Sentences with phrase «than desired at»

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While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

My prediction is that small businesses will continue to challenge and at times beat the large enterprises (perhaps sooner rather than later), simply because they will appeal to the consumers desire to support the up and comers, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs that are often much easier for people to relate to.

And that, dear parents, is the point at which your work is done — when your children's success becomes much more a factor of their desire and work ethic than yours.

During her talk at Soho House, Roth cautions the audience on pursuing writing for anything other than the sheer desire for storytelling - suggesting that to do otherwise, leads to defeat.

It's trading at less than 10 times earnings, partly because of the Ontario government's desire to slash auto insurance rates by 15 %.

Our job today is to desire, expect and demand more than what others — and the world at large — think is possible.

As I've argued before, when you are as massive a media entity as Facebook (despite its desire to avoid that label), it is incumbent on you to address your responsibilities directly, and possibly even ask for help, rather than just waving at the algorithm behind the curtain.

Admittedly, my own competitive nature and desire to create value have caused me — at times — to work more than I should.

The surge of big transactions — with more than 20 deals worth at least $ 10 billion — has been bolstered by a desire by boards to head off disruptive technological threats and accelerate growth, according to bankers and lawyers who spoke to the Financial Times.

A good board leaves its own desires and its selfish concerns at the door and works together to reach the best decisions for the company rather than pushing or promoting choices that serve other outside interests -; including, sometimes, a board member's own investment objectives.

For them, there's a lot more at stake than the desire to make a quick buck on a current trend.

At the end, you exhort your professional colleagues to come up with some new ideas to combat secular stagnation — an excess desire to save rather than invest, with consequent drag on the world economy.

Because we have become more effective at matching sellers with the kinds of investors desired by companies, the transactions we submit to companies now close more than 95 % of the time.

The chart they produced assumed a $ 1 million initial investment compounded at 20 % per year (after all — most money managers who are hyperactive in their trading espouse their desire to perform at least 70 % to 80 % better than the long - term average of the index.)

When you're hitting, the worst thing you can do is over-focus on your desired result (getting a hit), rather than on the process (having a good at bat).

The minimum demanded of this deposit is set at $ 250 which means just about anybody can start trading.You are free to add your deposit to your desired amount if you want to make a lot more than $ 5,000 in a trading day.

It brought a long - desired prescription drug benefit to Medicare for the first time, at less cost than if the government had paid for it — and indeed, for less money than its own projected budget (last time I checked).

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

As carnal, embodied creatures, our desire to eat meat works in us at a more elemental level than desires for cognitive pleasures.

At the same time, said Sam, «It was the most freeing experience I've ever had to realize there's a God that doesn't desire for this little kid's hairs to be harmed, whose arms are so much sturdier than [my] shaky arms.»

The sense of a Power greater than myself at work was overwhelming, and I was instantly consumed with a desire to bring a like release to other alcoholics.

And, at the core, I consider myself to have a female gender much more than a male gender identity... and Germain probably would think otherwise... but she holds nothing that I desire... therefore, in reality, her opinion does not matter to me.

If she desires a closeness to many of the women, she will certainly have to work at it in ways other than the usual contacts through service groups.

In a Western society that idolizes sex and romance, a Christian who chooses singleness — not because they fail at dating, but because they desire their personal calling more than sex, romance or companionship — has done something entirely foreign.

And a society that believes this must, at least implicitly, embrace and subtly advocate a very particular moral metaphysics: the unreality of any «value» higher than choice, or of any transcendent Good ordering desire towards a higher end.

While we're at it, let's just do away with the whole Bible thing and all agree that we as humans have the inherent desire to believe in something greater than ourselves because deep down we realize that we are completely unable to not screw everything up.

Thus each individual is a far more complicated being than he realizes, and his own conscious assessment of himself, his motives, his emotions and his desires is only a rough over-simplification, and very likely a distorted one at that.

Plus IF this God suffered as Human than he would have understood the Reality of it and IF he was so compassionate and even empathetic, he would HAVE FIXED things out of sheer desire to not let anyone suffer so randomly and soemtimes allegedly at his very hands.

It has a concern for her well - being at least as much as, perhaps more than, for my own, a desire to break through my own images and idealizations of the girl, my illusions about her, and at all costs to know her as she really is.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

However, an individualism guided instead by a desire for material gain and emotional ease is nothing more than selfishness — a heartless, sinful selfishness that exacerbates the dangers of division and materialism, eats away at the moral fiber of our society and threatens to destroy the fabric that holds us together.

When it is older it has other desires than it had at an earlier age.

When I read the Bible, I am amazed at how much it describes me: my heart, my sin, my foolishness, my pride, my need for forgiveness, my desire for something better than this messed - up world.

Neither did the candidate's recurring insistence that he would, without reservation, act on what is right for America and yet at the same time restore to the center of American policy maintenance of close relations with presumed allies» France, Germany, and Russia» whose desire to cooperate with American interests is less than obvious.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

At its best, this new concern with the spiritual life reflects a laudable desire to make Christian faith a matter of the heart no less than the head, a discipline of devotional practices rather than a repetition of doctrinal propositions.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

Rarely is this more obvious than at Christmastime, when even the most idealistic of us cave in to the relentless desire to buy, buy, buy.

While there are plenty of legitimate policy reasons that evangelicals might support Governor Romney, their willingness to overlook their desire for a coreligionist candidate may also have at least something to do with the fact that 24 % of them — higher than any other religious group — believe Obama is a Muslim, and even more are unaware (or unconvinced?)

In fact, a loving action sometimes is accompanied by no actual desire at all, other than the desire to do God's will and bless people.

John Piper, pastor for preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and author of more than 30 books, including «Desiring God.»

This basic unity is the justification for the present publication of the three books together — this and the desire to make the books available at a price lower than the combined price of the separate books.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

Let it be said at the start, therefore, that I have no desire to stigmatize or laud any type, but only to give as fair an appraisal as possible with the hope of seeing what can be learned from types other than our own.

youre looking at it from a human perswepctive.as if God was only human and human like qualities (ie being just based on feelings, rather than based on nature) God desires for us to be in eaven... to give us the best..

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

Racheal i understand how you feel there have been times i really felt lead to go in a particular direction for the Lord and then the doors were shut its crushing at the time and i felt very angry and disappointed.But he has other plans better than we could imagine but at the time we struggle because we do nt see it from his perspective he certainly cares more than we know.Something that encourages me is the verse psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.Tell the Lord you are angry and do nt understand but do nt shut him out its when we feel afraid angry or discouraged that we need to ask him to strengthen us as he wants to help us.regards brent

At this point on Earth with 7 billion people, coupled with a lack of food and resources to provide for everybody therein, perhaps it's not such a bad idea to let people submit to their respective desires rather than chastise them.

I'm not opposed to disciplining our sexual desires any more than I am opposed to keeping our food intake at a healthy level; but I really don't think that the draconian punishments are going to have the transformational affects that we are hoping for from grace.

Furthermore, if by way of preparation for the meeting, some preliminary reading has been done by the participants, if the leader lets them feel that they are not just «lecture - fodder» but part of the whole enterprise, and if there is insistence on something more than being at the «receiving - end,» the discussion and the questions and the desire for further exploration will almost inevitably follow.