Sentences with phrase «know by sight»

The animals also know me by sight, and I have always completed cleanings and feedings with little supervision and no error.

Due to his poor vision, your hamster will not get to know you by sight.

Do you actually think a vet will see a tiny chip of material and somehow know by sight that it is from a bird's beak or even that it IS an «undigestible» material??

Sam is aware of the criticisms that have come his way; indeed, while attending various pigeon conventions he has often heard them voiced by fliers who wouldn't know him by sight if they tripped over him either.

Paul seems determined to emphasize that he was a stranger to Judea, for he adds that even the churches did not know him by sight (1.22).

He knew her by sight, though she was usually in the company of two mangy old dogs.

Didn't know their names, but knew them by sight.

Not exact matches

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

It's easy for software to lose sight of user experience by adding too many features or options, and then what happens is the people you want using it (your employees) don't know what the heck to do with it.

When the apostles had been asked by the government to no longer preach anything about Christ, Peter and John responded by saying «Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we can not but speak of what we have seen and heard (Acts 4:19 - 20).»

we must know that spring will come, that we will be blessed by the sight of life's wellness or else we would have no place to go or to endure — environment and the circumstances of life would be meaningless and ever fleeting to us.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

Similarly, only a transcendent devotion can surely dissolve the barriers of class and race by teaching men to know themselves equals and brothers in the sight of God and for his sake.

Our «knowing» is by faith, not by vision or touch or sight.

In his sermon «St Paul's Gift of Sympathy», 13 Newman describes the Apostle's love for Christians and stresses that Paul is so full of love for others that «in the tenor of his daily thoughts, he almost loses sight of his gifts and privileges, his station and dignity, except he is called by duty to remember them, and he is to himself merely a frail man speaking to frail men, and he is tender towards the weak from a sense of his own weakness».14 Paul knows that not only do others need God's mercy, but above all others he himself has need of it.

But on the night one of my children came to me, utterly devastated by just the sight of marketing materials having to do with child trafficking, I knew he was more right than me.

Seeing and knowing all things humanly as God sees and knows them divinely, yet also enduring to the end, they walk no longer by faith but by sight.

As God's child also I must bear what comes by the divine plan with the fortitude of faith, knowing that the very hairs of our heads are numbered and we are of the greatest value in the sight of our Heavenly Father.

By God's strange operation, the essence of that action or word or thought is made to contribute to a good final product; and the whole course of the world itself, no matter how ghastly it may appear to us from time to time and how hopeless may seem the possibility of lasting peace and order amongst men, will contribute in God's sight to a good final product.

We know a little about Elizabeth and Zechariah: he was a priest; they live in a very poor region so they are not well - heeled by any means; and we also know that they are upright in the eyes of God; blameless in his sight.

But be the value of metaphysical speculation of this sort what it may, when one sees activity characterized by reason and purpose and at the same time producing strains of living matter (no longer a word of materialism) which in turn has personality as a function, one has come in sight of God.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

You know, the sort of impressive picture that just gets you on first sight or an inspiring, confident step - by - step description that sends you straight to the kitchen.

My lifelong love affair with those salty, powerfully fishy flavors of the sea no doubt originated with my dad, who was happy to keep tins of sardines in the house, and when I think back we kids must've been a sight to see, eagerly inhaling sardines in mustard or sardines in olive oil with crackers, toast, or just by themselves.

It has been an intriguing week following Arsenal's exit (well... nearly) from the Champions League after the 5 - 1 drubbing by Bayern Munich, and after the predictable chorus of WengerOut posts and articles there has also been a lot of speculation on the future of Alexis Sanchez, as he is well known to hate being on the losing side and just wants to win everything in sight.

On the long par - 3 17th hole, Montgomerie dumped his tee ball into the water between the tee and green, and Calcavecchia, knowing he only had to reach the green to end the match, responded by top - skating a two - iron that barely reached the halfway point of the pond before plunging out of sight.

In San Francisco, aficionados of the ancient and bloody art of bullfighting who find themselves hankering for the sights and sounds of the bull ring can find satisfaction of a sort no farther away than Broadway, in the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby Conrad.

Would a couple of wins giving us six points from seven games be enough to appease the doubters or are our sights no more ambitious these days than getting carried away by victory over Tottenham?

Costa has been informed that he is no longer part of manager Antonio Conte's plans at Stamford Bridge, but could have scuppered Chelsea's plans by setting his sights on a January return to Atletico Madrid.

Though your baby can't yet recognize you by sight, he'll know you by your natural scent, and that's what he'll most want to smell.

The situation will improve day by day; and before you know it, your newborn won't be so little anymore — she'll be walking and talking and getting into everything in sight... during the day, and sleeping peacefully all night long.

I have a side by side double stroller and in a small town that doesn't know what else to talk about, we are quite a sight.

As a bonus, my daughter knew all her letters — upper and lower — by sight and sign at 18 months old and now, at 4, can read at a first grade level.

And while I know that over half of Americans are disgusted by the sight of a woman breastfeeding, I would think that a pediatrician's office isn't one of those places where she would be met with that kind of attitude.

Amid all the controversy that will erupt over the cuts package, no doubt greatly fanned by the BBC, no one should lose sight of Labour's responsibility for the greatest mismanagement of the nation's finances in living memory.

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In terms of brilliance for size, Venus is by far the mostluminous object in the night sky, so bright it will no doubt inspire aflood of UFO sightings.

If you had been blind all your life and could suddenly see, could you distinguish by sight what you knew already by touch — say, a cube from a sphere?

Over the past three decades, he has come to know most of Sarasota Bay's 120 resident bottlenose dolphins by sight, and chronicled each dolphin's family history and its individual quirks.

Researchers report that kittens with the disorder, a visual impairment medically known as amblyopia that leads to poor sight or blindness in one eye, can completely recover their vision by simply spending 10 days in total darkness.

But if you want to know what really dazzles the masses, consider a feature that's rarely called out by name: machine recognition of real - world sights and sounds.

Scientists do not know how the birds find that aerodynamic sweet spot, but they suspect that the animals align themselves either by sight or by sensing air currents through their feathers.

No, but it is a damn sight better than the majority of «food» that is eaten in the western diet and is frequently recommended by nutritionists as a result.

I measure most of my food; I know what some things look like now by sight, others I still weigh on my scale.

Mel, I stopped by your sight to drop you a quick note to let you know your kindness and support to my Emerald City Jr Gem, Mini 2 Skates a couple of years back made a huge impact on her life.

Occasionally, there's a skin - care brand or aesthetician touting that they were on deck for handsome leading man # 1's grooming, but otherwise you just do not hear about these dudes wearing makeup, even though (judging by the Getty galleries of them with nary a shiny forehead in sight) I know your forehead has at least been dusted with some setting powder, bro.

Those of us who have lost pets, integral pieces of our family, know the sharp pain of loss you are going through and how you are caught unaware by a thought, a sight, a sound.

The dating stories, written by the couples themselves, talk of knowing the right match was made at first sight, getting through the awkward first few minutes of a date and how the dating process is not all that much different compared to traditional methods of meeting people.

It would be excusable if the one - liners and sight gags were actually, you know, funny, but having Optimus and his gang act like impatient 5 - year - olds and getting peed on by dogs is anything but.

After years of hiding in plain sight following the brutal Balkan wars, a man known only as the General, ferried nightly from couch to couch by faithful loyalists, at last is placed in an apartment of his own.