Sentences with phrase «not in a pretty way»

I have a coffee table that I used wax on but my children have really scratched it (not in a pretty way).

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It's pretty clear by now that the loosely - organized movement doesn't have much in the way of concrete goals.

It's not the prettiest mining rig, but it's in the experimental stage, so I'm not taking the time to make it look good as long as it performs the way it's supposed to.

But I rolled out a pretty strong diatribe about ethical behavior in businesses and made it clear I wouldn't invest in somebody who thought this way about customers.

(Foremen who hadn't been in leadership positions before exhibited the «sergeant's phenomenon» — at first they exercised their authority in a pretty wild way, without regard for the welfare and security of the rest of the people.

«Buying the yen because of a trade war in which Japan was going to be hit pretty badly, and Japan hasn't been exempted from the steel tariffs by the way, that seems to me pretty peculiar,» Giles Keating, managing director at wealth manager Werthstein Institute, told CNBC.

And no less than President Barack Obama said Canada had proven itself to be «a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we haven't always been here in the United States.»

«It doesn't do much as far as swinging the pendulum one way or the other, but what it does is directly call out Russia for meddling in the election cycle, which is a pretty bold statement from the US that hasn't been made in the past,» he said.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking systeIn an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking systein a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking systein sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

I mean, that's a pretty big deal to be handling both the mechanics of it and the emotion of it, shortly after you come in as a not - obvious choice as C.E.O. Just walk me through what that felt like on your way to accomplishing.

«To have an OSHA representative saying that the facility is not only one of the best in the country, but the program itself is something that she feels should be implemented in some way shape or form at other VPP sites,» said Clean Harbors Regional Health and Safety Manager Floyd Williams, «It's pretty extraordinary.»

Action: Ditch the Internet entirely Who is this for: Fugitives and whistleblowers How difficult is it: Privacy doesn't get harder than this Tell me more: Public administrations can ask you to do pretty much everything online these days — and even if it's not mandatory to use their Internet service it can be incentivized in various ways.

In my view I think that companies will turn profits for some time so provided we do not find our way into another war things look pretty good for those who want to work or have capital.

I am kind of with Wzrd1 on this, even if you don't know he difference between hebrew and arabic (pretty different languages, but not everyone can tell) orthodox jews dress in a very specific and unique way, not anything traditional arabic garb or the western clothing that we wear and most terrorists use to blend in on planes etc..

I don't know any Christians that act that way — they're pretty engaged in helping others in substantive ways.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't intend it in the way you do and would imagine that his soul is pretty well cloaked.

... The child doesn't have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn't have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn't have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn't have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding.

except that i'm pretty sure that the Aztec people that were being sacrificed were not doing so willingly... please understand that i'm not attempting to be combative in any way.

And while I'm in no way ashamed of my atheist belief I also don't want to unnecessarily offend, as that pretty much brings communication to a halt.

Bill, if bob had actually attempted it the way you just did, and not been a jackass, I'm pretty sure he'd have received a discussion in return.

I don't know how they continue to consider themselves religious, but I'm pretty sure they don't really believe in god in the way their religion defines it.

In fact, your observation (which doesn't contradict mine, by the way) leads to a pretty obvious conundrum.

Along the way there have been some pretty horrific issues with theology (war, crusades, more war, etc) Anyway, the answer is no, I do not believe in any kind of omniscient deity or theological system but I don't push it out on people either.

Jesus» commands are pretty clear — turn the other cheek, love enemies and forgive them, don't take revenge, etc, so it would seem that refusing to fight or support in any way might be the thing christians should do, unless the war is clearly justified.

(By the way, one thing that atheists - and I'm not saying you are one - do is they will believe that we can know what happened a billion years ago out in space, but we can't know pretty well what happened 2,000 years ago).

We came up with that in the 90's and the 80 ′ to get at the religious right... what if we don't have a choice, that makes them biggots... If you say you are a gay conservative, suddenly their [the left's] heads explode... It's not about bigotry or homophobia because we could live in a perfect society and in many ways we pretty much do.

If we're not careful, over time it can rob us of our basic humanity and it can fundamentally alter us in ways that aren't pretty.

Reacting to the judgement, Dr Saunders said: «Conway has a terminal condition but that didn't seem to deter the judges in any way... it was pretty clear that they had put a huge amount of weight on the medical evidence and the evidence from disabled people about how any change couldn't be controlled and they'd also looked at what had happened in other jurisdictions».

There's no better way to assess the reach of this influence but to find it in someone who's really not particularly French, not particularly literary, and in truth pretty narrowly American.

I'm sure we can all relate to that in some way — not feeling pretty enough, skinny enough, fun enough and so on.

I hadn't spent much time thinking about what it's like for gay kids to overhear their parents talking about gay neighbors with derision and fear, for example, or how narratives about judgment and hell can be processed by kids in some pretty destructive ways.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Every billboard or church sign with some pithy message signed «God» is apparently evil now, since we've decided Palin can't do it in a pretty darned respectable way.

I would not have been cowardly enough to stay at home, neither would I have laid down or sauntered along the way, nor have forgotten the knife, so that there might be a little delay — I am pretty well convinced that I would have been there on the stroke of the clock and would have had everything in order, perhaps I would have arrived too early in order to get through with it sooner.

IMnot a bad person at all... IM sorry you feel that way... but you pretty much twisted things (God is murderous... murder is defined as UNLAWFUL taking of life) I teach that God takes and is judge of ALL life... Im sorry you feel that is wrong... I do NOT teach people to go out and murder or take lives of others... you are making a dishonest blanket statement and lumping everyone together in such a way...

During the run - up to the papal visit, we all got pretty well inured (if we weren't already) to the way in which the secular Press will take a Catholic news item, sometimes quite small in itself, and then turn it into a major news story which entirely misses the point.

I in no way want to strip you of your experience of faith by suggesting that your certainty is (or could be) a fraud (I get the feeling you are pretty resilient to any such suggestion), but I still can't understand how you can claim certainty in any absolute sense.

Sharing the christian belief that Jesus Christ is our Savior is something we believe in, but I'm pretty sure that when you are doing it in a derisive way you are not in fact sharing our christian beliefs.

I have a very hard time imagining someone wanting to go out of their way to work for a faith group that they don't believe in... seems pretty silly to me.

It is you who have lost your way in a relationship that's offered more hurt than love, in a job that leaves you depleted and spent, or in the guilt of not being good enough, pretty enough or smart enough for someone whose judgment cuts deep.»

Folly worked pretty well for Jesus, Paul, St. Francis and a holy host of others... or we might say it didn't «work well,» but was faithful and strangely powerful in an infant, toddling kind of way.

He isn't constrained in any way — between himself as Father, Jesus as saviour, Lord, Word etc etc and the Holy Spirit, thats a pretty wide specrum.

Generally men are only momentarily conscious, conscious in the great decisions, but the daily things are not computed at all; such men are spirit (if this word may be applied to them) once a week for one hour — of course that is a pretty bestial way of being spirit.

Scientists are people, they are flawed, and I'm pretty sure God did not provide us with the mental ability to fully understand how he pulled everything off, but either way, In General science spends it's time trying to figure out how God did it... not why... you want to know why... I propose to you, as you suggested I open another book and learn, i propose you open a Bible and learn why God Created you.

Not in a weird way, just I find that my meals are pretty much always the highlight of my day so I spend a lot of time thinking about them!

You're not alone in feeling this way too, we've all doubted ourselves and felt alone and pretty rubbish after looking at someone elses photos.

If you really don't want to do that I guess you could do it Jamie's way and bake it in the oven, but it's pretty fun stirring the rice until it's as creamy and thick as you like it.

Either way I'm in a pretty good mood and can't wait to make these again, although it's back to keto for me on Pancake Day (sigh) so I'll be making myself some quick and easy keto pancakes.

By the way, this Totally Terrific Toasted Pecan Butter is pretty sweet, so in case you are not in favor of overtly sugary tastes, you can start with 2 tablespoons Swerve and add more if needed.