Sentences with phrase «predicament not»

The Castle Doctrine involves building up security for your home even as you need to plunder and loot the homes of others advancing the moral and ethical quandary of what is right and wrong when you are becoming indistinguishable from the «bad guys» who might just be your neighbors in a predicament not so different from your own.

It seems that it's a lot harder to find a delicious tasting vegan protein blend than it is a whey protein blend — a predicament not helped by the fact that there is also a lot less choice when it comes to flavours.

Not exact matches

They represent a masterclass in how not to behave when confronted with a cybersecurity predicament.

Even without Facebook's current predicament, the history of big consumer tech companies dealing with medical data is not without blemish.

She says Darash is not the only one who faces this kind of predicament — and that it often ends in a founder moving away from the United States permanently.

«It is a sad feature of the human predicament, in personal as in public life, that whenever one has the agreeable sensation of being impressively moral, one probably is not,» Kennan said.

It's Your Problem: Doug Curtis wanted to ensure that a behavior that plagues many CEOs wouldn't happen to him: employees running to their bosses with their every predicament.

To avoid such predicaments, many British lawyers advise companies not to risk taking clients on «marketing» trips lacking obvious business purpose.

Even when things are not working as well as they could or should, or if others criticize us and give us direct feedback, it can be a hard to recognize and own our predicament.

You don't want to end up in a similar predicament in the future.

Fooling ourselves that everything that needed to go right would go right, we usually wished we hadn't placed our capital in such a predicament.»

Rightfully, Frankel describes that this isn't the case for everyone and indeed, it is not but I also believe that many people will be finding themselves in a bit of a predicament leading up to next weeks deadline.

So the predicament B2B marketers find themselves in becomes not only creating enough content, but in creating content that actually gets noticed and acted on by buyers.

Technically, bitcoin is an illegal tender in Indonesia, but that doesn't seem to stop the Indonesian cryptocurrency ecosystem from prevailing amidst current predicaments.

In WILTW June 23, 2016, we argued that much of the blame for this predicament belongs to the central banks: «If the Fed and other major central banks had not lowered interest rates to zero (or below), it would have been harder for corporations to justify financial engineering at the expense of capital investment.

There is one thing that gets me through this whole predicament... no it is not praying the Prayer of Jabez, or giving more money or time to someone else.

I have a stepdaughter that has Downs Syndrome, and as much as I fully believe that she is much more developed along the lines of loving her fellow human beings, I am also not convinced that her predicament was ever Plan A.

If your co-workers weren't willing to do this for you... what would your predicament be called?

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

This came as a shock to Mitchell, not just as a devotee but because he thought Democracy in America would be the perfect book for their national predicaments.

What I find even sadder, is that I don't know what someone in your predicament is to do.

I agree with NP and Brian — we need to extend love to that person — that doesn't mean we admonish their actions — but that we deal with the reality of the situation in a gentle / meek manner (God forbid we ever find ourselves in that predicament — so be merciful).

If it's not careful, the Church is going to find itself in the same predicament as they exclude so many people, both men and women, that there may come a day that they look around for capable leaders.

Last year David Brooks offered a summary of the work while currently Ross Douhat and Damon Linker have reflected on whether or not Taylor's idea of the late - modern self as «buffered» describes our current predicament (Linker is unconvinced while Douhat seems open, but skeptical).

If we take the Gospels seriously, we are left, in our dire predicament, facing an utterly humbling question: How must we live and work so as not to be estranged from God's presence in his work and in all his creatures?

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

However, after reading Dr. Al Mohler's excellent reflections on Mrs. Osteen's faux pas («The Osteen Predicament — Mere Happiness Can not Bear the Weight of the Gospel,» Sept. 3), I gave the matter more thought.

Can it not be more widely recognized that we are all in the human predicament together and that the pooling of knowledge and experience might lead to considerably more light being shed on the business of living which faces every one of us.

Brigitte — if my ex-husband «The Pastor» hadn't left me for a younger thing I would not be in this predicament.

To be concretely finite is no predicament we should wish to escape, no bondage from which to yearn a liberation; it is simply not to be God.

Since there is no handy exit from this tragedy, we may be forced to learn the wisdom of another generation — that Christian ethics is not a deus ex machina to extricate us from our predicaments.

Immanuel Kant, whose chief aim was to undermine intellectual assurance about what Emmanuel (God with us) stands for, would not, however, see his predicament as entirely hopeless in today's world of science.

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

As she puts it, «That blacks did not, in an important sense, cause their current predicament does not preclude charging them with alleviating it if nothing else will work.»

They can't find enough christians to help themselves out of their own predicaments of falsehoods so they have to rely on the voices of atheists to help them sort it all out.

You people just don't know how serious your predicament is....

I'm not an expert in Islamic history or theology, so I can not assess its contribution to the European predicament of homegrown Islamic terrorism.

He felt that the biblical portrayal of the human predicament could liberate the liberal mind from its rationalistic fixations, show the limitations of all human schemes, and save men from guilty despair when their visions did not bring in the Kingdom of God.

Don't have a lecture on this: just elaborating the predicament.

Now Ahimaaz was confronted with the predicament which Joab foresaw, for he knew well that at that moment Absalom's still warm body lay beneath a great heap of stones where the victorious troops had killed, and in this fashion entombed him; he evaded the issue: «When Joab, the king's servant, sent me, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.»

Their wisdom is suffused with great hilarity in describing the predicament of what Percy, at the least, is not ashamed to call our post-modern and post-Christian world.

I do not know whether I am doing the «whining» Mr. Nuechterlein complains of, but it is indeed what he called an «unhappy predicament»; and the moral and personal price of staying» one hopes for the sake of the gospel and not for meaner reasons» is real.

I have the feeling that this is not simply a minor point, but that a central fact of the human predicament is precisely that of being and feeling separate from the infinite and eternal God.

This is all part of God's predestination; he predestined us not only to be released from an unpleasant predicament, but in order that we might become like his Son.

If you find yourself in a predicament, don't beat yourself over the head with guilt.

In this context, the knowledge of an expert guide who knows all the true exits, and dead ends, and the dangers along the way does not destroy the freedom of the lost wayfarer; rather, it liberates him, frees him from his predicament.

If there is one point about this predicament that Elshtain seems to wish to stress (and one central affinity among Augustine, Arendt, and Elshtain), it is that awareness of the fallen and pluralistic nature of the world «should usher into a rueful recognition of limits, not a will to dominion that requires others for one to conquer.»

The New Testament, on the other hand, asserts that if man tries to achieve his own redemption he can not escape from his own autonomy, and therefore can not escape from his predicament.

As a matter of fact, the biblical conception of sin is quite distinctive: it is an event, not an abstract philosophical conception of man's predicament.

They may not yet be on par with intellectually high sided political vocalists yet give them a chance to understand their predicaments and they just may bring down the house of cards that many politicians read from.Bot parties have card weilding politicians knowing what to say by their card readings.