Sentences with phrase «absence of a higher power»

Justin Scott, a voter from Waterloo, asked the Catholic Republican presidential hopeful how his faith would impact his own belief in the absence of a higher power.

I grew up Christian, was very religious, but upon doing research, all of the evidence pointed to the absence of a high power.

Malick has explored themes of spirituality, man's capacity for violence, the coexistence of man and nature, and the existence or absence of a higher power throughout his career.

In the absence of some higher power forcing you to perform such an atrocity, you substitute factual content with something else.

Not exact matches

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Our misguided and ill - intentioned centralised government has led to high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality, the absence of basic healthcare and dysfunctional politics characterised by cut - throat, destructive, expensive and self - serving contests for the almighty federal power every four years!

Before returning home, Billy concocts a more illustrious account of his absence: a high - powered career as a secret agent and marriage to a beautiful woman named Wendy.

Sport mode quickens the CVT's artificial up shifts, and holds the rpms higher, but the CVT can't compensate for the absence of power and the overall result is underwhelming.

Because of the fourth power law of radiation, the average temperature is then higher than in the absence of this buffering.

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, published this week, will also give powers to courts to ensure dangerous offenders given a discretionary life sentence serve a higher proportion of their tariff before becoming eligible for parole consideration, and create a presumption that trials in magistrates» courts will proceed in the absence of the accused.

However, given the relative low levels of high EE in this study (15 %), the absence of group differences may be attributed to low power.