Sentences with phrase «of abandoned wells»

Only one of the wells was on the state's list of abandoned wells.

Unfortunately the number of abandoned wells jumped from 164 in 2014 to 704 this year.

On his way to visit Kaori for a psychic reading, Virgil has an unpleasant run - in with Chet, which results in his backpack, complete with guinea pig Gulliver, being thrown to the bottom of an abandoned well.

Not exact matches

Photographer Matt Hurst, who is well - versed in shooting abandoned spaces, documented the interior of the hotel for the first time in 2007, and then again in 2010, to see what was left of the historic landmark.

Small - business owners aren't likely to abandon the Tea Party; and being stripped of small - business support isn't good news for the GOP establishment.

Instagram is hanging on to a demographic that's rapidly abandoning the Facebook platform, according to a new RBC Capital Markets survey, making Mark Zuckerberg's buy of the photo - sharing app «one of the best acquisitions in internet history» according to one analyst.

GM has abandoned several money - losing markets over the past three years as part of a broader strategy to boost profit margins and conserve capital to fund electric and automated vehicles as well as new models for core markets in China, the U.S. and Latin America.

The challenge: Getting customers to abandon well - known wireless phone service providers in favor of an upstart brand.

Many of us remember the 1.0 version of these stores taking over an abandoned Best Buy or Borders in the weeks leading up to Halloween.

However, if you think «Buy now» is a good CTA, you're not gonna realize the maximum benefit of abandoned cart emails.

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It appears that many of them were not very well thought out when first proposed and upon reflection were quietly abandoned.

First launched in June of 2015, this well - received product provides a quick and easy solution for those looking to retarget and convert customers who abandoned their carts, via automated email follow - ups.

It could be that some of those well - heeled customers already have abandoned their banks, which is why some institutions are now pulling back on debit - card fees, McBride says.

For instance, if there is a customer who had abandoned a shopping cart, it will be a better idea for the retailer to send it so that the intention is refreshed in the mind of that potential buyer.

Four U.S. industry sources who follow China policy closely said they were unsettled by any suggestion of abandoning the «one China» policy, which they said had served the business community well for several decades.

There's no better validation of that forecast than Disney's recent move to launch two of its own streaming video services, which abandon its TV networks in favor of bringing content directly to consumers.

To abandon all religous facets of human life is to live on the edge of well depression heading for mental collapse.

Oh, by the way, the time after jesus or christ whatever you want to call this preacher that did good for the barbarians who lived 2000 years ago and then abandoned them and left them with what was supposed to be a time of enlightenment and spritual awaking but turned out to be almost as bloodinga time period as the old testament.

I propose that we abandon our religions of good theology and good works.

She has prosti.tuted herself to other «gods» who are indeed not God, and God has actively as well as passively chastised her by abandoning her to the unintended consequences of her actions.

Fresh on the heels of his very well - received take on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg is setting his sights on one of Stanley Kubrick's abandoned screenplays: a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic.

I had a friend years ago that abandoned the teachings of Paul; I have some acquaintences now that are «Red Letter Christians», as well.

And yet the intent of the ceremony, in making the union of the couple part of a wider commitment involving family and the community, is often abandoned, as evidenced by the typical bridal couple's excuse for a lack of consideration for the wishes and comfort of relatives and other guests: «Well, it's our wedding, so we get to do whatever we want.»

The point is that our culture has reached a level of understanding where many of the well educated scientific and cultural leaders of our day have abandoned supersti - tion in favor of science and reason.

More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

GQ had the opportunity to make a good and fair point, but instead put Christians (rightly) on the defensive for singling it out as the holy book that all of culture should abandon.

Sensing that Christianity required abandoning their intellectual integrity, some of the best and brightest of the next generation made a choice they didn't have to make.

Therefore, before we agree with the criticism and abandon preaching, we ought to test to see how well all the potential resources of preaching are being used.

Jesus, the Good Shepherd, does not humiliate us or abandon us to remorse: in Him, the tenderness of the Father speaks, He who comforts and raises up; He who makes us pass from the disintegration of shame --- because shame surely causes us to disintegrate --- to the fabric of trust; who restores courage, recommits responsibility, and consigns us to the mission.

Allow this center in a man to remain dulled by the crowd; allow it to continue dissipated by busyness; permit it to go on evading its function by a round of distractions, or to lull itself by a carefully chosen rotation of pleasures; abandon it to its attempt to drug, to narcotize suffering and remorse which might reveal to it its true condition; let it wither away the sense of its own validity by false theories of man's nature, of his place in the social pattern, of his way of salvation; in short, allow any of these well - known forms of domestication of man's responsible core as an individual, to continue unchallenged, and you as a thinker and a friend of men have committed the supreme treason!

In a new 100 - page document advising faithful on how to pursue holiness in the modern world, Francis said «defamation and slander can become commonplace and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned... even in Catholic media».

This simple fact of human life as well as of the Church is often overlooked by the progressive, when he screams that developments are too slow, that antiquated habits and customs are not abandoned fast enough, especially with regard to canon law.

It includes as well his parents, the one who washed his hands of his execution, and the disciples whom he named and who abandoned and betrayed him.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

Due to problems with allegedly excessive emotionalism as well as difficulties in transmitting charisma to a second generation, the Assemblies of God faced some of the same problems that caused the early church of the first centuries to abandon «signs and wonders.»

But if Christians allow death to rule in the realm of physicality, then ultimately the doctrine of creation is in jeopardy — the doctrine that God remains the good creator who loves the world that God has made and who is not going to abandon it.

Yet I can see no good reason, short of abandoning my own particularity, for forsaking those limitations and those possibilities.

Nevertheless, while The Heart of Virtue may not be destined for the best - seller list, it is an encouraging sign that we have not altogether abandoned what has been at the core of moral reflection for two millennia.

But the distinction of better and worse must not be abandoned in the process.

Rather, the way is indicated to the abiding enrichment, fulfillment, and joy of life that follow from abandoning self - will, the quest for success and power, and the demand for autonomy, in favor of dedication to the right and good.

Phenomenology, at least in its first practitioners and its early stages, was conceived as a conscious rejection of subjectivism and an attempt to recover, without abandoning inwardness, the experienced reality of external things and of the self as well.

The keepers of the bible incorporated the god stuff since they needed to keep teaching about their god, they could not abandon him, and needed others to worship as well, so take what the buddha taught, put the god spin on it,... you see... what you are saying is just re-inforcing what I am telling you.

Since we in the late 20th century now have good scientific, epistemological, and even metaphysical reasons to abandon our former belief in the supernatural, the time has come for yet another rationally ordained supersession of an old god.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

A prince of the Church with the courage to abandon the shell of the institution and fight on principle, I thought, would have done better than Pius XII.

Especially in the early stages of controversial theories of great generality, and in the decision to abandon a well - developed research programme in favour of a promising but undeveloped new one, the assessment is an act of personal judgment.

To rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily work of the scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving God.

Yes, yes, there are reasons why some of these relationships are not wise or feasible or sustainable... but again, the undesirable results don't allow us to abandon all efforts at reaching the best outcomes.