Sentences with phrase «only other attempt»

Being significantly indebted to his manager (Jon Gries) and all - but living out of his car, Ansel agrees to kidnap their daughter and subject her to a week - long «deprogramming» session (even though his only other attempt backfired quite publicly).

Not exact matches

In other words, they argue that you can only call a statement a lie if you know for a fact that the person who said it knew it was false — and that they did so in a deliberate attempt to deceive or mislead their audience.

On greed and fear: «We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.»

Yet another was created by selling shares to foreign investors, so that any attempt to denationalize would have to confront not only British financial institutions and worker - shareholders, but American and other global diplomatic pressure.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

On the other hand, those parties stressing the environment will attempt to overcome this image, arguing that changes to Canada's environmental policy are not only paramount, but economically feasible.

Some of this difference can be accounted for by Strategy Analytics only tracking five large countries and Loup's attempt to quantify shipments to other countries as well.

The company only promises an «investor day» — with a presentation to be posted online for others — as part of an attempt to educate possible buyers on the business.

Only when I began to think for myself and to question what I had been told, did I see that the «other side» had some valid points — I simply didn't want to hear them, much less attempt to understand them.

so, the only time attempting to foist your views onto others is wrong is when it's done forcibly??

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

as with every other argument about christianity, if it really was only a belief it would be of no consequence, but unfortunately so many use their religious beliefs as an excuse to attempt to demand the rest of the population adhere to their beliefs by codifying them into civil law.

It's heartbreaking to see religious folk attempting to exclude others from the discussion, as if love and family, peace of heart and mind were religious prerogatives only.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

@tea: i still do not understand why all you jesus freaks insist on making darwin the point of your anti-evolution propaganda when he only placed the first stone; hundreds if not thousands of other sciectists have refined and attempted to debunk the progess of evolution along the way and all have failed to.

I wouldn't be surprised if she had been Catholic all along only to make such an announcement and get the attention she has — in an attempt to convert / affirm others who question.

Well, precisely: since Sheerman says that «faith education works all right as long as people are not thatserious about their faith», it is obvious not only that that is exactly what he is attempting to do, but also that Bishop Roche is absolutely right (other bishops please note) to resist him.

There are a great many resources on the multiple subjects Dorothy attempts to cover in her books and other self - published writings (yes, she owns the only publisher that prints her work).

After that, the big Jeez seemed to only be attempting to get others to focus on the core meanings in the book, that often gets lost in the hocus pocus.

An illustration of this may be seen in the way our attempts to secure visible security for ourselves bring us into collision with others; we can seek security for ourselves only at their expense.

Otherwise the only way to view those wars, is as all other wars — one group of thugs attempting to kill another group of thugs, both doing so in the name of their own ego, misappropriating whatever political, religious, and social pressure and propaganda they can, to their cause.

A man who, for some reason, feels the need perpetually to humiliate people will not find any explanation for that need in the actual attempts to humiliate others: he will only find it in the inferences which might be derived from the motives which lead him to behave in that way.

Any attempt to stop the research entirely (in other countries as well as in the United States) would not only be unrealistic, it would be contrary to basic commitments of the Christian faith - ab6ut God and the world.

And not only this; since each of these considerations readily becomes too abstract in character, is he not obliged as the next step to attempt to will, one after the other, each of these goals in order to find out what is the single thing he is to will, if it is a matter of willing only one thing?

In his recent book in which he argues the role of women, he claims that he has tried to appeal «only to Scripture, not to physiology, psychology, or sociology» as many others do.54 As Jewett attempts to let Scripture mold his thought, however, he finds within the writings of St. Paul inconsistencies relating to the role and place of women in the church and home.

Not only so; he seems to have discouraged attempts on the part of others to give him the title, though he may not always have been in a position to silence them.

She also had been drawn to the suffering of others, attempting to become a nurse with Florence Nightingale in 1854 and failing to do so only because of her young age.

Indeed, only the most superficial observer would attempt to describe him without reference to an indeterminate group of persons quite other than him, most of them past, as to Thomas Jenson, buried at Clifton, Texas, or to Lena Nerhaugen, buried in Mt. Olive Cemetery in Chicago.

In other words, if it can be shown that it is contingent that anything at all exists, then not only will the particular effort Hartshorne has made be refuted, but any further attempts would be ruled out a priori.

Chemical dependency and other forms of addiction frequently result from maladaptive attempts to find the solace that comes only from a spiritual relationship with the God who is there.

Not only is Fr Tolhurst encouraging the faithful to use the Catechism as a living document, something that is integral to maturation of faith, but he is also attempting to equip us to answer questions about our faith that others may ask of us:

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

It is only the attempt of others to convert me, that I find abhorrent.

Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy as to make the pious attempt of others to serve as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married love: «No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»

Not only are they inherently hypocritical but they are arrogant to the point of outrageousness in their attempt to shove a belief down the throats of other people in the absence of credible evidence.

For we shall be inclined, if not certainly driven, to put temporary and proximate «goods» in the place belonging only to the absolute Good which is God; and as a result we shall attempt to live without regard for that last and ultimate environment which is the only «safe» context for all other values and goals that we may set ourselves.

Simply because the datum «God» is more diffuse and complex than other more simple and finite structures, it does not mean that our experience of Him is unreal or that our attempt to symbolize this experience is meaningless.31 It only means that this datum does not submit to as high a degree of specification as other datum.

Many are the people who attempt to do this only to find the crises of others too overwhelming.

[16] This was a sincere and open attempt to set out not only the theological understanding of that which divided various traditions, one from the other, but also to suggest theological and practical guidelines toward overcoming such divisions.

You said, «It's only interesting if both parties set aside their differences and biases and openly attempt to understand the other as opposed to name - calling and closed - mindedness.»

It's only interesting if both parties set aside their differences and biases and openly attempt to understand the other as opposed to name - calling and closed - mindedness.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

And only some such openness of Christians to other religions will give any fruitful meaning to the present earnest attempts at encounter.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

’10 Elsewhere he identifies the evolutionary thought which he opposes as «a basic acceptance of technical rationality».11 He speaks of Wolfhart Pannenberg's «extremely valuable attempt to develop a universally historical hermeneutics», complaining only that his «anticipation of a total meaning in history as... too little interrupted or irritated by what is described in the apocalyptic tradition as a universal catastrophe, in other words, the reign of the Antichrist».12 Metz is more open to an Overview than some of his statements imply.

And verse 24 is concerned only to say that Aaron is the co-star with Moses in the Sinai act and, in distinction from verse 22, that Moses and Aaron alone with no priests attending, enter the Presence; and furthermore that any others attempting to join this company of two will find themselves «broken out against» by the Lord himself.

Before anyone attempts to judge me, don't forget that judgment upon others is also a sin and should only be left to our Holy Father.

Where tradition is flouted and the rigid forms and categories of divine revelation are seen as malleable, it makes sense that attempted correctives will only commit the very error they intend to resolve, unconsciously swinging from one extreme to the other.

Part of the reason is that the attempt at objectivity (the reason the court is not in Bosnia or any other nation that has experienced genocide) relativizes not only the meaning of justice but also the action of it.