Sentence examples for adjusting ourselves from inspiring English sources

William James said that religious belief is "the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto".

At the same time, many of us have slowly become highly skilled at pressing buttons and adjusting ourselves to a constant stream of electronic feedback on computer games, the internet and our mobile phones.

Now, as we go about the process of adjusting ourselves to this new world of terrible conflict, we can and must take heart from that one seemingly paradoxical historical observation: both as New Yorkers and as Americans, we have been in this new world before.

And we, the students, adjusted ourselves to this quiet.

"We have to adjust ourselves to the new environment, and that is exactly what we are doing".

Joad, the philosopher, said no — science changes our environment faster than we have the ability to adjust ourselves to it.

He added, "We, the army, are ready to adjust ourselves and follow your direction because we are the army of the people".

We've had a full week now to adjust ourselves to the knowledge that the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee deemed President Barack Obama worthy of a Peace Prize.

We just have to adjust ourselves to that fact, and the truth of the matter is, in terms of agents and everything else that's going, we need these adjustments every now and then.

His account of virtue as depending on our attempts to adjust ourselves as closely as possible to the feelings of the particular others we encounter also suggests that what is virtue in one set of circumstances may not be so in somewhat different circumstances.

We are struggling in Washington to structurally adjust ourselves.