Sentences with phrase «of certain things about»

You know how it's OK when you make fun of certain things about yourself, but not for other people to make fun of you for those same things?

Not exact matches

The only thing that seems certain about Viacom's future is that Philippe Dauman won't be part of it.
And so for us, it's still about focusing a certain portion of our budget on just pure brand building: creating that emotional connection, disrupting, and doing things in an interesting way.
The beautiful thing about franchising is that, while we may excel in certain aspects of running the business, there are areas in which we lack knowledge and / or expertise.
«Normally I don't care about these kinds of things, but I believe this might actually crystallize the debate about cord - cutting and the need for certain programming no matter what,» Cramer said.
The only thing anyone knows for certain is that consumers and advertisers are about to witness another pie fight full of surprises.
It's one thing to highlight certain aspects of the business (and maybe embellish certain features), but it's entirely different to outright lie about milestones, commitments, relationships, among other things.
If you want to gain entry to any industry there are certain obvious things you need to learn — a body of knowledge about technology or law, for example, formal procedures, the identity of the sector's key players, etc..
The most interesting thing about the leak is that it appears to have been carried out with the assistance of certain elements within the Russian government, according to a statement from the U.S. intelligence department.
Two things are certain about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — confusion reigns, and along much of the pipeline it falls to ordinary people to protect what is important to the places they care about.
And there are certain things about that money machine that denizens of the Valley would rather keep quiet.
At the end of the day, there are some things that people are going to feel hesitant about (like privacy or concerns about sharing certain content), who generally don't post a lot in the first place.
Tying it together Of course, no one knows for certain what will happen this year, and if there's one defining truth of the markets, its that the only thing that's certain about them is uncertaintOf course, no one knows for certain what will happen this year, and if there's one defining truth of the markets, its that the only thing that's certain about them is uncertaintof the markets, its that the only thing that's certain about them is uncertainty.
Would you mind refraining from posting about certain classes of people being unintelligent when you are unable to form coherent sentences or use the correct spelling of COMPLEMENT when referring to two things making a more complete thing.
Santorum is a Catholic of a certain kind, and it's the most important thing about him.
We aren't exactly talking about the same things 1) when I speak of the evangelical church I'm not talking about Church of Christ or half the Baptists but rather the large non-denoms along with certain charismatic / pentacostal denominations.
The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.
Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.
«One thing I am certain of is we're all a sum of our experiences, both good and bad,» he told his fellow graduates, a class of about 150.
He became somewhat popular among the crowds as a result, and certain religious leaders became nervous about some of the things he was saying, so they got the local government to arrest Josh.
While I fully support (and practice) questioning as a way to learn about the universe around us, questioning for the sake of questioning can sometimes derail the process and bog us down needlessly when certain things have already been fully established or accepted.
What songs you choose, how long your worship service is, or the way you preach all communicate certain things about the kind of people that are welcome there and the kind that aren't.
That will mean that the ethos of its common life as a school will tend to privilege certain answers to the questions about construal of the Christian thing, community, and understanding God.
Fair enough, I mean, you make a valid point that one of the biggest things about the democractic party is trying to legislate so many different things when there are certain aspects of my life that the government should have 0 say over.
We need to teach our students about types and logical specimens, but their education is by no means complete unless they can also attain a certain facility for concrete appreciation of things in their own right.
Hoping for the redemption of all creation, Christians maintain a certain eschatological reserve about the way things are.
For as Nisbet points out the really important thing about class is that group membership was by itself a sufficient condition of a certain degree of influence.
After the happy honeymoon she will receive for living down to a cheesey Christian conversion stereotype, she is going to find some ugly things about how Catholics respond to her «questions (about) certain aspects of Catholicism, including the church's positions on homosexuality, contraception and some aspects of religious liberty.»
«I think if we change that step and really become students of each other's narratives and ask questions about why people perceive certain things in a certain way instead of jumping to judgment, then I think we'll be better equipped to have more diversity in local churches.»
You keep assuming certain things about my belief, and then accusing me of these things.
Certain structures of finished fact will determine aspects of the future, so God will know certain things about the future; if a grand piano has just fallen off the top of the Empire State Building, God — along with any person who has seen the piano slide over the railing — knows that in just a very few seconds the piano will smash into the sidewalkCertain structures of finished fact will determine aspects of the future, so God will know certain things about the future; if a grand piano has just fallen off the top of the Empire State Building, God — along with any person who has seen the piano slide over the railing — knows that in just a very few seconds the piano will smash into the sidewalkcertain things about the future; if a grand piano has just fallen off the top of the Empire State Building, God — along with any person who has seen the piano slide over the railing — knows that in just a very few seconds the piano will smash into the sidewalk below.
With response to the comment about why an all powerful, omnipresent God can't explain certain things to a finite mind... There is a flaw in your philosophical trap of reasoning.
But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.
I'm less certain about things, less convinced of my previously held assumptions.
Some of us need to be very certain, very clear about those things.
«The trouble of the modern age,» he said, «is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did.»
His view is that Paul basically gave himself free reign here at the start of his teachings to the gentiles (see also 1:1 a: «Paulos, apostolos ouk ap anthroopoon, oude di anthroopon, alla dia Iesou Christou, kia Theou patros...») and then started preaching his own theology heavily influenced by his own biases and preferences — not that any of the writers were ever completely exempt from it of course, but still the writer felt Paul was quite fundamentalistic at times about certain things he had some clear opinions about, e.g. about relationships and women's position in the church etc, which he then propagated as part of the gospel.
At the time of a certain British air disaster caused by the wickedness of men, we heard a lot about God's permission of this sort of thing destroying people's faith in his existence at all.
I am not certain that this idea is exactly found in Scripture, but regardless of what the original founders thought about the pursuit of happiness, and whether or not it is actually taught in Scripture, the pursuit today is not so much happiness, but pleasure or personal fulfillment, even when such things come at the expense of others.
LOTS of people try to figure out what God would say about certain things.
I've read books about the Bible that were sort of attempts to explain it, but they can't say certain things because you realize the author might lose his or her job, so it ends up avoiding all the real questions everybody has.
So, there I was, pondering, with an old familiar feeling of perplexity (about which more anon), certain reactions to my reaction to various reactions to the pope's last encyclical, when it occurred to me that the one thing on which Hegelians of every stripe — right or left, theological or....
Just about anything people have grown up with or live with becomes natural and people tend to feel absolutely certain about a lot of things they have no basis for believing.
Therefore, if you want to say that we must believe certain things about Jesus of Nazareth, you must show that these things are necessary to his message.
Of course, I am certain there have been (or will be) things I write about with which you disagree.
Some of the things you have written about certain people I would not, I confess, have written.
2Pe 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; 2Pe 1:11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.
I heard someone suggest yesterday that certain apocryphal material was left out because it wasn't profitable for the faith... Just made me think there were a few more things that maybe shouldn't have made the cut... (besides the obvious that those negotiators of the 3rd century probably didn't really care about not making Jesus a misogynist...)
In the first place, the fact of intercession and personal petition as part of prayer implies that there is a certain «open - ness» about the Creation, so that genuinely new and different things may be accomplished in it if human wills are aligned with the Will of God.
For though there is more to be learned about origins, which may do much to fill in the great gaps in our knowledge, and which may necessitate further radical revision in understanding, one thing is certain, and that is that the popular and simple view of origins which obtained among Christians until a hundred years ago has gone for ever.
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