Sentences with phrase «of confidence man»
I've encountered every type of confidence man,» Daley told the Law Times.
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You're pulled into the confidence of this confidence man, and the question at the end of the book is, «Have there been several different characters doing several different confidences, everyone trying to fool you on board this steamship?
And in this respect the smart suits, smooth patter and glossy office meeting rooms in the City suddenly take on a more sinister edge as classic weapons used by a «con - man» (which you will remember is the abbreviation of confidence man) to propagate a belief that turns out to be untrue.
Not exact matches
In Fort Mac, Feldstein leads his team with the confidence of a young man who's done this before and won.
In any event, should you find yourself kissing your wife goodbye as she leaves for work in the morning, you can look after your brood with the confidence of a new - age man.
«Spider - Man: Homecoming» leaves out the radioactive spider bite, the death of Parker's uncle Ben, and focuses heavily on the difficulty that comes with trying to build confidence while still in high school, and is all the better for it.
In quick succession, Redstone's daughter Shari voted against Dauman becoming chairman, Redstone himself expressed a lack of confidence in the man he formerly called «one of the smartest men I know,» and then he removed Dauman from the board of the trust that will control Redstone's $ 40 billion stake in both Viacom and CBS after his death.
When Harte surveyed more than 1,000 men around the age of 22, he found the younger guys using ED medicines recreationally were more likely to report lower confidence in «achieving and maintaining erections» (via New York Daily News).
What's most interesting is that the women in this study behaved just like the men in indicating a history of cheating and a willingness to cheat that increased as greater power bolstered their confidence in their charms.
«Men sometimes are a little bit more vocal in their capabilities... or have a high level of confidence.
There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman of colour in a town run by old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.
Confidence was destroyed, and a universal panic seized upon the dealers... The cry of distress resounded every where, and each man accused his neighbour.
It's no surprise that when asked about their confidence in the political state of small business, women responded, on average, a full point lower than men (women averaged a 7 out of 10 confidence level, while men averaged an 8).
Does the Machiavellian version of «necessity is all there is» create an unbounded or at least unjustified confidence in the malleability of human nature by the free or astute man.
Despite exciting baptism stories and the confidence of a young man prepared to use his platform to share his faith, let's temper our expectations of Bieber (and other celebrities who confess a Christian faith).
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
«17 Such a «graceful man,» whether viewed athletically, socially, or theologically, is one who has «trust in the context within which action must take place and confidence in the ability of the self to undertake appropriate action.
Francis, whose asceticism was exceptionally severe, could be a man of overflowing joy because he lived his adult life in the confidence that his salvation came not through his own merits, but from the superabundance of divine love manifest in Jesus Christ.
Sherburne, in contrast to other Whiteheadians and in agreement with the «existentialists,» denies that the value of life depends upon a God who either provides men with a general confidence about the final worth of life (Ogden) or with a sense of the worthwhileness of the present moment whatever its final outcome (Cobb).
Man is held responsible for his actions: Revelation 20:11 - 15; Galatians 6:7; 1 Corinthians 5:10 The very fact that they are suicidal (ready and willing to kill themselves) proves: 1 Samuel 15:23; Romans 5:1 Suicide goes directly against: Matthew 24:13; John 15:1 - 6; Romans 11:22; 1 Corinthians 15:2; Colossians 1:23; Hebrews 3:6, 14; 12:25; and 1 John 5:4 Committing suicide is not enduring to the end: Matthew 24:13 It is not abiding in Christ: John 15:1 - 6 It is not continuing in His goodness: Romans 11:22 It is not holding fast the word: 1 Corinthians 15:2 It is being moved away from the hope of the gospel: Colossians 1:23 It is not holding fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end: Hebrews 3:6 It is not holding the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end: Hebrews 3:14 It is refusing and turning away from Him who speaks from heaven: Hebrews 12:25 It is not overcoming the world: 1 John 5:4 It is being overcome by the world and the devil: 1 Peter 5:8; 1 John 5:18
But modern man, perhaps a little intoxicated with his success in answering the hows of life, will frequently not commit himself until his whys are answered — in fact, until the Creator has taken him into his full confidence!
[7] This does not instil confidence that religious freedom is seriously understood even by a man described as one of the brightest legal minds in the country.
For only when our confidence in the ultimacy of our instinctive religiousness has effectively been challenged can we begin to be sensitive to the God who is distinct from man, who calls us out of identity with our world into responsibility for it.
It has given man greater confidence in his ability to use his reason to discover the nature of the world, including himself and his societies, to solve his problems in every area, and to influence his destiny.
For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.
And with no imagery available, other than that of supernaturalism, to suggest such nuances or sensitive ground for pointing toward dimensions of grace or spirit, Christian faith could mean for the modern consciousness only confidence in the resources of man's moral idealism.
Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.
Or if you were witness to that lovable young man's beautiful enthusiasm when he read and heard of the great men who fought with a heavy destiny and suffered badly in the world, the glorious ones whom earth renounced because it was not worthy of them, would you dare, when no clamor caused your speech to wander but when the stillness of intimacy, of the lovable one's confidence, the in experience of the young man, all obliged you to tell the truth; at such a time would you dare lay your hand on your heart and say, «Such things no longer happen.
Yet, on the other hand, he never scaled downward man's possibilities, and the very virtues that have been enumerated as belonging to the life of faith and love are implicit witness to his confidence that man with the help of God could live as the «salt of the earth.»
But I was uneasy, and when I did venture to suggest that there was, in fact, a troubling aroma of idolatry wafting within our breezy confidences of the man, I was kindly informed that» being composed of Christian believers» the forum was in no danger of falling into sin against that great and primary commandment.
The thing of it is, if you really, really investigate what Yeshua said, and not just what's in the latest translation of the white man's western Bible, You'd be forced to conclude that his followers perverted his teachings, and the whole thing was now being run as a confidence scam of the first order, to bilk billions out of the unsuspecting and influence social and political order at the same time.
What the men of our time — what all of us — need is «with hearty repentance and true faith» to acknowledge our sin before God and then hear him speak the word of hope and confidence, «Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.»
The care of souls was a matter of personal admonition and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend in penitence and confidence the forgiveness of sin, the great love of God extended toward them, so that in life and death, in sin and sorrow, they knew they were in the hands of a holy, loving God.
Where confidence reigns man must often, indeed, adapt his wishes to the commands of his community; but he must not repress them to such an extent that the repression acquires a dominating significance for his life....
When a remark is pronounced in confidence to another man (oh, terrible misuse of confidence, even if the desperate one only misused it against himself!)
Many men and women believe that God is all mighty and may do all, and that he is all wisdom and can do all; but that he is all love and will do all — there they stop... Of all the properties of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.Of all the properties of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.55
This overweening confidence grew out of a theology which had a superficial view of man's sinfulness, which identified the Kingdom of God with current political and philosophical ideals, and which pictured man as having a «spark of the divine» in him and thus capable of his own salvation.
This confidence of modern man in the power of intelligence to free humanity from its ills and for the fulfillment of its purposes is reflected in the universal commitment to education.
The understanding of Christianity as a real transformation of man's existence, if on the one hand it impels philosophical refection towards a new approach to religion, on the other, it encourages it not to lose confidence in being able to know reality.»
And the very next week an editorial titled «Two Years of Mr. Hoover,» while finding the president to be a man of conscience and courage, nonetheless took him to task for his «almost naïve confidence» in private and competitive enterprise and his «morbid fear of socialism.»
It will be apparent how the writer scoffs, not alone at the prophets with their bold claim of direct knowledge of the unseen, but at the priests, who proclaimed proficiency in holy things, and at the wise men, also, with their confidence in intelligence and «wisdom.»
Yet this imperial confidence of man the exploiter has nothing to serve.
The second method is that of learning the truth from learned men who are worthy of confidence; it is also valid because those who follow it imitate an authority.
Eduard Schweizer says (p. 142) that «the man who really places his confidence in God renounces all righteousness that can be judged by men, even by the agent himself, he thus escapes the notion of any accomplishment that would earn reward in the eyes of God.»
From my viewpoint, what needs to die, or at least to be relativized, is absolute confidence in the religious intuition of man, which in this form I take to be a deifying of the aesthetic dimension of the creature.»
Some scientists continue the assumption of the rationality and goodness of man; with such confidence in progress one does not need to be concerned about the uses that will be made of one's work, since it is assumed that the end result of all discovery is beneficial.
We mustexpect new developments within genuine and orthodox Catholic theology with the more confidence, because men so urgently need a new and a more compelling synthesis of Christian thought and modern knowledge.
Indeed, what is his serene confidence in the objective rationality of the world and the powers of human reason to discover it but an unrecognized expression of the belief that both forms of rationality are gifts of God, the Creator of both man and the world?
History indicates that cultural crises arise when men grow uncertain of the validity of the principles which determine their cultural activities, when they can not look with confidence into the future.
Buoyed by a self - confidence that, paradoxically, can only be justified by the theistic premise of man's capacity to transcend nature, these scientists began subjecting man himself to an increasing amount of scientific study.