Sentences with phrase «only accept about»

There are those that can accommodate a lot of accessories, while others only accept about two to three bottles or so.
According to AOL, the company only accepts about 75 to 80 new franchises each year, despite the fact it receives around 20,000 applications on an annual basis.
Quebec has drawn at least $ 1.9 billion (# 1.5 billion) from Chinese investment, though it only accepts about 1,500 people a year — a small amount compared to what it was in the past when it didn't have a yearly quota, Katz added.
The school only accepts about 60 % of applicants, however, making it more selective than other educator preparation schools in Arkansas.
The thing is, Amazon only accepts about 1 - 3 % of the books submitted through this system, so it is important to find ways of floating to the top of the pile.
It's not all as easy as it sounds however: BookBub has notoriously strict submission guidelines, and even when those guidelines are met, the fact that BookBub only accepts about 10 % of submissions means most authors will struggle to get approved.

Not exact matches

The prestigious Ivy League school not only accepted Williams in March, but the admissions office reached out to her specifically about the essay.
Nearly three - fifths of respondents ages 35 to 44 and about half of consumers 45 and older also say they only shop where credit cards are accepted.
I was pretty adamant about accepting only the best.
The company, which obtained personal information about millions of Facebook users, said it «has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising.»
So far, after all, bitcoin is accepted by only about 10,000 or so merchants.
We're only accepting 8 - 12 startups this year, make your case as to why you'd be a great fit for this year's Cohort and why you're passionate about building your business.
For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.
While only about 5 percent of Bon Vivant customers use bitcoin payment, «If I didn't accept bitcoin, then I would have less sales,» Rose told Food Truck Operator.
I should note that I make no assurances or promises about the future long - term performance of any of these companies, and it is up to each investor to only purchase stocks after their own independent verification of the facts, consultation with professional advisers if need be, and with a willingness to accept full responsibility for the consequences of your own investment decisions.
Not only do they provide information about their offers and goals for each email, they also include the subject line and CTA they'll use to entice the reader to accept the offer.
After all, truth aims at understanding, which comes about only when the truth is freely accepted by the reason.
I am neither a christian or muslim but what right do christians have in making fun of muslims and their books when so much trash exists in their houses only difference being that other religions are open about their practices and even accept their mistakes..
@Lycidas: You said, «After all, how about you tell us something «only a god can do» that you would accept without hesitation.
After all, how about you tell us something «only a god can do» that you would accept without hesitation.
@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring Pagans beliefs and mixed it with Christianity....
Teachings about the Trinity, the Incarnation, and so forth that have not only been grounded in large portions of Scripture but have also been accepted by the vast majority of Christians in history — those we can pretty much give our lives to.
This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.
Indeed, it is only one of the hundreds of known facts about human life which we must accept with a proper and reverent agnosticism.
Only fools concern about their own happiness as the supreme importance and believe they should be as happy as they can be without caring injustices in the world around them because all injustices are mere fate to be accepted.
We must be willing not only to accept, but to embrace the radical transformation brought about by the renewing of our minds and our thinking though the fundamental principles of God's Word.
Part of the difficulties of Cartesian philosophy, and of any philosophy which accepts [presentational immediacy] as a complete account of perception, is to explain how we know more than this meager fact about the world although our only avenue of direct knowledge limits us to this barren residuum.
Not accepting that Jesus is the only one that can save your soul isn't something to scoff or be ignorant about.
Just because I do not accept your conviction that those verses are the only verses in the Bible about Salvation and no others are relative does not mean I did not consider each verse you referenced.
He even loved, accepted, and invited the religious leaders to join Him, and only had harsh things to say about them once they started trying to trap him.
We are entitled to infer that this was the moment at which Jesus accepted his vocation, For him, and not only for those who wrote about him, it was the act of God by which he was «anointed» for his mission.
That, essentially, is what Christian faith is all about — it has a cosmic sweep and is not to be accepted as an affair of human importance only.
This only deepened the questions growing in his own mind, questions about a multitude of claims he had always accepted about the Bible, history and the future.
Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result
To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.
As Christians are just about the only large group of people seen to be particularly intolerant, there can be some scepticism from time to time of how people can tolerate being part of the church (a scepticism which I actually haven't found common in Ontario myself but did find growing up East — which might be because the churches here are more accepting).
«They may be accepted as correct, only to suffer the eclipse that the bias brings about by excluding the relevant further questions.
They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.
I believe that my alternative makes better sense than Whitehead's suggestion, but it does so only if we accept a special view about the relations among the regions that constitute the «standpoints» of occasions.
As usually presented, then, even by its more sophisticated spokesmen, classical theism requires acceptance of statements about the world, about its origin or end or the happenings within it, which men today are willing to accept, if at all, only with the backing and warrants of science or history.
From âpihtawikosisân: The Canadian government continues to mouth platitudes about its supposed dedication to this relationship, while it slashes funding, ignores our emergencies, pulls out of comprehensive land claim discussions, «consults» with us and then ignores everything we told them, all while pursuing a hard - line agenda which accepts only termination as a result.
It is so sad that so many atheists will spend most of their lives fighting and arguing against the very thing that can save them, only to die and go to hell and then to spend eternity regretting the fact that they wasted all of their time arguing about it rather than just accepting it, rather than just believing, and a belief that could have saved them.
I rebel against my own social conditioning about my body by choosing to not only accept myself, but celebrate my body.
This I can not square away — however, I look at the gay issue much differently than most — I think it's much to complicated and we are jumping the gun by saying we just accept gay marriage — or it's an evil sin — what about the science that says testosterone starts forming around the babies brain when they are only 8 weeks into the womb?
Related to the litmus test comments — How about this litmus test: if you don't accept evolution as the only rational explanation for the diversity of life on Earth you can not run for office.
Answers to questions about our relationships to the world, to the good and to one other develop in ways that exclude other answers, yet each of the frameworks we accept appears on close inspection to be only part of the answer we want.
The Christian Yes to Jesus» messiahship, which is based on believed and experienced reconciliation, will therefore accept the Jewish No, which is based on the experienced and suffered unredeemedness of the world; and the Yes will insofar adopt the No as to talk about the total and universal redemption of the world only in the dimensions of a future hope and a present contradiction of this unredeemed world.
(ii) you, JW, have a startling new piece of evidence that was right before our eyes that will turn accepted biological science and about 10 other sciences on their heads if ONLY people would listen to you, no doubt earning you a Nobel Prize and a place in history beside the likes of Darwin, Newton and Einstein; or
I had to learn to look beyond smiling faces, empty rhetoric, to asking myself why those who want to get very close very quickly or those who say one thing like claiming no strict rules about becoming a full accepted member somewhere only later on to start hearing of expectations and the guilt tripping brain - washing used.
Ross the bible is quite clear that it is not by works that we are saved but by the finished work of Christ.We are saved the moment we accept Christ.Can you say that you stopped sinning the moment you accepted Christ i certainly did nt it was ingrained in my old nature.When we have the holy spirit he helps us to be transformed into Christ likeness that process is sanctification.You are right there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.The bible says that Jesus and the father are in heaven and the holy spirit is with believers though they are one they are also separate individuals.As far as sin is concerned we can not in our own strength live a christian life it is impossible only though trusting the holy spirit by accepting Jesus can we live a life as overcomers.If we choose to accept sin in our lives after becoming christians then we can not become overcomers i think people accept Christ for the benefits and then live there lives for themselves i used to.I do nt know about but how is it going are you overcoming sin in your life or i know i am able because the holy spirit helps me.I do nt have to try anymore i just have to believe that through Christ the holy spirit empowers me to do that which i cant.I appreciate your comments.regards brentnz
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