Sentences with phrase «against this tendency in»

Having begun with protest against tendencies in the latter branch of Christianity to regard the Church as the representative of God it has often succumbed to the same tendency itself.

Prof. Robert W. Stewart had even warned against this tendency in the late 1980s:

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That tendency to withdraw in old age is something Forrec's designs fight against.

Canada's trade agenda — and its difference to that of its North American neighbor the U.S. — has made news at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touting a «push back against the anti-trade tendency in globalization that will leave us all worse off.»

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

In a similar fashion to inverting the typical value investor's process, David also inverts the natural tendency for investors to think they're right when a position moves against them.

Attempting to control the future in ways that are against its natural tendencies will lead to market distortions and lopsided economies.

-- Even though the Fed is not expecting a massive deterioration in US inflation expectations, as the Fed lowered projections for rate hikes, the tendency is for dollar softness against the yen, which is poor for sentiment in Japan, particularly for equity sentiment.

The voting rights act was specific to states in the south with the tendency to descriminate against minority voters.

I see this tendency springing up in your writings, however, and as someone who cares about you and about the work you're doing, I just wanted to caution you against these things.

In his sermons, Newman strove manfully (as he would have put it) against the religious tendencies of his day that could compromise Christian faith and vitiate the pursuit of Christian holiness.

this tendency unwittingly by emphasizing the narrowly cultic and liturgical elements in the Christian life to such an extent that the cry for desacralization becomes the inevitable extreme reaction against it.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

It was in the Synod of AD 486 the church made an official decision which went against the radical ascetic tendency of the East and against the canon laws of the West.

Though it is not quite true that Gustafson and other liberals «never enter into argument against Barth,» there is a pronounced tendency in liberal theology to dismiss Barth's idea of truth as the self - authenticating word of God.

This group leveled its guns of controversy against Darwin, historical criticism, the liberalizing tendencies in the large Protestant Churches, and finally against their archenemy — the social gospel.

One may see the same tendency in the ruthless invasion of privacy, exploiting the most personal details of private life In the guise of presenting «news», and no person In any walk of life is protected against this kind of exploitatioin the ruthless invasion of privacy, exploiting the most personal details of private life In the guise of presenting «news», and no person In any walk of life is protected against this kind of exploitatioIn the guise of presenting «news», and no person In any walk of life is protected against this kind of exploitatioIn any walk of life is protected against this kind of exploitation.

Gardner lists five ways in which these paranoid tendencies manifest themselves: (1) the pseudo-scientist considers himself a genius and (2) regards his colleagues as ignorant blockheads; (3) he believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against; (4) he focuses his attacks on the greatest scientists and the best - established theories; and (5) he often employs a complex jargon and in many cases coins words and phrases (neologisms) of his own.

Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.

Tillich resists the tendency to play the one off against the other, however; the «real Marx», he insists, is «Marx in the context of his development.»

An unrepentant morning person, I signed up for 7:50 classes and, even though it went against his natural night owl tendencies, he woke up early just to eat breakfast with me: then love looked like 7:20 in the cafeteria, black coffee in hand.

Robertson's statement reflects the current tendency in evangelical circles to fight back against what is perceived to be an ever - increasing constriction of «freedom.»

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

Against tendencies to depersonalize and to dehumanize which are prevalent in society the Christian will want constantly to emphasize the importance of personal relationships... The development of the person in all his aspects, religious and moral, as well as physical and mental, is therefore a matter of the deepest importance to him.7

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

If you would fight against evil, then you'd better do something about your normal human tendency to make mistakes in judgment.

Against this tendency, Kurzweil was unsparing in his criticism, referring to the «palpable absurdities of the Ahad Haamist philosophy.»

Even more important, it created a tendency in American Christianity which received expression in later years through a marked emphasis on the spiritual and ideal side of life over against the material and the actual.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Church leaders need to encourage participation in such groups, while guarding against tendencies to separatism.

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

Against the neoorthodox and existentialist tendency to focus on the present moment as the time of encounter and decision, Moltmann and others have stressed that the present has its meaning in its relation to the future.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

All we have in the USA is the Constltution to give us a tendency towards equality under the law, but the laws are unequally enforced, biased against non-believers, and a very shaky crutch upon which to rest our freedoms and rights.

At the same time, he raised an alarm against what he regarded as the tendency in social democratic theory to weaken individual freedom in the name of other social goods.

It forms an early and discerning protest against the powerful and perennial tendency in every cult, ancient or modern, so to proliferate, so to elaborate, so to glorify the total «equipment» of worship as to make of worship's material representation an end in itself.

In Bergsonian terms, the élan vital fights against this tendency, but matter finally wins out and there is death.

In a situation of social pressure due to economic shortages and unemployment, there may be the tendency for social forces to raise issues of religion and target as in India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishmenIn a situation of social pressure due to economic shortages and unemployment, there may be the tendency for social forces to raise issues of religion and target as in India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishmenin India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishmenin Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishment.

As a reaction against reformist tendencies an organization known as the Rising of the Ulama (Nahdlatul - Ulama, abbreviated to N.U.) was founded in Surabaya in 1345 (A.D. 1926).

The prophetic disposition sees all reality in terms of historical eventfulness — it weighs every event by its tendency to conspire with or against God's drive to shape history toward his kingdom of love and justice, and it understands that the human vocation is to participate in this struggle.

This is an early and discerning protest against the perennial tendency in every cult, ancient and modern, to elaborate the «equipment» of worship so as to make of the material representation of worship an end in itself.

All the warnings Paul uttered, and the Church in principle has accepted, against the tendency of any function of the body to claim priority over others apply to the relation of intellectual to other activities.

Against the tendency toward presentism, Lewis observed that «a man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: The scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.»

Whatever our philosophy, we had better use it to moderate the tendency that is in all of us to look to violence to settle issues between groups in a world whose technology makes violence against groups ever more likely to destroy all who participate in it, or advocate it, along perhaps with nearly everyone else.

He also advises against freezing in glass — it has a tendency to expand and break.

This is not a case of just staying in the Chiefs normal tendencies against an opponent instead of optimizing a gameplan for that opponent, no, this was actively putting his players in a much worse position to be able to do their jobs than normal.

Of course I am biased towards Arsenal, it comes with the territory, but I do try to see things from all points of view and I know that i have a tendency to ignore the things that go in our favour, like the terrible offsuide decision against Berahino when we played against West Brom the other day.