Sentences with phrase «off as being true»

Some of the collision detection was a little quirky, but I wrote that off as being true to the old 8 - bit way.

Not exact matches

As the debate rages over who benefits from the Affordable Care Act, one thing is becoming clear: The controversial program is a dream come true for rip - off artists.

It sounds too good to be true, but companies are starting to let employees take as much time off as they want... and it's all paid.

Of course, it's only true as long as Canada's privacy laws stay strong — which might be as good a reason as any for the federal government to stay hands - off.

Now, as the Oracle of Omaha prepares to kick off this year's Berkshire shareholder convention on Saturday, the opposite is true: The vast majority of the stocks Warren Buffett owns have made money over the past year, helping his portfolio gain some $ 16 billion dollars in value.

Goldberg writes that the opposite is true, admitting that as the business grew, and he took his eyes off of various departments, the company started to lose cohesion, and worse, employees came to resent it.

But «talent flow» can be just as important — and as challenging — to manage when a founder's wildest dreams come true and the company she has risked everything to build is finally taking off.

«There are rarely discounts, so you always feel as though you're paying the item's true value, as opposed to one of these «60 % off» stores where, when you pay full price, you feel like you're getting cheated, which is the way a lot of retailers approach things.

While it's true that people often use cryptic language to show off, just as often it's simply a case of forgetting that there are those in the world who don't live and breathe the markets.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

For me about half the book felt fairly useless since I didn't intend to go into real estate (and he focuses on that heavily, not just on the one chapter but throughout the whole book), and I also am turned off by stories that are purported to be true but you're not sure if they are (ie, as mentioned the whole «rich dad» scenario).

You can make short term profits off of the small dips that a stock will have, such as when Apple dropped down under $ 108 briefly on Friday, but if the true price is higher, then the move upward above $ 110 makes sense.

Another lesson: While venture capital firms aren't as much like startups as investors would have you believe, one thing is true of both, and that's when things go really wrong, the wheels can come off fast.

I don't want to come off as an anabaptist, but it's so true!

As children we are told about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and all that good sense.But as we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant flAs children we are told about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and all that good sense.But as we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant flas we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant fly.

Those of us who believe that what is true for me (what I experience as good for my soul) may not be true for you are so far off base from the evangelical camps that we are reviled and despised by them.

well if i had a theory and later found it to not be ture and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true and further more i would like to think that me and all other humans are better than coming from an animal that eats bugs off its friends and throws its own poo... I'm just saying

I realize this will come off as altruistic, but my main philosophical goal in this life is to know what is true, what path that takes me down is secondary.

I think the moderates are the worst kind of accommodationist, simply because they pass off the literalists as «few», the «odd crazy»... when it is these few and odd crazy ones that have the money and the intent to change policies to «make the prophecy» come true.

And just as I was really getting wound up, and starting to get the words really rolling off my tongue in true fisherman fashion, I heard a sound that stopped me cold.

And by you saying he ruined your life, is very bad to say, he changed my life, I have lived through alot of this, all because I did ask, and I lived, I am getting through, and its thanks to God, he can get you through anything, all things are possible with him, and that is true, my anxiety and depression have gone down (I am still human), and I just am an all around better person because of him, and you should get rid of your Facebook as well, and devote every hour minute anything you can towards God and Christ, turn the tube off, and just devote it to him, I promise you won't be sorry, good luck and God bless!!!

You pretty much just listed a bunch of random scripture and tried to play it off as if it is all true.

That was true because, as Romney advisor Jonathan Gruber pointed out, liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy «had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year» in order to fund Romneycare.

Wall off a piece of land and build a room with a thatched roof...» (Malfoozat Vol 2, p. 42) «Jamaat» is a form of jihad (today's word is Terrorism) against all other religions not following Islam or accepting Islam as the only true religion.

But odds are there was a carpenter named Jesus who did gain some following but was likely married much like nearly all of the other supposed messiahs of that time period, as there were many, for the Jewish people had been awaiting his arrival for hundreds of years and were then feeling the boot of Rome on their necks and assumed this was the time the messiah would come as the true King of Israel and throw off the shackles of Roman tyranny.

«Studies we can find them on each side, the definition as we both know is true, why gays came off the DSM.»

If I appear ignorant to you perhaps it's because I don't blindly follow the theocratic dogma, or accept the creative translations and cultural contexts that particular preachers try to pass off as the only «true» way to interpret the Bible.

Peter, Merlin, I doubt if these are true names let along believe what any of you say, first off, if one is going along with the mainstream reports, this to me is just as the old saying goes, many will see, but only a few will actually «KNOW» I don't flow with what they «say» was proven just to fit in (be accepted), to receive rewards, or attention, this is all selfishness among the few elite.

I try to make sure it's a story I vet as much as I can, and I take the focus off of is it true or not and more on what does this say about us as humanity that we even tell these stories to begin with?

If you find someone saying they are believers and they attack the church as a whole you know right off that is not a true follower of Christ

Rush doesn't seem to understand that true Christianity, not this garbage sometimes passed off as Christianity, is socialism.

You can choose to laugh this non-event off as many of you have, but ask yourself, what if this is true?

I will always tell people that I'm catholic, as I believe it to be the only true version of christianity (the rest have spawned off of catholicism), but I will not go to mass again until the church changes many of their outdated polices and practices.

If only more humans were objective about how unreliable our own emotions are as a guide to what is true, we would be better off.

As the demographic cotinues to change and these people die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors in a country not founded upon Christian beliefs but tolerance for all faiths.

Is he also aware that if this is true, then the Nazi residue must reside in his own soul as well, and not simply as a matter of his romantically extravagant but deliberately self - controlled program to «be a fascist» (a decision he can turn on and off at willIs he also aware that if this is true, then the Nazi residue must reside in his own soul as well, and not simply as a matter of his romantically extravagant but deliberately self - controlled program to «be a fascist» (a decision he can turn on and off at willis true, then the Nazi residue must reside in his own soul as well, and not simply as a matter of his romantically extravagant but deliberately self - controlled program to «be a fascist» (a decision he can turn on and off at will)?

As we mature in our faith, some of us may be able to shake off some of our personal biases and get closer to the true meaning of Scripture.

People follow religion passively ignorant of its true history and nature, they follow political parties blindly unaware of who is really paying them off, and they will just be led to the slaughter giving away their hard - earned money due to fear for their soul and fear for their own self - interests... We all suffer, as they reap what they sow... Sophian

For most purposes it is just as well that this is true, but for purposes of clear theological definition, it is important always to have in mind where the history leaves off and the story takes up.

-21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

It is true that the religious leaders were impressed by how much He knew as a 12 year old, but there is nothing in the text to indicate that He is behaving like a know - it - all smarty pants, showing off His knowledge to the teachers.

But let me suggest that what was dismissed as an atypical, off - message gaffe was in fact an expression of Mrs. Clinton's true sentiments — just as Donald Trump's boorish crack about Senator John McCain being a loser for having been a POW spoke volumes about his fitness for the presidency (or indeed for village dog - catcher).

He is able on the one hand to condemn Wellhausianism as anti-Semitic Hegelian idealism, while confidently asserting on the other his finesse at skimming off the true Yahwist from all the anti-Semitic underpinning.

Scooped this off the internet, pretty funny, especially since all your fundies love to quote your babble as being 100 % perfect and true.

It wasn't until I took my first true Sabbath in three months that it occurred to me that a day off a week was written on the same tablet as the command not to murder.

Osteen probably won't care since like may other televangelists he seems to be obsessed with money, then again, that is fine with me, is his money and is his soul, as well as the money and the souls of those who believe on him, just don't expect any of my money or my respect... and certainly I am free to criticize his public actions, is a free county and he opened the door to it with his public exposition... judgment is another thing, that I leave to God, at difference off him I not presume to have the true interpretation of His / Her wishes.

I know I'm being «arrogant» here, and not «humble»: but the notion «humble» is intriguing and I would argue (an arrogant sounding word, damnit) that true humility might be seen as arrogance, and deep - seated arrogance can come off easily as humility.

It was surprising to see that this true gem of a town, as well as the whole region of Abruzzo, is still completely off the beaten path and hugely undiscovered.

As Easter heralds the true coming of spring, I am sending these Easter Nest Cupcakes off to The Baking Explorer and CakeyBoi for Treat Petite.

I was shocked just how easy this bagel recipe is... true, it's time consuming, but most of that time is hands - off (as is the case with many sourdough recipes... it's just the nature of sourdough).