Sentences with phrase «past old values»

Therefore, she missed out on a great relationship, because she can't get past old values.

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The past ten years have brought me to some new places — more exactly, I suppose, into new ways of standing in old commitments and values.

Precisely in the dying of the old self and its values, they found a freedom for ethical activities, and a resigned acceptance of whatever the future might hold for them — a freedom and acceptance not possible for a person clinging tightly (and perhaps desperately) to his or her past.

In this stage people begin singly, alone, privately, silently to question their own past values, and they start to establish new patterns of thought and behaviors in the face of the old.

But if the moral laws of the past can be understood in a new way, not as prescriptions to be followed but as values that the wisdom of history provides, then perhaps the old moralists can still teach the new moralists some important things.

There was a sense in which a number of the leaders and new converts in Revivalism had their sights fixed backwards upon a glorious past that was to be reconstituted, but it was equally true that even those older values were now seen by many in the context of a new age and a new epoch.

The 24 year old has been in superb form over the past 18 months and is believed to be valued at as much as # 50m by his Premier League employers, comfortably higher than the current record paid for custodian, the # 33m paid by Juventus for Gianluigi Buffon.

Next time we are having a discussion about spending big, marqueee signings, world class players, players being too old or past it, taking punts on young talent and recognising the value of youth systems remember this.

Though he is past his best, José is a big fan of the player — having tried to sign him for Chelsea in 2013 — and will undoubtedly value the experience that the 30 year old can offer to the younger players in the team.

From picnic blankets made out of repurposed bed sheets to curtains made out of vintage handkerchiefs, these projects express the sense of making something new out of something old as a way to live a more financially pared - down and simple life; lessen our impact on the earth; connect to the past and preserve a more traditional way of life; and place value on the work of the hands.

«Since plants are emerging earlier in the year, they tend to be older and past their peak nutritional value by the time the hungry caribou arrive to eat them,» Kerby said.

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

At that time, I was finishing my doctoral thesis at the Ed School: an investigation into the ways in which 16 - to 18 - year - olds use the past to talk about their own lives, identities, and values.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Research and past experience suggests that teachers should be prepared for greater year - to - year variability in their value - added ranking for a few years after the change when districts use both old and new tests for value - added calculations.

If a used vehicle is more than a few years old, it is past its time of greatest depreciation and will retain more value than newer vehicles.

Celebrating basketball's past and future Real old school Cousy's style of play arguably led to a string of great players, including Julius Erving, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, as «new school values» flourished.

Valero is a past double - A winner while Old Republic took home an A for value and a B for growth last time.

Even worse, it was done without any notice, effective retroactively, so you have no chance to redeem your miles earned in the past at the old value!

Average people my age see value in old games, but not so much in the assorted ephemera that comprised the game scene as it existed in the past.

However, this also meant that games given away in the past had a capped value of around # 15 or so, and as such were usually titles that were several years old.

Although people who are older than me chide me and say that this is something that happened all the time, it seems new to me that, in the past five years or so, economic value is conferred on a work of art because of its auction price, and only because of its auction price.

The tension between old and new, past and present that is at the center of the drama of My Name Is Red is, to a large extent, still being played out today as artists from the Islamic world confront the challenge of making contemporary art for an international audience grounded in European values and ideas.

And the trouble NOAA seems have in predicting an accurate recent past is well examplified in Ole Humlums in one of the graphs on his Climate4You website, the one he calls» the GiSS maturity graph» (link below): so it's not only Goddard (though he shouts more and louder about it) that is critical of the slowly but unidirectionally widening gap between the past and present, as for example like in this day instance of the diffrence between the anomalies of the two values for the same day of the month 70 years apart, as the more resent days value heads for heavenly heigth's, while the older anomaly is clearly speeding down the higway to underworld inferno.

With each new look at the old data, the public value to the understanding of past climates decreases and the confidence that the public can put on the authors of the graphs diminishes.

Firms are not training talent, clients are not paying for it, and we're in a race against various players (accounting firms, off - shore out - sourcing, multi-disciplinary practices and alternate business structures, tech startups, etc.) to commoditize legal services and wring out value from the old, inefficient models of the past.

Stick to the past 10 years or less when you can, and when you can't, use only value statements from your oldest jobs that reinforce your unique promise of value.

To make raising children even more confusing, there is a bewildering array of conflicting information for parents, the media feeds off stories of family drama and distress, and cultural change during the past thirty years has been so extensive that many family values are often seen as being old - fashioned or outdated.