Sentences with phrase «which great ends»

They do not see it as a fixed entity, already made and finished; for them the creation is a directed movement in which novelty occurs, in which the unexpected may and indeed often does happen, and in which great ends are in process of achievement.

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Before it was turned into a movie, (which was great in some scenes, painful in others) Ender's Game was an absolutely amazing book.

The real focus has been on Réno - Dépôt, one of the company's banners in Quebec, which expanded its seasonal merchandise and put a greater emphasis on big - ticket, high - end products.

And in a joint letter to the SEC, three executives at T. Rowe Price, which is listed on Nasdaq and manages $ 860 billion in assets, said an increase in competition at the end of the trading day would come at a great cost.

Levitt got a tremendous laugh from the audience, which, I imagine, was worth a great deal more than the extra cash he ended up paying for doling out unsolicited pricing advice.

«At the low end there is Skype and Google Hangouts, which is great, but the quality is not that good.

Enron, which ended in perhaps the most spectacular disaster in U.S. corporate history, had a great set of core values.

He eased it at the end of December for eligible family members and announced the expansion of the Expanded Professional Associates Program, which provided bureaus with greater placement flexibility.

If you find out your great logo can't be reproduced on a sign, you'll have to go back to square one and rethink your logo, which will end up costing you more in the long run.

The National Retail Foundation reported that sales reached $ 691.9 billion in November and December, which surpassed projections and marked the biggest year - over-year increase since the end of the Great Recession.

The memorandum, and as yet undisclosed similar directives to various locales over which the NLRB has jurisdiction, have provoked a firestorm of outrage from businesses and business groups that say the memo spells the end of franchising, and represents an uneasy encroachment of greater federal regulation into business life.

And through the end of the quarter, the fund has already collected over $ 225 million from interest, principal and asset resolutions at levels significantly higher and sooner than originally anticipated, as well as from a groundbreaking nonperforming loan securitization, which has received a great deal of industry attention.

«The free trade, or freer trade, that we've had since the end of the Second World War has been the great engine which has lifted up literally hundreds of millions of people out of poverty — far more than any aid programs,» Hufbauer says.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great Recession, and the number of jobs grew by about 200,000 a month.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great...

Markets are now pricing that close to 20 billion more dollars will come out of Puerto Rico to investors than they were at the end of 2017, following Puerto Rico's own government, which is inexplicably projecting a substantially greater ability to repay debt today than before the hurricane.

The end goal is for us to move back to Vancouver in 10 years or so, and have little - to - no mortgage left — which will land us in a great financial position to afford a home, no matter what the housing landscape looks like then.

Black Tuesday signaled the end of a period of post-World War I economic expansion and the beginning of the Great Depression, which lasted until the beginning of World War II.

Barry Ritholtz was having a great conversation with Scott Galloway at the end of last year which I believe proffers the best answer:

And to date, little about the past few years of hyper - appreciation in real estate prices — greater than that of Bubble 1.0 — has little to do with fundamental, end - user, shelter - buyer demand for houses «in which to live».

iPhones now encrypt a great deal of personal information; hard drives on Mac and Windows 8.1 computers are now automatically locked down; even Facebook, which made a fortune on open sharing, is providing end - to - end encryption in the chat tool WhatsApp.

I think that the cross is the great point at which all the suffering, sorrow, torture and sin and all that yuck of the world ends up on God's shoulders out of love for us.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

«the survival of a great civilisation depends upon the vitality of those basic convictions, and generally accepted ideals which shape the ends of the society they inform.

This tends to attract lots of crowds, and even generates lots of new believers, which is great, but ends up allowing most of these new believers to remain in relative immaturity.

It calls back to Don's great pitch for the Kodak Carousel, which ended Season One.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

The two religious festivals sanctioned by Islam and observed by the Sunnis are the Id al - Fitr, the Little Festival, which comes at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting, and the Id al - Adha, the Great Festival, which comes after the pilgrimage.

This history was to find its fulfillment in an even greater victory at the end - time when all nations would be blessed through Israel in a Kingdom in which righteousness, peace, and prosperity reigned supreme.

The great advance which had made Christianity the formal faith of the most populous cultural center on the globe was followed by a long period of decline which for a time seemed to presage the end of the influence of Jesus.

On this basis existentialist philosophers revolted against the deterministic philosophical theories which dominated a great deal of thought at the end of the nineteenth century.

Yet even simplicity's great sponsor Thomas Aquinas had a concept of eternal law, which opens the door to the possibility that there is a law common to God and creatures and that God submits to a law that is, in the end, the definitive expression of his own character.

Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.

God arranges the encounter, «seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations shall be blessed in him,» and reveals for the first time His true interest in Abraham: «For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the ways of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice: to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him» (18:17 — 19; emphasis added).

«Pleased be advised,» he goes on, «that all such unworthy attempts will fail to intimidate Southern Baptists from fulfilling the task assigned by Jesus in the Great Commission to [carry] the life - transforming gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the world, of which Chicago remains a vital part.»

On Sharon's northern border, near the western end of the great Plain of Esdraelon which stretches southeast from the Mediterranean to the Jordan Valley, stands Mount Carmel where the prophet Elijah had his famous contest with the priests of Baal.

But these things pale beside the spectacle of that great journey to Poland, in which he gave the Poles, and through them many millions of the rest of us, an infusion of hope that we would see the end of a dark and shameful chapter in a shameful, shameful century.

At the end of the Great Tribulation the scriptural armies of Gog and Magog — which everyone knew to be the Soviet Union and China — would attack the comparatively defenseless state of Israel.

At the end of our corporate lives all the Marys fuse into their energy sources, the great X out of which everything comes.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

The Gospels end with the resurrection of Jesus; and it needs no great penetration to see that their whole story is leading up to this conclusion, which alone gives meaning to it.

This becomes a never - ending cycle of publishing and speaking which can become a great career!

That work which is our great end must be done, whatever be left undone.

If, for instance, you try to use capitalism to promote greater equality of wealth by imposing on it a steeply progressive, redistributive system of taxation, you frustrate the way in which it rewards its chief dynamic force, the acquisitive impulse, and you are liable to end by making everyone poorer.

Theological education thus ends up being inadequate to a great many construals of the Christian thing that have not been privileged, and is also inadequate to a great many «worlds» in which the faith is actually lived.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

For myself, I agree with what Whitehead remarked in the quotation at the end of this chapter: the question is reduced to a state of irrelevancy when we come to understand that the greater glory of God (which is God's continuing activity in love, not proud assertion of the divine self) is the goal giving its profound significance to what goes on in the world.

no no no, i first engage them in a conversation... normally ending badly due to them not liking my choice of argument or tools i use in a conversation over belief... so in short i am norally the one insulted and left to think... which i believe is the same way children act when they hear the word «NO»... but i have had some great conversations with people over religion, its just a rare thing.