Sentences with phrase «from holding things»

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But Persis, the Khosrowshahi family holding company, has long since moved from selling things to licencing them.

I was fascinated by simple things like someone holding the door open for you when walking into a building, even if you're three feet away from the entrance.

They grow quickly, hold the soil together so other things can grow around them, and look fetching from a distance.

26 things holding Canada back By CB Staff and contributors August 03, 2012 From our appalling performance in online retail to the way we gouge air travellers to our slacker attitude to baby - making, here's our list of 26 Canadian problems we need to confront now.

«As we move people from print to digital, it's worth remembering why we hold onto those things as hard as we do.»

The sorts of things that caused offence ran the gamut from extremist or strongly - held political opinions (racism, homophobia, partisan political views) to oversharing of daily routines and acts of inadvertent self - promotion.

Those are the two things that hold me back from recommending the Galaxy S6 over the iPhone.

Continuing these bad habits though won't assist you in self - improvement because most of the time they hold you back from doing the things that you always wanted to - try hiking if you're a smoker - and can be detrimental to your health.

But Logan is absolutely convinced the boy - next - door image is the one thing holding him back from major stardom.

The only thing holding you back from seizing an opportunity is you — and your willingness to try.

An even more important goal, one that Trapani and Shindler aim to achieve within the next five years or so, is to hire a chief financial officer who will be capable of, among other things, maximizing the income potential from the company's various financial accounts and perhaps restructuring its real - estate holdings.

It's holding us back from building the best things we can, so we have to solve this.»

Take it from David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done: «Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.»

The only thing that holds me back from using something like this is the potential security risk.

The rules would prohibit funding portals from, among other things: offering investment advice or making recommendations; soliciting purchases, sales or offers to buy securities; compensating promoters and other persons for solicitations or based on the sale of securities; and holding, possessing, or handling investor funds or securities.

Now that you've conquered your fears, clarified what you want, and made a plan for getting there, the only things holding you back are your inner conflicts that prevent you from taking action.

They may not earn a high return going forward and may even lose some in the next bear market, but I believe the psychology of holding bonds will stop some people from doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.

We do things like take organization - wide coffee breaks where we ask staff to go buy a coffee and ponder a specific question; we hold online book clubs and create communities of shared interests that range from using data tools to vegetarian cooking to working parents; around the holidays we host regional holiday parties and virtual «Holi - DJ» listening parties, where team members swap playlists of their favorite music.

If you do need to hold them then arguably the regulating body can compel you to do things you might otherwise not wish to do, or could even prevent you from entering their market, which is why I am wondering.

Regardless of what the future holds in terms of political results, from a market standpoint, we anticipate more volatility going forward — and this could be a good thing for hedged strategies.

One important thing to remember is that there are two different types of gains / losses from investments — short - term gains (if you held an asset for one year or less) and long - term gains (over one year; i.e. one year and one day).

Here's a letter to the board of Biglari Holdings re: executive compensation [Noise Free Investing] & then more thoughts on Biglari's compensation agreement [My Investing Notebook] Where things stand in the market [Bespoke Investment Group] A list of stocks Nasdaq is canceling trades in from yesterday's madness [Business Insider] The best interest rate chart in the world [Trader's Narrative] A great macro overview from Barry Ritholtz [The Big Picture] A look at John Paulson's possible ownership of Bear Stearns CDOs [Zero Hedge] John Mauldin on the future of public debt [Advisor Perspectives] Top buys & sells from Morningstar's ultimate stock pickers [Morningstar] The truth about «Sell in May & Go Away» [WSJ] An interview with hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry [Investment Week] Bill Ackman: Let's have a public registry for stock opinion [Barron's] Hedge fund Harbinger hires ex-Orange chief for wireless plan [Dealbook] & Deutsche Telekom has been in talks with Harbinger [FT] Hedge funds begin to restructure fee system [FT]

If being a very young business is holding you back from certain loan options or lower interest rates, the only thing you can do is wait it out and reapply when you've been around a bit longer.

«We maintain very open communication channels,» he says, «and every time we have a new product, we hold interactive sessions with our customers online, detailing things like where the product is sourced from, why it's a quality product, what's unique about the product, and so on.»

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Any way thanks I am sure you meant to say it when you commented but some thing held you back from saying it, just wonder what it was that held you back from saying it...?

The most amazing thing I have EVER done was to sit holding the hand of my wife as she died from cancer at the age of 42.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Most readers of «First Thoughts» are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held.

I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good things in this culture (like greater freedom for the individual), but that these come at the expense of certain dangers (like a weakening of the sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point of trade - off between advantages and costs.

We've grown accustomed to an instant - gratification culture where we hold the reigns and can switch from one thing to the next, the second something gets too boring or too difficult.

These things are in scripture to convict us (so we'll have some sorrow and repent that the gospel may take a hold of us) and to protect us from harming ourselve and others in society)

I am quite sick of people using religion as a shield from being held accountable,... especially as they like to say things like «we are all going to be held accountable after death.»

Since Whitehead, with Aristotle, holds that the exercise of freedom aims at some good (i.e., unification is a value - experience), he also says that «in between [the past from which things arise and the future toward which they end] lies the teleology of the universe» (AI 194).

Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm of pure spirit.

that is where you get a lot of your morals from and a lot of the things you will hold as truths.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

With Jesus» exodus he was rescuing us, God's people, out of slavery by releasing us from all those things that have an unholy hold on us — work or money or death — and by placing his own blood on the doorposts of our lives.

The only thing God wants from you are the chains that are holding you back.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

We do not think of His acting as an occasional intervention coming from the outside, but rather as the transcendent creative activity of God who alone makes it possible for our world to «hold together» and to rise, in accordance with His plan, step by step higher, so that really new things appear in it and finally man appears in it.

There, and from there, in him and through him we shall hold all things and have command of all things, we shall find again the essence and the splendour of all the flowers, the lights, we have had to surrender here and now in order to be faithful to life.

There are some days I'm pretty sure I don't fit the definition of Christian in any sense, though I come from a decidedly more eastern Christian perspective on the things to which I still hold.

I'm not keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to hold that other person in high esteem.

The bottom line is that one of the main things holding back people from exercising the spiritual gifts in church is the presence of paid, professional, pastoral staff.

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In the act of admonishing even he will say (for it is no rare speaker that is here introduced to talk, and just on that account the praise of the Good is so much the more glorious because it does not require the approval of eloquence, for here it is well to note that it is one of life's most tragically spoiled children who speaks admonishingly to a youth) even he will say, «Do not be afraid, be slow to judge others, but attend closely to yourself, hold firmly to willing one thing, to willing the Good in truth, and thus, from now on, let this lead you wherever for now it will lead you — because eternally it will lead you to victory.

It is possible to hold that in thus concentrating the concept of election on the one man, the eternal son of God through whom all things are made, the New Testament actually universalizes the concept of election in a way different from the Old Testament.

Though a disturbing passion which holds one back from the thing feared, awe also holds one fast, attracted, and transfixed before it.

Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.