Sentences with phrase «as an illustration of»

«If U.S. rates move too quickly, they will dislocate [high yielding] assets more broadly and the most liquid emerging markets will not be immune to a selloff,» he added, pointing to the 2013 taper tantrum as an illustration of this idea in action.

As an illustration of this philosophy, Buffett first invested in Coca - Cola in 1988.

I used the emotional term free - lunch as an illustration of manipulation.

As an illustration of this point, Litecoin was the only altcoin included in Lightning Labs's recent mainnet beta release of their Lightning Network Daemon (lnd).

All that is important, but the counselor is not related to a patient primarily as an illustration of a general principle or as an oracle of wisdom.

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

1) Eternal fire (Psalm 11:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 18:7 - 9, Matthew 25:41, Jude 7) Isaiah 30:30,33 — Isaiah speaks of Topheth in the valley of Hinnom, where before it became Gehenna — the burning trash dump outside Jerusalem — it was the place of pagan worship where people burned alive their own children to their false god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighteous

As an illustration of how a leader can be seduced, Linsky tells the story of becoming chief secretary in the administration of Massachusetts governor William Weld.

The present overview is nevertheless offered, with all its shortcomings, as an illustration of the kind of integration that every person must attempt in his own way.

Analytic geometry and conic sections are discussed as illustrations of the principle of generality.

In addition to stating their own views, actors are likely to engage in real or imaginary dialogue with their competitors, attempt to debunk or neutralize competing ideas, or use them as illustrations of wrong - headed or unworkable proposals.

It is likely that a second reason for Paul's using homosexuality as his illustration of the immediate consequence of idolatry is that its public manifestations were typically associated with pagan temples.

As an illustration of the sort of service he is talking about, he places a child in the midst of the circle of disciples — thus indicating that children, including abandoned children, are to be brought into the Christian community.

As an illustration of the diverse ways in which the animistic peoples approach Christianity, a speaker tells of one who became a Christian, moved at first by the desire to secure a decent burial for his body.

To say that God is omnipotent means that whatever is possible in the nature of things may be seen as an illustration of that experience by which God is defined.

(As an illustration of this critical re-interpretation of myth cf. Hans Jonas, Augustine und das paulinische Freiheitsproblem, 1930, pp. 66 - 76.)

Matthew regards the parable as an illustration of the «last, first: first, last» principle, but we must assume that it was originally spoken in a context in which Jesus was being attacked for his attitude to «tax collectors and sinners», with all that this implied to many of his contemporaries.

Thus, for example, «facts» that have often enough been taken as evidence against theism (such as «the facts of evil») may prove to have falsificatory character in relation to theism not, however, directly, in their character as contingent facts, but rather indirectly, as illustrations of the implicitly self contradictory character of such an interpretation, contradicted by any and every fact, and now made explicit by being shown contradictory with specific (and always interpreted) facts.

One other way to achieve better language balance is by recognizing that, since the pronoun «he» is used quite frequently simply as an illustration of an action, then «she» could be substituted just as naturally, effectively and frequently.

In any case, I have taken a narrative from the Gospels, rather than the apostolic kerygma, as my illustration of how faith is generated mainly because the Gospels pose the problem of historical veracity much more acutely.

I list such scenarios only as illustrations of what I see as the fundamental fragility of the present global system.

In this chapter I have referred to them only as an illustration of relationships between models, paradigms, and experience.

The author intends these remarks only as illustrations of the methodological position of earlier chapters; He indicates a substantive account of models in the Christian tradition would require another volume.

'' [W] e tend to think of «stories» as illustrations of some deeper truth that we can and should learn to articulate in a non-narrative mode....

With respect to the oft - cited passage of Romans 1:26 f. we must notice that Paul's mention of anal intercourse between males functions as an illustration of the consequence of God's having abandoned the gentiles to their own wickedness.

As illustration of this, Manchester City have had the third least shots in the Premier League.

Don Miller, president of the Ravinia Neighbors Association, held up magazine photos of the aftermath of superstorm Sandy as illustrations of what can happen to costal structures.

I used an example as an illustration of a general trend and you not only ignored the main point and the fact that despite disliking it I did it, you changed my words to «Waah sugar water».

LITRG has now taken this further by highlighting the significant challenges low - income care workers face when dealing with the tax and benefits systems, using queries they have received from workers as illustrations of the issues.

This is so much bigger than the child services bill Collins uses as an illustration of a good idea that vanished into the Republican contract on America.

But prosecutors introduced the meeting between the governor and developer as an illustration of the clout Percoco wielded and the benefit Cor reaped from its connection to him.

«A lot of times we focus on sea - level rise and fires in the West» as illustrations of climate change, Williams said.

Chen and others see the scrub jay work as an illustration of the power of applying genomics to long - term field studies.

To tell the developing story of biological thought as an illustration of the principles and methods of scientific enquiry in a much broader sense compounds the task.

Myhrvold's irreverent advice was just one of the cutting - edge food science and cooking tips that he shared during his talk, all the while dazzling the audience with film clips of wine glasses shattering, orange zest vaporizing, and a kernel of popcorn exploding in slow motion (as illustration of the kernel's «structural failure» to illustrate how water in food can become a «steam rocket» as the latent heat of the water builds up).

Investigating mouse models for biological for research The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

«Amy's video is both beautiful to watch on an aesthetic level and beautiful to watch as an illustration of how simple model organisms like Ashbya can give us insights into human diseases like Alzheimer's,» Atkinson continues.

The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

For what it is, it ain't bad, though it serves mainly as an illustration of the ancient quandary of revisionist moviemakers: if all you do is systematically invert cliches, you simply end up creating new ones.

Observe this scene as an illustration of what I mean by Mike Leigh's delicate precision.

Of course, various supporting characters, including Emily Browning («Pompeii»), Christopher Eccleston («Thor: The Dark World») and Chazz Palminteri («Once Upon a Time in Queens»), come to various ends, while others appear onscreen only to be slapped, beaten or shot, stabbed or generally dispatched as an illustration of Helgeland's use of semi-graphic violence for the sake of well, semi-graphic violence.

The picture is potentially interesting as an illustration of the amazing speed with which some elements of the present become relics of the past, and how other elements (like Marco Beltrami's insipid score) are timeless in their horribleness.

You might see Goodnight Mommy as an illustration of the price to be paid for bad parenting — and, given the blonde angelism of the sons here, you might then want to theorize on what bad parenting has meant for certain Austrian and German generations (that, of course, being a primary text of Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon).

As an illustration of this turnaround, the primary population in New South Wales declined by 9000 students in the decade to 2010, but in the decade to 2020, is projected to increase by 92 000 students.

(The fact that Kazakhstan was well ahead of Britain on the TIMSS results in science and math was treated as an illustration of possible corruption of the international data collection exercise.)

The authors praise the work of Massachusetts students in citing the recent results on TIMSS, pointing to this exceptional performance as an illustration of the influence of status quo reforms while later falsely condemning students» MCAS results to suggest a downward slide in performance.

Student performance expectations within that theme are then specified, and examples of classroom activities are provided as illustrations of how to design learning experiences to help students meet the performance expectations.

Six years later, I stand before you as an illustration of how HGSE supports your growth and development.

Each of these issues serves as an illustration of the complicated relationship between education access and education quality.

I offer it only as an illustration of the points you and others have made, not just in this blog post and presentation, but so many others you've put together, Celi.