Sentences with phrase «a central purpose»

There is no central purpose that unites its disparate businesses, or enables them to be greater than the sum of its parts.

One of the central purposes of personas, archetypal representations of customers and their goal - directed behaviors, is to help enterprises develop a common view of customers.

High in the catalogue of social pathologies afflicting marriage and the family in America stands our system of family law, the central purpose of which is to enforce no - fault divorce.

This is the central purpose of the AA program.

In general terms the central purpose of this impressive collection of lectures is contextualisation, rather than textual analysis.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

If God did operate by providing new information, then we would indeed have a centered universe, a universe with a central purpose, with a conductor orchestrating the total flow of events, a universe with an overarching meaning.

What's happened, of course, is that over the past thirty years the central purpose of Catholic worship» the Eucharist» has been all but lost in a sea of concerns about community building, lay ministry, liturgical language, battles over music and statues, and yet more community building.

The test of conscience for any sexual act is whether or not it is in accord with the central purpose of the family, which is to embody the ideal of individual worth through an unconditional covenant between husband and wife and unconditional commitment to children.

If we met in his spirit today, if we wanted to honor him in a way that would be acceptable not to his human vanity, for which he would need to do bitter penance, but to his central purpose and will, how would we go about it?

[iv] A central purpose of criminal laws is to punish those in society who intentionally commit inherently wrong actions that result in some form of harm to another.

Browning's central purpose is to show that all authentic Christian theology is governed by practical interests.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

community of persons whose central purpose is to understand some subject truly, then a theological school is such a community that seeks to understand God.

The central purpose of professional church leadership is apologia — that is, to formulate and defend theories or «doctrines» about God's truth and God's justice for Christian communities worldwide to apply in their lives in diverse cultural settings.

Earlier I characterized a school as «a particular community of persons whose central purpose is to understand some subject truly.»

[24] A theological school in particular is a community whose central purpose is to come to understand God more truly.

A school we might say is a particular community of persons whose central purpose is to understand some subject truly.

Yet it remains questionable whether all these movements and interests are leading in one direction, whether such clear principles of unity and of central purpose are being discovered that the schools are now enabled to correlate their particularistic endeavors to prepare men for multiple services in heterogeneous churches.

Such a movement of the mind toward God and the neighbor - before - God is characteristic of the Church in all its parts but it is the first duty and a central purpose of the theological school.

Scripture's internal unity or harmony, rather, derives from its central purpose in divine revelation of telling us about Jesus Christ.»

Recommending transport interventions for delivery over the next twenty years that make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government's central Purpose of increasing sustainable economic growth, including a replacement Forth Crossing, this is the largest project of its type undertaken in Scotland.

Cameron suggested that the central purpose of the EU «has been achieved» — to secure peace — and «today the main, overriding purpose of the European Union is... not to win peace, but to secure prosperity».

Second chambers are common in large, complex political systems; but their central purpose — to challenge the government and elected first chamber — makes them controversial.

Throughout history, the escalation of a large part of technology has had combat as its central purpose.

Based on previous work and their own results, Drummond and his colleagues speculate that a central purpose of protein aggregation during heat shock is to reshape the cellular factory, focusing protein synthesis on proteins needed during stress.

If our personal identity is a story we tell about our bodies and certain brain activities that occur in them, and I think it is, then locating the self at a single point serves a central purpose: It separates the storyteller from the story.

The movie becomes repetitive pretty quickly, and while it would be tempting to dismiss the affair merely as a mixed bag of running jokes and performances, that would mean ignoring the ways Fist Fight undermines its central purpose through unearned lecturing.

This is a central purpose of teaching history, as it provides students with a clearer perspective about their own time and place.

The central purpose of this new learning environment is to encourage curiosity untrammelled by preconceptions or indeed physical barriers.

The central purpose of a voucher program is to expand the choices available to all qualifying parents, especially those who now have kids in public schools.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk called out comprehensive American high schools for their «smorgasbord» curricula that were «homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose.»

Why would they word their questions in ways that fail to convey the central purpose of a voucher program?

Entailed here is a flexibility of purposes that the randomized experiment can not match, given its limited central purpose of facilitating clear causal inference.

If the central purpose of education research is to identify solutions and provide options for policymakers and practitioners, one would have to characterize the past five decades as a near - complete failure.

Today 40 state constitutions explicitly refer to the need for an informed electorate; 13 of them, according to a 2003 Carnegie Corporation report, «state that the central purpose of their educational system is to promote good citizenship, democracy, and free government.»

Data Wise clarifies the central purpose for each of a team's meetings — and focuses discussion and decision making during that meeting.

The central purpose of this case study was to understand what impact this virtual early field experience had on the teacher candidates» understanding of VS through an examination of the participants» and a researcher's reflective journals.

``... [T] he central purpose of education research is to identify solutions and provide options for policymakers and practitioners.»

Not only will pedagogical capacity be enhanced, but assessment will remain focused on its central purpose: the support of learning for all involved.

Certainly, most teachers would agree that a central purpose of their instruction is to help students understand something significant about their content area.

* The focus is on academic tasks and learning as the central purpose of student effort, rather than on good behavior for its own sake.

Each type serves a different central purpose, and each type may require variations in test characteristics and assessment procedures in order to serve its central purpose.

People in a network are connected around a central purpose or mission or interest.

LOCATION ONE»S INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM The central purpose of Location One's International Residency Program is to encourage collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world and different media to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work.

However, it must be understood that the central purpose of those who filed the Massachusetts versus EPA case and those who proposed the listing of the polar bear is precisely to create that regulatory nightmare to pressure you and the Congress into adopting Kyoto - style cap - and - trade policy.

Re: «The central purpose of government climate scientists is deception; they are untrustworthy.

For that reason — Generation Zero, a youth - led organisation, was founded with the central purpose of providing solutions for New Zealand to cut carbon pollution through smarter transport, liveable cities & independence from fossil fuels.

The central purpose of the workshop was related to Reconciliation.

However, the court recognizes that» [t] he central purpose of this investigation is to see, in Justice Story's words, whether the new work merely supersedes the objects of the original creation», «to what extent the new work is transformative».»