Sentences with phrase «life pressure as»

Emily: Call me a Masshole if you must, but I have to go with Matt Parziale, who has certainly faced a whole lot more real - life pressure as a Brockton firefighter than he will on the first tee at Augusta.

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Get your expenses down as low as possible, figure out your monthly burn, get a part - time job anywhere that helps alleviate the financial pressures and start designing your new life.
I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high - profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected.
The survey of 16,000 people in 15 countries highlights the changing global retirement landscape as economic pressures and longer life expectancy force people to work longer.
The «grand bargain,» as the Detroit Free Press described it, was a pressure - packed and uneasy game of no - stone - unturned network leveraging, but it was a life saver for a city that had run out of options.
We should not fear but rather embrace upward wage pressures as a positive development that raises the standard of living for Canadians.
They're the most important relationships in your life, but you should never take your parents» career advice, and I'm using parents as a proxy for all the pressures in the world.
For others, however — such as this Australian academic who says the pressure drove her to heroin — the life of the mind is a minefield: underappreciated work, little pay, poor social skills, posturing, back - stabbing.
For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure to try to be something that you're not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way.»
As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.
The pressure of the successor's curse can threaten to engulf a successor such as James, leading to what most people see as the stereotype of a family business successor — the entitled next generation member who lives a lavish lifestyle and squanders away the family wealth.
A press release elaborated on its plot: «The comic depicts early events in Colonel Sanders» life that eventually led to the discovery of his real super power: the combination of a pressure cooker and secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, better known as his world - famous Original Recipe Chicken.»
Half of millennials are carrying student loan debt and the resulting financial pressures are so severe that fewer than two in five are saving for retirement, with many also delaying such key steps in life as buying a first home and getting married, according to a major new online survey of 1,016 millennials conducted in April 2015 by the nonprofit Investor Protection Institute.
Even as Donald Trump's surprise election may ease pressure from Washington, the arbitration issue injects new life into the scandal and could further tarnish the firm's reputation.
But under unrelenting pressure, we eventually agreed that we would help our customers with storytelling as long as the stories were not fabricated and the emphasis was on helping leaders to find and share their own real - life anecdotes.
I want the ladies to love my clothes as much as I once did, to realize how important these items were to me in my life — my nostalgia, my years of trying to change myself, and this final moment of release as I let all of that pressure go.
Unlike more youthful entrepreneurs, older startup founders have the advantage of being able to take their time getting their businesses off the ground, as the pressures to earn a living or survive on limited financial resources are typically not there.
AMP's ambitious growth plans come as the financial giant struggles under the weight of an under - pressure life insurance business.
Bravo's show purports to cover «the intertwining lives» of a group of young up - and - coming entrepreneurs in the Valley as they joust for venture - capital funding, toil round - the - clock in a high - pressure «work hard, play hard» environment and try to become the next Mark Zuckerberg — size success story.
What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?
ex couples «non-involvement in joint parenthood», «lower exposure to normative pressure about the necessity of life - long unions» as well as differing motivations for getting married.
Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.
Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.
Aside from the unique pressures you were feeling as an artist and as a songwriter, I think we're living in a really fearful day and age in our world.
As Sara Frankl, an amazing woman who spent much of her life homebound and yet made a significant difference in this world, said, «There is such pressure to do everything to its limits, when all you need to do is do everything to YOUR limit... to the limit God gives inside of you.»
One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.
As for Christians who drop from the path of Jesus» righteous teachings, proves they refuse to endure to the end (as all non-believers do) and opt for the easy way out in life due to peer pressure from you non-believers and instructors who are in positions of teaching them to do sAs for Christians who drop from the path of Jesus» righteous teachings, proves they refuse to endure to the end (as all non-believers do) and opt for the easy way out in life due to peer pressure from you non-believers and instructors who are in positions of teaching them to do sas all non-believers do) and opt for the easy way out in life due to peer pressure from you non-believers and instructors who are in positions of teaching them to do so.
As a U.S. policymaker, Lancaster probably felt some pressure to keep quiet about her country's aid to unsavory African regimes, whose brutality lives on in the violence and disorder of states like Liberia, Somalia, Sudan and Congo - Kinshasa.
Unless, of course, there was a major disaster that rapidly buried all sorts of plant and animal life under extreme pressure, in which case science would allow for fossil fuels to develop in such a circu.mstance (as evidenced in the Mt. St Helens eruption)... but said disaster never occured in the bible, did it?
Theconversation then moves to the beatification and canonization process, which began in 1970, highlighting the pressures that the family endured as the Church sought to examine Gianna's life in greater detail.
It has maintained a continuous moral pressure against the evils which it has regarded as blocking the fulfillment of human life.
Some, under the pressure of such a conviction as this, go to all lengths in denying that the Gospels do in fact bring us anything else than a completely accurate record of Jesus» life and words.
And I agree that celibacy is most definitely not inherrently harmful when freely choosen, though I may disagree that most celibate gay christians are in fact «freely choosing» that path as opposed to feeling pressured into it and thus struggling with it in a less than beneficial fasion (which is not to say that there isn't a level of struggle inherent in the Christian life which can in fact be benificial).
Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz
Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.
Of course, they have precedent in the scriptures in those who separated themselves from the crowd and lived and worked outside of the pressures of the assembly, such as many of the prophets, Jesus and Paul.
Entertainment of the storytelling variety has a function beyond «escape from» the pressures and ambiguities of «real life» It is what we escape to that matters and can tell us in deep ways things about ourselves that are not readily apparent, caught as we are in the hither and thither of everyday life.
In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.
Far too, little is known as yet about this short - lived inner Jewish renaissance under outside pressure.
In addition to this tendency within himself he will in all likelihood be surrounded by many people who regard his new enlightenment as moonshine and will exert a day - by - day pressure to bring him back into line with «ordinary» life.
Of course, this puts pressure on us as Christians to live a life worthy of the name.
Writing for The Times the current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: «It would be very naive to think that many of the elderly people who are abused and neglected each year, as well as many severely disabled individuals, would not be put under pressure to end their lives if assisted suicide were permitted by law.
As in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.&raquAs in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.&raquas a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.»
There are other indicators of religion as well, such as the desire to keep God happy with us through our obedience and the pressure to live by a set of rules and standards that keep us in good standing with others in our religious group.
Apart from the pressures on my time, which have been quite heavy as we prepared for the various events in the life of CCA, one of the reasons for this is the fact that there has been a tendency, perhaps even the assumption, that by virtue of my position in the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), what I say on any given topic indicates official position.
We give delegates an end they can negotiate for that the other side can also live with, avoiding stalemates or pressure on other goals, such as financing for development.
What I'm learning this year is that sometimes the season in life doesn't quite line up with the season in the air, that seasons can arrive before we're ready — carried as if by a sudden storm, a change in barometric pressure, a surprise frost.
Writing of the French Revolution, Mosse observes: «This new politics attempted the politicization of the masses, which, for the first time in modern history, functioned as a pressure group and not just through episodic uprisings or short «lived riots.»
Coca - Cola is confident that Coke Life, the beverage giant's first new cola variety in seven years, will restore sales and volume growth to its beverage portfolio and the entire carbonated soft drink category, which is under pressure as consumers shun sugary drinks in favour of healthier beverages.
A stovetop pressure cooker (as opposed to the new, countertop pressure pots) is a small investment to make and they last a life time.
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