Sentences with phrase «larger purposes in»

Where does our decision to homeschool fit into God's larger purposes in our lives?

But then it's back to the travelogue, and Spencer talking in philosophical terms about how maybe there's a larger purpose in store for them.

But the McKissacks have some larger purpose in this book than simply saying that the Bible was a source of comfort and inspiration to enslaved people in the U.S..

Having no annual fee is a major plus for the card, but unless you spend large amounts on games and systems each year (north of $ 2,000 annually), the card won't serve a large purpose in your wallet.

They're helping to fulfill a larger purpose in helping to make the community a better place and helping their customers find the best home.»

Not exact matches

Essentially, the two states are an island of marijuana legalization in the middle of a large swath where marijuana is not legal for any purpose, medical or recreational.

They are passionate about their business goals and deliberate in their pursuit of a larger purpose.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

You must persevere in your desire to serve a purpose larger than yourself.

«This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes,» the office said in a statement after a judge granted the request for a warrant.

In the initial bootstrap phase of the business, you would have to pick a niche, focus on the builder (as opposed to the more general purpose scheme), go out and sell, sell, sell to your niche, and get enough revenue to work on the larger idea.

For Lewis, the heat the book generated in the US in large part defeated its purpose.

«With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world, and puts us at the heart of a very large addressable market where we can make a meaningful difference in peoples» lives.»

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

Cost synergies from the combination should lead to improved margins, while the combined company's leading position in general purpose microcontroller products, automotive semiconductor solutions, and mobile - based semiconductor solutions could lead to improved pricing leverage when dealing with large customers.

Larger picture on finding and developing purpose in personal and corporate contexts.

If an IRA owner wants to make a large withdrawal but does not need the money for daily living purposes, for instance, repositioning of the assets may be on the front burner, along with discussion about withdrawal strategy in general.

(For purposes of this discussion, all figures refer to the ten largest companies included in the XAU index as a proxy for the industry.)

That's why medium - sized funds like the one my friend runs in Texas are basically assembling large portfolios with the sole purpose of flipping everything to the mega-funds.

In fact, highly - respected traders such as Jesse Livermore would sometimes be hired for the purpose of manipulating a market in such a way as to allow a large position to be either bought or sold at a better price than could otherwise be achieveIn fact, highly - respected traders such as Jesse Livermore would sometimes be hired for the purpose of manipulating a market in such a way as to allow a large position to be either bought or sold at a better price than could otherwise be achievein such a way as to allow a large position to be either bought or sold at a better price than could otherwise be achieved.

In the course of my career, I spent a number of years as a «Wealth Adviser» for a large money center bank, the purpose of which position was to advise wealthy clients on how to invest their money and then shift their assets down the generational ladder.

If you are looking to invest in the largest mutual funds, you are going to want the latest up to date info on the nation's largest mutual funds for investing purposes.

The larger purpose behind the Deep State's electronic gold products, beyond current profits, is to concentrate investment gold in a select number of locations that will be easy to control and raid when the time comes.

My purpose in having us consider these songs is to be able to better judge the larger phenomenon of the mid-60s «Pop Art» style, explored at length in the last Songbook post.

For legal purposes, the Bible is not at all irrelevant, precisely because it is very relevant to a large number of citizens, and we do in fact live in something that somewhat resembles a democracy.

Secondly, however, and more importantly for the purposes of this article, Ford's stipulation that natural compounds are larger or more complex actual entities rather than structured societies implicitly confirms the entitative or substantialist understanding of actual occasions criticized in the opening paragraphs of this article.

In addition, the word he eventually chooses for the three large divisions of the poem, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso — cantica — had never been used for such a purpose before him.

Indeed, it misses almost everything essential about the actual workings of the modern industrial economy: the cooperation and trust of millions of total strangers required for efficient industry to replace self - sufficiency; the inevitable centrality of government in the complex human construction of a national or global economy; large corporations with their hierarchies, multiple and shifting purposes and fragile but definite unity.

Because we are a democracy, we will tolerate a large measure of dissent from our national purpose in this war» some of it honorable, much of it contemptible.

Christians have always brushed aside the notion that the world is self - generating, a random concatenation of miscellaneous atoms accidentally thrown together by no one in particular and serving no larger purpose than their own survival.

The social history of mankind exhibits great organizations in their alternating functions of conditions for progress, and of contrivances for stunting humanity, The history of the Mediterranean lands, and of western Europe, is the history of the blessing and the curse of political organizations, of religious organizations, of schemes of thought, of social agencies for large purposes.

A person's character and commitments and the larger purpose of his or her life are irrelevant as long as the professional product meets the standard set in the contract for services.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

This larger structure of prophecy beginning from Adam and ending in Muhammad incorporates a particular objective of showing how from the time of the father of Judaism and the spiritual father of Christianity, Abraham to the time of the last prophet, Muhammad through the line of Ishmael, prophets fulfill the fundamental purposes.

Currently it is also very fashionable to engage in interreligious dialogue for the purpose of facilitating cooperation on this or that socio - political agenda; if one approves of the agenda» a very large if» then this motive for dialogue is quite acceptable, too.

Is marriage an end in itself — or is it part of a nurture fitting us more ably for larger purposes?

Perhaps more important in the larger picture, the concept of just war became increasingly disconnected from ongoing developments in Catholic thinking about the proper purpose of political order and the proper institutions to embody that purpose.

«34 Adams's distress at this homegrown anarchism that Edwards and Backus had noticed earlier was motivated at least in part by class anxieties and concern for the protection of property, though he was also moved by larger purposes.

Although Paul addresses himself to the Jewish Gentile conflict, he places the reality of reconciliation in the larger setting of God's purposes for a cosmic renewal.

However, the Catholic Church is pretty much alone in the modern world when it comes to a large (HUGE) insti.tution actually covering up wide - scale child abuse in its ranks for its own selfish purposes.

And as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that largersystem.

The purpose of the caucus is to educate Congress and the public, and to [speak out on behalf of] religious minorities — Christians being a large number of them — in the Middle East.

The prize, one of the largest prizes in the world todate, standing at some # 800k, is awarded annually for the purpose of heightening awareness of the spiritual realm of human life.

Those who believe in justice as competition typically also adhere to a larger conviction: The good society maximizes the place of the free market because the overriding purpose of our life together is to make possible the satisfaction of people's wants.

Although he, too, preaches the benefits of these practices for individual healing and fulfillment, he encourages people not stop there, but take the next step of participating in the larger purpose of global transformation.

The stature of the individual who can let another exist in his or her own creative freedom is larger than the size of the individual who insists that others must conform to his own purposes and understandings.

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

Along with the importance of these relationships are several other key features: the nested hierarchies of organisation at hundreds - if not thousands - of different levels on this planet... the same laws of physics and chemistry function throughout the universe, and everything is related to everything else... as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that larger system.

The growth of astronomy was influenced by astrology and navigation; work on the properties of gases was stimulated by the need for better pumps; and more recently electronics and atomic physics have been developed in large measure for military purposes.