Sentences with phrase «were they meant to do»

Consider this your «I've been meaning to do» list.

Rawlings had always felt that there was something out there he was meant to do, something bigger.

«What it's meant to do is... just to make sure that the work stoppage is not going to affect the health and safety of the public....

Maybe we're meant to do things that scare us so we can build greatness in ourselves.

But early supporters of the new savings tool are already losing hope it will do what it was meant to do: broaden workplace pensions beyond the 39 % of Canadian employees who have them now.

So, it wasn't as much a decision to become an entrepreneur as it was just a realization that is what I was meant to do.

«But I can tell that I'm doing what I'm meant to do right now.

Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do, has some more unusual suggestions.

Invest in that renovation you've been meaning to do for months.

«Does my product do what it's meant to do?»

Opinion: The Kinder Morgan pipeline battle doesn't represent a failure of democracy, federalism, or the rule of law — it's the system doing what it's meant to do

But all these policies were meant to do is to buy time — and time is running out.

Is it the work you are meant to do?

We're not going to dive into an in - depth analysis of the algorithm here, but we will briefly touch on what the News Feed algorithm is meant to do.

I struggled with a church body paying my wages to do what it was I believed (and still do believe) I was meant to do... PASTOR people.

Goff practiced law for 30 years, but when he visited Uganda 16 years ago, he realized what he was meant to do.

Nothing should escape rational investigation — this is what we are meant to do and doing what we are meant to do brings pleasure - even if, after 200 pages in the realms of «rational pleasure», we may want to find stronger words to describe what the amazing coherence of Catholicism inspires.

But here is the thing that I believe: we need to do the work we were meant to do in order to be who we were meant to be.

This work that you've midwifed is about to head out into the wild to do what it was meant to do or needs to do.

I'm better everything when I'm doing the work I was meant to do, however humble or unimportant that work is to anyone else.

At each step it felt exactly right — like God was leading me, like I could trust the people sharing the faith with me, like worshipping God was something I was meant to do.

All verses like this and Matthew 5:28 (where Jesus talks about adultery in a similarly harsh manner, are meant to do is point us straight to verses of Paul's such as Romans 3:23 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9: it's the evidence Jesus provides that, no matter what, even if we never murder a single person or in any way commit adultery, we're nothing without Him... and, oh, yeah, it's the meter that shows us who we are and why we need Him, and only Him (John 14:6), to get to heaven.

The individual will then probably grow and mature as people are meant to do.

The church's song also reminds the world that voices are meant to do other than just talk.

I just think they ought to do what they were meant to do and stop trying to take over.

I find that space between striving and resting where my mind is active and my hands are doing what they were meant to do and something that wasn't there before is taking shape.

The clock up there on the wall is making art; it's doing what it's meant to do.

@ u is ignorant: It is meant to do both, since they are the same thing.

And there is this — if you let the clock do what it is meant to do?

I have read and heard some visionaries talk about how you can know what you are meant to do by asking yourself the question, «If money were no object, and failure was impossible, what would you do?»

It was nice to see a church portrayed sympathetically, doing what it is meant to do — absorbing dysfunction without judgment, accepting those who would not normally be accepted (like a delusional loner and his sex doll), seeing people through hard times, and loving unconditionally.

I don't personally believe in organized religion, but this is what religion is meant to do - to comfort those in times of need.

Intersectional scholars proudly proclaim their goal: to smash the neoliberal, corporate, heteropatriarchal academy and then to reinvent it in a way that rejects traditional notions about what universities are meant to do.

Science merely does what it is meant to do... investigate and test theories.

This may seem unrelated, but I've been meaning to do this for awhile.

The shadow of a larger apocalypse hangs over the narrative as well since, whatever the experiments were meant to do, they seem to have created the possibility of a world - ending cataclysm.

In the end, whether it's visiting with local farmers, adding new products or teaming with other distributors Stern says each function is meant to do one thing.

I am so glad you made this post as I will be travelling to NY alone this summer and I have been meaning to do some research on healthy plant - based food places, so you just made my job a little easier

Ever since I made Meyer lemon cookies, which are still some of my favorites, a while back, I have been meaning to do more with Meyer lemons.

B: Shredded Spoonfuls L: steak salad D: homemade pizza (margarita, chicken sausage and veggies, cheese) I've been meaning to do a whole post on homemade pizza.

You know how sometimes things just happen that lead you to do something, and you know you were meant to do that thing all along?

I've been meaning to do this research myself, so thanks for saving me the trouble and delivering it to my inbox, lol.

This is something I've been meaning to do for years.

Light and airy, it does just what pastry flour is meant to do: surround the cold butter in a recipe smoothly, and then puff effortlessly when the cold butter hits the heat of the oven and gives off steam.

Been meaning to do this for a while.

I've been meaning to do more baking and I'm all about the unconventional!

I've been meaning to do a walnut crust and now that I have your easy and awesome recipe, I'm certainly going to try it!

I've been meaning to do a raw cheesecake of some sort but this just inspired me to incorporate raspeberries, I love the way their tartness contrasts with sweet, sweet chocolate..

I've been meaning to do a special recipe with my favorite Lilikoi curd, and today is the day.

I've never been surer that I'm doing what I'm meant to do, and almost every morning I wake up with a skip in my step and a smile on my face.