Sentences with phrase «occasions of trying»

If after multiple occasions of trying he still isn't listening, that's also different.

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Though she tried to steer clear of political disputes, she stumbled into the headlines on a few occasions.

So now is as good an occasion as any to get into one of the tried and true investment axioms, a tool that do - it - yourselfers and advisor - assisted investors can practice over and over again until it becomes second nature.

Regardless of the occasion, there's always that awkward moment where someone pretends to use the restroom but is really trying to tell a waiter about the reason you're celebrating — and ask for a birthday cake.

Business occasions call for just the right touch when you're trying to enlargen your circle of connections.

They were about other figures in Trump's orbit — an unnamed thug, and a man she believes to be Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — who she says tried to intimidate her out of sharing the truth about her affair with Trump on two separate occasions (in 2011 and 2018, respectively).

Due to the occasion of adding both, Gas and NEO to the list of trading coins, Cobinhood representatives added that they are constantly trying to meet the needs of their users, so they are working on adding new coins and tokens.

I've repeated on many occasions the importance of not trying to call the bottom on a market and natural gas is no different.

Nobody will accuse Whitehead of irresponsible Hegelianism when he speaks of «self - diversity of actual occasions»; by this term he obviously tries to express the synthesis of unity and diversity, of continuity and difference, which constitutes the very nature of succession.

I tried to end my life on several occasions and had a constant image in my head of me hanging from the tree in our garden.

(3) At first Whitehead tries to derive the subjective aim from the activities of the occasion itself, as it seeks to unify its multiple past in the light of the multiple interrelatedness of the realm of eternal objects (i.e., the nontemporal actuality of God objectified).

Both Cobb and Sherburne try to unify human experience within the dominant thread of occasions, but our supposition is that the unity of many bodily experiences occurs within threads of nondominant occasions within the supposedly nonsocial nexus.

You said, «Considering the consistent treatment of this topic on this blog» The topic of abortion comes up on occasion when some religious lunatic tries to force his or her moronic beliefs on the sane part of society.

Once launched in a particular direction, participant observers seek occasions that present an object of inquiry and try to uncover the object's function and meaning.

If what you say is true, then why is it that I see billboards, roadside signs, TV, print and onlineadvertisements EVERY day in which religious groups try to force their particular brand of religion on everyone, yet on the rare occasion that an atheist does the same, it makes national news.

They also know that ordinary living imposes strain enough on a marriage, without inviting the additional difficulties occasioned by trying to bridge two subcultures which the majority of society are determined to keep separate.

Professor Christian had a try at it in his An Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics but came down on the view that what are repeated from one actual occasion to another are characteristics.

Evidently in trying to understand natural moments and how they stand to each other Santayana is concerned with just those issues with which Whitehead is coping in his discussion of the constitution of actual occasions and their influence upon one another.

My response to this question is that however we try to articulate such a conception, God turns out to be redundant, a fifth wheel, an entity without a function precisely because ordinary actual occasions are not only capable of performing the function in question, they actually do perform it.

In the churches I am part of, one of the things I try to do on occasion, is host a movie study.

I try on occasions to downplay my words so that the common folk are able to find a sensation of understanding and not be left as a «hanging chad» so to write.

I would then move on to what is commonly called higher criticism and try to ascertain whether the beatitudes were spoken on a single occasion or whether they represent teachings of Jesus delivered on various occasions.

Whitehead tried to derive the unity of the subject from the concrescent activity of the emerging occasion itself.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Just as Whitehead, in his phases, wanted to analyze the «genetic process» constituting an «actual occasion» (PR 26/31), Piaget tried to understand the most important stages of development of the (active) «epistemic» subject and the mechanics of their construction.

The movement begins with Kierkegaard, who tries to do two things: to give a phenomenological description of anxiety as the occasion (not the cause) of sin, and to give a phenomenological account of the forms which result from man's fall such as loss of selfhood, impersonal objectivism, and despair.

In fact, he tried to silence the chanting of his name on a few occasions and told people to sing «Jesus Christus» instead.

When I lie awake at night, it usually because I am trying to figure out a problem or reviewing things I need to take care of, or on occasion, if I can't sleep, meditating.

On one occasion we were trying to talk above the noise of the seven children — a violin was being played in one room, a piano in another.

We are so slothful and perverse that even an honest recognition of our sin can be the occasion of our gravest sin of all: trying to make a fool out of God.

-- commonly prove fruitless because someone proposes, in effect, that we try to consider the life of an animal as though it were one of Whitehead's occasions, with a single subjective aim determining the whole course of its life.

It rises to the occasion and tries to dig deep into a divine reservoir of strength and fortitude for not its own sake, but for the sake of others.

In an excited letter to Spalatin (on this occasion he was considered highly suitable for a discussion of the text), dated 14 December 1516, Luther wrote: «If reading a pure and solid theology, which is available in German and is of a quality closest to that of the Fathers, might please you, then get yourself the sermons of Johann Tauler, the Dominican... I have seen no theological work in Latin or German that is more sound and more in harmony with the gospel than this... Taste it and see how sweet the Lord is, [a quotation from the Psalms] after you have first tried and realised how bitter is whatever we are».

That is, when there is little response to the call of God, when the occasions constitute themselves to carry forward projects determined in their past and impervious to the new directions in which God tries to steer them, then the new possibilities to which God calls subsequently can be less and less different from their own stubborn projects.

Indeed, they were often dense and hard to teach, and on the rare occasions when they did understand him they would usually try to talk him out of his ideas.

I very rarely drink alcohol anymore, not because I have much against having a drink on a special occasion, but because it throws me completely off track for the next couple of days — it's a feeling of zero balance and uselessness in anything I try to do.

To add sweetness to ours ive tried adding extra dried fruit and on a couple of occasions added chocolate, either raw chocolate we've made or cacao powder.

So I completely diverged from the dessert idea and tried to think - up some sort of appetizer that would both suit the occasion and not require any extra physical exertion from the act of cutting something.

Among things I change on occasion are: — Olive oil instead of coconut oil — Honey instead of maple syrup — Replacing some of the flour with chickpea flour — I never tried the millet actually but have instead always added pumpkin seeds which complement the babana marvelously — I always cut down on the sugar in half (I generally do so in recipes) and I dislike cloves so no.

I do like mojitos on occasion, and I've always wanted to try cupcakes that highlight some of the mixed drinks I like to have sometimes.

Posted in 68 days of Gourmet, Blogging Events, Cheese, Holiday, Pasta, Side Dish, Special Occasion, Tried and True, Vegetarian, tagged Cheese, comfort food, macaroni, macaroni and cheese, Pasta, southern, Vegetarian on November 19, 2009 27 Comments»

I'm usually a French Toast kind of girl when I cook one of those «special occasion» breakfasts (Thanksgiving, Christmas, overnight guests, etc.) but I must try these.

So when I make my salads I cram»em full of veggies and add meat on occasion, and I always try to have homemade croutons or some sort of crunchy carb, like tortilla chips or the guilty pleasure of Doritos.

We eat the processed versions on special occasions because we love them so much, but we're trying to get out of the habit.

For me, of course, it is winter here in Sydney, but I like to try and keep connected to my motherland by having my own little celebrations for these special occasions.

So instead of the cinnamon rolls that she normally tries to turn out for the big occasion, those cinnamon rolls that require yeast and rise times and rolling pins, I offer these Cinnamon Roll Muffins.

When these types of weeks happen it's hard to get dinner on the table in a timely manner so I am always trying to come up with healthy and easy to assembly meals for such occasions ---- join the club, right?

Yes, before you ask, I have tried it in many ways and on a number of occasions and it just doesn't do it for me.

I went to Del Frisco's Grille on two separate occasions recently, first to try their brunch, and second for Burger Month (which is the whole month of May).

if i do have it for dinner, or on a special occasion, i try to have most of my plate covered in veggies and then just eat a little bit of meat.