Sentences with phrase «sort of the same thing»

I liked Jeff (Connally, CMIT Solutions» CEO) and his vision, and in talking to other franchisees, they all said sort of the same thing, that it was a very positive culture, and the home office was very supportive of its franchisees.

We encountered sort of the same thing here.

It is sort of the same thing: charismatic actor makes film a lot of people like.

My publisher did sort of the same thing for me, only backwards.

This is sort of the same thing as having to pay both the A - and B - shares loads, but little - to - no annual fees of any kind (like 12b - 1 fees).

«Photography in that sense was sort of the same thing because no matter how good I thought I was there was always mounds more that I could learn, especially as the technology grows.

It sounds like you're doing sort of the same thing.

I've heard the term contract attorney and I think it's sort of the same thing.

HTC did sort of the same thing with Zoes and Samsung with Animated Photos way back with the Galaxy S4.

Not exact matches

The tech giant was playing catch - up of sorts to Google, which has allowed developers to do the same thing on its Android platform on Google Play since 2013.

While most people would never dream of doing the sorts of things that got Louis C.K. or Harvey Weinstein into trouble, we do all still have the same tendency to grow less empathetic as we become more powerful.

People have made enemies, harmed their reputations, and even gotten fired over the same sort of thing.

If you all chuckle at the same things, it's reassurance that you're not an outlier or some sort of social misfit.

«It's sort of like groundhog day where we continue to do the same things over and over again expecting a different result,» Matt Kibbe, executive director of FreedomWorks, told a meeting of influential conservatives in New York Monday night.

The device does some of the same things that other fitness trackers do, but it comes packaged together, working as a one - stop - shop of sorts for getting your health and wellness on track.

And here's an additional bonus: getting valuable work done first thing in the morning provides a huge mental boost — the same sort of endorphin buzz you get after an early morning run.

I'm not doing the same sort of things a potential shareholder would do.

Fake follower counts are based on Points North scanning followers of influencers to sort out such things as accounts making comments in languages that don't make sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts making the exact same comments across multiple influencers and posts.

The Blockchain algorithm will undoubtedly become a useful component of validating transactions, tracking supply chain movements, and all sorts of other applications, but Bitcoin itself is likely to become the same thing to cryptocurrencies as Visicalc was to spreadsheets, or if you're younger, what MySpace was to social networking.

It's the same thing when it came with BP, when it comes to these penalties, you want to get the money, so you don't want to break the company that you're doing it with; it can really cripple it in terms of payments, but you don't want some sort of litigation or anything like that that is going to completely bankrupt the company, full stop, right in that moment, because you want to get paid.

«Obviously there are all sorts of things that are somewhat disappointing — and at the same time, I don't know how much one can expect.»

As you can see, each are so different from each other, yet the same principle applies throughout, it just depends on what sort of thing the investment company wants to spend their money on.

«Notice how he's hedging; you could read the statement as «Michael must have been representing me,» «It was the sort of thing he would do for me,» etc.,» Litman said, «which isn't the same as «I knew he was representing me at the time.»»

They are brain - locked into trying to hit back with the same sort of complaint, yet utterly fail because atheism isn't a system of anything, and so sound like a child repeating the same thing over and over, blind and deaf to anything but the glaring problem of worshipping a disgusting and vicious idiot god and hating disgusting and vicious things.

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

My guess is he would do the same sort of loving compassionate things that the straight Jesus did.

Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.

That's really funny, because I was just thinking of the same thing (sort of).

Years ago I discovered Doug Pagitt's blog and was interested to see what the «Emergent» thing was all about and if he was still the «same person» that I had met once and knew in an acquaintance sort of way because I was friends with, and then dating, one of his best friends.

Socrates said the same sorts of things about the terrible state of how people were acting hundreds of years before the NT was written.

Also, I should say that it seemingly puts Jesus is the company of other great philosophical and religious teachers who essentially say the same sorts of things, in their own contexts and in their own times as to how to find «eternal life» a phrase I think speaks of a qualitative type of life, a flourishing, if you will, both now and after death.

And for progressives, I don't know how come they have not moved beyond the Bible yet — being fed the same thing over and over when we have all sorts of sources of wisdom.

People claimed the same sorts of things you are claiming about civil rights.

For all of their ingenuity and their (perhaps considerable) merits, in other words, these accounts seem not to be talking about the same sort of thing that we have all along understood «morality» to be (or that we encounter when we feel ourselves subject to «moral» constraints).

This in turn suggests the possibility that at some level some sort of monism is inescapable, and that if the monism of Christ is rejected, the monism of the State» or of the Majority or of the Party, which amounts to the same thing» is the most readily available alternative.

I was struck a couple of seasons back when the television series Mad Men ended an episode about the dissipation about the same sorts of things Jones always sang about, with this song playing over the closing credits.

I only meant: if my teaching on grace doesn't raise the same sort of objections — is it the same thing Paul taught?

I see they have some sort of innate need to try and convince others to believe as they do (which is the same thing they accuse believers of).

Aside from the problem that giving income «to the church» is not the same thing as giving of our income «to God,» there are other problems with this sort of application.

It is going to be the same sort of thing, I hazard a hypothesis.

If one culture or group of people looks at the laws of another culture or people, whether it is the 10 laws, the 600, the 6000, or the 60,000, and says, «It sort of worked for them; we'll do the same thing,» they will end up treating each other more miserably than any other culture.

«If you had been there at the first Easter event and had been saying the same sort of thing to the disciples, «Hold on chaps, you must respect the integrity of Judaism as a living religion,» then the Church would never have got started in the first place.»

The Apostle Paul wondered about the same sort of thing when he said, «I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — which is really no gospel at all» (Galatians 1:6,7; NIV).

Hey, we petition the Lord for all sorts of things, you should do the same in this instance.

The same sort of thing can be said about other books, including those of the Old Testament.

We do, however, have evidence for all those sorts of things, while your book lacks the same level of evidence.

So: Beliefs regarding fairies concern a certain kind of object that may or may not exist within the world, and such beliefs have much the same sort of intentional and rational shape as beliefs regarding the neighbors over the hill or whether there are such things as black swans.

Literature and books are the same thing (sort of).

if you believe something is * wrong *, don't you state the same sort of things about that thing / topic?

God is traditionally thought of as a being (albeit a very special sort of being), and if we think along those lines then he / she / it must presumably «exist», in the same way that other beings or things, like people or chairs, «exist».