A good example is that many oil companies don't abandon wells drilled in the 50's 60's and 70's because they know some nasty stuff including radioactive isotopes have been tossed into mud pits and sumps and that it will cost them a small fortune to clean up.
Not all abandoned wells provide a pathway to surface for methane.
Not exact matches
Small - business owners aren't likely to
abandon the Tea Party; and being stripped of small - business support isn't
good news for the GOP establishment.
The strategy worked so
well for Ms. Cannon that she eventually
abandoned it — but
not before making key contacts.
However, if you think «Buy now» is a
good CTA, you're
not gonna realize the maximum benefit of
abandoned cart emails.
Other risks and uncertainties include the timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed transactions between ILG and MVW, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals for the proposed transactions that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to
abandon the transactions; the possibility that ILG's stockholders may
not approve the proposed transactions; the possibility that MVW's stockholders may
not approve the proposed transactions; the possibility that the expected synergies and value creation from the proposed transactions will
not be realized or will
not be realized within the expected time period; the risk that the businesses of ILG and MVW will
not be integrated successfully; disruption from the proposed transactions making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; the risk that unexpected costs will be incurred; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing; the possibility that the proposed transactions do
not close, including due to the failure to satisfy the closing conditions; as
well as more specific risks and uncertainties.
It appears that many of them were
not very
well thought out when first proposed and upon reflection were quietly
abandoned.
I believe Alberta citizens are victims as they will be dealing with
abandoned wells, tailings ponds and massive environmental degradation for decades and the industry will
not be paying those bills!
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has admitted that the company took a hard look at Android and whether or
not the company's
best interest was to
abandon its own proprietary system and migrate to other platforms.
We would
not abandon U.S. equities, but this is a
good time for investors to ensure that their portfolios are sufficiently diversified outside the U.S.
There is a chance that Denmark could
abandon its euro peg as
well, although it doesn't appear to have the political will to do so, Jefferies says.
She has prosti.tuted herself to other «gods» who are indeed
not God, and God has actively as
well as passively chastised her by
abandoning her to the unintended consequences of her actions.
In my case my doubts and questions didn't cause me do
abandon my Christian faith, they allowed me to move into a
better faith.
You haven't given me any
good reasons to
abandon my current position and take up naturalism.
«many people may be leaving the institutional church,
not because they have given up on church, are
abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are
good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.»
I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church,
not because they have given up on church, are
abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are
good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.
More than ever, evangelical scholars should
not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this
well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.
We shall
not try to compensate our sins by
good deeds, but we shall return to faith in Christ and
abandon the certain sin, which we have fallen in.
I learned this
not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a
well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples
abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.
Well, bring it on: it is all an excellent opportunity for bishops to explain what Catholic education is really for, and to declare plainly that if the State expects our schools to
abandon the Catholic faith as a quid pro quo for receiving Catholic tax - payers» money, then that is an expectation we are
not prepared to satisfy: and then, we will have to take the consequences.
Sensing that Christianity required
abandoning their intellectual integrity, some of the
best and brightest of the next generation made a choice they didn't have to make.
But it makes me feel so lonely sometimes and I would think that God does
not want me anymore, I feel pride in my heart sometimes and bitterness however some days go
better then other days, and sometimes I just feel simply
abandoned.
Well, then, you shouldn't use such symbolically pregnant language with such
abandon.
Jesus, the
Good Shepherd, does
not humiliate us or
abandon us to remorse: in Him, the tenderness of the Father speaks, He who comforts and raises up; He who makes us pass from the disintegration of shame --- because shame surely causes us to disintegrate --- to the fabric of trust; who restores courage, recommits responsibility, and consigns us to the mission.
This simple fact of human life as
well as of the Church is often overlooked by the progressive, when he screams that developments are too slow, that antiquated habits and customs are
not abandoned fast enough, especially with regard to canon law.
But if Christians allow death to rule in the realm of physicality, then ultimately the doctrine of creation is in jeopardy — the doctrine that God remains the
good creator who loves the world that God has made and who is
not going to
abandon it.
You will have to do
better than «why won't people accept these facts» to convince people to
abandon their faith.
Nevertheless, while The Heart of Virtue may
not be destined for the
best - seller list, it is an encouraging sign that we have
not altogether
abandoned what has been at the core of moral reflection for two millennia.
But the distinction of
better and worse must
not be
abandoned in the process.
The lawyers we spoke to — all
good people — referred to the process whereby natural law was
abandoned as though it were a foreign language that they could follow but had
not learned to speak.
The keepers of the bible incorporated the god stuff since they needed to keep teaching about their god, they could
not abandon him, and needed others to worship as
well, so take what the buddha taught, put the god spin on it,... you see... what you are saying is just re-inforcing what I am telling you.
The willingness of President Bush (in his
better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those
not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative
abandon.
sometimes it is
better to stay below, atleast we can still reach others that might need to feel that God didn't
abandoned them as they think they are
We do
not want to
abandon the search for the God whose primary concern for us is that we live
well - adjusted, germ - free, cancer - free lives.
The
Good Shepherd Because he would
not abandon the flock for a lost sheep after the others had bedded down for the night, he turned back, searched the thickets and gullies.
Yes, yes, there are reasons why some of these relationships are
not wise or feasible or sustainable... but again, the undesirable results don't allow us to
abandon all efforts at reaching the
best outcomes.
We are
not powerless and fearful,
not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read
good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I
abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.
Nonetheless, it is right enough on the observation that the TEA PARTY conservatives have
abandoned Rick for reasons that couldn't be remedied by
better debating.
If it could do this
best by
abandoning the quest for realism and coherence, was that
not the right move?
For
good or for ill, the Christian tradition stands by its witness that God is
not dead but alive; and to decline to bear this witness is
not simply to criticize that tradition, but to
abandon it.
It does
not follow, however, that governmental aid is
best deployed by government agents or that the empowerment of individuals and communities is most effectively fostered by
abandoning them to their own resources.
The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly
abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more,
not timidly,
not doubtingly,
not proud of her
good fortune,
not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.
Huebert, We can agree that there are
good feelings involved and having faith does tend to allow you to surrender self, but you won't be able to
abandon self without faith.
He won't admit to it but a lot of the Catholics» Sunday contributions are going to pay for all the pedophilia settlements another
good reason to
abandon the RCC.
This doesn't mean we
abandon our goals or stop trying, but it does mean we change our perspective about our failures as
well as how we achieve our goals.
According to an Associated Press report, there are up to 27,000
abandoned oil
wells in the Gulf of Mexico that aren't being monitored by anyone.
This stance does
not require
abandoning what is
good in Protestant traditions.
Amen — do these idiots
not realize that disagreeing with President Obama on one issue is
not reason enough to
abandon the ONLY true leader who is looking out for the
best interests of ALL Americans??? If Romney wins, these pastors are going to find out what real discrimination and backwards return to fighting for their Civil Rights as human beings will be like again.
Even though I did
not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a
good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its
not quite effective and in the end the leaders
abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next
good program or system to follow.
At the same time, I want to make a plea for radical conservatives — conservatives who are ready to critique and
abandon what is
not good in the past.