All things considered, there isn't
much sacrifice in power or performance that accompanies the increase in fuel economy making the RX400h worth a close look.
Packing a whopping 325 horsepower, this normally aspirated, non-turbo engine will remind you just how
much you sacrifice in sporty cars and crossovers that are fitted with a 2.0 - liter turbo.
Nor is there
much sacrifice in the Q3's powertrain.
Compared to the quality portfolio without value screen, the S&P China A-Share Quality Value Index had more balanced performance with more than 50 % of win ratios and positive excess returns in both up and down markets, without
much sacrifice in downside protection.
Not exact matches
When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often
sacrifice quality for quantity, and
in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts
in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have
much better results and feedback.
In the end, the Stelvio shows that the Italians can do a capable «everyday» luxury SUV (The Maserati Levante is a bit too
much for everyday duty) without
sacrificing that which makes Italian cars special.
«Building a bigger machine may require you to
sacrifice too
much of your desired job
in order to focus on the business - building tasks.»
-- of the same problems as working mothers do,
in particular worrying that they're
sacrificing too
much family time for work:
But when her every duty is laid out
in front of her and she realizes it isn't feasible for her to manage the workload without
sacrificing her sanity is so
much worse.
Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease
in birthrate has as
much to do with the Great Recession
in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to
sacrifice their careers for family.
Friends who live
in smaller communities have
much nicer bigger newer houses but
sacrifice liveability (my opinion) and lower COL. Yes, I do find it cheaper and healthier to live
in a coastal city.
This might be too
much of a
sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep
in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.
CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded
in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as
much as 59 percent over public prisons without
sacrificing quality.
And I don't think that will be a
sacrifice in happiness given that our expenses will be
much lower with a paid - off house.
Seems a lot
in retrospect, but somehow I was able to invest that
much without making any huge
sacrifices.
Unfortunately, I believe too
much discontentment, even
in Christian culture, results from people who
sacrifice their integrity to feel needed.
Too
much — as parents seek to reproduce themselves
in their children, feverishly seek children «of their own,» and try as
much as possible to protect those children from all experience of suffering and
sacrifice.
Parents and families need to be re-educated
in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and
in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and
sacrifice — there is
much to do.
The role of the divine is
much pondered» the furiously indignant Cain gets no more explanation for why his
sacrifice was rejected here than he did
in Genesis» but the actions are all committed by humans.
He thought that
much of what counted as neo-orthodoxy
sacrificed cognitive content to revelation
in favor a personal, non-cognitive revelation (Barth was exempted to a certain extent).
I don't know
much about the origins of
sacrifice in human culture.
When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so
much that he needs to
sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law,
in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.
Unlike cities of the modern West, the Greco — Roman city was as
much a religious as a political organization, and citizens were expected to participate
in thoroughly religious civic festivals, which included
sacrifices to the gods and goddesses who served as protectors of the city, whether Athena
in Athens, or Artemis
in Ephesus.
In a city like Corinth,
much of the meat offered at the butcher's shop had been
sacrificed to idols.
Now regardless of how
much truth is found
in other faiths, if the
sacrifice of the God - man Jesus is absent from their tenets, I can't accept that they are AS valid as Christianity.
He can be very disillusioned if he has observed such a law (that of burial of the dead
in the earth, for example), perhaps at the cost of considerable moral efforts and personal
sacrifices, and now suddenly has to see that things — if we may so express it — are all at once
much easier.
1 Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, «Has the LORD as
much delight
in burnt offerings and
sacrifices As
in obeying the voice of the LORD?
1Sa 15:22 Samuel then said: «Does Jehovah take as
much pleasure
in burnt offerings and
sacrifices as
in obeying the voice of Jehovah?
In Christianity, and Christianity alone, all these negative elements of pagan mythology are stripped away, and we are told that God loves us so
much, that He does not want us to
sacrifice our own children, but instead, He will
sacrifice His own Son for us.
It tells many of you who want to offer
sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime
in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so
much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.
Come on get real samson old testement its
in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.
In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the
sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking
in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas
in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol
in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for
much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin
in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved
in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard, says that the strongest appeal that he was ever able to bring to bear on wayward boys consisted
in making clear to them how
much they had been
sacrificed for and how
much their failure would mean to those who cared.
1 Samuel 15:22 «But Samuel replied: «Does the Lord delight
in burnt offerings and
sacrifices as
much as
in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Meat
sacrificed to idols was a live issue
in the church for decades and was very
much on the mind of John as he wrote his Revelation to the seven churches.
It is infinitely comic that a man, moved unto tears, so
much moved that not only tears but sweat trickle from him, can sit and read, or hear, representations of self - denial, of the nobility of
sacrificing one's life for the truth — and then the next instant — one, two, three, slap - dash, almost with the tears still
in his eyes — is
in full swing,
in the sweat of his brow, with all his might and main, helping falsehood to conquer.
An old culture, like an old bear, can suddenly whiff the dank odor of its own mortality; and then it is tempted, and tempted deeply, to
sacrifice its ideals for the preservation of its life — and thus to hasten the very demise
in history that it fears so
much.
I DO know how
much is burnt as a true
sacrifice to god, as taught
in the bible.
And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so
much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a
sacrifice that would be the final
sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted
in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.
We have seen that,
in much recent ethical thought, a self -
sacrifice is supposed to acknowledge the other through a response to his or her pain, without reducing that other to our understanding of him or her.
Either every such passage simply emphasizes the humanity under some aspect of limitation, or else it cites the humiliation of the earthly career to illustrate how
much God or Christ (Paul apparently makes no distinction between them
in this connection) was willing to
sacrifice for man's sake.
As believers
in Christ, however, we have
much that we can agree upon: love,
sacrifice, compassion, hope, joy, grace, redemption, reconciliation, and renewal are values that bind us together.
One gathers from the Philippians passage, as well as from such sentences as that quoted from II Corinthians, that far from being embarrassed by the normality of the earthly life, Paul saw
in it a sign of how
much Christ had been willing to
sacrifice on our behalf.
They express the whole thing
in perfectly general terms: «The great thing was that he loved God so
much that he was willing to
sacrifice to Him the best.»
How
much more could young people participate fully
in the
sacrifice of the Mass by being with Christ at Calvary, by being united with all souls
in Heaven and Purgatory, and by receiving Christ's Body and Blood, therefore being closer to Him than at any other point of their earthly existence?
God,
in the Whiteheadian view, intends that all occasions and societies of occasions achieve maximum value; Whitehead sees clearly that
in the achieving of value
much sacrifice, tragedy, and loss occur.
The project was successful,
much in part to my team's willingness to
sacrifice sleep.
God loves us
in spite of our sin, so
much he sent his Son as a
sacrifice for us.
I often wonder as they came to offer
sacrifices, how
much in their heart did they believe that doing that performing this action actually forgave them or was it just a ritual for them.
And the politics that results from the dialogue is ghastly indeed, because the integration of a single soul calls for
much more
sacrifice of the parts to the whole than can ever be expected of individual human persons
in a city.
The gay man seems to belie the importance of «super-masculinity,» and his very presence calls into question so
much that «straight» males have
sacrificed in order to be manly.