Sentences with phrase «acts like a patterned»

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For conceptual acts like Schwartz's «mindful attention» to permanently alter patterns of brain activity that otherwise would remain stuck is therefore exactly what one would expect if the mind transcends the brain and yet is capable of physical effects.

To the extent that U.S. culture is now tilting toward conservatism, those who hold such values may come to feel and act like a minority group — which seeks mutual support, recognizable in - group styles, viable defense patterns.

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

There are some Christians who act like Christians, talk like Christians, and even behave like Christians — they don't have any serious, evident patterns of sin in their lives.

Nature is not the composition of law - like patterns occurring independently of God, and thus, miracles are not cases of when God intervenes, but when He acts differently than usual for His redemptive purposes.

No doubt most acts of minding are governed by habitual, or law - like, patterns of response whose different characters distinguish world - making capabilities across a wide organic spectrum.

Earlier, Ms Thornberry condemned Turkey for its «disgraceful assault on Afrin», later adding: «The truth is that the Turkish assault is part of a broader pattern where too many foreign parties engaged in the Syrian civil war are now acting just like the Assad regime itself without any regard for international law.»

So by continuing to advise women to «act like ladies or girls and to accept their «cavemen»» sets couples up for «reproducing the very patterns that are implicated in marital stress.»

Other than that common slowdown, there's no need to worry if your baby's pooping pattern stays fairly consistent and she's acting like her usual self.

Later, Hooper describes the double - slit experiment, in which a photon appears to act like a wave, diffracting at both slits and creating an interference pattern.

Acting like synapses in the brain, the metal - oxide memristor array was capable of learning and re-learning input patterns in an unsupervised manner within a probabilistic winner - take - all (WTA) network.

Abstract: If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns.

The treatment makes these ganglion cells act like photoreceptors, responding to patterns of light that pass through the retina and converting them into patterns of electricity that go directly to the brain.

Vogue succinctly encapsulated the Temperley AW14 daywear in their catwalk report; «the wardrobe of a grown - up hippy strolling down Portobello Road sifting through the market's treasures — the stricter pieces like the sheer blouses, double - breasted A-line wool coats and crew - neck patterned jumpers acting as her staples for smart - casual dates and freelance meetings in the West End» — perfect imagery for a perfect collection.

By now, you should know what you like, so if you see a familiar pattern emerging when you're dating someone, act on it.

The script, by Hope Floats screenwriter Steven Rogers, identifies a pattern of abuse in the athlete's life, passed like a baton between two domineering figures: insult - slinging stage mother from hell LaVona (Allison Janney, relishing every line of bilious dialogue) and Harding's impotently frustrated, small - town - loser of a beau, Jeff (Sebastian Stan, who apparently can act, when not playing the brainwashed sidekick of a super soldier).

The most spectacular act of violence comes at the very beginning, on that strange doomed flight whose passengers find that they are united in what looks like a creepy pattern of coincidences.

The purpose of the Lucy character, I guess, is to act like a catalyst or a muse, shaking up old patterns and forcing these exiles to decide where their homes really are.

There's also a Plumidex, which is an index of different colored creatures that help identify patterns to pursue, and also kind of act like an impromptu achievement system.

To answer the question - moot at this point for you I'm sure, but this is a Question and Answer site after all - What looks and acts like a blown head gasket, resulting in coolant in the cylinder, when the head gasket is fine: cracked head warped head improperly torqued ore loose head bolts (torque them down in a pattern) missing parts (o - rings, dowel pins,...

It acts just like the pattern or PIN unlock, so you can still use lock screen shortcuts - you just have to deal with security before your app opens.

I am disgusted when something is «secret», «black - box», or «proprietary indicator» and I am told to «just follow the damn patterns» and act like a machine.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

Viewed through enormous floor to ceiling windows, their grid - like pattern acts as a structuring force.

«My repetitive primitive act in the creating process, stringing beads and weaving them with my hands into a complex web structure, is like prayer or contemplation to me and it creates an infinite pattern symbolizing the cycle of the world.

The atmosphere, too, has gotten its act together this time around — and is exhibiting a more strongly El Niño - like circulation pattern than has ever been observed previously during the summer months.

This variability includes the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (a long - lived El Niño - like pattern of Pacific climate variability) and anthropogenic pollutants, which act to modify the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Changes in the speed of the Atlantic circulation pattern — known as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — that influences the world's oceans because it acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.

A solid color on upholstery acts like a neutral, allowing you to still change the mood all year round with seasonal or patterned pillows covers and throws!