Sentences with phrase «making certain choices»

Scientists from the University of Chicago say that communication in a foreign language makes people less emotional about making certain choices.

worldcares You speak as though God gave people free will,... but that he only approves of people making certain choices.

You make certain choices in life and potentially (God's decision not mine) end up spending eternity is a very unpleasant place or simply ceasing to exist as some would argue but I subscribe to the former.

I make certain choices in life and end up worm food like everyone else.

Also, if you believe that God created them, you must also concede that he warned Adam & Eve not to make certain choices, but gave them freedom to do so, and that the consequences they were warned of have come to fruition for both them and all their progeny, and that sin hurts more than just the sinner, and so our lives (all of us) become increasingly more complex and painful with each new sin introduced, such that the choice to do right is often painful for us, which is not as it should be, nor as God would have it, but as we have made it.

The more choices we ponder or the more time we invest in making a certain choice, the worse we tend to feel.

What God allows is for you to make certain choices.

If they * had * to make a certain choice, surely they'd be able to own it, secure in the knowledge they did the best they could?

But what you can do is enhance their ability to make certain choices.

Fast says this may have reminded them of why they made certain choices, reducing the need to defend themselves by blaming others.

«People working in our industry make a certain choice,» he explains (see the profile of Sandrine Decoster).

The much more detailed kind of predestination implied by closed timelike curves, where it seems that we simply can not make certain choices (like walking away after meeting a future version of ourselves), is bothersome.

Clients can have a deeper look into why they make certain choices with food or why they have trouble letting go of a challenging habit, or why they resist exercise, for example.

The premise of the game is simple: Stanley must make certain choices in order to recall why he wakes up alone in an empty office building.

During gameplay, the player is constantly prompted by a non-visible omniscient narrator to make certain choices, which according to the narrator are pre-destined.

But let me be perfectly clear here - this isn't about the act of making a certain choice; it's about the power of opportunity and having a choice in the first place.

Pre-Arrangement helps relieve your loved ones of the emotional burden of having to make certain choices at the time of need.

Unfortunately any investor must still choose how to diversify, so they still must learn to make sound investing decisions (portfolio asset allocation requires that an investor actively make certain choices even if it is to buy low fee index funds / ETfs).

Once in the interrogation room one of the four players is given a hidden agenda and told to sway the rest of the players to make a certain choice at the end of the demo.

Anyway to me these are all signs of an affluent society with the discretionary wealth to make certain choices.

There are certain times when we wish that we would not have made certain choices.

How did you get to where you are today and why did you make certain choices?

Am I saying we should never consider other people's opinions when we make certain choices?

Stumbling On Happiness (Daniel Gilbert) At times we all make certain choices that we regret later, whether that's to overeat, over drink or over spend.

Not exact matches

It's what made Rowling's validation of the casting choice such a powerful one, and one that should inspire other talent wranglers to revisit their ideas of who they think can play certain roles.

By studying these regrets, you can make certain that you make good choices and don't fall victim to them yourself.

The passive language used here is all the more disingenuous given that Google made a conscious choice in recent years to start endorsing certain search results over others.

While it often makes sense to file jointly, filing separately may be the better choice in certain situations.

For instance, Quebec is tax uncompetitive compared to many other provinces, and has, for instance, made a choice to fund childcare and certain other social services at the cost of privatized health - care and, now, increased tuition fees.

Although it might be a bit difficult to know the right business franchise to buy especially when you are confronted with numerous ideas and opportunities, but if you consider certain key factors before making your choice, then you will succeed in choosing the right franchise.

Although it might be a bit difficult to know the right business to start especially when you are confronted with numerous business ideas and opportunities, but if you consider certain key factors before making your choice, then you will succeed in choosing the right business.

It means that I can, for the first time, make choices based on what I want, not constrained by the need to maintain a certain level of income.

We can no longer be certain as to how buyers may make choices with such changes afoot and adjustments are made to goals by both individuals and organizations in a B2B context.

No «all» of any group is always making willful choices that get them into certain predicaments.

Secondly, although it is easy from our perspective to identify, in isolation, certain «free choices» which we believe should have been vetoed by a Plantingan God, what must actually be demonstrated to make Griffin's contention a strong one is that the entire world system (the different possible world) of which such a violation would be a part would in fact result in a significant increase in the net amount of good in comparison to the actual world.

I'm actually not against the ACA, but I do believe that coverage should be very scrupulous and, yes, people who make certain health and other additional cost incurring choices should not get the same ride as everybody else.

So, I sincerely and respectfully ask of individuals who back anti-choice campaigns by citing personal moral or religious reasons this question, which I ask out honest curiosity: how can you recognize the consequences, historically, of legally banning a certain choice a person makes, and maintain that your moral code has not been violated, or even argue that your moral or religious code has been upheld, or elevated?

Arminians often met this objection to foreknowledge by appealing to a logical distinction between necessity and certainty.5 The fact that God foreknows that choice X is going to be made (freely) means only that X is certain to occur; it does not mean that God's foreknowledge, or any other cause, necessitated X.

You mean like when a parent who knows their teenager real well and would know what the outcome would be if their child makes certain bad choices, but decides not to stop the teenager from making those choices, perhaps as means to teach that teenager a lesson.

Looking back as the Vatican prepares to declare John Paul II «Blessed» on Sunday - the last step before sainthood - Aponte is certain he and his fellow cardinals made the right choice.

And yet, the decisive choice of evil does have a certain logic and we can make at least some sense of it.

But it's not your choice to make up medical insurance that arbitrarily doesn't cover certain forms of medical care.

One difficulty grows out of the presence of something in Jesus» teaching, namely, a certain strenuous and uncompromising quality; the other difficulty grows out of the lack of something, namely, light on what particular choices should be made between available alternatives in many concrete situations.

Certain things in the teen years have even more of a mind of their own than they do when they... make grown men make foolish choices...

Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.

And since some people are incapable of knowing right from wrong, and making any choice either way either through age or handicap, the Bible tells us of a special grace that exists over certain individuals should they die.

But it is certain that many, if not most, people are forced to make more choices faster, with less evidence, than in any previous epoch of our society.

In their theology they preserved the freedom of the human being to make choices and a certain degree of self - reliance, though they accepted the need for Grace.

To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.

But now since God has taken my salvation out of my hands into his, making it depend on his choice and not mine, and has promised to save me, not by my own work or exertion, but by his grace and mercy, I am assured and certain that he is faithful and will not lie to me... if we do less than we should or do it badly, he does not hold it against us.