Sentences with phrase «ordinary things for»

«Our students are so stimulated with «stuff» all day long,» she adds, «that they don't always stop and get the feeling of doing ordinary things for pleasure.»

Don't take ordinary things for granted.

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BlackBerry wants to push beyond communications into mobile computing, and eventually play a leading role in the «Internet of Things,» the term for a predicted revolution in which many ordinary objects will be given computing power.

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

But it's one thing to establish a position that risks a major wipeout of capital, and another to pursue an investment disipline that maintains a lower tolerance for risk than ordinary buy - and - hold investors require over the course of a typical market cycle.

But whether Cambridge really discovered some powerful new digital techniques, or whether it was made up of relatively ordinary political consultants with a penchant for hyperbolic rhetoric, things didn't end well for either Cambridge or SCL — both are shutting down, the Journal reports.

An increase in the share of Federal Reserve deposit balances belonging to ordinary U.S. banks, rather than to the Treasury, foreign central banks, or GSEs, will, for example, lead to an increase in the total money stock, other things unchanged, while a decline in that share will reduce it.

Indeed, many of the specific things they portray are beyond imitation, at least for ordinary mortals.

Through the most ordinary things — books, for instance, or a postcard, or eyes or hands — life is transformed.

I think it's funny that this pope does things the pope was always SUPPOSED to do, like visit the poor, or kiss babies... and since it's so out - of - the - ordinary for us to see popes doing this, it's suddenly news.

What's really needed, he explains, is for ordinary Christians to invite God to mould and shape the things they care about and devote their time to.

There are, for Christians, two steps here: God speaks the law through the ordinary things of daily life; but his extraordinary Word is spoken in the Endtime through Jesus Christ, who fulfills and transcends the law of creation.

I since stopped asking for things and do not expect anything out of the ordinary (this way I'm less disappointed).

Yes, there have been other mosques in the vicinity for years, but they are small, ordinary things, not this grand statement.

Faith is not, in the ordinary sense, knowledge, and it is futile and dishonest for moderns to act as if things were otherwise.

I, for one, have rather definite views about a range of political topics, but politics, in the ordinary sense of the term, is a small part of subjects addressed in First Things.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

But the ordinary things they long for, and the things that they find funny, and the infinite variety of things they dream of, and the games they play, and animals they wish they could have, and things they like to eat, and clothes they wish they could afford to buy, are not as different as the world seems to believe from what most other children in this land enjoy, or dream of, or desire.

It is too bad when we give Satan credit for such ordinary things that happen in life.

We can — and should — make room for joy and defend the simple pleasures and celebrations, the very things that seem too small or too ordinary or too humble to stack up against suffering.

Is this not the sole certainty: that one's so - called conviction is not altered from moment to moment as a result of the different things that happen to one, things that momentarily alter a person and alter everything for a person so that today he has faith, and tomorrow he has lost it, and he gets it again day after tomorrow until something completely out of the ordinary happens, at which time he almost inevitably loses it, assuming that he has ever had it!

What makes things so difficult for ordinary families is that the 150 - 200 pesos the government gives for monthly salary does not supply sufficient calories to survive.

For a person mentally ill and confused, there is healing by just coming into the presence of real objects, ordinary identifiable things.7

Jesus, pondering how best to describe the depth of God's love, surveyed the crowd before him, fixed on the ordinary objects held in their hands, and told a pair of stories about how we look for things that are lost.

I'm trying to teach myself to let expectations die; to have gratitude for and then release all things; to allow my ordinary existence and actions to be enough.

The upshot of this for the cosmic vision of things comes in the chapter, «The Principle of Dual Transcendence and Its Basis in Ordinary Language.»

One begins to suspect that the contemplation of any ordinary thing, made extraordinary by attention and love, can become an occasion for glimpsing the profound.

For Machiavelli, «it is a thing truly very natural and ordinary to desire to acquire,» and a pity to let principles interfere.

• «The ferocity about economic competitiveness, its promotion into a standard by which to measure things it can not measure... is resulting in a loss of respect for ordinary work and a soft contempt for ordinary people,» Wieseltier continues.

The whole thing is so horribly ordinary that if you get too busy looking for the shiny mountaintop experience, you'll miss the rusty, beat - up, tear - stained extraordinary.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

Because this is an Otttolenghi dish, and Ottolenghi didn't get famous for making things the ordinary way, there are tinier elements in there that I would have never considered adding, like fresh oregano, which works here so well.

Extra + Ordinary Newsletter # 4 (December 1, 2017) Things I Love — this tree guard for cats, this pepper grinder, this DVD collection, this cookbook, this book.

He's skillful and can do things out of the ordinary, a big creative force whoever he plays for.

But for all the things King was, is and might yet be, her real talent is perhaps in something much more ordinary — and traditionally underpaid.

The only thing out of the ordinary about you is that you reached out for a solution.The norm for most guys is that they will have periods of being angry at their baby.

I know that for a lot of people birth seems like this magical process (or at least seems like it ought to be) but all these people are losing sight of the fact that it's really a very ordinary thing.

«Patty is the epitome of an ordinary individual doing extraordinary things for the children and families of Hammond, Indiana,» said School City of Hammond Director of Food and Nutrition Services Christine Clarahan.

If you could tell your little one just one extraordinary or ordinary thing about what it means for you to nurse, what would you share?

As things improve it will become increasingly harder for the military - industrial elite to try to roll back new freedoms without incurring the wrath of huge numbers of ordinary Burmese.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

All of the things that make life better for ordinary people disrupt profit - maximisation - child labour laws, environmental protections, employment rights.

So, for now, all despite US trying to make things going in ordinary way.

Sean has the vision and savvy to get things done for ordinary people in the Hudson Valley.

«The only thing out of the ordinary was the extraordinary need for affidavit ballots in Brooklyn and Manhattan,» he said, adding that the BOE was proud to have a «sufficient amount of affidavits» to provide for all voters.

Real heros are not Generals directing well trained body of soldiers into battle, and running over the enemy; real heros are ordinary folks doing ordinary minute things for country and honour.

«Polls go up and down — one thing goes up and up is the cost of living for ordinary families,» he said after a new YouGov / Sunday Times poll found that only 17 % of respondents thought he was up to the job of prime minister.

Ordinary citizens gave their time for free trying to do the right thing (though many were probably glory hunters).

Physicists around the world are building rudimentary quantum computers that exploit this and other quantum effects to do things that are provably impossible for ordinary computers, such as finding a target record in a database with too few queries.