Sentences with phrase «to make something of someone»

Why use our resources to manufacture something of lesser value when we could use them to make something of greater value?

The recapture rate of 60 percent during FY 2010 nearly matched the historic level seen in FY 2009.3 These loans continue to contribute insurance premiums to the MMI Fund and the lower monthly payments generally make them of lower risk than the loans they replace.

«I understood that just because I had gone to culinary school, that doesn't make me all of a suddenly know everything.

The covert nature of this influence makes it of greater danger to the future development of religious faith in America.

Jackson insists it's possible to make something of the scraps of 2017.

«I came with two pieces of luggage to New York, and I didn't know anyone, and I really started a business with no investors...,» Roth, who is originally from Germany, tells CNBC Make It of the IT business she founded, Matisia Consultants.

Whether you're a believer or not, new data now says friends will make you visit websites that may make you any of the above.

They tell people who are trying to make something of themselves, «Oh, don't do that.

What is it about your product that makes it of special interest and value to them?

Ms. Campbell's own history of questionable behaviour doesn't rob her critique of its force, but I guess it does make her something of an expert on the offering and timing of public apologies.

If you would quit social media, the blogosphere, the seminars, the coaching, and all the dopy business books entirely — not just consuming all that useless content but generating it, as well — you've actually got a decent chance of making something of yourself.

«I've been in this business long enough that nothing really surprises you,» Brandon Saszi, general manager of MotorCars of Georgia, tells CNBC Make It of bitcoin buyers.

I wanted to make something of my life.

Mobile technologies also help here as people can make us of teleconferencing.»

Crisis Economics is probably the most lucid and accessible attempt yet to place recent events into a global and historical context, exploring the deep structural roots that make it of a kind with other crises dating as far back as the 17th century.

Since the show was released, Clark has made something of a comeback.

But the bullying and name calling did little to quench the fire burning inside to make something of myself.

By making something of a pivot towards services, Apple is in an even better position than before.

Business accounts for up to one - third of all bachelor's degrees granted in the United States, and business majors learn a versatile set of skills, making them some of the best - paid alumni in PayScale's report.

Sandberg's book, the title of which fast pervaded the lexicon, made her something of a bellwether for feminists.

However, since the Brexit decision was announced the pound has made something of a recovery, even if it may not yet be back to pre-Brexit levels.

Whether it is technologies made by Samsung, Apple and Sony, or the wealth of information and videos made instantly available by Google and YouTube, these companies shape modern life and connect people from around the world, making them some of the most powerful global super brands.»

Both organisations exploit honest people struggling to make something of their lives.

The executives» senior positions in Facebook made them some of the few individuals who could potentially turn around the social networking site's views toward user data.

The executives» senior positions in Facebook made them some of the few people who could potentially turn around the social networking site's views toward user data.

This year, Asian coal demand, especially for steel production, made something of a recovery, while China and Australia reduced export volumes.

Israel managed to absorb the Sephardic Jews who were foced to leave Israel, and they have managed to make something of their lives.

But, ultimately, regardless of our perspective at any given time, we can trust that God gives us enough creativity and persistence and faith to make something of the situation regardless of what we see or don't see.

I shall also use the word «play» in a wide sense, to stand for an activity that, because it is not directed to the satisfaction of wants, entails an attitude to the world that is not concerned to use it, to get something out of it, or to make something of it, and offers satisfactions that are not at the same time frustrations.

God wants to make something of your life.

Its almost complete indifference to religious and moral disputes about economics in this country will make it of limited interest to American readers.

Paul writes in Philippians 2 that we should be like Christ, and I suppose we could say Mary and Joseph, for making themselves of no reputation, acting like a servant to everybody, and humbling themselves to the greatest extent possible.

Wan na make something of it?»

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

All three interlocutors attested that they had been raised by pious parents to respect the wealthy and to emulate «those who've made something of themselves through hard work» for the sakes of their «families and investors.»

Philippians 2 describes it beautifully: Christ, although he was «in the form of God... but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men.

I believe God made him of Mary's flesh.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

It was this aesthetic work of the primordial nature of God which he felt made it of supreme value and worthy of the name of «God.»

Nevertheless, I took what I was given and made something of it.

Within three weeks of its release, more than forty reviews appeared, causing Herberg to write, «It is obvious that the book is making something of a sensation.»

In Felix Holt (1866) the evangelical world makes something of a return, but with notably less success.

I've beaten myself with self - doubt and the pressures to make something of myself while struggling to understand what it means to actively wait on God's timing.

Jesus made himself of no repute when he willingly submitted himself to suffer violence on the cross to reveal God as infinite love.