Sentences with phrase «most events of this nature»

Not exact matches

It can be a challenge to get even the most enthusiastic of employees to participate in team - building activities, and the announcement of mandatory events of this nature often prompts further complaints.

Then we will see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint of the inherited ontology of nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and at every step, «a pilgrimage in which the miracle of divine love... is the most ordinary of events.»

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

Indeed, finally, for Whiteheadians, the events that make up nature are all occurrences of experience, albeit most of them are not conscious.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

And this character of God (his primordial nature) is the most general order of the realm of possibility graded in relevance to any and all particular events that occur.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

The supreme importance of Christ is best seen when he is viewed as the living creative center of the supremely important event of human history, and also that the «nature» of Christ is most truly known under that same category: God's action is the divine nature of Christ.

What we are trying to say is that his supreme importance is best seen when he is viewed as the living creative center of the supremely important event of human history, and also that the «nature» of Christ is most truly known under that same category: God's action is the divine nature of Christ.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

In any event, an awareness that certain polar contrasts (such as subjective - objective, public - private, body - mind, organism - machine, feeling - thought, and perhaps nature - culture) are indissoluble, yet fundamental, is one of the most important aspects of Whitehead's philosophic thought.

Dependence, issuing in independence, is one of the most familiar events in nature.

The most fundamental units of nature are not substances but events.

They grow up with a belief about the nature of the embryo, so events in their lives lead them 10 believe that the embryo is a unique person, or a fetus; that people are intimately tied to their biological roles, or that these roles are but a minor part of life: that motherhood is the most important and satisfying role open to a woman, or that motherhood is only one of several roles, a burden when defined as the only role.

Though the events that prompted the review — in which the House of Lords derailed the government's changes to working tax credits — most obviously invite discussion of the unelected nature of the second chamber, they also highlight a deeper problem with our democratic system.

«The changes to the Arctic represent the single most important natural history event of our lifetime,» says Meg Beckel, CEO of the Canadian Museum of Nature, which helps support the team's $ 80,000 polar expeditions.

Some cosmic rays detected on Earth are produced in violent events such as supernovae, but we still don't know the origins of the highest - energy particles, which are the most energetic particles ever seen in nature.

The intrusive nature of Jackie is heightened by the narrative framework of the piece which sees a story - eager journalist (Billy Crudup) dissecting events shortly after, hunting for the most sensational account possible while posturing himself as one of the «honorable» ones.

The challenge might as handily have been provoked by numerous interpersonal events of a more explicitly private nature (but these lack the cachet of apparent social comment); for the most compelling relationships in the film and the narrative turns they generate are satisfyingly free of 1:1, paint - by - the - numbers cause and effect.

Based on true events, Compliance has been described as one of the most disturbing movies ever made, for its intensive study of the worst of human nature.

For example, in relation to «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner», Benton and Fox (1985) write that it «dramatises the relationship between teller and listener», in that the symbolic nature of events are accessible to most adolescent readers.

To make your own natural calendar, keep notes of what's happening in nature, choose your favorite natural event or the event that seems most representative of the time of year, and name the month after that.

Most authors are introverts by nature, so the idea of trekking from book signing to festival event may make you hyperventilate.

One of the most obvious is there is no replacement for the feeling of romance and luxury that nature and the tropics bring to such a special event.

I'm mostly going to write on my perspective of the event, what games I'm most excited for, which ones I have the most fun playing at the show, things of that nature.

That refers to the aggressive marketing of particular brands in association with certain games or gaming events, the menacing and / or inducements by publishers made toward editors, reporters and critics (a carrot - and - stick of threats and / or elaborate trips, swag, dinners, parties) and even the advertorial nature of most gaming news briefs themselves.

The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists» efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse - driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.

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In fact, the most important factor contributing to traumatic experience isn't the nature of the event, it's whether you're alone during and afterward.

In any event, most of what appears on REM would be of a nature that it really couldn't usually harm any identifiable group or segment of real estate practitioners.