Sentences with phrase «lived effort at»

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At the end of the day, most of the rhetoric and some of the efforts around small business owners seem more about administrative game - playing instead of providing help and assistance to small business owners to make their lives easier and their businesses more successful.

This mimicked the English wedding style at the time, according to Country Living, and, since it called for a sit - down lunch, it required more effort than an afternoon wedding, which only needed a casual reception.

Our efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

The loss of human life and destruction of property lingered on minds across the world, but a decade - long effort to lure innovative technology firms to the South American country was also at stake.

I spend a lot of time with people who work at Tumblr, but I make a very poor effort to hang out with other people in my life.

The social mission at Life Is Good's core doesn't take away from its efforts to make money.

He lived in a world where authority is delegated to those trained to multi-task, while keeping everyone in the loop and efforts focused on the mission at hand.

Strategic thinking at work and in life should be carefully designed to encourage, recognize and reward effort.

But unlike most Silicon Valley billionaires, Mr. Thiel openly supports a wide array of eccentric philanthropic and social efforts aimed at radically altering life as we know it.

My picture at the top of the page swimming across the Hudson River illustrates how anyone can create inspirational, life - changing activities with minimal effort.

If you take a look at KLM's actual social media accounts, you'll see the company lives up to it in its more scalable day - to - day efforts.

Well, websites live at the center of sales enablement efforts.

A website may live at the center of most marketing efforts, including top - of - the - funnel demand generation, lead generation, sales enablement, customer service, press and media relations, employee nurturing, and partnerships.

SVI gets you off the treadmill of your usual business life, while at the same time invigorating and enhancing your professional efforts.

A noble effort, and probably a positive contribution to life online — but at its worst, Laura Turner wrote for Religion News Service, «Instapray can be like the worst possible version of Pinterest,» another forum for auto - worship and self - congratulation.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

By this standard, take a look at Mitt Romney's life and ask yourself if he has consistently exhibited an effort to lead a life based on good priciples.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

She rightly points out that «the work of Servais - Theodore Pinckaers might stand as a bridge uniting the efforts of younger Thomists and Balthasarians because of its accent on the theo - dramatic nature of moral life,» but she also at times indulges in such unhelpful labels as «Baroque Thomism» and «nuptial mysticism.»

The young priest who accompanied the students, the chaplain at the Newman Centre student parish, said that while he would perhaps not have been motivated to put in the time and effort to go to the March for Life on his own, the enthusiasm and desire of his students convinced him that he needed to attend with them personally.

At the March for Life, no efforts were made to police the ideology of the marchers.

It eats away at your efforts to live the life you want and sabotages your efforts to pretend you are normal.

Sometimes called Plainness, this is basically humility in action, and an effort to place God at the center of living.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

Any effort to bring CST to life is welcome, and the editors of Catholic Social Conscience, a collection of papers presented at a 2010 conference in Oxford, deserve thanks.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

I am an alcoholic with 32 years of sobriety, Lets look at what this woman does for a living, She writes books and I see this as nothing more than a effort to promote her product.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

Education is the attempt to fulfill the high hopes and fervent expectations which center around a child at his birth; it is the effort to make good the promise of a new life in its boundless potentiality.

And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus... and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, in the failure of the cross.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

If someone wants to reject Christian theology as dry, dusty, boring, and irrelevant for modern life, they should at least make some effort to learn what it is they are rejecting before they reject it.

Some older people were offended by the latest effort at revision of the Book of Common Prayer, feeling that because they would not live to use the new prayer book, their opinions were likely to be discounted.

As the old models of biblical study break down, Gary - along with his former colleague at Harvard, Jon Levenson - has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink the relations between the historical - critical project and the living realities of contemporary Christian and Jewish faith.

Your difficulty is that you want to try to live in history without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom of God on earth ends in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace of tyranny means, at least, the absence of war (Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.

He should indicate the major alternative viewpoints that are live options in our pluralistic culture; this may require an effort to inform himself concerning the current thought of scientists, theologians, and philosophers on the point at issue.

It calls every member of the Church • to renew their faith; • to make an actual effort to share it; • to recognise, certainly, a growing awareness of people to the changing circumstances of life today; • to value what is positive in every culture, while at the same time purifying it from elements that are contrary to the full realisation of the person according to the design of God revealed in Christ.

Pepler further develops this premise by proposing that: «Life must gradually be informed by creative worship if we are to furnish the imagination with sensations that are not constantly militating against religion and making it an unnatural and unsocial effort to remain religious at all.»

I poured into those pages my best writing and my best effort to tell a story about Church that is at once honest and hopeful, imaginative and dusted with the earth of everyday life.

Actually is it not true that though we do know ourselves helpless to do God's perfect will, helpless to resist successfully the temptations to pride and selfishness which assail us in every area of our life and at every level of moral endeavor, we nevertheless know that we are guilty before God and that we should be guilty even if we should make the maximum effort of which human flesh is capable?

Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in human life — the reality of moral evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.

Finally, at the end of tediously extended efforts to avoid it, I was forced to accept the conclusion that life begins at conception.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

Second, the psychologist most frequently associated with Nietzsche is Freud, but Brooks isn't at all talking Freudian psychology when he tells us that «it is possible to achieve momentary harmony through creative work,» or that we don't secure «the good life through heroic self - analysis but through mundane, self - forgetting effort, and through everyday routines.»

Thus many of us declared ourselves to be radicals; but despite a few feeble efforts in the direction of play - acting at social transformation, our radicalism was to be found not in our lives, not even our political lives, but in our heads.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

At a time when leading scholars in Germany, Italy, Britain, and North America have done so much to clear the good name of Pius XII, honoring his life - saving efforts, it is distressing to find such outdated and discredited allegations being promoted by the Levi Center.

We die to self when we at last realise that in us is no good thing and we are totally incapable of living the resurrected life by self effort then and only then will we give up and surrender as a failure to Christ then in us the hope of glory in our hearts rises and we find we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we rely totally on Him putting no confidence in our flesh.

All the demands for unneeded preference in admissions and hiring, all the absurd litigation, all the efforts at speech control and thought control, and most important, all the programs to manage and «improve» the behavior of the men in her life, whether husband, boss, roommate, or date, have left her more disaffected and more mentally self - indulgent than before.