Sentences with phrase «of predicaments for»

It seems as if this year's beginning has brought in a galore of predicaments for Samsung.

A trinity of predicaments for private equity in India.

Not exact matches

Schultz and the President discussed Schultz's «concerns for the country,» the budget predicaments facing 42 states, and «the profound crisis of confidence in America.»

If you are lost in your current career, feeling strapped for cash or frustrated with dead - end relationships, it can be hard to pull yourself out of your current predicament to dream big.

Having said that, the mall is in a serious predicament, as Sears continues to be that dead anchor store walking, but now there's the possibility of another anchor store going under, as my local Bergners department store is part of Bon Ton stores which filed for bankruptcy and is facing possible liquidation.

Richard Feldman, a former NRA lobbyist, told Newsweek that such trust has resulted in a classic supply - and - demand predicament for gun manufacturers: Without fear of a supply crunch, the demand drops.

Rightfully, Frankel describes that this isn't the case for everyone and indeed, it is not but I also believe that many people will be finding themselves in a bit of a predicament leading up to next weeks deadline.

«Politics makes for the strangest of bedfellows,» Sanford said of the predicament; he has spoken openly against Trump, yet he sees himself closer to the president on the gun issue than most of his Freedom Caucus colleagues do.

In WILTW June 23, 2016, we argued that much of the blame for this predicament belongs to the central banks: «If the Fed and other major central banks had not lowered interest rates to zero (or below), it would have been harder for corporations to justify financial engineering at the expense of capital investment.

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

The incident galvanized art - world outrage in part because protesting against censorship provides a necessary distraction from its increasingly uncomfortable predicament: the expiration of critical theory as a warrant for creative pursuits.

When one of my kids finds him or herself in a predicament in which they're having a negative attitude or they're portraying selfishness, I'll often use those situations as teaching moments for what it means to be light.

If David's psalms give individuals language for emotions and obligations and joys and predicaments predicated upon the Fall of Man and the Law, then Homer's poem is of the other eternity.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

Immanuel Kant, whose chief aim was to undermine intellectual assurance about what Emmanuel (God with us) stands for, would not, however, see his predicament as entirely hopeless in today's world of science.

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

I accept Rorty's defense of the value of literature as a means of sensitizing us to the predicaments of life, but would expand upon it by reiterating my original call for a truly interdisciplinary conversation, one that includes humanists and scientists, theoreticians and practitioners, students and educators.

By overlooking this, the new black conservatives fall into the trap of blaming black poor people for their predicament.

Until we have the pleasure of reading the promised sequel, we will have to wait for a fuller resolution of this pressing predicament.

The search for knowledge of our actual predicament at whatever risk to our self - image, our pride, and our privilege is the first requirement in the reconciling action.

In other great religions, some form of homelessness is also our predicament, and we are instructed to embrace it for the sake of our salvation.

If we are to understand either those aspirations or the failure to attain them, we must continue our effort to understand the nature of this covenant - making people with its deep need for newness and for liberation from oldness in religion, in politics, and in personal life, as well as the moral predicaments the search for newness and liberation so often generated.

Now let me back up and reflect on the myth of the marketplace of ideas, trace the role of the press in political theory, and focus on trends toward concentration that set the stage for a communication perspective on our current predicament.

Now Ahimaaz was confronted with the predicament which Joab foresaw, for he knew well that at that moment Absalom's still warm body lay beneath a great heap of stones where the victorious troops had killed, and in this fashion entombed him; he evaded the issue: «When Joab, the king's servant, sent me, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.»

I do not know whether I am doing the «whining» Mr. Nuechterlein complains of, but it is indeed what he called an «unhappy predicament»; and the moral and personal price of staying» one hopes for the sake of the gospel and not for meaner reasons» is real.

On the other hand, if this man was human as I am, if he was a limited, feeling, fallible creature like myself, and he was able to live in this way and love in this way and give of himself in this way — then so can I. And his teachings are then relevant, for they come from someone who shared my predicament.

Let us examine then two of the most powerful statements of it, those of Bishop Anders Nygren and of Reinhold Niebuhr, for I believe them to be in error and that error underlies much of the distortion in the Christian interpretation of man's predicament into which we are being led.

If there is one point about this predicament that Elshtain seems to wish to stress (and one central affinity among Augustine, Arendt, and Elshtain), it is that awareness of the fallen and pluralistic nature of the world «should usher into a rueful recognition of limits, not a will to dominion that requires others for one to conquer.»

Any valid exposition of humanism must begin here, for it is on the foundation of this principle and its corollaries — the humanocentric predicament and individuals as coequal centers of freedom / authority — that humanism establishes its methodological policies and builds its ethics and epistemology.

Such a counselor's primary identity, however, is not as psychotherapist but as minister of the church, one who offers the type of relationship called for by the Christian gospel and who interprets the predicaments and possibilities of life Christianly.

The second reason for the inclusion of all in our predicament is the fact that Christian culture has penetrated other cultures much more than they have penetrated ours.

«Its urgency is underlined when we realize the seriousness of the human predicament and the tremendous task waiting for the churches at present.»

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

A sermon should help us discern both the character of our predicament and possibilities for change.

First, I am not offering a prescriptive model but rather looking for resources to deal with the present predicament in India from the actual lived realities of specific communities.

You will note that I ought to proceed somewhat leisurely, if only for the sake of the illusion; for 1843 years is an exceptionally generous allotment of time, likely to put me in a predicament the opposite of that in which our philosophers find themselves, whom the time usually permits only an indication of their meaning; and the opposite also to that of our historians, who find that not the material, but the time, leaves them in the lurch.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

For Chagall, not alone among Ashkenazi artists, Jesus on the cross represented the painful predicament of all Jews, harried, branded, and violently victimized in an apparently God - forsaken world.

His essays on civil rights, for example, are heartfelt and penetrating, but are not even a very good description of the predicament of the American liberal.

And for those who remember Season 4, the very first episode («Flight of the Phoenix») features a bronze seal (insignia) falling (coming loose) from the wall in a dramatized courtroom during a production of «The Trial of Captain Hook» — another allusion to Buster's predicament.

He explained to them why he was in Rome and indicated those in Jerusalem responsible for his predicament, all the while avowing his innocence of any crime against the Jewish nation.

I had just hoped for a word or two of encouragement or tips before I steeled myself to actually go out and DO something about my predicament.

Knowing what to wear for every temp is kind of a «Goldilocks» predicament at times.

PSG and Bayern Munich have both been linked with a move for the 27 year old but both European giants will be well aware of the predicament Man United find themselves in, and may therefore look to take advantage by offering a fee way below that paid by the Premier League side.

I was from out of town (visiting from China) and really wanted to snag an autograph for my brother — he's the one who got me into this predicament of being a Braves fan (I could have been a Yankee or Cardinal fan instead...).

do you really think you're helping the club by slurping up Wenger following 16 minutes of good play... think logically just for a second, never has Monreal contributed so much in the final third (then he went out injured again), we scored two goals based on set pieces, which certainly hasn't happened in quite some time and the other two goal scorers have scored a handful of goals in the past 3 seasons... this is why this club is in the predicament they're in because you lack any sense of perspective or foresight, much like the manager you cuddle up to regardless of whatever inane things he does that negatively impact our club... it's like finding an unopened chocolate bar in the garbage can

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

Nevertheless, Shearer isn't the first pundit to slam the players this weekend, with both Arsenal legend Thierry Henry and Jamie Redknapp also blaming them for the club's current predicament during Sky Sports coverage of the game as the players certainly have to accept a share of the responsibility for the club's plight this season too.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

The temptation for Van Gaal to go for a quick fix and buy his way out of his predicament is huge.