Sentences with phrase «of a cliff if»

All of the faith in the world that you won't fall off of a cliff if you step off, will not provide you with the evidence that your faith is real.

You can even jump of the cliffs if you're feeling adventurous.

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This is what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called the fiscal cliff, and he and many other economists worry that if all of these tax increases and spending cuts take effect simultaneously, the U.S. will send itself into a self - inflicted recession.

A new study shows that CEOs will reap huge financial benefits if a fiscal cliff campaign some of them are undertaking is successful.

If you don't have a fear of heights, you should stay in this transparent pod, one of three suspended on the side of an Andean cliff.

But what if the cliff were more of a slope, where families were eased off the subsidy gradually, giving them time to adjust?

I think a lot of people in the industry recognize this... And even if they are only whispering to each other... I think the advertising industry is like lemmings on the edge of a cliff.

The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election year.

3) The fiscal cliff would amount to a 4.5 % - of - GDP drag on growth in 2013 if all tax cuts and transfer payments were allowed to expire and draconian spending cuts were triggered.

If the American government can not resolve its debt crisis, it will face a fiscal cliff at the start of the year.

«The reason people are really focused on the fiscal cliff is that if no action is taken, the combined impact of all the tax cuts expiring, tax relief not enacted and automatic spending cuts that will kick in at the end of the year is equal to between a 4 and 5 percent GDP hit to the US economy,» says Simon Roy, president of investing tool Jemstep.

«From a tax perspective, I'm of the mind that if you prepare properly you won't need to walk off the cliff — at least, not as a result of tax filing,» says Doug Bekker, tax partner at BDO USA in Grand Rapids, Mich..

AS FAR AS INCREASED TAXES FOR ALL - If the wealthy will have to endure a tax raise no matter what, let's go off the cliff and let everybody endure the tax raise compliments of Obama.

If the thesis pursued so far in this chapter is correct, the position of humanity today is that of the man in the swirling water, not that of the man high above safe on the cliff.

To return to the earlier parable, ideas do not much matter if they are held or being debated by men whose investment in them is as remote as that of the man high on the cliff who idly speculates about the options available to men threatened with drowning.

THere have always been snake oil salesman who have the gift of a silver tongue and can convince stupid people (sheep) to listen, believe and follow them even if it's right off the cliffs.

And I am saying if you do that you are DOOMED because your first indication of the cliff is the sensation of falling and the you can't stop from hitting the ground because it is TOO LATE.

But no, if you promote your faith, you're like the rest of the «Christian» sheep... just blindly leading others off that cliff of reality; so you need something to distinguish yourself from other «Christian» faiths by attacking other Christian faiths.

If someone were denying that a cliff at the end of the road exists, and believes the road continues on in the face of all of the evidence presented to the contrary, we can safely say that person is delusional.

@ JohnR: To paraphrase a teaching I once heard, if I told you that everyone in the world was subject to the law of gravity, you now have the choice to reject what I say and jump off a cliff to prove me wrong, or you can live your life subject to that and take caution around cliffs or other falling hazards.

And if all the generations that have lived on earth rose up and united into one crowd in order to charge against eternity and to coerce it also with their enormous majority, eternity splits them up as easily as the imperturbability of the cliff that, without moving from the spot, disperses the foaming surf, as easily as a storm wind in its advance scatters the chaff.»

If I drew a cartoon for the «Naked Pastor» it would be a guy standing in the middle of shattered glass with buckets of rocks throwing them over a cliff at neighborhood of full of glass houses.

But if God is like gravity, then I will suffer the consequences of breaking his laws just as surely as I'll break my neck if I step off a cliff.

If you ignore the law of gravity and jump off a cliff, then you get hurt.

If you notice, The Fountainhead begins with a baptism... Roark standing on the edge of the cliff, preparing to dive into the water.

Piper's son: Lets use our CPS3000 (christian plasma cutter 3000) for this war: By the way Q, if you feel the need to start yet another war you're going to make us all fall off of the fiscal cliff for sure!

If the media proves corrupt, then it should fall off the cliff with the corrupt politicians for the long - term benefit of a suffering American citizenry.

If those who are anti- Christians feel they are backing Christians or any persons of faith into a corner or off a cliff then what did you expect?

If we think, however, that having solved the problem of cooperative effort at the bottom of the cliff we also have solved it at the top — in prevention — we are greatly mistaken.

Instead, we have a hazy trail of breadcrumbs leading every which way... sometimes right off a cliff if we get a clue wrong, according to believers.

I had similar feelings about Todd and my wedding, but when it was all said and done I am glad it was larger (and by that I mean it wasn't just the two of us on top of our special cliff spot in a thicket of birch trees, which is where I would have prefered to have gotten married if I knew it wouldn't insult our friends and family).

If you project growth for Felicio (instead of him falling off a statistical cliff like he did this season), it's easy to see where the basis for giving him 4 years, $ 32m was.

I am of the opinion that if Romo was healthy / still playing any of those years that Dez production would not have fallen off a cliff, and particularly in Zeke's absence last year, the two would have made games much more competitive.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

If he starts cutting corners and leaving cap space on the table while raising ticket prices I'll get mad at him, but until then, a couple years of training wheels with Holland to steer out of or into the cliff seems fair enough to me.

If teams and city officials couldn't sway the public with handy mnemonics, they'd appeal to their sense of civic pride, sometimes warning that the city would fall off a social and economic cliff.

Seriously though, I didn't kill myself when we sold Fabregas, I didn't catch a grenade when we sold Nasri and he went and peed all over the Arsenal badge, I didn't jump in front of a train when we sold Van persie, I didn't skew off a cliff when Fabregas joind chelsea, I'm not gonna kill myself if we don't sign anyone.

teams that don't fall a cliff if their best player sits for long periods of time, or is accountable to a T or is on a short leash, because there will be other stars that compensate.

If you felt like you were being aggressively and relentlessly chased by a menacing stranger, then as you approach the edge, jumping off of a cliff might seem like your only option.

If Marine Le Pen wins in France or Trump really turns his fire on Brussels, the EU might become more afraid of the cliff edge and go the extra mile in trying to make Brexit work.

The Brexit deal they may or may not have secured by then is likely to be softer than their «cliffs of Dover» election rhetoric implied - a basic necessity if they are to recover from their thrashing in London.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

There is much concern in Washington about the impending «fiscal cliff» of severe cuts to federal programs that will automatically result if Congress and the Obama administration can not agree on a deficit reduction plan by the end of this year.

«I don't think he's going to be president of the United States, and if he's going to be our nominee I fear he's going to drive the Republican Party off a cliff,» Pataki said in a Fox News interview on April 14, five days before the New York primary.

If the Treasury had its way in full, the likelihood is that people on incomes of roughly # 40,000 - # 50,000 would face a permanent mix of withdrawn tax breaks and higher tax rates - what Altman calls a «cliff edge».

«When I look to the future, if this trajectory continues, we'll be heading over the cliff,» said Lewis, who also serves as president - elect of the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

The governor had to squeeze his visits into the broader drama of the negotiations over the «fiscal cliff,» a moniker that refers to the expiration of Bush tax cuts and $ 1.2 billion in spending cuts if Congress doesn't act to reduce the deficit.

«If you step off the top of a cliff, how does the Earth down there «know» you are up there for it to attract you?»

So, we are charting around, kind of, this wheel if you [will], [that you] see in the article these ideas that, well there is climate change, here is where the cliff looks like it might be; we are getting dangerously close to [it] biodiversity loss --[we're] over the cliff already on that one.

If they were driving them over a cliff or something, you'd find masses of bones at the bottom.