Sentences with phrase «said particular things»

Apparently Obama seems to like the concept of «climate change» and his funders no doubt want him to said particular things as pay - back for the funds he got when he ran for office.

Not exact matches

Regardless of what people think of you at any particular moment, one thing is certain — you're never as good or bad as they say you are.

«We were encouraged by many pieces of the bill that align with what we've been saying, in particular a ban on paid prioritization and blocking are things we have advocated for,» says Althea Erickson, Etsy's head of public policy.

«When I think of where I would go for protection from prompt effects, and from the blast wave in particular, I think of the same kinds of things that we do for tornadoes,» Buddemeier said.

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

Often, people forget that they said certain things at a particular event, and it's your duty to remind them.

In the tech / startup industry, in particular, we've seen a few co-founders come under fire for things they have said or did in the past that resulted in some unwanted attention in the press.

In particular, one Uber executive was outed for positing that the company ought to start investigating the personal life of journalists who were saying less than complimentary things about the company.

In particular there are three things Hunter says all creative entrepreneurs need to keep in mind.

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

«One of the key elements is being granular about resources required to support any particular area,» she says, including making decisions to «invest, disinvest, or slow things down.»

«I think one of the really interesting things that people are going to see today — and I think it's something that should be celebrated — is that the president has brought a lot of people into this administration, and this White House in particular, who have been very blessed and very successful,» said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.

Suffice it to say, opinion is, um, varied when it comes to cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular, as is who supports it and who thinks it's the worst thing to hit trade since COD and damns them as well as uses and accepts them.

«There's no question that Canadian corporate buyers — and I'd actually say government buyers in particular — need to become much more aggressive about trying new things and being more willing to try Canadian products and services earlier on in their cycle,» he said.

Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in god fine, but don't put it in our laws.

«I thought the world just spins and the clock just ticks and things happen for no particular reason,» he said.

It all seems very vague, where people can make it mean a particular thing, try to figure out what you are saying, feel guilty that they are doing something wrong by being warm, dry, comfortable in their house, enjoying their family, food.

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

Pelikan says one thing in particular that struck me: Any....

Larry Arnhart, in particular, seems to have blurred this fundamental distinction, for he quotes Aquinas («Conservatives, Darwin & Design: An Exchange,» FT, November 2000) as saying that «natural [emphasis added] is that which nature has taught all animals,» when Thomas actually said that «those things are said to belong to the natural law [lex naturalis] which nature has taught to all animals.»

While the love of a particular person or thing may bring a youth beyond immediate self - absorption, and reflect the beginnings of a process of self - transcendence, «This aspect of personal love,» Whitehead says, «is simply a clinging to a condition for selfish happiness.

If I say a particular stool is a «chair» in my version of English and someone argues it's all relative and I can't say it's really a chair because some part of China doesn't assign the word yizi to that thing that's pretty silly, right?

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

Of course, the best thinking Christians, Muslims or Jews would say the same thing, that the truth led them to their particular religion which in turn enriches the truth.

I read an interview with a Romanian monk, now living in America, in which he said that Orthodoxy would need to adapt to America, and in particular accommodate the characteristic desire to explore things intellectually.

After much thought and discussion we ended that particular session with the idea that we all really need to work at 2 things: to be convinced in our own minds (not to say that we can't change our minds and be convinced a different way) and to cut each other some serious slack as it relates to the «gray areas.»

You discuss a topic and not just the particular thing that you want to say that is completely off topic.

There's as much science proving something isn't true as there is saying that particular thing IS true.

Suppose, to make this abstraction concrete, that I, as a member of a particular religious community — in my case, as I have said, the communion of Anglican Christians — find myself in contact with a Gelukpa Tibetan Buddhist who, so far as I can tell, believes and teaches things that I think are incompatible with what I believe and teach.

I would reject as uncalled for and unsound the skepticism of those scholars who hold that we have no trustworthy indications whatever as to the character, the teaching and the career of Jesus of Nazareth, but I would be inclined to agree that there are not many particular points where we can feel absolute assurance, We can be sure that Jesus said a certain kind of thing, but not that he said just this thing or that.

If prayer is a set time and place where we go into a particular room, get down on our knees, fold our hands, bow our heads, close our eyes, and say certain things to God, it is nearly impossible to follow Paul's instruction.

Pelikan says one thing in particular that struck me: Any Lutheran converting to Rome should give up any hope or expectation of having a Protestant impact on Catholicism.

I mean that we tend to have particular and characteristic ways of saying and doing things.

I think for the majority of believers who sub.scribe to any particular faith, an ecu.minical service can be a dis.app.ointing thing... Not to say it isn't right for those who believe that all religions point the same way or something similar, but at least as a Christian I can say an ecu.min.ical service is not a place to go for a sermon.

It is said that for the finite investment of just sacrificing a bit of critical thinking, believing some doctrine, and giving and doing some particular things, you will get an eternal reward in an afterlife.

The same thing can be said for any group that advocates any particular issue or set of issues.

Immediately after the statement of the greatest happiness principle, he adds: «To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said: in particular what things it includes in the ideas of pain and pleasure, and to what extent this is left an open question» (U 10).

When I say that all things exist to magnify the truth and worth and beauty and greatness of God, I mean that all things — and marriage in particular — exist to move the appearance of God in people's minds toward reality.»

Posters from a government office urged that girls and boys be treated alike in every possible particular: teachers should not say things like: «I need two strong boys to help carry this table.»

Mind you that wasn't the only thing you said in that particular thread that led me to the conclusion that attempting to have any real dialogue with you was pointless and I was already well on the way to that point from the countless encounters of you avoiding questions and offering nothing more to support your stance than «I'm right and you're wrong» or «read it again, it's clear».

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

Whitehead can say: «Mathematics as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specification of definite particular things» (IM 7).

But why does he feel the need to turn disagreements with particular things that other specific sociologists say into a categorical dismissal of an entire discipline?

Some people think that if they have the church and the bible behind them... (and not just any church, but their particular church... and not just any bible but their particular interpretation of it)... then they have authority to say incredibly stupid, inhumane and mean things.

I believe a reading of Adventures of Ideas and the other works would justify saying there can be «no living [art, morality, religion and science] unless there is a widespread instinctive conviction in the existence of an Order of Things, and, in particular, of an Order of Nature» (SMW 5).

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

I just throw it all into the blender, and I feel really good all the time, so I can't say that there's one particular thing that's really doing it for me.

«Be particular about the details for your hardware — shape, color, finish — especially for the things you touch every day,» said Yuka.

I feel bad for it,» Thomas said in a series of tweets in which he also observed that «it was very understandable to have him escorted out» because «I just didn't see a place for that particular person to be yelling at us things that weren't necessary over and over again.»

In particular, Carmelo Anthony, who led all scorers with 37 points, had nothing but positive things to say about the reunion.