Sentences with phrase «own little mean»

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

content while the already tech - heavy world around you seems to be getting a little meaner, harsher, and more polarized, you can take a small measure of comfort knowing that there are people out there who see the world the same way.

Also, better is such a general term that it has little meaning.

Since Estonia had little means for attracting masses of immigrants to its icy Northern European landscape, it came up with a quirky idea — another of its firsts in the world: offering people virtual residency.

Experiential: with awareness and active effort, maximizing the time spent doing things I love (time with kids, traveling to fish, writing, ice hockey) by minimizing hours spent doing things of little meaning to me (television, Internet).

Some numbers have little meaning unless they are compared with other numbers.

Yet when I now reflect on all 52 interviews in my podcast, this makes complete sense; the grit and hustle that comes from moving to a foreign country - often with very little means - and persevering through hardship lends itself to starting a company and overcoming the unexpected bumps of early startup life.

Since the family is the prime unit in the transmission of tradition (indeed, tradition itself has little meaning for those uprooted from family), it stands to reason that the grave familial problems our society faces can be effectively approached only within the context of tradition.

I think too many people focus on giving up some trivial thing that has little meaning and requires no real sacrifice.

This is an unconscious process by which normal social controls, which have had little meaning to Joe in the advanced stages of his alcoholism, are reestablished.

I am an immunologist and my personal experience over the past 30 years has shown me that people who rely on their own intellect and abilities live very shallow lives with little meaning other than their work.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

Even in its more sophisticated guise, such as the argument of Immanuel Kant that life in heaven is to be a due adjustment of affairs after the obvious evil known and experienced in mundane life, there is for many people little meaning.

The mainstream mathematical culture, which, regardless of ontological commitment, is driven as much by esthetics as by science, seems to have had little meaning for him.

Obviously this can not always, perhaps often, be done, since for a great many people today the whole idea of worship has little meaning.

In aggregate, the little meanings chime life's answers; little dabs of data mount to heaven in their millions at a time.

A miracle in the sense of the New Testament is not so much a breach of the laws of nature (a concept which would have had little meaning for most people of the time), but rather a remarkable or exceptional occurrence which brought an undeniable sense of the presence and power of God.

How prevalent the phenomenon was in early prophecy we have little means of knowing.

Each community has its own symbolic language in terms of which it interprets experience, and these symbols have little meaning for the outsider in either case.

It has little meaning other than disrespect for those who can not argue with them.

The term «mental health» has little meaning if it implies that mental health is something apart from other types of health and not related to the total health of the human organism.

Unfortunately, for many Protestants corporate worship has relatively little meaning.

This story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people of little means brought tears to my eyes.

Shortly before his death, Mark Twain wrote: «A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle... they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages...

«The whole idea of a «Christian» college or university after the breaking apart of the medieval synthesis has little meaning,» declared Harvey Cox in The Secular City.

The actions of men were of no great moment and indeed had little meaning.

We use words, spout phrases and refer to concepts that mean something to those familiar with Christianity, but carry little meaning for those who do not share our beliefs.

Outside of prevalence in some order, though, the term «existence» can have very little meaning in an ordinal metaphysics.

Faith as surrender to mystery has little meaning outside of the context of a hierarchical universe.

We noted that without our having an antecedent sense of the silent and mysterious depths of reality, the idea of revelation has little meaning.

Also Christians say the words, «Love God with all your being» They show how little they mean to do what these words say when they insist that we should not have to accept our mortality and should, like God, have an infinite future.2

I shared pictures of these on instagram (@coconutandberries), google + and facebook on Saturday and feel a little mean for not having shared the recipe until now... but hopefully you'll forgive me when you make them!

Ok, that last part might be a little mean, I'll just leave the pictures caption-less.

And by little I mean it's taking up half my pantry lol.

It looks good in photos and catches the eye and tosses up meaningful alley - oops to greedy, groping little meaning - perverts like me.

OK, sorry Amy, that was a little mean.

I am pretty sure by reading everyone's post, it's probably a mix up of both teething and separation anxiety... but has anyone else dealt with their 8 - 9 month old getting a little mean??

And by a little we mean VERY.

For expectant moms of little means and no insurance, Young is happy to help them get signed up for Medicaid benefits, if they qualify.

If rearranging our sleeping habits a little means I get a healthier amount of sleeping during the newborn daze, I am more than willing to bring a baby into our bed.

A welcome shift, but of little meaning when Nestlé undermines breastfeeding throughout this period.

You may feel a little mean doing it... but it will only take a second.

Minuses: dick - in - a-box jokes; immobility (beware bores, as you have little means of escape); chance of poking someone's eyeball out with a flagpole; risk of fire (note: avoid open flames).

«illegal» by international law has very little meaning.

The principle at stake is this: If public officials can escape accountability simply by using their private e-mails to do their dirty work, the public's right to know will have little meaning.

Blair's presentation was based on «Newness», created by symbolic acts in his early days, notably the abandonment of Clause IV, which had little meaning for the public except for the impression of modernity.

After a childhood spent without a father and with little means, Nicholas DiNapoli devoted his adult years to scrimping to pay for college for his sons, supporting their careers and later meeting his grandchildren for regular breakfasts, Thomas DiNapoli said.

Being the best in the world holds little meaning if it is with respect to an infinitesimal niche that only you inhabit.

He thinks there is little meaning to be found in the zones, and even the book's scientists have bleak outlooks.

Adapted from Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir by arrangement with Time Books, and imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC (North America), and Allen Lane (UK).