Sentences with phrase «grasp hold of»

One of the biggest missed opportunities for applicants to immediately grasp hold of the readers attention is the lack of numerical quantification.

The very graphic, very gory, very sexual horror game failed to grasp hold of its intended audience, either due to a lack of appeal or the lack of media attention.

It is important that you grasp hold of the debt you have now and start minimizing it.

It is helpful to find sites that have wonderful recipes I can incorporate in my life and grasp hold of the things I can eat and not focus on what I can't.

Perhaps from this perspective my life has a significance, a purpose, a meaning which I can not grasp hold of in a controlling manner.

We have risked something of ourselves in our allowing these beliefs (such as the belief that the pursuit of truth is worthwhile) to grasp hold of our lives.

But this is why what I wrote in this post is one of the first truths of the Gospel to grasp hold of.

To concern oneself with the resurrection hope simply for the purpose of grasping hold of what seems to be a viable approach to personal immortality does not, however, do full justice to this first - century doctrine.

Our asking limit - questions occurs at all only because mystery has already grasped hold of our consciousness.

It grasps hold of us and elicits the response of hope only by embodying itself in something so concrete as a homeland in which to hope.

It's just a bit too heavy for comfort, especially when its all - plastic outer construction doesn't leave you feeling as if you're grasping hold of a truly desirable piece of kit.

Sceptics are fond of grasping hold of ANY theory (however weak, fanciful or unlikely) of what drives recent warming as long as it doesn't include CO2.

Not exact matches

She tries to struggle out of his grasp and manages to hold her blaster to his face, but he grabs it from her hands.

So, to help unravel the complicated AMT, we'll explain how it all works and how it's now different — while still holding millions of taxpayers in its grasp.

When sales dipped, the young company was not only left holding a surplus of product, it didn't have a good grasp of how much inventory its retailers had.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Allow me to help you grasp how long «eternity» is: imagine a steel ball the size of the earth, no, the size of the SUN — which can hold like what... a million earths?

So if this view of mine is a noteworthy claim then, our spirited nothing is part and parcel our the celestial nothingness that holds this earthly cosmos of ours in its grasps.

The challenge in Peter attempting to walk on the water toward Jesus is that Jesus holds his hand toward each of us grasping us if we should fall.

The hold of substantialist metaphysics was so strong that, when the substantialist concepts failed to describe the subatomic entities, most scientists inclined to the view that no conceptual grasp is possible.

Through that dream is the way and the truth and the life of the One who is both very far away, beyond our grasping, and very near, to hold us up and lead us on.

But he went much further, arguing that Christian philosophy, like that of Aristotle, should be empirical: it should proceed from what can be grasped by the senses — and not, as the Augustinian tradition held, by what can be grasped purely by the Mind.

In principle, the ecumenical churches hold that the symbols of Scripture and doctrine grasp and convey something of the very being of God.

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.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

Those who want to use this creed as the basis for their concession speech have to grasp first that the creed was not the means by which the universal and apostolic church all held hands and sang the Greek version of «Kumbaya».

so why is it hard to grasp that thousands of years ago a «day» might have held different time?

If we theologians have forgotten the seriousness of our task (or have lost our nerve), if we have been uneasy about trying to lay hold on something well beyond our grasp, lest we seem foolish to an age devoted to problem - solving and conceptual clarity, events of the day are not short of reminders of seriousness for those who have eyes to see.

Hence it is the task of modern historiography to grasp such acts of intention, such commitments, such meaning, such self - actualization; and it is the task of modern biography to lay hold of the selfhood which is therein revealed.

The dream of Judaism is about the day when «ten men from nations of every language shall take hold of a Jew, grasping his garment and saying, «Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you» (Zech.

Instead of grasping a sword, he will be holding a Choron, the traditional three - legged goblet «symbolizing peace and expressing the people's love for the actor.»

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

In reality, Greek thought always regards God in the last analysis as a part of the world or as identical with the world, even when, or rather especially when, He is held to be the origin and formative cosmic principle which lies beyond the world of phenomena For here, too, God and the world form a unity within the grasp of thought; the meaning of the world becomes clear in the idea of God.

As she put it in her Lambeth speech: «If we take seriously the way our constitution works, the United Kingdom is a society where we might expect people to grasp the importance of symbols and traditions, not as a sign of mere conservatism or nostalgia but as a sign of what holds us together.»

Only in that regular and candid encounter between ourselves and Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation will we grasp two essential truths of the spiritual life: the depth to which sin has a hold over our fallen nature, and the far greater power of the grace of Christ ministered to us through his Church.

We might now complain of the critic motivated by a disdain for a faith he can not grasp, a hope he can not hold, and a love he can not feel.

In poems such as «Adventures in New Testament Greek: Mysterion,» which muses on the inadequacy of» metaphor in the face of ultimate questions, we sense Cairns working out ideas and implications that he barely grasps, reaching toward mysteries that refuse to be fully held.

The subject - predicate theory holds that the vulgar form of language enshrines metaphysical reality; this is the easiest metaphysics to grasp, but not true.

Plato Wrote in The Republic: «Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then we are freed from the grasp not of one bad master only, but of many.»

And just when you think you've laid hold of Him, He will slip out of your grasp.

For, as we have seen, mental acting initiates by conceiving, i.e., grasping, the definiteness of the physical, and holding it in abstraction in its universality.

Often there seems to be a sense of otherness, confrontation and encounter, or of being grasped and laid hold of.

We try to grasp it, and do not get hold of it, and we name it «the Subtle.»

That prevailing paradigm holds that the individual self can be grasped as a separate entity abstracted from its political contexts and from the larger social contexts of our culture.

Given our stress on freedom in the divine nature, we need to reinterpret omniscience of the future so that it means not a fixed knowledge of every coming event held in a timeless instant, but the simultaneous grasp of an absolute infinity of possibles — a capability we human beings lack — and an instantaneous calculation of the odds for all future possible events and actions.

In the modern context neo-thomists who try to hold to it can end up saying that our grasp of it is a priori to scientific observation.

The Chicago playoff game was a test of McNabb's grasp of when to hold»em and when to fold»em.

Kelly did manage to get a hold of Wilson, first by his jersey and then when Kelly fell to the ground he grabbed Wilson's ankle, but he basically strong armed his way out of Kelly's grasp.

They all have great traits but they have failed to keep hold of the form they have briefly grasped in short periods, Ramsey has the flair which sets him apart in many aspects but even he hasn't developed the intelligence to manage himself.

Your baby also may show a grasp reflex by taking hold of your finger when you place it in his or her palm.