Sentences with phrase «of pondering on»

After a few minutes of pondering on my very brief ride - along, I thought about a story Juechter relayed before our ride.

All of us pondered on our pillows.

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

Good morning, Aaron in for Adam on this Thursday, pondering the future of television.

The layout is a little wonky — you can only click on a handful of links on any given day — but the real fun part is pondering the audience for this thing.

On the other hand, one can only ponder how long they are willing to shoulder the burden of supporting oil prices on their own,» PVM Oil Associates analyst Tamas Varga saiOn the other hand, one can only ponder how long they are willing to shoulder the burden of supporting oil prices on their own,» PVM Oil Associates analyst Tamas Varga saion their own,» PVM Oil Associates analyst Tamas Varga said.

But over on the Pastry Box Project recently, Natasha Lampard, a New Zealand native and the co-founder of Webstock, ponders whether we should be celebrating a different kind of success and valuing continuity over cash outs.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

He reached the end of the test and then pondered the question that popped up on the screen: «Do you want to quit?»

All of this could easily change when U.S. markets open, when investors ponder the new and more volatile environment they live in, when traders decide they do not want to bear risk over the weekend, or when a weekend of pondering leads to a wave of liquidations on Monday morning.

«However, this could only be the beginning, as the Trump administration ponders the extension of further sanctions on the Chinese trade relationship.»

Following Carstens» foray into the early trust discussion, Ingves brought energy into the middle of the event, shedding light on another essential aspect of the larger issue facing central banks that might be pondering digital currency: the legal aspect.

Today we're tackling a question that I know a lot of people ponder before retiring early: whether or not to try to negotiate a layoff or severance on your way out, to soften the landing.

One element to ponder on here is that the progress of some of these features are difficult to implement.

But as financial firms ponder whether to move or expand an existing subsidiary outside the U.K., as TD Securities intends to do, non-financial companies say this chaos presents an opportunity since they may be able to capitalize on other global companies scrambling to shift their resources and people out of the U.K. or take advantage of other dynamics at play.

So it's advisable you ponder over the issue of control carefully before making up your mind on the source of capital to pursue.

In the March 2018 draft of their paper entitled «Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications», Clifford Asness and Aaron Brown ponder when a losing hockey coach should pull the goalie as a metaphor for focusing on portfolio - level return and portfolio - level risk management.

And while you ruminate on that, ponder this: Judas betrays Christ to satisfy the avarice of receiving 30 pieces of silver.

I am waiting for proof before I spend even one precious second of my life here on earth pondering if a god does or does not exist.

How coincidental... I was pondering the divine right of kings, this morning on the potty, no less.

Mama k, I can answer that, but I won't... it's kinda fun to watch someone break one of the commandments (the 8th) she swears by and ponder what name she'll use in her next reincarnation on the BB.

And of walking alone, pondering the paradoxes of life, under a friendly full moon on a chilly, but not too cold, night.

to ponder on the question of how much ethics and religion can be comprised in a Weltanschauung which dares to be inconclusive» (Albert Schweitzer, by Oskar Kraus [Adams & Charles Black, Ltd., 1944], p. 43).

Pope Paul VI invites us to ponder what it means to communicate in truth and freedom in his encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, on the subject of the Church.

This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

As I poured the milk on my cereal, I pondered «Hmm, I wonder what type of cereal introverts prefer?

In the opinion of this writer Moltmann is correct to insist on the importance of a theological perspective when considering science, and on the need to ponder the intrinsic unity and beauty of all of creation, but it is surely the lack of a coherent metaphysics of science that has led to the increasing gap between modern scientific thought and Christian theology.

Moltmann's thoughts on the dangers of using the power of scientific knowledge without pondering beauty - and in particular on the dangers of the «economisation» of science in this century, in which scientific thought may only be valued generally in terms of its economic power - would be shared by many researchers in the UK.

Like Thomas, we can miss the moment if we are so intent on proving God or playing God or pushing God that we don't actually ponder the presence of God.

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

What is happening here, for the first time in two thousand years, for the first time since the apostle Paul pondered the continuing «mystery» of Living Judaism, for the first time since the Church condemned Marcion as a heretic in the second century, for the first time since so many things in our tortuously entangled relationship, is that believing Jews and Christians are encountering one another on a footing of civil equality in a shared exploration of the way through history of the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus.

If we had more compassion on those on the margins - those who wrestle with the demons of mental illness and social exile, who may be pondering violent acts at this very moment - can we prevent this horror from happening again?

The modern university's emphasis on academic specialization and its skepticism about the possibility of discerning moral truth have deprived students of opportunities to pose and ponder life's biggest questions in the classroom.

Those who did obtain the book could reflect on what it really meant to pray their weight away by pondering such apparently irrefutable points as, «When God first dreamed you into creation, there weren't one hundred pounds of excess avoirdupois hanging around your belt.»

But even though they surely didn't ponder the question of crèches or menorahs on public property, they surely did reject the concept of fusion of religion and government.

we send people to death chambers based on reason, deductively and inductively, and ponder evidence that is often extremely unclear and formulate an opinion of truth or in court cases beyond a reasonable doubt.

My own participation in such monastic worship has also sent me back to the scriptures to ponder Mary's place in them — more prominent than I had thought on the basis of her place in the churches that reared me.

At the center of the book is Frank's pondering of the story of Jacob in Genesis as imposed on his consciousness through a Chagall print which hung in the Franks» living room:

But others went on to ponder more deeply the abstract questions, the philosophical and metaphysical presuppositions of the Teaching.

Pondering Jean - Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Arguello decided to assume that God did not exist and to live accordingly: «Heaven was closed for me; it was as if an enormous slab of cement formed on top of me and life began to be very hard.»

Only silence; agonizing silence, which would later turn to ceaseless prayer before altars, and usher forth the realization of a maternity that would be hidden from the world — a mystery of hidden love that would be lived as one Mother had shown before, pondered in the heart, and then held lifeless on the hill of Calvary.

While Kass touches on the most common anxieties about a greatly extended average life expectancy — its potentially dire impact on work patterns, parenthood, the social security system, and species renewal, for instance — his main approach is to ponder the value of mortality and the finitude of life.

Lent is always a good time to ponder this business of «ownership,» and Lent 2017 seems an especially apt moment to reflect on it.

No one would spend time pondering, writing, theorizing on aspects of life that should be irrelevant to them.

You can sift through anything and get a useful insight here and there and occasionally you'll find someone who seems to have a lot of interesting things to ponder on, and possibly even believe.

As he ponders the movement of his sermon to achieve the desired experience, the minister would do well to reflect on dramas seen, stories read, conversations shared.

In focusing only on the virgin mother, Hail Mary does not invite us to ponder the ministry of justice and reconciliation so boldly envisioned in the Magnificat.

A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, With «On My Religion» by John Rawls Harvard, 275 pages, $ 27.95 To read A Brief Inquiry is to be led to ponder whether, as Wordsworth wrote, the child is father of the man.

Working to create a safety network of hospices may help us to reflect on the causes of homelessness, and to ponder the paradoxes of power.

In a statement on the diocese of Arundel and Brighton website, where Cardinal Murphy - O'Connor used to be bishop, Cardinal Nichols who is the current Archbishop of Westminster said: «These loving prayers are a source of great strength and comfort as he calmly ponders on all that lies ahead, all in God's good time.