Sentences with phrase «weak reasons for»

If Plato, Aristotle, Anselm, Leibniz, Newton, Kant, found weak reasons for believing in God, better reasons are now available.

Since the competition was rebranded back in 1992, no team has ever gone on to retain the Champions League title and while many may scoff at such a weak reason for this wonderful Barcelona side not to claim the crown, history does have a big say in Europe.

Not exact matches

Not the weak handed investors who might be in it for the wrong reasons, such as the price of coffee.

Unfortunately, while the Beer Festival's organizers may have been within their rights to establish rules of decorum for their event, the reasons offered by the event's organizers were weak ones.

The reason why the minimum wage does little for poverty is very simple — there is an incredibly weak correlation between a person's hourly wage and their family's monthly after - tax income.

This correlation is weak for a number of reasons:

Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of Norwegian, cited four main reasons for revising its guidance, including «continued weak demand from our core North American consumer for European sailings at a time when half of our fleet is deployed in the region, including eight of our highest yielding ships.»

After all, for years we've been subjected to a relentless assault on our civil liberties, with the War Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!»

Not acting could also make Obama look weak — which for some Americans may well be reason enough to be oppose action.

When they try to figure out why, they often conclude that there is favoritism for some unknown reason or that the supervisor or manager is weak.

Another reason is that the weak Canadian dollar makes it an especially economical destination for American travelers.

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

Mattel has pointed to that bankruptcy as a reason for weak sales.

For all the reasons listed above, the correlation between these two factors is actually very weak, as demonstrated by Tim Koller, Jack Murrin, and Thomas E. Copeland in Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (p. 80).

HCP still remains relatively weak for a variety of reasons and presents the best value (and risk) for potential returns today.

As with the other names mentioned a significant bounce in the health REIT space has occurred in the last month making many of the other health REITs less attractive than in days past, however, HCP still remains relatively weak for a variety of reasons and presents the best value (and risk) for potential returns.

Beijing probably needed to do this for good political reasons — I suspect that there are many who would have strongly opposed a very weak ending for the Hu - Wen period of government — but the longer they keep this up, the worse the overall adjustment will be, and it will be politics that determines how quickly they can return to a real rebalancing of the economy.

A third reason for the weaker than expected recovery likely lies in the interplay between secular and cyclical factors.

In the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not investing.

«I turn down many otherwise down attractive investments because of their weak balance sheets, and I believe that this discipline is a material reason for our success over the years.»

Though these times are frustrating for our shareholders — and, remember, that includes all of the portfolio managers — these periods of weak performance have been opportunities for additional investment rather than reasons to give up on our investment philosophy.

«One of the reasons why economic growth has been weaker in this expansion than others is a lack of government spending now I think that in the short - term negative in the long run I think a move in resources from the government sector to the private sector is positive but it takes a while for that to manifest itself in stronger overall GDP growth».

I tend to invest first and investigate later, so as I was doing due diligence, I realized my argument was for a short on Impinj was weak for the precise reason that commenters had mentioned on my article: strained apparel retailers were willing to invest in a technology that could optimize their inventory.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

A stable economy and unemployment rate coupled with an inflation overshoot would more than likely see the markets begin to price back in a May hike that should see the Pound recover to $ 1.40 levels, while weak numbers will be another reason for BoE to stand pat.

Alberta's constitutional position is weakest with respect to refined fuels for three reasons.

People who believe are weak minded and can not accept the fact there is not reason for anything, no loving omnipotent being who cares or anything after death.

I tend to agree with the notion of «moral compass» as her need for becoming a theist is a fairly weak reason to seek out God.

And what if, instead, there's a supreme being who says, «let me reward those who have used their human faculties, reasoning and intellect,» and to add the drama that you so love, «and let me punish for eternity those with weak will who blindly adopted the fantasties and fairy tales pushed upon them without ever questioning...» What do you do then???

[3][4] Reasons for this include its linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, possible allusions to 2nd - century gnosticism, encouragement in the wake of a delayed parousia, and weak external support.

Since reason is inherently fragile, however, these lay systems have proved to be weak, becoming easy prey for dictatorships.

Your arguments are played out and weak, Science is the reason for many new «analytical» Christians.

I suggested that perhaps the lifeboats on the Titanic point to a more general sense that the stronger in a dangerous situation are morally compelled to protect the weaker in a dangerous situation, and that mothers can be awfully protective of their children after all, and that a man who (for whatever reason) might be weaker than a woman in a given situation should not feel like less of a man if she protects him.

This is a very weak point for the reason that whether you live in a very bad neighbor hood or a very good neighbor hood, your own experience is very limited, as you pointed out to me when I said I have experienced no evil.

I may be alone with my thoughts but I feel much more comfortable than to be among high level primates singing together in a building that exists for no other reason than to take money from the weak and frightened so as to advance the wealth of a few, or one.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong... One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one can not have both.»

If we read carefully, we see that Paul is actually denouncing stipends, and for the same reason given in the case of meat consumption — that the strong should limit their freedom in order to avoid causing «scandal» for the weaker members.

Whereas the weak despairer will not hear about what comfort eternity has for him, so neither will such a despairer hear about it, but for a different reason, namely, because this comfort would be the destruction of him as an objection against the whole of existence.

Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame time and time again.We all have areas of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and when it goes well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz

Or it maybe that God could, like humans, coerce in the weaker sense but has decided never to do so for some reason.

We care because she gave up reason and logic for fantasy and wrongly defined herself as an Atheist (she might have been a weak Atheist but she was not a strong one or she's never have given up reality).

It gives the weak minded a reason to not take credit for their lives.

This is wrong for two reasons: We're all deserving of love exactly as we are and when we hide the things about ourselves we deem «undesirable,» we're building shaky relationships that eventually collapse due to the weak foundations they're built on.

Reason says that your position is weak for explanations given.

All great Christian writers assign considerable significance to such experience, Luther and Calvin as well as Teresa or John of the Cross, and for good reason, for without some experience, however humble, few people would be religious, particularly today now that the social pressure for actively belonging to a religious body has become so much weaker.

There are a lot of weak people who need something to believe in for some reason.

For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died» (1 Cor.

«The reason why some prayers are not answered may have nothing to do with what God wills or with how profound or weak a person's faith is, for in this passage Daniel prays with effective faith and God wills to answer him.»

The inability to give a satisfactory reason for the existence of beauty, goodness and love seems to me the weakest point of all forms of atheism.