Sentences with phrase «old situation of»

So this leaves us back to the same old situation of a tablet segment increasingly dominated by the iPad with its potential rivals getting withered away.

Not exact matches

When it came to marketing, we often saw brands capitalizing on older adult's fear of life threatening situations, including a fall, loss of memory or motor skills, or other health related issues like a stroke or heart attack.

Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less.

A frustrating juggling scenario emerges from this situation: Many folks find themselves deleting older games as a means of playing new ones.

That situation may be described as follows: in the year 1800 there were 2,500,000 Jews in the world, half of them in the old Kingdom of Poland and not more than 3,000 of them in the United States.

Millennials increasingly find themselves in a situation like that of Lou Flores, a 30 - year - old portfolio manager in San Diego.

Often people use the old formula of four times their yearly income to determine how much life insurance they need, and this is a poor substitute for actual analysis of your situations and options.

In most marketing situations this helps the client break out of the age - old train of industry thought, and look at the problem from an out of the box mindset.

It's a heart - breaking situation to be in, where you are approved for the business loan that can fund the next big growth opportunity for your business, only to have it delayed or denied due to the active existence of old or inefficiently structured UCC - 1 filings.

It's obvious that the Old Testament rules were made up by the community leaders — some for good reasons particular to that situation and others as a rather heavy - handed means of control.

She said: «My twenty - nine - year - old daughter's choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and intense pain does not deserve to be labelled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.

In that context, the charitable reading of the tweet is that Father Spadaro was reminding us of the obvious — that pastoral care is an art, and that the priest dealing with complicated and messy human situations is not like a first - grade teacher drilling six - year olds in addition.

Combine that with centuries - old feuds, a draconian justice system, the rise & fall of successive tyrants, and the legacy of colonialism, and you have a situation that will inevitably result in bloodshed.

another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.

Judge Baugh sentenced Rambold to 30 days in prison, saying that the girl, Cherice Moralzez, was «as much in control of the situation» as her teacher was and that she was «older than her chronological age,» whatever that even means.

One is to blame everything on racism, to declare that the situation proves the continued existence of old - style American racial enmity, only now in a more subtle and modernized form.

The situation for Christian communities in the country, many of which are hundreds of years old, has become even more dire since the arrival of ISIS.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

Mainline leaders see the overseas - mission - oriented evangelicals as unwilling or unable to accept a radically changed situation, as clinging to an «old style» of mission activity, closely associated with a now discredited imperialism.

I recognize that I am looking at this situation from the standpoint of old age.

Many of these older people, if placed in the same situation and subjected to these pressures, would compromise and surrender their religious interests.

Damian Thompson summed up both the general situation and the particular question of the attempt by traditionalists to argue for the traditional days for celebrations of the «old» mass.

Most of the children in foster care are older and / or in large sibling groups and / or have special needs and / or minorities, parenting situations that can be daunting.

Speaking in the situation of an impending catastrophe to his people, he called them out of their life in an old history of the past and pointed the way to the final moment of the Eschaton.

Dressing up bigotry and prejudice by wrapping them in a pretty cloak of religious belief, is the old lipstick on a pig situation.

So I stick with «liberal» but put before it the word «new» to indicate that, while there is a historical connection with the old liberal church, we speak of a church that finds itself in a different situation.

I have even heard of a situation in Africa where believers are particularly attracted to the genealogies in the Old Testament.

This dilemma, it seems to me, calls for reflection upon all those old fairy tales in which the bolder of three unrestricted wishes manages nevertheless to screw things up: reading those stories as children, with considerable incredulity, we thought that in the same situation we would surely do better.

Still thinking of new forms of ministry in old settings, I find myself both encouraged and distressed by the overseas opportunities and situations.

The situation is complicated by the arrival of other ethnic groups, which have displaced the older Anglo - Saxon population in numbers but not necessarily in influence.

The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

The new total viewpoint of Buber's science of Biblical study has without question created a new situation in Old Testament scholarship.

Similarly with the New Testament, which carries out most of the themes of the Old Testament within the context of a new historical situation introduced by the coming of Jesus.

Note that Matthew, in his zeal to work out a literal fulfillment of the prophecy, misreads the Old Testament prophecy, and has Jesus in the awkward situation of riding on two animals at once.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

This situation is not unique to my old slice of Southern California.

Given their economic situation and the sense of estrangement from the old society that belonging to a new faith brings, it was natural that some political movements emerged to protect the Christians» rights and promote their welfare.

At bottom the Samaritans shared the fate of all those who, though appealing perhaps to age - old traditions, rebel against a situation that has evolved over a long period of time, and try to base their life on historical conditions which have long since disappeared.

It is surely a «dramatic» situation that at the heart of our Catholic community we are pushing many, probably most, of our 14 year olds into the moral minefield of the current Religious Education GCSE.

In situations of cultural cynicism, prophecy may have the function of reviving old idealisms.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

To claim, after reading the books of the Old and New Testament that we can «fully» understand God's purposes for this world, in each and every situation, is absurd and outrageous.

Revolutionary changes in life as a whole empty older symbols of their meaning, and men are ready then to respond to new symbols or new forms of old symbols that speak to the new situation.

The personal characteristics of the change are to be seen in a sense of liberation from old rigidities and fears, a lessening of defensiveness, more openness and courage for human relationship, and experimentation in meeting old and new situations.

Walter Kasper explains that the statement that «God Himself is dead,» which goes back to an old Lutheran hymn, was taken back into theology by Karl Barth and Bonhoeffer, who agreed at least on this - that «the religious presupposition that is lacking in contemporary irreligious society» affords the human race the opportunity for a «true recognition of our situation before God.»

The act of interpretation takes seriously both the old treasured memory and the new demand of the situation.

Similarly, the P tradition is an attempt to mediate the old memory in the despairing situation of Exile.

This hermeneutic situation is as primitive as the two others because the Gospel is presented from the time of the second generation as a writing, as a new letter, a new Scripture, added to the old in the form of a collection of writings which will one day be gathered up and enclosed in a canon, the «Canon of Scriptures.»

For example, in the Old Testament the Yahwistic theologians do not simply conform to the new social reality, but make a strong case that in the new situation Israel must understand itself as the bearer of a blessing.