Sentences with phrase «mere days of»

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(Such a rupture, of course, is precisely what President Trump has gleefully tweetened — my portmanteau for a threat delivered in 140 characters or less — in recent days, as he slammed those payments as mere «bailouts» to the insurance companies.)

Know this: it's not just the books you read; the mere habit of making yourself read each day, and keeping to a plan, is a major ingredient in success.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Tim Hortons appointed Marc Caira, above, as its new CEO on May 8, a mere 714 days after the departure of its last chief executive.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

Long gone are the days when a company like Apple Computer Inc. could get venture capital only after showing a profit (and, even then, received a first round of a mere $ 250,000).

Meanwhile, there are a few activities out there that are the temporal equivalent of that awesome 100X investment, activities that if you spend mere minutes on them early in the day, will pay you back with vastly more energy and productivity later on.

From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue - proposed, passed and signed in a mere six days.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the ensuing «delete Facebook» campaign, it would be particularly interesting to find out the psychological effects of a permanent break from Facebook rather than a mere five - day holiday.

But then again, back in those days tuition was a mere fraction of what it is today.

If Congress is not able to make a deal to reduce the deficit by Dec. 31, a mere 11 days away, a slew of spending cuts and tax hikes would go into effect immediately.

Mere days after the jury returned a guilty verdict in Bill Cosby's post - #MeToo retrial, the disgraced star has been removed from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Creativity pick of the day: In Apple's latest ad, a teenager who uses facial recognition to open her iPhone X discovers a superhero - like capacity to unlock everything around her with a mere glance.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

By fulfillment, I do not mean the mere availability of information and content as in the early days of direct marketing — where collateral was king then.

Many of the islands along the chains in the Pacific have geopolitical significance beyond their mere location — several are modern - day colonies of Western states.

The Freedom Journal is your accountability partner, making the accomplishment of your # 1 goal a mere 100 days away!

Online businesses, since they started seeing the light of day in mid-2000, have come a long way from being a mere marketplace to one that goes a step ahead in walking the last mile with a customer.

The three - day Central Economic Work Conference is expected to set major changes in economic indicators to reflect more on the quality of the economic growth rather than mere growth speed, while tackling specific issues such as mounting debts, poverty and pollution.

For example, if the Fed wants to increase the stock of bank reserves by, say, $ 100 billion (admittedly a mere trifle, these days), it has only to purchase $ 100 - billion worth of Treasury securities or other assets from dealers in the secondary or «open» market.

The new probe comes mere days after President Trump complained about Canadian trade practices, stating «Canada does not treat us right in terms of the farming and the crossing the boarders, we can not continue to be taken advantage of by other countries».

This, of course, is all circumstantial — just mere hours before on the day of the originally - intended launch, Musk tweeted about his optimism for the events that were meant to take place that evening.

Legendary retailer Macy's is a mere 12 years from celebrating the bicentennial of its founding and six years from celebrating the 100th anniversary of its famous Thanksgiving Day Parade — originally known as the Christmas Parade — in New York City.

Mere days after comic book fans rejoiced at the thought of television's best bald - headed baddie taking the on the role of the...

As a result, while God is doing his various Divine tasks, such as creating the universe out of the Void, millions of years could pass, yet to God, because of the infinite speed He is moving at, a mere six days..

For example, whereas the sun and moon were the objects of worship in pagan religion, the Book of Genesis taught that they were nothing but lamps set in the heavens to give light to day and night: not gods, but mere things, creatures of the one true God.

On the other hand, the man of science has no right to dismiss a religion such as Christianity, for example, as a mere hangover from more primitive days.

As well as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent».

At times, even to this day as we have seen, they understand the beautiful, the valuable, the purposeful as mere projections of our own «subjective» desires and wishes back onto the blank indifference of the material objects abstracted by science.

Strikingly, our catechists these days often just use apologetics tracts as their textbooks for catechism class, giving the faithful mere leftovers of what was actually prepared for others who do not yet share our faith.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

Memorial Day is a mere matter of days away, people.

Speaking of moving beyond the mere ephemera of twice a day, we are all appreciative of Carl's blogging which takes as its topic the ephemera of rock.

«Some day,» he predicted, «it will be universally recognized that the objects of Christian religion, like the pagan gods, were mere imagination.»

The mere fact that god, who supposedly knew that one day global mass communication would be available, decided to appear in an outer province of an empire in a period when communication was mostly by easily garbled oral transmission shows a ludicrous lack of planning.

Second, for someone who is so uptight as this author about knowing religions and even writing a book about it, the mere fact that not ONCE in this article did you use the official and correct name of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints (aka Mormon) in my mind completely discredits your temper tantrum.

In Mexico, with a mere ten days of phonetic training under his belt, Pike proved he had the makings of a competent linguistic scientist.

«It is not mere coincidence that the emperors of Rome in its horrific final days were hom.ose.xual; that Adolf Hitler's inner circle were mostly hom.ose.xual; and that nearly all of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history were hom.ose.xual.

Thus, a mere 16 miles away from the site of modern Pentecostalism's American beginnings in 1906 at Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles, an Episcopal church in the Van Nuys section of the city sparked a latter - day Pentecostal revival.

In the Church year the high days and holy days have given way to the mere holidays of the secular year, if only for the privileged.

If your God can not see the good that i try to do every day of my life, and rejects my soul based on the mere fact that I didn't buy into fairy tales from 2000 years before I was born, than I will gladly spend eternity else where.

What we had here, then, was no mere difference of opinion, but rather a deep, and to this day ever deepening, schism.

(Psalm 73:17 - 19) But deeper than this unsatisfactory solution, this mere postponement of justice to a later day, went the real answer to the psalmist's question.

Whatever sort of a being God may be, we know to - day that he is nevermore that mere external inventor of «contrivances» intended to make manifest his «glory» in which our great - grandfathers took such satisfaction, though just how we know this we can not possibly make clear by words either to others or to ourselves.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

The loathing of «capital» with which our laboring classes to - day are growing more and more infected seems largely composed of this sound sentiment of antipathy for lives based on mere having.

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....

On the other hand, some groups have been suspicious of Sabbatarianism so strict that it might seem legalistic («If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to feast on it, to do anything to remove this reproach from Christian liberty,» Martin Luther declared) or have emphasized, like the Quakers, that all time is holy with God.

But faith is never mere intellectual assent; it was not so in «the first days of the gospel» any more than it is today.

During the same period, the combined efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, sailing for 2,512 ship days at a cost of $ 40 million, resulted in the seizure of a mere 20 drug - carrying vessels.