Sentences with phrase «of gross»

He shocks me when he tells his story of gross insensitivity towards non — Christian students, though I fear that I can top his example.

Again like Whitehead, Hartshorne probably overstresses aesthetics at the expense of ethics and morality, even if his philosophy is unquestionably a healthy corrective of gross excesses of the opposite sort.

I set my expectations pretty low: a lot of gross - out jokes, not much character development, and the occasional line that made me laugh, but also made me feel bad for laughing.

Commit 1 % of gross national product to assistance of the poverty - stricken countries.

Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.

Abby Olcese: I set my expectations pretty low: a lot of gross - out jokes, not much character development, and the occasional line that made me laugh, but also made me feel bad for laughing.

Convicted of gross bribery and financial corruption, to which he abjectly confessed, he lived his last five years a disgraced man.

Therefore, the Word of God, in a world of gross inequalities, can not avoid addressing these linkages.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The DoD always tries to minimize the size of its budget by representing it as a declining percentage of the gross national product.

If we label all human deprivation «poverty,» then we run the danger of minimizing the terrible reality of gross deficiency of food, clothing, and housing.

Government is also by far business's biggest customer; it now spends one out of every three or three and a half dollars of the gross national product.

It is not a pretty picture that Stove paints; but then the exhibition of gross error widely accepted is never a comely sight.»

But when we speak of growth of Gross Domestic Product we do not subtract the negative effects on weather and water supply or the loss of recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual values.

They understood the parable, rightly, as accusing them of gross abuse of their position and, in effect, serving notice of dismissal on them in the name of the Owner; the vineyard would be let to new tenants.

What of the Word of God and the word of earth — which is the Word of the Gross?

Gross was involved in the project, which helped «implement activities in support of the rule of law and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba,» according to a statement from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard at the time of Gross» arrest.

The United Nations has asked industrialized countries to give 0.7 percent of their gross national product to fight poverty.

The Churches accused these groups, such as Unity, New Thought, Theosophy, Spiritualism, and others, of gross distortion of the truth and a denial of Christianity.

White - collar criminals are usually big - timers in terms of the gross annual larceny take from the public.

In this brave new world of radical libertarian economics, all inheritance and gift taxes would be abolished, while income taxes would be no more than 10 percent of gross income (and then only until government was shrunk further).

Joshua Sutcliffe has sued an Oxfordshire school and its headmaster in an Employment Tribunal, after accusations of gross misconduct in the situation.

The problem with this conception of gross destructiveness as inherent in modern warfare, though, is that it is a contingent judgment being made to do service as a permanent truth.

From 1960 to 1977, the number of words made available to Americans (over the age of ten) through seventeen public media of communication grew at the rate of 8.9 percent per year, more than double the growth rate of the gross domestic product.

A second method, long advocated and practiced by many Christians, is to give a certain percentage of your gross income.

That is because the preacher makes all his money on greed by convincing people to give him 10 percent of their gross pay, even if they are minimum wage and can hardly hold it together.

More recently, the maximisation of Gross Domestic Product and the rate of growth of this GDP have become the great economic good.

I must concede this because regardless of my confidence in my reasoning, I can not know for certain and in order to maintain some smidgen of humility and intellectual integrity, I have to acknowledge the possibility of gross error on my part.

Again and again we are told that we must sacrifice what we have valued for the sake of progress, and usually «progress» means increase of gross product rather than improvement in the quality of life.

This is far more important for community than the quantity of gross product.

However, as evidence of the fact that Christianity has no monopoly on the abuse of power, our century has been checkered with instances of gross inhumanity perpetrated not just by post-Christian but by anti-Christian ideologues from the right and from the left.

Im James Also made a series of Gross Concept Errors.

There's a lot of gross misinformation, and outright propaganda put out there by creationists aimed at just reassuring the opponents, who they count on to take what they say on face value.

This is a feature that's likely to include a lower - tiered pricing plan which includes advertising that could be a «key source of gross additions» and lead to incremental subscriber growth, Wingren said.

In a press release, the Chinese online retailer said that, in 2016, 82 percent of the gross merchandise volume was settled through Alipay, underscoring Chinese consumers» growing preference for digital payments.

Uber's revenue to gross revenue ratio in 2017 is pretty consistent at about 20 % of gross revenue.

Its possible to run a subscription like this and not lose money — the ebook subscription service Oyster, for example, was profitable in terms of gross — but it's very hard to do at the scale MoviePass is operating at and it's near impossible to do it with margins that would make investors salivate.

The Trustee will use reasonable care in the performance of its custodial duties under the Trust Agreement and will only be responsible for any loss or damage suffered by the Trust as a direct result of any gross negligence, fraud or willful default in the performance of its duties.

Dombrovskis pushed through some of the world's harshest austerity measures — equivalent to 16 percent of gross domestic product.

Catalyst # 2: De-risking: Continual reduction in structured finance exposures, declining claim payments on second - lien RMBS Catalyst # 3: Reimbursement for claims paid: Fairholme expects MBIA to recover at least half of the gross claims paid to date in a 2012 settlement or all in a 2013 trial.

Under current law, debt is projected to grow from a post-World War II era high of 77 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 91 percent by 2027.

A debt - to - income ratio is simply a percentage that shows how much of your gross monthly income is going toward your recurring debts.

Close to one - in - five Canadians (17 %) believe that Canada spends more than the UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas development assistance.

The website ValuePenguin calculates the the average family spends 43 % of their gross income on these three areas.

This means that your total monthly debts (including the mortgage payment) should use up no more than 43 % of your gross monthly income.

While differences remain in several areas, creditors want Greece to raise the equivalent of 1 percent of gross domestic product more from VAT in 2016 and this could be achieved by raising sales tax on catering to a rate of 23 percent from 13 percent, the two EU officials said.

Last year, China's O2O market was estimated to be around RMB 60 million ($ 9.7 million) in terms of gross transaction value and the market is expected to grow more than 600 percent by 2017, according to iResearch data.

About eight per cent of households owe 350 per cent of gross income, representing about 20 per cent of all debt, Poloz said.

Your total monthly debt payments (student loans, credit card, car note and more), as well as your projected mortgage, homeowners insurance and property taxes, should never add up to more than 36 % of your gross income (i.e. your pre-tax income).

EUR 25 per cash transfer into or out of a Gross Omnibus Indirect Account Note that Gross Omnibus Indirect Account structures require strict segregation and it is not possible to bundle transfers.