Sentences with phrase «idea was in the first place»

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Or perhaps they had an idea that was unrealistic, maybe impossible, in the first place.

They're devising new, unimaginably brilliant gadgets, gizmos and apps that do two things: Make our lives easier and make us wonder why we never thought of such a simple idea in the first place (remember the Chia Pet?).

Meanwhile, the whole idea of regulating TV in the first place is becoming less practical in an age of online viewing and cord - cutting.

I wish I knew earlier on that by sticking with an idea after failing, you are forced to find your own way forward and get back to what inspired you in the first place — whether it's addressing a hole in the market or thinking about a different way of doing things.

It's an idea the Santander project dubs «participatory sensing»: the people receiving information are also the ones detecting it in the first place.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

Canwest's Sunday papers are survived by a few remaining Sunday editions across Canada — most notably the Sunday Star — but the 24 - hour news cycle will undoubtedly continue to force the number down, as sitting with the Sunday paper becomes more of an anachronism, in a country that never fully embraced the idea of a Sunday paper in the first place.

«They're full of ideas and ready to make a new plan for their businesses, especially when they have an understanding of where things are going wrong in the first place.»

«You don't want to be the first place where a person gets educated in the idea of losing money.

This might be a little late for Florida residents, but for people in the Carolinas and other places — and for future storms — here's some good advice: At the first sign of a possible major storm make sure your gas tank is full (it's always a good idea regardless of circumstances) and keep extra cases of bottled water and other emergency supplies in your house.

In general, it's a good idea to take out federal student loans in the first place and to keep them and their benefits post-graduatioIn general, it's a good idea to take out federal student loans in the first place and to keep them and their benefits post-graduatioin the first place and to keep them and their benefits post-graduation.

The idea first came in 2012, when Hsieh was looking for a place to move his expanding company, Zappos, then headquartered in Henderson, a Vegas suburb.

Office 365 and Azure are comparatively weaker strategically: Office 365 has document lock - in, but the exact same forces that weakened Windows in the first place weaken the idea of documents as well.

Because if you're just using a Ouija board, and the market starts going against you for some period of time, you're stuck - either you continue to follow something when you have no idea why it should work in the first place, or now you've got to find something else that works even though you don't understand why.

Whenever a company in the Bitcoin space reaches a significant milestone of investment, there are those who oppose the entire idea of using digital currency in the first place.

The business ideas are drawn from the teams» own research expertise and, in many cases, represent the opportunities that drew the students to attend the course in the first place.

Who thought inviting Newkirk was a good idea in the first place?

This revised edition, which was first published in 2013, offers a step - by - step guide for setting up a family office and provides ideas on the current leading practice for those who already have a family office in place.

Even so, Werbach said that it is «incredibly striking» that the idea was floated in the first place.

Since is was a crummy idea in the first place, I'd call this a good outcome.

Charter's cord cutting problems shouldn't be surprising, given the company's response to this market evolution has been to largely double down on all the bad ideas that helped create it in the first place (from shoddy customer service and relentless price increases on everything from programming to hardware rental, to using sneaky fees to covertly jack up prices further).

Metaxas explains that the US is not bound by ethnic identity or geography, but by a radical idea based on liberty and freedom for all, and that Americans must reconnect with this idea or risk losing the foundation of what made the US exceptional in the first place.

Too many people are giving up something that they shouldn't be doing in the first place... that's not the idea behind the Lenten fast, but it has thrown the entire idea of fasting way off the cliff.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

We can see there is a coherence between the idea that the religiosity of mankind is a function of our mental architecture, and the idea that the human mind with its spiritual soul is made for union with God in the first place.

If the mosque is tolerating teaching and sermons that gave this kid his ideas in the first place then they deserve everything they get.

That approach is hostile, in the first place, to the idea of friendship which finds a special complement in a particular person, and still more hostile to the notion of a distinctive complementarity between the sexes, all the more so if it were to lead two people to want an exclusive union between themselves (since the assumption is «everyone belongs (and is useful) to everyone else»).

The first Digital Lab event will be taking place on Saturday 24th February 2018 in central London, where people will have the opportunity to network before pitching ideas to a panel of industry experts.

Since these are the things about which ideas of being were first formed in philosophy, it is important that as we refine our ideas we not divorce them from their place of origin.

Yet it was assumed that the intellectual ability that had gained you admission in the first place would translate into an openness to new ideas, and an intellectual robustness — an ability to be thick - skinned — which meant you could entertain an idea without being mortally offended by it.

The whole illusion is sustained by the idea that we need to saved from being killed or tortured for all eternity in the first place.

Anyone willing to let their mind be enslaved by the idea of an imaginary friend in the sky for adults really isn't the brightest person in the first place.

If the Holy Spirit is let loose, they might even be open to expanding their idea of why they come to church in the first place.

No, God is not waiting for us to get His name right (since we have no idea what it is in the first place).

Instead it insistently pushes its frenetic filmic artifice into the forefront, and it cut - cut - cuts through dialogue and action in such a way as to prove that the Great American Novel was a silly idea in the first place.

I'm not opposed to shows depicting sexual violence, but rape - as - prop is always distressing, particularly in a show like this, where that disregard echoes the kinds of ideas that foster rape culture in the first place: that women's feelings don't matter, that sexual agency isn't a big deal, that rape is something that just kind of happens and that healthy people simply move on.

In the first place, the leaders of the church have been induced to listen very closely to the social scientists and sociologists, and thus they have adopted programs and ideas of social planning which, worthy as they may be, can often be recognized only with difficulty as the real concern of the church.

I = rubber, U = glue If editors of the bible were capable of changing the words to their liking and for personal gain, then the original authors were also capable of crafting the scriptures to match their personal ideas in the first place, yes?

This was not a new idea from Jesus as care and compassion began with Gods creation of man in the first place.

And if we are to render the idea of revelation theologically intelligible today, we need first to show that, prior to hearing the word of revelation, we already have some pre-revelational relationship to the silent plenitude of mystery from which any possible disclosure of religious meaning could come to us in the first place.

Such an examination may go some way toward helping us understand why the idea of revelation has been set apart by theology for special treatment in the first place.

Let us note, in the first place, that the Bible is opposed to the common idea that man is simply a complex physical organism, just like one of the lower animals except a little more intelligent.

Even more funny is the idea that god is real in the first place.

I'm sorry about that, but I can't get over the idea that, if priests and bishops had been faithful to the teaching of the Church and their sacred vows, there would have been no scandal in the first place.

There's also the idea that if something can not withstand scrutiny then it is something that should not be believed in the first place.

What I find troublesome is not necessarily what some people do when they realize that they hold conflicting ideas simultaneously, but that so many do not admit to dissonance in the first place.

introduces a new layer to this idea by softening it with the desire to «follow your heart» over trusting what your family wants for you, hoping that your heart is «good» enough to follow in the first place.

In the first place, the idea that suffering is punishment and that we deserve what we get, instead of being an answer to the problem of theodicy, often causes even more suffering in the needless guilt that we experience when we look into our lives to dig out some hidden fault or misdeed which we suspect may have aroused God's wratIn the first place, the idea that suffering is punishment and that we deserve what we get, instead of being an answer to the problem of theodicy, often causes even more suffering in the needless guilt that we experience when we look into our lives to dig out some hidden fault or misdeed which we suspect may have aroused God's wratin the needless guilt that we experience when we look into our lives to dig out some hidden fault or misdeed which we suspect may have aroused God's wrath:

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

First, idea of truths of the gospel involving salvation by faith in Christ is applied in a couple other places in Romans, each refering to first - tense salvation (cf. 3:19 - 26; 9:30 - 10:4; 10First, idea of truths of the gospel involving salvation by faith in Christ is applied in a couple other places in Romans, each refering to first - tense salvation (cf. 3:19 - 26; 9:30 - 10:4; 10first - tense salvation (cf. 3:19 - 26; 9:30 - 10:4; 10:16).