Sentences with phrase «for modern purposes»

For modern purposes, it means fast, flashy combat with variety coming more from acquired skills than new weapons.

Not exact matches

The modern - day bible for this way of thinking is a 2014 book by Belgian organizational behaviour consultant Frederic Laloux called Reinventing Organizations, which posits that reporting structures (and, indeed, job descriptions) have no purpose in the workplace of the future.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build.

Would a modern Father Sorin be commended for founding a college for the purpose of inculcating students with the truths embodied in the magisterium?

It's no accident that Occupy [Wall Street] sprang from an idea in Ad Busters, a journal and website dedicated to using modern media for anticonsumerist purposes.

Also, the Bible has basic elements of good vs. evil, and for the purpose of a sermon (ie a pastoral message meant to convey some sort of spiritual lesson), having a good modern day example of Christian symbolism is always a fun tool to use to keep a congregation interested.

Certainly not because we can always appropriate their work for modern theological purposes, but for this reason: «We remember it, as a man remembers the profound intuitions he had as an adolescent.

Whitehead recognized, in Science and the Modern World, that metaphysics alone could not go «far towards the production of a God available for religious purposes.»

This understanding of art, now of the gallery and simply open to view rather than created with a purpose, seems to symbolise our modern era: at once a loss of God, purpose and meaning, yet at the same time a search for deeper and more lasting realities.

Indeed, it misses almost everything essential about the actual workings of the modern industrial economy: the cooperation and trust of millions of total strangers required for efficient industry to replace self - sufficiency; the inevitable centrality of government in the complex human construction of a national or global economy; large corporations with their hierarchies, multiple and shifting purposes and fragile but definite unity.

Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command, which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine telos or comprehensive purpose.

Perhaps also this book not only may throw light on the fundamental purposes by which education should be directed, but may at the same time suggest the outlines of a relevant and mature faith for modern man — a faith that grows directly out of the daily struggle to make responsible decisions.

It is common, and for certain purposes quite helpful, to contrast the approaches of Bentham and Kant, to see in them the two quite different normative paths — consequentialist and deontological — modern moral philosophy has taken.

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

I have changed it slightly to indicate that our goal is to critique both the primal and modern visions of human being and society in the light of each other and in the light of the theological vision of God's purpose for the future of humankind.

CALL FOR A CULTURE WITH VISION We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or re-establish Eden - with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

However, the Catholic Church is pretty much alone in the modern world when it comes to a large (HUGE) insti.tution actually covering up wide - scale child abuse in its ranks for its own selfish purposes.

This confidence of modern man in the power of intelligence to free humanity from its ills and for the fulfillment of its purposes is reflected in the universal commitment to education.

They may get together in the modern city to hold a bake sale for some charitable cause, to repair a playground, to clean up the environment, or for a million other purposes that their social imaginations might lead them to.

Equating modern churches, pastors and practices with ancient Jewish synagogues, temples and priests and practices (such as tithing to the Levites) seems to be done primarily for the purpose of raising money.

[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

You probably have a list of scriptures (the same ones I once used) for this purpose, but if you look at them honestly they do not mention the Bible, but rather «the law», writings of «men of old», «the Word of God», «this book», «this prophecy», «the scripture» or other specified or unspecified writing (s)-- NOT ONE says «the Bible» or can be reasonably interpreted to refer to the Protestant or Catholic canon WE moderns mean when we talk about «the Bible».

«The image of Guy Fawkes has been fashioned for modern protest purposes,» said Alastair Bellany, a history professor at Rutgers University.

In many ways, the spirit of common purpose and sharing that makes some of us nostalgic for the past is present within the best modern firms.

There was general agreement that Whitehead's earlier books, up to and including Science and the Modern World of 1926, would be likely to be more fruitful for this purpose than the later Whitehead of Process and Reality.

«Christians,» they said, «must re-think the usual position that has turned homosexuals into modern day lepers» and «homosexual acts should be judged in each individual instance by whether the participants were expressing genuine love or simply «using» each other for selfish purposes (New York Times 20 November 1967 p. 1).

I have found their ideas to be faithful not only to important religious intuitions of ultimacy but also to the demands of common human experience, logic and, most importantly for our purposes, modern science.

Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.

But it is not my purpose here to go into this, or to consider the various modern patterns, the question of divorce after marriage, the case often made for group marriages, and the like.

If, like a modern atheist, you believe that life has no purpose except personal enjoyment, you use your life for selfish enjoyment and put an end to it when the loneliness such a life induces seems to outweigh whatever satisfaction it formerly gave you.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

From the ancient Hippocratic Oath to modern codes like the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics, physicians have understood that the doctor — patient relationship must be founded on trust, which is the reason that physicians publicly promise to use their knowledge and skills only for purposes of healing, and never for taking life.

The most we can do is to argue for the plausibility of some kind of universal purpose in the cosmos as we understand it in the light of modern science.

Modernity has awakened them to their rights of participation in the structures of power, but the modern technological developments and commercialism have increased the power of their traditional oppressors by alienating land, forests, water sources and femininity from them for exploiting them for purposes of profit and have destroyed their livelihood and pattern of life.

Under the influence of theories of progress or decline or development in history such study has frequently been carried on for the purpose of explaining the differences between Biblical and modern life before God.

To judge of Bultmann's argument by its conclusion, «modern man» means for the purposes of the present question a being sufficiently sophisticated to appreciate the existentialist approach which is Bultmann's offered remedy; say one man in five thousand.

Let me confess at the very outset that I think it is possible to reconcile the human hope for some cosmic purpose with what modern science has told us about nature.

:D Banana, hazelnut and cinnamon cakes from the always delicious and foolproof Modern Classics Book 2 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons (140g) unsalted butter, room temperature 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon (112g) superfine sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 cups (210g) all purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder pinch of salt 1/2 cup (50g) hazelnut meal (finely ground hazelnuts) 1/3 cup (80 ml) buttermilk * 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 - 2 bananas, sliced melted butter for brushing demerara sugar for sprinkling Preheat the oven to 180 °C / 350 °F.

Apple and cinnamon mini pies filling adapted from Donna Hay magazine, pastry from Modern Classics Book 2 Pastry: 1 cup + 1 tablespoon (150g) all purpose flour 1 1/2 tablespoons caster sugar 1/3 cup (75g) cold unsalted butter, chopped 1 - 1 1/2 tablespoons iced water Filling: 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature 1 large apple, peeled, cored and finely diced 2 1/2 tablespoons caster sugar 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 tablespoon golden raisins 1/2 teaspoon corn starch 1/2 teaspoon water 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon milk granulated sugar, for sprinkling Start by making the pastry: process the flour, sugar and butter in a food processor until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

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Face facts, Ken, the man is totally unfit for purpose to manage at top level in the 21st century, with so many more modern thinking and modern method managers as his main rivals.

«We welcome the NSW Government's decision to turn Allianz Stadium into a world class, modern, fit for purpose stadium and appreciate the support of the Premier and Sports Minister,» he said.

In today's modern world, the use of television, a computer and the internet for entertainment purposes is quite common.

The pros and cons of Nolan chart vs the others listed in the Wiki is a topic for debate, but pretty much any of them is orders of magnitude better than «left - right», whose main purpose in modern politics is largely «how can I better equate my political opponents to some historical monster».

For the specific purposes of IR [International Relations], «the state» refers to the modern sovereign state, which possess a «legal personality» and is recognized as possessing certain rights and duties.

Kennedy and board member and former Labour MP Tony Wright argued for the necessity of annual reporting, for transparency purposes and enabling the electorate to see MPs as «modern professionals.»