Sentences with phrase «of noble ends»

I learned the need to be forthright and honest, and to welcome the heat while not seeking the limelight; to be both bold and humble, and wary of experts who profess a lock on the answers; and to engage wholeheartedly in principled politics in the pursuit of noble ends.

Not exact matches

The dispute between Abu Dhabi - based investment fund Goldilocks Investment and commodity trader Noble Group shows no signs of ending soon, but one fund manager at Goldilocks said he hoped for a resolution.

The dispute between Abu Dhabi - based investment fund Goldilocks Investment and commodity trader Noble Group shows no signs of ending soon.

While ending buffering is certainly a noble goal, the challenge redoubles almost daily with the creation of new products that demand better and better delivery systems.

Barnes & Noble said it now expected to complete the separation of its Nook Media business at the end of August 2015.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 ended in April, Barnes & Noble's comparable - store sales fell 0.8 % and the company expects those figures to rise only modestly in the current fiscal year.

But what if the story is more interested in the usurping of power, the annihilation of controlling people, and the end of deceit to achieve noble ends?

The poser to every sensitive member of the race is, in Shakespearean diction, «whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?».

Moreover, violence is always used in the conviction that it is the only means adequate for attaining a noble end — social justice, the nation's welfare, elimination of criminals (for the political or social enemy is always considered a criminal), radical change of the economic structures.

Mathew's «Noble Lectures,» published under the title The Spiritual Interpretation of History, were an eloquent account of the march of human history toward this personal end.

How any of this constitutes an advance in moral reasoning or moral sensibility over the classic just war understanding» that the use of armed force can be noble or wicked, just or unjust, depending on who is using it, toward what ends, and how» is unclear to me.

The human mind that abstracts from the realism and intuition of St. John, to theologise its own version of the Jesus of History as distinct from the Jesus of Faith, must always end up with a supreme Prophet who is less than the transcendent divine, who is not pre-existent to the Universe and Creation, and who at the very highest is «divine» only as a supreme emanation of a «holy and noble consciousness» at the root of being itself, and identified with Creation itself.

But in the end, the atmosphere of the Boston apprentice who made good in Philadelphia overcomes the noble stance of the Founding Father, and we remember his calculated prudence far better than his republican virtue.

It was an ending that brought tears to my own eyes as I watched Diana, both blessed and cursed with immortality, realize that she will mourn Trevor literally forever as she takes on the noble but never - ending task of rescuing mortals from their own appalling pickles.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

To do so would seem to imply that the end of generating children is more noble than the end of a couple trying to maintain or deepen their love for one another.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

The course of history follows a tortured route: we fight injustice and seek noble goals, gain power to that end, somehow are corrupted by power and zeal, breed new injustices, and are challenged for our excesses and injustice.

I was particularly concerned by the end of her article, detecting there a somewhat naive reading of history, marked by a romanticized perspective wherein the past is always more glorious and more noble than the present.

Distributists allege that their principles, when adopted and carried to their term, are ordered to the most noble of ends, which culminate in the very contemplation for which the human person is created.

That the best, the most noble, the wise, the old, the young, the lovely and beloved of our species often die ridiculous, hilarious, ignoble and untimely deaths while the worst of us sometimes get the best of ends unsettles some religious accounts.

Therefore as noble as the «end of discrimination» sounds and as appealing a bumper sticker as it makes, it is really a false argument.

As death spares no human, good or bad, the life of this great noble character had to come to an end.

Marques del Atrio, one of the five biggest bodegas in Rioja, will import and distribute China's Changyu Noble Dragon wine from the end of March.

As CEO and co-founder of Pittsburgh's 412 Food Rescue, Leah Lizarondo leads a noble effort to save totally fresh, healthy food that would otherwise be discarded in hopes of ending food waste and ensuring that the city's residents don't go hungry.

At the end of his debut season he had replaced number one Jussi Jaaskelainen and was the runner - up to Mark Noble for the club's Hammer of the Year gong.

A declining brand is quickly shunned by commercial companies — witness Steve Smith's fate in cricket as evidence of this truth — and even if tourists replace these empty seats, not many are «diehard follow Arsenal to the end of the earth» fans AND continuing to take these noble fans for suckers is a suicidal move.

Why, in only a few spectacular months, we had won the war to end all wars, then chosen the noble path of outlawing intoxicants and enfranchising women.

Avram Grant's side were savaged by Manchester United last weekend, the Hammers relinquishing a 2 - 0 lead courtesy of two successful Mark Noble spot - kicks to lose 4 - 2 at Upton Park, shipping all four goals in the second half, as their previously encouraging four - match unbeaten streak in the league came crashing to an end.

On all three Noble took the kick very quickly, sideways or backwards, and we ended up passing it around in our own half, and one of those went all the way back to Randolph.

West Ham did have their chances against Newcastle and one could probably argue that if they had the suspended Manuel Lanzini and injured talismanic skipper Mark Noble in midfield, they would've ended up on the right side of the 3 - 2 scoreline or perhaps, won even more comfortably.

And just as Emily, the woman mentioned in the blog post, experienced, rather than getting good guidance from the experts, parents end up insecure about their own capabilities, simply forgetting about the importance of their own judgment or even feeling guilty for having ideas and feelings that don't seem to match their noble motives.

«As representatives of the true beneficiaries of the Act, as it presently stands, there is need to put an urgent end to its further coordination by the National Assembly, which also has the noble tradition that once a matter is before the court, all activities on the matter will be suspended,» he said.

The deal hammered out by Noble and Hein ended a months - long standoff over how the county shares proceeds from the 4 percent it gets of the total 8 percent sales tax.

to expand hope and broaden horizons, it is this Conservative party that will achieve those great and noble ends of fighting poverty, extending opportunity and, yes, repairing our broken society.»

12:38 - That's the end of the session, and George Galloway raises a point of order... he wonders whether John Thurso, the Lib Dem MP and former peer, is a «noble» member of the Commons, or not.

ENDS For interview requests ahead of the march or on the day please contact: Pauline Doyle on: 07976 832 861 Ciaran Naidoo on: 07768 931 315 Shaun Noble on: 07768 693 940 Notes to editors: Unite is Britain and Ireland's largest trade union with 1.5 million members working across all sectors of the economy.

The one - term mayor whose administration is marked by reform, revitalization, and controversy, ended Thursday night when upstart candidate Steve Noble took the party line by a wide margin, along with most of his supporters in the ward races.

German politics at the time had the following rough divisions: A far left wing, personified by the KPD and USPD, which wanted a radical redistribution of wealth from rich profiteers to people at all levels; a social reorganization, doing away with noble, military, landowning, and industrial elite rulers; and an end to...

In the end, despite eloquent reasoning between both sides of the lengthy Parks and Recreation debate, votes fell along political lines, with advocates of keeping Steve Noble's job representing the Noble faction on the common council, and the refuseniks hailing from «Team Gallo.»

It was all in service of a noble cause, of course, like ending the «mob tax» on clothing manufacturers.

After the end of that administration, the Support Our Troops Foundation appears to have gone to sleep, abandoning what I think was its noble objective with the «demise» of that administration.

In a traditional laser, light waves bounce back and forth between two mirrors at either end of a tube full of a noble gas such as helium or neon.

What began in 1983 as a noble piece of federal legislation that sought to place science ahead of politics, and fairness, equity, and openness above congressional parochialism has degenerated into a technical and ethical quagmire, where facts are routinely twisted to serve predetermined ends and where «might makes right» has replaced «consultation, concurrence, and cooperation» as the federal mantra for the program.

As they sweat and bleed the characters all end up filthy and caked in a cocktail of dirt and bodily fluids and nobody is allowed the opportunity to play the noble hero.

At the end of 2001, Kubrick portrays man's evolution into Star Child as a noble death and transfiguration.

Chris Evans being more comfortable than ever playing the role of noble Cap, coupled with how Civil War handles Steve's relationship with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan, who's also solid in his own right), helps make Steve's storyline more impactful - but in the end the MCU version of Civil War is still more interesting as an Iron Man story than a Captain America story.

His latest documentary, He Named Me Malala, a plea for the value of education that centers around the heroic efforts of Noble Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, is such a mediocre garble of good intentions that it ends up diluting its subject's urgent message.

The acting is superb — a career - making role for big lumbering Liam Neeson, so carefree and cocky at the beginning, so and concerned and determined in the middle, and so noble and humble at the end of the film.

However, no one wants to see pity or grandstanding on equality in the middle of their dumb racial comedy anyway, so by trying to go the noble route in the end, both elements tend to cancel each other out.