Sentences with phrase «with everything going for»

Anthony (Taylor John Smith) is a standout player on his high school's basketball team with everything going for him: a killer three - point shot, a loving girlfriend (Zazie Beetz) and a chance at a scholarship to Cornell.

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Company director Shinya Takahashi followed with a history of Nintendo's platforms illustrating how Switch is in effect a composite of everything the company's been working toward for decades: a game system you can dock with a TV, but also removed to go mobile, and attach a pair of left and right controllers — called Joy - Cons — that let you play anywhere.
The federal government's disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov is an embarrassingly perfect example of basically everything you shouldn't do when going live with a website for the first time.
«When you start with nothing, it's hard to let go,» he added, but appealing to experts instead of trying to figure everything out yourself is necessary for growth.
«You have to budget for everything, down to the number of beers you're going to have with a client.»
If everything goes according to plan, Zappos will take over the old city hall — a slightly loopy paean to 1960s Modernism with a circular courtyard and an 11 - story tower that for some reason has no windows on one side — at the end of 2013.
After Tuesday's Senate hearing, it has become clear that with an easy - to - understand issue, a political firestorm, and missteps by the bank that exemplify Americans» worst notions of Wall Street, everything that could go wrong for Wells Fargo did.
GALLOWAY: How did the insecurity of that job affect you because with everything your parents had gone through it's not the most stable profession for someone.
Watch out for: The optimist who tells you that everything is going to go viral, or who claims that something's viral but can't back up the statement with numbers.
If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.
Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.
Having had troubling experiences with bad bosses before, Jon Good, the founder of gourmet chocolate company Jon Good Chocolates, makes sure he sets the bar high when it comes to leadership, taking blame when things go wrong, showing support for his employees and doing everything he can to help them be their best selves.
Calming down by going for a run, hanging out with friends, or counting your blessings is probably a better foundation for getting in touch with your intuition than late night worrying about everything that might go wrong.
Sadly, there's pressure for introverts to «get over» their personality type and get along with everyone, to go with the plan and to avoid being too intellectual about everything.
If you're going to need more money for your business and are afraid you won't be able to fund everything with cash, consider applying for a grant or securing some other funding that you don't have to pay back.
«If we made something here for $ 20, it would probably cost $ 10 US to make in China, but by the time we've changed the US dollar, paid for shipping duty, and everything else that went with it, it might land at $ 19.
With everything going on in China there has been a pull back so good for you on starting.
I did not qualify for any government assistance, couldn't get a short - sale to go through, and eventually, after trying everything, just gave up and walked away, with my once excellent credit totally destroyed.
Our service is an outreach to the community, for people who have been hurt by church in the past, non believers, people who are feel they are outcasts, etc.We run with no budget, all the offering goes to a need in the community, tonight its going to a senior that lost everything in a house fire.
But since 70 % of the universe is Dark Energy, and 30 % is Dark Matter, and everything you see including yourself is < 1 %, you're gonna have to think real hard to come up with a «meaning» for THAT.
It goes without saying that I agree with Pete's center - right agenda below, with its mend them, don't end them approach to our minimalist entitlements and its due concern for doing everything that can be done to sustain our nongovernmental intermediary institutions (which, of course can be choked by too much or the wrong kind of government).
Tony: No, I basically write the songs for just an acoustic guitar and voice, and I get into a quiet place and go through writing cycles and try to have everything fully complete before I bring them to the musicians in the band I am playing with.
After having been in a couple relationships with people whose second (or third) language is English, and knowing what I do now, I have a lot of empathy for what people are going through as they adjust to new words, new cultures, and new everything.
«I hope he fails» well that goes for you to Rush, You are everything that is wrong with politics today.
wished he could engage himself in their story — a story of men with guns, exactly like his own, except that nobody going to the movies ever guessed the essential, gigantic, truth of it, which was that these men would trade everything they had for one clear minute of peace.
I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.
Everyone think that democrats are right with the way they do things, but they failed to realize that democrats also are going to stop them from being self reliant and at the end they will loose their freedom because they are going to rely on the government for everything they need.
I pray that everything that was done for spite shall return back to e as a powerful blessing in the name of Jesus I ask lord that you bless me with confirmation to know that it's by your works that you're going to handle this matter and to stop them all in here from their wicked and nasty ways.
«In a hostile environment, we're going to do everything we can do within the parameters of the law to ensure our freedom to continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, protect and defend the sanctity of life, help couples with their marriages, help parents raise their children, and find forever homes for orphaned children,» he said.
1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay
Actually, belief in an afterlife, higher powers, etc., provide many people with a convenient way to shift responsibility for everything that goes on in life and the world off to somewhere where they can believe they have no power.
According to Mark, after Jesus had celebrated his last supper with the disciples, he went with them to a place called Gethsemane, where he prayed, «Abba, Father, everything is possible for you.
It's not been too great for me and some of the other members of the movement... It's been kind of annoying having to deal with that and everything else that's been going on but at this point, you know, we're changing the world.
And for creative types there are always going to be those in charge with egos that while recognising creativity will consciously or unconsciously discourage it wanting to feel in control and take credit for everything.
I carried a bag full of Chick tracts with me everywhere I went, and had one for everything, every belief, every sin.
One of the arguments for long periods away while everything is fine is the prevention of potential problems in the future but Sir Paul Coleridge said there were better ways to deal with any problems, such as going on holidays for couples, organised by Christian groups or with a Christian theme: «I would immensely encourage people to investigate those and take them up.»
We have done everything wrong, and we have turned away from Him, and we have gone to war with Him, yet rather than make us claw our way back to Him and grovel before Him, begging for his forgiveness, He comes running after us, seeking to restore the friendship with us that He lost when we left.
Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,
The other words that go down with greater credibility are words to live by for every duty / circumstance of life (perhaps not a direct quote from scripture but)... do EVERYTHING as if for the Lord... (not to be used in a stab of guilt for a believer), just acknowledging, if you would follow a god..
I do not agree with the catholic teachings so I don't go to their church.I went to a church for many years and when they went a different way than what I believe I stopped going to it.I didn't try to change them.Government and a church will never agree on everything and its not the church job to change government and the government should not change a church beliefs.If you are a member of a church and do not agree with them anymore you should leave that church.
In a democracy, not everything your tax dollars pay for are going to meet with your personal approval.
Everyone: Christians & Non ~ Christians alike need to stop blaming God for everything they feel goes wrong or is unjust in their eyes in this world and realize that when Satan was cast out of Heaven along with a third of the Fallen Angels who betrayed and rebelled against their God ~ ~ God cast them down to this very Earth.
Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...
So when I went to New York, I was having difficulty with my name, Ramón Estévez; just getting around and trying to get an apartment, trying to get job interviews and such, because the Puerto Rican community at that time was taking the blame for everything wrong in New York.
Co-ordinator, Callum Gillies told the Blackpool Gazette: «The community was not happy with the event going ahead in the Winter Gardens because Franklin Graham goes totally against everything a gay pride event stands for.
Like all hurricanes, this one tended to dissipate as it went north for reasons having nothing to do with religion or politics and everything to do with temperature gradients and jet stream wind shear.
If a man has not enough passion to make either the one movement or the other, if he loiters through life, repenting a little, and thinks that the rest will take care of itself, he has once for all renounced the effort to live in the idea — and then he can very easily reach and help others to reach the highest attainments, i.e. delude himself and others with the notion that in the world of spirit everything goes as in a well - known game of cards where everything depends on haphazard.
This why everything has to go along with listening to the word, emulating examples and prayer for help.
I was tempted at first to give maybe a 10 point list of advice for parents going through deconstruction in front of their kids... things like let them see the books you read and answer their curiosities about them; teach your kids how to think, not how to believe; tell them everything you're going through and let them deal with what it means for them; ask them what they believe and listen objectively and engage in conversation about it; openly share your struggles with what you're going through with the church and let them process it themselves, and so on.
Do you believe that there has to be «something» that always existed, does exist and will always exist in order for this planet, universe, life and everything that goes with it to have originate?
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