Sentences with phrase «great marks on»

The main issue with GEICO will be if you need to file a claim as it doesn't get great marks on the J.D. Power survey for customer service.

I tried several writing assignments with you and got all the great marks on them.

It could be argued that no king left a greater mark on Bangkok than Rama V, and no temple is as closely linked to him as Wat Benchamabophit.

It's not just the people with the most publicity or accolades that make the greatest mark on a society.

Not exact matches

State government agency Tourism WA will have greater input into decisions on liquor licence applications, after Premier Mark McGowan today announced a series of regulatory reforms and red tape cuts.

«There are some great, well - established companies with long track records of franchising success, but they aren't exactly on the cutting edge anymore,» says Mark Siebert, CEO of the iFranchise franchise consulting group, based in Homewood, Illinois.

When making their mark on the business world, many leaders reveal their secret: a high IQ burnished with a great education.

For the past four years, Mark Titus has done a great job becoming the world's most famous walk - on.

He has also been vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence — even describing AI as «the greatest risk we face as a civilization» while engaging in a war of words with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over their disagreement on the subject.

Having a purpose — a why — for what you do is great, but without passion, purpose turns into that tiny little square on your to - do list that you checkoff every day (or some days) and mark as «complete.»

But the deal also marks yet another small but significant step towards greater regulation of Airbnb, Uber, and other companies in the so - called sharing economy, whose competitive advantage arguably hinges on its ability to operate with little oversight.

Mark Vaselkiv, portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, noted that «Einstein said there were three great forces of nature: gravity, electro magnetism, and compounded interest... high yield is an asset class that ultimately capitalizes on the latter.

Great post by Mark Roderick (aka @crowdfundatty) on «renting the platform» and how SeedInvest's group's platform can facilitate fundraising for...

What I found is that Facebook is doing OK, but not great by any means — see one Forrester analyst's recent open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, pointing out that Facebook comes dead last on a satisfaction index of digital marketing channels.

More than 40 Palestinian protesters marking the Great March of Return have been killed in five weeks of demonstrations on Gaza's border.

The publication of vaulting statistics marks the first step toward the LBMA's promise of greater transparency, which will eventually be enhanced further by trade reporting that is set to also be published later on.

Global mining investors have been demanding greater returns following a period marked by failed acquisitions and spending on mine expansions that flooded metals markets.

«We just think that drives a great mark into football,» said CEO Sally Smith on her company's conference call Monday.

They know what it takes to build a great company, and they use that knowledge to try and spot the next Mark Zuckerberg or Evan Spiegel to place a bet on.

In the event of a go - ahead for QE, its announcement might be of greater political than economic significance, potentially marking the first step on the road to closer fiscal integration of the eurozone.

Watch «The Great One,» Mark Levin, rip «Anderson Springer» to shreds while discussing Stormy Daniels «SICK» interview on 60 Minutes.

James Nuechterlein's review («Lincoln Both Great and Good,» August / September) of three recent books on Abraham Lincoln, arguably our greatest president, was excellent and on the mark except for one significant point.

Still other material was found and used by Mark, including some that is clearly legendary — that is, «popular» stories handed down orally in extended form, and not necessarily all of them really Christian in origin — for example the great legends of the Gerasene demoniac, 5:1 - 20; the death of John the Baptizer, 6:17 - 29; the walking on the sea, 6:45 - 52; and the cursing of the fig tree, 11:12 - 14, 20 - 25.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

It generated a great amount of hope and excitement that his tenure would mark a new boldness and confidence in the leadership of the Catholic Church on this side of the Atlantic.

«Like the disciples, we should not be proud, seek an ascendant position or argue about who's the greatest among us,» he notes in reflecting on a passage from the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus» followers are debating who among them is the greatest.

But they contain also a great deal of teaching material, such as the Sermon on the Mount and many parables, which Mark does not give.

On one level, its appearance in the United States, in a translation by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, is of even greater importance than its European publication, for it is in the United States, ironically, that a friendly interpretation of communism has had its largest hearing.

Day (African American heritage) and I don't have a problem with this, I think it is great that we celebrate the life of someone who has made a mark on American history.

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

I don't agree with Mark on a great number of things, including his annoying habit of being all the blogger's moral compass.

A great light of religion shone on the minds of the hearers of Peter, so that they were not satisfied with a single hearing or with the unwritten teaching of the divine proclamation, but with every kind of exhortation besought Mark, whose Gospel is extant, seeing that he was Peter's follower, to leave them a written statement of the teaching given them verbally, nor did they cease until they had persuaded him, and so became the cause of the Scripture called the Gospel According to Mark (49).

Matthew introduces these incidents with a statement similar to one that Mark and Luke make on another occasion (cf. Mk 4:35; Lk 8:22): «Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.»

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

Earlier writers had recognized that Volkmar went too far in his attempted demonstration of Mark's dependence upon Paul — he found evidence of such dependence on almost every page of the Gospel — but his view was such a welcome relief from the one - sided Tübingen theory, according to which Mark was a «neutral» in the great apostolic controversy over Jewish Christianity, that the main thesis of Volkmar was accepted without careful scrutiny of his supporting arguments.

In Luke 12:50 it is completely impossible to explain away the «distress» in the face of death, and also in view of the fact that Jesus is abandoned by God on the Cross [Mark 15:34], it is not possible to explain the Gethsemane scene except through this distress at the prospect of being abandoned by God, an abandonment which will be the work of Death, God's great enemy.)

Catholic primary and secondary schools can, do and should, as a matter of course, mark Christmas on a great scale.

On the contrary, such worship is really marked by a great simplicity — the simplicity which comes from need for common participation.

In his review of Conor Cruise O'Brien's fascinating thematic work on Edmund Burke (The Great Melody, November 1993) Mark Henrie regrettably chose to focus on an allegation that the liberal O'Brien tried his darndest and failed to make Burke out to be a liberal when he was actually a traditionalist conservative.

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

Mark never showed the name disciples as making the transition he was prescribing - presumably because the militant Christians of his day were using the Twelve as patrons to justify their refusal to move on to greater maturing.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

P.S. Webb does a great job of grabbing his readers» interest at the beginning of the book by asking them to look through a list of a few dozen verses and mark which biblical instructions are «still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated «on the page.

The great work by Strack and Billerbeck, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, Volume 11 (1924), contains fifty - four pages on the Gospel of Mark.

A great master of the life of the spirit, Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622) had marked influence on Vincent de Paul.

Yet to say that in this one place in his gospel the fourth evangelist was careful to compare Mark and Luke and adopt phrases from each, while at the same time making important changes in the story on his own account, is to solve the problem by creating even greater difficulties.

The unspoken or half - spoken message... was our complete understanding of each other as people who were somehow on the edge of great realization... I was profoundly moved, because he is so obviously a great man... marked by complete simplicity and freedom.

We can speculate that Conceição, once disabused of the idea of reforming the national church, would have supported this solution, leaving an indelible mark on nascent Brazilian Protestantism (greater understanding of popular religiosity; Franciscan simplicity of life free of bourgeois tendencies; a mystical spirituality closer to the Latin heritage).

According to Copeland Marks, noted expert on some of the world's spiciest cuisines, «No other county with the exception of India, uses a greater variety of spices than the Moroccans.»

Halloumi is a great non-meat protein to grill because it's not like normal cheese, and won't ooze into the grill, but maintains its integrity by taking on some crusty grill marks.