Sentences with phrase «only an act of»

May 03 — The Central States Pension Fund that covers 400,000 retirees and active workers will be insolvent by Jan. 1, 2025, and only an act of Congress can save it, the fund's executive director told members in a conference call Wednesday evening.

Bible studies and prayer meetings are not the only acts of worship you can do in college.

This was for Augustine and for all the Church Fathers not only an act of philosophic rationality, but also a confirmation of Christian piety as they ascribed to God all power, all completeness, all perfection of every kind.4 Most important for our consideration was their conviction that all temporality, change, becoming, and passivity signify lack of perfection.

There is no theological dinner talk, only her act of utter, off - putting, self - yielding devotion.

If this is all that is said, an explanation is given (in the sense of course in which metaphysical statements aim at «explaining» anything) of the aspect in which the act is more, but not how the act founded and sustained in that way, is not only the act of the finite being because it is received in it, as Aquinas puts it, but also because it is posited by it as a cause.

Faith took on the dimension of a blind leap, only an act of the will pro Deo.

Descartes had maintained that the only act of being is an act of «thinking»; physical existence in his doctrine is without any acting of its own — it simply «is,» by God's creative act.

What if someone had access to a mass - surveillance supercomputer that could predict not only acts of terror, but everyday violent crimes?

Jeez... the only act of real idiocy was when someone whose name sounds uncomfortably like where he's talking from suggested we had a 40m quid signing in coquellin after 4 months of regular starting....

And I bet you were under the impression that only an Act of God or Extreme Weather could prevent me from revving...

sometimes our thoughts and feelings on positive body image and self care are the only acts of kindness our bodies truly know.

For crying out loud, the female lead villain barely leaves the damn kitchen where her only act of villainy is to make a damn sandwich!

Only an act of magic is able to postpone the immediate danger, but it also sets him on a perilous quest to find three pieces of armor.

It is not only an act of kindness, but my job as a teacher to try to help that student learn by differentiation.

Only the act of hatred is a similarity between the Holocaust and the treatment of African Americans in the South

When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free.

Youngho can hide in cupboards, crouch and hold his breath in hopes that she waddles past but once spotted the only act of recourse is to dodge and run, both of these actions depleting a very limited stamina bar.

Much of each painting is hidden in layers, and only the act of dragging a metal tool across its surface exposes some of what is beneath.

Graffuturism continues to bring together like minded artists from around the world in a cohesive movement that is not defined by any theory only acts of action and moments.

Therefore, it is not only the act of writing music, but also the moment of the performance, which has strong ties with narration and the questioning of time — the most essential components of her artistic practice.

He also became an artist at a time when Conceptual and Minimalist art had challenged not only the act of painting or sculpting a recognizable image, but the very acts of painting or sculpting themselves.

Graffiti isn't the only act of vandalism that a person can commit.

To these students, this is not only an act of great magnitude, but also a step of healing for those who survived and have to live with this tragedy.

The fear of writer's block, the angst associated with offending someone's ambiguous rules, the frustration in trying to recall what you did, and when you did it — all of these feelings mix and meld to create a strong dislike for not only the act of writing a resume, but also in the resulting resume.

The trial court had determined that since the salesperson stated the home was in Montville, not Montville Township, her concealment was only an act of omission, and there was no evidence she intended to mislead the buyers.

Not exact matches

Cull stopped short of awarding additional damages, saying the party had only used the song after receiving professional advice that it could do so, and hadn't acted recklessly.

Not only did the government fail to ease foreign ownership and entry restrictions in the key sectors of telecom and air transport, it rendered the Investment Canada Act's foreign investment review process more uncertain and less transparent.

In addition to acting as personal agents across the entirety of a company, chatbots have the ability to offer a level of personalization that until recently only a human could offer.

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?

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

A great example are Freelancer Management Systems (FMS)-- not only assisting companies in engaging freelancers but for serving as a repository of company knowledge about the freelance workforce that acts as a company's ongoing source of freelance talent.

Not only are the majority of small businesses (83 percent of which are pass - through entities) subject to higher tax rates than their larger C - Corporation counterparts, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, any modest benefit they reap is scheduled to go away after 2025, while corporations will retain their steep tax cuts.

Think about what you wrote and why, and make a brief plan — in only 30 seconds — to act on one of the items on your list.

Undies boss tripled her pay, then sacked 1,850 workers In an act that could only be described as corporate bastardry, shameless executives at Bonds owner Pacific Brands awarded themselves pay rises of up to 170 per cent while they sacked nearly 2000 workers.

«Such selective and discriminatory acts will only serve to embolden the radical narratives of extremists and will provide further fuel to the advocates of violence and terrorism,» the group added in the statement.

Despite the thawing of Cuba - U.S. relations, the trade embargo remains in place, and can only be removed by an act of Congress.

Under the Dodd - Frank Act, the law that established the agency, the head of the CFPB can be dismissed only for «inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.»

Thus, the best and only way to raise significant capital from «silent» partners and multiple investors, is to create a private securities offering under the Securities Act, and more specifically Rules 504, 505, and 506 of Regulation D.

Between 1945 and the mid-to-late 1950s, von Braun acted as an adviser to the US armed forces for the sake of developing military rockets only.

Health savings accounts — authorized by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 — are available only to people enrolled in high - deductible health insurance plans meeting strict criteria, including certain minimum deductibles and out - of - pocket maximums.

Not only is it impossible to anticipate in such a code every possible variable or potential dilemma, but always «it is possible to satisfy the letter of the law while still committing an act that most reasonable people would consider unethical or immoral.»

These exceptional personalized gifts, sent to only a few dozen fans, were seen by the rest of her fan base as an incredible act of kindness.

There are only a few acts left before the Black Keys and Lana Del Rey simultaneously close out the festival on separate ends of Randall's Island.

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

I myself have been guilty of coming up with a great idea only to let it sit on a shelf and later discover that someone else developed a similar notionand acted on it.

The CHOICE Act not only cuts in half the number of stress tests, but requires that the test itself be published in advance, thus giving the SIFIs a test cheat sheet!

As we wait for the JOBS Act to clear the way for anyone to invest in businesses via SEC - approved crowdfunding platforms, entrepreneurs can post on some websites that are open only to accredited investors, which under SEC rules includes individuals earning at least $ 200,000 a year or those with a net worth of $ 1 million or more.

And we can't forget Justin Bieber — whilst he's only 22, and still acting like it — he's now in the midst of one of the most successful international tours by any recording artist, ever.

The worry is that businesses exposed to such arguments will come to think of ethics from a purely instrumental point of view: we'll act ethically only because, and only to the extent, that it's good for profits.

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