Sentences with phrase «than the pride of»

Deloitte isn't rewarding employees with more than the pride of earning a badge, but it is looking into furthering the incentives.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

This time, I am with the boys (now aged two - and - a-half and four years) on the Brittany Ferries «Cap Finistere — a more salubrious vessel than the Pride of Bilbao, which had been withdrawn from service a month earlier.

For incredible snorkeling at Molokini Crater, look no further than Pride of Maui.

These decisions become an issue of return on investment rather than pride of ownership if the assumption that appreciation will cover the cost of maintenance and upgrades is no longer valid.

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Six feet tall with the proportions of an action figure, Dave Dahl has arms thicker than most people's legs, a snowplow of a jaw, long hair and a chest that looks overstuffed with pride.

G, a global operator with more than 1,300 staffers, prides itself on its culture of innovation, which Poon Tip believes rigid HR processes hamper.

Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups.

In its decade and a half of existence, it has grown from two to more than 250 employees and prides itself on combining the attention of a small company with the capabilities of a large one.

Rather than expanding locally, Farley simply opened offices wherever prospective employees happened to live, which is why Pride's non-New England locations are in the random states of Washington, Nevada, Florida, and California.

Conversely, a culture of «no - ego doers,» or a culture that focuses more on the craft than on the glory, tends to be one that invites candor, collaboration, and a sincere sense of pride for other team members.

Companies are running leaner than ever, and because of that VCs are more willing to invest in companies who don't pride themselves on their burn rate.

With fewer than 20 employees, Miller Value Partners is a small fraction of what Miller once ruled at Legg Mason, but he beams with pride as he shows a visitor the view of Baltimore's skyline from one window.

At BetKing, we pride ourselves on offering fast and secure transactions, with deposits on our site being faster than you will find with any other type of currency, or deposit method.

To find her, Pride had to trawl through hundreds of advertisements on Backpage.com, a site that in 2012, the last date for which stats are available, was hosting more than 70 per cent of the US market for online sex ads.

From our head office associates to our associates in store, more than 85,000 of us carry that name with pride.

«One of the web's original link builders, Eric prides himself on working with only the best content — if your content is top notch and serves a greater cause than simply business, Eric is a promotion and link building guru with contacts that would make the New York Times envious» — Rand Fishkin — seomoz

More than 50 Deaf baristas received green aprons with «Starbucks» embroidered in ASL fingerspelling to serve as a visual communications cue for customers and a point of Deaf cultural pride.

Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.God speak of these thing occurring in our day.

Just wait till you come here, we do more than what you've seen of clips from gay pride parades.

The Scriptures held pride of place in this matrix but in a conjunctive rather than disjunctive mode.

The most painful part of the process, though, was when friends and well - meaning mentors dismissed my questions as silly, or, even worse, questioned whether my doubt was nothing more than an attempt to justify some sort of secret sin in my life, usually pride.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

After all, my Bible talks more about the sins of not caring for the poor and orphans of our communities, about our pride, about idolatry, than it does about homosexuality, yet I can't see a lot of to - scale «truth - telling» on those topics.

It was pride on my part that stopped me entering into that deeper walk i wanted to do it in my strength but we can not the more we walk according to the flesh the more of a foothold the enemy has on us so we struggle.When we crucify the flesh and the works of the flesh and draw closer to God and rely on him we become as he is and that is who we are called to be.So we do not fail but continue to overcome in his strength not looking to the flesh at all but to Christ.You and i were called to be overcomers more than conquerers.May the Lord continue to strengthen you in your walk and faith as you grow in him.Your brother in Christ brentnz

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

He came with a sense of individual worth and personal pride for the lowliest of the low — for who could be lower than Charlie?

Gay pride means making sure that the next generation has an easier time in school than they did, having families more accepting of their sexual orientation and gender identity than families in the past.

God destroyed the first earth age due to satan's pride wanting to bigger and better than God and took 1/3 of His angels with Him.

It reveals how completely the church has been ruled by the pride and opinion of men rather than by the Holy Spirit.

It shows how completely the pride and opinion of men, rather than the Holy Spirit, rule in the consciousness of Christian people.

Though self - giving does sometimes mean denying my own wants (most of the time, when my children are sick), it often means living like a hedonist, drinking deep of what others offer me rather than refusing out of fear (because I don't want to feel controlled) or pride (because I always want to be the one who gives).

This attitude shows how completely the pride and opinion of men, rather than the Holy Spirit, rule in the consciousness of Christian people.

Not only is the widespread emphasis on winning over others less than Christian, argues the writer, but even the concept of «doing one's best» is easily perverted into workaholism and pride.

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

Dr. John Bennett remarks in his discussion of the Gospel record that the recorded words of judgment spoken by Jesus against the faithless generation, the exploiting groups, and the pride of the «righteous» are more prominent than the words of forgiveness.6

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3) having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self - control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4) betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5) having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

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

«Physician heal yourself» (Lk 4, 23) quoted here is no more than a cynical attempt to manipulate the local carpenter for the sake of civic pride.

2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self - control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

I think one part of this came out of the strict religious traditions that highlighted hypocrisy, exhibited pride in self - ability to carry out religious ordinances or «procedures», and were founded in mere tradition rather than from some higher power or actual scriptural foundation.

The sins of... pride and self satisfaction, are more deadly... than the sins of the flesh ever were, or can be.»

That means, of course, that he's only a Republican when he feels like it, plays to the press more than Republican voters, and prides himself in being too classy to attack Obama.

Intellectual pride is more productive of evil than the simpler will - to - power.

Nevertheless, human pride being what it is, some exponents of this prophetic social gospel seemed to lay more stress on the human builders than on the activity of God in the process.

Secondly, genuine freedom is the will to truth, because this frees every man from those interior dangers which threaten freedom more than all external restrictions, the dangers of one's own shortsightedness, of pride and a blinding egoism.

If either moral pride or the spirit of rationalism... persuades us to establish a direct congruity between our good fortune and our virtue or our skill, we will inevitably claim more for our contribution to our prosperity than the facts warrant.

While pride attempts to identify the self with spirit, sensuality attempts to identify the self with nature.22 Sensuality is a more apparent form of anarchy than selfish pride.