Sentences with phrase «only act if»

It appears that judges will only act if a particular person is fraying on his / her nerves and not because it is the right thing to do and appropriate to the circumstances.

Not exact matches

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

But if people can't act on their values when the stakes aren't high, then how can they expect to act on them when the consequences of their inaction affect not only themselves, but an entire group of people?

«If only the markets acted as beautifully as this,» says Swanson.

«We can only act rationally, and if everybody around us wants to be otherwise, we won't be part of that.»

The right workers in the right role can transform an entire department — maybe even an entire organization — but only if their ability to act on their intuition and creativity is unleashed.

People would generally only have to pay that much if they either didn't have health insurance (making them out of compliance with the Affordable Care Act, which requires Americans to have coverage) or if they had not yet reached their health plan's deductible (more common for people with high - deductible, so - called catastrophic health plans).

Imagine how much more productive you could be if you had a team of Dampeners feeding you only the information you needed to act on or that you needed to pass on to the team or your board?

According to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the FDA can only require foods to be labeled as GMO if there is a material difference between the GM product and its non-GM counterpart.

Also consider packaging your product with a bonus — an exclusive incentive which they'll only get if they act now.

Our company's purpose is to «Move the World,» and every person we hire is passionate about making the world a better place, even if that occurs only through small acts of kindness.

At the end of the day, ambitious endeavors like the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act can only be profitable for American consumers and entrepreneurs if both US officials and innovators can get on the same page.

Under federal law, fully automatic weapons are technically legal only if made before 1986, when Congress passed the Firearm Owners» Protection Act.

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

«Not only are students often the ones who are suffering the longest commute times now, but they are also the ones who will bear the brunt of the environmental consequences down the road if we don't act now,» says Robinson.

However, as part of the federal JOBS Act of 2012, Congress instructed the Securities and Exchange Commission to implement rules allowing general solicitation in a private offering if securities are sold only to accredited investors.

Nancy Smith, executive vice president and corporate secretary at AARP, said on a conference panel with Hauser that AARP will not only continue to advocate for the fiduciary rule but plans to assemble some members to act as «mystery shoppers» to see if advisors are complying.

Buffett, in the same way, suggests that all investors act as if they owned a lifetime decision card with only 20 investment choice punches in it.

Diversification only shows diligence if an adviser has acted with «care, skill, prudence, and diligence» in his / her research of the securities into which he / she recommends investing.

If you're argument can only work if you assume people will act for charitable reasons, I think you're setting yourself up for failurIf you're argument can only work if you assume people will act for charitable reasons, I think you're setting yourself up for failurif you assume people will act for charitable reasons, I think you're setting yourself up for failure.

But this requires a difficult sentiment balancing act for traders, since the chances of more Fed easing only improve if US economic data get worse.

If someone acts in an ethical fashion based only on religion... that person is a potential threat to society should they lose that motivator.

You can only act this backward if you have lots of money.

And in the wake of so many acts of senseless violence like those of Aurora, Colorado, Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon, we worry that we're never truly safe anymore — that we're vulnerable to tragedy at any second, that so much could be lost if we only find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Also, as a side note, Joshua didn't die on the cross; he was given a solution of Mandrake and vinager which acted like a paralytic; the Roman centurian who pierced him with his spear, only did it to see if he would move, not to kill him.

If I am wrong then so be it but I bet half of you, if not most, watch TV shows like Bachelorette and Big Brother which it's ok to act like they do ONLY if they are Christians righIf I am wrong then so be it but I bet half of you, if not most, watch TV shows like Bachelorette and Big Brother which it's ok to act like they do ONLY if they are Christians righif not most, watch TV shows like Bachelorette and Big Brother which it's ok to act like they do ONLY if they are Christians righif they are Christians right?

It's only by convincing his followers that his immoral acts are moral that you come to believe that we are somehow misunderstanding gods evil acts and that if we only read the bible again we'd somehow see that when he killed all the first born of egypt, or impregnated a married woman and left her with a kid or that he's fine with slavery under certain conditions as good things.

Secondly, if you are going to base your arguement on it, God only acted that way after hundreds of years of the Isrealites engaging in Baal worship that involved the blood sacrifices and canabalism of their children (and lots of other unmentionable perverted stuff).

On the agenda for the next term of Congress is a proposal to channel assistance for day care only to secular day - care centers (or church - based centers that promise to act as if they were secular)

@Jason: You act as if religeous folks are the only murderers and abusers of people to be found.

Only if he did act inappropriately with the young men.

What happens on God's side is not clear, but I know prayer transformed me, if only through the act of doing it.

If the buy - bull nonsense it the only thing keeping your from acting like an immoral cretin, then by all means stick with it..

If God wills to create new life, that is the only place wherein He can so act.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

So, the only question that really needs to be answered when asking if a particular act is sinful is whether or not God says that it is sinful or not.

They figured that if people didn't act like them, look like them, and believe like them, they were under the curse of God and were fit only to be destroyed.

I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.

«This means that the only circumstances under which prayer may be targeted as a prohibited activity under the PSPO is if it is taking place within the context of a protest that is an act or attempted act of approval or disapproval related to abortion services.»

If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of holiness of life.

The U.S. system of industry self - regulation is preferable to the English system, but a voluntary regulation system can survive only if its participants act in a responsible manner and abide by the rules they set for themselves.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

Repentance is at best only an incentive to this turning, and it may even stand in the way of it if a man tortures himself with the idea that his acts of penance are not sufficient and thereby withholds his best energies from the work of reversal.

We are responsible only for those acts and attitudes in which we are free enough to do or to think otherwise if we choose to.

If so, this sounds similar to your accusation that God has somehow acted immorally in killing the children for the crimes of the parents only in the ra - pe case, the man gets to walk away while the child is killed.

How would it be possible for Cornelius to act in this manner if he was born a DIRTY LITTLE SINNER; inclined only to do evil, and was totally depraved?

«16 If God acts the same way in relation to the event of Jesus as he acts in relation to every other event, and if theology can only make statements about God which apply to his relation to every event, it would seem that Ogden had made it doubly impossible to assert that Jesus is the decisive act of GoIf God acts the same way in relation to the event of Jesus as he acts in relation to every other event, and if theology can only make statements about God which apply to his relation to every event, it would seem that Ogden had made it doubly impossible to assert that Jesus is the decisive act of Goif theology can only make statements about God which apply to his relation to every event, it would seem that Ogden had made it doubly impossible to assert that Jesus is the decisive act of God.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

-- Most (if not all) «happy - clappy», evangelical churches act in extroversion... but they will be quick to close borders and associate themselves only with «certain» other people.

If the fourth event is only the stuff of dreams, the three preceding events around which the whole story revolves are meaningless, and the God who speaks and in speaking acts in these events is not only dead — he never was.