Sentences with phrase «about their influence upon»

Think about their influence upon your life and upon your world outlook.

Not exact matches

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

It is enough to provoke both laughter and tears — not only all these protestations about having understood and comprehended the highest thought, but also the virtuosity with which many know how to present it in abstracto, and in a certain sense quite correctly — it is enough to provoke both laughter and tears when one sees then that all this knowing and understanding exercises no influence upon the lives of these men, that their lives do not in the remotest way express what they have understood, but rather the contrary.

New ground, not really covered by either historians or theologians previously, was broken when sociologists of religion asked about the influence of societal factors upon religion.

Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton have said: «To the extent that the media of mass communication has had an influence upon their audiences it has stemmed not only from what is said but more significantly from what is not said, for these media not only continue to affirm the status quo but in the same measure they fail to raise essential questions about the structure of society.

First, I want to talk about its author, my 9th grade English teacher and debate coach Robert Pacilio, the adult who was perhaps the most formative influence upon me outside of my parents and perhaps a couple Sunday school teachers.

This point, combined with the previous one, means that he can talk about the causal influence, for example, of molecules within the cell upon the cell's series of living occasions, which can for practical purposes be regarded as the «cell as a whole,» and he can speak about the returned causal influence of the living occasions upon the molecular constituents.

(A point which I have attempted to argue in The Gospel of the Kingdom [1940]-RRB- Their interests are very largely centered upon the apostles, but at the same time the surviving tradition within them makes it clear that Jesus» influence upon the populace of Galilee resulted in «multitudes» following him about and hanging upon his words.

And I promise thee that my Heart will dilate to shed with abundance the influences of its love upon all those who pay to it these honors, or who bring it about that others do the same.»

First, concerned about the influence of paganism upon the Roman Christians, Paul sees homosexual expression as a result of idolatry, but he does not claim that such practices are the cause of God's wrath.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

Upon his arrival, Klopp talked about turning doubters into believers and for the most part he's been a positive influence on what was a fractured fan base.

This is a general term for physical influences upon stability and confinement brought about by ion mass.

(These nitrogen - based protein byproducts)-- frequently spoken of as toxins — float about through the body and may exercise more or less of a deleterious influence upon the system, or, being temporarily deposited, may exert some specific or local influence that calls for their speedy removal.»

The basics explained a great deal about how influential our parents personal dietary habits and cultural influence have upon our own personal Prakriti.

It's not just about testosterone: your body and your health is dependent upon a near - endless list of factors influenced or impacted by your testosterone levels.

Such are the lyrics of Broadway's famous musical Fiddler on the Roof, about Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his desperate attempts to maintain his Jewish traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives.

Based upon the widely accepted idea that individuals are influenced by observing or learning about the behaviour of others, parents were provided with a descriptive norm message.

Teachers are widely agreed upon to be the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement, but we are less sure about the mechanisms through which teachers can have an impact.

This weekend's Wall Street Journalinterview with the foundation's namesake about those school reform efforts once again hit upon one of the most - salient points I had made: That private - sector donations to public school districts and efforts at influencing policy won't be enough to continue the overhaul of American public education.

Dr. Richard Weissbourd, director of the Making Caring Common Project at Harvard, along with his team, stumbled upon some troubling findings as they sought to identify young people's challenges and hopes and who influences the way they think about relationships.

If that wasn't interesting enough, Moore «s story is interwoven with time travel and stories about the mysterious Colorman, and the Colorman's dubious influence upon artists throughout the ages.

The topic of whether games can or can not influence violence is a lengthy one and fascinating, so I won't touch upon it here, but what Mr. Beck forgets to mention is that is gaming is now the most popular form of entertainment in the world with a games console in the house of just about everyone, while Call of Duty is the single most popular franchise in the world at this moment.

Whether it's an art work or a photograph that I am trying to think through, or some ideas that I came upon that prompted further investigation, the camera is a tool for me to find depictions that can somehow address or reflect these encounters, and the different ways that they have influenced my thinking about photography.

An earlier artwork that engages with questions about the influence of consumer culture and technology upon the individual is Lynn Hershman Leeson's pioneering video work Lynn Turning into Roberta (1978), which documents her invention and subsequent fabrication of her fictional alter - ego Roberta Breitmore.

Arguably, though, the biggest, almost overwhelming, influence upon Armitage is a contemporary one — the Scottish painter Peter Doig, who has lived in Trinidad since 2002, and is, himself, about to open a solo show in London, at Michael Werner Gallery.

But it is wholly different to suggest that we are all influenced by unacknowledged — yet powerful — wishes when responding to the demands our spaces make upon us and when thinking about how best to organise those spaces (which include, of course, the frustrating reality of «other» people).

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the 2013 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association calls upon delegates to begin a denomination - wide conversation within their congregations about divesting from fossil fuels or exercising shareholder influence.

When outlets such as The New York Times finally weighed in, their stories tended to confuse climate politics (the debate over what to do about GW) and climate science (that debate over what we know about the Earth and our influence upon it).

Simulations of future climate are all based upon assumptions about future greenhouse gas concentrations and other factors that influence climate; this is one reason why these simulations are referred to as «projections» rather than «predictions.»

I don't know about you, but it seems to me that most of those abstracts mention global climate change but not global warming or human influence upon the climate change.

These stations are scattered around Australia, all are at sea level and are said to be isolated from Urban Heat Influence - although the satellite images below suggest that questions might be asked about heat from nearby industrial and urban development, dependent upon prevailing winds.

The appeals court rejected Sienkowski's argument, holding that under Indiana law a party can not attack the validity of a verdict by juror testimony about jury deliberations unless it relates to (1) drug or alcohol use by any juror, (2) the question of whether extraneous prejudicial information was improperly brought to the jury's attention or (3) whether any outside influence was improperly brought to bear upon any juror.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.

The increased influence of international economies upon each other was about to become apparent.