Sentences with phrase «less suffering in»

Not exact matches

Having already suffered significant legal penalties, SNC - Lavalin has engaged in a process of reforming itself, making internal changes that (hopefully) will change the organization's character and make it less likely to offend in future.

California's wine industry may suffer too, since U.S. wines will be hit with a 15 % tax in China, likely making them less attractive to shoppers.

«When I don't move my body in a way that I enjoy, my business suffers, and I become less productive and a lot less creative.

Whereas successful companies have «experience navigating the lending landscape, more available credit and frequently monitor their business cash flow,» according to the report, underperformers suffer from «less knowledge about financing products, lower personal credit scores, less access to financing and fewer formal financial management practices in place.»

While not all bets have paid off — his global macro strategy suffered amid currency volatility in 2014 — Shiff says he ends up losing less in down markets than pure equity managers do.

When they do choose to exercise their freedom and work outside the office, they find they suffer as second - class citizens in the shadows of their less inventive and more conservative colleagues.

In particular Women who vacationed at least two times per year were less likely to suffer from depression and had decreased levels of stress.

Additionally, buildings constructed in compliance with NFIP building standards suffer approximately 80 percent less damage annually than those not built in compliance.

Forbes is less convinced, arguing that it has «decidedly good reasons to not participate in a cut» - rising costs from fighting ISIS and cuts it suffered under sanctions when Hussein was in place.

But a quarter of U.S. real estate already is in negative equity — worth less than the mortgages attached to it — and the property market is still shrinking, so banks are not lending except with public Federal Housing Administration guarantees to cover whatever losses they may suffer.

How European markets might react to the possibility of «Brexit,» which is shorthand for «British exit from the European Union,» both in the run - up to the UK election and its aftermath, remains unclear, although given that UK assets suffered as the result of the referendum on Scottish independence became less predictable such volatility could conceivably reoccur.

In a study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those who were not or did not know.

If Protestantism hadn't suffered the internal erosion of its orthodox substance in the long devolution that began with Kant and the Enlightenment, he suggests, it might have been less vulnerable to the ideological blandishments of National Socialism and its promise of a German national rebirth.

Many others in Geneva suffered lesser fates under the rule of Calvin for their «impiety».

This is just another way of saying that God loves every man at every moment in every specific situation as he loved his Son Jesus Christ: not more (for Jesus Christ was delivered up to temptation, to testing, to fatigue, to hunger, to suffering and to death), but not less.

And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large god, or is he a lesser god sent by his greater father god to suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).

Conceptual feeling is necessarily vectored always more or less specified, oriented toward an ought or worth to be fulfilled and an enrichment to be enjoyed by others in the future just as it now enjoys or suffers those in its past.

We can then make that four - dimensional world a better place by causing there to be less pointless suffering in one particular place, at one particular time, than there otherwise would have been....

Let's instead work to make it better, and by so doing bring an end to some of the suffering in the world... which I think we all can agree is something we would all like to see less of.

Speaking concretely, it would yield less relief of suffering, less patient autonomy, corruption of the practice of medicine, and a decline in the quality of palliative care.

One theory I have is that the devil attacks them harder, and that while trying to live the life of the Cross, it acts like testing metal in fire — the worst will come out, burn brighter, they may have more suffering going on and less wordy things to turn to as crutches — these aren't excuses, but possible reasons.

The Norwegian Lutherans argued that in some circumstances we must accept the lesser evil if suffering and destructive consequences would ensue from a birth.

But if even Adam and Eve, driven in rage and guilt from the Earthly Paradise to which they may never return, may be said to be forced into a new «lifestyle» — if, that is to say, some especially desirable items are permanently out of stock, but there are still others, only relatively less appealing, beckoning from the shelves — if this is what the Fall amounts to, then how is it possible to comprehend the full implications of suffering or loss of any kind, whether in Mozambique or in Romania or in the luxurious American suburb?

We would not interfere with the wilderness ways in which animals suffer and are killed by one another, but we think that there is far more, and far less necessary, suffering among creatures for whom human beings have assumed responsibility.

Yet «for those who are in daily touch with suffering, needy, sinful humanity, what is most required is less theology than spirituality, applied Christianity, first - order Christianity.»

In the published version of the play, on the other hand, they enter later, say less, and make no attempt to mitigate his suffering.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

Children in such households may suffer less from the insecurities incidental to breaking up the home than from the poisons of their parents» mutual antagonism.

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

But there is one recurrent story from which, if I am honest, I have repeatedly averted my gaze when considering what to write about in these columns: the seemingly never - ending story of the world - wide pandemic of paedophile scandals among the Catholic clergy, and the apparently universal practice of episcopal cover - up, involving as it did (I use the past tense hopefully) a - to put it mildly - less than adequate concern with the sufferings of the victims.

Hidden in all this avoidance of evil is nothing less than a painless, suffering - free and, finally, immortal existence,» a goal he finds wrongheaded and dangerous.

A truly compassionate god would be interested in less human suffering, you'd think?

If you don't believe me, head back to Gethsemane again and witness Jesus putting in a request — no less than three times — for the cup of suffering to be taken away.

Wilson also, perhaps unwittingly, advocates a social Darwinism in which the rich and physically powerful are able to murder, rape and steal from weaker individuals (and are therefore less able to exercise their own free will to prevent their own suffering).

And how powerfully he is alive among the long - suffering Christians of Eastern Europe where communism sought in so crude (and thus in a far less corrupting manner) to take his life.

If these experts are to be trusted — and I here recall a world - famous biologist with whom I once talked — the actual suffering in the animal world is much less severe than it seems to us to be.

This feeling for the deep significance of the suffering and death of Christ is constantly present in Mark, as the quotations just above will have indicated (as well as the familiar «to give his life a ransom for many» [See F. C. Grant, The Earliest Gospel (New York and Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1943), pp. 78ff], and is only less important in Matthew and Luke - Acts.

As an adult, I embraced the same quaint right wing fundamentalist Christian religion, being baptised into it... and ultimately became heavily involved in another branch of the same church (which was no less quaint, or right wing, or fundamentalist)... and it is only now (as I approach my 60's) that I am coming to realise (in so many churches) the great loss that has been suffered as a result of silencing at least half the membership.

It is a judgment upon the Church and its ministry if, with our belief in God's grace, we repeat the great symbols and doctrines of atonement but actually practice less of a costing identification with the sufferings of men and women than do those who counsel with them under secular auspices.

There is a certain arrogance in presuming to define from outside a situation who does or does not need or deserve liberation, whose suffering is less significant.

You do realize that Silverman and AA was told for years by christians that they should be killed in the streets and suffer eternally and at best, be considered as less - than - animals by the US governement and its laws?

The Glencoe series seems to suffer less from political correctness and revisionism than do some other texts, and it provides a fairly complete course in writing and literary analysis which my self - directed daughter can work through on her own during long days on the college campus.

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

It proved incapable of asking difficult questions about life's meaning in the face of suffering, much less answering them.

Whether nonviolent resistance can always overcome aggression and whether its cost in suffering and death will in every case be less than that of war is difficult to say, but at least it can not be said that pacifism is merely a policy of capitulation.

Were we to appropriate this attitude ourselves we would be less tolerant of the injustice and suffering that we see around us in our world today.

The tragic hero accomplishes his act at a definite instant in time, but in the course of time he does something not less significant, he visits the man whose soul is beset with sorrow, whose breast for stifled sobs can not draw breath, whose thoughts pregnant with tears weigh heavily upon him, to him he makes his appearance, dissolves the sorcery of sorrow, loosens his corslet, coaxes forth his tears by the fact that in his sufferings the sufferer forgets his own.

I remain firm in my contention that Jesus was less prone to want to make them suffer from what they have always been, than the Fundamentalists do.

A solution to the problem in less than two minutes for those Muslims who are not suffering from the Three B Syndrome i.e. Bred, Born and Brainwashed in Islam.