Sentences with phrase «rather mean way»

Your complaints, though stated in a rather mean way, may be correct for some who desire to live in a tiny house.

Not exact matches

This doesn't mean having company parties every week but rather about finding ways to help all employees feel included.

This way, there is minimal IT involvement (which means lowered costs and saved time), and your communities can get up and running in days or weeks, rather than months — which means addressing customer concerns more quickly and effectively.

For most businesses, «new» is the only way forward: New products, new services, new branding... but for Darlington Raceway, the old - school NASCAR track built in 1950 (in baseball terms, think Fenway rather than Marlins Park), improving awareness, fan interest, customer engagement, and business results meant taking a giant step back.

This means that when they step into management jobs, they already focused on managing by performance and achievement rather than face time, because they've never lived in a world where butt - in - seat time was the way lots of people managed.

But just because conflict is inevitable when colleagues of diverse backgrounds and temperaments are thrown together in a high stress work environment, doesn't mean disputes can't be dealt with constructively and in a way that reinforces rather than erodes morale at your company.

In a linguistic first, the most popular word of 2014 isn't a word at all, it turns out, but rather the heart emoji — illustrating the ways in which mobile icons have increasingly infiltrated our means of communication.

Walking down the street in 85 - degree weather means smart marketers push recommendations your way for ice cream, barbecue and cocktails, rather than ones for, say, sweaters or hiking boots.

So, if all this worries you, here are three ways to act like an Ant and plan for a self - funded retirement — just in case means testing becomes a reality sooner rather than later:

It's a demand - driven marketplace, according to Fung, which means users can say exactly what they're looking for and have people come to them rather than the other way around.

I do not mean a narrow economist's definition, but rather the whole way of thinking about inflation in business, government and the community generally.

Rather, using legal means to slash the amount of tax that you pay is the most powerful, conscious way you can cast a vote that really matters: a vote of No Confidence.

It is disturbing not because of Bitcoin Core's lack of enthusiasm for standing against Segwit2x, which is the way it appeared, but rather it was the fact that the people who support Segwit2x went to great lengths to confuse the general public about Segwit2x, what it meant, what it would do and even spent a good deal of time convincing people it was not an option, but a requirement; a simple software upgrade.

The self - reversing nature of the Fed's repos and reverse repos, many of which are «overnight» rather than «term» agreements (that is, ones providing for repurchase a day after the original purchase) has caused the Fed to prefer them as a means for achieving temporary adjustments to the money stock, while treating outright security purchases as a way of providing for permanent monetary expansion, and especially for secular growth in the demand for Federal Reserve notes.

That might mean outsourcing tasks rather than having to own the expensive real estate for vineyards and tasting rooms — and finding innovative ways to bring the wine to small towns, and big cities, as the son of a well - known California winemaker has done.

How does all of that mean that there is possible way that it could not all come from any god and epecially in way would it come from an Abrahamic God; a God who does want to be made of in the first place but would rather have us develop faith in that God?

Love, Peace and make fondness farewells one and all wherever one is to be found here or even over there and make friendships rather than showing unfriendly ways and means under one's belts.

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

Might the priest facing in the same direction as the faithful be more expressive in some ways of the meaning of the Old Testament priesthood rather than the priesthood of Christ?

It is written that God would rather have lost one of His sheep and found it again, then to never have lost Him at all, Meaning It is very easy in this world now more than ever to lose sight of God and your faith, we all sin even the most devote christian, But coming back to our faith and our christian ways after losing it is something that brings God joy..

But, in my experience, sometimes the best way to keep communication healthy and open is to go to bed angry and then talk about it the next morning when you've had enough sleep to know that leaving the milk out in the car probably wasn't a veiled act of aggression meant to symbolize every problem in the relationship, but rather just the sort of mistake anyone would make while distracted by a fascinating story on NPR.

But its establishment illustrates in a concrete way what it means to order our lives to life rather than to wealth.

While this does not mean that Jesus could not have used the figure in this way, it does lend weight to an interpretation in which the shepherd is not a symbol for God, but rather the whole situation of the story is analogous to the situation of the ministry of Jesus.

Such a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneity.

It is re-casting an indefensible statement in such a way as to change its meaning rather than to simply admit a mistake.

The only way through pain, and I am thinking of mental anguish of which I have had rather too much this past year, is through it, to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

This story is not meant to exalt the contemplative life above the life of action, but to indicate the proper way to serve Jesus; one serves him by listening to his word rather than providing excessively for his needs.

They use it as an excuse to feed their personal fears and push those fears and their way on others rather than than a means to enlightenment and a better life.

Compare two rather different ways of picturing what it means to have a child.

Q9) Do you as Christians and Atheists wish at times if you had a sperate state for each to live in, where each of you can do as they please as in their favorite way of living, where each can impose his own laws and beliefs, and would that mean accepting to live among the mass Races of that belief or rather would favor a state or county for each mass of Race within the same belief?

Since it is rather expensive to keep a horse who is not paying his way, he was entered in a claiming race, which means that he could be claimed or bought.

If such talk is construed objectively, as asserting that God is in some way the object of human experience, the fact that «God» must be understood to express a nonempirical concept means that no empirical evidence can possibly be relevant to the question of whether the concept applies and that, therefore, God must be experienced directly rather than merely indirectly through first experiencing something else.

Rather than spend pages railing against the way modern thought bleached the cosmos of meaning, reducing it to a «standing reserve» of resources, Snell quotes people who take the stance of wonder.

Such parentage does not mean that the ways they treat money are therefore sub-Christian, but rather that a household of God draws its idiom from its complex heritage of Christian and non-Christian sources.

No, this straitness means rather that each must himself become an individual, that through this needle's eyes he must press forward to the narrow way where no comparison cools, but yet where no comparison kills with its insidious cooling.

By this I mean that we already have before us a way of conceiving the reality of God, in comparison with which the theism of the classical tradition can be seen to be but a first and rather rough approximation.

Perhaps people use their religion as another means to promote their polical party rather than the other way around.

If I take your meaning correctly, you are saying the «I am the way...» thing meant to follow Jesus, rather than believe a certain way?

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Meaning that Mankind was not a result of evolution of Monkeys & Apes... rather the other way round on reversed evolution...!

It might be more appropriate to explain «total depravity» as a way of describing the fact that every part of our lives is touched by sin, rather than implying that «total depravity» means we are totally evil people.

Confidentiality should be seen as a means of accomplishing this end rather than a way of keeping the abuse secret and avoiding the fact of accountability.

When studying or teaching Hinduism or Buddhism, the Westerner soon becomes aware of the rather wide differences of perspective and meaning between the Judeo - Christian and the Hindu - Buddhist ways of viewing the nature of man and man's relation to his world.

That means for women to walk in humility and to submit for sure and that also means for men not to oppress but rather to lift up and allow for God to work in and through her in the way that God desires.

Human sexuality, rather than a natural means of self - giving, becomes a way to manipulate and exploit others.

I am looking to heal that inner abused spiteful child, even if it means expressing myself in ways I'd rather not and sitting with my conscious mind and having a heart to heart about how Jesus would never desire this pain to propel my walk of faith.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

So long as holy water means poison and Humanae Vitae is linked to burning crosses, our arguments will be received as abstract and inhumane moralism rather than the civilization of love they express in their own, faltering way.