Sentences with phrase «as good an analogy»

While some who hear the term «identity safety» automatically think it means protection against identity theft, that actually serves as a good analogy.

You also seem to approve of body temperature control as a relevant example of homeostasis as a good analogy.

As a good analogy, the climate contrarian is often like a medical quack dressed up in a white coat to look like a medical specialist.

This strikes me as the better analogy for physical health — it is a gateway for amplifying all of the other types of well - being in our lives (and a critically important gateway, at that) rather than being something we pursue simply for its own sake.

Not exact matches

That same analogy applies to how we spend our time as well.

«A baseball team entirely composed of catchers could have high esprit de corps,» Ellison offered as an analogy, «but it would not perform very well on the field.»

It's been described as «Foodspotting for fashion,» and that's a fairly good analogy.

Many available analogies to 1929 top and 2000 top as well.

Sticking with the dating analogy, while all girlfriends obviously have their good sides as well as their bad, electric razors and blades also have their advantages and drawbacks.

Two analogies are often used to describe the actions of the Federal Reserve in the United States as well as other central banks around the world: the punch bowl, and the drug addict.

Well, given that many atheists are actually more informed (as studies have confirmed) than believers, a better analogy would be that it's like asking a former professional chemist now teaching an English class about chemistry instead of asking the Chemistry teacher who never made it past chem 101 as an undergrad.

There's nothing as leveling as a good ass - analogy, is there?

And in the process he appeals regularly to what is required by logic and reason, as well as to themes of a sort of natural theology in which he makes analogies to the experiences of birth and death.

Returning now to Pike, we can see that there is yet another problem with his driving analogy, as well as his other example of a government commission with a veto power analogous to divine over-power.

for arguments sake... the blogger supposed a God of the Bible... and likened that to a human being genetically creating humans... it is no way a good analogy as again... the bIble shows a peson having a spirit..

It emphasizes participation in God, employing a Thomist doctrine of analogy as a way of affirming difference as well as participation.

That is why we who are preachers of the gospel of Christ may seek for the homeliest and simplest, as well as for the most exalted and sublime, analogies for «gospel truth» in the life and work of our people.

The problem with your analogy is that we, as good parents, do this to prepare our children for their adult life where they will make decisions independent of our having the final OK.

They are at best analogies that can help the modern mind to take such Christian concepts as «revelation,» «grace,» and «spirit» more seriously than is possible within the monolithic discourse which our contemporary disciplines provide.

As we pointed out in chapter I, above, it is here that the modern attempt to reconstruct his teaching has been most successful and, today, the best - known feature of that teaching is its incomparable use of simile and analogy.

hmm... wonder what kind of good analogies could be drawn from free - range, antibiotic - reduced, hormone free, organic farming (as opposed to feedlot, factory - farmed churchianity)

We find them in the treatise On Divine Names by Dionysius the Areopagite, where God is true Being and Goodness and Beauty, but also in the triadic analogies explored by Augustine in his treatise On the Trinity, where God is compared to Memory and Intellect and Will, as well as in the triads of nouns fashioned by theologians inventing terms for God in new languages.

I also purchased a very good workbook, Analogies for Beginners, for him to play in as he wants or as I direct him.

Naturally, people might well differ, first, as to whether the situations were really analogous, also as to just how far the analogy might be carried.

It is the complete Actuality and eternity and infinity of God's Existence that show the inadequacy of the analogy but at the same time help to enlighten us as well in what this means for God's own Life.

The balance of analogy between finite and infinite is delicate, yet essential for sanity as well as freedom.

Well, it seems to have been «not so muc... a supernatural external miracle but... the dawning internal realization that this life of Jesus reflected a new image of God, an image that defied the conventional wisdom, an image that called into question the exalted king as the primary analogy by which God could be understood.»

From this viewpoint it makes good sense that Whitehead describes the actual entity in categories of subjectivity and thus makes methodic use of the analogy of human subjectivity.34 For actual entities are not to be treated simply from the outside, as objects to which other objects stand as past, simultaneous, or future.

The pattern is clear in the Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, Colossians, and Ephesians, and when it has been recognized in these clear examples, it can be traced by analogy in other epistles, where it is not so obvious at first sight; not only in epistles written by Paul but in those written by other authors as well.

But in Catholic theology «analogy» fully intends to preserve the polarity of that relation and even to include the negative as well as the positive aspects of the polar relationship of God and world.

The best that scientists can do is draw analogies to spontaneous ordering in non living structures, such as crystals.

Does not the biblical model of God as father offer analogies for God's fatherly nature as well as for our filial stance?

The pure science of the theory NEVER says to «imagine» anything, though many scientists speaking to a public not as well versed in science do use metaphor, analogy, and imagined scenarios to help people grasp the concept.

And, I really liked your military analogy... it holds true in marriage as well.

For it denies that there is any analogy between divine and human goodness themselves; it asserts only that divine goodness is to God's nature as human goodness is to man's nature — in other words, that each is good in away appropriate to its own nature.

My only issue with Wenger not buying a shirt (I like the analogy) is that part of his rationale is that he has lots of good nylon shirts that are as good as the ones on sale.

Sorry Terry, whereas you are correct in you analogy of Kroenke & Sons et al turning this once great football club into a money making conglomorate — as with all EPL clubs for that matter these days, such is the word «progress» for want of a better description, I'm afraid there is a lot of truth in the comments above.

He would also build new infrastructure whilst maintaining a healthy economy (New stadium + consistent top - four) and do good job on exports as well (Global merchandising growth) so it's a good analogy.

Having Giroud in your team is like having dial up internet in 2015 (my apologies to anyone who still has, but it gets better as soon as you upgrade) and in case you're wondering how the analogy links to what I was saying overall in terms of ambition its simple, much like dial - up, Giroud functions at a limited capacity if you need to send an email its good (Score a goal), wanting to stream a movie is a stretch to far (Giroud doesn't win titles) and if, at the end of the day, showing ambition is showing an intent of doing better than before, taking risks and learning from your mistakes, and how not to repeat them again.

Mommy Expert Annika shared the best analogy of what it's like to travel on your own with your baby... «It is the same as if you were traveling with your husband because they are sort of clueless.»

The best analogy for the differential treatment of same - sex couples by offering them civil partnership as opposed to civil marriage is in the systematic prejudice suffered by African - Americans in the United States.

I would disagree with both of you, though, that direct mail and TV are good analogies as they are both single to multiple point forms of communication, which tend to be more corporatist in nature.

Another quibble: you assert, without arguing for it, that «The best analogy for the differential treatment of same - sex couples by offering them civil partnership as opposed to civil marriage is in the systematic prejudice suffered by African - Americans in the United States».

As for the analogy, that part might be better asked on english.se.

This strikes me as a far better analogy than the earlier elections you cite — Like Wilson, Cameron could have cannily used every day to illustrate that while he was doing his best to govern with a minority, the radical changes the economic crisis demanded were being blocked at every turn and that he deserved to be given a real chance to put his policies into effect.

Topological defects are best explained with an analogy to magnetic materials such as nickel.

It's a dynamic process as well, as spines, again in a healthy situation, are continuously forming and maturing; Mei uses the analogies of mushroom - like mature spines and bean sprout - like immature ones.

To use a medical analogy, there is not much we can do about pathogens such as bacteria or viruses already in our environment, but we can take steps to boost our immune system so we can better resist these pathogens when we come into contact with them.

Keith Tritton's suggestion of knitting patterns as a metaphor for DNA are indeed a much better analogy than a blueprint...

In our sheet analogy, these would appear as five additional wells created at specific locations around the bowling ball - baseball system.