Sentences with phrase «life figures at»

The epic story of the battle for the Holy Land and the two larger - than - life figures at its center.

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV dares to place a larger - than - life figure at the level of mere mortal.

Monero: Riccardo Spagni aka Fluffypony is the larger - than - life figure at the head of Monero.

Not exact matches

Now entering her 40s, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) looks to be figuring out life as she's thriving at her job as a news producer.

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

The San Francisco Bay Area, recognized as a global hub of tech finance and innovation, may be at risk of losing top tech workers if they can't afford to live there, even on six - figure salaries.

You'll have to figure out who are your target customers, solidify your plan (that you'll be prepared to alter at a moment's notice) andmake the business the # 1 priority in your life.

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

Figuring out how to balance our connected lives and our family lives is a work in progress at my house.

During one of my stops at the Fox Business Studio in NYC I discuss how to live your passion (and build a 6 and 7 figure business a year) around it.

Instead of only logging my heart's activity only when prompted or at seemingly sporadic times, Fitbit has figured out a way to measure my heart rate using an optical heart monitor every five seconds without causing battery life to suffer.

That's the word from the geniuses at MIT, who have figured out a way to eliminate the stoplight — that annoyance of modern life — and replace it with something called «slot - based intersections.»

At a young age, Ron's father died leaving him to figure out life on his own.

But another option is that the research represents a business owner who brings in that $ 300,000 alone, or that it is a combined figure that includes contributions from adult children who have temporarily returned to live at home.

Average life insurance figures were calculated by looking at four policy amounts ($ 100k, $ 250k, $ 500k, and $ 1 million) across four Rate Classes.

Those hanging out in a Popeyes (especially in New York City, where Bourdain lives) may spot a tall, incognito figure hovering at the counter, ordering a bowl of the stuff and attempting to slink out without recognition.

If you want to talk about your income being more diverse, just take a look at my real - world six - figure dividend growth stock portfolio that I built by living below my means and investing my excess capital into fantastic dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers list.

By all means take a swing at «Panama vs. Costa Rica» — but be ready to trade the bat for a magnifying glass as soon as you figure out exactly what kind of weather, scenery, population, infrastructure, cost of living, and real estate prices make up your ideal location.

He saw my life, good and bad, looked at his own and figured out that he needed a Savior.

Researchers at UC Riverside have been awarded a $ 5 million grant to spend the next three years figuring out, once and for all, whether or not there is any life...

«For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the BBC.

I feel fortunate that I live at a time when someone finally figured out what the Book of Revelation really means.

Although Wise Blood is chock full of the sort of «large and startling figures» that O'Connor relished, there is a sense in which Motes's journey hits the reader a little too close to home, challenging our sensibilities about who God is and how God is at work in our lives.

Speaking on Premier New Hour, Johan Eldebo, Senior Humanitarian Policy Adviser at World Vision, said the figures were «no surprise» and that it is important to examine the root cause of why so many people are living in poverty.

Disillusioned with romance after my second divorce, I decided to take a year off from conventional dating to try to figure out how to succeed at finding a wife with whom I could spend the rest of my life in unspoiled domestic bliss.

If you are not experiencing opposition in this life as a Christian than you need to take another look at the truth that the Bible and Christ taught... Jesus was a revolutionary figure who opposed the society and people that he lived with... He was not a person who was sugary sweet... and He didn't tell people what they wanted to hear... as Scripture says, the path to heaven is narrow and Few choose it... the road to hell is wide and most are following that path.

In the book I'm reading, The Year of Living Biblically, author A.J. Jacobs is trying to figure out how to handle the Bible's capital punishment laws, and has taken to tossing pebbles at adulterers and Sabbath - breakers.

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

Is it altogether faithful to say, as Cox does, that they «conjure the figure of a huge man, in presence if not in stature, who lived his life devotedly, even compulsively at times, on all the frightening boundaries of modern life»?

Never fully at ease with ecclesiastical life (which in these books seems pretty awful), they find comfort in relationships with male authority figures.

I have spent some 40 some years of my life trying to figure out anything of importance to say, and now I must comment on events and ideas at least twice a day in order to be a blogger?

At the heart of Christian faith, Christian worship, and Christian life is the figure of Jesus Christ.

The number of homeless families living in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation is at its highest in nearly ten years, according to government figures published in September 2013.

We've gotten a lot of practice at living in the in - betweens, we figure that's where the life happens, and we figured we wanted to love well, even, especially, here.

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

Look it really isn't hard to figure out who is telling the truth and who is lying just look at the facts smart people can believe in evolution all they want but at the end of their lives what do they have forward to look to nothing cause they don't believe in a resurrection.

I figure that at my current rate, this project will only take the rest of my life (if I have the perseverance to see it through).

He was a more impressive figure than our own Founding Fathers in at least three respects: He had been a slave for most of his life; he was a famously devout Christian; and his accomplishment remains unmatched to this day, for the Haitian Revolution is still the only successful slave revolt in history.

In the utterly tragic figure of old Eli and in the loss of the ark, the symbol of God's presence, from the central sanctuary at Shiloh (probably destroyed by the Philistines in this time), we are further prepared for the establishment of monarchy in Israel: it was Philistine aggression, far too powerful to be checked by the resources of a loose tribal confederation, which precipitated the chain of events leading through Saul and David to a unified and extensive, if short - lived, Israelite kingdom.

St. John Paul II was fascinated by the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, astronomy) throughout his life; for decades, he hosted at Castel Gandolfo a bi-annual seminar of leading figures in those fields, so that he could keep abreast of developments in their disciplines.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

Spacks says that gossip, at its best, is a means whereby we attempt to figure out who we are and how we ought to live.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

Even a more moderate historian — one who suspects that the biblical account of Solomon's reign is based on folk tales and legends that circulated more than a half millennium after the real Solomon lived, yet is open to the possibility that these folk tales and legends hark back to a historical figure — may have reservations about crediting this legendary Solomon with the fortifications and gates at Hazor, Gezer and Megiddo.

I figured at that point — when they had friends at school, a presence in our community, a life of their own beginning to emerge — that they needed to know that their life was their own.

Even when we think we have it all figured out, might we too change our minds, as did Queen Orual (at the end of her life), Queen of Glome «who was the most wise, just, valiant, fortunate and merciful of all the princes known in our parts of the world», as attested by Arnom, priest of Aphrodite.

What we must figure out is how much of real life we will look at through the lens of truth, and how much we will not.

It takes great care to list generations of biblical figures supposedly all the way from Adam, and even if you account for individuals living for hundreds of years and God's «day» being like a 1000 years, you're still only up to about 13,000 years, at most.

Each interpretation presupposed a particular pattern of eschatological outlook; and it is clear that the earliest Christology was really, as the term suggests, an eschatology, in which the central figure was the same — the risen, glorified Christ who had lived and talked and done mighty works in Galilee but had died on a cross outside Jerusalem, who was now at the right hand of God, and was soon to come in glory to inaugurate the New Age.