Sentences with phrase «purpose has held»

Through its many transformations, the designation's purpose has held true.

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The amount of pressure created by a US Minuteman III ICBM would crush much of a city, but their strategic purpose lies in holding Russia, or another country's ICBM silos at risk.

If you can see the legitimate purpose in your current role and take a semblance of contentment from it, and if you figure your passion out later, you're not necessarily going to be miserable, and you don't have the frustration of feeling held back.

The art of holding yourself accountable boils down to living your purpose and staying in tune with the values you've established as part of starting your business.

Otherwise, we will end up replicating mistakes and replacing human - held jobs with robots that have ill - defined purpose.

And using offshore accounts or holding companys aren't particularly effective methods for shielding income for tax purposes (since offshore accounts are subject to a whole whack of anti-avoidance rules and holding companys are typically subject to more or less the same tax rate as people in the top marginal tax bracket - the Tax Act has tightened up a lot since the 1960s so there really aren't that many «loopholes»).

Procter & Gamble, to give a real - world illustration, is effectively a holding company because it has different subsidiaries for different purposes.

A right to know what's being done with your data, and a right to access it: EU consumers will have the right to obtain from, say, Facebook, confirmation that your data is being collected and held, where, and for what purpose.

Interesting criteria for a list of unique stocks I don't have any of those names in my portfolio but I have other companies within the same industries such as the mega cap Chevron Corp Which has a forward P / E of 11.4 x so it's more expensive relative to Noble or CNOOC but I hold it in my hedge fund for hedging purposes.

They likely have many other holdings, each of which serves a different purpose.

digital currencies appear to be holding them for investment purposes, which in turn will have a longer -

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The main purpose of this burglary was to get hold of the powerful computers which would be useful for mining bitcoins and other virtual currencies on a large scale.

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It would be like a drag along covenant, but for a contrary purpose: it might slow the entire ship until one or more classes of shareholders could reach (their respective) five - year holding period (s).

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Aside from the brief sitting held in the spring with the almost sole purpose of ejecting retired MLA Ken Kowalski from his long - held spot in Speaker's Chair, the newly elected Wildrose Official Opposition has had little opportunity to spar with government ministers in a formal setting.

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They're stepping up to take 100 % responsibility in their lives... they're gaining clarity on what their purpose is... and they're clearing their path of the obstacles that have held them back from creating their ideal life.

Since Hell's purpose is to hold those who have rebelled against God - to separate them from God's Holy presence, it would follow that it would have been created only as a consequence of those rebellions.

I do believe that President Obama, he does hold the office, did it in purpose, but it was so the lunk heads running for president would take the bait.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

The powerful hold that such rites have on people is evidenced by their continuance even when their sacred purpose is explicitly denied or subverted.

Therefore, we can legitimately pose the question: what if these law - governed principles are simply two aspects of one Unity - Law that holds them in distinction in the order of being but have a dynamic unity of purpose and end in the person of Christ?

I knew when I was reading the unfinished manuscript of «The Purpose Driven Life» that I was holding a treasure in my hands, but I was clueless as to how deeply the book would strike a nerve in the souls of millions of people around the globe.

«Furthermore, Pastor Stepp has advised the conference that he and his church will hold a vote of solidarity for the purpose of welcoming believers into their fellowship regardless of race, creed or color.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.

If there really is no purpose to this life other than what brief time we have here, there is no reason to hold to society's laws or social conventions.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Its great systemic purpose is to break the immemorial chains of poverty which had held the human race in serfdom for millennia.

Against this background readers may perceive the cruel irony in Justice Brennan's opinion for the Supreme Court majority, holding the Louisiana «balanced treatment» statute unconstitutional because the creationists who promoted it had a «religious purpose.»

Such a purpose is really the unifying agreement which has been drawing together the various denominational groups; it now needs to be clearly held and announced, and the churches should throw their full and enthusiastic support back of the programs which seek to embody it.

By holding that the statute did not have an impermissible purpose, that its primary effect was not the advancement of religion, and that it did not require «excessive entanglement» between church and state, the Court sent a signal to the political branches that more creative uses of the structures of civil society (including churches) may now be permissible in the American welfare state.

Though responding to the victims» cries for help will usually involve difficult ambiguous choices, what is important is that the pastor have a clear purpose: to protect the one who has been victimized and to hold the offender accountable.

That would in itself be a definition hard to quarrel with, were it not for the fact that in recent years it has come to be widely held that the final purpose of «doing» social ethics is to draw up a blueprint for a just society and perhaps also a practical guide for getting there.

«If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha», there's no reason to hold the Buddha to have a «purpose for mankind».

There is no purpose, there are no causes, all that's just stuff we make up to hold the goddamn world together — all we've really got is what we have right here and now: being alive!

ago, before God got a hold of me, I was dead to the world and the world was dead to me, void of all emotions and life: It does not matter what we look for, what matters is that God has a purpose for those who are His and as we are obedient to Him, then we can see as even Martin sees, all is of God then:

Perhaps from this perspective my life has a significance, a purpose, a meaning which I can not grasp hold of in a controlling manner.

I find it difficult to understand those philosophers who hold that the individual's life can have meaning even if the universe as a whole is void of purpose.

For example, the similarity of today's collapse of traditional values to the challenge which the «front generation» of the 1920's (veterans of the trenches of World War I) made to all the traditions of state and culture that had held Europe together for so many years; or the comparison between Hitler's anti-semitism and the cynical use of racism for political purposes in the political campaigns of George Wallace and others; or the similarity between American actions in Indo - China and European imperialism in Africa at the turn - of.

Furthermore, along with most of the other authors we have discussed, they too hold that the basis of restored unity lies in theological education's overarching purpose.

«Historical knowledge» of Jesus of Nazareth might be held to Include the fact that he accepted his death as the necessary consequence of his proclamation of the Kingdom, and of his «table - fellowship of the Kingdom» with «tax collectors and sinners», and that he went to the cross with a sure confidence that it would ultimately serve, and not hinder, the purpose of God.

And though anthropologists have long deemed Aboriginal ritual a male monopoly, we now know that women in their separate congregations and lodges have always held equal responsibility for serving the purposes of the great powers and maintaining the mighty rounds of nature.

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There are exactly parallel views of scientific models that have been held by many contemporary philosophers of science, namely, that models are purely subjective, psychological, and adopted by individuals for private heuristic purposes.

This all - purpose keto bread is 100 % satisfying, so far it has held up well against all tests (sandwiches, soaking up soups, French toast, grilled cheese...).

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions