Sentences with phrase «not change of the sort»

Leaping forward from a wobbly foundation may well produce change, but not change of the sort that most of us value — falling flat on your face is the image that comes to mind.

Not exact matches

The button change to red boosted conversions by 21 percent, but that doesn't mean that red holds some sort of magic power to get people to take action.

As much as I wanted to help the situation, I recognized that I would not be able to implement change with that sort of attitude, so I gave him a choice: take the blame, or move forward without me.

And if you really can't see yourself showing that sort of poise, is it possible to change yourself so thoroughly?

And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.

But unless you've fallen into some sort of new - economy role in which your chief duty is to daydream, too much blue - sky thinking isn't all that great — not for you as a leader, nor for your business as an entity that actually makes change.

Granted, writing commentary does sort of change the equation and, in that sense, I'm certainly not shy about making my opinions known.

With respect to sort of your guidance I guess your top line hasn't changed from the historical pace.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

Any effort to transform culture (Niebuhr's fifth and seemingly favored category) may do nothing of the sort if the Christian community does not first recognize the ways in which it is distinct from the culture it aspires to change.

First I want to say that I'm not saying Atheist is a religion in a bad sence or to try and produce some sort of shame only that it falls under the definition of a religion and wondering how it would change your feelings \ view of Atheism even if everybody considered it a religous view, if it's something you believe to be true (that there is no god) what does it matter if someone labels it as your world view?

In fact, it was so life - changing that I often find myself trying to force others into this sort of revelation, but it's not something that can be forced.

I do believe prayer effects change, but sometimes we can not perceive the changes, sort of like the butterfly effect in nature.

I also don't want to theorize what sort of religion these space aliens have, I was just choosing islam because that's a religion I have no intention of ever converting to, but in this highly unlikely event, it could change my mind.

That sort of political removal would destroy the Democratic Party's ability to keep blacks on the plantation, don't expect any change like that any time soon.

M ellow and glowing with autumnal red A nd also ochre striped with golden light, R epainted bedroom with a brand new bed L eft made up, crisp sheets awaiting night; O ld layers overlaid with something fresh, N ew, and sorting out, giving away, C lear for a different union of flesh A nd spirit, window to another day; L ife turns its wheel of change.

People have been very much astonished about the «change» in my stand, and not least in so far as the «change» has been of this latter sort.

Religion of any sort really doesn't change this fact, but it can be, and often is, used as an excuse.

During the time in which analyses of the sort we have alluded to were being made and such remedies proposed, and in part tried, an unspectacular process of reconstruction has been going on in Church and ministry so that we can speak today of an emerging new conception of the ministry, a conception which leaves it ministry and does not change it into something else.

For one thing, Francis has the temerity to take the science of climate change seriously, which is the sort of thing that can send a Wall Street Journal conservative frantically groping for his smelling salts, but which I can not help thinking is slightly saner than clinging to the politically inflected obfuscations of the data that so many in the developed world use to calm their digestions and consciences.

Once again, that does not invalidate anything that was said in the paper, but is in fact the sort of change which was implicitly hoped for in it.

A different sort of sass, not in a negative attitude, but in a really strong confidence that God is who He says He is and that He is alive in me, and He is lighting up the whole world and everything is changing.

As frustrating as it is to experience this sort of patriarchy within the Church, we can take courage knowing that it doesn't have to be this way, that things can and will change.

As I wrote in Out of Sorts, if we aren't changing or evolving, then we aren't paying attention.

Jeremy, I find it rather humorous, in a sad sort of way, that you can write posts about changing (or stopping) baptism and communion (which were good and valid posts), and not hear one peep out of the «plain reading of Scripture» crowd.

I do know God is not some sort of cosmic vending machine, where if we just put in the right change we can punch the button and get what we want.

Apart from that sort of change, I don't think I need to change much.

I don't mean some sort of epiphany that one might call enlightenment, but a kind of radical worldview change (caused by the Spirit) that shapes the way we interact with the world and causes us to take up arms for love and justice.

-- does not betray stupidity or prosaic literalism as much as resistance to the sort of change Jesus» words imply.

To imagine the eschaton as a radical change of state of the cosmos might imply finis to this «cosmic epoch,» to return to Whiteheadian terminology, but would not necessarily imply any sort of ultimate finis.

For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.

Obviously the sort of change and the time span in which such change takes place varies from level to level — a rock does not change in the same fashion as an animal does.

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz

Not the usual religious - themed sort of «belief» that tends to hook the article in with this particular blog, but it's a nice change in a way.

Speciation events of the sort you are referring to need not occur in isolation, but can collect with other changes in clusters within individual species.

@Tom, Tom, the Other One: Speciation events of the sort you are referring to need not occur in isolation, but can collect with other changes in clusters within individual species.

When he converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1891... it was a sort of change of gear, of widening commitment, not a change of direction.

Any measuring device which was adjusted so as to gather information about the macroscopic changes which follow upon decision would not be able to register information about parameters which distinguish one sort of fluctuation (Irish) from the other sort of fluctuation (Ivory Coastian).

I do not know whether some sort of decentralized democratic socialism can supply a healthier economic base for the kind of change that seems necessary if we are to continue as a society of free men and women.

I'm a change - it - from - within sort of person (although I'm not sure that works for everyone).

I guess it's not so much the book itself that has inspired me, but the way the author's continually refer to Jesus» teachings on the Sermon on the Mount, teachings which no one in their right mind can truly contemplate without trembling at the sort of life changes it demands.

I'm not suggesting that having a jerk for a boss is akin to being a slave or a child laborer, but I do believe that if we are going to make our offices, shops and factories the sorts of places we'd like to spend the better part of our waking lives, then change is just as likely to come from the Church as from anywhere else.

For Leclerc actuality is thus not what the scholastics would call «first act», or the act that makes a thing to be a certain sort of thing (that by which a flower is a flower, for example); rather it is a process, a change, and an activity.

A change of this sort can not destroy habits of mind, temperament, emotional tendencies, genetic and acquired behavioural patterns.

In this sort of a venue if readers donated from time to time, it wouldn't be like a church where you have to please the people, in fact, if David changed his stance on things, a lot of us would leave.

One can almost sense that if things do not change in the near future we could ourselves be headed for an «Arab Spring» of sorts.

It is difficult to put all the evidence in such a matter into words, to gather up into a distinct statement all that one bases one's conclusions on, but I have always felt that I had abundant evidence to justify (to myself, at least) the conclusion that I came to then, and since have held to, that the physical change which came at that time was, first, the result of a change wrought within me by a change of mental state; and secondly, that that change of mental state was not, save in a very secondary way, brought about through the influence of an excited imagination, or a consciously received suggestion of an hypnotic sort.

Can't wait to put all sorts of things on top as the seasons change.

I don't have a sensitivity, nor do I eschew grains in my diet for any reason, but I'm a believer in changing things up every once in a while, and I'm sort of (really) obsessed with doing self - experimentation.

Hi Lexi, I am new to your blog, but have a teenage son who has dairy allergies, and can not tolerate chocolate... I'm wondering if you have any ideas for a yummy (peanut free as well) brownie using this recipe, but with something besides cocoa??? I'm not good at changing recipes, but was thinking of some sort of blondie or snickerdoodle - type flavor... if you ever get creative with this idea, I'd REALLY love to hear about it!