Sentences with phrase «as a habit which»

«He thought of this most private action in his detached and secretive life, not as superstition or piety, but as a habit which he could not break even if he wished.»

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This process takes time, which makes it hard to form positive habits when the initial actions are decidedly unpleasant ones (such as waking up extra early or working out every morning).

As Business Insider has previously reported, these 18 to 35 - year - olds grew up during a recession, which has impacted their spending habits.

You have a habit of surprising us, which can make it seem as though you're going madly off in all directions.

Second, their good habits, such as being diligent and disciplined, are likely to rub off on their partner, which can improve their career success.

At 49, as a grad student, I will be able to take habits I created from 30 years of improvisation and add rigor to my work, which will make it more accurate and meaningful to those around me.

The software is also built to get better at predicting which times are best for you: As you use it, the tool learns more about your habits and tries to find better times to pencil in the goals.

No matter if it is hardware (which many rumors are pointing to), a replacement UI for existing devices (which makes sense from a data capture point of view), an enhanced app (after all they are constantly iterating their mobile code base), or a mixture of all three, the key factor for Facebook here is to capture as much data as possible on Facebook users» mobile habits.

the preservation among the Jews of «the «haggling» habit which most of the Western world has outgrown,» «the use of shoddy or poor materials,» the fact that «Jews are considered by certain leading insurance companies as a poor fire risk,» etc..

And despite America's spending habits, the greenback is still seen as a safe haven whenever financial crises — including ones caused by Americans — hit because most major countries want to maintain the value of their national reserves, which include dollar - denominated assets.

For example, a recent study by Lee, the KAIST professor, found that people who turn to their smartphones for «mood adjustment purposes,» such as to relieve boredom, stress or depression, may form a habit of using their phones for those objectives, which can lead to addictive behaviors.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

These high savings rates, which are almost always mistakenly attributed to a country's thrifty habits — just as low U.S. savings rate are foolishly attributed to spendthrift American habits — create demand deficiencies that must be resolved with trade surpluses.

For one thing, you'll get in the habit, which makes it easier to increase your savings rate as your income grows.

However easy it is to demonize and to hate from a distance (I won't provide links, but, trust me, the demonization and the hate was quite evident online), it's a bit harder to do so in the context of a small college, where habits of conversation are encouraged, where people talk the talk (even if — sinners as we all are — we don't always walk the walk) of fairminded openness to the truth, and where Others (not «The Other,» which, as a colleague rightly suggested, is too abstract) are people we encounter day in and day out.

The new, nonalcoholic habits which the «psychotherapy» was implanting were to be treated as tender shoots until they took firm root.

They both regard woman as less than men, instead of looking at history and effect of these habits which has more harm to others.

Freedom is not a matter of doing what we like, «my way;» freedom is freely choosing what is good, and what can be known to be good, as a matter of moral habit — which is another word for «virtue.»

Most people lose or forget the subjectively religious experience, and redefine Religion as a set of habits, behaviors, dogmas, forms, which at the extreme becomes entirely legalistic and bureaucratic, conventional, empty, and in the truest meaning of the word, antireligious.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

«These lectures will be best understood by noting the following list of prevalent habits of thought, which are repudiated, in so far as concerns their influence on philosophy:... (vii) The Kantian doctrine of the objective world as a theoretical construct from purely subjective experience» (PR xiii [x]-RRB-.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

We know tradition now not only in the form of social rigidities resistant to change but as the dynamic structure of modifiable habits without which men do not exist as men.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»

Hence the second sense in which this habit of justice is «social»: its object, as well as its form, primarily involves the good of others.

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in which the shared valuations of a cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.

There is an obvious external comparison which could be drawn here with the evolutionary cosmology of C. S. Pence, in which the laws of nature are described as having evolved, as subject to change, and as having more the characteristic of habit.13 However, there is no evidence whatever that Whitehead knew of Peirce's views or was in any way influenced by them.14

I guess in my personal experience people who were religious enough to say «bless you» (outside of the sneeze ordeal which I even say bless you out of childish habit) did it as some kind of display of their awesome religiousness vs other people's sinner ways.

There is some possibility that church leaders will recognize that such reflection is needed on other topics as well, that a habit of theological reflection, and that alone, can provide a context in which new problems can be met in a healthy way.

It can be understood as social or civic friendship, which is a kind of habit or virtue.

Meanwhile, the significance of obedience is not that it is a habit of man's inner life, an attribute of man which gives him as such a moral quality.

In France, «the French Jews,» Louis Halphen and Bloch, were part of a new approach to the Middle Ages which, beginning in the 1920s, has taken as its subject not the heroes or the thought of the Middle Ages but the economy and social habits over the longue duree.

We are in the habit of talking of mind as if it were a thing, which it is not — nor is matter, for that matter.

Initially, depressed people seem to lack energy, which may spiral rapidly into acute fatigue as sleep habits are disturbed.

Or, to put it another way, habits, as sedimented patterns of behavior, offer spontaneity the permanence it needs for a continued and sustained existence, in the sense that this permanence establishes the perspective on the world which is my bodily motility and gives it a temporal continuity.

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

It is known in the theological abstract as concupiscence, the disordered desire and addictive craving which Original Sin first brought into man's being, and the gross misuse of poor Brother Ass has deepened through time, and does deepen sadly in so many of us through ingrained habit.

Once cooled the stock can be frozen, mine is used up pretty quickly as I make a lot of soups which are fabulous for the 5:2 diet which I am still doing every week, it has become a habit now, part of my week and having low - calorie, highly nutritious soups to keep my appetite satiated has been amazingly helpful.

Multiple allergies showed up and we went right to Amazon to find helpful books on changing our eating habits to eliminate allergens in our child's diet.These recipes are easy and the book is written with great anecdotes which show the author can really relate to the difficulties we face as novices to the allergy free environment.

«For as long as NPD has been tracking the eating habits of Americans — which is since 1976 — they have been expressing a desire to eat healthier foods and beverages,» says Harry Balzer, chief industry analyst and author of «Eating Patterns in America.»

The growth of the French packaging industry will be heavily influenced by changing demographics and social factors such as a high employment rate and a large aging population, which have a clear impact on consumer spending power and purchasing habits...

I'm the same — I didn't eat soup nearly as much until I did GAPS, which I don't do strictly anymore, but the soup habit stuck!

It is very moreish which is perhaps its only drawback, as too much of a good thing has a habit of turning into a bad thing.

-RSB- «Those wild boars that I have seen brought in by the negroes, or the parts of which I have occasionally received as presents, do not in, colour or in size, resemble those in Europe: they rather appear to be the progeny of swine that have strayed into the woods; and which, from having been once tame, partake of the habits of, and now become, wild, but are not, rigidly speaking, of the same species.

[According to William Beckford, author of the gothic novel, Vathek] «Those wild boars that I have seen brought in by the negroes, or the parts of which I have occasionally received as presents, do not in, colour or in size, resemble those in Europe: they rather appear to be the progeny of swine that have strayed into the woods; and which, from having been once tame, partake of the habits of, and now become, wild, but are not, rigidly speaking, of the same species.

Patina Restaurant Group, whose founder, award - winning chef Joachim Splichal, has curated several concepts including Patina and Nick & Stef's, and Panda Restaurant Group, which owns and operates 1,800 Panda Express restaurants nationwide along with Panda Inn and Hibachi San, has joined such clients as The Habit Burger Grill, My Fit Foods and Yard House in working with the «Dream Team.»

Which I think we are starting to learn the habit of what it means to finish the season with some sort of reward except top four, but if we are going to ever get back into champions league and stay there we are going to need acquisitions of pure football finesse as I like to call it.

Last night's draw was Another opportunity lost, (as far as I'm concerned) Which is becoming a bad habit, Surely, this now has to be taken into consideration that we are simply too short of being champions material.

It is a fair question as well, because winning is a mentality and a habit and so is losing and we know which of the two we are more used to in the last decade.