Sentences with phrase «rather than silencing»

It was also situated in the transformative paradigm, which assumes that knowledge reflects power and social relationships within society and seeks to improve the social world by privileging oppressed peoples» voices, rather than silencing or overlooking them.

Rather than silencing student voice, Meaningful Student Involvement can amplify the voices of the silenced; more so, this approach can engage these students as partners with the very teachers who used to fail them.

Rather than silencing neurons outright, molecules like Lynx1 help hold them in check, suppressing their tendency to grow and otherwise change with experience.

These rages were always in a spirit of trying to get some sort of reaction out of God (which I now realize is tempting God) rather than the silence I was experiencing (which I now realize was due to my indwelling sin and my unwillingness to turn from it).

After underlining to Stati the importance of prudence when dealing with earthquakes, and in particular that one should never state that there won't be further tremors, Bertolaso then went on to tell her what the experts were to say: «It is a normal situation, these phenomena [the tremors] happen, it's better that there are 100 magnitude - 4 tremors rather than silence because 100 tremors release energy and there won't ever be the damaging tremor.»

Not exact matches

But he found his medically imposed silence to be a revelation, rather than an ordeal.

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

There emerge, however, from the «periphery» (so to speak) rather than from the center, pockets of order, meaning, and value which grow, spread, and die — that order, those values, and those meanings which gradually grew and spread until they constituted the various Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt would be an example of how order, value, and meaning emerge from the «bottom» and spread «upward» and «outwards» into dynamic pockets or aggregates of order, meaning, and value which prosper - overcoming and absorbing other pockets of order — until they no longer embody the imagination, vigor, and zest required for continued vitality and find themselves absorbed into other competing orders or gradually disintegrating into the silence of a Dark Age.

It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it may be that he thinks it would have been infinitely preferable to maintain silence rather than have anyone privy to his secret.

In seminaries as in churches, breaking the silence has a powerful impact on the community itself: student organizations sponsor films and speakers on the topic; campus incidents are addressed rather than denied; field - education placements in shelters are developed, or a session on sexual harassment is provided for field - education supervisors; resources on these issues are added to the library, and continuing - education programs are developed.

Great — so, either these four young men never were abused, but simply saw an opportunity to shake down an individual with a questionable reputation (the «where there's smoke» strategy), and Pastor Long either caved in to the pressure, or sought an expedient route (possibly used before) to make the problem go away; OR, these really are four young men who've been abused, but rather than make the pastor answer for what he did to them in a court of law, and spare other young men in the future the trauma they experienced, they allowed their silence to be bought.

If someone credited their sobriety to the «blood of Jesus Christ» in any meeting I've ever been to there would likely be a period of awkward silence afterward rather than the chorus of amens that some may be picturing.

It was a paragraph that would have been applauded even just 10 or 15 years ago, but like the sayings of the apostles and prophets and even Jesus Himself, they were silenced by the CNN elite who love darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil.

Writes McKnight, «Blue parakeet passages are oddities in the Bible that we prefer to cage and silence rather than to permit into our sacred mental gardens.

By ignoring the strong leadership roles that women like Deborah and Phoebe and Priscilla played in the Bible (what McKnight calls WDWD passages) because of what Paul said to specific churches about silencing means reverting to our fallen state rather than our new creation state.

Rather than lapsing into shamed silence the Church should redouble her efforts: she should direct her attention to this area and should allocate substantial resources to sex and relationships education, to dynamic programmes that meet the complicated pastoral challenges in the field of sexual education in order to provide young people with a healthy vision of human sexuality.

In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct religious tradition, but rather a way of engaging with and understanding already existing religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»

I should probably claim it's simply because these seriously amazing dairy free and gluten free chocolate chip cookies render me speechless — haha — however they tend to inspire exclamations of joy rather than bouts of silence.

And rest assured that if and when you or anyone else tries this ploy, I'm going to call bs rather than cower in silence from the «J'accuse!»

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Rather than a «Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a man.

Goodell acknowledged that the culture of silence is alive and well; that too many players still hide concussions, and have a «play through, rather than a play safe mentality.»

Infants and older baby's as you might notice often fall asleep quickly in the context of family noise, rather than in silence, as is generally thought.

It seems the association would rather silence opposition than listen to new ideas, demonstrating that it's not charter schools blocking public school growth, but the Syracuse Teachers Association itself.

The money may silence debate, rather than encourage it.

And yet it was received into a strange political silence, as if it were an administrative error that needed correcting, rather than a systematic crisis of a financial model within which greed, fantasy and recklessness had combined in lethal combination.

«We chose early on to hold a fun party rather than a protest, now Camden Council is seeking to silence and marginalise us without any legitimate reason.

«Rather than speaking up and speaking out against discrimination in all its forms, after years of silence on same sex marriages, Donovan has chosen to oppose equal rights for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

Aides of Jeremy Corbyn have said that he chose to stand in «respectful silence» rather than sing the national anthem today.

After hearing an explanation of «affirmative consent» — it requires the initiator of a sexual act to ask first, rather than waiting for his or her partner to say «no» or interpreting silence or passivity as consent — Long reaffirmed his opposition: «I really believe the governor is making a stretch during a political campaign,» he said.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

Gore and her colleagues believe these effects are epigenetic; that is, rather than inducing genetic mutations, which would change the sequence of the rats» DNA, the fungicide is permanently silencing or reprogramming normal genes that control development and behavior.

What these groups are attempting basically is «gene silencing», with a twist - it's aimed directly at the DNA, rather than targeting a «message molecule» called RNA.

One way to do this is to resort to silence rather than confront the person.

This nidra has silence in the back ground rather than a sound scape.

I am a deep thinker and would rather enjoy silence than simple chit chat.

Studi's long silences are the rock, rather than the supporting role, to Bale's self - destructive fury.

He speaks enthusiastically about the movie and keeps up the chatter without any significant silence breaks while giving us plenty of anecdotes and technical explanations rather than just pointlessly describing what's happening on the screen.

It's an old - fashioned sort of show, working unapologetically toward wisdom rather than cleverness, attempting to depict its setting as neither romantic nor dismal, the local color rising as much from silence as words.

The distributors of The Silence of the Lambs, too, had marketed it as a thriller rather than as horror.

We tried to find those opportunities to do more with silences rather than words.

Driver didn't headline Martin Scorsese's latest — that would be Andrew Garfield, inexplicably nominated for Best Actor in «Hacksaw Ridge» rather than «Silence» — but proved an essential piece to its puzzle, nonetheless.

That's because the Church hierarchy has routinely opted to enforce a white collar of silence whereby serial rapists in its ranks are merely reassigned to a different parish rather than defrocked and reported to the authorities.

As researchers at a school of education, says James, the findings «speak to the need for educational supports to help youth navigate backlash or the risk of unwanted consequences, rather than simply silencing their voices online.»

That media silence was due in large part to a calculated strategy among Common Core supporters: Advocates took pains to stay under the radar, avoid public debate, tightly coordinate their messaging, ridicule skeptics rather than respond to them, and ride the wave of support provided by the Obama administration in those years.

The engine's placement precluded reclining backrests, but rather than let the driver struggle to reach the controls, the controls came to him: the steering column both tilted and telescoped, and (get this) the pedal cluster moved at the touch of a button, forward or rearward, in silence, by hydraulic pressure.

According to Uneasy Silence, Fusion Garage send an email out presumably to all Joojoo customers, but they mistakenly used the Cc field rather than the Bcc field, revealing the list of email addresses that the message was sent to — there were only 64 of them.

For Richard, the plight of the African refugees is something that once seen, can not be ignored; silence would mean complicity rather than resistance.

Since I have BlackBerry Protect set up on my phone and rather than getting frustrated, I just log in to the BlackBerry Protect website, click that Loud Ring button, and moments later, my BlackBerry is making a horrid screeching noise, helping me to quickly find (and silence) the device.

I can't tell if the silence on their part is fear based on the criticism of their original plans, or if it's silence until they can do a big splashy announcement, but my gut is that it's the former rather than them having some big way to sell us on it as anything other them dipping - into the other console's cash flow they feel they've been missing out on.