«We would have
that as a point of reference in any conversation we had with him and his staff.
I want to get back to this idea of charity or giving back to the community
as a point of reference in your work.
Not exact matches
As a
point of reference, MCX members account for about $ 1 trillion
in retail sales.
As a
point of reference let's say 6.4 million people (20 %
of estimated 2016 US Samsung S6 users) use Samsung Pay for half
of their retail payments
in 2016.
As a
point of reference, our
in - store mobile payments forecast — which is inclusive
of all mobile payment methods, including Apple Pay and CurrentC — has mobile payments reaching just under 7 %
of total
in - store retail volume
in 2017.
As another
point of reference, the Starbucks app — the most successful mobile payments app
in the US — currently accounts for about 1
in every 15 dollars spent
in US - company operated stores three years after launch.
Recent advancements
in the technology that powers bots have opened the flood doors for companies
of all sizes, and they're rushing
in to establish their bot
as a
point of reference for consumers.
Draft something
of a job description that can serve
as your
reference point in drawing up a contract.
This week is proving to be a critical turning
point for the financial services industry, which is described
in the terms
of reference for the Hayne royal commission
as systemically strong with the world's best prudential regulation and oversight.
In VFC's case, that basic estimate is based on
reference point price - to - earnings ratio (P / E)
of 15, which is the long - term average P / E
of the stock market
as a whole.
Assemblies decide little and often leave the churches
in some confusion, but they are always taken
as milestone events,
reference points for organized «Ecumenism» and the cause
of Christian unity.
In this testimonial poem, Milosz directly acknowledges God
as the absolute
point of reference.
In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deitie
In reference to the flood, one
of the most important
points to grasp is that
in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deitie
in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters
of the world — especially large bodies
of water such
as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places
of powerful deities.
Roe and Casey then begat the 2003 Supreme Court decision
in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down a state antisodomy statute, with Justice Anthony Kennedy making an explicit
reference to Griswold «s «right to privacy»
as «the most pertinent beginning
point» for the line
of reasoning that led the Court to Lawrence.
Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past,
referencing an emotional distance he feels from us
as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority
in the decisions
of our lives up to this
point, threatening to talk to the pastor
of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess
of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.
The Anglo - American label may however, be put to a legitimate, if rather specific, use — namely,
in the context
of a selective reading
of Deleuze's works from the late sixties (D&R and LS), and taking the logico - mathematical model
of structuralism (developed by the Bourbaki school and taken up by Piaget)
as the
reference point, rather than the more familiar, but rather different, model derived from Saussurean linguistics.
The presence
of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal
of the group on both sides
of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that
as a movement it will (at least
in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like feminist, liberation and nonrealist theologies, and have its main influence
as a
point of reference and interrogation.
Holloway considers this
point quite directly and says that before the Fall, a couple would have had sexual intercourse
as «an act
of religion [by its
reference to God]
as well
as an act
of love [by its desire to share
in God's creative work]».
Talking about it will strengthen their confidence
in us parents
as their
points of reference.
The Archimedean
point of reference is missing, for God has no dialectical reality apart from us
as well
as in our midst, no reality apart from the world
as well
as in it.
Hittinger correctly
points out that this new Thomism finds its
point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas
as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind
of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.
The Qur» anic language
of the form - spirit is used with
reference to the cosmic becoming
of al - khalq
in Ibn» Arabi.38 The
point is that al - khalq
as pure thought
of the worlds to be [SP] receives its being
as the actualized worlds
in the same way
as Jesus came into being.
Learning that it was a human who said, «these are the four,» (
in reference to the Gospels), and shutting out many
of the other Gospels, most
of which did not have
as strong
of a focus on the death and resurrection
of Christ, was the turning
point for me.
But it lacks a
reference point outside the self,
as life is improvised
in the here and now to fill her emotional needs under no eye
of eternity.
Propaganda is most effective when it is able to separate a person from outside
points of reference, such
as a transcendent religious
reference,
in order to encourage a tunnel vision which unquestioningly accepts this society «s worldview
as «the way it is.
Christianity reverenced the Law but also believed
in the revelation
of Christ
as the supreme
point of reference.
And
in exploring the wide implications
of it all, he noted «the risk
of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral
reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement
of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us,
as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism»
as he had done
in an earlier encyclical, that «
As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism»
As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».
As I
pointed out, there is no
reference to it before Eusebius
in the 4th century even though many early Church Fathers writing centuries earlier were familiar with the works
of Josephus.
Its categories — such
as «Christ against culture» and «Christ
of culture» — have ever since been familiar
reference points in the field
of Christian ethics and
in debates about how Christians and the church should engage matters
of politics, society and culture.
This last
point is suggested
in a number
of Peirce's discussions, particularly
in his accounts
of the function
of the sciences (see, for instance, 1.191)
as well
as in his
references to the goal
of rational conduct which is the summum bonum (e.g., 5.4 - 5, 5.433).
But Gloege
points out that there is evidence
in the Jewish Targum, 21 which «shows that Jesus» resurrection «on the third day» was regarded
as the fulfillment
of Hosea's prophecy by Christians at a very early date; it erased the precise chronological
reference «after two days» and «on the third day» and replaced them by the more general phrases «
in the days
of consolation» and «on the day
of resurrection»,
in order to exclude the Christian interpretation.»
The myth
of the Last Judgment attempts, by using the end - time
as the
reference point, to proclaim a truth about human responsibility which is not confined to any
point in time, but which pervades all time.
Yet it is the will
of God
as this is revealed
in Jesus Christ that, for the Christian, is the ultimate
point of reference.
The tendency to regard a denomination
as the ultimate environment
in which the school carries on its work or
as at least the last society to whose purposes
reference must be made is on the wane,
as has been
pointed out,
in most
of the seminaries and Bible colleges
in the United States and Canada.
In his exposition of Psalm 90 he even used the daring metaphor that the subject of faith was a mathematical point, so far was he from regarding faith as a subjective experience through which man's understanding of himself is illuminated, and so exclusively should faith be defined in reference to its object, the extra se of the historic Chris
In his exposition
of Psalm 90 he even used the daring metaphor that the subject
of faith was a mathematical
point, so far was he from regarding faith
as a subjective experience through which man's understanding
of himself is illuminated, and so exclusively should faith be defined
in reference to its object, the extra se of the historic Chris
in reference to its object, the extra se
of the historic Christ.
In other words, those references and developments must point to and manifest only one concept of God, the concept of God that, given its chronological relationship with the concept of God as primordial and consequent natures, has been termed the «early concept of God of Process and Reality» in the first sections of this articl
In other words, those
references and developments must
point to and manifest only one concept
of God, the concept
of God that, given its chronological relationship with the concept
of God
as primordial and consequent natures, has been termed the «early concept
of God
of Process and Reality»
in the first sections of this articl
in the first sections
of this article.
As a
point of reference, and keeping
in mind that building costs vary greatly across the country and can be much higher or lower depending on scale and the involvement
of a contractor or paid laborers, one recent building project detailed its construction costs through every stage
of the process and totaled $ 88,000.
For help
in understanding Joyce's
points of reference I went to my friend Emily, a devout Catholic and,
as it happened, a member
of Fr.
The
point David and the others are making and the NT makes
as well
in reference to even Jesus is that you can go through all the motions
of God given things (works!)
Since the Logos
as expressed
in John's Prologue is the constant
reference point, and one which Benedict understands
as offering a synthesis
of the entire Christian faith, [20] it is perhaps inevitable that the primacy
of Christ, the word incarnate, should be affirmed.
All theories which place «a subject,»
as a fixed
point of reference and a well determined entity, ahead
of the process
of experience have,
in Whitehead's view, not clearly understood subjectivity.
A streak
of nature worship — sometimes mawkish and sentimental, sometimes neopagan
in its intensity, and, toward the millenium, frequently Zen - like
in its clarity and repose — runs through the imaginative, intellectual and moral history
of California
as a fixed
reference point of social identity.
In other words, Christian martyrdom is based on opposition to the power which takes itself
as an absolute
point of reference.
It is not necessary to discuss
in any detail —
as has been done
in the previous three chapters — the
point that from the standpoint
of intelligible religion the basis for understanding must be constant
reference to the universal experience
of imperfection.
His questioning mind, his study
of the Jewish law (the perplexing
reference to the fig tree
in verse 48 probably
points to the fact that Nathanael was a student
of the law, for the rabbis used to say that the best place to study the law was sitting under a fig tree) prompted Jesus to praise him
as a true Jew and an honest man (1:47).
I wouldn't use them
as point of reference for what we can «look forward to»
in future windows.
I'm using the start
of the Rodeo Road Trip
as a
reference point, which included a win
in Phoenix on Feb 7th, so the Spurs are 2 - 11 since the start
of the RRT.
Using their own bodies
as the
reference point to tell the story
of pollution
in our modern world, they expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak - kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe.
(Use the infant's nipples
as a
reference point; imagine a line connecting the two nipples
in the middle
of that line is where you want to do the chest compressions).
But having lived a few years
in Japan, I understand the use
of the floor
as the
point of reference as well, and let me tell you, it was blissful to sleep on a futon on the floor.