Sentences with phrase «many noble reasons»

It's perhaps the noblest reason for cooking the books in movie history, but of course still a legal nightmare.

I've heard that in other ancient flood stories, people were saved for other less noble reasons.

Those that I have known who have left traditional church did so for less noble reasons than your post describes.

There could have been some that invented them for noble reasons, but pharmaceutical companies definitely have money on their mind.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

I understand the importance of wealth - creation — but wealth must be created for a noble reason.

Martyrs are those who suffer but their groans, far from being a disavowal of what they were, express the noble reason for their deaths and change the apparent fatality into an absolute proof of loge.

By Friday, though, the game was off, the perception of callousness being too much to overcome, however noble the reasoning.

«It is for this noble reason that our organisation felt to celebrate the state and Mr. Governor on this investiture ceremony as a sign of appreciation towards making education the bedrock of development.

The less - than - noble reason is (of course) all the food.

Just as unsettling, though for less noble reasons, is the suicide humor (albeit delivered by a fish) tossed randomly into «Horton Hatches the Egg», a cartoon that as a whole is the least faithful of all the adaptations on the DVD — while the gag of following «now I've seen everything!»

This makes him a complicated villain, one who does things for what he truly believes are noble reasons, although he is clearly doing some morally depraved things with his power, in fact, bordering on genocide.

As noble a reason as that might seem to some, perhaps just as good is that Kick - Ass 2 is so wretched that it not only shouldn't be seen by kids, but pretty much anyone else, save perhaps for those completely titillated by any feeble rails against political correctness for the sake of seeming hip and edgy.

Moreover, even though most teachers enter the profession for noble reasons and with great enthusiasm, many of those in urban schools know little about their students and find it hard to reach them.

In fact, looking at the above chart might give Barnes & Noble a reason to reach out to indies for merchandising opportunities, and also to readers in order to promote these works.

If only the purpose of a portfolio was for a more noble reason besides sharing investment returns with their buddies during the next poker night.

They're doing it for noble reasons.

Then they do things like trade theirs for a bigger home, or borrow against that equity for one noble reason or another.

This was undoubtedly done for both noble reasons (The American Dream, affordable shelter, supporting family structure, etc) and some more shady reasons (help builders, mortgage brokers and banks make a bundle in the process).

One of the noblest reasons to get a mix breed dog is that they are rarely craved for and often need to be put to sleep in the shelter.

There are many noble reasons to adopt a mutt, but there are practical ones too!

This is a great and noble reason all by itself, but there is so much more to it than that.

Though it may seem like an odd choice for Polyphony to place a sports car from GM on the cover, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi gives a very noble reason behind it.

There are several noble reasons to bike for transportation (see below), but that doesn't mean we should neglect to value the fun of bicycling.

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But the reason it was so significant to me is that it was a noble, philosophically sound approach with early success but with some unpredicted and undesirable consequences.

«The secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.»

Noble Group Ltd. has announced plans for its CFO Robert van der Zalm to step down for health - related reasons.

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She even offers CMIT Solutions kudos in her «7 Reasons Why Noble Purpose Matters.»

The Secretary did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.

The noblest power of man is reason.

While conservatives may balk at her religious identity for any number of reasons — and have done so, no citation needed — Christian leaders Perry Noble to megachurch pastor Zachery Tims have both publicly suffered from addiction (the latter eventually succumbing to the disease).

But I'm thankful for it for another, more important, reason: they will not be coerced into doing something they don't want just to fulfill some expectation, no matter how virtuous or noble.

How any of this constitutes an advance in moral reasoning or moral sensibility over the classic just war understanding» that the use of armed force can be noble or wicked, just or unjust, depending on who is using it, toward what ends, and how» is unclear to me.

how noble in reason!

It sounds noble, which is one reason why church leaders are attracted to human rights.

How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties...» more like what a piece of $ #!

«What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!

Certainly love, thankfulness, duty, and being blessed are noble motives, and they are valid reasons to obey Him.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

Acting based upon «reason», so noble.

In a recent reconstructive essay on Hinduism, Sudhanshu Ranade suggests a connection between the not - so - noble function of «the political branch of Hinduism» in Vedic times, and «the trap the BJP is leading us into today».9 This involves the task of consolidating a hierarchically - ordered socio - political structure for Hindu society reflecting true religious Dhanna and controlling these classes / castes in order «to keep people in their place [so as] to keep them from getting above themselves».10 Perhaps this is the reason that nationalism, in its Orientalist form, is so pervasive in contemporary India.

Get dressed and let us go to our local Barnes and Noble and seek to find a book about mankind reasoning.

The biologists» arguments transform moral values into something else — a reproductive strategy, an unconscious one — and these arguments leave us with no reason to prefer our nobler impulses to our baser ones.

Shall we abandon the lofty and noble conception of reason for which Socrates gave his life?

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

It is a noble document, making numerous excellent points based on both reason and revelation, acknowledging that pro-life politics is «supported by reasons that are accessible to all and should be convincing to all».

While the noble, food - curious pursuit of previously - unexplored flavor combinations is as good a reason as any to start getting creative with your pesto, it's definitely not the only reason.

Noble underlined that the absence of Dimitri Payet can not be used as a reason for losing the first - leg tie.

That your preschooler will steal, and not for noble Robin Hood - give - to - the - poor reasons?