Sentences with phrase «inordinate interest»

Some showed inordinate interest in other activities.

Because the name is one with the essence of the thing named great care and ceremony were exercised in the giving of names; and we find reflected in the legends of Genesis an inordinate interest in the origin of ancient names of both places and people.

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As realistic as any moral realist in political and international affairs, Augustine yet insisted that an inordinate self - interest leads to self - destruction, as the evidence clearly shows.

The children of light who do not take sufficient cognizance of the expansive character of man's freedom whereby an individual's or a group's self - interest may take the form of inordinate or unreasonable claims, believe that our impulses are manageable and amenable to rational control.

Like the Roman Empire, the modern age will crumble from the crack of inordinate greatness beyond the interest of the many and the desire of the privileged few to sustain, and in the murky streets of ruined cities and meeting grounds of a billion humble habitations, our heroes and saints will show us how to begin history anew.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

To deny outright the existence of a structure which physically exists and is there for all to see, just for one's selfish interest and inordinate political ambitions, indeed, is an unpardonable sin.

However there is an inordinate focus on software design for eLearning that may be cumbersome for those not interested in designing software applications.

Even though I suffered an inordinate number of frustrating falls, the game kept my interest for all 2,000 meters.

«In the case of WGIII Ch 10, there is enough breadth of interests Teske had an inordinate amount of power for one of 9 main authors»

In the case of WGIII Ch 10, there is enough breadth of interests Teske had an inordinate amount of power for one of 9 main authors (coordinators included).