Sentences with phrase «often called at»

As a doula, I am often called at least once, if not a few times by my client for these warm up contractions.

If a friend often calls you at work, you might be tempted to think, «She has no respect for my job or my time.»

Not exact matches

Often, the users I got phone calls from were frustrated or were under pressure from somebody higher up at their company.

He was also an early investor in one of the hottest companies in China at the moment called Meituan, a local services platform often referred to as the Groupon of China.

Rubin calls these sober - minded types «Eeyores» and says their determined commitment to avoid anything that feels phoney often makes them great workplace contributors — they're often better at realistically assessing workplace realities and challenges.

The VIX, often called the market's fear index, has been «suspect for at least seven years,» says Bart Chilton, former CFTC commissioner.

Called My Intelligent Communication Accessory, or MICA, the snakeskin bracelets are aimed at fashion - conscious women and are an attempt by the two companies to stand out in a growing field of often - clunky smartwatches and fitness brands that have yet to catch on widely with consumers.

Numerous professional roles, including a majority of those at OFC, remain largely unavailable to women (or «ladies,» as managers at OFC often call them) because the jobs demand driving, heavy lifting, or frequent public interactions with males.

Online quizzes are what I call Cognitive Catnip; people engage with them at remarkably high rates, often spending several minutes in each quiz, then sharing with colleagues and friends.

The so - called tyranny of choice often results in no choice at all — and this problem sets up another challenge for retailers.

In those early days, she fielded customer support calls (often late at night).

He called the new endeavor Obvious, a nod to a lesson learned from the success at Blogger — that seemingly silly and trivial ideas often look like great ones in retrospect.

There's a vast gulf between the culture surrounding major console games like «Call of Duty» (which are largely marketed towards young men) and the culture surrounding massively popular mobile games (which are often marketed at mobile phone users of all genders).

In general, so - called value stocks — often defined as those trading at earnings multiples below the market average or their own historical norms — have tricked a lot of investors in the most recent phase of the current bull market, which has worn on nearly seven and a half years.

An elderly person will receive a phone call, often late at night when they are more likely to be confused.

The Times and other outlets noted that the campaign aides in attendance at the forum continued to grumble that their candidates rarely got the call from CNN for interviews, or that their time on the network was often comparatively short.

David is often portrayed as somewhat aloof, showing up to board meetings in sneakers, munching sandwiches with small - time investors at AGMs instead of major stakeholders, and calling up the Reuters photo desk to chat photography, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This service is often called «immediacy,» and the dealer charges for it in the form of a bid / ask spread (buying from sellers at a lower price than he charges buyers).

Some of Bitcoin enthusiast Mike Caldwell's coins and paper vouchers, often called «paper wallets», are pictured at his office in this photo illustration in Sandy, Utah, January 31, 2014.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

The most popular railroad shares were called «fancy stocks,» trading at huge multiples of their earnings and with enormous volatility that often wiped out amateur speculators.

In a dichotomous way of looking at the problem, many people either side with private blockchains as useful for industry or public blockchains, like Ethereum and Bitcoin, as being the only innovative technology in this space, often calling private blockchains «distributed ledgers» to differentiate them as, simply, decentralized databases, and not blockchains at all.

Marrying mostly among themselves, and at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.

I wouldn't call Spenser a greater poet, but he saw the human condition and our often - anguished journey toward God in a richer, more humane way than Milton did, who at the end of the day was more interested in ideas than people.

«Believers» may buy that theological bullshit and pious drivel, but people of faith will always call them out often at great personal cost.

The way you often present your «non-violent» picture of God, as you call it, forgive me for saying so, but it seems like you go beyond cherry picking and torture the text at times.

Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative picture» of the way God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless or biased and sometimes very clueless or very biased, or both at once) of religion and religious people.

Pastors blaming and shaming their congregation (btw, calling for accountability and guilt at one's wrong actions, that isn't «shame»), and congregations blaming and shaming their pastors (btw, calling into question immoral, illegal, or dysfunctional conduct), is not the church, but it is often seen and experienced in churches.

There is the pain of immediate grief - often compounded by guilt at not having called for the priest earlier.

«Yet, so often in my own life, even though the «race» of a workday is over, I continue to «run» — to check email, answer calls, stress about problems at the office — when really I should be resting, relaxing, and giving my presence to my family.

Caring can be spontaneous, but often, especially in a diverse community, it is more a calling; a responsibility — something we can not neglect just because we feel we are no good at it or because we do not know the sorrowing person well enough.

People need to weigh their passionate feelings with careful thought before they chip away at the inviolability of individual conscience, and those who believe it can be legislated against should beware of hypocrisy; they are often the same people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.»

This sort of moralistic, communitarian conservatism, an important and growing force in American politics, is often at odds with the libertarianism that Brands calls conservative.

Neurotic guilt often calls for counseling skills to resolve the hidden conflict at its roots.

What is more, the post-Enlightenment knack of reducing Christianity itself to vague, generic qualities hardly distinguishable from gentle manners or sound citizenship (about which more below) yielded a foundational notion of Christianity — an «essence,» it was often called — so insubstantial that it could hardly sustain any specificities or provoke any controversy at all.

I do not see anyone throwing roses at him or calling him a hero as happens too often in other places around the world, such as Pakistan.

When only men were ordained, the pastor's wife often made calls at the homes of church members.

Thus one could ask the authors exactly how often and at what points the Trinity must be called «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» without compromising the faith; one could also ask feminists how often and in what contexts one could invoke that naming without supporting male dominance.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

The shepherds were considered by most to be dirty, outcast thieves, and while the wise men from the East are often called «Kings» (though they were likely not kings at all), most people in Israel would have considered them to be religiously unclean, astrology - practicing, sinful foreigners.

But this enlightening article from a German writer about how Americans are far too timid when confronting prejudice — «at the dinner table, I've noticed, what Germans call a discussion, Americans call an argument» — reminds us that this fear of confrontation is exactly what preserves the status quo, often with disastrous consequences.

I don't know whether you would call it prayer, but I often contemplate, become the sun - fired tree I gaze at, become the music while the music lasts, lose myself in the dancing lights of a wooded stream or the rosy tops of thunderclouds seen from the window of a rocketing 747.

And that «return» (often called ressourcement theology) was not a matter of pious nostalgia but of intellectual adventure: a movement that sought to enrich the Church's reflection on her own nature and mission at a moment when theology risked falling into a sub-discipline of logic — something dry and abstract, detached from the explosive good news of the Gospel.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

We are often persecuted because what they believe may be totally acceptable to them, but to us it is a sin, and when we say it is a sin the world gets mad at us for not «accepting» their sin, so we are called out as cruel haters.

This perspective is primarily concerned to eliminate nonsensical statements, or at least to distinguish between nonsense (non-verifiable) and sense (verifiable) Under the pressure of this demand by logical positivists, those who speak and write in the field of religion have not only felt called upon to clear up the fuzzy and meaningless jargon that often characterizes their field, but many have relinquished all terms that refer to the non-verifiable.

«Mr McMahon told the jury that although welcomed into their home at anytime, he often chose to call at bedtime or on Saturday bath night.»