Sentences with phrase «like rooting for»

Superman had it way too easy — rooting for him is like rooting for the Warriors to beat a bunch of fourth - graders.

It would be like rooting for the incompetence of computer scientists when it comes to writing a software language compiler.

Whether it is sports, politicians, or cars, I like rooting for the underdog.

Save your time and money unless you like rooting for the animal in these pathetic «Let's kill the rogue animal» movies.

Save your time and money unless you like rooting for the animal in these pathetic «Let's kill the rogue animal»

I also like rooting for former collegians, and Sandgren played two years at Tennessee.

What's it like rooting for Giannis?

«Rooting for the Yankees,» it was said, «is like rooting for U.S. Steel.»

Rooting for Kentucky to win another championship is like rooting for Tyra Banks to have breast - augmentation surgery.

Rooting for North Carolina is like rooting for Exxon.

We like rooting for the underdog and seeing the bad guys lose.

Harry's background is similar to mine so I'm routing for him, just like I rooted for Bill Clinton.

Not exact matches

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

Kutcher and Kunis watch «The Bachelor» and «The Bachelorette» just like the rest of us and even root for their faves.

Why do we like to root for the underdog?

The post yielded eight likes and 29 comments, every one listing the name countries people were rooting for.

REBBL, an acronym for roots, extracts, bark, berries and leaves, makes organic coconut milk - based beverages that exploit the benefits of adaptogenic herbs like ashawagahnda, ginseng, maca and turmeric.

As to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than real.

All Points West is boasting a stellar lineup for its first year of existence, including RELEVANT favorites like Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals and The Roots, newcomers like Duffy, and some unconventional festivals acts like Rodrigo y Gabriela and Trey Anastasio and the Classic Tab.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

There's a third word, aphiēmi which is the root for aphesis, and is sometimes translated forgive (like in first John 1:9), and yet it seems to be used more in the sense of cancellation of debt, than in the sense of release from bondage.

However, for Whanger, these extraordinary finds were like pieces of a puzzle fitting into place, giving the cloth a location and a time stamp rooted firmly in first - century Jerusalem during the lifetime of Christ.

Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.

This is also the root of Protestantism; if not for the words of Scripture, Protestants would all make up their understanding of God just like this young man.

While this sounds like simple old «fashioned Southern Baptist brag and strut, it reveals a more deep «rooted concern for an evaporating sense of identity in an increasingly post «denominational world.

Hippy, if you have a root canal and you describe it to me, do you think I will grasp what the experience was like for you?

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

If a leader uninvited roots around in your personal life like a pig for truffles, kick him in the snout.

Jeebus, I get banished for a week and like weeds some new Topher takes root.

I like to play sports, I root for the local pro teams, but it's not really a big deal.

Looking for root causes or solutions only within the religious sphere is like the man who, faced with a flooded basement, looks for the leak in his own pipes, not realizing that the water main has broken and every house on the block is flooded.

The search for meaning, like spirituality itself, when it loses its roots, tends to either wither away or become self - indulgent.

For rooted and molded in the cultures of the ancient East, Israel yet far transcended them and attained a world of thinking and of concepts much like our own.

Encouraging grace that reminds us that God is rooting for us kind of grace is what I like.

Justin's perspective here lines up beautifully with the themes of many of the New Testament epistles in which the justification for specific instructions (like head coverings and women remaining silent in church, for example) appear to be rooted in practical considerations regarding love for neighbor, considerations that clearly have a cultural context that may not apply today.

I like to think that everything from the gathering of the berries to the raising of my tinies to the feeding of the hungry to the advocating for my local community's needs is a sacrament, and a foretaste, that we embody the Gospel by our roots, too, by our transforming love, by our unhurried community development, by our friendships, by our casseroles, and our wanderings.

In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).

The quest for this revelation is at root an inquiry about what mystery is really like.

From this wider context it is clear that the imitation Paul is calling for in 3:17 is rooted in a profound commitment; to the point of letting go of, or dying to, the self - seeking self and coming alive to a Christ - like life.

Isa 53:2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

In a speech in December 2006 proposing the creation of the Venezuelan United Socialist Party, Chávez recounted a conversation between himself and Fidel Castro in which Castro said «when I speak of Christ, it is just that I am looking for the roots, but just like I talk of Christ, I speak also of Bolívar.

In the 1950s, if you lived in Green Bay, you rooted for the Packers, just like everyone else in Wisconsin.

For is it not true that we are all connected with one another by hidden roots, like the runners of a strawberry patch, all of whose plants have developed from the one parent stock?

A better strategy for combating the number of abortions that happen in America is to address the root causes of abortion — like poverty and lack of health care — which I will more effectively address as president than John McCain.»

One sentence runs: «Still, all the while like warp and woof, mechanism and teleology are interwoven together, and we must not cleave to the one nor despise the other; for their union is rooted in the very nature of totality.»

They were both befuddled and angered by Jesus» relative freedom, by his morality rooted in a grand vision of the respect for personhood and the abundant grace of God, who loves us like a doting parent.

I would like to take Levi's description of the pre-Christian or sub-Christian religion of a desperately poor village in the far south of Italy as standing for that particularistic religious life, embedded in the roots of the social structure, that I have referred to metaphorically as the religious ground bass.

6 Nevertheless, the roots of race prejudice are as old as the human race in the tendency to like those who are like oneself and to dislike those who for any reason, biological or cultural, are different.

Finally, you mentioned that people consistently agree on the color green and use this as a premise for concluding that things, like color, are not subjective or arbitrary and therefore must be rooted in reality.

I feel like its hard to accuse a sincere Christian for being a hypocrite when the root of their faith is to admit that they sin.