Sentences with phrase «means coming to terms»

«Practicing in this city means coming to terms with its status as a megalopolis with a regional art scene.»

Living with animals means coming to terms with who they are and what makes them tick.

Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism and numerous smaller religions had their beginning on Asian soil and still exert a powerful influence on society To be Christian artist in such a setting means coming to terms with the art forms and images of other religions.

Growing old might mean coming to terms with various changes in your life, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the blessings God has given you.

Not exact matches

As a commercial diver, this was the end of my career and I really struggled to try and come to terms with what this meant.

«But in the long term, there's usually a reversion to the mean when it comes to the Canadian dollar.»

So the government is going to have to come to terms with what that means for affordability in the cities, what's that's going to mean for infrastructure, education — it's a big equation.

The funniest comedy (so far) of 2018 comes in the surprising package of the R - rated «Blockers» — a movie whose PG - title is meant to evoke the term «c — blockers.»

Sugar before bed is not only a big no - no in terms of energy and sleeplessness, but it can also mean that the metabolism isn't at its best when it comes to breaking down the fat.

In the technology industry, that term has come to mean any startup that is valued at more than $ 1 billion — see Fortune «s soon - to - be-updated Unicorn List — and Vice fits that description.

And when it comes to products like these, a gorgeous design means everything in terms of sales, as Apple has taught us.

Still, corporate bond spreads have come up to around their historical average, providing impetus for institutional investors trying to claw out yield any way they can, even if it means an extraordinarily long - term commitment.

This means he is prepared to be more forgiving in terms of past credit problems, will accept income volatility among the self - employed, and will ease onerous requirements to produce bank records from other countries when it comes to writing mortgage insurance policies for immigrants.

Pretty much everyone took the move as meaning just that, but Xi has now claimed he is «personally opposed» to life - long rule, and the term - limit removal was more about aligning the post of presidency with that of top posts in the Communist Party, which Xi also holds, and which don't come with term limits.

Due to the lifetime coverage and cash value, whole life insurance costs considerably more, meaning it can easily come to 10 times the cost of a term policy with the same death benefit.

Investors are only beginning to come to grips with the implications of this downward drift in the neutral rate of interest and what it means for long - term investment returns.

Lastly, Harper simply has no answer at all when it comes to promoting new long term economic growth in Canada and his laissez - faire ideology means that we are falling further and further behind those countries that are actually using the power and organizing capacity of the state to create sustained, modernizing economic growth.

On top of that sometimes certain 3 or 4 term keywords will come up as «rising», but no indications to why it is marked as such, meaning there is some data underneath it.

This means we want to see the whole deal now coming together, including the terms of our future deep and special partnership, as I said in Florence.

I do not object to paying 25 per cent of any short - term (one - year) capital gain, but when it comes to gains that include a tax on inflation that occurred over long periods of time, it means severe injury to whatever real gain has been earned.

That could mean investors are moving money out of stocks and into bonds in anticipation of disappointing earnings; or that foreigners who are worried about their own economies are looking for a safer haven in the U.S.; or that expectations of future inflation have declined, allowing long - term interest rates to come down a little.

That doesn't mean there aren't good long - term positions that come up from time to time, and this author will be more keen to point those out when they do appear.

Because the $ 3 million term sheet was already in the works prior to the Fall Showcase, Wasilewski came to Startup Runway with a unique perspective on what it means to pitch a startup to investors.

Since the crisis, however, the Fed has come to treat repos, and particularly overnight reverse repos (ON RRPs) with Money Market Mutual Funds and GSEs, as a means for securing long - term monetary control.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

If you're going to make the stupid argument that the term «belief» means the same thing whether it's applied to a god or the sun coming up, then argue with someone else.

I have been diagnosed as having a schizzo - effective personality disorder meaning I am able to convey sometimes my views and perceptions beyond those who labor tenaciously without coming to terms regarding one's life and living arrangements.

However you somehow decline to recognize the commonly understood meanings of such terms when it comes to this specific scripture passage.

Most of us would no doubt say that the gospel is, first of all, Jesus» own proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the terms of admission into it and the conditions of its coming; and then that it is, in the second place, the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation, with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

He doubtless conceived the method of the kingdom's coming in apocalyptic terms, as a dramatic overthrow of the earthly status quo by a heavenly invasion, but the meaning of the kingdom to him was centered, not in the victorious supremacy of one race and nation.

The term dilectio introduces a more restricted notion still, that of a love born of deliberation and reflective choice; it comes from, but intensifies, the root electo (choose) as chosen one and means a love of singling out one, for commitment: «You are the one I choose to love forever.»

Coming to terms with the Buddhist roots of mindfulness meant a shift in theology for Annie.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

«For these men the term «monogamy» simply doesn't necessarily mean sexual exclusivity... The term «open relationship» has for a great many gay men come to have one specific definition: A relationship in which the partners have sex on the outside often, put away their resentment and jealousy, and discuss their outside sex with each other, or share sex partners.

Or do you think of the 1990s, when «gay» meant «hømos cents xual» and the term referred to gay people coming out of the closet and fighting for equality?

Thus the term avatara literally means «one who comes down to save» or simply «descent».

But this does not mean that we can also know him in human terms, especially since he deigned to come as a human being.

In our own time, as we have come to think of ourselves more and more in terms of will and choice, Hobbes's «masterless men,» we have transformed the meaning of birth.

«Judge Jones used what I would call moral language in praising the death penalty as a means to help people come to terms with the crime they committed.»

For a better understanding of Christian Terms such as Born - Again, mankind need first to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4) and come to the understanding what it means to be a Christian.

When I think of Penny's life to come only in terms of being fixed or healed, I miss the point of what it means for God to redeem and heal each and every one of us.

However one understands that claim (and the kind of exclusivist Christology dominant in the neo-orthodox period is neither the sole nor the proper way to understand it), one must, qua theologian, find some means of coming to terms with universalism.

So maybe if we want to communicate the message of Jesus we have to get away from archaic terms like gospel which have become traditional» buzz words «or theological jargon devoid of precise meaning and make anew the original intent which was about an announcement of the coming of God's Kingdom and all that that implies.

It is in coming to terms with the death of Jesus that we find an answer to our search for meaning, in face of the complex nature of finite existence and the problems raised by evil, suffering and death.

«Polemics,» as I use it here, does not denote or connote simple hostility, or opposition for its own sake — even though the term has come to mean something like this in ordinary English usage.

As a kind of rhetorical come - on it works reasonably well, but the meaning of the term seems to shift from place to place within Meier's work.

For example, apart altogether from the more obvious meaning and purpose of the myths we have been looking at, the annual lamentation for Tammuz, Adonis, Osiris, etc., provided an annual outlet for man, however unconsciously it was used, to express grief for his own mortality and to that extent to come to terms with it.

It is meant to help the scattered Jewish people come to terms with their identity and their faith when they are in exile, when they no longer have an independent homeland or temple.

This phrase, «God can do all things,» is rightly understood to mean that God can do all things that are possible; and for this reason He is said to be omnipotent... God is called omnipotent because He can do all things that are possible absolutely... everything that does not imply a contradiction in terms, is numbered amongst those possible things, in respect of which God is called omnipotent: whereas whatever implies contradiction does not come within the scope of divine omnipotence, because it can not have the aspect of possibility.

I'm not sure what it means to «serve Marx,» but if what you mean by that is «understand the inherent weaknesses of unfettered capitalism in economic terms and not be surprised when economies come violently crashing to a halt when capital and risk is valued too highly relative to labor and thus produces an unsustainable state of economic affairs,» then yes — in that case a Christian can certainly «serve Marx.»