Sentences with phrase «most noble ends»

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What about the belief that since this world is temporary, it doesn't really matter — it's all ashes and dust, corrupt and lost so even the most noble acts are ultimately without merit — God will sort it out in the end...?

Distributists allege that their principles, when adopted and carried to their term, are ordered to the most noble of ends, which culminate in the very contemplation for which the human person is created.

That the best, the most noble, the wise, the old, the young, the lovely and beloved of our species often die ridiculous, hilarious, ignoble and untimely deaths while the worst of us sometimes get the best of ends unsettles some religious accounts.

West Ham captain Mark Noble has stressed the club have had a «great season» no matter what as they wait to see if it ends with a place in Europe, and has labelled the 2015 - 16 campaign «the most important in club history.»

The one - term mayor whose administration is marked by reform, revitalization, and controversy, ended Thursday night when upstart candidate Steve Noble took the party line by a wide margin, along with most of his supporters in the ward races.

In its most recent quarter, which ended Aug. 2, Barnes & Noble reported that retail sales fell 5.3 %, while Nook sales declined 54.3 % and the company's textbook business was flat.

Kobo recently raised the ire of some authors due to restrictions in its self - publishing platform, Writing Life, due to the appearance of erotica and adult - themed self - published ebooks making their way into online book retailers» children's sections, with the end result being a statement from the company that they will not consider for sale certain inappropriate thematic elements and that, like most of the other retailers including Amazon and Barnes and Noble, they would be deleting titles whose metadata or keywords seemed intentionally misleading.

To that noble end, she has written the ultimate guide for the organizationally challenged and, unfortunately, that includes most of us.

Also, (Barnes & Noble saw most of its growth in the pre-agency era, claiming a 20 % market share by the end of April 2010.

As with the music industry, what I suspect will end up happening is a consolidation of the various houses into a few major players (with, most likely, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple among them).

To that end, Google will offer most of the titles that currently are available in other e-bookstores at launch or shortly after with prices similar to those at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Google told the publication.

As most end - users probably know, Barnes and Noble already has its own e-reader, the Nook.

- players rack up points by eating humans, and destroying buildings in each five - minute match - roughly 250 Titans to play as from the main game - each of them have various stats, such as speed and stamina - the smaller Titans move quicker, while larger Titans have more stamina - there are two types of humans; citizens and nobles - nobles are shown on the map by a green distress signal, and are worth more points - Titans can smash buildings just by walking into them, but dashing causes buildings to fall faster - destroying buildings gives less points, but also fills up the Rage Gauge for the Rage Attack - player Titans can attack each other - by defeating another player, the defeated player loses half their points - a Levi counter will start counting down on the leading player after some time passes - when it reaches zero, the player with the icon will immediately be killed by Levi - by hitting other player Titans, the counter can be passed on to them instead - the Levi counter doesn't reset upon handing it to another player - special titans like Eren's Titan, the Female Titan, and Armored Titan will appear and attack players randomly - player Titans can be defeated by these special enemies in one hit - special enemy Titans and Levi will disappear after defeating one of the players - Rage Attacks slow down opponents, scramble their controls, give you super armor, and more - at the end of a match, the points are tallied up, and the person with the most points win - playable online and offline on Switch