Sentences with phrase «already been in existence»

On the allowances of workers, the deputy finance minister said the only thing the new tax seeks to do is to broaden the net and make the whole thing «tax friendlier», adding that those allowances have already been in existence since year 2000 and all the Finance Ministry is seeking to do is not to tax new allowances because that is not the position of the ministry.

As a Christian, I know that my Bible describes the earth as having already been in existence, before God ever said «let there be light» and before the first day of this creation.

Frames using Google's Glass technology have already been in existence and went on sale to the general public in April.

Not exact matches

The company's business model is based on collaborating and developing bio-therapeutics similar to those already in existence, matching originator proteins.

They're not looking to wearables «to create new genres of communication and entertainment — but rather to improve those already in existence,» according to the report.

If desired investment is in line with actual investment, the existence of a higher ex ante level of savings will not increase investment because businesses have already invested all they want to invest.

Reputation is everything, and uBinary (www.ubinary.com) has already been able to establish themselves as a top rated binary options broker in the short time that they've been in existence.

The guidance also indicates that recruitment bonuses that are tied to «back - end» sales goals may be problematic under BICE, Waldbeser explains, «but that some transition relief will be available for these types of arrangements that are already in existence, where the institution is contractually bound to follow them.»

At 62, I have already lived most of my life and I don't quite care about heaven or Hell but I do care about the people with whom I share the earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick with the Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.

I'm not saying that our existence isn't already strange enough, that God couldn't exist, I just think it's offense to not allow people to mourn because we have to be conditioned into saying that senseless deaths are the necessary catalyst, to bring communities together in the praise of God.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

While I would hesitate to engage in a full - out debate of theism vs. atheism on this forum for reasons that I have already stated, I would be interested in hearing your response to the traditional ontological and moral arguments in favor of the existence of God as well as the argument from contingency.

The Pope assures his reader, nonetheless, that in communion with the Church's living Tradition and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit «we can serenely examine exegetical hypotheses that all too often make exaggerated claims to certainty, claims that are already undermined by the existence of diametrically opposed positions put forward with an equal claim to scientific certainty» (p. 105).

Redemption in hellenism can consist only in the fact that we are transferred from existence in this world, an existence bound to the circular course of time, into that Beyond which is removed from time and is already and always available.

Ogden seems to take this to mean that all are equally responsible for not actualizing authentic existence, since the primordial revelation of God already contained the content of the revelation in Jesus the Christ.50 This is, of course, the basis for Ogden's well - known rejection of the distinction between Christian existence as a «possibility in principle» for all men but a «possibility in fact» only for some.51

It is only when the child has already been involved in a good deal of basic faith experience that he steadily attains more self - awareness, and his developing mind recognizes that the context of his human existence is one in which the horizons are being pushed ever farther back.

Of course, existentialist theologians like Tillich and biblical scholars like Bultmann have already drawn upon Heidegger's early writings, particularly Being and Time, in developing doctrines of God and human existence.

For Auden, our ordinary existence is lived out in a post-Christmas world where «The Christmas Feast is already becoming a memory....

However, evolution is the process by which one or more actions results in a change in something that was already in existence!

A genuine philosophy of history regarding the beginning8 of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology of the experience of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question of the history of the spirit, the pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.

Rightly understood, and with the reservations of which I have already spoken, the concept of existence in this sense is not open to any objection: it simply means man standing before God in judgment and grace.

For whenever that act of will took place, the universe was already in existence.

The space between the frames in the cinematographical show that plays before the mind is always already filled in by the metaphysical continuities of concrete existence.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

In the eschatological Christian community, the sense that the structures of communal and individual existence which had governed the past were now already at an end may well have relaxed the guard of consciousness against the powers of the unconscious.

The intuition that Christ is the fulfillment of a cosmic promise, one that has a breadth that carries revelation beyond the sphere of human existence, is already present in Paul's letter to the Romans: «The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Aware that this line leaves out of account the potential of the child for a full human life, Singer responds that «in a world that is already over-populated, and in which the regulation of fertility is universally accepted, the argument that we should bring all potential people into existence is not persuasive.»

But we can not deny that, no matter how great the influence of forms already in existence may have been at its inception, and no matter how complex and manifold and colorful its components may appear to be in historical analysis, Mahayana Buddhism is nonetheless a unique phenomenon, which we can not «explain» by summarizing its constituent elements.

Perceiving Thomas in this way, Metz finds that «the worldliness of the world is not therefore originally conceived in a cosmocentric way as an already given, self - contained, and actual existent, which man encounters» 4 «Human existence — that is: ecstatic subjectivity; both — man and world — are synthesized a priori in the one being of man.»

Man already gains entrance into the reality of his worldly — corporal being in shared existence with other ontologically equal subjects.

If the word «God» is defined in terms of experience, as suggested above, the problem of existence is already solved.

Consequently the soul can only come into existence by the act which is called creation because it does not fashion from what is already there, but constitutes a new being in its irreducible uniqueness, and which therefore presupposes power absolutely independent of any datum, that is to say, God (Denzinger 2327).

It is indeed this capacity to exist, by belonging to a system of freedoms, which is postulated here; thereby is concretized «that perspective» (Aussicht), evoked from the beginning of the Dialectic, that view «into a higher immutable order of things, in which we already are, and in which, to continue our existence in accordance with the supreme decree of reason, we may now, after this discovery, be directed by definite precepts» (p. 112).

For if it is true, on the one hand, that death is the end of human existence for each and every one of us, it is on the other equally true (to repeat the words I have already used) that death is human life in its finality.

In Israel the role of prophets as royal counselors is evident in many incidents already mentioned; notable were the existence of a body of four hundred prophets in the court of Ahab and the relations of Samuel and King SauIn Israel the role of prophets as royal counselors is evident in many incidents already mentioned; notable were the existence of a body of four hundred prophets in the court of Ahab and the relations of Samuel and King Sauin many incidents already mentioned; notable were the existence of a body of four hundred prophets in the court of Ahab and the relations of Samuel and King Sauin the court of Ahab and the relations of Samuel and King Saul.

One modern Moslem writer seems to think it involved no more than simply having the Koran, as it was already in existence in the memories of living men, copied down in written form.

Whereas the latter aimed at guiding us through the liturgical seasons of the year, this second publication encourages greater awareness in our daily lives of the mysteries we already share, making explicit that which is so often obscured by sheer day - to - day existence.

While the denomination wasn't founded until nine years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, many of its churches were already in existence.

My friend Nathaniel comments that he'd like to see a «Jael With Her Tent Peg,» but I think that's expecting a level of biblical literalism, to coin a phrase which was already in existence and didn't really need coining... Anyway, you tell me.

If, on the other hand, our interest is re-centered around the depth - concerns of our existence — if, for example, we define our interest as the search for personal and social transformation in the light of the teaching of Jesus — then we already presuppose a process which makes transformation possible.

«Christ» here stands for the new order of relationships between men and God and among men, the new and divine community, which is preeminently heavenly and eschatological but which in a real though partial sense has come into historical existence with the event and in which the believer is already incorporated.

The first believers found themselves calling him Messiah, and at once the story in every essential was already in existence.

For salvation is not an adjunct to human existence or an «excess» available only for those who are already in favorable condition, but is a bringing of man to a fullness of being from the state he is in now.

Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

In our human awareness of the mystery that enshrouds our existence, there is already a manifestation of God's being that we may appropriately call by the name «revelation.»

It is not something already present because of having been inaugurated by Jesus in his own person as the Messiah.24 It is the supernatural, superhistorical gift of God to him who responds affirmatively to God in the ultimate — even eschatological decision of his own existence.

In the comfort of our American existence we were aware that Hitler was doing evil things to Jews, first in Germany and next in Central and Eastern Europe; we would not for a few years — in some cases not till the end of the war in Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enougIn the comfort of our American existence we were aware that Hitler was doing evil things to Jews, first in Germany and next in Central and Eastern Europe; we would not for a few years — in some cases not till the end of the war in Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enougin Germany and next in Central and Eastern Europe; we would not for a few years — in some cases not till the end of the war in Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enougin Central and Eastern Europe; we would not for a few years — in some cases not till the end of the war in Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enougin some cases not till the end of the war in Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enougin Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enough.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

This is the question of Christian existence: can one already be a Christian in this unredeemed world, and therefore exist as a messianic person?

For example the statement «The meek shall inherit the earth» and «Love your neighbor as yourself» were already in existence within the sayings of Buddha written 500 years before Jesus showed up.