Sentences with phrase «reason than it means»

Spring truly is one of the greatest times of the year, if for no other reason than it means summer is coming!

Not exact matches

Likewise, there's good reason to think the goal of «protecting our community from abuse and hatred» is a non-starter as long as «our community» means a user base of more than two billion people.

I mean, one of the reasons we've had so much success as a retailer is because we have local dealers who know our customers better than anyone.

More than likely, the main reason holding many people back that giving you a testimonial means they have to do a whole bunch of scary things:

Find a reason that means more than that fear: creating a better future for your family, wanting to make a real difference, or hoping for a more rewarding and fulfilling life.

It's by no means a panacea for crippling rural unemployment, if for no other reason than rural outsourcers tend to be very selective employers.

Their business model is a digital advertising business model, and the reason why Facebook and Google had more than a 90 percent share of growth in the digital advertising space last year is that they can target advertising in a way that no other site can because they have a 360 - degree view of user activity, meaning they're tracking users across the web and therefore know much more about their users than anyone else.

The main reason for the revision, according to Wu, is that the GDP deflator had been significantly underestimated which, if even partially true, means real interest rates were even lower (more negative) than I have assumed.

That was highlighted in the Business Insider article How To Show Your Employees You Care About Them, which states, «The bottom line is taking a personal interest in your employees will give them reason to believe they mean more to you than someone who's simply making you or the business money.»

Since rising interest rates means the bond's fixed rate is not competitive against newly issued bonds at higher market rates, then it stands to reason that longer - term bonds (those with longer to pay at the lower rate) are going to see their prices fall further than short - term bonds.

I mean the specific borrowing to invest which provides the money for no other reason than for the investments.

It is perhaps the reason he said he was not an atheist other than the observation of wonder and the understanding that unknown means unknown.

Taylor aims to bring about this future by means of his own unaided reason, which may require a purge of all those who are not in agreement with the new agenda» a prospect he seems to relish more than regret.

If America attacks Iran for any reason (treaties, foreign interests and allied ties) other than its own direct national security being threatened at her doorstep, than I speak for myself primarily when I say, Iran should do all it can in its power to secure her existence and future by any means.

These people can't accept that reality because it would mean that they have no reason to oppose homosexuality other than a completely arbitrary rule that divides humanity into two different classes without any real reason to do so.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

But even more attractive, in my view, than these plausible reasons for Abraham's silent acquiescence in the horrible request are the following: (1) Abraham had learned, in the episode over Sodom, that the pursuit of righteousness may require sacrificing your own; (2) he felt and feared both the awesome power of God and also His righteousness; and, especially, (3) he had understood immediately the meaning of the test, namely, that he was being asked to show what was first in his soul: Was it the love of his own (and of the promise and the covenant) or was it the fear - awe - reverence for God?

This, of course, does not mean that there; is, avoidably as well as unavoidably, much that is «undemocratic» in the Church, if for no other reason than that the baptized children must slowly be led by the Church to a free and responsible decision of personal faith without which no adult can be a member of the Church in the fullest sense.

But precisely for this reason it is more seductive and therefore more dangerous... To justify Machiavelli's terrible counsels by having recourse to his patriotism, means to see the virtues of that patriotism while being blind to that which is higher than patriotism, or to that which both hallows and limits patriotism.

However, in the end, the dominant influences in this campaign were anonymous: they were the people who decided to fund and promote the «equality» agenda wherever and however possible; the editors and sub-editors of influential publications who carefully manipulated the presentation of the issues so that reasoned argument always looked cold and uncaring, and above all, the educators who decided to teach social inclusion by means of a series of examinable clichés rather than do the hard work of equipping people to think for themselves (but that is for another long article...).

The claim that spiritual existence fulfills and transcends Socratic existence, however, must mean more than that Socratic reason can be incorporated into Christian existence.

To find a principle through the natural law reasoning of judges that makes the Constitution mean something other than, sometimes opposite to, what those who voted to make it law understood themselves to mean can hardly be sound moral argument.

But man is more able to tend toward God through amor, drawn passively in a way by God himself, than he can lead himself to God by means of his own reason [ratio), which pertains to the character [ratio) of dilectio, as said above.

If you wish to be no better than a robot then by all means squander your useless life away by being a heartless automaton that tries to find a logical reason for everything.

Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.

Reason is the default position so until I can come up with tangible physical evidence that he can verify God or gods simply do not have meaning other than sociological implications of religion.

A chosen measure is not slavishly followed, but artistic release is sought by means of frequent variation, sometimes in accordance with the varying mood of the advancing thought, but not infrequently, it would appear, for no reason other than change.

And that is much more useful than David simply providing a new definition for two reasons: he's seeking not necessarily to redefine, but to challenge already existing inconsistencies between our use of the words and how people actually function, AND because such terms are given their meaning collectively so redefining it alone would be meaningless because it wouldn't draw on people's real experience with their beliefs and views of the labels.

Here are 10 reasons why law is easier than love: love means you have to trust the good in people love means you can't predict outcomes love means you can't control people love means...

There was so much of what Sam said that I thought was absolutely right on but I think I think that for reasons other than Sam meant.

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

It's profoundly rational to ask what our lives mean; to acknowledge the limits of our reasoning and senses; and to hope for and seek something more than this life.

The philosophers would not acknowledge that by «becoming flesh» the divine Logos made it possible for human beings to know God more fully than they could by means of human reasoning alone.

Now I relish studying the rainbow of orthodox testimonies and happily embrace the term paleo - orthodoxy if for no other reason than to signal clearly that I do not mean modern neo-orthodoxy.

And we all know gay really means happy and we LGBT folk just hi - jacked the term just like we hi - jacked the rainbow for no other reason than to mess with the fundies as is our nature

You don't have anything to say to the words I am placing in front of you other than personal attacks, which means your position is weak and you lack the skills to reason beyond what you've been told by someone else.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

okay i don't mean to be mean or anything but you do have to realize that people have to inventually die and events much worse than 9/11 happened in other countries and many times it was america who was the killing people for no reason.

But here is where the Atheism proponents are wrong: To be HUMAN means much, much more than simply logic & «reason».

What I mean here is, is the reason he (and you Bob) is declaring that because all he sees (except for his dad / mom) from «christians» is judgment, selfishness, spitefulness, personal gain, pride, etc, etc. rather than what he should be seeing, forgiveness, mercy, justice, love, understanding, patience, Love, Truth, Jesus.

I also was powerless in regard to my old nature it had power over me.i came to the point that i needed to do something because i felt like spiritually i was dying and again it was by faith in Jesus Christ that changed me and that i admitted that i could nt live the christian life in my strength.Since then i have continued to walk by faith daily and i know what it means to be saved in this life we have power over our old nature through Christ that strengths us Personally i think this is a major reason why many christians are not growing and maturing as they should.Many people are struggling in there faith that is not how it is meant to be the word says we are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ that strengthens us.If you are struggling are you walking by faith or just doing good christians works that have no power to change your life Just admit that you cant do it in your strength let him empower you by his holy spirit to do what you cant.It has been a hard road to get here but i am never going back to living by works when you find the truth there is no comparison brentnz

The term «Christ,» on the other hand, makes it clear that the problem that he is dealing with is the teachings of Christianity, especially with respect to what various groups have meant by «following Christ,» For the same reason, I think, he deals primarily with leading Christian theologians, rather than with denominations or historical movements.

Symbols mean what you believe them to mean, if you do not believe in the religion, than there is no reason to believe in the meaning of the symbol.

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.

Nature, social relations and personal feelings could now be treated as ends rather than means, could be liberated from the repressive control of technical reason

Reason would dictate more meaning is better than less meaning otherwise a frog and man have the same meaning.

It means perhaps we would spend years of our lives giving to the world in sacrificial and beneficial ways before settling down with our sweetheart to raise children rather than diving into marriage for the wrong reasons.

You would need to present an unbiased source of information saying that thing exists first, meaning you'd need reason to believe in gods other than other people telling you they are real, since people are very obviously prone to manipulating the truth.

The thinkers of the Enlightenment attempted to find the meaning of religion in terms of «reason,» rather than depending solely on the authority of «revelation.»