Sentences with phrase «means less life»

Small homes doesn't mean less living areas, it means more of the right kind of living areas.

Not exact matches

He gets up early, works hard, gets less sleep than he should... to make his living, Robert has to grind — which means stamina is critical.

We recently decided to «cut the cord» at our house, meaning we spend a lot less time watching live TV and more time watching movies.

And I don't mean downsizing — I'm talking about paying less for what you can't live without.

I thought living in New York City without a car meant I polluted less.

Millennials, in particular — who are less likely to be married, less likely to belong to organized religion, and less likely to join outside organizations than previous generations — increasingly look to employers to give their lives purpose, meaning, and a moral anchor.

But if Disney decides to muscle the other companies out, it may mean they will pull their content off Hulu's on - demand or live TV service — which would make it a less appealing service.

It often means that they are forced into even worse options that are less regulated, sit on the fringes of the economy, or unravel stability in other parts of their lives.

As a physical person who loses dead skin cells regularly, that means your bed is extraordinarily susceptible to being the gathering spot for many of the less sanitary aspects of life.

At the same time smaller, nimbler business models are blossoming, which means slightly less certainty in the job hunt, but often more flexibility and some sorely - needed improvements to work - life balance.

All that means is you should be used to living on less for a longer period of time, it doesn't necessarily limit your savings potential.

But the state's high cost of living means residents have less than 22 percent of their paycheck left after expenses.

The high cost of living means $ 1 million in savings will last less than 14.5 years in Rhode Island.

Keep reading; it is well worth the time it takes to find the best plan for your situation because it could mean significantly less stress in your life.

While this makes term life insurance significantly less expensive than permanent life insurance, it also means that you will not receive any benefit if you outlive the policy.

Another benefit is that the more money you put down, the less you borrow, meaning you'll pay less in interest payments over the life of the loan.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

The combination of this competitive job market with a lower cost of living than many Western countries means many Chinese workers are willing to work for less, which presents an opportunity for global companies to save on labour costs.

I can find relative meaning here on earth in my own life with my family and friends while acknowledging that on a cosmic level my life has far less purpose than a grain of sand has purpose on a beach.

And just because he may have initially started it all doesn't mean he exists anymore or has anything to do with the universe, much less our individual lives.

All too frequently in contemporary American society, a sentence of «life» means something far less than «for the remainder of one's time on this earth.»

Without such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the life of the parish.

I know that I've shifted in what I blog over the years — less blogging about my tinies experiences / lives, for instance, less burn - down - the - Internet soapbox rants, less day - in - the - life blogging with simple stories from daily life — but that means that when I do write, it's with more thoughtfulness and intention, I hope.

No one is perfect, but that doesn't mean we can't strive for better things, and through achieving a few of them, lead happier, more content loving lives, affecting everyone around us, and leading to a brighter, more productive and less stressed life for us all.

10 By valuing comprehensively is meant that religious valuation is boundary - spanning; it has a domain of relevance that includes no less than the entire life of the one who holds it.11 By intensive valuation is meant that religious valuation «must rank among the last that the valuer would be disposed to sacrifice.

What it means is a resident of Hammarby Sjostad is able to live, more or less, at a level calculated to be sustainable for all of the world's 6 billion humans — as compared with the American lifestyle, which would require five additional earths if it were extended across all humanity.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

In Whitehead, the sense of structured meaning in the creative flow or living situation is more marked, and thus less suspect of being a detour into mysticism.

«Salvation» is a term that means a myriad of things in Scripture, and statistically, less than 1 % of them refers to eternal life or justification.

They tell their stories less by way of well - plotted action than by wry reflections on the meaning of their lives and times.

On this suggestion, «emancipation» means the opportunity to be creative, the measure of power that «issues from coordination,» and individuals are more or less emancipated depending on the natural and human context in which their lives are set.

One does get the impression, however, that if Farley had his way, there would be in many of our seminaries much less preoccupation with education for the professional tasks of the clergy and much more concern with learning how to discern theologically the meaning of «ecclesial presence» in the various situations of life in the world.

How can the Church claim to speak for eternally valid truth unless it has some means to correct the errors that its less - than - perfect members inevitably introduce into its life from time to time?

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

Once early embryos become something less than incipient human life, once they are treated in vitro as a means toward the end of pregnancy, once they are cryopreserved in thousands of vats across the country, ESCR with «excess» embryos may be predictably the next step.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

There is a «practical» meaning of practice, which concerns the preservation or definite improvement of mundane human life, and which therefore is bound up with a more or less articulate understanding of the human condition and its limits.

Such participation means nothing less than to be drawn into the very life and love of God» Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

If despair means lack of possibility, as Kierkegaard thought, then the spiritually obtuse live all the more in despair as they are less aware of it.

By which he means, no less than I do, killed in battle, imprisoned for life, or executed after a lawful but expeditious trial or military tribunal.

When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.

if we have staked the meaning of life on achieving nothing less than the ideal.

Yet so prone are we to care most about what is near at hand, the fear of atomic destruction is probably less keen in most minds than is the energy crisis which means less oil and gasoline available, less fuel for heating, and an abrupt change in American life - styles.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

Certainly many believe that a man can search out and grasp the Truth just as well, creatively express the Beautiful just as well, vitally perfect the Good just as well, even if, in order to win some advantage in the world, he was secretly a little unfaithful to himself, even if he did shift the boundary stones of his inner life a particle by Just a shade less scrupulousness, so that even though he had won this material advantage by doubtful means, yet he «can truly work for the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.»

The inseparability of the two loves has been less manifest in theological analysis than in the actuality of history but theology has pointed out often enough how the thought of God is impossible without thought of the neighbor and how the meaning and value of the companion's life depends on his relation to God.

if not having god in your life means a meaningless life well again all i see is a less then true love of life and a yearning for death.

To a lesser or greater degree, to be rich is to be human; it means to be a creature that has more of life's necessities than another human creature.