Sentences with phrase «of standing for something»

It's amazing how the simple act of standing for something can have a polarizing effect on your business.

image by lastonein It's amazing how the simple act of standing for something can have a polarizing effect on your business.

This has become the normal price of standing for something.

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I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

Although they had a solid foundation in what their product stood for, they constantly tried to chase something they weren't themselves and never received the kind of lift in the brand measurements they expected.

It may draw people into it, especially for something like a line of clothing, and cultural business activities that Ivanka Trump stands for,» Holman told artnet News.

A token is an item that stands in the place of something else, as a subway token once represented the dollar it cost for a train ride.

«Both companies stand for something very special to you, our customers,» Dell is expected to say, in a speech that will emphasize the world's transition from a basic Internet age to an Internet - of - things and Internet - of - everything age.

Standing for something more concrete than the emptiness of words like «open» and «connected» would be costly for a company like Facebook.

When something is intangible and therefore difficult to judge, we sometimes use easier to perceive shortcuts to get a rough sense of where someone stands — that's how something as subtle as «success» can sometimes end up reduced to who drives the fanciest car, for example.

The viral moment happened during the awards show, following Common and Andra Day's moving performance of «Stand Up for Something.»

Put in the time and the work it takes to be special — to stand out; to make something you're proud of; to be the first one chosen for the task or the team.

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But two obstacles stand in the way of moving from something like the WSGR term sheet generator to a broad - based document - assembly initiative for drafting contracts.

For one thing, it's heartening to see the Republicans stand fast for a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the preFor one thing, it's heartening to see the Republicans stand fast for a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the prefor a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the press.

In the introductory text for Part I of their 2016 book, Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Porfolios to Profit in Good Times — and Bad, Adam Butler, Michael Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo state: ``... we have come to stand for something square and real, a true Iron Law of Wealth Management: We would rather lose half our clients during a raging bull market than half of our clients» money during a vicious bear market.

So be it at least he stands for something and has the courage of his convictions.

I shall also use the word «play» in a wide sense, to stand for an activity that, because it is not directed to the satisfaction of wants, entails an attitude to the world that is not concerned to use it, to get something out of it, or to make something of it, and offers satisfactions that are not at the same time frustrations.

That's quite a bit of Wardaddy's journey in that, standing up and fighting for something that's good.

I still stand by my sociopath answer meaning he is neither good nor evil, more indifferent and just looking for something to break the boredom of eternity.

Rather than the skinny torsos of 15 - year - olds still going through puberty, the screen shows impossibly fit 20 - something actors standing in for high school students.

In both there are «new eyes for invisibles, «7 and the «vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things.

what if I told you I saw and felt the presence of something., an all consuming light and it was loud beyond anything on this Earth and it commanded me to live free and to stand up for good and to fight evil everywhere I find it?

They are the roots of violence and mutual rejection between people; they are both challenged and transformed in encounter with the crucified Jesus, and the «peace» that we may hope for as a result of the act of God in the death of Jesus is something that stands against each of them alike.

And we will arrive in heaven and stand before Jesus, and I sort of imagine myself saying something like this: «Jeremy Myers reporting for duty, Sir!

It stands for something they do not stand for — the sacredness of human personality.

Indeed, says Nishitani, the Japanese word for «learn» (narau) carries with it «the sense of «taking after» something, of making an effort to stand essentially in the same mode of beings as the thing one wishes to learn about» (p. 128).

Standing for something matters to audiences now, but if you don't want to stand for something, you better put out an absolute jam of an album.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

at the end of the day you stand for nothing, you criticize something you have no understanding of..

So long as the right tries to defend them without offering a broader ecology of a deeply integrated and formative community — something broader, for example, than the long - standing defense of «family values» that denigrates the idea that there is a relationship between the family and the village — it can offer no real alternative to liberalism.

And speed and time are the addictions of all space outside of heaven and the kids are standing there looking us now in the eye and we are stumbling out of bed and looking in the mirror and wondering if we've grown into the lives that we prayed for or have we fallen into something else?

People of all ethnicities and socio - economic classes are standing in the street, holding up signs that read «We are the 99 %» and «People Before Profits» and they are desperate for something or anything or everything to change in our economic system.

When it seemed clear that he was expected to give a speech, he stood up and mentioned what we had discussed on our afternoon walk: that this was something of a historical event, the last of the old - style missionaries, and that to him it meant that now the church was 100 per cent on its own for indigenous leadership.

What is currently happening to him is not simply an intramural Catholic affair, but something that is important for the rest of the Christian family, and for all the poor and oppressed peoples everywhere who have found in Gutiérrez someone who not only speaks for them but stands with them.

I'm not a Christian; however, I have a lot of respect for Tim Tebow standing for something controversial and taking the abuse that comes along with it.

It may be true that you have to stand for something or you will fall for anything, so I can't stand by and watch the hypocrisy, not of religion, but of the people who are religious.

I was thinking of saying something similar about Brian, but since I have only read a few of Brian's books, and never met him, I didn't know for sure where he stood on absolute truth, or some of the other questions Glenn brought up.

Indeed, the unconditional need for such a Being to exist could be viewed as a part of God's own nature, something explaining God's necessary existence, rather than as something standing outside God and creating God.

They say the only difference is that they asked for permission first... well, aside from the fact that I just explained why it's perfectly reasonable that she never thought she should have to ask, it that really the right thing to do, to force this poor woman to stand in front of her neighbors and beg for permission to do something so harmless and inconsequential?

In a way defying rational clarification, words were believed to contain something of the object for which they stood.

A resurrected, morally upright black people will be able to «stand up» and «do something for themselves instead of sitting around and waiting for white people to solve our problems and tell us we are free.»

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

This underlines the importance of the minister's standing for something, firmly and dependably, and not simply being permissive and accepting.

For Bell, there was something about standing up in front of a group of people and reading «an ancient text and then unleashing it in the space» that changed him.

Deborah was a Judge.Aside occupying a social position, Bible tells us something striking.Bible says she was a prophetess.A spiritual guide.She stood in the office of a prophet.And all Israel (men and women) came to her for counsel.

All political persuasions can find something of what they are looking for in Herzen, but it is his hatred of cruelty and his appreciation of free individuality that stand out.

How about the matter of you developing a frigging backbone & standing up for something that means something... All of you tree hugging, baby - killers make me want to puke!

How convenient for man to create something he'll never have to face, while making everyone believe no matter how much abuse they receive at the hands of the man, it'll never be as bad as what will happen to the man when he stand before his maker.

Tell me something, if the Catholic church rulled the mark of cain refered to black people, and thus would only pay for insurance for their white employees, and the Obama administration said that was not permissable; would you be defending their right to stand on principle, defending their right to deny insurance for their black employees on principle, and complaining about the cost of insuring their black employees?