Sentences with phrase «acting as an element»

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The key elements of the ceremony — the host's tightrope act, the lengthy, some might say self - congratulatory, running time and the glamorously outfitted stars in the audience — are going to be the same as they ever were.

The functional elements of the business act as a solid foundation, but the core of our focus now is our community and how we, as an organization, can facilitate connections between the 17K + members that are a part of all our centres.

Between 2006 and 2010, Mr. Yashchenko acted as Deputy Chief Financial Officer and as Corporate Finance Director at Basic Element.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

For despite the interconnection of all the elements we must distinguish between the one saving act of Christ which is made present in the liturgy (though its efficacy is not restricted to this presence) and the external sacramental action as such.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

These are much simpler elements than proteins or DNA / RNA and act as an energy source.

Although even then I recognized that there were unrealistically alarmist elements in Ehrlich's book, it was clear to me that I could not continue to think and act as if the basic patterns of our global life were tolerable.

Actually, TV acts more as a filter than as a window — a filter selecting images, extracting unpleasant (and pleasant) elements, coloring others, and making a whole world seem real to us when it is in fact nothing more than thousands of bright phosphors dancing on a piece of glass.

This response was continuous, although the resurrection marked the crisis in its development — the moment when loyalty to the person reached its climax and when faith in the meaning of the event as an act of God became for the first time clear and sure — but at every stage this response was a constituent and creative element in the event itself, and the event had not fully happened until this response of faith had been fully made.

We hold that mass, in its preprojective sense, is an objectified form of certain physical societies, a form that acts as a universal leveler of relations in societies, and one that, in a distant echo of Averroës, completely ignores elements of internal structure.

And if we review the book as a whole, we must judge that this excessive emphasis on the future has the effect of relegating to a secondary place just those elements in the original Gospel which are most distinctive of Christianity — the faith that in the finished work of Christ God has already acted for the salvation of man, and the blessed sense of living in the divine presence here and now.

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

Thus we speak of a formula as being true if it represents correctly the way in which certain physical elements act in relation to one another, and a syllogism is said to be true when the final statement in a series of statements is derived by rational necessity from the others in the series.

The equal dignity of all human beings, the freedom of the act of faith as the root of all the other civil freedoms, -LSB-...] are likewise central elements of the Christian Revelation that continue to model the European Civilisation.

Thus, complexity in types and relations between acts of minding may have grown exponentially with the evolution of «higher» organisms as the imaginative element in the construction of reality became more socially diffused; i.e. as the construction of reality became more participatory - negotiary in character.

And inasmuch as no act of becoming is ever completely determined, it must always involve an element of self - determination.

Significant elements within the media continue to act as if they constituted a permanent and not - so - loyal opposition to the government of the day.

Ablution as an act of purification was an important element in the Old Testament.

In this representational sense the Church is that part of human society, and that element in each particular society, which moves toward God, which as the priest acting for all men worships Him, which believes and trusts in Him on behalf of all, which is first to obey Him when it becomes aware of a new aspect of His will.

There are elements of very great importance, not only as to the theology of war and peace but as to analysis of the existing situation and procedures for acting within it, on which Christians can agree.

Christ directly acts in and through the material elements so as to bestow on the personality of the recipient the gift of His own life.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

In this collective smog the abortion issue acts as a kind of volatile precipitant, causing all the various elements of angst in church, state and society to condense and focus themselves with a terrible intensity.

(1:26 - 30) After that, scripture in Chapter 2 CLEARLY reiterates certain elements of creation and basically acts as a «How He Did It», in - depth story of the creation of humankind on the earth.

Women were also forbidden to be rabbis because the Bible seemed to preclude their serving as judges and acting as a judge is an important element in a rabbi's job description.

Different elements in teas have proven to act as stress relievers and this is in fact great for us because teas are natural.

Other than all benefits of yogurt, yogurt also act as cooling element with spiced chickpeas!

ALL THESE ELEMENTS are there always, wenger has to take them as PART of our reality and act upon them already!

It acts as a barrier from outside elements.

Much like adults the bottoms will protect your babies from elements and will act as a second layer of skin.

The skin is an organ which acts as a protective barrier from harmful elements like sun, bacteria, viruses, etc..

If you want perfume in the shampoo, go for the natural scents from herbs like chamomile and lavender, which also act as a soothing element for your baby.

Bohrer wrote the information in these interviews «directly undermine crucial elements of the crime charged: that Percoco was a State official at the time he performed an official act, and that he was a State official, held himself out as a future State official, at the time he entered into a quid pro quo agreement with the Syracuse defendants.»

As a Council, we are appalled at some individuals within the ruling party, including a sitting Member of Parliament, whose tacit support and actions seems to be providing oxygen for these criminal elements to carry out these acts of impunity, having the potential of not only casting a slur on their own party leadership and government but undermining the authority of the Presidency, thus eroding the confidence and goodwill that Ghanaians have reposed in the new administration.

Military authorities in the Country have warned groups or unpatriotic elements threatening to make the country ungovernable or unpalatable for peace and security of the citizens, to have a rethink and desist from such as the armed forces were fully mobilized and ready to crush acts -LSB-...]

He also said Freddie Blay who is now the acting chairman of the NPP means «the takeover of the NPP by CPP elements is now complete — with Mr. Blay as Chair and Abdul Malik Kweku Baako leading the Public Relations case for the coup!»

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed Smart Schools Bond Act, Proposal 3, which would generate $ 2 billion to improve classroom technology and other elements of educational infrastructure, also saw approval, as did Proposal 2, the constitutional amendment that would eliminate the need for legislative bills to be printed and supplied to every lawmaker before being considered.

Cuomo, speaking at the downtown Strand Theatre on Wednesday, said the city contains all of the elements required to fuel economic growth, including a strong core of small businesses, a state school that acts as an idea incubator and a low corporate tax rate.

«Finally, the Police Commissioner urges the good people of Kogi State to always avail the Command with credible information on the existence of criminal elements, so as to curtail act of criminality in the State.»

He advised Lagosians to be very vigilant and security conscious as intelligence reports have shown that most of these heinous crimes are perpetrated through recalcitrant elements who have infiltrated the state and are carrying out this act in conjunction with friends, family members or close associates of the victims.

Labour's union, council, public sector and, increasingly tenuous, business links act as a drag anchor on some of its more crackpot elements.

One of the unique elements of the Institute is its position at the interface of academia and industry, with multidisciplinary research groups acting as a driver of innovation and the resources needed to bring these innovations to market.

Finally, the gold - covered LTO is mixed with ultrathin sheets of the element black phosphorus (BP), which acts as a light absorber.

This particular active material, originally developed at Brandeis University, borrows elements of cellular machinery, with bundles of rod - like microtubules forming the filaments, kinesin motor proteins acting as the engines, and ATP as the fuel.

Specifically, a gene called Overdrive acts as a «selfish element» and skews sperm production so that hybrid males mainly make sperm carrying X chromosomes.

Since no viral functions are required for propagation of recombinants in bacteria, viral mutants with lethal changes in cis - or trans - acting elements can be isolated, as well as partially or conditionally defective mutants.

Radioactive nuclei act as microcosms for learning about neutron stars, objects that squash more mass than is contained in the Sun into the size of a city, and which are key to understanding how the Universe's heavy elements form.

«Essentially, what we're doing is taking a library of human mRNA and tagging those sequences that act as translation enhancing elements,» Chaput says.

Now, John Chaput and his colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have produced the first genome - wide investigation of cap - independent translation, identifying thousands of mRNA sequences that act as Translation Enhancing Elements (TEEs), which are RNA sequences upstream of the coding region that help recruit the ribosome to the translation start site.