Sentences with phrase «a considerable number»

We have also witnessed a considerable number of shutdowns along the way.

Ten years ago, the famously data - obsessed company decided to apply the full force of its considerable number - crunching skills to an all important but seemingly mysterious question for organizations: What makes a great manager?

Given the considerable number of background studies and the solid work of various groups such as the Jenkins Panel, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, and the C.D. Howe Institute, CATA argues that it is time the Government considers and tables an action plan and commits to milestone deliverables in the 2012 Budget to foster an effective environment for successful commercialization of Canadian innovations.

A considerable number of factors may be convincing your clients to remain heavily tilted toward domestic opportunities

All efforts would now, instead, be directed to helping the considerable number of victims across Mexico:

You should always consider finding a gambling site with a considerable number of active players.

As evidenced by the daily charts of QQQ and SPY above, both of these ETFs, and by extension the broad market, have a considerable number of both near - term support and resistance levels.

Further, there are a considerable number of process theologians outside the university — in parishes, for example.

For instance, a pastor in a downtown church is more likely to have a considerable number of transient alcoholics come to him than is a minister of a suburban church.

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

A considerable number of our contemporaries think that in preaching the gospel the clergy are consciously not telling the truth.

Within this period a considerable number of excellent books dealing with the relations of religion to mental health have appeared.

It is likely that this will also be the way with a considerable number of our contemporaries.

Now a considerable number of Christians see his divinity in some special feature of his humanity, such as his intense awareness of God, or his total self - giving and sacrificial love.

«We have no alternative but to admit,» Mommsen writes, «that a considerable number of those who played an active part in the July Plot, and in many cases lost their lives as a result, had previously participated in the war of racial extermination, or had at least approved of it for quite a time and in some cases had actively promoted it.

Indeed, they played such a significant role that it would be impossible to discuss American letters in the mid-twentieth century responsibly without both examining a considerable number of observant Catholic authors and recognizing the impact of their religious conviction on their artistry.

But 20 - plus years later, as a minister with a considerable number of roles myself, I'm equally impressed with the phrase; «She used to sit.»

And a considerable number of Westerners have been seeking to learn about the Formless from Eastern teachers.

From the beginning I realized that the proposal was not only large and complex, but that there were a considerable number of people studying the theme who were disposed to collaborate in the publication of the book.

At least Whitehead did that and created a work that as reviewer Mathews said «ought to be full of interest, not only to specialists, but to the considerable number of people who, with a fair knowledge of mathematics, have never dreamt of the existence of any algebra save one, or any geometry that is not Euclidean» (PRSL64: 385 - 6).

«A considerable number of families are finding it difficult to budget for these three main essentials of food, housing and utilities, and to cover the unexpected or irregular costs, such as children's shoes, that inevitably arise,» it said.

A considerable number of Galileans did respond and become disciples, in the sense that they adhered to him personally and were guided by his teaching, though not necessarily giving up their ordinary avocations to stay in his company.

Also, Japan employed considerable numbers of Philippinos and Indonesians to cut down the forests and ship out the logs.

And a considerable number of physicists are open to such models, including process ones.

If the church wanted «to salvage American Catholicism,» he wrote, it would be well advised to retire «a considerable number of mitered birdbrains.»

The issue centers about the faith of Moses; a considerable number insist that he was monotheistic in the full sense of the word, that there was no difference between his belief and that of the prophets.

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

It takes its place among a considerable number of psalms which may be called Royal Psalms, setting forth (as, for example, Ps.

The fact was that not even the larger Churches that approved of revivalism made sufficient use of it to appease considerable numbers of people.

In light of the considerable number of requests to include prayer at the commemoration, the organization has decided to include one prayer.

The drain of having a considerable number of disturbed, dependent people constantly drawing on his emotional resources makes it imperative that a minister have replenishing experiences.

A large proportion of the teachers in the denominational seminaries has had its doctoral training in these schools; and a considerable number of widely read theological treatises come from the pens of their scholars.

In the century and a half between 31 and 184 (A.D. 651 - 800) a considerable number of Arab and Persian businessmen came to China by the sea route.

The considerable number of Muslims who had settled in China had laid a secure foundation for Islam, but during those seven hundred years the Muslims had retained their alien status as a special class which preserved its own language, customs, and manners and was never fully integrated with the Han people.

We as humans are naturally endowed with a considerable number of belief - forming faculties.

I am convinced that what has died, that whose death has been announced, is a series of models, images, pictures, or concepts of deity which for a very long time have been taken by considerable numbers of people to be the Christian way of understanding God.

Fourth, such families are open systems that interact in a mutually nurturing way with a considerable number of people, families, and institutions outside their own family boundaries.

A third contribution comes out more clearly in Schweitzer's other major work among the considerable number he wrote, The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle.8 There he maintains that Paul's conception of the kingdom, though he expected an imminent end of the world, was far from other - worldly in its bearing on the Christian life.

After this selection has gone on for some considerable number of generations, the new pathways of development will have gradually acquired a more pronounced chreodic character, which can itself be difficult to modify.

That is what a considerable number of university students today feel; it is another element in the so - called student revolt of our time.

That restrictive policy has been maintained through the succeeding administrations, though not without opposition from a considerable number of faculty and fierce opposition from some members of the history department.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.

This was not the case with most denominational leaders nor with the majority of Christian laity; however, a considerable number of Protestant laity and some clergy felt that the political advantages of missions ought not to be overlooked.

Referring to the above correspondence between the Patriarch and the Metropolitan, Mingana observes that we can infer from the correspondence that «there was a considerable number of bishops and priests in India, whose sees and parishes were apparently scattered in the vast country to the distance of one thousand and two hundred parasangas.»

«We infer that there was a considerable number of bishops and priests in India, whose sees and parishes were apparently scattered in that vast country to the distance of one thousand and two hundred parsangas.»

But a considerable number of such experiments would be of great value in furthering the perennial task of thinking - through once again what it means to «confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father».

Today a very considerable number of people who would profess themselves Christians do not find much meaning in prayer.

So it is not surprising that a considerable number of biochemists and zoologists, biophysicists and biologists, psychologists and sociologists, have been attracted to it.

To be sure, in the scoring scheme the United States would be quite plural — with Catholics, Jews, and Protestants all in considerable number.

Many Westerners have been drawn to Buddhism over the past two centuries, a considerable number converting to it.