Sentences with phrase «abstract ideals»

If your business depends on the engagement, creativity and free thinking of your teams, you must do your part to move the creation of a culture of conversation from abstract ideal to cultural reality.

This error makes possible the remark that «liberalism has always been much better than the theory,» a remark derived from Burke's conservatism, which opposes abstract ideals with a liberalism «cautiously evolved through centuries of trial and error.»

Politics will become more than the struggle for abstract ideals and instead the struggle to love our flesh and blood neighbors well.

He is concerned to defeat «secular ideology», «the forces of technocracy», «rationalist, utilitarian and transactional» politics, «materialist» politics and even «abstract ideals such as progress and freedom of choice».

Like many other countries, China has found that human rights protection is not a matter of abstract ideals but rather an essential dimension of economic and social development.

As an artist she never wavered from abstract ideals: exploring the notion that, even if devoid of representation, deceptively simple constructs allow for infinite aesthetic possibilities.

They were purists, only interested in the realization of their abstract ideals of justice.

But what was this trial and error if not the painstaking working out of abstract ideals and then testing them in real situations?

Jesus is not an abstract ideal; he is truth in action.

There is among the orders no ideal state, no ideal marriage, no ideal economic system, as though God's Word should be equated with some abstract ideal structures of life.

But we Catholics are living in an actual Church and not in a cloud cuckooland of abstract ideals, hence we must bear with her when she is trying to confront our time cautiously, yet with courage.

In that case, the «social» in «social justice» refers to something that emerges not organically and spontaneously from the rule - abiding behavior of free individuals, but rather from an abstract ideal imposed from above.

Try as you might, you can never reconcile fundamental human biology and the abstract ideals created by the human imagination.

You shall not kill is an abstract ideal but life and circumstances qualify it as happens to every Commandment.

Not an abstract ideal but a prototype for man's imitation is provided, along with exemplary patterns for ritual, moral and practical behaviour.

Everything changes when abiding is not an abstract ideal but a response to his offer.

The reign of God is not an abstract ideal; it is a reality actualizing itself in history.

They hold up not an abstract ideal but a prototype for man's imitation.

If they choose to come and read them here, then just possibly it MIGHT bring it home that prioritising some abstract ideal of birth over the life of one's child is not likely to result in universal approval of that choice, but personally I think they would be well advised not to read them.

When people say things like «elections are won in the centre» they are not expressing some abstract ideal.

In the same year, a policy report from the Brookings Institute, Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value - Added suggested that VAM should not be measured against an abstract ideal, but rather should be compared to other teacher evaluation methods to determine its potential usefulness.

But soon artists began to turn away from this supposed trajectory, rejecting first the abstract ideal and then painting as the master - discipline entirely for a new succession of forms: conceptualism, performance, multimedia installations.

Many scholars attribute the important characteristics of Avery's style to his professional affiliation with the gallery of Paul Rosenberg who exposed him to modern European artists and their abstract ideals.

Whatever Beuys's intentions, democracy appeared not as an abstract ideal but as the means through which relations between people are organised.

We use the power of the law to help the most vulnerable in our communities so that justice is not just an abstract ideal.