Sentences with phrase «much as the letter»

Bottom line: As with No Child Left Behind (and most broad federal legislation), execution and implementation matter as much as the letter of law and regulations.

Not exact matches

As the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers, he received worldwide attention in 2010 for a scathing open letter (published in the much - maligned comic sans font) decrying superstar LeBron James» decision to leave the team to sign with the Miami Heat.

Buffett hinted as much in the letter, stating, «Many of our investees, including Bank of America, have been repurchasing shares, some quite aggressively.

But original content is the main driver, Netflix explained in its earnings letter to shareholders last week, as it tried to allay fears about it taking on too much debt.

The two Democratic senators wrote a letter to Mattis on Monday stating as much.

Bannon's departure a week earlier was seen as a significant blow to other nationalist, far - right figures in the White House, and Gorka implied as much in his letter, saying it was clear to him that «forces that do not support the MAGA promise are — for now — ascendant within the White House.»

In his letter, Kass went on to warn that this deal's distribution could cause Amazon's stock to fall by as much as 10 percent.

«Ohio's 4 million households would pay, on average, as much as $ 528 more for their electric service under Senate Bill 58 over a utility's three - year energy efficiency plan,» Ohio's consumer counsel, Bruce Weston, wrote in a letter this week to Senate leaders.

Long before James Tobin assigned the letter «Q» to this asset - price ratio, financial analysts were using it as a means to judge how much capacity an economic sector had to take on more loans.

I strongly recommend reading the entirety of Jamie's letter - it is both insightful and educational and should add as much value to you as it has to me.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

To remind us of the personal nature of the Bible, we often remind one another that, as much as anything else, the Bible is to be read as a personal letter from God to us.

However, Jaeger argues, «it is clear that he applies it in a much wider sense in his letter and, while using Scriptural testimony, he himself conceives of paideia as precisely that which he offers the Corinthians in his whole letter....

Later, Nympha will read other letters, letters that speak of husbands loving their wives as much as Christ loved the church, willing to give their lives for them, and of Christians «submitting to one another» and living as «slaves to one another»!

In his letter to Clinton, Kmiec said the report was based on «unsupported speculation that someone doing as much writing as I have done could not have also been devoted to the embassy mission.»

Please read my letter below and help me as much as you can.

Just so you're aware, I ascribe to Bible as dictating morality, as much as one can given that one needs to read it with context and not blindly follow everything to the letter of the law.

Although he wisely assured them that God would take care of «those who have fallen asleep,» his own picture of the second coming as it appears in both letters shows that his thought regarding it had not progressed much beyond current Jewish apocalyptic ideas.

In Corinth there was much divisiveness as well, and one of the purposes of Paul's letter was to correct the issues that led to this divisiveness.

Here's my latest list — this seems like a good spot to set this down, as nobody's posting much on this thread... ---- bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to post that wonderful argument: Many, if not most are buried within other words, but I am not shooting for the perfect list, so use your imagination and add any words I have missed as a comment (no one has done this yet)-- I found some but forgot to write them down.

The anonymous «Federal Farmer» in letters to «The Republican» joined in: «It is true, we are not disposed to differ much, at present, about religion; but when we are making a constitution, it is to be hoped, for ages and millions yet unborn, why not establish the free exercise of religion, as a part of the national compact.»

In mitigation, I would say that it was based on a letter I wrote to someone struggling with forgiveness, so basically I put in as much «wisdom» (if you can call it that) as possible.

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Suffering Servant.

In St. Paul's letter to the Romans there is a celebrated and much discussed passage: I quote it in the version found in the New English Bible: «It was through one man that sin entered the world, and through sin death, and thus death pervaded the whole human race, inasmuch as all men have sinned.»

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

The issue here is really the same as the one which existed in Jesus» day — we can have plenty of religion (the dos and do nt's of the Pharisees) but what is really needed to be made evident is the life that comes from God through His living word (and that is something much deeper than just the «letter of the law»).

In Paul's letters and the other New Testament letters, Jesus Christ (Jesus Messiah) and Christ Jesus (Messiah Jesus) became the ordinary way of speaking, so much so that many modern readers have thought of these expressions as Jesus» common name.

Wherever I go, as well as in letters, people tell me how much FT means to them, how they use articles in discussion groups, send them to friends, and goodness knows what else.

Jesus Christ, is and it will be forever more the unique object lesson of living, the human being not ever, although we may be Christians we don't leave of to sin, for the very her writing she says Aerquémonos confiadamente at the throne of your handsomeness in order to reach forgiving in order to the perpetual help, in as much as not tenemos one God which not it can feel pity for of we, rather one which fué tempting all over, but without sin, according to the letter at the age of Hebrews, and the apostle John she says, whether various hubiere sin, solicitor tenemos in order to with the parent to Jesus Christ the that's right, not ever not any human being it will be the best object lesson not other than The Christ Jesus, nor Buddah bo Mahoma nor none, we don't follow to humanity rather at a God which fué tempting all over but without sin, not ever we owe put her scope in the humanity not other than in the.

Pete If you are referring to the inaccurate statement from the Smithsonian that atheists love to post regarding the Bible at least read the entire letter which excludes this: `... On the other hand, much of the Bible, in particular the historical books of the old testament, are as accurate historical documents as any that we have from antiquity and are in fact more accurate than many of the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, or Greek histories.

The letters showed a different woman than the symbol of Christian love and unwavering faith that much of the media portrayed her as.

«So, for instance, when Cornwell sets out in Hitler's Pope to prove Pius an anti-Semite (an accusation even the pontiff's bitterest opponents have rarely levelled), he makes much of Pacelli's reference in a 1917 letter to the «Jewish cult» — as though for an Italian Catholic prelate born in 1876 the word «cult» had the same resonances it has in English today, and as though Cornwell himself does not casually refer to the Catholic cult of the Assumption and the cult of the Virgin Mary.»

Winter himself acknowledged as much in the letter from the questioning pastor you quoted in your letter.

This letter was as much therapy for herself as anything I can consider.

It was necessary for the purpose of lexicography to accumulate as much as possible of the legendary and poetic lore of pre-Islamic Arabia, thus bringing this heritage to a certain extent into the cultural patrimony of every lettered Muslim, whether of Arab or non-Arab descent.

While I suspect that much of John's letter served as a coded allusion to the church's tumultuous relationship with the Roman Empire during the reign of Domitian, there's one apocalyptic vision that I really hope he got right.

never waste CAPITAL LETTERS on an article about Chambers at this juncture... I still can't believe that no one from management has ever explained why such a frugal club spent so much money on him in the first place... we haggle for months and years with clubs for players who could have a monumental impact on the very future of our club but somehow we found $ 16 million for someone who couldn't regularly crack a Southampton lineup (very fishy)... don't get me wrong, I like what he showed at times last season in Middlesbourogh but from the handful of games I watched him play I still have some serious questions about his consistency as a back - line player in the EPL; as such he should prove himself on loan for another season, making sure that he goes to a team that wants him in the starting 11... bottom line, let's not get bogged down with the semantics of peripheral players and focus on the real task at hand = figure out who the hell is going to be our starting 11 for the foreseeable future, which means getting contracts signed, getting rid of a lot of deadwood and bringing in talented players into the positions which truly need upgrading... the rest is just unnecessary noise

IT»S GOOD TO BE Apart from when some dullards moan that he's ineffectual, flatters to deceive and looks lazily uninterested, Arsenal's German playmaker doesn't so much receive rave reviews as love letters, great drooling odes to his languid, elegant, aesthetically pleasing, creative magnificence — sorry, we're getting carried away here!

Dear Abby: Much as it pains me to publicly disagree with another attorney, the letter you published from Max D. Rynearson about the value of an IOU was more wrong than right — and your original advice to parents to get an IOU when lending money to their children was more right than wrong.

I think that's what they need as much as learning their letters and numbers.

As much as it thrills my heart to see her interested in letters and numbers, my uneducated belief is that spending her time playing is of equal or greater value than any «academic» pursuit, at least right noAs much as it thrills my heart to see her interested in letters and numbers, my uneducated belief is that spending her time playing is of equal or greater value than any «academic» pursuit, at least right noas it thrills my heart to see her interested in letters and numbers, my uneducated belief is that spending her time playing is of equal or greater value than any «academic» pursuit, at least right now.

Remember that the goal is not so much to enforce the letter of the 504 Plan as it is to get your child the assistance and adjustments needed.

Io may be one of the slightest names in the book, but there aren't many two - letter names with as much substance as this Greek mythological example.

«Normally a letter like this wouldn't raise much interest, but clearly people are outraged that such a trusted product as Johnson's Baby Shampoo could contain carcinogens.

This letter is to submit with much regret my resignation as Energy and Climate Change Secretary.

By focusing on the intersection between the issue and how people relate to it (as opposed to the policy angle, for example) and then not providing much of a sample letter you can get a rate well above 10 % of people editing their actions.

Mandelson claimed in his campaign letter «as much as a third of the electorate are undecided.

Cuomo said as much in a letter he sent to state Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn) last month, encouraging him to join the Democratic conference rather than conference with Republicans and giving them control of the chamber.

But, to the team's surprise, the letter did not seem to cause as much damage as they had feared.