Sentences with phrase «as a substance by»

This vitamin works as a substance by helping your body to produce certain hormones, such as testosterone.

Not exact matches

Much of my research was about developing materials that record physical properties of substances they come into contact with as visual patterns someone could read by eye.

The bill, announced by McConnell and supported by a bipartisan group of senators, would «legalize hemp as an agricultural commodity and remove it from the list of controlled substances.»

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

This Boston - based company, started by a team of MIT scientists and launched out of Y Combinator, has developed a technology that uses yeast as a base to make all kinds of substances, including perfumes, cosmetics and sweeteners, from microbugs.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb isn't mincing words about kratom, the increasingly popular herbal substance that's been hawked as an alternative to painkillers and anti-depressants by companies promoting its ostensible curative properties (and supposedly innate safety as a «natural,» plant - based product).

The process of branding cannabis businesses is further slowed by marijuana's classification under the federal Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule 1 drug (along with heroin, LSD and other hallucenogens).

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

Jean - Pierre Blais» term as CRTC chair was marked by dramatic changes in how policies were developed and in the substance of the policies themselves.

You will certainly have area plays; stories associated with cobalt in mafic and ultramafic complexes around the world, including Canada and Australia, but my experience has been that the concentrations of cobalt, particularly in Canada, are never large enough that Canadian companies can be low on the cost curve unless they're producing it as a by - product of nickel or some other ultramafic substances.

Despite being described by Burney and Hampson as being hobbled by a commitment to process and procedure over real substance, ASEAN has managed to hammer out a free trade agreement among its own members, as well as with Japan, Korea, China, India and Australia / New Zealand.

Even in After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre claims that «the barbarous despotism... which reigns in Moscow can be taken to be as irrelevant to the question of the moral substance of Marxism as the life of the Borgia Pope was to that of the moral substance of Christianity» (a view not likely to be shared by such as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn).

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection of existences — things and substances of various compositions and kinds — each of which is what it is, and moves, changes, grows, or decays as it does by reason of its relation to other things: things existing in various ways by, and in some cases, at the expense of, or on, other things.

The reference, Benedict insists, is to substance, rather than, as in the translation by Luther and a current translation approved by the German bishops, to inner conviction.

Whereas Leclerc argued that the ultimate constituents of material reality are mini-substances which act on each other reciprocally and by their interaction co-constitute the new reality of a compound substance (NPE, 309 - 10), Ford argues that such natural compounds are instead to be understood as «single strands of personally ordered actual occasions, potentially divisible into structured societies but not actually so divided» (109).

When one's sensitive appetite is corrupted by vice, as is the case with substance abuse, Aquinas is clear that the will necessarily becomes remiss or impeded.

I would venture to guess many of the evangelical pastors she speaks to (as described in this essay) don't «get» what she's arguing, because they take for granted that she's an evangelical in essence, just an edgy one; whereas, by her own admission, she is talking about «not a change in style but a change in substance.»

Personal commitment, personal choice, faith as pure subjectivity, social liberations advanced by organized groups of self - designated victims - these become the substance, or rather non-substance, of the Christian faith.

The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

Every created agent is limited to bringing about a change in form only (a sheep can transform grass into its own body matter by digestion), but God — as the ultimate cause of all being — can surely bring about changes at the level of being: converting one entire substance into another.

Finally, in the justly famous, but very obscure section of «Force and the Understanding» known as the «Inverted World,» the metaphysical distinction inherent in all designations such as inner - outer, intelligible - sensible, noumenal - phenomenal collapses, and with it the attempt of substance or «essence» metaphysics to evade contradiction by locating «contradictories» (or contraries) in ontologically disparate realms.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

But as conceived by Leibniz as a qualified substance, such perspectives are attributed to each monad internally, so that the interconnection between monads is only apparent; they are in actuality «windowless» and externally related, and in concord only by virtue of pre-established harmony.

In it, enduring substances are reinterpreted as «events,» and the previously dominant qualities are superseded by constitutive relations.

The fact that the sign is often constituted by a natural substance, such as water or oil, points to the goodness of God's creation.

51t is easy to recognize how that global notion of substance, characterized by Paulsen as Isolated, fixed bits of reality,» also holds Whitehead's thought fixed.

To think of the self as a self - enclosed substance cut off from the world by the skin is to think atomistically.

There is much truth in the saying, at least if we think of the self as a self - enclosed substance isolated within the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin.

For Heidegger, Being is the ultimate reality, though not itself a thing or substance which can be grasped with certainty by the mind or relied upon as a metaphysical ground.

Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think of the self as a soul isolated from the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable body.

My inability to accept Hartshorne's view does not entail acceptance of any «soul - substance» as conceived by Hartshorne.

What it revealed was their conviction that Christian theology in its form and substance as well as its function in the church must be determined by God's authoritative Word, the written Scriptures.

Within a substance, on the other hand, the parts by definition are not fully actual; i.e., they are not substances in their own right as long as they remain parts of still another substance.

For Santayana, «matter» is the appropriate name for such «substance» as the character possessed by the substance of our actual world (see RB 234).

Such an enduring entity, with its binding of any individual entity to the line of its ancestry, is, taken by itself, as irrelevant an answer to the problem of life, which is a bid for freedom, as is the doctrine of substance» (1:403).

Whereas most Biblical talk of God locates God as an actor in a story, the theology forged in the early centuries is deeply influenced by Greek reflection about substances.

Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus of quality, the subjective locus would be the emotional intuition of the objective quality; this subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment of quality which provides the substance of the derivative and propositional resolution of the conflict between the individual and its environment.

Whitehead approaches the question of man's desire for immortality, not by following the traditional path of the soul as having substance, but that every act, every event, every realization of value has everlasting significance and contributes everlastingly to the nature of things.

«We must say that the accidents of the bread and the wine, which are perceived by the senses as remaining after consecration, do not have as their subject the substance of the bread and the wine, since, as has been said, that does not continue to exist.

Reading The Giving Tree to our children can thus inspire gratitude in us as parents and can encourage us to repay our debts to our own mothers (and fathers) in the only way we can — by gladly spending our substance in the loving care of our own children.

The full substance of the new life in Christ «and of the church as a community of grace is maintained by the continual renewal of the faith through the Scriptures.

«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can live and exist without material bodies, since to live without material substance is the privilege of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought of as a kind of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»

I was bothered by theological critics of literature who, following Tillich's too - easy baptizing of the secular order (epitomized in his phrase «as the substance of culture is religion, so the form of religion is culture»), tended to overlook the differences between Christianity and the insights of art.

In this new form, and having lost nothing of its physical reality (indeed, as much superior to its first state as the Noosphere is superior to the simple, isolated phylum) it acquires, by becoming exterior to the individual, an incomparable substance and capacity.

Psalm 33 bears witness both to the manner of the Lord's working (he acts by intellect and will, preconceiving and executing his designs; cf. Ps 136:5) and to the extent of his work (he is the author of being as being, of the very substance and nature of things).

A compass is not made of the same substance as a magnetic field, nor is it sent or chosen by the north pole, but it is accurately sensitive to the pull and direction of the magnetic field within which we live.

One of their believes is that an idol that they made by either mud or metal or any substances and decorate them nicely and they go to this piece of objects and asks as they are asking God Almighty and they know that this piece of metal has no power to even move itself or to same itself if someone attempts to break it... how would this piece of metal respond to one prayer?

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.

In this regard, Hartshorne remains fully consistent with the other principles of process philosophy and abandons entirely the «substance» theory of the human soul or self as held by Plato, Augustine, Kant and other classical Western metaphysicians.