Sentences with phrase «living for the better part»

Ian Alexander grew up in Brooklyn, NY where he lived for the better part of 30 years.
Relatively unknown outside Los Angeles, where he lived for the better part of his career, Robert Overby is «one of the best - kept secrets of postwar American art,» as this show's press release claims.

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If one member of the household makes a good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay at home or work part - time.
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The initiative by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, is part of the couple's philanthropic efforts to better life for all children in their daughter's generation.
Fulfillment comes from achieving something and knowing it will carry on: Raising great kids, being a part of a supportive extended family, knowing you have helped others and changed their lives for the better...
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But perhaps the best answer may be for you (and me) to accept waiting as an essential part of life.
He documented some of Facebook's do - good moments in the last year, like its part in the #metoo movement and the March For Our Lives event, and helping raise $ 20 million for victims of hurricane HarvFor Our Lives event, and helping raise $ 20 million for victims of hurricane Harvfor victims of hurricane Harvey.
Habitat's mission is something that you get a totally new appreciation for when you are part of the organization — actually seeing people actively working to change their lives, and the lives of their children, for the better.
For a good part of my childhood I lived in a suburb of L.A. known as Norwalk.
We have lots of locations and opportunities on our radar screen, and part of our service to International Living members includes conferences and events in the places we believe make the best sense for expatriates looking beyond their own shores.
But quality of life for retirees moving abroad also depends in large part on being able to fit in quickly, learn the ropes, and mix well with the locals in their adapted communities.
As a researcher and writer for International Living, Nanette has her pulse on nearby Boquete as well as the gorgeous Chiriquí coastline, and she'll give you the inside line on this opportunity - rich part of Panama.
This great event will allow customers to discover their own beauty while doing their part in giving back to the community to help women, Feel, Look and Live Better for Life.
The tough part is, balancing the quest for passive income, your day - job and a good life.
The best part about this program is that some of the great features of this program are for the life of your business.
Wow; great video indeed; This is exactly what i want to do with my life to be a trader; but havent had much success lately trading the fx market; But this video shows us that loosing is part of winning; That even the best of the best take a loss now and then; and they feel the pain of loosing; But thier wins far exceed their losses; I'm inspired; Trading is not fot the weak of heart; Anyways, nothing is impossible if one keeps trying; thanks for the great video.
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Fortunately, the picture looks better in other parts of the country, which means that homeownership may still be within reach for those living in these parts, or who are willing to relocate out of the pricey cities.
my favorite for the movies is the holy grail but life of brian is a very very close second... the meaning of life was off and on funny, but still good... my favorite part of the meaning of life is when death shows up and the American says now, just you wait one minute here... how is it that we all die?
About 20 % of the men I interviewed were acutally gay (meaning they were wired that way and there wasn't no changing their behaivor and a few «parts» were irregular as well), 30 % of the men had some major trauma in their young lives and were confused with who they were and were trying to belong somewhere when it became hip to be gay in the 90's and 50 % of the men (to my surprise) were married men looking for nasty sex.
Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.
Would Judaism and the Jewish people have fared better or worse if they had not found themselves for the most part living in a civilization dominated by the Christian religion, which has claimed from the beginning to be the direct descendant and fulfillment of Judaism and the life of the Jewish people?
Good for Kerry that she keeps it real in the most emotional, traumatic part of someones life without pushing and selling god, Chris, religion.
Christians across the UK are being urged to sign up to Home for Good, a new campaign which aims to make fostering and adoption a normal part of Church life.
I've managed to spend the better part of my life trading one cage for another and then another... ad infinitum.
Jefferson was beyond bankrupt near the end of his life and in debt for the better part of it.
The outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas, the subject of much discussion in this year's presidential campaign, is part of an economic movement that promises a better life — indeed, a new beginning — for many people in developing countries.
I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.
Bu tthe effort of trying to live a good christian life got to much ad i was disollutioned.Spent ten years as a backslidden barely believing christian and then in recent years as a transformed renewed Christian and i finally got it.It is all about a relationship with Jesus Christ and working in submission to the holy spirit he is the one that inspires his word he brings it to life.If you want to understand the word we must apply it to our lives then it becomes part of us thats the difference between knowledge and understanding not just knowing the word but living the word.The bible is a book useful for living not just a theoretical analysis or a history book.Jesus is the living word its through him that he opens his word to us without the holy spirit in us the carnal mind can not comprehend Gods word it a mystery.It was designed that way so only those who are truly seeking God shall find him.brentnz
At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.
These words can be incredibly hurtful and insulting to people who have devoted their lives to being part of a community of imperfect people, for better or worse, regardless of what they may or may not get out of it.
yes all your negative reckoning or observation in history is part of the evolutionary change, your reaction is part of the solution, the reasons for your concern on slavery, gay rights etc, will be resolved in the future for the good of humanity for thats his will, we have to experience and pass all this trials in life because thats part of the evolutionary process
For the subject concerned will always be part of my experience, from which I can not escape and for which I am intellectually responsible to myself as well as to others, which only I can turn into the law of my liFor the subject concerned will always be part of my experience, from which I can not escape and for which I am intellectually responsible to myself as well as to others, which only I can turn into the law of my lifor which I am intellectually responsible to myself as well as to others, which only I can turn into the law of my life.
I believe God exists, because I think he is one part of the best explanation for the order in the universe, because I have considered and trust the testimony of other believers, and because I think there are times in my life when I have perceived God's presence.
«If you don't read the Bible daily, and don't memorize the Bible in part, and don't linger over the Bible, and don't meditate on it and remember it, if you don't steep your mind in it, the best you can hope for is a weak Christian life.
Part of being a good follower of Christ is loving others and being a respectful citizen where you live, even if the person you voted for didn't win.
For all are ordered together to one end, but it is as in a house, where the freemen are least at liberty to act at random, but all things or most things are already ordained for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - For all are ordered together to one end, but it is as in a house, where the freemen are least at liberty to act at random, but all things or most things are already ordained for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - 23)
Good point about Atheists knowing more about religion because, in general, we've thought about it, worked though the nonsense we had pushed down our throats and lived to forgive, for the most part the adults in our lives that did their level best to scare us, to scar us as children.
Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his fllife of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his fllife God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flLife of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his fllife of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
Although they lived in comparative isolation, a part of farm and other forest produce like wax, honey and dried meat of animals was marketed for cash through Muslim traders.5 Many of their houses were good substantial erections of wood and stone,» although a majority preferred to live in temporary huts of mud and bamboos as the «survivors often dislike living in a dwelling in which the head of the family has died.
A major research direction, then, might well develop a design for research in which pastors would develop psychological skills in aiding parishioners in the development of wholesome (as part of «holy»), mature personalities, and in assisting persons in developing meaning and purpose in their lives, as well as dealing therapeutically with specific emotional problems which cripple their functioning.
Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.
For the most part, Lewis saw the existence of the Inner Ring as a fact of life, raw material that was neither good nor evil.
The reason for having friends, even where friendship included disinterested well - wishing, was that it was a part of the good life in which alone man found his happiness.
Because academics so often fear (with good reason) deviating from what senior professors and administrators want, it took a senior administrator lobbying for changes to make family leave part of the normal routine of academic life.
Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.
And the best part is that what I have to tell you is not only for this life, but also about the life to come!
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