Sentences with phrase «actual facts of history»

In reality many of these accusations are greatly tempered by a simple objective look at the actual facts of history.

Not exact matches

Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts, events, natural moments, or actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).

It is part of our history, regardless of the actual belief system of dog worshippers, it is in fact, historically relevant and a national treasure.

The final problem for the progressive view is that of the actual fact of the persistence of evil in all the structures of human history.

Waugh understood that this search was all about the actual, raw fact of the Crucifixion really happening: the Christian faith is not a set of moral principles, or a myth and some lovely traditions, but the truth, rooted in history.

It must also mean that the Eternal Sacrifice of her Cross and Eucharist, and the Episcope, the «pastoral care» of her divine magisterium, dominates all human history in vocation if not in actual fact.

The fact that the idiom has had a much longer and more varied history should make it possible for it to be rescued from bondage to a narrow usage which not only turns out to be unwarranted, but which is in actual danger of obscuring, even obliterating, an important value of the idiom.

It's just amazing to me to think about the fact that you have scores of millennial and younger evangelicals and I'd say also Gen Xers who are clueless about the actual history of Christianity in this country.

You adamantly refuse to recognise the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death far in excess of the numbers of the «victims» of Christianity - So now the history that isn't in your book is factual?

There are, however, hints here and there in Hegel's writings, most notably in the preface to the Philosophy of Right, that philosophy's role of discerning the rational at work in history consists in the identification of a truth to which not all actual historical circumstances in fact conform.

And so because they're committed to a super-young-earth model of Creation, the AIG folks end up dismissing a ton of actual scientific and historical evidence (like the fact that we have more than 4,937 years of after - Flood history) that's really a deal - breaker for anyone who really wants to sit down and think this through.

A constant problem with ranking free agents is that there's a distinct set of veteran players whose value is particularly hard to measure due to their history with their incumbent teams, their lack of actual availability and the fact that length of contract is often more of a sticking point than price.

While we know from first hand experience that no game is a foregone conclusion pre-match, were Chelsea to drop points in this home fixture with newly promoted Blackpool, it would rate amongst some of the biggest shocks in Premier League history, although, in actual fact, most punters are worrying over how many Chelsea will win by rather than deciding whether or not Blackpool can spring another surprise at tasty odds.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Does the fact that Rocket League is heralding an age of actual cross-platform gaming make it one of the most important games in recent history?

Through these techniques as well as the use of actual film to take pictures, at times out of focus, the artist imbues the works with a haziness that speaks to the indistinct nature of history and «fact» and a surface that The New York Times describes as «clouds of scintillation.»

The Court conducted a lengthy review of the legislative history behind the DMCA and noted that the phrases «actual knowledge that the material or an activity» is infringing, and «facts or circumstances» indicating infringing activity, describe knowledge of specific and identifiable infringements of particular individual items.

In actual fact, any student of history knows that we have a lot more in common with our ancestors than many think.