Sentences with phrase «of leaping over»

Napoleon was a terrible player who attacked with his knights; a world - class cheater, he supposedly used his horses to knock down enemy pieces instead of leaping over them.
All leaders need sentinel friends to block the way and alert to the dangers of leaping over walls.
With respect to the nihilism so enthusiastically embraced by today's herd of independent minds, one might take it more seriously if more of them leaped over the edge.

Not exact matches

Unless you leap over the turnstile — which would definitely be noticed — you can't get inside without providing a form of payment, so there's no way I can see to steal from the store.
Over the past four years, readers have doubtlessly noticed quantum leaps in the quality of a wide range of everyday technologies.
Over two years, the price of their policy leaps by 30 % to $ 16,062.
Before you take the leap, seriously think over these major do's and don'ts, backed by real examples of rebranding successes and nightmares.
To operate in one of the most exciting growth markets on the planet, the company had to grapple with Brazil's strict regulatory apparatus and leap over a menacing tariff wall that keeps out foreign - made products and workers.
This marks a pretty big leap over the amount of people tuning in monthly just a year before.
When officers turned towards Bennett, he bolted out of the casino, leaped over four (4) foot barrier wall, and hid from officers as he crouched close to the wall on the sidewalk.»
«What has surprised me over time is her willingness to take big leaps,» said one of Birgisson's mentors, Lauren Whitehurst, who founded Sidekick Consulting.
Prices of oil and metals have leaped following U.S. sanctions on Russia, which has raised investor fears over the availability of supply.
U.S. bourbon and Tennessee whiskey revenue leapt 47 % over the past five years, totaling $ 2.68 billion in 2014, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S..
Several times over the past few years, RIM's management has promised that the company's next generation of products would be mind - blowing — Balsillie said the Torch, for example, would be a «quantum leap» over the iPhone — only to have the reality disappoint.
Over the last six years, Facebook investors have contributed extravagant sums during multiple rounds of funding as the social network's own user base has grown by leaps and bounds.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
The term pivot has taken a life of its own over the past few months, but leap hasn't been highly publicized,...
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Supreme Court is leaping into a tangled web of litigation over a Spider - Man toy and its inventor's quest to keep collecting royalties even after his patent expired.
That's a huge leap over the capital commitments that General Catalyst circled in early 2016, when it closed a pair of funds with $ 845 million.
Over the 20 years of ANC leadership, the economy made giant leaps: many people have been pulled out of poverty.
The joy of any entrepreneur is to build a successful business, hand over the business to his or her family members and after retirement look back to see the business grow in leaps and bounds.
From our early roots of being the first company in the world to build a fully - integrated Bitcoin pilot system for a major bank, over the subsequent few years launching consumer wallets, exchanges, and merchant services to become the market leader in Southeast Asia and Africa, starting to build our UK presence in 2016 and now finally launching across the wider Europe: we are now one giant leap closer to our goal of bringing digital currency to everyone, everywhere.
The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.
The drivers are the captains of the cars, but speed and precision of their pit crews — leaping over walls, changing tires and filling gas tanks — is often the difference between winning and loosing.
Indeed, passages in Whitehead and in the writings of my teacher, Charles Hartshorne, which I had previously passed over without comprehending, now leaped out at me.
One beautiful woman told about how she had seen someone worshipping with a purple and orange flag one time and how it reminded her of the story of the woman with the alabaster box of perfume, how that woman ran to Jesus leaping over conventions to smash that box open at his feet and poured out all of her treasure for him and weep and wipe his feet with her hair, longing for forgiveness and I swear the warehouse began to smell of perfume.
A moment later, however, his face reappeared over the foot of the bed and, after three more seconds, he leapt back up and seated himself again.
The bomb, a dud, disappeared into the earth as Kovama leapt over the crater and continued to run from one shelter to the next in search of his familv.
Try as it might, the mighty brain of HS is unable to leap over the smallest of hurdles without attempting to use some form of conjecture, falsehood or outright lie to back it's preconceived religious world view.
This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.
If someone claims that they saw superman leaping over tall buildings in a single bound today, the burden of proof would obviously lie with the ones making the claim, and not with the ones that discounted it.
In my view, its quite a leap to go from a prediction about how an individual will respond to a question over the next several hours to the conclusion that God knew every decision of every person who would ever exist before the creation of the world.
The nearly quantum leap in campaign spending over recent decades, propelled especially by the use of television, has provoked a growing sense that something should be done, even if there is little agreement on what this something might be.
Devotion to «the Hebraic mentality,» schemes of Heilsgeschichte, and certain forms of the quest of the historical Jesus, leap over the problem of translation by seeking to make a past understanding normative in its own terms.
Our intermural grousing has now the obligation to leap over the wall and seek to make itself heard among parishes and in the offices of church officialdom.
Instead, she exhorted us to leap over the horns of the dilemma by vaulting to a very different sort of «second stage.»
Viewed objectively, the Christian «leap of faith» in believing in Jesus as the son of a god soon becomes a feat of mental gymnastics worthy of the cow that jumped over the moon.
I was referring to your denial of complicity due to your atheism — and if you think Christianity without Nietzsche and company (really Hegel and his young interpreters) would have stepped over that leap into the abyss then you are mistaken.
Which is not only a big leap over the threshold of this empty new world, but also makes it much easier and more likely that we would go on to design babies, not just make copies.
And when we do interact more personally and directly, I can leap over the chit - chat and get to the heart of the matter.
The hierarchic approach implies a serialistic instead of a dualistic view; the transformation of physical into mental events, and vice versa, is effected not by a single leap over the barrier, but by a series of operational steps up or down the hierarchy.
As the effects of the one - child program make themselves felt, however, the numbers leap dramatically: to 23.8 percent in 2020, 36 percent in 2030, and 44.9 percent in 2050 — when more than 400 million Chinese will be over sixty years of age, and there will be almost one retiree for every two workers.
This dramatic reversal took place at a time when the U.S. population was growing by leaps and bounds» from approximately three million in 1776 to over twenty - three million in 1850» and the number of «churched» Christians rose by 20 percent.
No, you have a basic understanding that your bible is flawed but take great leaps of faith to cover over the gaps in logic and reason that allow you to continue the faulty conclusions of your religious peers who have been using the bible to control the uneducated masses for thousands of years.
Other chefs and blogger I love are my dear friends Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks, Sarah Britton of My New Roots, as well as Yotam Ottolenghi, all of their groundbreaking books and blogs moved vegetable based cooking on leaps and bounds and they all lead with flavour over anything else which is how I love to cook.
The price of bread has risen steadily over the past 12 to 18 months in pace with the leap in price for key raw materials, notably wheat.
It's leaps and bounds better than canned, but, as the cook, it's also a bit depressing to pour a cup of sugar over fruit with the knowledge that it still isn't a dessert).
Over the last few years, I've taken a «leap of food» and dived right into the foods that I used to stay away from.
After years of marketing virgin coconut oil in the natural health marketplace, Banaban brand sales leapt in the 2011/12 financial year to over 133 per cent growth, reaching further growth of 50 per cent in 2012/13.
The latest news from BluePrint, which was acquired by Hain Celestial in December for a reported price of $ 25 million, comes amid a dramatic leap in awareness and demand for cold - pressed juices, as well as the introduction of a variety of similarly positioned brands over the past year.
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