Sentences with phrase «actual live human beings»

What seems straightforward and clear - cut as a set of principles typed out on a sheet of paper becomes more complicated when actual live human beings are thrown into the picture.

If you happen to prefer the company of an actual live human being, though I'm not sure why you'd ever prefer that over a freaking BEAR, then the entire game can be played on co-op with a friend or just a completely random person.

The phone menu was brief and quick in its routing to an actual living human being.

Not exact matches

When done well, live chat can provide consumers a quick avenue for everything from resolving service issues to finding the product they're looking for — especially when an actual human being is on the other end of the chat.

In human history, the actual living out of marriage as a lifelong union has been the exception rather than rule.

The actual end of most human lives is sad, painful, sometimes grueling, profoundly embarrassing, and pathetic, often leaving emptiness, loss, regret, relief, and other contradictory and disturbing emotions in its wake.

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.

But we maintain, on the contrary, that we know the Jesus of history very well, even if we do not have a precise and photographic account of his day - by - day activities; and the unique claim of Christianity is that in and by those events in the actual realm of historical happenedness, God is revealed — revealed, of course, in and under the conditions of history and human life, but revealed nonetheless.

The question is neither «religious» nor «open»; it is a secular question having to do with the social, complex, ambiguous quality of actual human lives.

I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.

«With all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God» this doesn't make any sense really.

If pro-lifers were truly «pro life» then they would put an equal amount of energy into stopping prison executions which are unarguably taking actual human lives....

The argument that life begins at conception is absurd in that what should be said is parasitic life begins at conception, actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life is basically in the hands of the host — mother.

They fail to capture what a church actually is: real live actual humans, showing up day after day, year after year, building something durable and lovely over time, together, with prayer and forgiveness and love.»

One involves a clump of cells that couldn't survive outside the human body, the other involves actual living beings.

When human beings are looking to each other as models of being, the pathway of life is a treadmill or squirrel cage rather than an actual road.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

Despite the potential and actual contribution of capitalistic globalization to improve human life, the safeguarding of human rights or the care of nature are not among its specific objectives.

And we have already emphasized again and again that what God is «up to» in the creation, as well as in human life, is the bringing to actual realization of the potentialities which are given to both in the very fact of their being created.

That is, when men had learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.

That Jesus was fully human does mean that the actual occasions constituting Jesus as a living person were not in any instance the actual entity God or, if God is conceived as a living person, the actual occasions constituting the divine life.

We need to understand how knowledge can go right or wrong in the actual lives of men, beginning with our estimation of what it means to be human.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

According to the Christian faith, God's involvement in human existence is not in terms of abstract truths and generalized principles, but is rather a matter of interactive sanctification of the actual context in which humans live.

Therefore if kerygma means merely a message about God, and not the actual uncovered presence of God operating in human life, it is a fatal confusion and misunderstanding to identify the revelation merely with the kerygma.

As «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of love.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

This trust in life and the actual experiences which it entails are part of human existence that can be far better explained, as Birch and Cobb affirm, by an ecological model rather than an older mechanical one.

However, what if all our symbols and myths, our ceremonies and dogmas were unexpectedly and suddenly exploded, and to our awful surprise, we could see beyond these human inventions to discover not the Abyss but the real, actual presence of the living God?

This is the practical consequences in actual and concrete human living which may be found in coming to some awareness of what the last things were trying to say.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

This is the best scientific and moral line to draw — balancing protection of actual human life with maximizing a woman's family planning options and giving her some room to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

But there is another dimension of the social sciences in modernity: their engagement with the details of life, the actual contours of human existence over time.

The job then was at best merely external and mechanical, never the work of a participant, of one who shared our lot, who understood our sinful state, and who demonstrated the power of God to overcome it in actual human life.

Canada's pending legislation on euthanasia and assisted suicide raises a question: What shall we call people who are legally involved in the destruction of human life — particularly those who do the actual killing?

If Chalcedon had preceded Nicaea, or if the Church Fathers had turned to the biblical story of Jesus instead of Nicaea and Ephesus for their moorings, they might have been faced with and had to deal with the mystery, ambiguity, indirection, in other words, the parabolic quality of an actual human life and its growth.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

Mostly it felt like it had been designed by actual, real - life parents of actual, real - life little humans (which, incidentally, it was).

There is no actual party going on here these days unless it involves Disney, shitty sheet cake and mass quantities of small humans running around the living room, but it is spring break nonetheless.

which, according to the experts is when they get their first tooth, but according to actual human beings who are raising live children is probably closer to when the number of teeth nears the double digits,

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

Early in their study, the team noticed differences between the expected 3BNC117 abundance in humans over time, given its half - life, and the actual abundance, a discrepancy hinting that some of the antibodies may be targeting not just circulating virus particles but HIV - infected cells as well.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

A life of shallow relationships, because they have better relationships with their mobile devices than they do with actual human beings.

Notwithstanding these remarkable results, these findings are yet limited insofar as the dissections were performed in elderly cadavers and both the age and the condition of the muscle likely lead to an underestimation of the actual muscle weights in younger, living humans.

But, listen, this outfit got 5 whole likes on Instagram, at least two of which I'm almost certain were from actual, live humans, and that makes it a total win (by my practically non-existent standards).

Over time, I've gradually relaxed the search constraints, and I now see maybe 5 - 10 % hits which look like actual human beings... albeit pretty far from where I live.

Their various motivations are spelled out in lengthy ideological debates no actual human beings would carry out in a real - life hijacking situation.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

While the actual arrests of congressmen, one senator and some state officials are doubtless more serious in real life, this movie gives the impression that life is a jolly carousel of human nature, with crime - busters and lawbreakers going full circle.