Sentences with phrase «little purpose as»

These days the Labrador Retriever is still expected to have a thick and muscular neck; however, for most dogs it serves little purpose as they no longer work such laborious duties.

Not exact matches

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Having a purpose — a why — for what you do is great, but without passion, purpose turns into that tiny little square on your to - do list that you checkoff every day (or some days) and mark as «complete.»

«For example, mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers acted as intermediaries who, once the mortgage was sold for the purposes of securitization, had little or no responsibility for ensuring payments.»

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«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

This very act is a blessing for us as we are drawn into the life of the Blessed Trinity and our own lives are conformed little by little to God's purposes, shaped by his grace and guided by his providence.

First, human beings are understood, for purposes of economics, to aim at the acquisition of the goods and services they desire for as little labor as requisite.

Missionaries were heroic figures in our eyes, and, unlike today, when they often function as little more than ecclesiastical social workers, their animating purpose was to win souls for Christ.

The New Testament describes worshipping God a little differently, as is to be expected in a series of books based around Jesus» purpose to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17) in a way that reinterpreted it for everyone.

Therefore, if people think they can willfully go on sinning and the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross covers them, they are sadly mistaken, But if we sin (on purpose) out of weakness and imperfection then as 1 John writes, «My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.

Of its content we are told very little, but perhaps enough to give a pointer to one at least of its themes, as well as to the purpose and meaning of his drastic action.10

Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus Christ and his purposes.»

, Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow served little to no purpose as a character.

Upon her introduction in Iron Man 2, Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow served little to no purpose as a character.

That such world was primarily the region of the group's habitat means little for our purpose, except as the limitation added to its mystery when distance beckoned in all directions into the unknown.

The individual citizen has little or no choice in the matter when the legislature taxes the citizenry and appropriates a portion of the revenues as subsidies to private organizations for purposes it deems appropriate (and of course it could not properly give any such subsidies to churches).

For those who view its primary purpose as retribution, however, this uncertainty makes little difference; the mere fact that a deserved punishment does not deter makes it no less richly deserved.

Usually such desires were for those of the opposite sex, but even that line was blurry, because as it turned out, once the generative purpose of sex had been severed, it often mattered very little who the heterosexual's mutual masturbatory partner was.

Can we not be persuaded to believe that specks of consciousness on this little planet can not, in all reasonableness, be thought of as accurate critics of the total purpose behind creation?

We do have to become as little children — which is in fact what we are, comparatively — before we can begin to appreciate anything of the plan or purpose of the Creator.

you don't irritate me, I think your a sad little girl... who doesn't have a clue as to what her purpose is.

Little things like mandatory chapel for members of the House and Senate, prior to starting the business of the say, when the Houses were in session, or Sunday being excluded as a day, for both legislative and executive government purposes, or maybe you'd prefer the Federal holidays that were Holy Days for Christians.

They had about as much institutional structure as street theater: lots of improvisation, plenty of borrowing and stealing from whomever they bumped into, and free adaptation of other people's ideas and property for their own purposes; but precious little polity, and no property at all (The Astonished Heart, 19).

- I used w [filtered] wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose flour - I used demerara sugar (3/4 cup inside the recipe as with a w [filtered] cup it's too sweet) and sprinkled extra on the top towards the end of baking to add a little crunch - I added 1 cup chopped pecans - If you want to decorate the tops, before baking place 3 small slivers of banana... enjoy!

Hm, you can leave it out all together, and just try to use as little liquid as possible for the rest of the filling so it stays thick (because that is the purpose of the coconut oil).

Don't overdo the breadcrumbs as that would defeat the purpose, though you may need to experiment a little to find your preferred amount.

Turn the speed down a little and pour in the cocoa mixture, beating as you go, and when all is scraped in, you can slowly tip in the almond meal (or all - purpose flour) mixture.

As I mentioned in the post the bread will be a little tougher compared to when you make it with white or all - purpose flour.

This bread will be a little more tough than when you make it with all - purpose or bread flour and it will not be as fluffy and have less air pockets

Making again today, but as soup on purpose with a little extra turkey sausage sliced in it... my house smells divine!

I switched my original use of butter lettuce to spinach and beet greens for the purposes of this blog post, mostly as I love beet greens and I hate waste (the larger, more robust leaves from this bunch were eaten last night, sautéed in olive oil with shallots, garlic and a little bit of salt).

It doesn't look great as he seems to spit with a bit of force and his timing isn't great, but it seems a little childish from a 28 - year - old professional to do something like that and so it makes it difficult to believe he did it on purpose.

This may serve little purpose in the wider scheme of things but it does help guide this site as it tries to cover the Football League to the largest extent possible without knowing the intricacies of everyday life at each of the clubs that participate.

On his first Premier League start for the club, Traore was bright and full of purpose, offering a good outlet down the right - hand side with his pace, while the Norwich defenders seemed a little surprised by how strong he was as well.

This crib served it's purpose and was reborn as a desk, as documented by the parent who blogs at A Little Learning For Two.

But somewhere along the way this fall, we decided it also needed to serve one more purpose - a little corner of it anyway - as a milking parlor.

Fans work for two purposes: they drown out other noise, such as us getting ready for bed or siblings running around upstairs, and they have come to become a «sleep signal» to our little ones.

To cut down on extra splash that can occur as your little boy learns to navigate his new bathroom habits, consider purchasing a seat designed with that exact purpose in mind.

While feeding bibs are designed for feeding purposes, teething bibs, as the name suggests, are designed for our little droolers.

This choice is perfect for a growing baby because you can switch its purpose as your little one grows.

Acoba serves little useful purpose either as a watchdog or as a source of public information.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

I forgive you for being so misinformed, it can be tough to see past stereotypes and oversimplifications perpetuated by a news media that knows very little about the true nature of the Bill of Rights and the purpose and intent of government as envisioned at the dawning of this great Republic.

As state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli pointed out, recent state budgets have included «little or no detail regarding the process for allocating [SAM] funds, or the purposes for which such funds are to be used,» and «details on expenditures — purposes, recipients and other key factors — remain largely outside the State accounting system.»

But the Parks Department had assured folks that as long as he was physically healthy and wasn't a threat to humans or motorists, there was little they could do: There's a ban on capturing and relocating deer in New York State, unless it's for scientific purposes.

Capacity: Capacity varies a little depending on what kind of eggs you're hatching, but for our purposes, we used chicken eggs as the standard.

«Anytime you save a little bit of that, it can be used for other purposes the animal needs,» such as producing milk.

Orgasm is referred to as «the little death» because its purpose is to obliterate your consciousness.

Nature's whole food supplements are foods that haven't been processed or refined, and have undergone as little processing as possible for preservation purposes.