Sentences with phrase «little purpose for»

I am not certain I know how that idea became popular or why it has remained so engrained as it ultimately serves little purpose for most candidates and it can work to the detriment of a job seeker.

You can discuss that with your boss (though you're not obligated to do so) and your colleagues if you want, but there's little purpose for including that in your resignation letter.

Some will surely find the Floating Bar useful, but the V30's display is so roomy already, I found little purpose for it.

Rep. Emil «Buddy» Altobello, a Meriden Democrat, and others said there is little purpose for bump stocks for recreational shooters.

Romantic love serves very little purpose for propagating the species.

Not exact matches

«I'm a little uncomfortable with Google cooperating this closely with the nation's largest intelligence agency, even if it's strictly for defensive purposes.»

There are several tools that can be used for this purpose such as TweetDeck, and Hootsuite that are easily adaptable and require little initial effort on your part.

The AutoStart burette is the little disposable chamber that sits in the line of an IV medical drip for the purposes of injecting medicine into a patient via the drip.

According to the survey results, a little over two - thirds (68 percent) of marketers now believe social media is the «most important» piece for digital video campaigns.While using social media for advertising purposes is nothing new, the greater emphasis on video reflects the effectiveness of new video marketing tools on platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the like.

Little wonder, since both were created for the sole purpose of «slipping the surly bonds» of Earth and putting human beings and cargo onto other celestial bodies.

But the half - hour flight, while historic for both the oil and gas and the drone industries, served little commercial purpose beyond testing its sensor payload and navigation systems.

He added that Pegasus is notable because most of the big security scares involving mobile have until now been theoretical — whenever someone has discovered a major vulnerability, there typically is little evidence the exploit was widely used for nefarious purposes.

It's easy to see why the fur of these little animals is so popular: Prized for its softness and water absorption, badger hair seems purpose - built for shaving brushes owing to its great feel and ability to quickly work soaps and creams into a velvety lather without a lot of effort.

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.&raqFor 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.&raqfor the purposes of securitization, had little or no responsibility for ensuring payments.&raqfor ensuring payments.»

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But leaving that aside, the Obama administration has actually recently said that purpose of those sanctions is regime change in Iran and they're doing that for domestic reasons because the Republicans have outflanked them a little bit.

There is little practicable difference for the purposes of this portfolio.

«For purposes of comparison, it took CBS a little over two years to get to 4.0 mm subs split between Showtime OTT and CBS All Access, and CBS doesn't have cord - cutting issues, so that venture was super-accretive,» he wrote (see Miller's track record here).

The AMT is a complicated tax calculation that is intended to eliminate the potential for taxpayers to report large financial accounting profits while reporting little taxable income for federal income tax purposes, thus, paying little or no tax.

Many who took Canada up on the offer bought expensive real estate in Vancouver, parked their families there and paid little or no income tax because they continued to work and, ostensibly, reside overseas (at least for tax purposes).

«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.

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.

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.

Gathered and organized for the purpose of effectively loving the world and bringing the positive changes making things on earth a bit more like Heaven and little less like Hell.

Little groups of men band themselves together for the purpose of obtaining a constant supply of alcohol.

It is little wonder that in Galatians, Paul emphasizes that Jesus was born under the law, for Jesus» vulnerability to the law is the sign of the power of the One who was to fulfill the whole purpose of the law.

However, cosmetic reforms for counterrevolutionary purposes had little success in winning hearts and minds.

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.

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.

These religious experiences are not narcissistic expressions serving little communal purpose; they provide both the motivation and the basis for outreach that helps the churches grow.

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.

It serves little purpose to examine the Sistine Chapel ceiling with a microscope or to read a play of Shakespeare with minute analysis of phrases (which practice prompted Whitehead to call for teachers of English to be «prosecuted for soul murder»).

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.

In the following centuries there was very little change in the Christian doctrine of Last Things except the emergence of the concept of Purgatory, an intermediate place where souls were thought to undergo suffering for a cleansing or atoning purpose.

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.

Cobb recognizes that his account goes «a little beyond the confines of description of Whitehead's account in Process and Reality in the direction of systematization, «10 but he is prepared to defend his interpretation in detail.11 What is important for our purposes is the fact that the involvement of God's consequent nature in divine persuasion renders that activity intensely personal.

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).

Commonly one hears little about the demoniacal, notwithstanding that this field, particularly in our time, has a valid claim to be explored, and notwithstanding that the observer, in case he knows how to get a little in rapport with the demon, can, at least occasionally, make use of almost every man for this purpose.

It is, though, a little hard to give cash value to this phrase when we are contemplating creating an embryo, using it for research purposes, and disposing of it at or before fourteen days.

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.

Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic who flourished — or rather who existed, for there was little that suggested flourishing about him — in the sixteenth century, will supply a passage suitable for our purpose.

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.

Education tended to be of little importance save for the purpose of a better understanding of Biblical revelation.

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.

Everything was rigidly determined; little or no room was left for chance, for freedom, for purpose, or indeed for life.

Problem is that Gods purpose for mankind is not to make little Einstein's that can wow the world with discovering the things God made.

But a nonviolent national defense force, or a peacekeeping force bringing together citizens of a dozen nations, is of little use except for its intended purpose.

The author of the Wisdom of Solomon gave the concept a different turn, not less significant for our purposes, although at first glance one is prone to dismiss him in disappointment, for he adds little to the thought of Proverbs, merely incorporating certain Stoic phraseology into his discussion.