Sentences with phrase «as against the reality»

He was of the view that «the voter must have bought what the NPP promised as against the reality told by President John Mahama and the NDC at that time».

Not exact matches

With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

«Because a relationship is only as strong as the reality we have it, I'm a firm believer of letting our partners in on the realities that we feel we are up against in life,» breakup expert and founder of Breakupward Chelsea Leigh Trescott told INSIDER.

Here are a few other realities about refusing offers you, as the saying goes, can't refuse — meaning someone wants to buy you and if you demur, they will compete against you and perhaps crush you.

Satoshi Nakamoto's idealistic vision of «one CPU one vote» has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment have become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of which have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.

Last week was not a crash, though a free - fall appears increasingly possible, as the reality of emerging recession (and all that it implies for fresh credit risks, sovereign defaults, fiscal imbalances, banking strains and other problems) will likely smash against the consensus view of economic expansion in next few months.

I respect your experience but it is still anecdotal and limited — it is not definitive hence my suggestion that you paint with a narrower brush lest you do the very thing that you are guarding against... You resist those who criticize «other ways of following Jesus» while doing a bit of the same to those who see value in the institution as a spiritual reality even if not an ideal one...

In Oriental Mysticism, Altizer describes faith as the «will to nothingness pronounced holy,» 33 and in «Theology and the Death of God,» he states that «eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

For eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

«4 Affirmation of being in the form of the Promethean spirit is a rebellion against the sacred, for the sacred reality can be known only as wholly other than the man - made world of being.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

«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.»

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

the christian taliban that declared war against an american president has as much to do with reality as people hunting the lochness monster.

The ecclesial reality of the Church is intricately interwoven with its life as a moral community — it has to constantly test its authority to be the moral voice in the world against its ability to respond with courage and conviction to the voices of the excluded, the voices from the margins.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

In this sentence I have been recalling against Hartshorne one of the most well - known passages of Process and Reality: «In the first place, God is not to be treated as an exception to all metaphysical principles, invoked to save their collapse.

When the Hindu identified himself with an undifferentiated reality beyond the experientially diversified soul, the various elements in the soul — its passions, appetites, hopes, fears, sense experience, and reason — were all indifferently there to be recognized, described, and ultimately experienced as so many mere psychic elements over against the true self.

Furthermore, since God was not thought of as himself a visible reality but, rather, as an invisible «I,» God might be thought of as taking an interest in this inner struggle for and against obedience to his will.

If, as we have noted, our sole defence against materialism has been the reality of the human subject, so our sole defence against philosophical reductionism has been limited to pointing out that it is in reality a reductio adabsurdum.

Reality:»... making all of Israel the new Palestine, free of Jews, would remove the excuses Muslims use as a pretext for their koran - driven violence against infidels».

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

Certainly, Conor O'Clery's jubilant crowing about «the few remaining faithful in this once Mass - going nation [setting out] out for midnight services on a freezing cold Christmas Eve» (as though even the weather was the bishops» fault), has more to do with his ownobvious animus against the Church than anything remotely to do with reality.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

Schubert Ogden, author of The Reality of God and Other Essays and an outstanding process theologian, argues against subjective immortality, which he defines in the second sense, as people»... continuing to exist as subjects for the infinite future.

In reality, the founders put the second amendment in the bill of rights not to ensure Americans could enjoy hunting or target practice, but as a protection against government tyranny.

The reality of God is thus ultimately emptied of any content and so one finds God described as the infinite horizon against which individual finite realities are distinguished.

The belief in a creator does not need to run against thinking logically... even though it is sometimes used as an excuse to «blank out» reality.

He is well aware that this procedure of taking human experience as the model of all reality may provoke from some quarters the charge against his metaphysics of unmitigated anthropomorphism.

The bottom - line is to take this to an even further reality, I believe it is widely held as credible that not only are there crazy zealots looking to get their hands on working tactical thermonuclear warheads, but would, without blinking an eye, use them against you and I and the rest of the people of the U.S., as well as other non-muslim countries around the world.

Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.

Still, by this behavior, magnanimous as he is, he implies an offense against the girl and against the reality of her love.

«You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe,» Morpheus reasons as he fights against a false reality of security and convenience, seeking instead the one who can truly break the flesh pods that bind.

Incarnatus est is the end of playing off the infinite against the finite, the human against the divine, as though Reality were a zero - sum game.

Against that conclusion we can be grateful for Kant's subordination of the individual to the human species or to Mind as such, and we can be grateful for the linguistic turn that locates reality in shared language.

The expression may seem paradoxical: dictatorship means that there is a top - down imposition, while relativism implies the denial of absolutes and reacts against anything it considers as «top - down», such as truth, revelation, reality, morality.

A TV where a man is watching movies as a way of numbing himself against the pain of reality... another way of escape.

For Piaget, the ontological egocentricity of the child was due primarily to the fact that the child does not yet differentiate its selfhood from the Being of the universe (RME 110, 241); therefore, the child is not yet conscious of itself as being other over against the world and, therefore, interprets the whole reality according to its own experience.

In fact, in my article I conclude that as «we enter the world of fantasy — when reality ceases to matter — it is impossible to predict where our society will crash against nature, as it inevitably will.»

That Church had seemed to be engaged in a holy war against communism as an ally of the West in its political conflict, but now it seems to have accepted the reality of coexistence.

He knew that for democracy to flourish, it «must learn,» as Martha Nussbaum puts it, «to cultivate the inner world of human beings, equipping each citizen to contend against the passion for domination and to accept the reality, and the equality, of others.»

I don't see christian churches teaching people to stone anyone anymore, just to legislate against them (stomping on the first ammendment in the process) in hopes that they can ignore the reality of others not agreeing with everything they say, or not behaving in what they view as the right way.

We may fault Goethe now for having shared Keats's objection to Newton's theories about light, but his own faith, as Faust makes clear, was the prescientific faith of a literary man who never doubted that his sense of reality would stand up against skeptical empiricists.

They highlight one awful reality of Putin's Russia — if you go against the State you'll join the cohort of detractors, and those perceived as threats, in the gulags.

Let theology rejoice that faith is once again a «scandal,» and not simply a moral scandal, an offense to man's pride and righteousness, but, far more deeply, an ontological scandal; for eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.

What I am essentially protesting against is the bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality, which, in so far as they are real, are real in different senses.

So what Whitehead is essentially protesting against is the bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality, which, insofar as they are real are real in different senses — one reality would be entities such as electrons which are the entities of speculative physics; the other reality would be what is given us in actual sense - awareness.