Sentences with phrase «of achieving anything»

In addition, we of course have no surety of achieving anything like a «near - zero by 2050» emissions control.

Given these starting conditions, the likelihood of achieving anything close to a 5 % real return seems quite slim, 9 creating a considerable need for alternative solutions.

This is just a string of ever - escalating insults and debauchery, screenwriters and directors Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Horrible Bosses 2) doing an absolutely horrific job of achieving anything approaching balance between the tender and the profane.

And its fruitless endeavor to be just that is what kills any hope of achieving anything close to fine cinema.

Whether gracefully gliding across the stage in dance, pounding the boards in a play, or lighting up the screen in such popular films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the multi-faceted Saldana seems capable of achieving anything she puts her mind to.

I didn't feel it was really possible to change, but reading lots of success stories from others helped me believe I am truly capable of achieving anything I put my mind to.

Watching PSG play yesterday completely confirmed the point of many that with Le Fraud we have no chance of achieving anything else but last 16 on CL and top 4 on the EPL.....

Just please don't have any hopes of achieving anything more than a top four as long as he's at the helm.

It got so bad that Fernando decided that he'd prefer to do the Indy 500 than race at Monaco, and on a few occasions even retired a car that had nothing wrong with it because he couldn't be bothered to drive around near the back with no hope of achieving anything meaningful.

I truly believe that each human being is capable of achieving anything they dream about, as long as they put their mind to it.

Philosophy succeeds in rendering me... help in its individual disciplines precisely through each of these disciplines not reflecting, and not being able to reflect, on the wholeness of man... in every one of these disciplines the possibility of its achieving anything in thought rests precisely on its objectification, on what may be termed its «de-humanization.»

They demonstrate the tightening effect of various theoretical priors including an «expert» prior but none of them achieve anything beyond sticking with the original F&G prior.

Not exact matches

Nobody ever achieved anything without the support of a great team.

Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

Although Periscope has attracted a certain number of passionate users — and has been cited in the past by influential users such as Deray McKesson, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement — it hasn't really achieved anything close to mainstream acceptance.

He also said, «If you've got a happy, motivated group of people you're working with, you can achieve anything.»

They say you can achieve anything if you work hard and dedicate the appropriate amount of time and energy to professional development and career pursuits.

With boundless energy and moments of quiet introspection, he talks about teamwork and the potential each of us has to achieve anything we set our minds to.

In this dynamic and energizing keynote drawing from his experiences in sport, business and philanthropy, Clemons will talk with unabashed passion about teamwork, about the potential in each of us to achieve anything we set our minds to, and about how putting your heart, fully, into everything you do can make you a better leader — and your organization exponentially more successful.

«People struggle to define unique identities - with no apparent reason to develop a talent, practice creativity, engage their intellectual curiosity, or achieve much of anything, many people are left feeling purposeless, unmotivated, unfulfilled and alone,» says Bolton.

In summary, we have not seen anything to give us any confidence that Tribune on its own, with the resources and competitive position it has today, can achieve over any reasonable period of time the value for shareholders that we believe can likely be achieved through a transaction with Gannett

With a nearly endless supply of apps designed to cross-post anything we can enter into a digital device, you'd think the impossible had finally been achieved.

Some may think that he truly believes everything he says and that he holds deep political convictions that he hopes to achieve with his campaign; others may think he's willing to say anything in order to stay at the center of attention.

The inflation target was achieved, the average rate of unemployment was low and the variability of both real GDP and unemployment were if anything slightly lower than in the past.

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The question arises - if indeed we experience a period of rising interest rates or low and stagnant interest rates in the years ahead, how could we position ourselves to achieve anything but similarly low returns?

In a world in which, after inflation, even an average long - term return of 4 % annually might be hard to achieve, your own performance chasing could take a bigger bite out of your returns than anything else.

«We have not seen anything to give us any confidence that Tribune on its own, with the resources and competitive position it has today, can achieve over any reasonable period of time the value for shareholders that we believe can likely be achieved through a transaction with Gannett,» Frank said.

This didn't really do anything profitable for the bank, but it allowed bank managers and other employees to achieve bonuses based on a certain amount of products being «sold» to customers.

justsayin, you have failed repeatedly to produce any single shred of proof that your drivel is worth the bandwidth it consumes or that prayer achieves anything.

Yeah, go back to your X-Box and let the real thinkers like DumbG there conjecture about all the things no one can disprove, for to truly disprove anything you need complete knowledge of everything in the universe, and since no human will ever achieve that, people like DumbG can tell as many unproven «truths» as they want.

A huge amount of productivity is lost every year by companies whose workers are putting a percentage of their creative minds into flirting rather than into achieving anything of value for their employers.

Much that is anything but true democracy may hide behind the fagade of representative democracy; on the other hand, a society which is not democratically constituted in the normal sense of the word may sometimes achieve what a democracy aims at.

Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.

Such men who want to make it through the therapeutic gauntlet must keep their cool, resist any temptation to criticize the system, and, above all, learn how to achieve the psychobabble goal of «transparency» while being anything but transparent about who they are and what they really believe.

All he says is: «I am continually astonished by those theists who... seem to rejoice in natural selection as God's way of achieving his creation... God wouldn't need to do anything at all» (ch.

«When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all.»

How can the freedom of anything be achieved when your only goal is to silence any and all opposition to your selected claims.

Second, I suggest that the talk about «resurrection of the body» is an assertion that the totality of the material world and of human history, as well as of every man in that history who, with his brethren, has achieved good in his existence in the world, is usable by God who through it has been enriched in His own experience without changing in His supremely worshipful deity — the God unsurpassable by anything not Himself, but open to enrichment in being what He is and in terms of what He does.

But we have no understanding of anything if we think that this is normal, that we have achieved it ourselves, that we deserve it.

It will be a good while yet before anything is achieved on the level of interreligious communication and dialogue, let alone on that of multireligious consciousness, that can be compared for quality to the impressive monologue of the Encyclopaedia.

The failure to achieve anything at Heidelberg, and the failure to quieten Tetzel with a Doctorate of Theology presented to him by the University of Frankfort - am - Oder, founded in 1506 was irritating.

Story and Photos by Dave DeWitt «One bellyful don» fatten de hog,» goes a proverb in Barbados, meaning that it takes bit of an effort to achieve anything worthwhile.

Therefore, if this book is to be anything more than information on interesting occurrences in the past, more than a walk through a museum of antiquities, if it is really to lead to our seeing Jesus as a part of the history in which we have our being, or in which by critical conflict we achieve being, then this book must be in the nature of a continuous dialogue with history.

«One bellyful don» fatten de hog,» goes a proverb in Barbados, meaning that it takes bit of an effort to achieve anything worthwhile.

Again, I went with a homemade version, if anything, just to test the limits of my skills and see if I could achieve that perfectly crunchy, salty fried onion that grace green bean casseroles all across America.

The wine adds a nice depth of flavor which can't be achieved with anything else.

I didn't want anything too rich or chocolately but more along the oatmeal raisin type of cookie... I don't eat oats anymore so that chewy texture is sometimes a challenge to achieve in a cookie but this recipe does the trick perfectly!

Lastly perhaps he has also seen what Sanchez and Ozil have been seeing and being the reason for stalling their contract, which is a lack of ambition from the people upstairs and a lack of belief that this team and club in it's shot - term has a chance at achieving anything better than that being offered at Chelsea.

The worst part being, he'll probably leave it in shambles without really achieving anything of note despite being given a significant war chest and he will probably offload assets too.