Sentences with phrase «not mere days»

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Know this: it's not just the books you read; the mere habit of making yourself read each day, and keeping to a plan, is a major ingredient in success.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

If Congress is not able to make a deal to reduce the deficit by Dec. 31, a mere 11 days away, a slew of spending cuts and tax hikes would go into effect immediately.

The mere fact that the CIA may have exploited zero - day [previously undisclosed] vulnerabilities should not surprise anyone,» said Knake, now at the Council on Foreign Relations.

By fulfillment, I do not mean the mere availability of information and content as in the early days of direct marketing — where collateral was king then.

The new probe comes mere days after President Trump complained about Canadian trade practices, stating «Canada does not treat us right in terms of the farming and the crossing the boarders, we can not continue to be taken advantage of by other countries».

(Revelation 14:1 - 3; 20:1 - 4; Romans 8:17) Judgment Day is not some hurried event lasting a mere 24 hours.

For example, whereas the sun and moon were the objects of worship in pagan religion, the Book of Genesis taught that they were nothing but lamps set in the heavens to give light to day and night: not gods, but mere things, creatures of the one true God.

Strikingly, our catechists these days often just use apologetics tracts as their textbooks for catechism class, giving the faithful mere leftovers of what was actually prepared for others who do not yet share our faith.

Not only do we have to deal with fighting this disease every day, we have to be anxious and worried that our healthcare might be taken away in mere months.

Second, for someone who is so uptight as this author about knowing religions and even writing a book about it, the mere fact that not ONCE in this article did you use the official and correct name of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints (aka Mormon) in my mind completely discredits your temper tantrum.

«It is not mere coincidence that the emperors of Rome in its horrific final days were hom.ose.xual; that Adolf Hitler's inner circle were mostly hom.ose.xual; and that nearly all of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history were hom.ose.xual.

If your God can not see the good that i try to do every day of my life, and rejects my soul based on the mere fact that I didn't buy into fairy tales from 2000 years before I was born, than I will gladly spend eternity else where.

Whatever sort of a being God may be, we know to - day that he is nevermore that mere external inventor of «contrivances» intended to make manifest his «glory» in which our great - grandfathers took such satisfaction, though just how we know this we can not possibly make clear by words either to others or to ourselves.

But faith is never mere intellectual assent; it was not so in «the first days of the gospel» any more than it is today.

And it will also be crucial to emphasise the fundamental unity that should exist between man and woman, male and female, the centrality of marriage not as a mere socially useful arrangement that might finally one day come into its own again, but as part of God's original plan «from the beginning», the great fact that the whole story of our redemption is a marriage story centred on Christ the Bridegroom and his Church, the Bride.

ok so you «think» Quran is not reliable and truthful but at least its consistent, I will repeat your words to you «you just have to look» the mere fact that Quran has not changed, not even a single letter since the day it was revealed is enough of a miracle and the proof for it to be true, for those who believe and are willing to open their hearts and minds for the truth.

Hence, the curious persistence of those assertions in the Talmud that the embryo in the first forty days is «mere liquid,» and that the embryo does not form until forty days.

For our latest trip to this seaside gem, we stayed at the wonderful Finest Resort and basked each day in sun rays we thought didn't exist anymore (for most of each year in Seattle, the sun transforms into a mere myth).

I know I haven't rubbed the following fact in your face for a while, but I'm going to Hawaii in a mere eight days.

People won't even know that you wanted until mere days before Christmas to start on your -LSB-...]

I couldn't have imaged that a mere 31 days later my life would change forever.

James Maddison may not carry the same weight as the names listed above, but he was targeted by the Anfield outfit when he was a talented young attacker at Coventry back in January of 2016, ultimately losing out to sneaky Norwich, for whom Maddison signed for a mere # 2.5 m on deadline day.

I can't believe that a mere few days ago I was in full - tilt Christmasville.

But a mere 6 - 8oz a day will just not surfice!

Its effectiveness comes in the juxtaposition of poignant scenes with downright hilarious ones; Kindergartener Ruby Bridges tells Jabari how to be brave, mere moments before stepping out the door and starting her first day at an all - white school (where she's most definitely not welcomed), which is followed by Jabari messing around with his future idol, pre-President Obama, on the night of Dr. King's famed speech.

But we'll know for sure in mere days if not hours... clearly I'm hoping they call today.

In effect, the celebration of the African union day should not be a mere rhetoric or an excuse for Africans to have a good time.

Here was this mere challenger not only donning one of the perks of office but also, thanks to the slow newspaper day getting a free dose of status.

It's not every day that your own defense characterizes your public statements as mere «claims» which it then sets out to debunk immediately afterwards.

Given DHS's failure to share this policy with the court, OTDA finds the Nov. 14 implementation date — a mere 10 days after the policy change was announced — to be completely unreasonable and is not supported by the state.

«The mere fact that it takes two days to get there by... normal airline traffic is indicative of the fact that it's not an easy place to get to, it's sort of stuck out there.

Back in the states, serving me tea in his Manhattan apartment, Robert Klitzman, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University, explained to me that this concept was vividly demonstrated — if not in fact proved — one day back in 1990, a mere three years into the mad cow nightmare.

Don't be discouraged when you first start, there will always be days when the monkey mind won't rest for even a mere moment.

Around 100 years ago the average American consumed a mere 15 grams of fructose a day, primarily in the form of fruit, not industrially produced isolate, which is infinitely different on a physiological level.

What if we could optimise our pre workout nutrition in such a way that not only we are full of energy by the time we get to the gym, but we are entirely focused on our workout, and the fatigue associated with our day to day life has dissipated into nothing more than a mere memory?

However, spring is a mere 4 days away and it can't hurt to be prepared, am I right?!

I'm with ya... I can't believe how into December we are and that Christmas is mere DAYS away!

Weekend One of Coachella is a mere 21 days away, not that I'm counting.

I can't believe we are mere days away from the official end of summer.

I'd been hunting for a flower print cardi with flowers that weren't too big (as big patterns can all too quickly overwhelm my petite frame) for at least a couple of years, and was thrilled to find not one, but two mere days apart from one another.

For us mere mortals who don't have Early Access, this is a big day!

A mere day removed from the birthday of the late Trayvon Martin, this is a potent reminder of what is at stake, not just in the film, but in our real world.

(Our only regret before compiling our list of the year's best Blu - ray and DVD releases is that we didn't get a chance to check out Synapse Films's new 4K restoration and steelbook Blu - ray of Suspiria, which sold out mere days after it became available for preorders online.)

I'm not sure why the British broadsheets are all falling over themselves to publish their «best of the 2000s» lists in early November, but mere days after The Telegraph critics declared Michael Moore's «Fahrenheit 9/11» the film of the decade, The Times has weighed in with their own Top 100.

Oh yeah, and they raised millions on Kickstarter in mere days to fund their upcoming adventure game; and don't you know that Greg had a huge part in this!?

To this day, many, especially within the figure skating community, still loathe and detest Tonya Harding with an unbridled passion, even vociferously decrying throughout social media her mere presence at this film's red carpet premiere recently in Los Angeles... not to mention the fact that this film was even made.

The setup and structure of the plot is no different from most other cop films of the period, with a psychotic bad guy (a forger played by Willem Dafoe) being chased by a cop (William Petersen, the CSI guy) who doesn't play by the rules (or «laws» as we call them), out to get him not merely because it's his job, but because this time it's personal (seems Dafoe killed Petersen's partner, mere days before his retirement!).

She mentions in the first film that she hasn't been to a haunted house since she was eight or nine years old, and it is obvious by the second that, after the ending of the first (which takes place over a mere six days, much of which are spent driving or being attacked in the RV at night), she has not gone to one again.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.