Sentences with phrase «not taking orders from»

«The best entrepreneurs will listen to you, but they won't take orders from you.»

Now, all they can complain about is that Obama won't take orders from the Pope.

But it's all irrelevant, so long as the elected President does not take orders from his church leaders.

I don't take orders from the likes of you, Smith.

«You would agree that the PSC doesn't take orders from the Second Floor?»

Espada got beat up because he was a powerful Latino that did nt take his orders from the blanco establishment.

Brave and confident, these pooches don't take orders from just anybody.

She almost replied that she didn't take orders from men, and especially not when they were cops, but this didn't strike her as the time.

Not exact matches

As customers step up and order and she takes cupcakes from plastic trays, nests them in bakery tissue, and boxes them, she explains the ins and outs of her work.

Enforcement of the revised order — imposing a 90 - day ban on travel from Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, but not Iraq — was to take effect March 16.

Those haven't materialized, but AI is everywhere, from search engines that know what you're typing before you do it to automated phone systems that take your pizza order.

While many people, including soldiers, are content to follow orders, Atherley says that «for a group of people that want to go the [entrepreneurial] path, there have not been previous resources to take them from what I'll call zero to 60.

Why this is important: A responsible broker should not contravene any regulation that restricts payment for order flow, or hide behind any opaque undisclosed third party relationships which effectively result in the broker indirectly profiting from position taking based on its clients trading activity.

In the event that (i) the Board of Directors proposes, recommends, approves or otherwise submits to the shareholders of the Company, for shareholder action, a Deemed Liquidation Event, and (ii) a Holder has not received written notice from the holders of a majority of the shares of Key Holder Common Stock that such holders approve the Deemed Liquidation Event, then such Holder hereby agrees to vote (in person, by proxy or by action by written consent, as applicable) all shares of capital stock of the Company now or hereafter directly or indirectly owned of record or beneficially by such Holder against the Deemed Liquidation Event, to assert statutory dissenters» rights with respect to the Deemed Liquidation Event, and to take such other action in derogation of the Deemed Liquidation Event as shall be requested by the holders of a majority of the shares of Key Holder Common Stock in order to carry out the terms and provision of this Section x.y..

Second, I haven't read the BNA Act recently, but I'm almost positive that the people who comprise «official Ottawa» report to and take their marching orders from certain men and women who just so happen to be in charge.

Taking all of these factors into consideration, I do not presently see a need for monetary policy to deviate from a primary focus on attaining price stability and maximum employment, in order to address financial stability concerns.

If the world's finance communities won't let their derivative operations fail, what is to stop some trader in 2015 from taking short «hyper - leveraged» (2nd order time - sequence derivative plays don't think exist yet) positions on all the world's currencies?

On the other hand, the younger set takes their sexual cues from the resurrection (preferring not to think about the so - called «order of creation») while using Genesis to highlight their culture - making activities and their environmental concerns.

It's not flip flopping, its taking orders from the LDS church «Prophets».

While not being the biggest South Park fan, I must admit that such talk of «rock» as important in the way that you had to be there makes me want to knock on walls like a Cartman version of an Orkin man, and look for hippies in order to keep them from eating out the foundation of anything that makes one wish to be big without taking the hard shots of inevitability.

This is a rather important ethical point, because the worst religious charlatans have exploited people's gullibility and desire to believe in miracles and especially miraculous cures in order to take vast sums of money from people who really can't afford to be giving any away, least of all to con - artists like faith healers.

«Desiring, then, that all things should be good and, so far as might be, nothing imperfect, the god [Demiurge] took over all that is visible — not at rest, but in discordant and unordered motion — and brought it from disorder into order.»

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

This fact of mutual support, when taken simply as a fact and not used as a springboard from which to leap out into speculative realms, is an order....

Why we can not learn by being told and while we live under their rule is a long question; but, for most of us, we must separate ourselves from our parents in order to learn the hard way, before we can, in returning, step up to take their place.

Although this discussion is not an analysis of Billy Graham, it seems to me the time has come for churches that know better to quit taking orders from the Graham organization.

So, for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus in order to go to heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26), and see that Jesus is talking about saving your life (which is NOT the same thing as receiving eternal life) by living in a profitable way here on earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

He didn't take His cues from them: He prepared them, and ordered them, to exhibit, in the structure of their social and political and domestic and cultic life, the deepest mysteries divinity and humanity.21

I am glad we have a military force of ready trained killers to foreign threats, but those who have trained, as a career choice, to mindlessly take orders and kill, kill, kill are not the ones I want to hear from about Christ or any other messenger of peace, tolerance and salvation.

Since they apparently can not put him to death, they take Jesus off to Pilate, hoping to establish a charge of treason from his claim to be king of the Jews, and so to convince the governor that he is dangerous to law and order.

Sorry, but I won't take marching orders from some guy who is reading from a book that was held in the power of corrupt men tanslated numerous times by the method of hand written copies.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

Once the tomb pericope is separated from the rest of the Gospel it is seen that it could not have existed in this form as an independent tradition, for the mention of the women with which it begins has had to take the form it does in order to link what follows with the preceding Passion story.

Joseph not only acknowledges his fatherhood by naming the boy; he assumes the responsibility of his safety by taking mother and infant to Egypt in order to escape from the murderous designs of Herod the Great and subsequently by moving his family to Nazareth in order to avoid the jeopardy of living under the rule of Archelaus.

i doubt they have much or any of social welfare for them, and more importantly many or most, if not all, monastic orders were actually pretty self - sufficient and all, tending not only to fields and buildings, before land lived righteously on was taken / stolen from them, something which happened at various places.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

But God ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place not least through one of his creatures in particular, namely, the human beings who reflect his image... He has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of creation... So the objection about us trying to build God's kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one's head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers...» (207).

The Greek word order favors taking «from heaven» with «lightning» rather than «fall»; i.e., it does not mean «fall from heaven» but «fall like lightning,» suddenly.

At the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.»

Kenneth agree with you totally its not just adams and abrahams problem its us guys we give in to our wives to keep the peace we should learn that the best way is always Gods way not our way or mans way.That to me is the message behind the story.The issue is rather than taking on the burden of his wife Abraham should have taken it back to the Lord its in our weakness he strengthens us.In the end he did what any married man would have done in order to please his wife.We are no different we put our wives or children church work before the Lord just as he did and loo at the consequences that came from that decision the arab nations became a thporn in there side.In my mind we need to put him first always.When we please the Lord he will bless us and our relationships when we do it our way there will be consequences.brentnz

I have to take the pill in order to have a period, because if I didn't, I would get cancer from the build up of lining in my uterus.

And in truth just this demand for complete obedience which involves the whole man takes a heavy burden from man, however paradoxical this sounds; for he is now set free from the endless and useless task of searching for commands and prohibitions which he must know in order to act rightly; from the fear of having failed here and there because he did not know the scriptural precept or its right interpretation; from the contempt which was felt for the people who did not know the Law.

Hence the succession is confused with spatial order; the duration of concomitant motions is judged erroneously from the distance covered by the moving bodies without taking into account the differences in speed; and the relation of simultaneity is not disentangled from spatial coincidence.

1928 editorial from the Wall Street Journal, «What America needs today is not Government controls, industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop; America needs to return to the day when grandpa took the team out of the field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon which grandma put all the children after she washed their faces shining clean; and they drove off to prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the Bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another.»

That the whole constitution of many persons may be such that this paradox repels them is indeed true, but one ought not for this reason to make faith something different in order to be able to possess it, but ought rather to admit that one does not possess it, whereas those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

Did it not enable Christians to take heathens from barbaric conditions in order to civilize and missionize them?

Acts 5:29 One must take one's orders from God, not from earthly authorities, if those authorities are asking one to commit crimes.

Indeed, he does not shrink from taking a criminal as an example, perhaps one well known at the time, since the children of light can learn even from the children of darkness: that unjust steward who is put out of his office does not think of using excuses in order to hold onto his position; he thinks only how, with one final deceit, he can make his future secure while he still has the ability to do so (Luke 16:1 — 8).