Sentences with phrase «great intentions of»

I always have great intentions of starting my Christmas shopping super-duper early, but I never quite get started before the end of October / early November.

Whatever the great intentions of the national curriculum, statutory documents do not teach young people, teachers do, and the schools that do best are those where teachers feel confident and enthusiastic about computing.

I had great intentions of making a pear and gorgonzola tart and purchased the ingredients but work's been so busy I never got around to it.

I had such great intentions of making these last year and well... didn't.

We had the greatest intentions of my wife breastfeeding our twins.

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In 2013, Google and the Center for Entrepreneurship, Hong Kong, paired to create the Empowering Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) Program with the intention of infusing greater innovation into an «entrepreneurial ecosystem [in Hong Kong that] is disconnected and facing an «innovation deadlock.

The New Year, full of clean - slate vibes and good intentions, can be a great time for establishing new routines and habits.

Tay's initial failure is a great example of how the most well - intentioned tech innovations can be taken in unexpected directions when subjected to a public audience.

Even if you have no intentions of playing golf this season, the collection is great for casual days.

The Bank of Canada's latest quarterly survey of businesses shows that companies expect little sales growth over the next 12 months and that their investment intentions are stuck near the lowest levels since the Great Recession.

Later within the interview, Barhydt hinted that Abra might be prolonged to supply far more than currencies of their app, mentioning his intention to supply people in growing markets with the flexibility to achieve publicity to Apple inventory by the use of nothing greater than a smartphone with some bitcoin on it.

Any other practice breaks the unity of the church, and the lack of water baptism is actually a tradition of omission, thus not showing a greater understanding of faith, but rather a lack of reverence for the will and intention of Jesus himself.

However, if it's your intention to support my (or someone else's) show, it might be helpful to review the kinds of things you could say for greatest effect.

It is perhaps the greatest irony of Christian history that the affirmation that alone distinguished the first Christians from other Jews may have been after all contrary to Jesus» own intention and belief.

The divinizing of our efforts through the value of the intention we put into them infuses into all our actions a soul of great price, but it does not confer on their bodies the hope of resurrection.

That word has been used in a variety of ways by the great writers on prayer; but our interest is only in its main intention, which is easy to grasp.

The Muslims many people have issue with are the ones that would complain about the show (the ones that have no interest in respecting other non-Muslims in this country and have no intention of ever assimilating to this country... the kind that come here to take advantage of our great country and then kill their children in the name of «honor» when they become like the people on the show.

My intentions and love for my town were great, yet my lack of trust in God made me fearful of the future.

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

Father, is a great man, the article was taken out of context, it makes me wonder about CNN's intentions.

It assumes that, as we believe ourselves to be capable of great good, we know we are also capable of great evil, our intentions notwithstanding.

We have seen that the great thinkers of the New Testament period, while they worked out bold, even daring ways of restating the original Gospel, were so possessed by its fundamental convictions that their restatements are true to its first intention.

I, too, am an athiest, and I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of suffering and ignorance, but these people go into it with good intentions, and many of them make great differences in the lives of others.

People want to help, they have great intentions — yet they sometimes cross the line of «too far» and end up miles past «helpful.»

In the first century, some of the most advanced of Jewish teachers, faced with the growing complexity of the system of ethics contained in the so - called Law of Moses and its constantly proliferating interpretations and supplements, were attempting to bring out its central or overruling intention by giving prominence to one or another «great commandment» upon which the rest might be supposed to hang.

God does not become more divine, of course; but God has other and more varied opportunity to adapt the divine Loving to the creatures, so that in any and every circumstance there is the renewed possibility of novelty, with the emergence of a greater capacity to act instrumentally for God's intentions in the world.

We have already seen that John Winthrop in his shipboard sermon of 1630 posed the issue to his congregation as the choice between adhering to God's covenant or pursuing «our carnal intentions seeking great things for ourselves and our posterity,» seeking «our pleasures and profits.»

In the eyes of the faithful the loss of Latin in the liturgy is perhaps the most clearly defining outcome of the Council and one of the most criticised aspects of its aftermath, despite its laudable intention to create greater, truer participation of the laity in public worship.

Assuming that God is incapable of moral evil, Lombardo uses philosophy to lend greater precision to discussions of God's will and intentions and of the human will of Jesus.

The criteriology of the divine, Nabert says, «is the expression of the greatest effort that consciousness can make in order to take away the conditions which prevent it from attaining complete satisfaction, when it attempts in the very core of its finitude to justify itself, to change itself into a radical purity of its intention.

It is not of great importance but it is curious that Tollefsen and Pruss misconstrue the intention of my article.

Although this classification may be justified and of no great import when limited to the level of the history of ideas, it becomes the crucial issue of the person of Jesus when one recognizes, as does Bultmann in the preface to his Jesus and the Word, that it is in the Paessage that one encounters existentially the intention, the understanding of existence constituting the self, and thus the person.

We can hope to come to greater clarity and greater ability to say what the intention or (more unusually) complex of intentions are in our acts.

I've experienced powerful moments of true community within the church only to have them eventually wrecked and ruined by well - intentioned people trying to turn it into something greater, or packaging it and marketing it for church growth purposes, or inflicting it with pressure to subscribe to a homogenous ideology and lifestyle, or imposing a vision upon it that turns it into an end rather than a thing of beauty in and of itself.

is such one great post that has answered my many years of challenged moments why such programs, systems failed despite our good intentions to share and reach out to the non believers.

By God's grace received through the sacraments (including the sacrament of marriage), we can aspire to something greater in marriage than a power struggle hemmed in by laws designed to curb our selfish intentions.

It is also true that it belongs to all great literature, and not least to the Bible, to evoke in the mind of the reader meanings and associations which may have nothing to do with the circumstances of its origin, or the intentions of its writers, and yet may bring genuine illumination and enrichment to the mind.

With the best of intentions they say that they also sense that this pain will pass and the church will move into its destiny of a great and wonderful future.

Two stated intentions of the National Day of Prayer were that it would be a day when adherents of all great religions could unite in prayer and that it may one day bring renewed respect for God to all the peoples of the world.»

Beyond these basic prerequisites, China has taken the great step of announcing its intention of becoming an ecological civilization.

Unquestionably the Holy Communion is, or ought to be, central to Christian worship; so it has been historically, even if (for example) the intention of the great Reformers, Martin Luther and John Calvin, that it should be celebrated each Lord's Day has been observed by many only in the breach.

The greatest injury of the «wall» notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights.

But let us also remember the great things we have accomplished in our history and promise ourselves that despite the evil intentions of al Qaeda, we will continue to soar for greatness.»

By pushing at, dismantling and crossing over the boundaries that the disciples might themselves put on «all nations,» Jesus foreshadows his intention to declare the boundaries of the great commission to be limitless.

Even if the founders of these great faiths had pure intentions, those authority figures who followed in their footsteps certainly did not.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

Traditional Catholicism speaks of baptism by blood, by intention, by desire; and some of the great Catholic doctors have even spoken of every soul which loves truth as being somehow part of the Church whose Lord is himself the Truth.

It feels like I'm making room for a greater force of love and intention in my life.

«The intention of Inspired by Happiness is offering great - tasting products with a better - for - you product portfolio,» Bitz says.