Sentences with phrase «still had a purpose»

Even so, television advertising still has a purpose, as evidenced by the number of people who choose to spend their downtime in front of TVs.

I could do with a bit less accumulation, but the program still has its purpose.

Their presence indicates that the long - abandoned aqueducts still have a purpose: They're havens.

There are even etchings in the plastic to show where the controller ports and console slot would be, if they still had a purpose.

Not exact matches

But I think over time because Hinge is getting better and better, you'll be able to use it for a broad array of purposes and one of them will be if you're serious about finding a specific kind of person, it will actually be a great platform for that and still in a much lighter - weight way then having to fill out a whole profile and just using people's ambient information because there's so much information that already exists about people through their interactions that they already have through Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all these different kinds of platforms that allow us to match you up probably better than stuff you would say about yourself on an online dating site because frankly its more validated and it's more real.

We still love having a coffee pot to go to, a desk, a computer, and with it, the sense of purpose and belonging that going to that particular place brings.

But taxpayers would, the argument goes, be allowed to fully deduct the amount on their federal tax returns because the new law still allows most charitable giving to be deducted for federal tax purposes.

Where does that leave other offshore companies, notably Korea Gas Co., Mitsubishi and Petronas, that have invested lesser but still impressive sums in B.C.'s shale fields, almost certainly for the purpose of eventually importing LNG back across the Pacific?

The company reiterated it would not share directly identifiable info with advertisers, but it would still collect personal data then de-identify or aggregate it before selling it for targeted - ad purposes.

«There's a lot more interest circulating for tours to Cuba, but it may take some time for individual travel to pick up because you still have to go for educational purposes or to help the Cuban people,» Rebecca Heidgerd, the director of marketing at StudentUniverse, told me.

Perhaps you've been doing all the right things — planning meetings with a purpose, creating well - thought - out agendas, and keeping your team on track while the meetings are going on — but you still find your staff or co-workers pretty checked out.

Companies should ensure they have an up - to - date asset inventory of their IT infrastructure components and threat surface, identify whether any highlighted systems are still in use and, if so, for what purpose.

Now that you have a clear, specific result or outcome and a compelling purpose to drive you to follow through, you still need a plan to make it happen.

«We still have the same question: What was the purpose of this,» Noble said when we spoke by phone on Wednesday evening.

Growth is still necessary but you have to be cognizant of the fact that you'll need to protect some of your assets for spending purposes.

The incident I have described took place very early in my sales career — nearly 30 years ago — but I still remember it clearly, and I do so on purpose.

But if you use them as a source of stability and for rebalancing purposes then yes, bonds still have a place in a well - diversified portfolio.

«We still have the same question: What was the purpose of this,» Noble said when we spoke by phone Wednesday evening.

In truth, the majority of shaving bowls serve the same purpose and will easily get the job done, but that doesn't mean that we don't still have our favorites.

While meta descriptions have negligible (if any) impact on your rankings, they still serve the important purpose of helping to determine your search snippet and adding an extra factor of uniqueness.

Despite having a hefty amount in CDs, I'm still aiming to maintain a $ 100,000 liquid savings account earning just 1 % for future investment and insurance purposes.

Entities that may still have access to your Equifax credit file include: companies like Equifax Global Consumer Solutions which provide you with access to your credit report or credit score, or monitor your credit file; federal, state, and local government agencies; companies reviewing your application for employment; companies that have a current account or relationship with you, and collection agencies acting on behalf of those whom you owe; for fraud detection purposes; and companies that wish to make pre-approved offers of credit or insurance to you.

And if she had an LGBT relative, would she still think they were «created special, with awesome purpose and amazing potential?»

Your Lossers ha ha: No, you're wrong... we still celebrate, we just do so for the purpose of spending quality time with family and friends.

We believe that all living things have purposes, largely unconscious, but still influential.

Before I gave my life over to Christ for Him to show me all things in myself that were contrary to His purposes (which He is still lovingly working on), I would try to justify that what I was doing was okay because He must of made me this way because I couldn't overcome it.

Or maybe He still has a greater purpose and you live.

I grew up in the church all my life but I was following God's path, I didn't want to let God take control of my life but then at one point of my life I was going through a lot, stuff that a teenager shouldn't be going through but then I told God that I want him in my life to take control and to write out my path not me and right when I said that I felt happiness, I felt love, I felt and I still feel (what God wants me to do) that I have a purpose in life.

Although the analogy of sheep and shepherd has served a purpose in the past, and even though some aspects of the metaphor still work, it has generally lost its appeal.

But he still has not told us what the purpose of the Mystery was.

God still has and always will have his own purposes, and those who believe in him best begin by at least trying to discover what those might be.

But we should still trust that «in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to His purpose».

If you, my listener, should see such a man, although it is unlikely, for without a doubt weakness and mediocrity are the more common, if you should meet him in what he himself would call a weak moment, but which, alas, you would have to call a better moment; if you should meet him when he had found no rest in the desert, when the giddiness passes away for a moment and he feels an agonizing longing for the Good; if you should meet him when, shaken in his innermost being, and not without sadness, he was thinking of that man of single purpose who even in all his frailty still wills the Good: then you would discover that he had two wills, and you would discover his painful double - mindedness.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

It served a valuable purpose for a good while, and I don't begrudge others who still do it, as long as they typify me or my children as hell - bound because they don't pretend to have a sacred, personal relationship with the creator of the universe.

What would it look like to allow vulnerability, grace, growth and knowledge to be the purpose of dating, while still tucking the idea of marriage in your back pocket?

All of this in an historical succession in which the past of the tradition still lives in the present of contemporary human existence, with an aim toward fulfillment of the dominant and dominating purpose which in the earliest witness was declared as having been enacted in the originating event of Jesus Christ himself.

Whether pessimistic cosmologists would approve or not, we still can not but wonder whether there is any sort of purpose to, or promise concealed within, the cosmic process.

We may arrange «a group of professing believers in Jesus who have been baptized and have organized themselves under the leadership of elders and deacons for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission; for conducting the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper; for building up of the Body through the worship of God, the fellowship of believers, the teaching of the Word, and the exercise of spiritual gifts» and still not be receiving the presence of Christ.

And yet, despite the confusion of the»60s, Paul led a Church that still had a strong memory of her own unity and purpose.

Still others try to use the regularities of nature as proof of the existence of God, and argue that the evidence of purpose and design in the universe has been increased by modern knowledge.

Although we would rather talk of the coherent unity of the causal complex, because, even when the development of a complex entity can be traced through contributary causes, the interlocking patterning of those causes through time and space and the higher meaningful unit of organisation which they produce still reveals order and purpose in the system which points to Transcendent Mind as First and Final creative cause.

Still, if his purpose was, as he writes, to provide «an understanding of the vital religious component of the American tradition,» it might have been helpful to give readers a greater sense of the variation, and even the conflict, within that tradition.

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

It turned out that his gifts to the archdiocese were less than half the payout, but the more troubling thing is that he seemed to believe that what he had given was still his to use for his personal purposes, which suggests that he had not really given anything at all.

you believe you do, but you do not have any proof of any personal relationship with god < — I still find you an arrogant azz for trying to purpose to me what I know and don't know..

But I believe had mankind never been exposed to religion we would have still question our existence here / purpose.

I wouldn't even consider that now, of course, (as it would be an unintended mockery) but I still think Biblical literacy is good for literary purposes in general and critical for anyone who claims to base their lives on the book.

Even if you had spoken bad words on purpose, this is still not enough for God to cast you away from Himself forever.

In many cases you will find that although they made all the right choices (the lucrative career, the dashing or beautiful spouse, etc.), their lives are still empty because they have no purpose and no guide greater than themselves.