Sentences with phrase «good first act»

I've seen that happen in far too many films - good premise + good first act degenerates into standard action cliches.

Not exact matches

But Vancouver will need to act quickly: San Francisco is angling to be the first North American RMB hub as well, and recent entrants Frankfurt and London will not give up their newfound share of the currency market easily.

Most fiduciaries — individuals who are required to act in your best interest — believe you should fully fund other retirement vehicles first, such as a 401 (k), 403 (b), IRA or Roth IRA.

The bot problem didn't prompt its first piece of federal legislation until September 2016, when Congress passed the anti-ticket scalping Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act.

If the relationship is loaded down with potential conflicts of interest, or they're selling you products that provide them with kickbacks or commissions, you can never be certain that they're acting first and foremost in your best interest.

In fact, this is one resolution that many of you were able to start prior to January first when Congress passed tax reform in the waning hours of December, giving some Americans an opportunity to act early in their own best interests.

First and foremost, you must be comfortable with your real estate agent and feel confident he / she is acting in your best interest.

The performance of a coin might not continue in the same state for a long time, so it would be best if you can observe first and see what will happen before finally deciding to act in order to avoid pulling your profits down.

So, it's really great to use the scalable techniques of Indiegogo, as well as the curation capabilities of MicroVentures to bring this all to bear and to First Democracy VC, which is a constant balancing act because we only want to present the deals that we think have been filtered well to be presented, but we also want it to be as scalable as possible, and to have as many deals as possible, because the goal is to democratize the opportunities.

However, when a stock is acting very well and climbing steadily higher, we often choose to sit through the first pullback or short - term price consolidation instead, which enables us to capture a 20 to 30 % gain with a longer holding period that averages around 2 to 3 weeks.

In my first company, I tried to act extroverted, because I thought that's what good leaders did.

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millenFirst World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millenfirst act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

It's only by convincing his followers that his immoral acts are moral that you come to believe that we are somehow misunderstanding gods evil acts and that if we only read the bible again we'd somehow see that when he killed all the first born of egypt, or impregnated a married woman and left her with a kid or that he's fine with slavery under certain conditions as good things.

Well it is almost election time Obama seems to be doing a lot of things for the first time like acting like he cares about eh middle class, acting like he supports business and acting like he wants to be bipartisan.

Rather it is, first, to understand the truth of our predicament more deeply so that we may better discern how to act, and secondly, to dent the liberals» apparently unshakeable confidence in these foundational assumptions.

She is creation's first act of donation and in the giving of herself, allows Adam to make of himself a gift as well.

In the first place, no amount of prayer will take the place of right discernment of good and evil through standards set by the outlook of Jesus, of right calculation of the probable consequences of our acts, of right knowledge and judgment of the total situation in which our lives are set.

U.S. district judge Joe Heaton rejected both First Amendment and Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) claims by Hobby Lobby and its well - known evangelical owners, the Green family.

Islam at the beginning held the sword only when it was necessary to survive the wars launched against it by the Pagans of Mecca beside the Persians who then were worshipping fire... Any way remember that we never came closer to the West until the launched their first attacks against Muslims by the crusaders that came from the west towards Jerusalem... Such acts has drove Islam to adopt the policy that says «Attack is the best means of defense» to push the crusaders further back.

And the specific act that self - perfects — that secures the First Good — is the choice of the Second Good as the reason for specific behavior.

In the hymns of Zoroaster God's primal act is a decision within himself which prepares and makes possible the self - choice of good and evil by which each is first rendered effectual and factual.

But even if we could, such rudimentary indicators would still not speak to motive (my first point) so wouldn't ultimately be that helpful anyways in any attempt to prove who may be better (or act better) than others.

The First Amendment Defense Act can and should protect the free exercise of religion without ignoring the freedom of speech, press and assembly for the non-observant as well as the devout.

In the next place, a purpose of proclamation is to bring about genuine commitment, whether this is for the first time (as with some who are present it very well may be) or is a renewed response in self - dedication to God who in Christ has acted decisively for us humans and for our wholeness.

«First, make a good Act of Contrition.»

But this happens in two ways: first, by reason or intellect, insofar as our mind contains certain general first principles, known to us by the light of natural intelligence, by which we proceed rationaly in thinking and acting, and secondly by tightness of desire, moving us towards what is known to be good.

We shall follow his description, summarizing that which is most important for our purposes.15 In the first step, the disciple, acting either on his own or under the guidance of a master, reflects on the advantages of the Bodhi - vow, performs good works in order to free his soul, and finally takes the Bodhi - vow (pranidhi).

[The book of Acts and the Epistles] would then form the first scene of the fifth act, giving hints as well (Rom 8; 1 Cor 15, parts of the Apocalypse) of how the play is supposed to end.

If man is really meant to determine his final destiny, if this «eternity» is to be the act of his freedom, capable of making him good or evil in the depth of his being and not only accidentally, then freedom must first of all be freedom of being.

Although the sophistication with which Wagner plots out this conflict exists on many levels, it can perhaps be seen best in his treatment of the famous «hymn to Venus» that Tannhäuser introduces in the first act.

The first act as well as the third of the great drama takes place «in the heavenlies,» but the second takes place upon the earth and partakes fully of the character of the earthly.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virg = inia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

I wept because I had been made to see, for the first time, that all the justice that must be shown the black man, all the help given him, everything that should be done legally to give him his rights, will never do what a simple act of love can do: make him know that he is accepted, cared for, yes, really loved by those who do not just «do good to him» but who feel with passionate concern that he is a human brother.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

Their first album, Youth & Young Manhood, seemed such an obvious play off Southern rock acts like the Allman Brothers that it seemed Kings of Leon were playing coy at best, or flat out lying at worst.

No, the only thing we can do is read and learn and discuss the first three acts, and then, based our understanding of those three acts, the plot structure up that point, the way the characters act, and how we think the conflict might resolve, improvise the fourth act to the best of our ability.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

While most of the attention on the Supreme Court's HHS mandate cases has properly centered on whether the Court will interpret the protections of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to include corporations as well as individuals, an even more malignant threat....

This may well lead to the claiming of rights for others, but such a demand must first be expressed in the acts and attitudes of daily life.

Whom you would love, you must first know, because love is an act of the intellect as well as of the emotions.

... I felt the pain and, perhaps for the first time in my entire life, I felt embarrassed at the thought that it could very well be my fellow Muslims who had committed this horrendous act of terrorism.

When the right critters take over the first thing they do is kill off the wrong ones, and after a slight lull the starter starts smelling better and begins acting like a starter should.

Congress first attempted to address food donation - related liability concerns in 1990 by passing the Model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, hoping States would adopt it in order to protect donors.

(Particularly if I wasn't very good at those acts of service in the first place.)

Gibbs hasn't got the confidence to pass the ball forward, he gets to pass back to often and is not good at defending Monreal is a class act so we need to add there Ramsey is not a wide player, why Wenger doesn't play his strongest first then make the 2subs in 65 min and Walcot should have started as Ramsey is better in Midfield.

With those pistols hung on the wall, the first act began, and when it was over, Dodger Duke Snider vouchsafed, «The Yankees are no better than either the Braves or the Redlegs.»

He would have hoped that first team action at the Turin side would help act as a good method to display the player's ability to any interested parties but as yet the giant forward has struggled to get a look in at the Serie A title holders.

more to the point for an Economics graduate, who doesn't understand inflation moaning about the fact the the price of players has gone up considering annual revenues of the premier league teams have shot up too is incredibly stupid... But hey Wenger knows best; he wouldn't be in a position not having to spend over the odds for quality players if he acted in the first place, that's the icing on the retard cake there for me..

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..