Sentences with phrase «of little appeal»

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And because it's Amazon, the new offering comes with a special and very appealing little twist: The more of the ordered and inspected items you decide to actually buy, the cheaper the whole order will be for you.

Thus, it might have at least a little hope of a broad - based, albeit hardly ideal, appeal to some of the various groups vying for influence over the directions which policy makers choose to take.

This image of what it means to be decisive may be appealing (who doesn't want a little clarity and surety in his or her life?)

Even if you don't have kids, getting older and having the desire for a little more convenience go hand in hand, which means that eventually at least some millennials are going to see the appeal of living in the suburbs.

Canada Drives largely targets — and appeals to — what Green calls «under - banked» customers: those people who are, either because of bad or non-existent credit, of little interest to the big lenders.

No matter how appealing the idea of urban agriculture may seem to outsiders, a laid - off Detroit autoworker probably has little interest in a return to subsistence farming.

The appeal of drop shipping is obvious: it involves little when it comes to specific skill set, can be done from anywhere, doesn't involve startup capital, and can be hugely lucrative.

While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

Therefore, on your blog, you should probably place CTAs for offers that appeal to people who are just entering the top of your funnel and know little about your company (like an educational webinar, ebook, or kit, for example).

While these public renunciations and fatwas may have little impact on the leadership of jihadi groups, they play a significant role in delegitimizing jihadi ideology and thereby undermining its appeal to young Muslims.

It is this sentiment expressed by a number of non theists that eternal life, immortality, perpetual existence, however you choose to define it, is something that holds little appeal.

Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme through the work of all six of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs» of English Catholicism such as «aestheticism, a love of ritual, ceremony, tradition, the appeal of authority, a romantic triumphalism, the lure of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»

Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Moved by the prayers and immense solidarity shown little Alfie Evans, I renew my appeal that the suffering of his parents may be heard and that their desire to seek new forms of treatment may be granted.

But what is surprising is how little he appealed to fear of Hell or even to the expectation of rewards after death.

Update (July 23): GuideStone Financial, The Little Sisters of the Poor, and other religious nonprofits are filing an appeal to the US Supreme Court, seeking relief from the Obamacare mandate to provide birth control through their health insurance plans.

On July 14, the 10th Circuit Appeals Court in Denver ruled that Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order that cares for the elderly, would also be required to provide contraception or opt out.

Multiple appeals by ownership to higher courts have been denied, and there seems to be very little legal recourse left for the team and its supporters who seek to keep the name for the sake of NFL tradition.

In general, long - established congregations appear to hold their own or to slip a little in terms of total membership, while Pentecostal and charismatic churches seem to have an increasing appeal, particularly for youth.

(The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of this world.

The book and programs appeal to modern American individualism and selfishness and do little or nothing to conduct serious spiritual growth or contextual understanding of Christianity.

We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.

These are the programs which appeal to many members of the mainline churches, people who go to church almost every Sunday, yet give little evidence of being uneasy about their deep involvement in secular culture and values.

Yet ours is a pagan late - capitalist democracy ordered to idolatry of the market, and so there is little hope that Farrow's Christian propositions can be appealed to in support of public - policy positions opposing, say, homosexual marriage.

The Church is the sphere in which Christian faith is known and Christian life experienced; it is the area in which men and women, captivated by the dynamic appeal of the Lord Christ, respond to that Lord and find their little human existence redeemed and enriched and made significant.

If love is sincere, there is little difficulty in noting the issues or differences that may arise; on the one hand the indiscriminate instinct of lust with its promptings to seek satisfaction with the first appealing person available; on the other, the particularised human instinct (the conjugal instinct already present) urging a young person to keep the gift of sexuality for one; and to respect that «one» when found but withoutthere yet being a mutual conjugal commitment.

These policies are resisted now chiefly in Islamic countries on the basis of principles that have little appeal to those in Western countries who suffer from harsher treatment at home.

An appeal to the unchanging teaching of the Church does little justice to the Church Fathers who engaged their whole minds and souls in the defense and articulation of the truth, based on Scripture, reason, liturgy, peculiar strands of philosophy, and sundry other allies they mustered to their side.

Another Christ of Culture manifestation is evident in the «Be Happy» radio and TV programs that appeal to many members of the mainline churches — people who go to church regularly, yet give little evidence of being uneasy about their deep involvement in secular culture and values.

Some firms can fend off acquisitions because families, universities or religious orders own them, but even they are affected by the workings of the «complex,» especially by the difficulties of selling through chain stores, which have little interest in books that, however high their quality, appeal to a limited audience.

I saw in Mohler's review of the book yet another illustration of what I have described here; for as Mohler related the book's argument, there was precious little appeal to evidence, and considerably more to morality and emotion.

I'm still a little skeptical of creeds and org - anizations, knowing where they have led in the past, but many ideas on the links are appealing, so I will investigate further.

However, in the years before World War I activism was a largely elite movement appealing to the educated but bored sons of the bourgeoisie, eager for excitement and glory and disappointed in the Italietta, the «Little Italy» of the liberal politicians.

White students seem deeply interested in the study and practice of religion, but religion apparently holds little or no appeal for black students.

It is easy to see, from a reading of such Old Testament references, that such a continuation of bare existence carried little hope and made little appeal to the ordinary Jew of the time.

The Orthodox direct the vast majority of their charitable dollars to specifically Orthodox causes and institutions and give relatively little to broad non-religious causes such as the United Jewish Appeal.

The contrary interpretation that I suggest has the added advantage of consistency with a rather straightforward 1939 article by Whitehead entitled, quite simply, «An Appeal to Sanity,» whose message leaves uncharacteristically little room for confusion.1

And furthermore isn't it a little one - sided to solely accuse religionists of merely «clinging to appealing» ideas.

I never really used to see the whole appeal of rice, it always seemed a little dull.

I've gotten a little tired of having eggs for breakfast, but mixing in the occasional dinner for breakfast has helped make eggs seem appealing again the next day.

But, when the weather gets a little cooler, I realize the sound of an ice cream cold smoothie isn't nearly as appealing as it might otherwise be in the warmer summer months.

I can definitely see the appeal of these wonderful little things on a tartine with fresh goat cheese or feta... A great way to reminisce about Summer!

Hi Lacey — I stumbled on your site through Yummly, and I have to say that this looks like one of the only clean eating sites I've found that makes clean eating appealing and easy for me with two little kids.

But as I've become more health conscious over the years, the thought of having lots of sugar and milk with a little cocoa powder is no longer as appealing.

So we know chickpeas are fantastic little powerhouses of nutrition but lets face it, they are not the most appealing food for kids.

This year I'm going to hopefully add a little healthy goodness with a lentil loaf, which I'm already being made fun of incessantly for because «lentil loaf» sounds about as appealing as «nutritional yeast,» but I'm giving it a try anyway.

Once Upon a Chef: This loaf kept popping up as the # 1 search result when I typed in «best pumpkin bread recipe» and the photos looked SO appealing... alas, although it was a beautiful color, it was strangely bland and a little dry (it was one of the all butter loaves, which tended to be more dry than the oil - based loaves).

The chia gives the dish a little extra boost of pre-biotic fiber and helps firm up the oats to a thick consistency that I find most appealing.

There's no question that Hanky Pankies will be served at my appetizer - heavy Christmas celebration with the fam — we all know the nature of the Hanky Panky, and we forgive its less than glamorous appearance — but it got me thinking about how to make it a little more appealing.