Sentences with phrase «something of a name for»

He had made something of a name for himself through a book in which he denounced the Roman Church and through nationwide speaking tours.

If you've made something of a name for yourself by playing certain kinds of characters, you probably feel like it's become a curse.

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The company's other media offerings even diverged from the magazine's adult content; it produced movies such as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, and The Naked Ape, based on the classic sociobiology book of the same name.

Whitman is something of a surprise choice for the job because her name has been bandied about in recent years for high - profile positions in both the technology sector and politics.

If McDonald's today were required to remove all of their signage from every restaurant, change the names of their restaurant to something generic for the respective area they are in, and move into non-descript spaces in strip malls how would you find them?

While many directors start out conventional and then experiment once they have clout, Tarantino has abandoned much of the nonlinear storytelling on which he made his name (with «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction») for something more traditional.

Is it worse than a host of other empty spectacles that move our hearts and empty our wallets in the name of something that may or may not really be for the greater good?

And I'm very appreciative of having done that because it was something that my mother and I had with each other as a joke because she would tease me and ask me to let her know when I had made enough money for her to sue me for using her name.

Not only am I on a first - name basis with most of the head purchasers and tool room managers of the biggest utilities in the Northwest, but there is such a small internet presence for the industry online that even the most rudimentary of Google Adwords campaigns (or something similar) would land a well - built page in the top five within a few months.

It is you and those alike you that ditched the idea of Bitcoin system in favor of something completely different, fact that r / bitcoin and all of Blockstream advocates and associates use propaganda, name calling and openly do and call for regulation and censorship, proves that all of you shit on Bitcoin system and its idea, but love to pretend to be the ones protecting it... well your propaganda won't work, there are plenty of us who do love and support Bitcoin (CASH) system and we will continue to expose your lies and propaganda.

All these sore Core «bcash» name calling IDIOTS are exactly that... IDIOTS, it sickens me so much to see these morons deliberately fight against something that is beneficial for the whole world (people in it), to get rid of the corrupt and utter scam that private central bankers created, surely Blockstream and bankers must have hired these people to spend all day long harassing Bitcoin Cash supporters, putting out and repeating same shit propaganda over and over, so to get unaware people fall for it, and to trick them into thinking that they centralised Lightning network is scaling of Bitcoin... which is complete horse shit, and could not further from the truth.

That's the name of this game: «figuring out what something is worth and paying a lot less for it,» as Joel Greenblatt says.

It gives our clients something special since we're not only providing a service, but our name is on a piece of software which is very good for tracking.»

It's something else entirely when the community responds to that news with knee - jerk reactions of name - calling, inflammatory accusations, and boycotts (Goose Island news, for example).

It also provides them access to all of the major buyers in the supply chain, something that would be difficult to achieve for smaller, no - name manufacturers.

«If you ask any of the developers, they will typically want to see 18 months or two years lead time, for something with as wide an impact on all the software and hardware out there as a hard fork,» Blockstream co-founder and Hashcash inventor Dr. Adam Back noted during a Q&A session.And if the chain does split into different networks and currencies — one following the current Bitcoin protocol and one adopting the hard fork — the question becomes which of the two gets to use the name «Bitcoin.»

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

Were poetry something worthy of the name, perhaps it wouldn't be regarded by readers as dimly as the electric chair is by convicts Some hope for poetry» without the quotation marks» is rendered by the publication of David Yezzi's collection Azores.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

Curry says it starts with prayer specifically, as this is something we're universally called to do — pray for those who bring change in the name of Jesus.

Many, if their worldview doesn't hold up under scrutiny and they feel the lack of support for something that is sacred to them, simply resort to repet.itious circular statements, name calling, diversion, red - herrings and such in order to justify it to themselves.

For these and many other reasons, it is understandable that the Church feels itself authorized and indeed obliged to have something to say in the name of Christ in the domains of history, civilization, economics, politics and international relations at the present time.

In 1969, Malcolm Muggeridge hosted a BBC documentary on her, Something Beautiful for God, following it with his now - classic book of the same name.

What the Girl Scouts decided was that if the girl in question believed in something that allowed for the same traditional Scouting function of religious education — religious and spiritual self - cultivation based on the principle of a moral order of which the Scout can be a part — she could substitute her preferred name for that instead of using the word «God.»

HALO Corps, which sounds like something out of a sci - fi movie but is actually the name of a real security firm, is staging a zombie apocalypse rescue exercise for 1,000...

My name is Beverly for the past month gone by somethings being happening to me an i need answers i went to many churches but got different answer.i being feeling cold, trembling of the body, hearing things speaking to me, feeling fearful for no reason head spinning like if i have a crown on my head.

For anyone reading this, if you want to do something productive, find the names of his victims and write them a letter of support that will help them through.

It's is nothing more than an excuse for bigotry, hatred, and dividing people all in the name of something that doesn't exist.

No one is forced to do anything but if we are doing something in the name of Jesus, we make sure He is made known and glorified for what He has provided for.

Christians who kill in the name of God are wrong, and while mislead, mentally ill Christians might do something like that, our God does not tell us to kill people for him.

It goes something like this, without apologies for the corniness of family namings.

If a man becomes a philanthropist with the deliberate intention of expecting to see his name in the New Year honors, we rightly feel that there is something hollow about his ostensible concern for others.

i simply want to know how the «newer» muslim phrophet (don't even know his name) taught his followers how to change the concept of violence as a means for jihad and / or self - defense into something that isn't violent (if that is what he did — i do not know except for this conversation).

It has for most people no other meaning than to name this particular person2, though there may be an awareness that this part of his name means that there is something special about him.

And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; not that they were hereby warranted to drink poison, to show what power they had; but should they accidentally drink it, or rather should they be forced to it by their enemies in order to destroy them, they should find no hurt by it: and Papias F24 reports of Barsabas, surnamed Justus, who was put up with Matthias for the apostleship, (Acts 1:23), that he drank a poisonous draught, and by the grace of the Lord, received no hurt: and the Jews themselves report F25, that «a son of R. Joshua ben Levi, swallowed something hurtful; and one came and whispered to him in the name of Jesus, the son of Pandira (so they call our Lord), and he did well.»

I myself will never adopt an understanding that the power to overcome «disease» or sin or «sickness» or whatever alcoholism is, can be received from, or operated with, «something» or «somebody» or a «power greater than myself» or a «higher power» or a «group» or a light bulb, chair, bulldozer, goddess, doorknob, radiator or any of the other «absurd names for God» (as Rev. Sam Shoemaker, our «cofounder» described them).

Be very mindful how you pin a name on your brother sister; remember the church is there the burden and those who have sinned yet we become so eager to judge; the word has already judged him, God at this very moment is dealing with him in ways that no man can as we judge him, we have judged ourself, we can easily forgive when his sin is like ours, but when it is not; they killed CHRIST CAUSE HE SAID HE COULD RISE THE TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS; to the people of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way of making something good out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive all;

~ the music and visual entertainment that resembles more to something spewed out of the pits of hell, then something human beings would dream up, unless they are demon possessed... ~ the perversion of God's natural order and His intent for human kind, and justifying of it, calling it good, even using the Name of Christ to justify it, such as this article is clearly showing...

And yet the great themes I have been probing here were present, not in any articulate form but present in the uncertainty, the groping, the yearning for something that has so slipped out of memory as to be almost without a name.

Perhaps if the dictator of your theocracy would step up and do something to stop your priests from raping children the folks at the Empire State Building would be more inclined to honor one of the few truly decent persons to march upon the world stage in your name of late, or ever for that matter.

For much the same reason, worship of God in Jesus» name can not be a practice whose defining end is to receive something from God.

This thinker, whose name I shall not disclose, said that he was becoming more and more convinced that there was «something in the older metaphysical — he called them «ontological» — claims; at the moment he was much concerned, he said, to find a way of giving more than linguistic status to such propositions as «personal God», for it appeared to him that these statements somehow pointed to a truth about the universe, about the nature of things, that must be reckoned with in any honest description of the «way things are».

Franklin should be investigated for fraud, pretending to be something he is not (that's a christian) Stealing people's money in the name of christianity does not make you a christian....

The word God, taken with its very minimum meaning, is the name for this Something of supreme value.

Hard Christian pacifism is perhaps an answer for some (for the pacifistic Stanley Hauerwas, for instance, who, in something of an irony, was named «America's best theologian» by Time magazine only two days before the events of September 11 massively raised the stakes of American pacifism).

I'd sacrifice my life in the name of the freedoms this country was founded on before I'd shed a drop of blood to defend your right to exclude or discriminate against someone for something as fundamental as religious belief.

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

Why is it that you can call me all kinds of names, spit on my faith, hate me for my beliefs, but if someone called a person of color, a Gay man or a lesbian something just as bad, or worse yet, not even as bad, they would be thrown in prison and Crucified, just like my Lord was?

It's not the Bible or God or Christianity that has the problem; it's generations of repressed, ego - driven, chauvinistic control freaks who have twisted the Word for their own purposes and given something wonderful a bad name.

Steve — we'e all «done something wrong», but keeping a person locked in a closet is much more than a reason for school expulsion, it's also a crime that should have been punished, but probably wasn't because of his last name!