Sentences with phrase «about shape of the world»

Dorothy watched eagles and hawks careering too high to cast shadows, she watched the returning larks and bluebirds, and she wondered what they knew about the shape of the world and if they would ever tell her.

As I've been writing, much about the shape of the world to come will be determined by two factors — the size of human populations and the amount of protein, water, energy and other essentials they require.

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All of the same kinds of questions apply to how the main news feed works, and so far there hasn't been much openness about that at all, nor any real admission that the company has any ethical or moral responsibility related to how it shapes the world - view of its billion - plus users.

An eight - episode series about the world of shipping containers and global trade may seem like a niche subject, but it doesn't take long for host Alexis Madrigal to convince listeners why the development of this worldwide network has shaped every aspect of life on Earth.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Alphabet X used balloons of all shapes and sizes, but the one that worked actually traveled around the world 19 times in just about 187 days.

I do think that maintaining the normativity of Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with Scripture is within the context of worship.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

All that has been said about the limits of the Church's ministry in the concrete shaping of the world must not itself be regarded as a formula with the help of which all problems regarding criticism of the Church can be solved.

When we think about the role of reading in our spiritual formation, we generally think of non-fiction books that help us understand scripture and theology, but fiction powerfully shapes the ways in which we think faithfully about God and the world.

They share a set of core ideas about themselves and the world, and because of their power, their vision shapes the world in important ways for everyone else, too.

A detailed critique of the mainline U.S. media is available elsewhere and is beyond the scope of this book.15 However, I offer these observations about the mainline media, which plays such an important role in shaping our understanding of the world and the role of the United States within it.

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

It was as if I had been blundering about since my birth with two huge and unmanageable machines, of different shapes and without apparent connection — the world and the Christian tradition.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

Written by Friedrich Hayek during World War II, The Road to Serfdom sought to shape thinking about the post-war reconstruction of society.

From an analysis of attitudes towards Christians in the ancient Roman world comes the significant comment that» [w] hat others thought about Christianity was a factor in shaping how Christians would think about themselves and how they would present themselves to the larger world.»

These assertions often do not differ markedly from the kinds of theoretical and explanatory arguments prevalent in the social science literature, but they serve as rhetorical appeals aimed at shaping the way we think about our world, the ways we vote, and the policies we support.

The book is not really about the new shape of world Christianity but about one shape.

Comparing the idea of God, the universe and how it all came about and why, to things like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus isn't really making your take on the matter and the importance religion played throughout history and continues to shape the world, well, what can you say?

To ring in the New Year, CNN's Belief Blog asked experts in religion, faith leaders, and a secular humanist about how the forces of faith and faithlessness will shape the world in 2012.

With the publication of this manual on the Anker Methodology of Living Wage measurement, there is an unprecedented opportunity to measure living wages that are accepted by the variety of players involved in living wage issues, and to lead cooperation and shape discussions about worker needs and wage levels around the world, to achieve progressive improvement in wages towards a living wage globally.

What this is about is presenting children, from the youngest ages onwards, with clear - as - crystal, living examples of men in caring roles... and of men and women working together to shape our inner worlds.

Reading to your baby introduces her to the concepts of stories, numbers, letters, colors, and shapes, and gives her information about the world around her.

Later your baby uses her sense of touch to learn about the texture and shape of the world around her.

So, you, I guess, what I would do is in the cloth diaper world, there is all sorts of blogs and review sites that talk about different brands and how they work with different sized babies and different shaped babies.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

What's interesting about the current [economic] situation is that no one could sit around a table and say, «Well, I really think those Tories have sketched out a clear shape and understanding of the modern world, that they've defined a policy agenda that's got rigour and drive at its heart.»

«Our embodiment shapes how we engage the world and leads to our concern about the world, and is part of our fundamental care for ourselves and others.»

And yet, a whole new scientific world has emerged, and it is about to shape almost every aspect of our modern world and life.

Researchers put a number on how much seawater the world has, based on new data about the shape of the ocean floor.

Dr Michele Bannister said: «We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well - baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system, has a greyish / red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.

On the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray bursts.

These geographic and environmental commonalities play a key part of shaping human societies in the region, which is currently home to about 40 % of the world's population, the authors add.

About OSA Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional society for scientists, engineers, students and business leaders who fuel discoveries, shape real - world applications and accelerate achievements in the science of light.

In JILA's world - leading clock, a few thousand atoms of strontium are held in a column of about 100 pancake - shaped traps called an optical lattice formed by intense laser light.

Our brains are able to store information about the world for several seconds after it was acquired, for example the shape and identity of an animal that disappeared behind a tree.

An international team of scientists has challenged one of the key assumptions about how the body - shapes of the world's animals evolved.

Any predictions about what will happen in the future and whether animals will be able to cope with changes in their environment will require a thorough understanding of their biology, visual perception and cognitive abilities in conjunction with the parameters that define the world that has shaped them.

I hope you enjoy reading about the features, likes, dislikes and findings as I continue to explore the world of driving, the auto industry and cars of all shapes and sizes.

These mules are also from Zara and caught my eye (not just because they were on sale haha) because of their geometric shape and very subtle asymmetry in the front — kind of a metaphor about our shifting online world.

Stepping out of my bubble expanded my worldview and completely changed the way I thought about America, its relationship to the rest of the world, and how new experiences with new people can educate and shape a person.

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Dating sites capitalize on our quest for love, but how do their creators» ideas about profits, morality, and the nature of desire shape the virtual worlds they've created for us?

Its emotional impact is shaped by the unique perspective of the narrator - a typical teenager telling the tale out of her own youthful concerns (having fun, her uncertain future), combining her beliefs about the dual contradictory nature of humanity («you just got half - devil and half - angel in ya»), and imaginative and fearsome fantasies of religious judgment and divine retribution (the flaming end of the world, and the Devil's presence on Earth).

But a certain degree of uncertainty about how to embody a king's identity gives him the opportunity for some flexibility in his approach to shaping Wakanda's relationship to the world.

Darkest Hour is a film of flummoxed old white men hollering at each other, a perfect foil to (and double - bill alongside) Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, both because the two take place at about the same time during the early years of World War II — as Hitler's world domination began to take shape and an invasion of the UK imminent — and because they are entirely different experiences: Dunkirk is all action, while Joe Wright's film is all wWorld War II — as Hitler's world domination began to take shape and an invasion of the UK imminent — and because they are entirely different experiences: Dunkirk is all action, while Joe Wright's film is all wworld domination began to take shape and an invasion of the UK imminent — and because they are entirely different experiences: Dunkirk is all action, while Joe Wright's film is all words.

«The Shape of Water» director, who along with Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones, Alexandre Desplat and J. Miles Dale, were recipients of the gala's Vanguard Award celebrating the fantastical, ethereal drama, spoke candidly and eloquently about the confounding and anxiety - inducing state of political affairs in the world.