Sentences with phrase «as calling attention to»

The coming year will be an exciting time for hardware enthusiasts, Tsujimoto told Gemaga magazine, expressing his interest in embracing a new platform in the same breath as calling attention to the 3DS's launch.

For now, by registering gospel - qualified unions as civil marriages and not officiating at unions that are not gospel - qualified, we call the government to its responsibility even as we call attention to its limits.»

These works float between the literal and the metaphoric as they call attention to their materials and their means of production.

Not exact matches

In a federal court complaint, John Lockette, an African - American former wealth manager, alleged that he received negative performance reviews, was denied raises and given derisive nicknames, and was ultimately fired from Morgan Stanley in August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reports.

As Alexandra Troy, founder and CEO of Culinary Architect Catering, explains in my book The Good Ones, a brave employee we'll call Sarah revealed that another employee, Mabel, was bad - mouthing Alexandra behind her back and not paying attention to details at work.

When you're on a sales call with a VIP client who represents a big sale (and a big commission), you make the best impression by listening intently to what he or she has to say, asking incisive questions and paying attention to the answers as if your career depends on it.

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

The senators said they also wanted to call attention to what they described as Russia's attempts to influence upcoming elections in France and Germany.

Yet others have noted that the office never had a secure booth previously as the EPA contains a secure facility on a separate floor, and have called attention to the secretive measures taken by Pruitt and his deputies.

As the head of a company that seeks to encourage people pay more attention to automated telemarketing calls, Kelly knows she's got no more than two or three seconds to «earn the moment.»

The ad proved to be a public relations coup for Airbnb as the New York Times and others called attention to the commercial and to the speed with which it was put together.

The collapse, the third catastrophic incident at Bangladeshi factories in five months that have killed more than 200 people, could taint Bangladesh's reputation as a source of low - cost products and services and call attention to Western retailers and other companies that obtain products from the country.

Our intent with the «Dear New Jersey» billboard, which was one of many ads for our campaign, was to call attention to the fact that armpits can and should be considered beautiful and ask women everywhere to accept this as something that is okay.

«This enables a capability called «retroactive investigation,» where once you come to the government's attention, they've got a very complete record of your daily activity going back, under current law, often as far as five years.

Being able to call out a number in your headline makes the piece instantly more attention - grabbing; it implies a degree of conciseness and skimmability that's appealing to modern web users, plus serves as a tease that piques user interest.

As one current and unnameable Everglades Club member puts it, «people who try to call attention to themselves wouldn't be welcome.»

His precise and timely forecasts have come to be in great demand by industry and media worldwide and his impressive career goes back almost three decades, gaining attention with his market calls and energetic personality as writer of The Energy Report.

BHAGAT: Look, let be careful about paying too much attention to a single quarter, but as it stands right now consensus expectations call for the very cyclical energy and materials sectors to be the winner.

As a veteran short - seller he listens to the calls of other short sellers, and when famed short - seller Steve Eisman presented Home Capital as a «short idea» at a New York investor conference in the spring of 2013, Cohodes started paying attentioAs a veteran short - seller he listens to the calls of other short sellers, and when famed short - seller Steve Eisman presented Home Capital as a «short idea» at a New York investor conference in the spring of 2013, Cohodes started paying attentioas a «short idea» at a New York investor conference in the spring of 2013, Cohodes started paying attention.

We find that as long as the negative information about a product is minor, your pitch [to a consumer] might be more persuasive when it calls attention to that negative, especially if consumers have already learned some positive things,» — Baba Shiv

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

Certainly, not a single jab at Falstaff's girth is excised, and the audience laughed hardest when Sir John playfully or ruefully calls attention to his own rotundity — as when he's asked to put an ear to ground and shoots back «Have you any levers to lift me up again?»

It is tempting to dismiss this call for a democracy of attention as a nostalgic retreat to a nineteenth - century, small - town, WASP America.

As Joe noted yesterday, our friend Jordan Ballor called attention to and discussed this article about philosophical counseling.

«A distinction must be made,» the Instrumentum Laboris says, «between those who have made a personal, and often painful, choice and live that choice discreetly so as not to give scandal to others, and those whose behavior promotes and actively — often aggressively — calls attention to it.»

Nathaniel calls our attention to Bishop Trautman's difficulties with the word ineffable as reported in the Erie Times - News.

Smith called attention to some interesting studies, such as one that found that the youth of today respond with more feeling, and wind up having greater memory of, songs from the 80s and 60s, than those of today.

The editors viewed their job as a committed ministry and believed that they were working toward building a positive society by calling attention to social evils and praising worthwhile social developments.

Nevertheless, as Buddhists first call attention to this character of all events, including each moment of human experience, and then explain how a mediator is inwardly affected by the realization of this truth, Christians can listen and open themselves to dimensions important to them.

But Neuhaus calls the faculty protest «smarminess» and goes on to denigrate the «national prominence» of Calvin College, as if it is some rude, liberal Podunk institution looking for cheap media attention with a publicity stunt.

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

As they went out, the disciples called his attention to the great buildings in the sacred area and the huge stones of which they were made.

The process thinkers of our time who have turned their attention to the religious question — the process theologians, as they are usually called — are sure, however, that there is another and sounder conception of God, one which makes love the clue to the divine nature and manner of working in the world and one which is also in accordance with what we know to be going on in that world.

The argument of this sermon was open to criticism on the ground that the preacher seemed to take for granted a highly debatable view of the redemptive value of human suffering; yet he was calling attention to something very important, namely, that if we quote Baxter's words as Professor Lampe has done, we must not forget that the scope of Christ's suffering is limited.

Theologies of play and of the body could be understood as the church's teaching on these topics, although in fact they tend to call for some shift in Christian thinking as a whole based on attention to what can be learned as one takes play or the body seriously.

The Sultan, however, refused to do this, and so the Franciscans were able to stay as his guests, and he apparently listened to what Francis had to say with a great deal of attention, frequently calling him so that they could converse.

As Christian fundamentalism focuses its attention on the so - called Holy Land, so also does the Islamic world, where it has served to strengthen and spread Islamic fundamentalism.

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General human nature can always take some other issue to fill in the so called void, even a currently open issue that didn't get as much attention previously.

Heidegger seems to me obviously correct in regarding modernity's nihilism as the fruition of seeds sown in pagan soil; and Nietzsche also correct to call attention to Christianity's shocking — and, for the antique order of noble values, irreparably catastrophic — novelty; but neither grasped why he was correct.

It has many sources, from redaction critics who started looking at each Gospel as a whole to literary scholars like Northrop Frye and Frank Kermode who have called renewed attention to the narrative shape of biblical texts.

If people would only transfer the attention they give to people who want to be called pastors to Christ alone as their Pastor / Shepherd, we may not have this problem.

(Jesus, of course was referring himself as «the son of man», calling attention to his human nature and, of course, as a sign of humility.)

He had already called attention to the historical relativity — and relatedness — of Christianity; he now began to note its social and institutional relativity — and relatedness — as well.

In response to the pervasive relativism in contemporary culture, and the form of relativism that is called religious syncretism in the dialogue between religions — a problem that came in for special attention at a recent Synod for Asia — CDF, with the Pope's express support, is reiterating the Church's faith that Jesus is, as he said of himself, the way, the truth, and the life.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

My take is that those who call themselves Christians really ought to pay attention to what Christ said: «treat others as you would like to be treated,» «do good to those who persecute you,» «love one another,» «be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves,» «help the poor,» «turn the other cheek.»

One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.