Sentences with phrase «as human beings rather»

In showing understanding without praise, the game's story manages to walk a thin line between having the player act as part of what is arguably a local insurgent group and siding with said groups, the end goal of which is a more considered viewpoint which treats enemy combatants as human beings rather than koopa troopas.

This is both the broad metaphor at the heart of the president's own political career and a nice summation of what the film accomplishes - by holding these characters up to be judged as human beings rather than saints, it has pricked the balloon of myth that surrounds much of what transpired.

Director Scott Cooper, whose Crazy Heart was like catnip for Oscar voters, now seemingly tries to take on something close to Dances With Wolves, an epic (i.e. very long) Western that supposedly has some feel for American Indians as human beings rather than as villains or savages.

Are there any posts considering the birthing mother as a human being rather than a potential dangerous environment for the baby?

James Franco beautifully captures the mannerisms of Tommy Wiseau but what makes his portrayal so great is that he treats Tommy more as a human being rather than a joke.

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Brands are better able to assure the customers when they reach out as humans rather than as «help desk» or «admin.»

It's crucial you understand the value of coming across as relatable and human rather than hiding behind a corporate wall.

Humans like to have a way to measure themselves and track their own progress toward goals rather than being completely subject to someone's guess later as to how they've done.»

When humans increasingly prioritize reason, they can recognize the «futility of cycles of violence» and selfishness, and can «reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won,» he wrote.

«If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.»

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

Not everyone see's the human population as two massive armies in oppostion (men versus women) but rather as unequal masses that function better as counter weights for each - other, just as you have found your own counter weight (closeted hubby or long haired wife).

This is not to dismiss or marginalize the importance of civil and political rights such as freedom of expression and religion, but rather to adopt an integrated approach recognizing that all internationally recognized human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

This only conditions a child's mind to notice these things and view them as forbidden, rather than training them for self - control through the simple acknowledgement that humans are by nature sexual beings, and that the female form is beautiful, something to be appreciated and not objectified.

This enterprise, I have suggested, is as old as the human race, as old as our emergence as creatures of wants rather than of needs.

The imagination as an image - former (rather than an image - reader) is the proper faculty of human knowing.

It is singularly brilliant, it reveals him not as your stereotypical «pointy - headed» philosophy professors but rather as a human being, willing and eager to stand for his beliefs in the concrete world... hear, hear!

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

«Salvation» began to be taught as an extrinsic juridical transaction rather than an experiential internal transformation and Law rather than Grace [Unconditional kenotic Love] became the solution to coping with human evil in classical Protestantism.

In human history, the actual living out of marriage as a lifelong union has been the exception rather than rule.

rather than seeing these as an imposed set of rules, we can see these as a benediction, empowering us to be better... a bit like visions, rules can make failures of us, where as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more human.

By the way could the «BrainWashing» be from the uses of those Funny Shampoos and Products which are said to contain so many bad chemicals that could lead to cancers??! Any way I thought brainwashed one's are less human affectionate, rather acting as Robots in many ways so better check who does appear like that...!

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

It is the reactionary claim that there is no human factor in what needs to be mirrored, or rather that the presence of any such human factor distorts reality and so should as far as possible be transcended.

By an obvious process of metonymy, the educational canon is usually taken as referring to those materials themselves rather than to the rules for their determination, and the subject at issue is taken to be human knowledge in general.

One might go further and point out that the concept of «person» helps us understand human dignity as something deriving from the fact of one's intrinsic being» rather than from the extent of freestanding autonomy, the «quality of life,» that a person might demonstrate.

God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage - managers, who had since made a great mess of it.»

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To think that the mystery of a person could be contained in a binder is a scary thought to me; just another example of the corporate culture's tendency to see people as impersonal «human resources» rather than employees, workers, personnel or even «human capital.»

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

This co-operative activity does not make the action of God remote but rather as direct and immediate as communion between God and human nature can be.

What we read in the Old Testament should not be interpreted as God's approval of such crimes against the human person, but rather we should see how far humanity had to mature, be healed and be guided by God in these times before Jesus Christ's revealing and redeeming work for us.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

The universe is a body, to use a poor analogy from our own experience, but it is not a human body; rather, it is matter bodied forth seemingly infinitely, diversely, endlessly, yet internally as one.

The main problem is the perversion of the human heart, which is turned in upon itself, as Augustine said, rather than being open to the other beings as well as to the Source of all being.

The other group sees human beings as part of the interconnected web of life, and it sees value in the whole rather than in its isolated parts.

Moses did this not because he believed it was the perfect will of God, but rather as a concession to the demands of human weakness.

Rather, every culture is the product of the human spirit, as the spirit of man wrestles with its total environment and seeks to work out a satisfactory adjustment to the material world, to other men, and to such invisible powers as are believed to control its destiny.

For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine nature, and directly created at conception.

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

This is especially obvious if you view religion as essentially a source of ethical rules for human behaviour rather than theological truths about God and make the techie assumption that content equals rules; then, if all your churches come up with the same rules, they must all be based on the same content, and thus they must ultimately all be the same.

The union is to be understood as the taking up of human nature into the divine rather than of the lowering of the divine nature to the conditions of the human.

We can, and the Incarnation then becomes a symbol that emphasizes in a beautiful way several important Christian themes: (1) that God is here with us, not in some far off dimension; (2) that God loves us so much as to come seeking us out; and (3) that God does not merely sympathize with us but rather shares in an important way in the human condition.

Joseph Smith in the King Follet Discourse taught unequivocally that God is not eternally God but rather is an evolved human being: «God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens.?.?..

Rather we are to think of Jesus» human nature as informed and transformed by its union with this divine nature without in any way ceasing to be human.

They deal with evil as it needs to be dealt with» from a human rather than divine perspective.