Sentences with phrase «in plain fact»

Kelly's paintings go to the heart of abstract art's challenge precisely because they are, in plain fact, nice to look at.

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In an email to employees provided to media, Sacks wrote, «The fact is that many of our internal processes, controls, and actions around compliance have been inadequate, and some decisions have just been plain wrong.

All argument against these plain facts is always argument in a circle.

In fact, He's made His existence plain to you.

That this shame is not due to their bodies, or merely to their being naked, is made plain by one glaring fact: shame had no part in their original being; it is not of their essence.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

The events in themselves are just things that happened, plain matter of fact, like the events announced in the B.B.C. news this morning.

It is plain that in every case this violence has in fact led to establishing a greater violence.

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

After being abused by my own sister, married to a Methodist minister in Maryland, who both choose to believe the lies, distortions and slander about me based on twisted stories designed to protect the abuser, when the facts are as plain and clear as the sun on their faces... all because they are «in relation» with the abuser, and I should have «kept my truth within the family» and not made it «public.»

Your article ignores the essential fact in this story: this beheading is a murder, plain and simple.

«As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national history» (March 22, 1933).

Style aside, though, I simply can not find an assertion anywhere in its pages that strikes me as anything other than either a plain statement of fact or a reasonable statement of Christian principle.

The plain fact is that some of the happiest people we have ever known have been in difficult circumstances, handicapped within and hard bestead without; but for all that, by the magic of selective attention, they lived radiant and victorious lives.

These bald summaries, in which we recognize already the outlines of the narratives in the Gospels, could no doubt be filled in with detail according to the speaker's ability and the demands of the occasion; but it was essential to the Proclamation that the plain facts of the case should be communicated, because it was these that constituted the fulfillment of God's purpose in history.

The plain fact seems to be that both the Personhood of God and the doctrine of God's creation of heaven and earth were accepted by the authors of the New Testament with little question because they were already accepted in Judaism.

The emotional and imaginative constriction of the American personality in a world of common sense and plain fact became ever more evident and ever more painful to that minority of Americans who sought a larger human ideal.

«When the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths indicate clearly otherwise» (Dr. David L. Cooper)

She was round - faced, motherly, and seemed suited for baking pies on the Colorado plains — where, in fact, they intended to live when they returned to the States.

Or they just plain don't want to read the Bible, or our history, or perhaps not even the Big Book and its earlier manuscripts (Compare the facts in: Turning Point: A History of Early AA.

For those who have defended the traditional interpretation of the resurrection of Jesus as an historical event involving the raising and removal of a physical body, that which has carried most weight is simply the fact that, on a plain reading of the New Testament, the Bible itself seems to give unqualified support to such a view, in some places if not in all.

Yet the fact of the disciples» awareness that Jesus, in the totality of his existence, was victorious is plain to see: God «raised him from the dead.»

Not only do post-Kantian idealists reject them root and branch, but it is a plain historic fact that they never have converted any one who has found in the moral complexion of the world, as he experienced it, reasons for doubting that a good God can have framed it.

In fact, it may be just plain Christian to engage in Christian activity prior to or apart from good, pure motiveIn fact, it may be just plain Christian to engage in Christian activity prior to or apart from good, pure motivein Christian activity prior to or apart from good, pure motives.

In fact, the only way the race (human) can survive is to look at reality square in the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wronIn fact, the only way the race (human) can survive is to look at reality square in the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wronin the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wrong.

The plain fact is that the domestication of the Protestant community in the United States within the framework of the national culture has progressed as far as in any western land.

The fact that the term «baptism» and its cognates can refer to indoctrination is made plain in Acts 10:37, Acts 18:25, and Matthew 21:25.

But the plain fact is that the growth in Protestantism since World War II has been mainly among these myriad evangelical movements, while the so - called «mainline» denominations are in free fall.

It is amazing how often, in casual reading or conversation, one encounters either a total inability to see and understand, or a deliberate refusal to accept, the plainest evidence of this material fact of the inevitable drawing - together of Mankind.

The validity of asking is tied in with the plain fact that we are in a world where things go wrong and where we know them to do just this.

Aside from its literary excellence, the glory of this ancient drama lies in the intellectual honesty of Job, who, faced on one side with a venerable theory and on the other with plain facts of experience, insisted that the facts must have precedence.

In fact, a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that «plenty of religious leaders express private doubts about polls that find almost half of American adults say they worship God each week.&raquIn fact, a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that «plenty of religious leaders express private doubts about polls that find almost half of American adults say they worship God each week.&raquin the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that «plenty of religious leaders express private doubts about polls that find almost half of American adults say they worship God each week.»

For my own part, I believe that the first condition for such a revision of our services of worship as shall make them fully Christian is theological; by this I mean that only when our doctrine of God is soundly Christian will these services be appropriate to the worship of the community that finds its center in Jesus Christ, who revealed God as «pure, unbounded Love» but who also revealed that this Love is not soft or sentimental — the fact of Calvary makes that truth sufficiently plain.

The plain fact is that men's minds are built, as has been often said, in water - tight compartments.

It really is not difficult to find contradictions... they are very plain in fact and quite abundant.

Once I accept the plain words of Scripture in context, the fact of ordinary days, no death before sin, the Bible's genealogies, etc., all make it clear that I can not accept millions or billions of years of history.

For it is a plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.»

As I shall say, confronting that plain fact does not suggest that we should spend our time in the not very profitable exercise of meditating every day on its reality.

... and by the way, the fact that Francis Collins is an esteemed geneticist in no way means that his position on ID isn't just plain nutty.

In fact, I replace all mayo and sour cream with plain greek yogurt — no one notices.

In fact, there's only one real rule to follow when cooking up a batch of plain amaranth — don't skimp on the water!

In fact, while I can't tolerate the very sour flavor of plain store - bought yogurt, I can eat this without any accompaniment at all — although a sprinkling of muesli and a few raspberries certainly don't hurt!

In fact, I usually like really plain dishes.

Given the financial upside and the fact that they're just plain fun, it's no wonder that diet competitions and weight - loss betting programs are exploding in popularity in homes and companies across America and beyond.

In fact I can't even remember the last time I made plain baked or steamed vegetables:)

In fact, the only kinds of pie I really like are the ones most devoted pie eaters turn up their noses at: pecan and plain custard.

In fact, plain rum is safe regardless of whether it's dark or light rum.

In fact, because the recipe calls for our two percent plain Greek yogurt, our easy cornbread is downright moist, sweet, and delicious.

In fact, prepared and plain pasta and noodles combined to account for nearly 42 % of all new global product launches in the ready meals category in 2013In fact, prepared and plain pasta and noodles combined to account for nearly 42 % of all new global product launches in the ready meals category in 2013in the ready meals category in 2013in 2013.2

In fact, for the first year I think I only used it for cooking quinoa and plain chicken.