Sentences with phrase «on your convictions about»

Don't waver on your convictions about what you want as long as it doesn't harm others.

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With the explore portion, on the other hand, investor seek to gain an outperformance edge or they might want to express a conviction about the market, perhaps believing technology will continue its strong run or that international markets might edge out domestic ones given their slimmer valuations.

The shake - up at South Korea's biggest company is designed to ease investors» concerns about a leadership vacuum following the arrest and conviction of group scion Jay Y. Lee on bribery charges earlier this year.

These forward - looking statements include statements about our expectations regarding our high conviction that our «Winning Together» plan unveiled this morning will improve guest experience and drive sales and profitability for our Tim Hortons restaurant owners; our expectations regarding the growth potential for each of our three brands; and our expectations and belief that through our focus on enhancing guest satisfaction and franchisee profitability, we will create value for all of our stakeholders for many years to come.

And I cherish my role of being difficult to persuade about strategic moves without strong data or logic or conviction on your part.

But if voting strictly on the basis of your convictions has been rendered ineffective, what about so - called strategic voting?

Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson's appeals of their insider trading convictions hinge on a fairly nit - picky legal point about jury instructions, although an important one that has an appeals court pretty riled up.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group LLC managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

Most salespeople «talk the talk» about the value of their products, but their actions betray their level of conviction when buyers squeeze them on price.

Dr. Michael Hasenstab, CIO of Templeton Global Macro, certainly has strong convictions about many aspects of the global economy and markets — and is not afraid to act on them.

At Primary, Ben and I are singularly focused on finding founders about whom we have incredible conviction.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

On the other hand, I have heard some immature, but nevertheless soundly reasoned, convictions about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»

The exclamation point was stamped on our conviction to do something about our situation when we attended a talk at our parish by a monsignor who acts as a judge of the canon law tribunal in our diocese, considering annulment cases.

And I wanted to introduce the topic through a series of questions, precisely because questions are about as far as I can go with this topic without tripping up on my own failed attempts to establish guiding principles or rules about how to engage other people with wisdom, conviction, and grace online.

There is disagreement among Christians about this, (and historically, even among evangelicals), so is it really my place, or the government's job, to impose my beliefs on people of all faiths and convictions?

Though Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running War on Drugs is the first step in forming an intelligent opinion.

Hutchinson, a mother of 15 children, dared to challenge the male Calvinist clergy about whether they were being true to their theological convictions on questions of grace.

When I saw this video of Fox News» Megyn Kelly taking on two men in a heated argument about stereotyping women, it only confirmed to me that beneath all the layers of reasoning there resides a deep - seated, gut - level emotional conviction that women must fulfill their stereotypical roles.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

On this matter, we really are strangers, far apart and mystified about each other's outlook and convictions.

They are real problems because most people are not neutral toward them but, on the contrary, hold firm convictions about them.

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

I confess to considerable uncertainty about where rationality ends; but among rational convictions I include those that are apparent to anyone with ordinary rational faculties or that can be demonstrated or persuasively argued on rational grounds.

An atheist or agnostic, on the other hand, who has sampled many religions, knows a superficial amount about many of them but no conviction about any, could easily do better.

They believed the Law was given to them, and they dramatized this conviction through the biblical narrative about Moses receiving the tablets from the very hand of God on Mount Sinai.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

The Christian ideas of God as loving father and the oneness of all men under him have an effect on one's life only if they become essential ingredients in one's convictions, at the nucleus of one's being, about the meaning of existence.

Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus Christ and his purposes.»

Decisions about biblical meanings are not made on the spot, but result from the growth of habits and convictions.

So if I have understood you rightly it's about learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, not holding on steadfastly to convictions that either we have come to by our own volition or by cultural influences.

«(On) the other side is finding the right balance... concerns about religious beliefs and convictions.

Surely even the unchurched would respond positively to expression of conviction on moral principles, even if they disagreed about the obvious applications: e.g., idolatry and Watergate.

That America is guided by Providence is a belief deeply entrenched in the seventeenth - century beginnings, the constitutional period, Lincoln's ponderings on our greatest war, and Woodrow Wilson's convictions about the inseparable connections between freedom and American destiny.

Public debate would be arrested if the state could teach a religion or impose on citizens their deepest conviction about the common good.

Reliance on a pill spares us from the messy business of having to think about and make sense of our experience, but the conviction is spreading as though the pill were the Good News itself.

Such conservatives, estimated by pollster Daniel Yankelovich as one American in five, are actually somewhat marginal to the mainstream of national life, have few polished spokespersons, and are given to unsophisticated and vehement expression of their resentment about assaults on their convictions and values.

And though different Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running «War on Drugs» is the first step in forming your own opinion.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

Stanley Hauerwas, an American theologian who has thought deeply about disability, wrote an essay on abortion that joins up biblical convictions to arrive at this conclusion: «The church is a family into which children are brought and received.

They had already determined that evolution could not be true based on their religious convictions, and so any logical or scientific inconsistencies within the young earth creationism model were dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a pithy statement about the mysteries of God.

I shall never forget the impact on my ministry when I sat down a few years ago and jotted on paper «the great rocky facts of being» (Augustus Hopkins Strong): some elementary but elemental truths I felt certain of, with certainty defined as «no doubt about it» but as «convictions by and for which one lives and dies.»

For those of us with convictions about waiting for the ideal situation of child - rearing in the context of a marriage, the options of passing our noses or tempers on to the next generation or participating in the beauty of adoption are, at least for now, off the table.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

But when we see the people on the other side of the debate as the enemy (by calling them names, labeling them or demeaning their convictions), we miss the point of what «fighting for our faith» is supposed to be about in the first place.

He ordered this material in a manner that reflected his convictions about the Christian life: first the law (Ten Commandments), then the gospel (Apostles» Creed), and finally the life of gratitude and dependence on God (Lord's Prayer).