Sentences with phrase «often by our example»

On the contrary, the true founder, like the true father, shows his love for his followers when he teaches them, often by example, that one's life is not worth living if there is nothing worth dying for.

Sharing is something that children learn, and often by our example.

Not exact matches

The Swiss have often been touted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a standout example of a country with little gun control and a homicide rate near zero.

These are either owned by one of the Big Four (Sprint owns Boost, for example), or lease capacity from one of the Big Four, most often Sprint or T - Mobile.

Portugal is now often cited as an example of economic resurgence, applauded by international institutions.

Unlike modern fiat money, Bitcoin, which has often been called «cash for the Internet,» is not controlled or backed by any bank or central government authority, like the Federal Reserve, for example.

For example, when it comes to environmental regulations, employees need to undergo training and certification that is often administered by human resources.

But blanket distrust in government, framed by glaring examples of boondoggles and fueled by ideology, too often focuses on the wrong question: How big should government be?

The most famous example of this is in farming, where one man with a big tractor now often does the work that a dozen men might have done in years gone by.

Interestingly, one of the 8 RAF Tornados deployed at Akrotiri could be regularly tracked online during its transit from Cyprus to Iraq via Israel, Jordan, accompanied by a Voyager tanker: the example #ZA556 (the only «visible» aircraft in a formation of at least two planes) can be often spotted on Flightardar24.com as it flies into Israel, then into the Jordanian airspace before turning its transponder off to enter the Iraqi airspace.

The company also trumpets that the service had 155 million tweets daily by the end of the first quarter, a jump of 41 % over the prior quarter, but many tweets — news headlines, for example — are often churned out by computers, not humans visiting Twitter.com.

In Naples, for example, migrants (often illegal) can be seen selling fake goods such as handbags — an industry controlled mainly by the Neapolitan organized criminals, the Camorra.

For example, treasuries often use the BAX contract to hedge their short term borrowings by selling the contract to effectively lock - in a favourable rate in case rates should increase in the future.

And if we wanted to spend some time on the suject, we could probably find numerous other examples of census data being historically (and, if you believe the New York Times - that agent of the Harper government - presently) misused by governments, often to the significant prejudice of minority members of those societies.

For example, on the HubSpot Sales page, we organized the different features by how often they were mentioned in our survey results.

If you read conversion optimization case studies regularly (which you should), you'll often come across an example like this: The variation with increased downloads by 85 % with 97 % statistical confidence.

For example, it is often useful to view the short - end of the yield curve as being primarily influenced by growth, with the long - end mostly reflecting inflation expectations.

For example, people who have been affected by restructuring brought about by globalization often face difficult adjustments, including retraining and moving long distances.

Last year, for example, a study by Stanford University found that drivers often had trouble taking the wheel again after letting a computer drive, even momentarily.

So when I say, for example, that I estimate a probability of about 80 % of fresh credit difficulties accompanied by a market plunge over the coming year, that figure is based on various combinations of historical evidence, and what has (and has not) happened afterward, and how often.

Driven by firming domestic demand, investment plans often relate to the expansion of operations, as well as to improving efficiency, for example, through automation.

To offer one example, victims of war and dictatorship often find their suffering forgotten or ignored by the surrounding community and cry out for recognition.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

I'll give you a primary example — in most «primitive» religions, your afterlife was most often determined by the nature of your death, not your beliefs / conduct in this one.

For example, Threes are often motivated by the shame of not being worthy of love, and use activity and accomplishment in order to «earn» love and acceptance.

Those of us shaped by the Enlightenment, for example, often think of justice in quite individualistic ways alien to persons of some other cultures.

Vindicating the Vixens looks at female characters in the Bible who have often been judged, condemned, marginalized, ignored, or ridiculed, and shows how these women are actually presented by the text as heroes to emulate or examples to be followed.

I might add that play is often governed by rules, either explicit (as in game) or implicit (there are rules of impersonation, for example) and that it often involves a test or contest.11

For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.

By the way, the United States is often regarded as a prime example of a secularized country.

Here, for example, is what she said in her 1999 Christmas address: «I hope that, like me, you will be comforted by the example of Jesus of Nazareth who, often in circumstances of great adversity, managed to live an outgoing, unselfish and sacrificial life.

Show me examples of your good Christian values not by how often you go to church but what you do everyday.

He knows that many burgeoning «free church» congregations in North America, for example, are often conditioned by class orientation and entrepreneurial ideologies.

For example, too often it is assumed that the affection for Jews and Israel is primarily motivated by eschatology.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

In medical care, for example, it is being found that prescribed treatment given by a doctor is often not acted upon by patients because the doctor's diagnosis conflicts with the patient's self - diagnosis which is frequently influenced by media sources including talk shows and even soap - operas.

Christ's forty days in the wilderness following his baptism by John the Baptist were often interpreted as symbolic of purification and renewal before beginning his ministry, and the monks who withdrew to the desert were in a sense following his example.

U.S. Supreme Court justices, for example, have been called «the nine high priests,» and the sacredness imputed to the Constitution and other artifacts of the legal order are often commented upon.102 No single church evokes the breadth of respect enjoyed by the Supreme Court.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.

There is a fundamental difference between the normal joshing between members of various ethnic and racial groups — what Dawidowicz referred to as low - key «antagonisms» — and the conventional understanding of anti-Semitism as irrational and unfounded hostility toward Jews, often accompanied by discrimination in employment and housing, for example, and by violent attacks.

For example, when Berger points out that the puzzles of historical scholarship often lead Biblical theologians to crises of faith he expresses it this way: «I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.»

The United States, averaging over 40 per cent, is a strange anomaly for sociological commentators — one often explained by denying that the higher U.S. rate is an expression of greater national religiosity, and suggesting that in America religion fulfills certain nonreligious needs: for sociability and community, for example.

In the semantic parallelism, for example, that generally obtains between the two halves of a line of biblical verse, there is often an intensification of meaning accompanied by a miniature narrative development.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

Clothing, for example, donated to give needy women something good to wear for a job interview is often picked over by volunteers who don't need it.

So the sermon, even if a person has never encountered it — though a lot of people have through school, where it's given as a stock example of creative writing often times — they've been influenced by it.

Awkward (and often outdated) pull - down maps for Sunday school classes, for example, are being replaced by software - generated images of the ancient Near East, whereby Bibles students can trace the missionary journeys of Paul or follow the exodus route of the Israelites.

Thus, for example, «facts» that have often enough been taken as evidence against theism (such as «the facts of evil») may prove to have falsificatory character in relation to theism not, however, directly, in their character as contingent facts, but rather indirectly, as illustrations of the implicitly self contradictory character of such an interpretation, contradicted by any and every fact, and now made explicit by being shown contradictory with specific (and always interpreted) facts.

(Example: Benjamin Constant was often marveled at as an extraordinary instance of superior intelligence with inferior character, He writes [Journal, Paris, 1895, p. 56]-RRB-, «I am tossed and dragged about by my miserable weakness.

One other example is the stereotypical incident that happened with the boy Trevon Martin in Florida gunned down by Mr. Zimmerman, these kinds of things happen so often in our society, and in certain environments all day long.