The more you understand the brutal logic of climate change — what it could mean, the effort necessary to forestall it —
the more the intensity of the situation seems out of whack with the workaday routines of day - to - day life.
Similarly, I have observed far
more intensity of feeling in debates among Buddhists than in their discussion with Christians.
Not exact matches
Researchers at the University
of Georgia found that previously sedentary adults who started doing 20 minutes
of low - to moderate
intensity aerobic exercise three times a week for six weeks reported feeling less fatigued and
more energized.
«Our fans always want to explore deeper and
more emotional connections to NHL hockey,» said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, «and that is precisely what Rogers has promised to deliver over the next 12 years — channeling the reach
of its platforms and the
intensity of its passion for the game into an unparalleled viewing experience.»
Armed with reams
of pseudo-scientific studies, they claimed that workers
of all sorts were happier and
more productive when subjected to 15 - minute sets
of benign music that built gradually in tempo and
intensity.
Asked about the growing DC - SV connection, Mabus said, «the energy, the intellectual capital that is there, the
intensity of these founders and companies that GV is invested in, it's very appealing to me, much
more appealing than maintaining something that's already gotten there.»
At a time when the market is saturated with high -
intensity, high - impact fitness concepts, the need for a
more sustainable workout that reduces the risk
of injury but still delivers an effective workout is clear.
Seeing the coffee against the stark, white background
of the mug makes it stand out
more, boosting its perceived strength and thus increasing
intensity and decreasing sweetness.
«What I think is
more relevant for most people is that we've got to take a page from those confident players» playbooks and see that we've got to learn to kind
of step up that level
of confidence, particularly in those high
intensity situations like interviewing, at networking events or conferences,» she says.
More than three decades after the launch
of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an
intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days
of the Space Race.
«The perceptions about the skills needed for this type
of business are different from those that involve
more innovation, growth, and in industries with capital or knowledge
intensity.»
«We did our own analysis
of Fortune 500 companies,» he tells CNBC Make It, «and we found that companies that have women in top management roles experience what we call «innovation
intensity» and produce
more patents — by an average
of 20 percent
more than teams with male leaders.»
Several successful entrepreneurs, for instance, have likened this way
of working to the optimum method
of exercise —
more intensity, less duration.
Because ultimately, what the study proves is that we must increase the quantity and
intensity of exercise both at schools and at home if we want our children to be
more globally competitive.
But there are plenty
of growth industries with low - capital
intensity — in other words, they rely
more on labor than equipment.
and Facebook, which succeeded by using their core service to build a significant user base and then offered
more services, thus continuously increasing the familiarity
of their users with their services — and in turn the
intensity with which they use them.
The
intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a
more volatile form like gasoline.
«It burns
more calories than regular walking, improves posture and co-ordination, allows the cardiovascular training
intensity of jogging without the high impact and can alleviate neck and shoulder pain.
But fortunately, Aaron Weiss» frenetic yelps and stream -
of - consciousness lyrics (many
of them based on the writings
of a Sufi mystic) mixed with the overall
intensity of the band make the sound
more than fitting for mewithoutYou.
Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no
more arbitrary than those
of the constitution
of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum
of value
intensity, together with the property
of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature)
of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence
of the growing series
of divine temporal evaluations.
Contrasts
of concordant parity occur between two or
more configurations whose primary foci have about the same size and
intensity and whose function in the composition
of the event is mutually supportive.
Nevertheless, the vividness and
intensity of the real presence that some past events occasionally display suggests a
more immediate relation, and there are speculative philosophies that imply its possibility.
Here they face another silent spectacle, a strange
intensity of color
more frightening, in its way, than the chemical disaster.
This threefold description allows for the possibility
of threads
of inheritance
of lesser
intensity of experience than the dominant one, threads
more closely bound to the reiterative aims
of the body.
Or to adopt another image one might say that the «psychic tint»
of the earth, studied at a great distance by some celestial observer, would be seen, in the course
of eons
of geological time, to become gradually heightened in
intensity until it reaches the peculiarly moving moment
of climax when, in a spread
of more active radiation covering Africa and southern Asia, a series
of sparks begins to glow, foreshadowing the incandescence which is «hominization».
The development or improvement
of Special Operations Forces (SOF) was a critical component in low -
intensity - conflict strategy to fight effectively «World War III» or,
more accurately, to wage war against the poor throughout the third world.
Disinformation, according to Stockwell, is
more important than ever because the United States is now implementing low -
intensity - conflict strategy on a global basis and is actively working to destabilize one - third
of the world's underdeveloped countries.
Hence its response to the overflowing love is one
of an ongoing expanding and enhancing the
intensity of its own being in order that it might receive increasingly
more of the divine life into itself.
In the eyes
of low -
intensity - conflict planners, regional initiatives were signs
of a deeper and potentially far
more dangerous rebellion challenging Latin America's «backyard status» within the U.S. empire.
But even
more important than this testimony to what will inevitably prove to be a temporary
intensity of joy is the institutional structure that seems to be emerging.
But some, the
more complexly organized, enjoy amid their sentience greater harmony or
intensity — greater «richness
of experience» to use Birch and Cobb's phrase — than others.
We might call that the «external program»
of the Counter-Culture, circa 1965 - 1968, posed as an alternative to the way the New Left activists
of the day were staking so much upon political action, with an
intensity that ran into ever
more radical stances.
The
more accurate sense
of the greek here is, «flaming missiles», regarding the
intensity of the attack
of the evil one — Satan.
On nearly all religious indicators, including
intensity of religious commitment and belief in the Bible, black Americans are
more conservative than are whites.
Such actual entities are organisms that undergo growth; they are subjects and have feelings with
more or less subjective
intensity; they engage in a self - creation that is an integration; they make decisions; they have aims; they may or may not accept persuasions; they may entertain propositions; they form societies; they enjoy satisfactions; and some
of them are even conscious.
To say this presupposes that in all men and women there is some working
of deity, varying in degree and
intensity, while those in whom there is a greater fullness
of response to the divine working become
more adequately the personal instruments for God.
The bond which unites a couple that has had a mutually giving relationship for twenty, thirty, forty or
more years, has something
of the same power and
intensity as that which unites soldiers who have come through battlefield experiences together.
With every increase in the degree
of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the
intensity of despair increases: the
more consciousness, the
more intense the despair.
Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects
of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding
of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration
of all men and women, (b) an interim social program
of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory
of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape
of this social ethic thus closely parallels that
of the present editorial position
of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a
more active involvement in the social arena), by the
intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication
of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.
The 60s / 70s Rock story
of love - song is that the songster play with formula increasingly fades into the background, behind evocations
of love's
intensity, evocations genuinely — if at times rather studiously — adult, but still, or even
more so, prone to an Agathon - like idolatry
of love, sex, and youth.
There is no
more living expression for the
intensity with which this thought was thought than the godhead
of Mahayana — incessantly multiplying, always clothing itself in new manifestations, always descending anew into the world
of men, always prepared for new sacrifices.
For this real achievement, we should be very grateful indeed, even if we should deplore the low
intensity conflicts against the poor that are the
more characteristic wars
of economism.
The death -
of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything
more in the way
of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships
of various kinds and
intensities and patterns
of communion and brokenness.
Without adequate contrast the
intensity of experience may become too narrowly focused, and may lead to the crippling sickness
of moralism or to the
more virulent disease
of fanaticism.
Elections in the age
of low -
intensity conflict are generally managed
more efficiently than in the past when ballot boxes were stuffed and opposition candidates killed, bribed, or exiled.
If not, since even God's prehensions
of other actual occasions must be positive (CNT 240), then why does man not have a
more active hand in the ultimate resolution
of the aim at «universal
intensity of satisfaction» (CNT 180) which Cobb assigns exclusively to God?
That is what I propose to discuss here: not from the viewpoint
of Sirius, as the saying is — that is to say, with the lofty detachment
of an observer seeing things from so far off that they fail to touch him — but with the anxious
intensity of a son
of Earth who draws back in order to be able to see
more deeply into the matter and spirit
of a movement upon which his happiness depends.
Although the immediate past
of an occasion
of experience is felt or experienced with
more intensity than the remote past, still in a dim way the whole universe and its past is synthesized into each
of the moments
of experience that taken together make up reality.
Yet it may upon occasion do so; and the same correspondent informs me that at
more than one other conjuncture he had the sense
of presence developed with equal
intensity and abruptness, only then it was filled with a quality
of joy.
When this reverted conceptual feeling acquires a relatively high
intensity of upward valuation in its subjective form, the resulting integration
of physical feeling, primary conceptual feeling, and secondary conceptual feeling, produces a
more complex physical purpose than... when the reverted conceptual feeling was negligible (PR 425).