Sentences with phrase «than a consolation in»

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I firmly believe Manhattan is at least 20 % more expensive than San Francisco, but that's no consolation for those looking to rent or buy in SF.

There is consolation in the fact that the Times is bought by less than one out of twenty people in the New York area, and the audience for television networks and movies has been declining for years.

Actually, for most pastors the offering of support, consolation and care to the partner is likely to come much more naturally in the situation than he or she might have expected.

Do you wish to find your consolation in something other than that in which each man without exception may and shall find consolation?

We find comfort and consolation in the sure conviction that God is always doing «more than we can ask or think», as the old prayer phrases it.

These things provide me with the consolations of a life more pleasantly employed than what my grandfather would have enjoyed» my father and my uncle in addition» had they gained a senator's position.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

In fact, such texts, most of which date no earlier than the late second century, favor an extreme dualism between spirit and body and offer little consolation for those hoping to celebrate the sexual passions that are so much on Brown's mind.

But those who either do not use these things or who use them as though they used them not, trusting more in Him who gave them than in the things given, understanding in them His consolation and mercy and who are not absorbed in these gifts lest they fall away from the giver, these are they whom the day will not overtake as a thief unprepared.15

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

But he experienced the fact, only too often, that possessions come between a man and God; to these men of wealth his words apply: «Woe to you, for you have received your consolation» (Luke 6:24); and so does his hard saying, not to be softened by anything in the figure employed, «It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God» (Mark 10:25).

The Olympics should be the acme of an athlete's career — the competition his greatest challenge, the victory his greatest moment of exultation — and yet repeatedly the most notable Olympians, the winners, found more consolation in the completion of the task than joy in the achievement.

Given Spurs have a harder run in than us I am still confident we will get to celebrate St Totteringhams Day, but it will be scant consolation for what should have been.

For those who still adore him — and he received a greater ovation in defeat than Cohoes did in victory — there is one historically proved consolation.

Kane netted twice in a 4 - 1 win for the home side with Salah grabbing what turned out to be nothing more than a consolation goal.

No team brings more late drama to the fore than Everton, with three of their nine league goals scored at Goodison this season coming in stoppage time, while Tim Cahill's consolation against Arsenal two weeks ago came in the 89th minute.

If it's any consolation, we are in such a much better place with open - source and explicitly progressive tools now than we were in the 1990s or even the early 2000s, it's amazing.

After Gordon Brown's Autumn horribilis, it may be little Christmas consolation to think that others have dug themselves out of considerably larger holes than he finds himself in.

IT WILL be little consolation to hungry polar bears in northern Manitoba, Canada, who have had to wait weeks longer than usual for sea ice to form on Hudson Bay, but their habitat is not irreversibly doomed.

Another sure lock, Robert Downey Jr. will receive his first nomination in more than a decade for his role in Ben Stiller's wretched Tropic Thunder in a bid that seems less like a reward than a consolation for there being no room for him in the Best Actor category for his performance in Iron Man.

If «120 Beats Per Minute» is inescapably a period piece, a flashback to a moment when AIDS was decimating the gay community in much higher numbers than it is today, the movie nevertheless unfolds in a brisk, urgent present tense that refuses the consolations of nostalgia.

I understand that some think that more markets mean more opportunity, and on its face that would make sense, but if the odds are really about 99 % against you making anything more than a few sales or ever turning a profit, the number of markets you still aren't selling in will be slim consolation.

Although it is little consolation to the American city dweller whose water is turned off several hours a day, and who can not water the lawn, wash the car, or fill the swimming pool, our country is so much better off than the rest of the world as to be swimming in surplus water by comparison.

If it's any consolation, you may be in a better position than regular miles holders going forward, depending on which airline you favor.

As something of a consolation, the all - female group show has become a rampant trope — filling galleries more than museums, but in some cases, representing a side of recent art history that has been woefully absent from exhibitions and art history curricula.

We can seek further consolation in the fact that the book itself is still just as relevant and powerfully resonant now as it was when it was first published — it'll take more than a Hollywood hack job remake to diminish the book's remarkable staying power.

The only consolation for me in all of this is the fact that attorneys, probably far more so than bikers, are studied as a group and targeted by marketers.

That's a huge chunk of change for an Android Wear device that's functionally no different than models costing a fourth of that price although if it's any consolation, the company will allow buyers to trade in their device towards the purchase of a traditional mechanical watch after two years of ownership.

Today's admission that the acquisition was in effect a failure — the write - off is more than the $ 7.2 bn Microsoft actually paid for Nokia in the first place — will likely come as little consolation to those opposing voices.

I guarantee you that you will learn a lot from your experience, you will feel more confident talking to sellers and buyers, you will know what buyers are looking for in the area, how much they are willing to pay, plus you will add at least 10 people to your buyer's list and if it's any consolation, you are better than 95 % of people who spend 1000s of dollars on seminars and courses and do nothing.