Sentences with phrase «time as a favor»

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But The Irish Times editorialized in favor of attending, saying, «no matter how gratifying to our sense of moral superiority, a boycott will be seen as a lost opportunity for face time with the world's most important leader.»

In 1947 he founded the company that became the Olayan Group, which gained a reputation as a favored «local partner» — a requirement at the time for all foreign companies.

Bitcoin touched a fresh all - time high on Monday as the digital currency continued to gain favor with investors.

The Times reported that «in one early test, more than half the Oklahoma voters whom Cambridge had identified as Cruz supporters actually favored other candidates.»

«We were in this so - called golden age of banking, regulation had fallen out of favor and the F.D.I.C., which had a reputation as a tough regulator, had fallen on hard times.»

At the same time, I do not favor total discretion in which the monetary policy strategy is determined in an ad hoc fashion as we go along.

If you held Shares as a beneficial owner in «street name» at the close of business on April 10, 2015, you must obtain a legal proxy, executed in your favor, from the holder of record of those Shares as of that time, to be entitled to vote those Shares at the meeting.

Over time the funds typically decrease holding of stocks in favor of less volatile investments such as bonds, inflation - protected securities and the least volatile of them all — cash.

Personally, I favor the consumer staples the most for my long term portfolio as it offers many very defensive and stable long time dividend payers.

This list will change from time to time as stocks will fall in and out of favor.

As expected, the Fed raised interest rates at its December meeting, but for the first time in more than a year, two members of the rate - setting committee dissented, in favor of leaving monetary policy on hold.

Here are their current top positions and please keep in mind that they own multiple securities / asset classes in each name: - Chrysler - Delphi Corp - CIT Group - Dana Holding Corp - PHH Corp As you can see, there's a bunch of automotive names listed above and we highlighted back in August 2009 how Loeb favored select auto plays and obviously they've performed well over time.

Bitcoin Cash, with its faster transaction times and larger blocks, saw a spike in price just ahead of its introduction on Coinbase as altcoin traders dumped their bitcoins in favor of the newer version.

We are watching all of this play out real - time as fixed - income fund flows are broadly shunning sectors with embedded credit and / or duration risks, in favor of freshly attractive, and lower risk, high - carry assets.

im glad no - one believes in demons - the devil or god — and they try to rationalise everything — and discredit the bible — just shows me where we are at in the holy book — see if i remember, the end times come when «scorners and scoffers abound» when — wrong is called right and right is called wrong — and people would be married and given in marriage as in the daysd of noah --- sodom and gammorah had gay issues badly - im just gonna laugh and alaugh and laugh when ya «ll burn - do me a favor — at least read the bible once — see what it says before you — go against it.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

Let's review: From Quantum Diaries: Cause and effect went out of favor as a cornerstone of science about the time quantum mechanics was developed.

Romney, as a bishop, could NEVER stray from that, which (if you have ever taken the time to read or learn anything at all about Mormons) means he would favor LDS interests above the rest of us.

From Quantum Diaries: Cause and effect went out of favor as a cornerstone of science about the time quantum mechanics was developed.

Only time will allow more and more to openly admit to their atheism, and thankfully, as we grow as a nation and as a race, we will be able to discard religion in favor of rationality and reason.

Its author was born in Florence into a family of minor nobility, Guelph in its political alignment and thus siding with the popes in the city's political tensions (as opposed to Ghibellines, at the time mainly banished from Florence, who favored the imperial cause).

If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation — even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time — how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation?

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

And you really favored this explanation over you making a mistake the first time around even though you've proven in this paragraph alone that you are highly prone to error as is after having left our a crucial part of an experiment?

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

When a mornon kills a gentile, the mormon believes he / she will get more glory and be closer to the supreme god or what ever they call him, and if mittens can nuke russia and china, and they both return the favor, how much more glory can any mormon in history ever have??? Dan thinks Im nutso for thinking about this issue, as time has evolved mormons thinking as now they allow black people in where they never did before.

Q9) Do you as Christians and Atheists wish at times if you had a sperate state for each to live in, where each of you can do as they please as in their favorite way of living, where each can impose his own laws and beliefs, and would that mean accepting to live among the mass Races of that belief or rather would favor a state or county for each mass of Race within the same belief?

The way in which any child will differ from its parents will generally be small (such as eye color, height etc.) but, given enough time and enough generations, and provided some external element is selectively favoring specific traits, such as acute eyesight, the differences will add up.

As Nietzsche remarked, it will take time for the death of modernity to reach the awareness of those it favors.

In their indictment of war as waged in the time of the monarchy, the prophets charged that Israel had abandoned trust in Yahweh for the sake of trust in its own powers, and had abandoned Yahweh's goal of shalom for all in favor of the pursuit of prosperity and power for a few.

Logic and reason favor an agent outside of our known time space construct over an agent within our time space as to origin of time and space itself.

By sacrifice the gods could be at first won over to grant favors sought after; then as time went on, it became magical in its powers, and the gods themselves could not resist the prayer spell; indeed, what power they had they owed to the sacrifice.22 It became a matter of primary importance that the sacrifice be properly performed, for in this its efficacy rested.

It was that time when the popular favor and the exultation of the masses hailed you as the righteous one, do you remember that?»

It makes me shudder that every time we talk about money in our Bible study group, one person says «ah but are we not told to favor kith and kin, it does not surprise me that saying comes from our Germanic blood, as can be seen from the German chancellor Angela Mercoles attitude to Europe, lets not go there.

Trilling's stature, now «so reduced [as] to have become a joke to certain young critics who favor flippancy and lightness,» a ghostly flickering that haunts the poor souls condemned to wander the halls of the academy, reflects the state of criticism in our time.

Thus, the motion of the pendulum is taken as the standard, as a more suitable «approximation» to the uniform time flow of absolute time, and some physical explanation is then sought to account for the seasonal variation of the solar day relative to this standard.18 Were standards other than the pendulum chosen as operating «more uniformly,» then the pendulum would be abandoned in favor of a «more uniform approximation» to absolute time.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

Beginning with a god who walked in a garden in the cool of the day or who showed his back to Moses as a special favor, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time» (John 1:18.)

In accepting their advantage, paid - time broadcasters have also acted selfishly, ignoring the interests of the community as a whole in favor of their own particular interests.

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

Because the paid - time broadcasters» emphasis on competitiveness has coincided with the same stress in the television industry as a whole, they have been favored.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby (Gen 18:2 NIV)»... Furthermore, there is a good reason to study the old Orient, the rituals and cultures of the Middel East, especially at that time,,, i myself being Half Egyptian and having been raised there, am blessed with this foreknowledge for certain things that are still the same way now as they were at th etime of Jesus and earlier,,, where Men kiss to greet one another for example,,, so when King David talks about the love of Jonathan being greater than that of a woman,,, and at the same time knowing that the Hebrew litreature (as the Arabian culture to quite an extent still is) was very poetic and used éndless symbols and parabels to express an idea,,, one might do himself a favor not jumping to conclusions which satisfy only his very own ideas and thoughts,,, the biggest problem with Bible interpretations lately is Verses ripped out of the context and interpreted in such a way that has nothing to do with its original context... «To the law and to the testimony!

Spelt is a species of wheat much more common in ancient and medieval times but newly popular as some people look to explore older varieties of common foodstuffs and others feel that health benefits may accrue from avoiding some varieties of wheat in favor of others.

The next time she came over (shocking, to do me another favor) I made this «dip» as a thank you.

This is the 13th time in NFL history where a team has been favored by two - or - more touchdowns in the playoffs, with the most recent being the 2016 Patriots as 16 - point favorites over the Houston Texans.

By race time, Porsche, with the four three - liter, 320 - horsepower cars, and nine other privately owned 2.2 - and two - liter starters, was heavily favored and the race began for them just as the season had in Florida.

So not so many options for the top clubs, I suggest he signs the thing and stop being so sad all the time as though his doing as a favor being here.

Theo has not been given enough time in the middle due to unnecessary pressure created from the fans when he failed to perform in few matches provided and the manager responded in favor of the fans, but for me he needed enough matches as a ST before his judgement.

Despite public betting favoring the Bronx Bombers, New York has dropped to -101 and the Red Sox are listed as -107 favorites at the time of publication.

The Jags opened as 8.5 - point favorites at Pinnacle against the Colts, which is the first time they've been favored by more than eight points since they closed -9 against the Bills on Nov. 22, 2009.