Sentences with phrase «took lowly»

To take that comparison a step further, is there really any difference between the way VW packaged and marketed its pollution - spewing cars to regulators and customers as «clean,» and the way financial dark wizards took lowly subprime mortgages and prettied them up for sale as Triple - A high quality securities to gullible investors?

However, in some instances, important questions about what to teach has taken a lowly position in educational discussions.

Being a UC Irvine graduate I always find it really exciting to take my lowly ranked basketball team from the bowls of the Big West and hope to take on the likes of UCLA or North Carolina in the big tournament.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping started his anticorruption drive last year, promising to take down powerful «tigers» and lowly «flies» alike.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

And then I read — I think it's in Luke — Jesus says, «Take my yoke and learn from me, for I am lowly and humble in spirit, and with me you'll find rest for your souls.»

The clown takes the place of the lowest of the low, and the fool mistakes dried peas for pearls, so that the integrity and worth of every person, thing and moment — however lowly — may be defended and become the object of special wonder and delight.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

As you do so, think about taking a moment to make this «lowly, precious, and pure» gift available to others: Donate to World Vision, charity: water, or another organization working to provide clean and healthy water to the world.

That was the meaning of the saying, «Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls» (Matt.

So, on World Water Day, take a moment to meditate on the words attributed to St. Francis of Assisi: «All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Water, so useful, lowly, precious and pure.»

Again and again it takes the side of the lowly.

«19 When one is too busy to help in the lowliest of services, one is guilty of taking a career too seriously.

We would do well to look toward a different tree: not that of the knowledge of good and evil, falsely tempting us with a leap toward divine independence, but the tree that was built into a cross, on which God in lowly human flesh took the penalty for human sin and evil.

I took them to work and they were gobbled up while the lowly, gluten filled cinnamon buns were completely ignored lol.

A Good performance from all the players.no team is easy to beat at this closing stage of the league: If a half goal exists in the game of football and guarantees 3points, I had take a half goal and 3points against any opponent no matter how lowly placed.

With the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take a valuable half - point away from lowly Seattle, six out of ten spread bets are confident the «Boys can bounce back at home to take down the moribund «Hawks by nearly two TDs.

AC Milan take on lowly Hellas Verona in what could prove to be a decisive game for the future of AC Milan legend turned manager Filippo Inzaghi.

where is this sam who gave us an article with «we are going to take all the three points against a lowly swansea.?»

Meanwhile over in Slovenia, Theo Walcott was trying to prove that his recall to the England side was deserved after a brilliant start to the season for Arsenal, but he seemed to have reverted to his form of last season, and looked totally out of his depth against the lowly Slovenian side and was taken off after an hour.

A poor Conversion Ratio of goals scored from shots taken puts us at a lowly 5th position in the League and gives us a clue to what is our main weakness and why we came up short in the title race.

Then you take into account that youre talking about the «Vaunted» Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, no way are they going to share half their stadium celebrating the history of the lowly Mets.

So far our lowly position can be put down to a failure to take a point from stoke city a game we dominated.

The lowly walk - on is a special breed of player who supposedly doesn't have what it takes to make the varsity but more and more is rising to the top of the depth chart

Jack Wilshere has been at Arsenal since he was a young boy, but after many years of injury problems he has finally taken the plunge and moved to lowly Bournemouth to try and regain his match fitness and the form he showed for Arsenal as a youngster.

Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has confessed that the club has lost their fear factor as they gear up to take on lowly Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup on Monday night, according to The Sun.

However, after suffering a bitter defeat in the final seconds against New England last week, the Cowboys seem poised to take out their frustration and show no mercy against the lowly Rams.

Same campbell whom wenger hates and rates so lowly......... To take up the welbeck mantle.......

Given their lowly ATS ways this season, just 29 % of bettors are taking them, but there has been some huge reverse line movement, thanks to a large disparity of dollars and several bet signals.

Sven Goran Eriksson, who had taken over as coach in 1984, came close to landing a third Scudetto for Roma during the 1985 - 86 season but his side came unstuck in the penultimate league fixture of the season against lowly Lecce.

One of the Premier League's most iconic fixtures takes place at the Sports Direct Arena on Wednesday night, otherwise known as St James» Park, with out - of - form Newcastle welcoming the defending champions to Tyneside, Manchester United, who were left stunned at the weekend by lowly Blackburn.

AC Milans hopes of qualifying for the Champions League took a hit on Sunday as they settled for a 1 - 1 draw at the San Siro against lowly Sassuolo.

Despite the UK fairing well on indicators including per capita spend on childcare, taken together across all 10 indicators, the UK comes a lowly 18th out of 21 countries, with only Japan, Austria and Switzerland being less «family - friendly.»

Its been a long time since then and it didn't take long as a lowly labor nurse before I realized how I had risked my baby's health.

Instead they come to the table with two different experiences of the transition to parenthood: a mother who has paid maternity leave, a father with two weeks» paternity leave — which he often will not take because it is so lowly paid.

In a little more than a year, Schneiderman, the lone holdout, had been transformed from a lowly state senator to a nationally prominent progressive standard - bearer, broadly seen as pushing Obama and the Democrats to take on Wall Street.

Written as a follow - on from Stindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie, which describes the sexual liaison between a lowly footman and an aristocrat, the play is a contemporary take on the reality of a relationship blighted by outlooks moulded by class.

Biologists have taken another whack at the human ego, showing that our brain's cerebral cortex — the seat of higher thought — is eerily similar to a clump of neurons inside the head of the lowly marine ragworm.

Now a team of microbiologists says that cheating could even take place among the lowliest of social slime.

In fact, these lowly forage species are so essential to the health of marine ecosystems that some people are taking extra steps to protect them — especially as the global demand for seafood soars.

She's definitely not taking a dump but she still scores 7.5 for embarrassment, 7.5 for concentration, 5 for anticipation and a lowly 3 for The Final Love Report.

Things pick up again around the one - hour mark, when Little Girl takes flight herself in Aviator's plane and ends up in a topsy - turvy alterna - universe where grown - ups rule the roost and the now - adolescent Prince (Paul Rudd) toils as a lowly nobody, having himself forgotten who he really is.

Who: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, James D'Arcy and Sean Bean What: A lowly caretaker who is actually intergalactic royalty teams up with a genetically engineered warrior to stop a tyrant from taking control of Earth.

Victor Frankenstein takes place in 19th century England, where a nameless, hunched - over young man (Daniel Radcliffe) spends his free time studying and learning about human anatomy - when he's not performing as a lowly circus clown and being cruelly mocked by his peers (both inside and outside the ring).

For Bay State policymakers to follow England's lead in education would be like the Red Sox taking coaching tips from the lowly Kansas City Royals.

OUR TAKE: There is a lot to like on this SE - R Spec V. Power from the high - output four - cylinder is plentiful with decent torque compared to the Honda Civic Si's lowly 139 lb - ft.

Of the lowly number of cars built, around 30 - 35 cars total, quite a few have been lost, raced, crashed, taken apart etc, and the ones that have survived are often in different configuration to how they were built.

Only here, however, the car doesn't fare as well: yes, it's a much nicer place to spend longer journeys in when compared with older Infinitis, and we especially love the dual - screen multimedia interface on the center console, but there are a few too many cheap plastics and trim pieces taken from lowly Nissan models for our liking.

Also, large publishers take complete control of books away from the lowly author.

Taber, whose 2005 bestseller Judgment of Paris detailed the crucial 1976 victory of California's Stag's Leap and Chateau Montelena wines over their French rivals, takes a widely researched (as per the subtitle) but highly entertaining tale about how the issue of cork spoilage has roiled the winemaking industry and lifted the once lowly screwtop and other non-cork options to at least relative respectability.