Sentences with phrase «which meet points»

Not exact matches

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

When Emily first told Marge of her intuition, which she'd realized had been present at so many points in her life, including meeting her husband, she said that Marge told her of the house's history of being handed down from fortune tellers to psychics, beginning in the early 1900s.

Which of their needs does your product or service meet, and at what point will it meet that need during a customer's life?

Not only did he help us lay out a plan (which allowed us to meet year - end tax obligations), he pointed out several other items on our return where we had been missing out on an opportunity to save.

WorldWise, for instance, makes a point of using only U.S. manufacturers, which it can visit to ensure that they meet its standards; proximity to customers also means energy savings and less pollution.

Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by sticking to a strict, bullet - pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.

It's called «amplification,» which is when women's key points are listened to and repeated in meetings, giving credit to who came up with the idea.

As Michael Calderone at Huffington Post has pointed out, however, Labott has expressed political opinions before on Twitter, including one case in which she said that President Obama was «whining about criticism» at the G - 20 summit meeting.

A September 23, 2016 Yahoo News article by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff said Page met with Sechin during the trip, at which point Sechin reportedly raised the possibility of lifting US sanctions on Russia if Trump became president.

Separately, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which also will be meeting the same days as the Fed (Sept. 20 — 21), may be on the verge of abandoning its negative interest rate policy at some point — but likely not soon.

The Ink Business Preferred carries a $ 95 annual fee, which it more than makes up for with its ridiculously tempting sign - up bonus: 80,000 bonus points when you meet the $ 5,000 spending minimum in the first 3 months from account opening.

We'll learn more about which technologies are acquiring users the fastest and meeting real pain points.

This has recently been exemplified by the apparent influence of Daniel Loeb, from the hedge fund Third Point, on the leadership of Seven & i Holdings («the Company»), which holds its annual general meeting on Thursday, May 26.

Reflecting indications that US economic growth remains robust and concerns that inflationary pressures may be building, markets are now expecting the federal funds rate to reach 3 1/4 per cent by August, which implies 25 basis point increases at three of the next four FOMC meetings (Graph 17).

I was able to talk to you in detail about the topic of interest and doubts related to investing which was a great + point of meeting you in person.

I recall one meeting at which an older pastor chided him for that, after Richard, still a little wet behind the ears, had rebutted the man's views on some point.

@phot, agreed, but my point is that the area in which they lack integrity may be fairly small and limited, and almost everyone I've met has such areas.

«You try to have a rational conversation with him in which you carefully explain, point by point, how the Bible reveals that hom.ose.xuality is abhorrent and dangerous, and his eyes just glaze over,» said neighbor Alex Richardson, who told reporters he has never met anyone in his life so resistant to facts that contradicted his preconceived ideas.

My account was based on conversations with most of the Anglicans involved and — more to the point — on the minutes of the meetings, which had been leaked to me by more than one participant.

Such examples could obviously be multiplied many times; there are many human occupations which exist in practical isolation from the rest of the community, and in the absence of a common faith there is today no effective meeting point.

In the evening of the same day this sermon was the subject of a discussion in the B.B.C.'s program, «Meeting Point», in which I was questioned by some members of the morning congregation under the chairmanship of Canon W. E. Purcell, editor of this Dialogue, and at that time the Religious Broadcasting Organizer for the Midland Region of the B.B.C..

Although I have my personal belief regarding these things here, as long as I can not offer watertight Scriptural evidence for my confidence, I can only copy and paste some verses which could point to the fact that God meets every human being twice or even three times during his lifetime in order to show him the way he should go and to bring him to repentance.

Love is the force which welds a relationship at its points of meeting.

Rising in the highlands of Armenia and fed by mountain snows, they flow southeasterly to meet at a point seventy miles from the Persian Gulf, to which they carry much silt.

The point at which this criterion is met is a judgment call.

In the history of the building and unbuilding of these structures — particularly the most massive projects such as Columbia Point in Boston or the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago — one can read the story of the anemic American welfare state and the profound unease with which we have met the plight of the poor.

The small nature of private colleges tends to create groups in which students can meet and engage with people from diverse points of view, simply because class sizes tend to be so small.

The EA had already written to Oasis following a council meeting in September 2013, asking them to include on their website resources which put across the «traditional evangelical» point of view regarding homosexuality.

The antithesis of either God objective and apart from us or else God subjective and a part of us needs to be overcome in the higher and deeper synthesis towards which Professor Buber points with his emphasis on the I - Thou relationship of meeting.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

The real conflict for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

Mystics of all faiths point us to the true place of meeting which is in the presence of God, where comparisons become if not odious at least irrelevant, as the mystics sense the Divine Mystery, who is both the source and sustainer of all life and the most intimate presence in the heart and life of the believer.

It is this close unity of the Mediterranean ecology, which was in mind when Boissevain pointed out in his review of the book, The People of the Mediterranean, that it is more than just a place of meeting, trading and war.

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

which seems to be the point of religion — being a part of a group to have your social needs met because in reality God does not socialize / communicate with anyone or tell anyone what to do.

Apparently plenty, as Warren's speech — which he said he wrote from scratch the night before after yesterday's speakers covered his previously prepared main points — was «probably the first time ever the synod hall resembled a revivalist meeting,» tweeted David Quinn, an Irish Catholic columnist.

Like so many things in God's Word that appear at first to be contradictory — they are just a tension — finding the point at which they meet may be where God wants us to live.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

We have looked at the testimony of Paul, whose first - hand witness meets the historical tests, but we have found a view of resurrection which points away from the raising of a physical body to that of a spiritual body.

These include a fantastic sequence in which Scout and Jem and Dill play the main parts of a revivalist meeting that culminates in Dill's grandly appearing as nothing less than the Holy Ghost, but not before the children have a pointed argument about denominational differences — Methodist vs. Baptist — and related liturgical practices (how's that for dating the novel?).

So there's this whole level of subtlety and nuance, and I would argue like the book of Judges, which is just Game of Thrones meets a David Cronenberg film, I would argue that's the editor's point.

The New Testament meets the problem of our guilt at a point which these theories all tend to miss, the personal experience of forgiveness.

The limitation on this point, however, is that people do have the spontaneous ability to fit within the overall harmonies in ways that minimally harmonize, that barely meet the categoreal obligations; the price paid for this diminution of one's rhythmic answer to nature's pulses is the necessity to erect a barrier of a narcissistic image of self and world to which one answers instead.

The Protestant will regard specific norms, in the moral sphere, even in the form in which they appear in scripture, rather as a sort of sign - post pointing out the way to meet and endure the ever new situations of the personal life of faith, with a critical attitude towards oneself and one's hidden sinfulness.

But the point is that it includes an element which is not thought, and it is this which meets us in primitive sense - awareness.

Preached in St Martin's, Birmingham Parish Church, at a televised Communion Service on Easter Day, April 18th, 1965, this sermon formed the basis of the discussion which was to follow that evening in the programme Meeting Point on B.B.C. 1.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

He must concentrate on the aspect of the gospel which may meet the needs and illuminate the situation of his hearers, showing, from this initial point of contact, how the Lord whom we preach brings help to those who know themselves to be in need of God's grace and how it may bring them into that wholeness of life which it is Christ's will and the Church's responsibility to make available for all the sons of men.

I saw someone from Ahalogy that I wanted to meet up with at some point, and then I got sidetracked, which is the story of my life;) I hope you had a good time!