Sentences with phrase «as common wisdom»

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

Not only that, they fly in the face of some massively overhyped myths that masquerade as common wisdom, these days, especially among the entrepreneurial crowd:

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«While common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates, as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.

The common wisdom for setting a price on a product or service is that it can be as high as you like so long as someone is willing to pay.

Innovators constantly ask questions that challenge common wisdom or, as Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata puts it, «question the unquestionable.»

Drawing on the wisdom of thinkers as diverse as St. Augustine and Leon Kass, and on the common sense of such figures as Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall wittily argues that «unserious activities» help make human life worth living.

In the best tradition of all religious «wisdom literature» or scriptures, as true believers like to call them, are widely common source or plagiarized as non-believers like to call it.

And yet, as often happens, Jesus» advice is also based on common sense — the sort of down - to - earth, practical wisdom that is dispensed today by people like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and that fills the Old Testament book of Proverbs.

According to a common Semitic idiom, just as sons of wickedness are wicked men, and sons of tumult are tumultuous ones, wisdom's children are people who have wisdom.

But the more frequently stated goal is as revolutionary as it claims to be — to displace the common wisdom regarding human sexuality in both church and culture.

Even in this «extreme» book, which attempts to call into question our ability both to know God's will and to predict our fate, we find two root affirmations common to the wisdom tradition, based as it is in creation: (I) God is sovereign, and (2) present life is to be lived in joy as God's gift.

We been given in the Whole heavenly scriptures including Quran stories that when are read or recited they are supposed to inspire us from it's wisdom of the old, reading those stories is like feeding our senses for knowing which becomes to be known as man's common senses.

This despair, as I have said, is the commonest, it is so common that only thereby can one explain the rather common opinion in common intercourse that despair is something belonging to youth, which appears only in youthful years, but is not to be found in the settled man who has come to the age of maturity and the years of wisdom.

If we believe in the wisdom of God as one wisdom shared with us both in creation and revelation, then the call to the common search for truth is a brilliant solution to the problem of tolerance and dialogue when faced with the claims of revealed religion.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Huffington Post: Hispanic Churches, Historically Spanish - Speaking, Adopt More English To Appeal To U.S. - Born Latinos While it's become common wisdom that English - speaking churches will shrink as younger generations, who are typically less religious, become the majority, the Spanish church - known across denominations for its religious fervor - is battling to keep its youth in the faith.

Then, in Him and of Him we eat the Bread of Life at the common table of Our Father, and grow in wisdom, age and grace personally and as a People before God and men.

The ACOG guidelines implicitly view ethics as a matter of private emotion and sentiment, rather than as common rationality and shared practical wisdom.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles as scandalous foolishness, as an offense against both the wisdom of the educated and the common sense of ordinary people.

Perhaps, as Sabbath keepers, we will come to live and know these truths more fully, and thus to bring their wisdom to the common solution of humanity's problems.

The canonical books of Wisdom Literature portray certain characteristic features: Some common OT themes such as Promises to the Patriarchs, Exodus, Sinai, Covenant and the divine oracles etc. are almost absent.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

Less common is the appreciation that Christ completes the movement of theological thought which is expressed in the body of Old Testament writing described as Wisdom Literature.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,....

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.»

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Olympians Gary Hall Sr., Mike Troy, John Kinsella, Jim Montgomery, Don McKenzie, Charlie Hickcox and nine - time gold medalist Mark Spitz were among 200 IU alums who came back to Bloomington to dip into their common past — and in some cases, into the water — as they remembered Doc Counsilman, the man who used to sit on a bench at poolside, sipping coffee, reading mail and occasionally dispensing swimming wisdom through a portable amplifier.

We help you reconnect with this wisdom, guiding you through a class specifically designed for the journey of pregnancy, interweaving childbirth education as well as addressing therapeutic applications — common aches and pains.

«I don't see this as hurting our event this summer,» Read said, «especially if the common council sees the wisdom of permitting an exception for sidewalk activity one or two days per year.»

Because of our great genomic similarity (sometimes even cited as ~ 99 %), the presumption that we evolved from a chimpanzee - like ancestor has become increasingly common wisdom.

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes (Alfred A. Knopf) Taubes's latest addition to the crowded genre of diet books dismisses as folly the common wisdom of calorie counting.

This result defied common wisdom as well as contradicting the public belief that eggs increase risk of high blood pressure due to their high cholesterol content.

The traditional wisdom of yoga needs to be combined with up - to - date, evidence - based kinesiology as it relates to common posture alignment issues.

It's common knowledge that you achieve more wisdom as you age.

Common wisdom tells us to intervene as fast as possible, that waiting is a bad thing.

The Download (comprising 4 files, within one zip file) includes: - A PPT Containing a Full Lesson - A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key - words, differentiation, and lesson timeline - Double - sided A4 worksheet - A3 Silent Debate group worksheets - A Homework Task The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: Human Concerns [Duties / Virtues / Yamas] • Hindu understanding of the concepts of free will, suffering and virtue, including their relationship to karma and samsara • The meaning and importance of Hindu virtues / moral duties (yamas), including harmlessness / non-violence (Ahimsa), compassion (daya), selfcontrol / restraint (dama) and giving (dana) • The relationship between virtues and particular elements of dharma • Common and divergent emphases placed on human concerns by different Hindu groups, including which virtues are identified as of core importance • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups Sources: Mahabharata V 39 Bhagavad Gita XVI, 1 — 3 Bhagavad Gita VIII 8 — 12 This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course!

When presented to students through a lively pedagogy of received wisdom, such as may be found in common maxims and precepts, these moral traditions can provide a compelling historical dimension to character education.

• Atman as the eternal self, the part that is liberated from Samsara • Atman as identical with Brahman • Atman as distinct from Brahman • Common and divergent understandings of the atman and liberation (moksha) by different Hindu groups • Common and divergent understandings of the relationship / connection between atman and Brahman by different Hindu groups • Common and divergent understandings to the approaches of different yogas by different Hindu groups • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups

Common wisdom tells that a FWD pickup is a bad idea as weight added to the bay will transfer the weight to be rear bias, hence putting more weight and grip on the rear wheel instead of the front wheels where the power is sent.

Lin was eager to give people a framework for enjoying life, and he built it using the wisdom of ancient Chinese literature as well as a large helping of common sense.

They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there's nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air.

Common wisdom says that every surplus that you have such as a salary hike or a bonus payment, it should go towards the payment of your home loan, but it may not be possible to do that always.

The MOI interview with MITIMCO team consists of many nuggets of wisdom like» The most common mistake we see is when an investor makes small compromises in the early days of the partnership in ways that limit future success» and «We've observed that almost all the very successful and established firms we work with turn away large amounts of capital — they even did so when they were small, by the way — because they understand the need to apply the same high bar to their choice of partners as they do their choice of investments».

The common wisdom seems to be to wait as long as you can to start taking Social Security retirement benefits.

Conventional veterinary wisdom states that annual vaccinations have decimated the incidence of formerly common viral diseases such as feline panleukopenia, rhinotracheitis, feline leukemia, canine distemper, hepatitis, and canine parvovirus.

While so much of today's common wisdom around appropriation grants that tactic a kind of distanced purview, from which an artist might critique while simultaneously participating in prevailing modes of cultural representation, we all too rarely account for the ways in which a sort of lasciviousness attends the venture — especially, perhaps, as younger generations take up its presumed look and legacy.

Diagnosis, in brief: (1) they write about stuff they clearly don't understand (2) they pick a catchy reverse - common - wisdom nugget as a headliner without the having the slightest interest in whether it is true or not (3) they pick an expert to talk to, but since they don't have a clue about the subject they don't know how to pick a good expert, or even understand what the expert says (4) there is a grain of sense in there, but so badly wrapped in trash it is nearly unfindable.

As we watch the hot topics within the legal industry, we are regularly reminded of Will Rogers» wisdom when he said, «common sense ain't common.»