Sentences with phrase «plain fact does»

As I shall say, confronting that plain fact does not suggest that we should spend our time in the not very profitable exercise of meditating every day on its reality.

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If you're running a company, and want to inform and inspire your staff, it can be tough to do with plain pages of text or simple facts and figures.

What they do not mention is that once an entire field has been created — with careers, funding, appointments, and prestige all premised upon an experimental result which was utterly false due either to fraud or to plain bad luck — pointing this fact out is not likely to be very popular.

Which returns us to the particular crisis of our time: the fact that current ideologies of religious, ethical, cultural and political pluralism do not provide the universalistic principles whereby we can state with clarity and confidence that some things are just plain wrong.

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

«As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national history» (March 22, 1933).

They want «ordinary» folks — not overeducated eggheads who think so abstractly that they don't recognize a plain simple fact on the one hand, or don't respond to emotional appeals on the other.

Projecting one's own beliefs to society at large, even going so far as to make up false resons that can not be backed up by fact, «women are seen as objects», as to why others should do the same, is just plain odd.

Or they just plain don't want to read the Bible, or our history, or perhaps not even the Big Book and its earlier manuscripts (Compare the facts in: Turning Point: A History of Early AA.

And it is obvious that one can not recognize this fact about the Gospels without acknowledging a priori that they do more (or less) than bring us a «plain, unvarnished» account of the mere facts of Jesus» career.

Not only do post-Kantian idealists reject them root and branch, but it is a plain historic fact that they never have converted any one who has found in the moral complexion of the world, as he experienced it, reasons for doubting that a good God can have framed it.

The plain fact is that we don't know of any others who would fill the bill for us.

For our part, we recognize the plain fact — that man does worship.

The validity of asking is tied in with the plain fact that we are in a world where things go wrong and where we know them to do just this.

And even if we do come to accept as historic fact this planned focusing of God, it is plain that many of our eager modern questions will not receive the kind of detailed answer we might expect.

So it is a matter of plain fact that Christianity molded what came to be called Europe (whose original name, after all, was «Christendom»), but to say so does not by itself tell us whether that shaping of European culture through the medium of Christian ideas was a good thing or a bad thing to begin with, let alone whether those ideas speak to us now.

The plain fact is that one can not translate the Bible without doing exegesis and interpretation.

In fact, there's only one real rule to follow when cooking up a batch of plain amaranth — don't skimp on the water!

In fact, while I can't tolerate the very sour flavor of plain store - bought yogurt, I can eat this without any accompaniment at all — although a sprinkling of muesli and a few raspberries certainly don't hurt!

Alot of 30 + yrs players in a team does not guarantee trophies and that's a plain fact.

please spare me that.Every manager has a good side and a bad side.I'm not trying to insult him in away.That's a plain truth about Wenger.Wilshere, Szcz and Giroud are all players who wouldn't have been given as much chances in another top team.That's the way he always from when he first came till this day.Everybody knows this.He seems to love some players too much and even refuses to drop them from the squad or even sell them.You can argue all you want but it's a plain truth.In fact Wenger is known to be one of the few managers who give players chances constantly to prove themselves.Some pay off some don't.

The plain truth of the matter is that it's extremely difficult to sustain winning season after winning season in the NBA, in fact no teams has done that like the Spurs have over the last 20 years.

Well done Macheda.He might play a huge role in the title race but he won't be able to even get a medal.Right now we could have been potentially level with Liverpool and with them having the much better goal difference.6 wins in 7 is all we need but to be fair, it's not too realistic at the moment.One reason is the way we are playing.An other is the fact that in May are fixtures are fucked, plain and simple.But here's where the good news come.We have 2 home games next and Liverpool host Arsenal and go to Hull.2 draws is a dream scenario.It will mean that we could potentially be 8 points clear from them with 4 games to go.That would certainly put a big dent on Liverpool's title challenge before a ball was kicked in May.

For every parent that does their best to maintain their child despite the fact that, well, flights are just plain awful, there are those parents that seem to have the attitude that they shouldn't have to take responsibility for their child's behaviour.

I would've loved to have breastfed my daughter - but the fact is plain and simple - I DID NOT MAKE ANY MILK.

It ignores the facts - that illicit tobacco has been in sustained decline for more than a decade, and that the claimed relationship with health measures like plain packs or tax hikes do not stand up to scrutiny.

The simple fact is that a lot of guys in the gym just plain don't train hard enough and aren't consistent enough with their workouts, and then can't figure out why they aren't putting on quality muscle size like they expected.

(In fact, we had some strawberry «bucha while in the vehicle, and she told me that she was going to hold it and take care of it... which of course translated into: «I'll take care to drink it as fast as possible so mommy doesn't get any» well played dear child... well played» I've also done strawberry / kiwi, strawberry / blueberry, blueberry, ginger root, and of course, just plain kombucha.

In a petri dish, it seemed that soymilk did in fact bind up the phytonutrients of tea making it nutritionally close to plain water.

Some of the best quality white T - shirts on the market are a plain and simple white, and this is due to the fact they keep most of their organic properties and don't need bleaching.

A mix of history, culture, little - known facts about the lesbian nation (hint: don't look for it in an atlas), and dating tips for the confirmed, the soon - to - be-out, and just plain - curious, So You Want to Be a Lesbian?

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I can't argue around the fact that the movie is just plain stupid but it does have a lot of moments where I found myself laughing out loud.

The fact that they work among laggards also allows them to hide in plain sight; once the poor performers are weeded out, the definition of high quality is raised; this can change their status and that may be a bridge they don't want to cross.

So, yes, it is nice, but what it really does is compensate for the fact that the standard eBook is poorly designed for their digital devices when the page design is more complex than plain text.

The fact that I am moving in two weeks and just plain don't want any more books right now, and really, truly want to get rid of books doesn't seem to matter.

The plain fact is that most self - published books — just like most manuscripts doing the slush pile rounds — are not publishable.

This disappointing performance has not been uniform, but it does emphasize the fact that once when ventures beyond plain - vanilla, indexed vehicles, performance depends on managerial skill.

Throw in the fact that fringe investments often come with lofty fees (often to pay the person peddling them), and your chances of doing better loading up with alternatives than you would be simply sticking to a plain - vanilla portfolio of low - cost index funds and ETFs are slim.

Worldwide Operation — There is no getting away from the fact that HSBC are a huge international business and as such they have the size to ride out any storms on the banking world, which they have been doing with some level of success over the last few years, they are slowly getting back on track and unless any other major scandals emerge then it may be plain sailing for HSBC and they should return to profitability over the long term in no time at all.

In fact, my high - school self thought it was just plain boring, as many likely do at that age.

So, when this new data - based evidence is presented, why does a group hold on to those deeply held beliefs, even though they may not be based on facts or may be just plain wrong?

In fact, it's just about all Crimsonland allows you to do, but is it such a bad thing that you get the instant satisfaction of decimating hordes of monsters while they burst into bits and blood all over the fairly plain canvas that is the level you are playing?

It didn't happen often in my time with Bridge Crew, but sometimes the stars did, in fact, align with the right kind of crew: cheerful without being overly silly, strong in their roles, intuitive enough to question an order without the bridge descending into chaos, and being just plain fun, amiable companions.

A Space in Two Dimensions, in fact, does not so much «weave two separate exhibitions into a single space» as make plain a rather unseemly MoMA - lite agenda.

That you guys did characterise it as a plain fact is really unprofessional in my view and lots of folks share my view, even Andy Revkin (although not as stridently of course).

What they absolutely do know is that they're in serious danger of a substantial redirection of cash flow, a plain fact only made more real by their stubborn intransigence.

The facts were plain: the journalists didn't know what the consensus was, nor what the argument of the sceptics was, and so they didn't notice that the putative sceptics» arguments were not in fact outside of the consensus at all.

Offering an opinion when it is plain I do not know the facts is not sensible IMHO,

I do like the fact that plain vanilla «AGW uncertainty» skeptics such as punksta are starting to grow weary of all the crackpots that infest this site with their oddball theories.