, really) and are then waylaid by a predator and her system.

«Everybody has to admit that there were a lot of people who voted leave for not noble and legitimate reasons.

«For this reason Hydrogenases are potentially interesting alternatives to noble metals,» says Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann (Professorship for analytical chemistry at the RUFor this reason Hydrogenases are potentially interesting alternatives to noble metals,» says Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann (Professorship for analytical chemistry at the RUfor analytical chemistry at the RUB).

It is easy to see why the pursuit of science was a goal to be cherished and emphasized in this mix of motivations: there were many reasons to be skittish of the potential for conflict and colonialism, but little could be more noble than knowledge.

In summary, I'll be keeping a close eye on the developments in the field of exoplanet studies, it truly is a noble effort driven by the search for extraterrestrial life, but I won't be celebrating quite yet, for the reasons I outlined in a Facebook comment on the Discovery News fan page yesterday:

Just as unsettling, though for less noble reasons, is the suicide humor (albeit delivered by a fish) tossed randomly into «Horton Hatches the Egg», a cartoon that as a whole is the least faithful of all the adaptations on the DVD — while the gag of following «now I've seen everything!»

Find reason there for the caricatured white trash pastiches serving as Maggie's family (and additional pathos in Maggie's need for a father figure), the boxing - trainer archetype, the old fighter Scrap (blind in one eye and living in a tiny room at the gym), the evil Drago Eastern Bloc nemesis, and the rags - to - riches sports story into noble - cripple tropes that worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight.

His reason is a noble one, for he wants to ensure the survival of the macaw species by having Blu mate with Jewel (voiced by Anne Hathaway).

This makes him a complicated villain, one who does things for what he truly believes are noble reasons, although he is clearly doing some morally depraved things with his power, in fact, bordering on genocide.

As noble a reason as that might seem to some, perhaps just as good is that Kick - Ass 2 is so wretched that it not only shouldn't be seen by kids, but pretty much anyone else, save perhaps for those completely titillated by any feeble rails against political correctness for the sake of seeming hip and edgy.

It's always we can fire no teacher ever except for extreme offenders and maybe 2 a year statewide for quality, or we can have evil power mad principals fire teachers because they cost too much as they age or for speaking out on a noble social issue or for personality reasons.

There are, no doubt, a host of reasons for the continued decline of Barnes & Noble's Nook business.

Whenever a workaround is found, Barnes and Noble normally patches it, because for some odd reason they don't want people using it.

As for why Barnes and Noble has suddenly decided to slash prices — well, there are a few reasons why the move makes plenty of sense.

Barnes and Noble recently started a European entity in the Netherlands where it will base its operations for tax reasons.

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google, Sony and other companies pulled in - app purchases for a number of reasons.

I hate kindle for this reason, good thing Barnes and Nobles is getting picky about whose rambling pages of trash they allow.

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Bilbary all operate out of those lower VAT venues, for obvious reasons.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble have both released new tablets in 2017 and they are both compelling for different reasons.

So, Barnes and Noble just suspended my ENTIRE ACCOUNT for no reason... and they have terminated the accounts of multiple other authors.

With the greater emphasis at this year's FutureBook event on the important of expanding into international markets, and with ebook retail giants like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo making headway into bringing ebooks to farther and farther reaches, there has to be a reason for someone to press the buy button on a book written by a Sudanese crime writer or an Indonesian sci fi author.

Now, if we're talking about a soulless Barnes & Noble, that may not be such a terrible loss, but if we're talking about Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, or any of the smaller indie bookstores struggling to survive but which are providing an unduplicated cultural service to their communities, that's reason for rethinking the «death to print!»

Barnes & Noble has its reasons for omitting these features, but anyone who has ever used maps or videoconferencing on a tablet knows how handy these features can be — and their absence may cause some consumers to drop the Nook HD from consideration as a general - use tablet.

Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet boasted of the Time Inc. publications right from the start and the reason it took a while longer for that to happen to the Kindle Fire is Amazon's pricing policy.

The main reason for this is because Barnes and Noble does not accept apps that have advertising built in.

Barnes and Noble still operates a strong college textbook selling presence, but as B&N pointed out in relation to this particular store closing, most college students buy their textbooks on campus; B&N actually operates a number of campus bookstores for that reason.

The second reason was far more nobler, to share their books for free on sites that often have copyright infringing material.

The reason this works is because unlike many companies, Barnes and Noble isn't trying to compete against the iPad for its depth of functionality.

For some reason I'm amazed by the success of Barnes & Noble (and Kobo formerly of Indigo now independent) retailers when they move into the ebook space.