You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
Distinguish yourself [. . . ] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs. . . which is a very uncomfortable structure.
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.
Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility
As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.
And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.
