Sentences with phrase «in sharp distinction»

Tuttle offers an intimate, personal vision in sharp distinction to the impersonal «Danger: Men at Work» esthetic.

At the same time, throughout August, Luther was composing a formal and personal letter to the young Emperor and a public Offer and Protest — these were personal matters and both texts he discussed in detail with Spalatin in sharp distinction from his polemical works about which he seldom consulted anyone once he had settled the truth of the matter in his own mind, and the text began to flow like molten metal.

In his sharp distinction between community and society and his tendency to dampen hope with predetermined limits on what societies can achieve, Tinder seems to me to speak for a too - narrow spectrum of the large tradition he is seeking to interpret.

It is significant, though, that even later, in his own Principle of Relativity, Whitehead still retains a «uniform» geometry (of which Euclidian geometry is a subspecies) in sharp distinction to the nonuniform, «warped» geometry of Einstein's general relativity.

Not exact matches

This sharp distinction set in motion the body - denying tendencies of much of the early Church.

It is also in tension with making a very sharp a distinction between what has been canonized by the church and other writings by faithful Jews and Christians.

But faith leaders say the film does not draw a sharp enough distinction between al Qaeda and Muslims in general.

Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»

This principle is doubly relevant to the task at hand because it is characterized by Whitehead both as blurring the sharp distinction between universals and particulars and as constituting «the first step in the description of the universe as a solidarity of many actual entities» (PR 65).

First, as I note at Public Discourse today in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers in bioethics are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has been born.

To be sure, the distinction between personal convictions and the religious story of the nation remains sufficiently sharp in evangelical teachings that militant religious nationalism is the exception rather than the rule.

In Whitehead's view there is a sharp conceptual distinction between being religious and being atheist.

This very sharp distinction is in fact not the case, but there is a sense in which it may rightly be asserted that the Bible speaks of God's working through history toward a goal, whereas the Greek position failed to stress this, even when it was theistic in outlook.

The sharp distinction of Homeric and Socratic structures within the great diversity of modes of existence in Greece is a gross, but hopefully helpful, simplification.

Should we make a sharp distinction between public and private life as in the judgment (attributed to Martin Luther) that it is better to be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian?

In modern times the term Aryan has become a racial term, as in Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the populatioIn modern times the term Aryan has become a racial term, as in Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the populatioin Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the populatioin the population.

Hayek made a sharp distinction, however, between those failures of justice that involve breaking agreed - upon rules of fairness and those that consist in results that no one designed, foresaw, or commanded.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionIn political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionin human individuals and institutions.

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

Sharp distinctions are difficult in these regions, and Professor Coe's numbers are small.

As we noted earlier, no sharp distinction was drawn between nature and history; God was the Maker and sovereign Ruler in both spheres.

in fact, the church was fully aware of its theological position as it came to realize the sharp distinction between the Law of Peter and the Law of Thomas.

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

In one passage, he draws a sharp distinction between Christianity and Christ.

To try to make sharp distinctions would be like asking a lover to provide a neatly divided report indicating in detail the various ways in which he has been with and delighted in his beloved.

The teacher praises the swift foot, the skilled hand, the sharp eye, and the keen intellect of the student; while in the master's eye there are no such distinctions.

There is a close parallel in the interaction of metaphorical language and literal language; there is no sharp line between the two, but only a distinction which is relative, shifting, and contextdependent.31 «Man is a wolf» invites reflection not only on wolf - life characteristics of man, but also on man - like characteristics of the wolf, which is seen thereafter as more human.

We will note later that in science there is no sharp line separating theoretical language from observational language; the distinction is relative, shifting, and context - dependent.

This relation should not be construed in a way that gives priority to the social world, or even in a way that creates a sharp distinction between text and context; rather, it should emphasize the active — and interactive — exchange between the behavior of speaking and the behavior of doing.

We'll have a continuum of media outlets, ranging from lone bloggers howling in the wilderness to well - staffed newsrooms at CNN and the Post, but with a blurring of the sharp distinctions in reach, resources, skills and abilities that have traditionally marked the difference between amateur journalists and professionals.

Democrats also want to draw a sharp distinction between this race and the botched special election to fill Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat in the nearby NY - 9, which fell to Republican Bob Turner.

«He is making me think that the distinction between living and nonliving matter is not sharp,» said Carl Franck, a biological physicist at Cornell University, in an email.

«The sharp distinction suggests that there is a fundamental difference in how these bodies formed, and the mere act of classifying them reveals something profound about nature.»

Reading these two books in sequence, I came across a passage in Charles Glenn's foreword to class Between Memory and Vision that threw a sharp and revealing light on the subtle and often mind - numbing distinctions elaborated in Does God Belong in Public Schools Glenn writes: «The effect of Supreme Court decisions over the past forty years was to treat religion as the only forbidden motivation for school choice.»

that threw a sharp and revealing light on the subtle and often mind - numbing distinctions elaborated in

Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it fit into some sort of rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.

In a recent post on the Education Next blog («Up With Teachers, Not So Much With Unions»), he draws a sharp distinction between the virtue of teachers and the vices of their unions.

2 Sharp ribs in the hood provide directionality and definition, giving this Porsche some distinction from, yet link to, the iconic 356/911 tapering front end.

However, today's mortgage rates actually draw sharper distinction between the haves and have - nots - in this case, those who have good credit and those who do not.

Buffett's explanation draws a sharp distinction between intrinsic value and book value — «The investment shown by the discounted - flows - of - cash calculation to be the cheapest is the one that the investor should purchase — irrespective of whether the business... carries a high price or low in relation to its... book value.»

Because account had to be taken of an individual's whole situation it was inappropriate to draw a sharp distinction between a period of confinement which would, and one which would not, amount to a deprivation of liberty, important though the period of daily confinement would be in any overall assessment.