Sentences with phrase «hands of certain people»

It only becomes meaningless in the hands of certain people, usually presidents.

Not exact matches

There are certain values in terms of almost every aspect of how you work and how you function and how you hand off... I think more and more, people care about how a company functions and what their values are and what they put into their product and how they distribute their product and who their consumer is.»

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama unveiled executive actions on guns, which, among other things, are designed to make gun sales easier to monitor and keep guns out of the hands of people who are prohibited from having them because of criminal and certain mental health records.

Of course Facebook wasn't marching in with gun in hand, seeking to subjugate all who stood before it — it was only partnering with local mobile operators to give people free access to certain online services.

Growing up, in the 40's and 50's, as a Roman Catholic, at least in our diocese, no politician was allowed to shake hands with people within a certain distance of the church.

Lisa McKay — Good Will Come — When I see these sorts of hands (and far worse) dealt to other people I'm still tempted to wonder why certain things have happened.

It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.

ATTAC, for example, only exists because a certain number of people and «Le Monde Diplomatique» which was the initiator, said that, in the face of the economic, political and financial crisis, it was essential to take things in hand.

For example, there are claims that certain people in the very early church suppressed certain writings, changed certain writings and even produced writings purporting to be from the hands of Paul or the Apostles.

«Religion» is the sum of customs and teachings in which the religiousness of a certain epoch of a people has been expressed and formed, crystallized in precepts and dogma, and handed down to all future generations as inalterably binding.

The unique person and moment can be seen as unique because the story does not have to return to a certain point; but on the other hand, the end symbolizes closure, the cessation of the intolerable new, and the little story of the believer's life is subjected to these same tensions that appear in the overall story.

After an event where a lot of food was prepared, contact certain people who are short on food and plead for their help in «taking some of this food off our hands so we won't have to throw it away.»

As Ishtar risked her life to descend into the underworld to appear before its monarch, so Esther took her life into her hands to appear before the king in what seemed the impossible task of saving her people from certain death.

At a certain stage in the ritual the High Priest confessed all the iniquities and transgressions of the people with his hands resting on the head of the goat.

On the other hand, religion implies a certain binding (Latin: religare) of the person to a particular path of obedience not set by the person herself.

Then comes the statement: God raised him up, and manifested him to certain chosen witnesses, his disciples, who were now commissioned to preach to the people and to testify that he was the one «appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead; to him all the prophets bear witness, that through his name everyone who believes on him [trusts in him] shall receive remission of sins» and so be saved in the last great Day, now close at hand.

The Pharisees handed down certain legislation to the people from the tradition of the fathers, legislation which has not been recorded in the laws of Moses; for this reason the party of the Sadducees rejects it, saying that what is written must be considered legislation, but that what comes from the tradition of the fathers need not be observed (Antiq.

So he will have had offers I think that much is certain, Mesut is a very private person and even at the best of times you rarely hear about who's been tapped up unless caught red handed.

And while I think that is well and good on one hand (and it can certainly be beneficial), it can be dangerous on the other when people stop asking themselves what parts of a certain parenting philosophy work for the family and the children they have, and change it to be what more can they do to fit a certain parenting philosophy.

PROTECT families by supporting proposals that would keep guns out of the wrong hands, including the Extreme Risk Protection Order bill, which would make it possible for families and law enforcement to remove firearms from loved ones who could be a danger to themselves or others, and making permanent Kendra's Law, which grants judges the authority to issue orders that require people who meet certain criteria to regularly undergo psychiatric treatment.

In people with vitiligo, which causes patchy loss of pigmentation, a certain kind of T cell is dominant in the afflicted areas of skin; patients with psoriasis, on the other hand, exhibit an increase in another kind of T cell.

Just because certain groups of people were still living as nomads while the Ancient Egyptians were aligning Pyramids with celestial constellations doesn't means aliens had a hand in it.

There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

You get to get your hands dirty, and especially in this movie, dig into the craft of it all, and really think about how things really do make people feel a certain way.

Alternatively, you can seek out an online session for people of a certain hunter rank, and just go along for the ride if they need a hand with anything.

It's complicated and not always clear, but one thing is certain: Many people want to get their hands on the baby monster growing inside of Tianyin's ever - expanding belly.

The reason for the 5 - day promo was to get it in the hands of as many people as possible, because a certain percentage of those would join my email list and a certain percentage would leave reviews.

But the letter may not give investors the assurance that they've been looking for: the company writes that there's a certain type of person who relies on its phones, but it doesn't suggest how it might put BB10 devices in even more hands.

But if you're intrigued by its odd proportions and find yourself musing about what it would feel like in your hand, or how its keys work in practice, then I'd advise you to go and check one out in a phone shop because there is a certain je nais sais quois about the Passport that I think A LOT of people will really enjoy.

Authors put their work in the hands of these people with a certain expectation that things will get done and their book will be better for it.

Do be so certain; people have been betting on that for some time, and the Fed is more than happy to let things slide until something forces their hand, or they think the risks of a move are minuscule.

On the other hand, people with immune system problems, such as those with HIV / AIDS, those taking certain types of chemotherapy, or persons who have recently received an organ transplant, and infants, may develop severe toxoplasmosis, which results in damage to the eye or the brain.

In all honesty if I had been personally asked to hand - pick a crew of people to work on the next big RPG I'm almost certain I would have picked these exact people, with the minor exception that I would have added Terry Pratchett to the mix, for obvious reasons.

In all honesty if I had been personally asked to hand - pick a crew of people to work on the next big RPG I'm almost certain I would have picked these exact people, with the minor exception that I -LSB-...]

There has to be a certain point where we're able to release the games and get them into the hands of enough people, to make sure the audience is big enough.

In some senses, a certain amount of control that one may have had over an artwork, as the artist, is lost; you have to hand that over to the person wearing the work.»

The eyes of the world will be on Alaska, as the United States hands over chairmanship of the Arctic Council to Finland on May 11th, and many Alaska Native people want to make certain their voice is heard loud and clear: We must transition away from a fossil fuel economy that is threatening climate catastrophe across the world.

Strasbourg jurisprudence had established the principle that Art 2 covered not only the obligation not to take the life of another person but also imposed on contracting states the positive obligation to take certain steps towards preventing loss of life at the hands of others.

On 27 July 2011, the UK Supreme Court handed down a judgment which clarified concerns raised by the earlier Court of Appeal decision regarding the ability of parties to exclude certain categories of person from appointment as arbitrators.

On the other hand, 42 USC § 1989 (warrants for certain civil rights crimes) does explicitly allow people executing the warrants to «summon and call to their aid -LSB-...] such portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as may be necessary to the performance of the duty with which they are charged.»

All that's certain is that people who bought in at the peak of cryptocurrency fervor are currently getting their asses handed to them.

Think about it: your resume is distributed to only a certain number of people (hand - selected by you in a job search), but your LinkedIn profile has the ability to reach millions, and much more quickly.

What I'm seeing now it's gotten out of hand and we say we want the government out of our business but if these scam artists continue to fleece hard working people then it want be much longer when the government will step in and the reason you see states outlawing certain practices.