Sentences with phrase «with at least some sense»

I define success as 1) ending the fight with more understanding of your partner than you started with; 2) ending the fight with at least some forgiveness in your heart; 3) ending the flight with at least some sense of responsibility for your part in the fight, and 4) ending the fight with enough generosity to move forward and once again feel close — or even closer — to your partner.

Not exact matches

Gmail is a solid and reliable email provider and integrates with everything, so this move makes a lot of sense -; at least until you realize what kind of message that might be sending to your potential customers and partners.

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

And with each change made, calculate at least a rough return on investment (ROI) to determine if it was worth the effort — and whether similar changes in future make financial sense.

The termination of Rapp at a moment when she is the target of serious attacks because of her role at Nintendo doesn't quite square with that sentiment, though, and at the very least, suggests an extremely poor sense of timing.

If you've been in business for at least a year, have a healthy business with annual revenues of at least $ 100,000, and a good personal and business credit profile (even it it's less than perfect), an OnDeck loan could make sense.

So, for a couple with at least one member who expects to live into their late 80s or 90s, deferring the higher earner's benefit may make sense.

Just brilliant and in total agreement with the leading philosopher / political theorist of the 20th Century, Eric Voegelin, who opposed pathological ideologies (Socialism, National Socialism, Communism, Fascism), though I doubt he considered «localism and traditionalism,» at least in the FPR «sense,» to be radical pathologies.

Given the common association of the word «indoctrinate» with totalitarian methods, there might be at least a «slight suspicion» that Justice Stevens did not use the term in its neutral sense, especially since he nowhere refers to public school indoctrination.

I'd settle for at least something that rang true, complied with reason or just made sense.

The show was rarely good — at least, not in the sense that many of the shows on this list are good — but it was certainly notable for casting a family of Christians with a pastoral patriarch in a modern setting that seemed neither forceful or obligatory.

They will require a concerted effort by theologians who take both ecology and justice seriously, and who are prompted by a sense of urgency that will allow them to struggle creatively and resolutely with the deeper issues — if not in perfect harmony, at least with a sense of solidarity.

I'm posting this because it should make sense to a person with at least half a brain... Oh, wait, I see you are from Texas, never mind then...

That is compatible with at least three of the senses of «understanding God» we sorted out above (contemplative understanding; discursive understanding; affective understanding) and perhaps with some versions of the fourth (understanding in and through action).

With this interpretation, the final line of the Our Father now makes perfect sense — «at least, keep us from actually doing evil»!

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

As hard as it is to sympathize with someone's prejudice, we can at least understand how painful it is to leave behjnd an old belief that helped one make sense of the world.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

There is at least one section (IV) which deals with contracts — six different kinds — and various kinds of outrages, that is to say it is in some senses a book of law.

will have to be assumed and telescoped; but I will concentrate on what I think are critical questions — critical in the sense that they represent, at least in my opinion, points on which greater clarity is required if the community of Christ's discipleship is to move into the post-Christendom future with something like apostolic confidence.

After eight years of doing this and now dealing with two teenagers living under my very own roof who ask the same question, I've got the answers down pat and can dismiss my students at the bell confident that they have at least a hazy sense that maybe going to church next Sunday wouldn't be a complete waste of their time.

For Santayana, however, a word like «decides» must be taken as heavily metaphorical here, while for Whitehead it has a more literal sense (at least with respect to conscious actual entities).

But despite the linguistic problems associated with this designation, it seems that the epithet «preacher,» in the sense of «pastor,» is indeed an appropriate one, at least theologically.36 According to Duncan Macdonald, we have done Qoheleth an injustice by viewing his work as reflecting only a spirit of resignation and despair.

This was an unusually bad idea that military leadership went along with, at least publicly, partly out of a sense that they had no prerogative to intercede.

In light of this cruel ending, many might want to respond with a sigh of relief and a sense of pride: «I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm...

Thus I am obliged to say, with H. H. Price, that theism, at least in a Christian sense, is «a metaphysics of love»; and with this, I am obliged to affirm that «the world», including nature in its farthest stretches as well as in the intimacy of human existence, is given its proper «interpretation» only when «the key» to it is found in Jesus Christ.

In the precise sense homosexual acts comprise anal or oral intercourse chosen by two males, with the intention that at least one of them achieve satisfaction by ejaculating within the other's body.

Rather, it is the retrospective discovery (or creation) of significance that matters; the discovery that one has survived with a sense of purpose, or at least with a past.

It therefore seems more probable, to say the least, that the disciples» later insights arose out of their earlier feeling — perhaps at the time only half - formed and largely subconscious that in being with Jesus they were in some extremely special sense in the very presence of God's love and power.

He means, rather, that with respect at least to what is meant by such terms, they apply to God in the primary sense in which they can be applied analogically both to God and to all other individuals, their application to such other individuals being in this respect their secondary sense.

At least the Christian aristocrats of old had some sense that the people they exploited were persons with souls.

At least from the time of the exodus, with Moses» molding of a tribal people into a nation with a sense of its destiny and a moral consciousness of God's demands, it was the sovereign, righteous rule of God that held them together.

Our failure to become what is initially our aim, and subjectively our intentional aim as well, means that we are, in at least one sense, precisely that — viz., «failures» — although God may, and Christians at least believe that He does, deal with that situation if we permit Him to do so.

What is at least analogical in the scheme is the idea of prehension as dependence of an actuality on other actualities, or of participation, feeling of feeling, experience of experience, together with sense of futurity.

One option is to affirm that an actuality is something possible (after all, denying this seems counterintuitive, or at least contrary to common sense) and deny that definiteness is identical with actuality.

The modern opponent of Christianity can not charge it with being mythical because it can not be proved, at least if he is using myth in the sense in which we have been using it, and not in the sense of «fable» as in the Pastorals and 2 Pet.

In this sense, all the great religions are concerned at least implicitly with special revelation.

Revelation, in the Christian sense at least, is born in the crucible of the Jewish mind, soul, and imagination of the man Jesus of Nazareth with his unique vision of the «reign of God.»

With that background in mind, they also have every right to feel a sense of insensitivity from Muslims and any other person who wouldn't at least understand them when they oppose the building of a structure that reminds them of the evil that those individuals cause on that fateful day.

At least in a loose sense, people can be in community with other creatures.

On the contrary, they have had a lively sense of the issues involved, and — at least until quite recently — have dealt with the challenge of pluralism with sophistication, ingenuity and great success.

It must be observed that such theologians usually do not fulfill that implied intention, for they still insist on their loyalty to Jesus, at least, even if their way of being loyal to Him is as various as, say, William Hamilton's talk about Jesus as being «the place where we stand» or Paul van Buren's sense that somehow association with Jesus provides a «contagious freedom».

This was largely identified with Jesus Christ, although, in a secondary sense, at least, the Jewish scriptures were also regarded as revelatory.

Yeah Christine as I remember at least of them made no sense whatsoever with the qualifier attached.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

In one sense, every being is one body with the universe in that its rhythms must at least be compatible with the vibrations around it.

The case has been made that childhood was invented — which it was, at least in the sense that certain societies began to feel that young children should be excluded from the workforce, and women with them, to some extent at least.

Whether it was deliberate or unintentional, I would hope in the future the author of this article would use better judgment or take more time to research the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist (to at least put Sebastian's statement in context) before quoting a statement that is clearly an error to any Catholic that has a sense of reverence («frozen holy wine transformed into the blood of Christ» on popsicle sticks) but could mislead those with simple faith or those who are unfamiliar to the true Catholic teaching.

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

There is nothing here so far that is incompatible with a pure phenomenalism: «An event which is an active condition is a cause of the occurrence of the sense - object in its situation for the percipient event; at least, it can be so termed in one of the many meanings of the word «cause»» (PNK 86).