Sentences with phrase «rather than the trees»

When we back off from the data far enough to look at the forest rather than the trees, two values — salvation and forgiving — stand out above all others as most distinctively Christian.

Rather than the tree laying down one growth ring under the bark every year, each of the hundreds of individual strands were growing their own rings, like a large collection of mini trees.

Beyond local impacts like bad air quality and ecological issues, wildfires also emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, rather than those trees sucking carbon out of the air.

That's the real art: making the audience see the forest rather than the trees.

But let's focus on the forest rather than the trees.

One night Adam was awakened from his sleep by such a tremor, and when he went to the door and looked outside the coconut trees were swaying sinuously even though there was no wind; the ground felt uncertain beneath his feet and for a while he could not be sure that it wasn't he who was swaying rather than the trees.

Using the whip to propel yourself into the sky, for example, can sometimes be a royal pain in the backside because there's no way of aiming it, instead you just tap the button when a white circle pops up but that can often result in you going the wrong way, or grappling onto a flying enemy rather than the tree because it happened to move into range at the wrong moment.

Tate had considered promoting the performance on January 6 — which, without giving anything away, promises to be spectacular — as the main event, rather than the tree itself.

Imagination and intuition seep out of the systematic equation, even when he shifts to photographic portraits of people rather than trees or choreographer Trisha Brown dancing.

As it is a grass rather than a tree, it can grow to a harvestable size (often over 100 feet) in a matter of months.

Not exact matches

When this idea was tested by Johnson et al. (2010), the results showed that participants who smiled performed better on attentional tasks which required seeing the whole forest rather than just the trees.

Rather, we accomplished more in the time the tree was being constructed than we typically do.

From the phone trees most companies have that infuriate EVERY CUSTOMER, to a highly structured but ineffective development process, to objectifying our customers and prospects as numbers rather than humans.

Nissan's Infiniti tried something similar, pricing its quirky Q45 at $ 38,000 — although hardly anyone could tell, thanks to an ad campaign that focused on fuzzy pictures of trees and other abstractions rather than the car.

Rather than buying piles of a tat and unwanted gifts to put under the tree, I will give family and friends a crowd investment.

Evergreen funding takes its name from coniferous evergreen trees, which keep their leaves and stay green throughout the entire year rather than losing them during winter.

So, the deity, rather than just letting A&E go about their merry way and letting them bask in its glory instead points out the very tree that would be their downfall.

The Tree pf Life is a metaphor for animal life and the innocence of a sheltered early childhood, a state of living by instinct rather than moral decision making.

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

The reason they are mnot saved is because of lawlessness rather than being obedience to Gods word they believed in Jesus Christ but because of there hearts did not walk according to the word and because it speaks of signs and wonders it seems more about them and the works that they did.Of course none of us are saved by works.How do you understand that passage as some are saved and some are not it seems clear that to be saved we must believe and also walk in obedience to Gods word.brentnz A Tree and its Fruit mat 7: 2Many will say to Me on that day, «Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?»

His category of transmutation describes the perceptual device which permits us to prehend the many actual entities of a nexus as one datum, so that trees or tables, for example, are grasped as trees or tables, rather than as myriad individual atomic actualities.

He is saying that once we realize that we have willfully sinned, and that that is equal to nailing our precious Savior back to that tree with our sin, we should stop, and repent, and remember how in the beginning of our walk with Him we would have endured any hardship rather than do any thing to hurt Him.

You can keep sheep if you're a nomadic herder, but if you settle down and become a pastoralist, planting grain and fruit trees, etc., it becomes much more difficult to follow a nomadic God... Is there something in here about being ready to be followers, rather than settlers?

Adam and Eve in the perfect Garden choose the deception of that tree of knowledge to become wise like God rather than accept the gift of God which they always had.

When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, they were attempting to acquire means of defining their own destiny and mastering their own lives, rather than having their happiness and telos defined by their communion with God.

Got to wakeup one day and see the world with the right light glasses and not with dark one's... if you want to know or find out the real truth about the problem or any problem you got to ignore the turning over leafs, rather should go to the roots of the tree to see the main cause of the problem to fix it... rather than surface solutions that keeps the problem returning over and over again...!

If the reason for using containers is to expand the size of the garden rather than eventually to bring the plants indoors, then size and appearance is not a problem and the gardener can use fairly large containers such as plastic trash cans, wooden boxes or barrels, styrofoam picnic coolers, and the large plastic, fiber, or metal pots used by greenhouses for shrubs and trees.

Without having made this version, but as one who has a sour cherry tree in my backyard (yield 150 pounds this year), and makes French farmhouse - style clafoutis every year at this time, the photo reveals an eggy product (texture similar to a bread pudding) rather than a creamy product (texture similar to a custard).

Rather than forming compact plants, they branch out widely, intertwining into the nurse trees and giving the pod collector a hard time.

Pepper vines are a particularly attractive sight in their native southern India, where in the western ghats (steps) of Kerala, they are trellised on palm trees, and sometimes eucalyptus, in what the locals charmingly refer to as «spice gardens» rather than plantations.

Steve Lohr, who helped his father, Jerry — the «J» in J. Lohr — plant the family vineyards when he was 10 years old, speaks proudly of his dad's decision to leave the oak trees on the vast tracts of property that make up J. Lohr Vineyards, rather than squeezing every last dollar from the ground.

High Trees Estate is happy to keep trade in Australia rather than look overseas for markets.

For example, to clear the land for the resort, hundreds of cacti and trees were dug up and, rather than being disposed of, were instead transplanted to protect the region's native flora and fauna.

It can be more effectively accomplished with the action of planting the seeds, rather than trimming the trees.

Rather, today's hint is a frugal gifting strategy to consider if you're on a budget, have lots of toys going unused around your house and want to make your little ones feel as if they're getting more new gifts than they actually are (say, if you want to give gifts for each night of Hanukkah or have lots of gifts under your Christmas tree.

Rather than decorating cookies, some organizers plan to use Christmas - tree cookie - cutters on wheat bread, iced with low - fat cream cheese and decorated with sliced veggies such as shredded carrots, mini-broccoli or cut up red peppers.

So often adopted children are assaulted with the family tree exercise at school, and it becomes an activity that causes stress and feelings of isolation, rather than something they feel in control of.

To make sure most disagreements end in resolution rather than shouting, tears and a huge slice of parental guilt, Eric Barker, author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree, a book of science - based advice for leading a more successful life, offers four tips for successfully tackling confrontation with your child.

This year I chose to write Our Blessing Tree on the tree itself rather than leave it blank as I usually do so that any guests we had over would know what it Tree on the tree itself rather than leave it blank as I usually do so that any guests we had over would know what it tree itself rather than leave it blank as I usually do so that any guests we had over would know what it was.

One description that really touched us was that rather than a single «family tree,» a child of open adoption has a «family orchard».

The adoptive parent (s) have grafted a family member onto their tree, one related by love rather than biology, much like a marriage.

This year, we decided that rather than buy our tree at a local lot, it was time to create a new tradition and make the trip out to the local cut it yourself Christmas tree farm.

He wrote: «In scenes you would expect to see in Putin's Russia, rather than a Sheffield suburb, council contractors and police descended on Rustlings Road under the cover of darkness, dragged people out of bed to move their cars and detained peaceful protesters — all to chop down eight trees.»

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

Southold Town is proposing a code change that would allow builders pay the town a fee rather than replace trees removed during construction.

Actually it may have been better to use a pic of the official state tree, flower, dog or cat rather than some random shot that someone decided to take out of their personal collection and see it spashed all over at the cost of the state.

When Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman visited the Tree House Sure Start Centre in Ipswich today, she got rather more than she bargained for.

And heeding aggregated (versus individualized) information implies the same: you're seeing the forest rather than being swayed by a single tree.

That's because most flowers come directly out of the trunk, rather than sprouting from branches as in many other trees.

Findings from the world's longest - running drought study in tropical rainforest show that it is breakages in the trees» water transport system that lead to their death — rather than starvation.