Sentences with phrase «acting as a functioning»

The Conservative chairman has claimed that the Labour leadership contest had revealed a party too deeply split to act as a functioning party.

The pen itself is akin to an expensive Biro and features two buttons on the side, which act as function buttons.

While Kuo's brightly patterned chart paintings evoke the pleasures of geometric abstraction, they negate the purity of hard - edge painting by acting as functioning metrics of his tragicomic mental states.

BoomSound will be great for anyone that likes listening to music out loud but doesn't have a Bluetooth speaker, while Edge Sense is the squeezable edges which act as a function button - it's a cool, useful feature.

Not exact matches

Their opponents, developers who upkeep bitcoin's software, want it to act more as a robust platform that allows them to build new functions on top.

1999 - Marine Life Protection Act Today, California's system of marine protected areas function as a network for conservation, sustainable fisheries, recreation, and education.

They act as if they are still operating in an environment where the function of a physical store is to drive transactions, rather than to provide an immersive physical experience, build personal relationships and upsell.

Although the home office acts as a supporting arm helping to facilitate Masterminds, the groups generally function on their own and independently determine structure, membership, agendas, and meetings.

It flourishes between corporate and business units through misalignment of strategy and hence priorities; between business units and support functions where a disconnect over appropriate services can lead to bloated costs; and between business units themselves when they act as silos, leading to a fragmented view of customers or lengthy internal transfer pricing negotiations.

They believe UTXO has much more in scalability terms for business functions by having limiting information and «Proof of Consensus» model, and they wanted to build something that could act as the ether for those who were hard at work mining in the bitcoin UTXO community.

The Act remedies this imbalance by providing for a provisional registration that functions as an «on - ramp» for start - ups to begin conducting business.

In the letter, the group argued that the act draws a «clear distinction» between those who should be licensed and those who should not, and will function as an «excellent model» for states to follow.

The EVM is a key innovation separating Ethereum from its narrowly functioning big brother (Bitcoin), which was constructed with one function in mind — to act as a currency.

Land appreciation, acts as collateral function, enabling loans out of thin air and the increase in debt.

The newest Echo is the latest update to the Alex - powered speaker — the Plus covers those functions and also acts as a smart hub for various internet - connected devices within the household.

The accounting functions include: maintaining balances in the accounts, making sure the company is compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), provides detailed annual and monthly reports on profit / loss and fund values, calculate the Net Asset Value (NAV) on each fund the company has, determine the current cash value on each fund the company has, and acts as a liaison between investors and internal management.

He created our bodies as they are, to function as they do and he gave us the free will to decide how and when we use our bodies in the act of se.x which he also created.

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

He invited them to Christian functions and notified them when he was hosting a big event, essentially acting as a PR rep for God and trying to persuade them that they had nothing to fear and much to learn.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

There would be certain consequences that come with the act of procreation, namely, a deeper union between the couple: «spiritual and sacramental love, joy of possession, and the fulfilment of human, complementary vocation in one flesh, all taken up to God», [5] as well as a natural organic pleasure such as accompanies the proper functioning of other humanacts (like eating and drinking).

In this context he defines the sin of contraception as to «subordinate the primary purpose potential of the sexual function and organs to secondary purposes of the sexual act, this subordinationunderstood of a physical ordering of nature»; «the primary end intrinsic to the physical nature of the act [may not be] subordinated to other purposes».

Re ``... the sacraments as objective acts of God which function ex opere operato, rather than just subjective acts of humanity which yearn for, invoke and somehow evoke the divine.

As early as 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovAs early as 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovas 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovas man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovas a middle term between transcendence and acts of love.

In this it functions very much like the Thomistic God, which as infinite esse communicates to each actuality its own esse or act of being.2

Yet the decisiveness of the act is partially a function of God's activity, which is in one sense different here than in other places, for the particular ideal aim given here is such as to give particularly apt expression to his being.

Edward L. Cleary explains, «Instead of the tribal chief acting as family, political and religious ruler, those three functions have been separated and taken over by individuals and groups within family systems, political parties, and religious organizations «12

In these places the course of study consists of a series of preparations for a series of loosely connected acts In this situation each one of the more general disciplines — such as study of the Bible, theology, church history, psychology, sociology — may then be directly related to a specific function such as preaching?

For a capitalist system such as ours to function well, it presumes that corporate decision - makers will act in their organization's, and thus their own, best interest.

The self - integration damaged in this way is the unity of the acting person as conscious subject and sexually functioning body.

Alcohol acts as a narcotic — first, in suppressing the higher mental functions and then, as larger doses are taken, in reducing a person to the animal level and finally to unconscious vegetative immobility.

No other, however closely knit with me in some grouping, is an extension of myself; to think that way, above all to act as if that were the case, is destructive of the giving and receiving that can characterize human belonging when it is functioning at its best.

Here, too, consciousness functioned as conformation to the given as much as, or more than, as a constructive agent, for reasoning was discovery of what was there in the forms rather than a creative act.

The divine in him is God at work in and through him, the act of God which he is, appearing in the world of men as a man, and performing that supreme function which as Savior and Source of new strength, he has actually performed.»

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

It may be that the same individual acts both as «medicine man» and «priest»; but his two functions are in some sort distinguished.

Without saying that it is particular religious acts or practices, such as prayer or the use of Scripture for guidance, that make one's function pastoral, I believe that a case can be made for an identifiable pastoral function as well as a pastoral way of thinking about that function.

Which is to say, the leader of the community in this or that place acts as the designated «elder» and performs what can rightly be known as priestly functions, even if that particular word is not employed.

It is always the actual entity that acts, not one of its poles as such, although in many of its functions one pole or another may be primarily relevant.

Just as it must be all - inclusive both of self and the world and, therefore, strictly universal in scope and function, it must also be genuinely individual in that it is a single center of interaction, both acting on and being acted on by itself and all others.

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

The function proper to the first organ is that of receiving [percevoir] each particular impression, of attaching signs to it, of combining the different impressions, of comparing them with each other, of drawing from them judgments and resolves; just as the function of the other organ is to act upon the nutritive substances whose presence excites it, to dissolve them, and to assimilate their juices to our nature.

It is but a short step from this interpretation of the entity's act of self - creation to that distortion in which God, along with the world, functions as a basis for a «reality - founding ego.

It means so energizing these structures and institutions, within their own provinces and with the spirit appropriate to their own function, that they can act as the true creatures of God they are.

The openness of the civic culture has depended on the fact that these groups and traditions have functioned as teachers of virtue and morality, sustaining by their various lights a general predisposition toward acting well.

What makes us weariest, Paul teaches us, is not that we are different, but that we act as if our way of functioning in the body is the best way.

To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.

This function of an idealistic ethical symbol, this affirmation that the moral act is an expression of the love and the will of the universal Spirit, is characteristic of the religious and Christian Ethic, the Ethic of love and of the anxious search for the divine presence, which, as a result of narrow partisanship or lack of insight, is spurned and vilified today by vulgar rationalists and intellectualists, by so - called free - thinkers and similar riff - raff who frequent Masonic lodges.

Here, however, Whitehead recognizes that past occasions functioning as transeunt causes do not themselves act, but merely lay down conditions upon the creativity that transcends them.

The religious freedom resulting from this tolerance is real enough; what is unreal is the assumption that religious convictions that can not be acted on in public will nonetheless continue to function in private as if they could be.