Sentences with phrase «much by the position»

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Not exact matches

She credits a large part of her success to absorbing as much as she could in each of her positions along the way — which, by the way, means she wasn't rushing through each part of the journey.

For the first time, I was surrounded by CEOs who had been in the position for a much longer period of time, and who were much more successful than me.

By default, the Galaxy S9's home screen positions its apps pretty far apart from each other, and it doesn't give you much control of where you want the app icons to go.

We don't need M&A to deliver our growth and we are very much focused on our strategy of driving growth by accelerating our core products, by continuing to expand into white spaces like chocolate in China, chocolate here in the US, and continuing to expand our position in all kind of — all retail channels including e-commerce.

But instead of being confined by the company's legacy, he has managed to use the position to very much do his own thing — since becoming CEO in 2001, he has transitioned Canada Goose from a line of outwear products worn exclusively by residents» of Canada's icy northern regions into a brand sported by celebrities, featured in magazines (including Kate Upton's infamous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover) and worn by individuals the world over.

You can glean a lot of market - rate knowledge by checking contractor - hiring sites such as Elance.com, and even looking on PayScale.com or Salary.com to get a picture of how much a contractor in a given position might expect to make in a year.

The Option - Adjusted Duration (OAD) calculation is used to determine how much each position's value may be impacted by a change in interest rates.

Sands is in a much stronger position to expand in Japan than its rival Wynn, which is hobbled by a weaker MICE position, a bruising legal battle with former vice chairman Kazuo Okuda over bribery allegations in the Philippines, and the recent downfall of founder Steve Wynn.

By understanding exactly how much money you should be risking on each trade in ideal market conditions, you can easily trim your risk in a shaky market by reducing your share size to just 1/4 to 1/2 of your normal position sizBy understanding exactly how much money you should be risking on each trade in ideal market conditions, you can easily trim your risk in a shaky market by reducing your share size to just 1/4 to 1/2 of your normal position sizby reducing your share size to just 1/4 to 1/2 of your normal position size.

Outcome: The Federal Reserve closes its positions in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities, the quantity of outstanding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac liabilities declines by as much as $ 1.5 trillion, thus allowing their remaining assets repay the remaining liabilities despite insolvency, and the outstanding quantity of U.S. Treasury debt expands by as much as $ 1.5 trillion in order to protect the lenders, while ordinary Americans continue to lose their homes and jobs.

Today's much - anticipated speech by President Obama unveiling his latest jobs plan is not just an opportunity to jockey for political position, it's an opportunity for investors.

While I understand the COC is representing the interests of the financial services industry by opposing the Fiduciary Rule, I think their position is myopic - they should be supporting the rule to better represent their much bigger constituency of 401 (k) plan sponsors.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, the truth of the matter is we don't pay much attention to trying to get an extra two basis points by being gamey on our short - term things and that credit default position is a weird, historical accident.

Open selling positions percentage (2.74 %) shows the investors are not very much interested in selling Dicerna, while many bears locked in their profits Friday, when the stocks rose as much as by 17.86 %.

I upped my short position on Friday, after reading 3D systems earnings report and seeing the fall on Monday at a much larger volume of transactions followed by a rise that was sustained by fewer transactions.

[11] It may also be useful to adopt the techniques used successfully by Singapore (and now others) to limit the ability of domestic banks to lend to foreigners in domestic currency, thus making it much harder for foreign speculators to take large short positions on the currency.

Though our investment position doesn't by any means rely on it, my impression is that recent market conditions fall very much into that description of a canonical peak.

By building these mutually beneficial relationships you create a more defensible linking position in your market, a position that's much tougher for competitors to replicate.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

«The ASPCA is pleased to be in a position where we can assist animal shelters in Florida by helping move homeless cats and dogs out of impacted communities to free up much - needed space for owned pets displaced by the storm,» said Dick Green, senior director of Disaster Response for ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

A few years ago I celebrated the Eucharist with my father and so to now be in a position where I can't serve at the altar with him - I was surprised by how much it hurt.

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

However, those of us concerned to find such relationships between distinct fields should heed the cautious word of Cambridge physicist Sir Brian Pippard when he says that each field thrives by virtue of its own methods and not by aping those of others: «The fabric of knowledge has not been woven as a seamless robe but pieced together like a patchwork quilt, and we are still in the position of being able to appreciate the design in individual pieces much more clearly than the way they are put together» (Pippard, 95 - 96).

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

These are real questions, and when she utters the postmodern cliché, «Conflict is only generated by the familiar commitment to One; Creativity is generated by the Many,» I suspect that she doesn't really believe it: her own work tells her that univocal obsessives are much more likely to be creative than cocktail party flibbertigibbets who constantly espouse multiple positions.

You can play with semantics to justify your position as much as you want, but the truth is that any belief can be tarnished by fanaticism.

only reason y i say this is because of Santification, once we give our life to the Lord, we streight way (so to speak) begin the process of Santification, this is Christ making us like him, and this Is SUFFERING It does nt happen over night, but for the duration of our time here, as you have said, its sort of like sin being done unto us, and we are handleing it just like Christ did, (with Love) of coarse with the help of the Holy Spirit, This Does NOT feel Good At ALL since our soulful flesh is Corrupt, (but our spirit is saved) This is were your trails and tribulation, your own desire, and All play apart, Now Moment by Moment we choose by our own will, And Jesus helps in these times, as he was tempeted, but without sin, The devil can do nothing but try and decieve the Christian into thinking that he has to work for his salvation as you have said, this thing here is about your Inheritance In Christ, Its gonna be some show nought broke christian in Heaven, because their trying to set of for themseleve trasure on earth, and their is going to be weeping and gnat of teeth, but it wont be, because of their going to Hell, It will be cause they miss out on what they could have had, and it is Devistation, cause they waste so much time, and they wont be able to attend the wedding, supper of the lamb, they wont be, getting the position over city, galacy, ectt... just check it out some of the points i have made, God Bless you!

First off, much of the positions this misinformed pastor says Christians should «adopt» are already the positions held by every Christian I know.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

Harvey concludes: «It is extraordinary how well Feuerbach's later views stand up when compared with those of contemporary theorists; so much so that one can, by adopting his position, mount important criticisms of these theories.»

Brunner's total position could be made much clearer and more consistent if he abandoned his strictures on philosophy as such and limited himself to distinguishing sharply between all thinking that is informed by faith and all thinking that is not informed by faith.

What I have in mind, and some of you may have read that little article that I left on the table downstairs on privilege in which I say much of this, but, what I have in mind by the word privilege is those attitudes and those, in fact, those realities which keep us in a one - up or dominant versus subservient position to one another.

But lurking beneath the surface of this argument are arguably much darker sentiments, with some questioning whether Farage's position is influenced by fear of the other and isolationism.

Finisher: As a believer, I would say that, separate and apart from your specific position here, you are not exactly doing whatever faith you believe in very much good by expressing your position in such a combative, demeaning fashion.

Much of the government policy change follows from the position on social philosophy adopted by the Chinese Protestant Three - Self Patriotic Movement when it was founded in the early 1950s.

I have a problem with churches owning so much money, property and buildings; I question liturgy and orders of worship; I struggle with the one - man monologue sermon model; I have always wrestled with «full - time paid ministry» pastor positions; I disregard Sunday dress; I don't like the control of worship music by a select and talented few; I don't believe in tithing; I question the sacraments, formal Christian education, and our whole approach to the New Testament.

In Alcohol: The Beloved Enemy — written by Jack Van Impe, with Roger F. Campbell (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1980)-- Dr. Van Impe lends much support to Jerry Dunn's position.

So if someone wasn't respecting me (or so I thought) by calling too much, not showing up, being late, etc., I'd turn the upset dial to a 9, when others in my position would be at a 2.

Another kind of position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.

The study also included an effort to determine how much agreement exists between individual members» views and the official theological positions of the church, first by interviewing theologians to determine what the official positions were, then by surveying pastors to see if these positions were taught, and finally by surveying members about their own beliefs.

Arnold Mandell, who for two years held the unique office of psychiatrist to a professional football team, has found that the position a player fills on a squad is dictated as much by his personality as by his physical endowments.

However, the fact is that this first position, though it is held by many in the Roman church and in so - called «Christian countries,» is much less important today than formerly.

I believe that by looking at what the authors of Scripture say about Scripture, we can arrive a much better position — one where we maintain the accuracy and authority of Scripture, but in such a way that Scripture is not set up as a sacred idol.

Arguments for much the same kind of mediating position continue to be put forward by traditionalist critics of process theology.

If believers want to congregate in their special buildings and run their lives by their books - of - magic, no problem, but the instant they try to push their silliness in public, they should expect to be asked to justify their position with something much more substantial than «this book says so» or because their charlatan leader says so.

«To the little flock» (a quotation from the New Testament) he wrote explaining his absence, his position which had led to so much criticism from authority, and outlined for their benefit all that had happened, copying at one point a style used by St Paul when rebutting his critics.

One of the most conspicuous features of the church in Jerusalem was the position that was occupied by Jesus» family, very much in line with the semitic tradition.

A disciple of Dr. Bultmann's would no doubt feel that I am travestying his view by substituting my vague figure of the two - sided medal in place of his much more precise existential position.