Sentences with phrase «odd people in»

If there's 30 odd people in there, it's physically impossible to get around to everyone - no matter how good the instructor is.»

There are a couple of odd people in it.

Not exact matches

Yet timing seemed odd: As Facebook is still recovering from its worst privacy crisis in history, is this really the time to start tracking something as private about people as their dating habits?

Data reveals that more and more people are finally starting to realize the answer to this question is yes, leaving Black Friday shopping to those odd individuals who enjoy the bloodsport of in - person discount hunting.

People in Israel's tight - knit startup community are talking about the reported death, and the odd life, of once high - flying startup Mobli.

If you're uncomfortable with people hitting you up at odd hours, let them know in a tactful way.

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

Famous people evoke all sorts of odd and perhaps extreme moral judgments in us.

(Example: A perk like membership in an exclusive private club might look odd from the outside, but a moment's reflection should reveal that an executive who is responsible for massive fundraising efforts genuinely needs to be part of the kind of clubs where he or she can network with the right sorts of people.)

If watching people compete in video - game tournaments sounds a bit odd to you, you're not the only one.

These are apps the average person may not use every day, but they do come in handy on the odd occasion, which creates an expectation among users.

In 2007, Amoruso was working odd jobs at shoe and record stores when she realized she was bad at working for other people.

And so that's... that is one that... again, it's one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether.

One thing to keep in mind is [something in your company that could seem very odd to people coming to work there].

The result, according to a person who saw a rough cut of the commercial and another who saw the final cut, featured few shots of the shoes and instead had a woman twirling on what looked like a stripper pole and male athletes in sports bras striking odd poses.

I had done a link building clinic before 10 or so people before, but this was the first serious thing I had done — talking before 200 - 300 some odd internet marketers in Seattle.

People will pay more in the more expensive store just to get points on their card, and a nice lump sum pay - out later, rather than save the odd cent or two now.

He explained why he thought this was odd: «In terms of the Christian message, it's important that people believe in botIn terms of the Christian message, it's important that people believe in botin both.

Then again, I can think of tons of things in other peoples faiths I find odd.

Mankowski finds it odd that bishops should accept as self evident that the ministries of the Church, in service to the People of God, should be described as «power structures.»

On a recent trip across America, what surprised me most was the number of people - over 200 in one city, 80 to 150 elsewhere - who wanted to discuss this odd word, «acedia.»

In fact, it starts to seem decidedly odd that we have elevated human life — i.e., pure biological continuation — so far above the quality of the life in question for the person living iIn fact, it starts to seem decidedly odd that we have elevated human life — i.e., pure biological continuation — so far above the quality of the life in question for the person living iin question for the person living it.

And that the Quar «an had 600 - odd years of people asking questions of and critiquing Christianity to build on when supposedly providing answers to the holes in Christianity is not surprising in the least.

And yes, it feels a little odd when everyone else in the room is checking their phones and laughing at things and I'm just standing there, but I think there was a time when groups of people in rooms all functioned perfectly well, phoneless and looking at each other.

God's interest in this people is truly odd.

Of course, if Calvin is correct and God is actually the one in charge, then it becomes a bit odd... or flat our disgusting... to simultaneously think God elects people to suffer for all eternity for their sins.

The commonly assumed distinctions between the «religious» and the «secular» and between «religion» and «morality» are really very odd, says Smith, and make little sense to people who believe that the world has a story, as in upper case Story.

It is caused chiefly by kleptocratic governments or private interests in league with governments that make market exchange unprofitable, that make investment in producing something to exchange silly, that encourage achieving private wealth at the cost of other people's wealth instead of by working, saving and inventing (economists know this last by the odd term «rent seeking»).

On a side note, it's odd to see people arguing over religion considering all of the other problems in America.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

In days past, we could regard these persons and beliefs as «esoterica,» suitable objects of scholarship by odd professors but otherwise of not much concern to our own religious life.

Thousands of people were interviewed about their brushes with death in every kind of situation — being in a car accident, giving birth, attempting suicide, et cetera — and many described the same odd thing: love.

I've only encountered one person in the blog world who thinks such a practice is odd and since you are not him, I didn't think you would mind.

Anyway, despite all the confusion about pre-millenialism, a-millenialism, post-millenialism, the recent invention of the rapture, Paul's confusing statement about «we who remain», the entire book of Revelation not appearing to be written by John because of the Greek used, and the odd way in which eschatological views seem to change in the New Testament Pauline letters, and the bizarrely easy way people like Thessalonians became convinced Christ had already returned in their time, and all the other confusing things about New Testament prophecy — the truth is that it is all trustworthy and you should not question this.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it odd that people blindly believe all of the stories in the bible, considering they were written / created by people who thought the world was flat and sea monsters swallowed ships in the ocean.

Odd isn't it, that according to the Bible any person living with a divorced person is living in persistent adultery, and yet this is no longer a problem for most Christians.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

This is odd for a people who have been taught that we must confess our sin by being trained by a community that has learned how to name those aspects of our lives that stand in the way of our being Jesus» disciples.

People are influenced by the oddest things, too: one passionately anti-Catholic ex-Catholic started the journey back home when some one finally explained to him what the words of the Salve Regina meant: he had sung it regularly at his Catholic school in the 1980s but never had it translated and assumed it was just a weird and beautiful chant with no real meaning.

The isolationist party, best known by the name of America First, was in fact a jumble of people with a whole variety of agendas: there were those who believed that the United States should have no truck with Europe and its wars, there were socialists who found nothing to choose among the imperialists on both sides, and there were those who believed that Germany's was not necessarily the wrong side to be on, this latter group itself being a kind of odd amalgam of Anglophobes, anti-Semites who said that the war against Hitler was merely a Jewish war, and immigrant German patriots.

Richie P «I'm a «religious» person myself (I put it in quotations because I don't think of myself that way, but that is what ninety - odd percent of people would label me) and I hear stories like this all the time.

gman, I find it odd how often I see Christians on this blog encouraging people to «choose to believe» in Jesus, or alternately stating that atheists «chose to believe» that God doesn't exist, as if this stuff about Pharaoh wasn't written in their scriptures.

I'm a «religious» person myself (I put it in quotations because I don't think of myself that way, but that is what ninety - odd percent of people would label me) and I hear stories like this all the time.

Therefore it is useless to try to define or draw similarities between non-theists or atheists with these odd - ball dictators and certainly the people who had to live under them in non-democratic regimes.

Sure the odd person might actually believe in Captain Kirk (I'm a Canadain, so know he's not real), but for the vast majority it is pure escapist entertainment and noone is fooled or injured.

The New Testament is devoted to teaching people how to be in community with the crazy, odd and wildly different people of God.

When people are tight in finances, it usually means that they are working odd hours in order to save money.

It still seems odd to me that you would have looked over those comments, and not truly felt that at least some people were concerned that might more going on, and that in some form or other, they hoped it went well.

Now, this may strike us as a little odd because we know Jesus wasn't in the habit of speaking unkindly about slaves or people of low status.

and so it's easy to fall into this kind of thinking for anyone, and (2) Christian culture is so pervasive even our people get bitten by it — we live in an odd time where you can be exposed to other church's preachers on the radio, podcasts, Christian books, etc. and so the church you go to is not going to be the only influence on how you think and approach God & Christianity.