Sentences with phrase «little purpose by»

Both plot devices have a weighted build - up and serve little purpose by the end of the film.

Not exact matches

The way that the company is run is by understanding the importance of the individual: You clearly can run a business just focusing on delivering a task or you can run a business while you focus on delivering a purpose, and the purpose being a little bit bigger than the task.
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.
Probably he found it in his source or received it by tradition and merely transferred it to its present position, touching it up a little for his purpose.
Yes, the purpose of the flood was for god to let off a little steam by killing nearly every living thing, including the unborn, infants and animals.
A further problem in Brunner's thought is that his doctrine is bound up with a conception of Providence in which the irrational circumstances of life, that is, our finding ourselves in this time and place and situation, are too simply identified with the inscrutable purposes of God.25 He makes too little room for the notion which is so well stated by Calhoun and which surely belongs in the Christian view of life, that the world is an unfinished world.
Man is a meaning - giving animal; can it be that he is also an animal who is found by meaning — meaning that illuminates his darkness and gives dignity and purpose to his little day in this vast world?
We have all learned, and perhaps this is our only contribution, that God's purpose and action are best, and perhaps only, understood when we stand by the side of «the little ones».
The stewardesses wearing bits of red, white, and blue ribbon twisted in that little loop which has been asked to fill too many purposes in the decade since it was invented by AIDS activists.
Take a bowl add all purpose flour (Maida), a pinch of salt and make a thick batter by adding little water at a time.
You can always swap bread flour into our recipes that call for all - purpose, just by adding a little extra water (details below).
In the meantime, since you probably still have some of this soup on hand, you can improve the flavor by doing a sauté of onions and garlic in a little olive oil; add a couple of teaspoons of an all - purpose seasoning blend like Spike and Mrs. Dash, salt and pepper, of course; a minced herb like parsley or cilantro, and maybe even 2 or 3 big handfuls of baby spinach or arugula.
The family and team behind Allan Scott Wines have a plan to build «the coolest little wine company in the world» — powered by smart strategy, honest conversations, and a clear purpose and goals.
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.
Its purpose was to stress just how much Spurs were doing to regenerate the local area and how little, by comparison, Haringey, TfL etc were doing.
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.
This toy has a purpose to provide a fun learning to a child and by many studies this is one of the most effective ways that can help little children to learn new things.
While your goal may have been to allow women to make more informed decisions, a vague emotion statement of purpose, it misses the mark by citing outdated information and inciting fear in the use of a relatively harmless product, without offering viable alternatives for anyone who is already nursing a little one.
It is commonly known that calcium is required for strong bones and teeth, but it is little acknowledged that calcium is actually required by every cell in the body to function in a healthful way: from bones to nerves and muscles to blood, calcium serves a significant purpose throughout the body.
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.
• The Town Board approved a request by High Peaks Hospice to place a container near the «little community store» in the transfer station for the purpose of collecting clothing and shoes to benefit the work of the hospice organization.
If any of the pre-made foods you buy have any sugar added to them, you could be unintentionally eating sugar all day long - and by the time you get to that evening glass of wine or want a little dessert on purpose, you're already way over the amount of sugar your body can use for energy.
Thus, they are deficient in methylation, they have little risk of depleting glycine by consuming excess methionine if the problem isn't fixed (though they still may have inadequate glycine for other purposes, such as detoxification and synthesizing collagen), and since they never use up the methionine to make homocysteine, their methionine becomes elevated rather than their homocysteine, and their homocysteine is actually low.
Rather, the purpose is to merely create a starting baseline of consistency so that we can adjust off of that, little by little, until things do start working.
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AM routine: «I wash my face morning and night with Purpose cleanser, followed by Clinique Moisture Surge and Dramatically Different Moisturizer, then their Repairwear Eye Cream, which I apply to those little fine lines on the top of my lips, too.
1) Ok so yes, I may have reached a tad «vintage» by turning the big 40 this year and 2) with all my kids now school age as of this fall, quite honestly I feel a little «rusty» or perhaps unclear as to what and how my purpose in life is to be pursued.
Or, at least, that seems to be what it's after, as Richard J. Lewis's lengthy but aimless saga generally goes about its funny - serious business without a guiding purpose, detailing the ups and downs of Barney's matrimonial days and nights with so little verve or intention — and with so little of the unreliable - narrator ambiguity implied by its title and flashback structure — that the effect is like reading a dead man's day calendar.
That's fine, given the movie's purpose, but there's also little by way of helping us to understand fully what they're doing and why they're doing it.
I mean, is it not absurd, if another strong indicator of the importance MEIFF is aspiring to, for a festival in only its third year to be handing out lifetime achievement awards, moreover when that award is being handed out by Hilary Swank, flown into Abu Dhabi for that purpose alone (or... was it perhaps to run a little interference against the imminent Doha festival, shortly to launch itself with Mira Nair's Swank - starring Amelia?).
For all intents and purposes, Vacation offers little more than a series of skits connected by the family trip theme.
Little do they know that the area is contained and controlled by a group of scientists and engineers lead by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins, for sinister and shadowy purposes.
The analysis of the course objectives and syllabi indicated that the assignments and activities in core classes common to all education majors included little technology use beyond productivity and presentation of information purposes, with the exception of the two computer literacy courses offered by the program.
And by the end of the year, you've completed several little, separate structures that have served your purpose at different times over the course of the year.
I'm looking to buy a compression tester kit and am a little puzzled by the purpose of the two rubber - ended attachments shown below.
Although every Kia design study has a purpose, the GT concept was something considered by many outside the company as little more than a dream for a brand known for producing mass - market transportation rooted in value.
Little Bao and his foil from Saints, Four - Girl, are drawn by the same fundamental impulses — for community, family, faith, tradition, purpose — and their stories reflect the inner torture that comes when those things are threatened.
Of course it was nice when Life On Purpose was an award winning finalist in the Self - Help: Motivational division of the Best Books 2007 Awards sponsored by USA News being beaten out by a little book entitled The Secret.
Certainly, many baby boomers felt TFSAs were too little and too late for their purposes, although they would look with a certain amount of envy at millennials and young investors with a 40 - year investing time horizon ahead of them — indeed, many financial gurus have calculated that merely by maxing out TFSA contributions over such a time frame, that alone would be sufficient to ensure a comfortable retirement: no RRSP or employer pension plan contributions necessary!
There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.
On page 32, we also provide a summary of the features, costs and overall customer experience for each discount brokerage to help you decide whether you can get by with an all - purpose tool — or if it's time to look for something a little more specialized.
The main purpose of the Acorns app is to make it easier for people to invest money little by little.
The samples should be taken in the form of cheek swabs, however if blood is being drawn for diagnostic reasons then a little extra can be taken by your vet and sent to the AHT (suspended in EDTA) for research purposes.
Then little by little you go to level 2 then level 3 finally which will automatically have them go into the Puppy Apt, Now if you have a huge home I can see where you're coming from about the fact the puppy may not make it on time so that's why you also purchased the puppy play pen which will section off a small portion of the home and confined the dog only to that area so voila, they should make it there on time and the purpose of the playpen is to confine them into a much bigger area and not just in that puppy apt and not soil your home.
It's a bullet - hell, so by no means what you'd call relaxing, but it definitely suits my purposes when I just want a quick little burst of fun.
It shows a huge attention to detail, because while they may be a little shonkey by today's standards, the Snowboarding has better physics and a longer track than games released at a similar time that had one specific purpose ie Ridge Racer.
Little's «purpose» can not be narrowly defined by his methods nor is it all a simple matter of procedure.The imagination has its own speculative ends and its interchanges with the world are, in Little's paintings, as vibrant and curiously bedecked as any prism thread with light.»
Following Roy's recipe, you can get a reasonable - looking fit to data with very little fine - tuning because Roy has given himself a lot of elbow room to play around in: you have the choice of any two variability indices among dozens available, you make an arbitrary linear combination of them to suit your purposes, you choose whatever mixed layer depth you want, and you finish it all off by allowing yourself the luxury of diddling the initial condition.
The particular legacy still ledft by Russia's first wintertime Games iis one of sparkling purpose - built arenas with little or no post-Games make use of, a masswive change of facilities at the Black sea resort and a record price tag that triggered modifications for future Olympics.
-- For purposes of this paragraph, the term «destruction» means the conversion of a substance by thermal, chemical, or other means to another substance with little or no carbon dioxide equivalent value and no ozone depletion potential.
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