Sentences with phrase «spite when»

For now, remember this: Your dog isn't angry with you for leaving or behaving out of spite when he scratches at the door, vocalizes, defecates or urinates: he's actually truly terrified of being left alone.

Who in the heck wants to jump through hoops with an agent that spews snark and spite when all the tools we need are right there for the taking?

They say it is no coincidence that it is named after the Greek mythological figure Medea, who killed her children out of spite when her husband decided to divorce her and take another wife.

Moreover, we feel a sense of spite when we witness the disciplinary measure.

Not exact matches

Some of these strategies may seem obvious, but the real challenge lies in recognizing when you need to use them and having the wherewithal to actually do so in spite of your stress.

In spite of the outrage that's battered United over the last week, Kaplan explained that when you buy an airline ticket you're actually not guaranteed a seat.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

In spite of all the ink that journalists, analysts, and pundits have spilled on Uber over the years, no mainstream article has focused on what I consider to be the most elegant feature of this now ubiquitous, high growth global service — no driver - partner is ever told where or when to work.

Those efforts are apparently underway, but most of the Uber employees who spoke to TechCrunch had not yet been contacted by Grab, and, in addition, most were unsure whether and when communication would happen in spite of Grab and Uber's efforts.

He has insisted he would continue to write derivatives contracts when it suits him in spite of the name - calling the practice inspired.

Nota bene, since the Fed's balance sheet has continually grown in spite of lowering reserve requirements to next to nothing from the mid 90's onward (when sweeps were introduced), we must conclude that the target rate was almost continually set below the level where it would have been in a free market — which is to say, the system always has an inflationary bias.

When American Forces bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki they did so not out of evil, malicious intent, but instead they took in the ENTIRE picture, realizing that in spite of their horrific brutality many more lives would be spared in the long run.

God can work mightily when you persist in believing Him in spite of discouragement from the human standpoint... I am moved by what I believe.

But then, they cut off their nose to spite their face when they turn around and wield faith like a club of ignorance and folly!

The problem is when there TRULY are hungry people (and 2 in 10 Americans are), you would simply deny them any care and let them die just out of spite.

The reason we survived as an independent people comes straight from Leviticus 26:44 «Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them.

In spite of their taboos about their own special holy objects, they still know right from wrong when it comes to harming other people.

First, take the initiative when it is reasonably clear that the person has a drinking problem, when the pastor - parishioner relationship bridge is strong enough to survive the threat of such a confrontation and when the person does not open up on his own, in spite of frequent opportunities.

Now out of favor in spite of his enduring scholarship and his central role in the development of academic sociology, Sorokin was already beginning to fade when I entered graduate school in the late - 1950s.

You become an overcomer when you allow your heart to be changed from worldly to heavenly, by believing and following Jesus, in spite of all the inevitable mistakes we will all make.

When Brandon had trouble breathing and gasped for air, his parents called a pastor - this, in spite of the fact that a judge had ordered them to call a doctor.

When I consider Mary's response, though, «Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word» (v. 38), along with her glorious song to God recorded in verses 46 - 52, I am reminded that a calling may feel like a burden and, indeed, sometimes may actually be a burden, but it is one of God's own choosing, which means that it is one that He works through to give us strength in spite of the circumstances.

In spite of the great influence of the King James Version at the time when the first Indian versions were made, later versions have been made chiefly under the influence of the English revisers of the Bible which was published in 1885.35 The two Malayalam translations, the Bible Society of India Version and Hosanna version, are from the English translation.36 The use of translations other than the original source for translations created distorted meaning of the text.

When given purposes come to be known, they are known only abstractly and indirectly, in spite of their immediacy in a given experience.

Evolution has more holes than cheese, when you ask questions like, how did this happen in spite of the laws of physics, the answer is I do not know.

«To support the Ins when things are going well; to support the Outs when they are going badly,» the latter wrote in 1925, «this, in spite of all that has been said about tweedledum and tweedledee, is the essence of popular government.»

But in spite of this concern, when I take into account all the information available, I embrace my faith because I ultimately believe it to be both true and the most intellectually satisfying.

Human life touches on absoluteness in virtue of its dialogical character, for in spite of his uniqueness man can never find, when he plunges to the depth of his life, a being that is whole in itself and as such touches on the absolute....

When Pasteur, in spite of his paralysis, sought for the secret of disease, he was hunting a remedy for human ills.

Tell me how people is not going to hate him when he is going around doing that, spiting his lunatic lies, division and hate?

The WCC Commission on Faith and Order, meeting at Bristol, England, in i967, said: «In working toward the time when the churches, in spite of their existing differences, could accept each other in eucharistic fellowship, the ecumenical movement also works toward the time when a true Ecumenical Council can become an event.»

So in spite of my trepidation, and in awe of tradition, and knowing that this gives an impression of audacity when what I feel is rather an obligation that I can not avoid, I am impelled by my understanding (such as I am capable of) to raise this challenge.

We act in important situations when the odds are only even and sometimes when they are against us, as when a child is drowning and one tries to save him in spite of being a poor swimmer.

«Societies rise and fall on trust; that is the currency of development and when we enter into trust - deficient communities and engage through tactics that further erode trust all in the name of bringing Jesus, democracy, gospel, development, aid, help, whatever, we cut off our nose to spite our face.

In spite of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.»

It's probably not a good idea generally to buy a book out of spite, but in some ways that is precisely what I did when I picked up Sarah Palin's Going Rogue.

That flash of insight, that glimmer of hope comes to us sometimes in fragments, the poet seems to suggest, a «loop in time,» when in spite of our spiritual drought and the church's ineffective attempts to bring Christ to us, he comes anyway.

In spite of the excesses of the propositional approach at the level of theological articulation, the lived experience of Christians throughout the ages has been one in which revelation, even when it is not called by this name, has been experienced predominantly in a personal, dialogical way.

I also accept the CDF view that «when inevitable death is imminent in spite of the means used, it is permitted... to refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in similar cases is not interrupted.»

In spite of Freud's enormous growth contributions, there are serious weaknesses, gaps, and in - accuracies in his thought when viewed from a growth perspective.

I for my part have devoted a good deal of time to the understanding of the Hegelian philosophy, I believe also that I understand it tolerably well, but when in spite of the trouble I have taken there are certain passages I can not understand, I am foolhardy enough to think that he himself has not been quite clear.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

Numerous psychological tests have shown that, although many alcoholics are able to function with remarkable social adequacy when they are not drinking, they make their social adjustment in spite of their inner conflicts.

This should have been explored by the minister, beginning with a response such as: «How did you feel when you realized you were drinking in spite of your decision not to?»

But when it's emphasized as the primary meaning, or when it becomes believing in spite of all the reasons you have for thinking this is nonsense, then it's been profoundly distorted.

At the same time, in spite of all the attention paid to religion, Americans seemed more insecure and less sure of themselves than they had in the days when not so many of them were present within the Churches.

But one of the problems, and I saw this when writing the book, is that the death penalty has succeeded in America not in spite of Christians but because of us.

In spite of our attraction to good cities when we see them, American culture is currently neither conducive nor receptive to the kind of architecture and urbanism that Mayernik champions.

It was a rather remarkable phenomenon from a purely physical standpoint when a great mass of material rose from the ground in Long Island, moved steadily in spite of buffeting winds across the Atlantic and finally settled down gently at the Paris Airport.

Christians have often had to reconsider their interpretation of the Bible in light of new information, he argued, just as many did when they concluded slavery was immoral in spite of biblical instructions that seem to support it.