Sentences with phrase «noble a purpose for»

Enhancing mind - body balance and releasing stress are as noble a purpose for performing yoga as the awakening of spirituality.

While Wolfenstein and its ilk were often criticized for their violence, there was at least a noble purpose for the bloodshed.

But I am in the camp of believing that clean air is a noble purpose for every Republican to pursue.

Not exact matches

Interesting criteria for a list of unique stocks I don't have any of those names in my portfolio but I have other companies within the same industries such as the mega cap Chevron Corp Which has a forward P / E of 11.4 x so it's more expensive relative to Noble or CNOOC but I hold it in my hedge fund for hedging purposes.

Man is a noble creature, so that constant state of chaos may be occasionally broken by intermittent times of peace that men may work together for some purpose or endeavor that may seem advantageous at the time, but the morality of men by themselves is a fickle thing, and it is ever changing to please an ever declining sense of morality of the masses.

What a society needs is not this but a noble, godly purpose toward which everyone is encouraged to strive for.

I think that's more noble than arguing for the sole purpose of changing someone else's point of view.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

Communists often hijack such movements to use them for their purpose, and hide their much less noble intentions behind them.

It's the plight of Mana (James Rolleston), handed over to the gang for brutal, demeaning indoctrination, who gives Gen the purpose he needs to focus his attention and keep his mind together — that, and a local chess club for teens run by his friend Noble (Kirk Torrance), who can see that Gen is too excited by the prospect of teaching the kids, but can't turn him away.

Forrest is no more «simple» than Lester (stupid is as stupid does, as Gump is fond of saying)-- indeed, he embodies the choice to abhor intellectualism, intention, and free will for no noble purpose of rebellion, but rather to nurse quietly on the vast unknowable «benevolent design» of a current pushing around plastic bags and feathers.

In so many words, this noble purpose was established in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) as the Nation's guiding principle for improving public education.

The system has famously captured valet parking shenanigans, but we preferred to use it for nobler purposes: track driving.

For the purposes of this post, I'm going to assume that you are going to direct upload to Amazon and either direct upload or use an aggregator like Smashwords or Draft2Digital to upload to Barnes & Noble and other outlets.

As for bookselling, Amazon's original purpose in life, the industry has already seen the loss of the Borders chain, the life support efforts of Barnes and Noble, the closing of the Sony Reader store 9US), and a significant drop in promotional efforts in the US from Kobo.

-- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Fictional characters serve mainly as mouthpieces for an admittedly noble mission (portions of the novel's proceeds will support a Vietnamese children's foundation); nonfiction might have better served the author's purpose.»

Given that there has been a general social prohibition (far too weakly enforced) against hitting women for a much greater slice of history than the Kindle has been infuriating writers of noble purpose, I have to say that I think Mr. Alexie probably got his fair due.

But Barnes & Noble and Amazon are showing that Android is just a starting point for them, and a platform that can be manipulated to serve their purposes without help from Google.

The Glo ComfortLight is, for all intents and purposes, the company's answer to Barnes & Noble's Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight: it's a 6 - inch E Ink reader with Kobo's own proprietary glowing technology.

Yes, it's true, the Nook Color eBook reader is, for all intents and purposes, an Android tablet, and Barnes & Noble has not been too shy about calling the Nook Color «The Reader's Tablet.»

If only the purpose of a portfolio was for a more noble reason besides sharing investment returns with their buddies during the next poker night.

Some did this to develop a most dominant model of this already dominant breed some did it for even less noble purposes.

[Response: This is not what is happening — and there is no «noble purpose» for it in any case.

I doesn't matter how much temporizers argue that this is the effect of «noble cause» corruption, IT»S STILL CORRUPTION, undertaken deliberately and with malice aforethought, the effects including the diversion of research funds from legitimate purposes as well as support for public policies and private sector malinvestment, which do great material damage to particular parties and to the common weal.

That noble purpose is to condemn wind and solar power for the perfidious insult to the intelligence that it is.

Giving gifts just for the sake of giving loses its noble purpose when it results in an overstuffed house and more trash in our landfill sites.

Your personal information is to be utilized for the sole purpose of processing the Noble Oklahoma internet traffic school course.

Valor's Compass model has four dimensions, seeking to guide each student to develop a Sharp Mind (the pursuit of knowledge and skills) and a Big Heart (compassion for oneself and others) and to follow a Noble Purpose (one's deepest values) through Aligned Actions (in part by being engaged and supportive of one's community).

Prior it's launch of mls.ca, CREA served ONLY 2 but both noble purposes: 1) Served as a national conduit for my business, to license the trademarks of REALTOR and MLS.