Sentences with phrase «more noble calling»

In this sequel, Dusty (Dane Cook) is forced to leave racing and decides to go for a more noble calling, «Fire and Rescue.»

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Hours spent sitting in pointlessly long conference calls, or unnecessary meetings, are nothing but «disguised and ineffective leisure time» no more noble than sitting numb in front of the television.

The Marlborough moniker given to the soap above by D.R. Harris alludes to a dukedom and the very same noble house from which Winston Churchill was descended (google «Duke of Marlborough» and «Blenheim Palace» — the latter being only one of a couple non-royal estates in England to be called a palace and a mansion I'm sure most gents will say they've seen in film or on television more than once!).

It is indeed a noble story, reminiscent of ancient Stoicism and of Buddhism, although more optimistic than both, and it calls to mind Aristotle as well.

Can we really assert that the noble activity of marital intimacy which indeed manifests and promotes the unity of the couple (thereby «making love») is imperfect when a couple has recourse to it in a manner consistent with their understanding that God's will is that they are not being called to have (more) children at a given point?

You can't even call it extremist Islam because extreme muslims would be even MORE careful to be humble and noble and charitable, not killing people, preventing education, and acting like miscreants.

In a prepared statement issued Wednesday, Noble called the new law «far more appropriate, comprehensive and enforceable than its predecessor.»

Thanks to some mistranslated Latin, generations of schoolchildren were brought up to believe that ancient Roman households contained a special room called a vomitorium, in which feasting nobles could purge themselves of the night's dinner and drinks, then go back to the table and help themselves to some more.

It can be those things, but it can also be Biomedical Engineering, Food Science Theory and Application, Digital Media and Carpentry; all noble callings that are ripe with the potential of fruitful careers in the job market.I am a daily witness to outlandish potential and even more incredible reality as I see students fabricating complicated ductwork, reworking the plugs and wires on a V8 engine and interpreting the bitewing X-rays of dental patients.

It's all about the Nook Color e-reader, though what is more surprising is that while Barnes & Noble takes pride in calling the Nook Color an e-reader, it is nearly a tablet PC.

Meanwhile, Barnes and Noble has their own program called «More in Store,» that allows you to download free apps or read books while inside a physical location.

With Barnes & Noble on the verge of spinning off its College campus bookstore division into a separate company called Barnes & Noble Education, fixing the Nook business will be all the more important.

While independent authors can't conduct sales calls with national retailers such as Walmart or Barnes & Noble, you should identify half a dozen or more local or regional retailers that you think would be an ideal outlet for your book.

Barnes & Noble's first - quarter net loss more than doubled and the struggling bookseller's former chairman said he's calling off his offer to buy the booksellers» retail business.

We got some of this when the iPad came out, but the discussion is more amped up because Barnes & Noble is calling the Nook Color the «reader's tablet,» whereas the iPad hasn't been marketed first and foremost as an e-reader.

Barnes & Noble is calling this round of discounting a «temporary» one, though given the troubles the NOOK range is facing we'd be very surprised if more price cuts didn't follow on afterwards.

Called assistance, companion, service, or therapy dogs, you can find out more about having such a noble companion in your life — or training your own dog — from many nonprofit groups, such as Assistance Dogs International, Canine Companions for Independence, International Association of Assistance Dog Partners, or Service Dog Central.

As the first turn based tactical Battletech game on the PC in more than 20 years players will be whisked to the year 3025 and a universe where militarised noble houses use mechanised combat vehicles called BattleMechs to wage war against each other.

Bookmakers» favourite Paul Noble produces less hectic, more studied art in the form of meticulous pencil drawings of a fictional metropolis called Nobson Newtown, and he was shortlisted for an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London.

There's no calling on earth more noble, after all!

It becomes merely a cost to be minimized and managed rather than a noble calling, with ranks of honourable souls striving to make human society a better place for all and just one more piece of the corporate machine to be done cheaper elsewhere.

By encouraging more constructive civil discourse, we honor the profession's most noble call, to statesmanship.