Sentences with phrase «speaking point when»

Chinese - made fentanyl that is being trafficked in New York should be the main speaking point when US negotiators sit down with their Chinese counterparts this week, a top lawmaker said.

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He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»

As Recode's Kara Swisher noted when writing up her interview: «Note to Mark: You are the right and only person to speak for Facebook at this point in the controversy.»

Bury points out that a brand name has to work in many contexts — as a URL, a searchable company name and something that sounds right when spoken out loud — and shouldn't be so complicated that you're spelling it out for people.

And when you do speak again, ask a follow - up question that helps you better understand the other person's point of view.

At one point a man asking a question (who later turned out to be from the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong) grew so irate during his questioning that when the microphone was taken away from him, he carried on speaking — virtually shouting.

When he sent a cold email with a speaking invitation to Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, he spent hours brainstorming a subject line that would stand out — minus annoying emojis or exclamation points.

After programming millions of data points to connect, Aaron Patzer says that when you're speaking to Fountain, you're essentially speaking to his brain.

When you talk to companies, be sure that you are able to speak to how your component affects their bottom line and fits within their price point.

Kevin Knobloch, just back from three - plus years in Washington as former Secretary Moniz's chief of staff, made the following points when he spoke recently to an audience of energy company owners and operators outside Boston.

When I spoke to Drokova, she pointed out that, based on her experience in investment, men rely more on rationale while women rely more on intuition.

Before the 60 Minutes interview aired (when all that was known was that Daniels's lawyer confirmed she had been «physically threatened» at one point), Cohen told Vanity Fair, «I have never threatened her in any way and I am unaware of anyone else doing so» — though he said he could only speak for himself.

Baby boomers have traditionally been more affected by anchoring than other generations, a point worth remembering when speaking with clients.

He needs a letter board to point to characters when speaking.

What do you think Jesus meant when he said... as any TRUE prophet (one who speaks for G - d) would say... «Not one jot or one tittle (not the least point of the teachings) will pass away until heaven and earth pass away»???).

When you read the context and see that Paul was speaking on the subject of those who don't believe in the resurrection, but believed in baptism as Christians, you realize that he was saying that what is the point of baptism if you are only going to end up dead.

There is in general an undertone of lamentation when people speak of manipulation which points to idealistic expectations — as if the class enemy had ever stuck to the promises of fair play it occasionally utters.

When Calvinists speak of man as begin totally depraved, they mean that man's nature is corrupt, perverse, and sinful throughout (Steele & Thomas, Five Points of Calvinism, 18).

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

Or again, when we speak in the creed of the Eternal Word of God as «coming down from heaven,» we surely do not think — or at least we ought not to think — that this is a precise statement of movement from an «up» to a «down»; we all know well enough that it is, on the contrary, a most inaccurate statement from that point of view.

When you hear a Christian advocate personal purity, do you hear a judgment of yourself or others, or do you get angry because you don't want to live that way and then decide that the Christian's spoken point of view is a judgment?

It is a sad day when ministers, priests, and people of good conscious actually have to debate whether or not to speak of the great inequalities in America, and justifiably point to the systems that promote it.

But when spoken in the company of non believers, you should reasonably expect to have pointed out to you that your affirmative statement gives the impression to us that you KNOW something that we KNOW that you really don't KNOW, and that you seem incapable of recognizing that your BELIEF can only be confused as KNOWLEDGE in your own head.

In many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the past.

Nevertheless Johnson may again mislead when, after pointing out that every actual entity is composed of physical and mental activities, he adds that in Religion in the Making there is a suggestion that some occasions are not bipolar, for Whitehead speaks of «mental occasions» and «physical occasions» (RM 102f, 118).

I love what you say Nate... it has taken me 5 years to get to that point that you speak of, when I realise that i must try to be who God made me to be...

When the most significant psychological thinker of our time, Sigmund Freud, points out that words are very often a cover - up and that more truth is to be learned from dreams or even slips of the tongue than from controlled speech, those who preach the Word are going to speak to ever - dwindling audiences.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

You've spoken of turning points in your life, one of which occurred when you and your mum went to Lourdes.

So when the man of whom we are speaking had gratified himself up to the point of disgust, he became weary and sated.

You have the right to speak your mind, but when it is to the point of imposing hate and such things onto others you are acting pretty twisted.

Although God does not speak to Qoheleth in His role as Redeemer, His creation when experienced playfully points us to its source, God the Creator — the Giver of life 39

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

I hope you will be a little more tolerant when speaking of other points of view.

But here it is necessary to point out that when we speak of the reigning Christ we do not mean the monarchical concept of an arbitrary exercise of power.

Most of us are politely quiet and secretly roll our eyes when someone says that god speaks to them or that they have been touched by god etc., yet when someone mentions any of the other things we are quick to point out that they are wackos... perhaps it is time for us to speak up and say there is no such thing as god and it is time to clear our heads and get on with moving the human species forward and leaving fairy tales and silly beliefs behind.

But while Paul's testimony is, historically speaking, of first - class value, when it comes to the question of the story of the empty tomb and the physical nature of the resurrection, his words, far from bringing firm confirmation of the «bodily resurrection», are open to a variety of interpretations, and, on the whole, point to quite a different view of resurrection.

There is much which points to the fact that even when the exaltation of Jesus came to be spoken of in terms of resurrection, the grounds for this conviction were still of an ambiguous character, and open to more than one interpretation.

When Paul speaks of «meeting» the Lord «in the air,» the point is precisely not... that the saved believers would then stay up in the air somewhere, away from earth.

We must therefore, from the experiential point of view, call these godless or quasi-godless creeds «religions»; and accordingly when in our definition of religion we speak of the individual's relation to «what he considers the divine,» we must interpret the term «divine» very broadly, as denoting any object that is godlike, whether it be a concrete deity or not.

You speak on what is «True Doctrine», could we also point to something such as the Consti; tution and the daily court room arguments of lawyers and clerks who feel that they alone know and understand the true meaning of the what the framers when they wrote the laws of this land?

Humanity Made for Christ When speaking to modern audiences, especially young adults, about what distinguishes us from the animals, it is not always a good idea to start with negative distinctions - pointing out, for example, that animals can not do such and such, but we can.

Such discussion and contracting, both written and spoken, would also need to include provisions for reevaluating and recontracting at various points in the relationship and to plan for how and when to do it.

When speaking of something language also speaks of itself, pointing to its ground which is taken away from it, and by this very fact given: this is signified when we say «God» even though we do not mean by this the same as language as a whole, but the ground on which it reWhen speaking of something language also speaks of itself, pointing to its ground which is taken away from it, and by this very fact given: this is signified when we say «God» even though we do not mean by this the same as language as a whole, but the ground on which it rewhen we say «God» even though we do not mean by this the same as language as a whole, but the ground on which it rests.

This appears clearly enough in the very letter whose opening words have been interpreted as pointing toward «adoptionism»; as, for example, when Paul speaks of God as» sending his own Son.»

Janet i think what you have said is quite insightful and you are right and there is another meaning to Go and sin no more and that speaks to me of repentence making a decision to Follow Christ the one who saves.The words Go and sin no more is referring to a continual ongoinging process of living for Christ rather than dying in our sins daily there is no comparison.I thought that was awesome pointing the law back to all of us for we all have sinned and the judgement is death but Jesus came that we might have life in its fullness.Many people only see the adulterer when she portrays who we are as sinners that he came to save all of us sin is sin and the punishment is death so again you are quite right people use the scriptures to judge and that was never Jesus intention.I hope that helps when someone uses that scripture incorrectly and you can you use it like Jesus did to point it back at those who judge i hope that helps.brentnz

I wd somewhat agree Jenny, it seems we don't have other options when we speak of «invisible beings»...» got ta put some flesh on that ghoul», but my point suggests or asks how far can we take that metaphor before we sound downright silly?

At this point it may be helpful to remember that when Protestants emphasize the «inner witness of the Holy Spirit,» they refer to the experience in which the reader affirms that God himself has spoken to him.

I spoke of the Jesus believing people whom Jesus sent away, even though they thought they did all they did in service to Jesus and more besides, thing to point out here is the fact that when they met Jesus their speech to him was didn't we do that and didn't we do this, that's where we fall most of the time.

When Paul spoke of the «folly» of the Gospel and counter-posed it to the «wisdom of the world,» he was pointing to what we might call a cognitive aspect of God's kenosis, of God's abasement.