Sentences with phrase «something of a clean slate»

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But since none of us come to Scripture as a clean slate, we all read something into the text that isn't there.

Something you mentioned several times rings true regardless of last year: All of these new faces have new chances to make an impression, and the eagerness to make a statement of performance excellence is definitely higher with a clean slate, whether by coaches or by players.

Being born with a «tabula rasa» — a clean slate — is, in the case of the brain, something of a curse.

Given that the start of a new year is like a clean slate, I am going to try to uphold one resolution for this little bloggity - blog (although, there is always something I would like to focus on...).

Debt relief is something that may sound too good to be true, but it's so enticing that most of us wouldn't think twice about picking up the phone and speaking to a person who will promise to wipe our slate clean.

While I can understand that building upon the existing plot of Legacy of Kain could be nigh impossible, especially when trying to bring new fans to the series — the ending of Defiance would give them a fairly clean slate to build a new plot without referencing the past too much — perhaps a bit of fan - service here or there, or an odd remark — but generally, it wouldn't be too much work to take the existing world and make something fresh.

That is wiping the slate clean of years of carefully - lodged brand messaging in every client segment where Nabarro and Olswang held some kind of sway, and replacing it with something else entirely.

Many of us see the new year as a clean slate, an opportunity to start something new.