Sentences with phrase «rather than an angel»

Most rely on accelerators rather than angels or VCs for capital.

Not exact matches

Unlike VCs, angel investors normally invest their own money, rather than managing pooled funds.

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn't the decade to do it.

This type of equity investor differs from angel investors and other equity investors as the firms are primarily interested in high - value opportunities (think millions of dollars rather than thousands or tens of thousands of dollars).

Sure, this is relatively dumb money, but that's where those angel and incubator relationships come in: if startups increasingly feel they have the relationships and advice they need, then growth funding is basically a commodity, so why not take dumb cheap money sooner rather than later?

To reward someone for offering their daughters to be r - ped rather than let angels be touched?

Rather than take steps to protect Himself from the angel of death, He goes willingly to the slaughter so that His blood can protect His enemies.

[1] Not only do God, angels and men think analogously but also men, sentient beings bound to knowledge by abstraction, approach various sciences in ways that are complementary rather than opposed.

The only possible textual basis for this reading makes much of the fact that it is an angel rather than God Himself who calls a halt to the sacrifice.

Utah will go into a stupor as they realize their prayers didn't work and their god and angels don't help and America would rather have a guy the mormons wouldn't let in the building 40 years ago than have the corporate raider in magic undies.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

«In three controversial Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel / demon) or human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented in human language.

The spirit of darkness can disguise himself as an angel of light but he will give himself away by a cloven hoof - excitement andcompulsion rather than peace and tranquillity».

If the Bible was packed with information about Satan, fallen angels, and demons, we might be tempted to spend all our time talking and thinking about them, rather than talking and thinking about God.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

It seems to me more likely, however, that the myth of the rebellious angels is in Paul's mind rather than that of Adam's disobedience.

So rather than depend on an angel to explain to me what he meant, I have to depend on something better — You!

Ideology has replaced vision in the church turning many Chrisitans into «avenging angels» rather than «ministers of reconciliation.»

You should be aware that the word «angel» denotes a function rather than a nature.

The Anchoress offers a meditation by Pope St. Gregory the Great: You should be aware that the word «angel» denotes a function rather than a nature.

While, at the first, it was his angel rather than himself who went with the migrant clans, the shading between Yahweh and his angel in the early documents is so vague that in the same story both forms of representation may be used.

Or perhaps, as some exegetes have argued, Jesus is suggesting a more eschatological success: Simon and his mates will pull the nets for the great apocalyptic catch, they will sit to cull the bad from the good, they will be like the angels or the courtiers of God's kingdom rather than part of the teeming masses to be judged.

But rather than referring to same - sex relationships, the phrase «strange flesh» seems to refer to the attempts to rape angels instead of humans.

I remember that at the time I felt a bit guilty that rather than grow it myself or pick it up from the farmer's market, I bought the rhubarb at the grocery store — along with some store bought whipped cream and angel food mini bundt cakes.

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Another loss to the Red Sox on Thursday coupled with wins by the Angels, Astros, and Twins could swing those odds quite a bit, but as the Yankees are three up on Los Angeles and four up on Minnesota it's easy to see why their chances of not making the postseason are currently 0.1 percent (and why this column's headline says «4 AL teams» rather than «5»).

Perhaps if he had been born ugly rather than so endlessly attractive to sometimes predatory women — though he was no angel himself — things would have been less ultimately sad and bleak.

A good number of popular Kenyan women have opted for the angel they do nt know rather than the.

Tone - deaf opera lover Florence Foster Jenkins — subject of an upcoming biopic starring Meryl Streep — is also the inspiration for this lavish French period piece about a rich French aristo labouring under a pathetic self - delusion: that she has the voice of an angel, rather than that of a strangled cat.

Any who root for Chris Klein and LL Cool J (Charlie's Angels, Deep Blue Sea) do so because they are generally likeable personalities rather than us caring for their particular characters.

Rather than remaining stuck on facts, he uses the story in more metaphysical ways, suggesting that both demons (and angels) could actually exist.

Longtime visual effects supervisor, Pitof (pronounced «peet - off»), joins one - word moniker, McG (Charlie's Angels), in trying to make themselves a product rather than in presenting a story as it needs to be told.

Dennis Franz has the Peter Falk role as an angel - turned - human (Franz doesn't play himself, however), but unlike the original, Franz's heavenly past is explicitly spelled out rather than implied, and his character becomes nothing more than a walking vessel of angelic exposition.

In a show of good sense he directed that the place be named Engelthal, or ìValley of the Angels, î rather than Swinach — ìPlace of the Pigs.î But it was Ulrich's final provision that would have the greatest impact on my life: he mandated that the monastery establish a scriptorium.

Rather than unveiling this news on a heady stage or the likes of the the crass (and borderline insulting) hijacked VGA awards, the industry angel decided drop the bombshell whilst lecturing a management class at Tippecanoe Valley High School.

«That Sidibé was a «popular» photographer rather than a satirical pop commentator on vernacular culture — which is to say he was a photographer firmly grounded in his environment who combined work - for - hire portraiture with his own exploratory documentation of the quotidian excitement of his Bamako neighborhood — made him one among several recording angels of a new generation of urban Africans, of which the other most important Malian example was his elder, Seydou Keita.

For us, it was a cap table full of $ 25,000 checks from angel investors rather than the big check from an institutional investor we were looking for.

The firm said today that it intends to continue its strategy of investing more like «super angels» or a «micro VC» rather than a traditional VC, and still fully focused on the earliest stage tech and digital companies.

You can find all of Disrupt Africa's coverage here, but major takeaways include that African angel investors should «hunt in packs», investors should focus on «gazelles» rather than «unicorns», and that African startup ecosystems will not be built overnight.