Sentences with phrase «of pretty things for»

We had such fun dreaming of pretty things for us all!)

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This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL cholesterol.

Additionally, now there are fantastic apps for handling our bank accounts from our smartphones (via the Internet, of course), so waiting in a long line at the bank just to make a small transfer is pretty much a thing of the past.

The «poisoned chalice» has been a political trope since the day it was uttered on stage in 1606 during the first run of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a bitter aftertaste was pretty much the only thing the PC party left behind for Notley.

One thing I did initially was that I came in with lower prices and accepted jobs at a loss, so for a couple of years I had some pretty significant losses.

As for the legion of companies that produce things of questionable value, or that have amassed mountains of debt, they can expect the wind to go out of their sails pretty quickly.

«I think [the competition] great thing because wearables — health and tracking fitness in particular — are one of the fastest - growing categories in technology, but it's still a pretty new concept for people,» Park told CNBC in March.

«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

«One of the things I learned how to do really well is talk around something,» she says, «so even if I don't have the words for exactly what I want, I can still express myself pretty well.»

But there are two things happening in Silicon Valley that are qualitatively different from New York or London (or pretty much anywhere else): First, the sheer density of tech entrepreneurs per capita is 10 times greater than the norm for other cities, and second, there is a far greater level of information sharing between entrepreneurs here.

Survival will totally hinge on how quickly you adopt this role of Business Owner first, creator of pretty things, second,» she writes, adding that «this sucked for me because I wanted nothing to do with running a business.»

«I think since, really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience of being in debt and also the experience of seeing things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.

And I said, but I think it's time for the Japanese people to be aware of people because it's a pretty heady thing to be asked to go defend an island and, by the way, don't plan on coming back.

A four - item mat is going to run around $ 150, so it's not exactly a cost - effective solution for your entire fridge, but for things you routinely use (and regularly run out of), it could be a pretty valuable resource.

While some of the tasks are pretty bizarre — one Australian woman offered $ 500 AUD for someone willing to give her a secret pasta sauce after losing her grandmother's famous recipe — Fung said the site has a number of tools in place to ensure things don't get out of hand.

«What was communicated to me strongly was that thousands and maybe tens of thousands of apps were doing the exact same thing and that this was a pretty normal use case and a normal situation for usage of Facebook data,» Kogan said.

I set some pretty aggressive financial goals for myself this past year, and am pumped to see how things shake out over the course of the year.

And once taxes are brought into the mix, and 10 or 15 years of paying those taxes are included as well, then all things (except milk prices for some reason) are all pretty much the same.

For the U.S., it should be a good thing and resolve the Triffin Dilemma in favor of higher growth, productivity, savings and employment domestically, but it seems like it could be pretty chaotic for the worFor the U.S., it should be a good thing and resolve the Triffin Dilemma in favor of higher growth, productivity, savings and employment domestically, but it seems like it could be pretty chaotic for the worfor the world.

Things moved pretty quickly for gun - rights advocate and Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv after he asked a man he calls his «mentor» — Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA — how many retweets he'd need to convince Kirk to speak at Stoneman Douglas...

Pretty much ever since Donald Trump threw his hat into the ring to run for president about 18 months ago, he's been blamed for any number of things that have upset some people, no matter how preposterous.

I think it's a very careless time for equity and bond investors from a longer term perspective whereas those of us who are Austrian have a bend for the idea of real money, sound money, and one of the things that looks pretty attractive in a Ponzi finance global macroeconomic backdrop would be precious metals I would say.

I have a couple of really rich friends and I'm pretty sure that lots of my other friends covet their houses amongst other things, but none has yet to recieve a summons for it.

Given that he often says things that cause massive heartburn to Catholics who strongly dissent from some of the Church's moral teachings, that's pretty surprising for a parish in a town like Princeton, but there it is.

«but to take the time to read articles about things you do not believe and then to take the time to write comments that would alienate those who do believe for the purpose of somehow making them not believe seems pretty deluded to me»

The whole racism thing is just smoke and mirrors and not necessarily out of hand (I mean, if we're allowed to brandish anti-semitism as weapon, it's only fair), there might be a bit of racism, direct or indirect, but I think it's pretty ridiculous for this woman to want to be buried there in the first place.

Many of you said those of us of faith are deluded, but to take the time to read articles about things you do not believe and then to take the time to write comments that would alienate those who do believe for the purpose of somehow making them not believe seems pretty deluded to me.

It would be a travesty to have a life about collecting pretty things — instead of recollecting that we were made for greater things.

Churches are usually pretty good about valuing motherhood, but I think that sometimes the intense focus on that aspect of what Christian womanhood means can lead to us devaluing a lot of other amazing things that women can (and do) do for God.

As for what Jesus taught, he said some pretty disturbing things about God's wrath upon the earth, and then in his ascended state, he told John the graphic horrific violence that would come at the end of days.

The first thing is this: it's pretty hard to deny the precepts of the «in the image of God» apologetic for the sanctity of life, and the Genesis / Ephesians apologetic for the presuppositional category of marriage standing prior to any legal sanction of the thing.

Unless they are actively working to change things from within, which most are not, it is out of laziness and narrow self - interest (nice place for a wedding, pretty communion dresses for the kids) over caring about vital international aid issues and healthcare or gender equality.

I'm pretty sure having someone intolerant of other religions as president is the worst thing for america right now.

I'm pretty sure people prayed for the children of Holocaust, if they knew what was going on, but God is never of the world, and we can not think that God does things by which we think is justice.

That fact, plus the possibility of striking out for new territory when things got tight, and a religious attitude which emphasized the individual self in relationship with God, made it pretty hard for a father to maintain control over his children.

It's pretty safe to say that the guy who got the Book of Abraham was on those Egyptian funerary papyri, and that Million man armies battles with horses and chariots and scimitars and other iron things that would not reach the Americas for centuries, the guy who ran bank pyramid scams, yeah, it's safe to say that Joseph Smith was not only a false prophet but also an outright conman.

At time = 0 the infant universe was smaller than a proton and at that scale quantum mechanics allows for some pretty weird things... including particles popping into and out of existence.

If they're reading this, I'd really for them to sit back for a minute and think about why they became Christians in the first place — because we're all pretty terrible at being good people and we all, Christian or not, do things that perpetuate the current state of the world.

This is an aspect of the Steven Moffat years that I do NOT like — I loved Russell T. Davis era for a few reasons (even the silliness) but one thing that he stayed pretty strong on was the Doctor's heart (s) for life, his inherent curiosity and respect for alien life, and his abhorrence of murder.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Some pretty horrible things have been done for the sake of doctrinal correctness.»

they all say same thing pretty much... got to remember we can not fully trust 100 percent all translations... which is why one needs to study properly by using Koine Greek (for NT) dictionaries and concordances... and Hebrew dictionaries for OT... when one realizes how the versions are trnalated they will see this... also... thuis is true of ANY piece of literature... have you ever studied and spoken another r language?

«I'm more just working through things on my own and just putting it out there for people to listen to, and I'm pretty positive... I think people will hear that in the record and what I was afraid of at first, I think, people are actually going to find refreshing maybe.»

In his discussion with the Pharisees, Jesus said pretty much the same thing: «For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your.

Sorry Neville did nt mean to imply that you meant the other things in fact i am agreeing with what you said in fact and pretty much with your point of view on most of your comments we have discussed.I was adding my own thoughts that that there is so much more to what Jesus did for us on the cross.

for the kingdom of heaven is at hand» That is a pretty good clue of where things need to start.

Well, if you're in favor of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, a strong Securities and Exchange Commission and a whole lot of other things, including national defense, you are already for a pretty big government.

Wow, to me your life seems pretty lonely and void of purpose save one thing whereas I see my purpose for living everyday in my experiences and people I make an impact on.

I know I was pretty desperate for these transcendentals when I was in college, and the copies of First Things in our chaplaincy center were always comforting to crack open.

All these theologies of God make things pretty easy for atheists.