Sentences with phrase «as insistence»

In more than one place» takes up contradictory positions: as a refrain — in a musical sense, as well as to limit (set a boundary) and scold; or, as an insistence on immediacy and presence.

And it may actually be essential to implementing a decentralized publishing marketplace as an insistence on restrictive DRM is a real world impediment to developing any alternative.

Using unconventional methods, such as an insistence on personal hygiene and dance therapy, they aim to make student life a better place.

HBO executive Casey Bloys explains that in light of the Times Up Movement, as well as insistence from series star Reese Witherspoon, the network went through a process to ensure equal pay for each of its stars... from every single series.

The post goes on from there, addressing the governor's assertion on the percentage of expenditures devoted to classroom instruction versus administrative costs, as well as his insistence that districts can make up the difference in lost aid with reserve funds and economize by reducing waste, fraud and abuse.

Centering on Jesus or on Christ often functions as a form of closure, as an insistence that nothing more needs to be learned.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

The popular picture of Jesus as one whose purpose was to proclaim truths about himself most often construes loyalty to him as insistence on the truth of those claims.

For instance, known Jewish forms for receiving proselytes show parallels to elements in the Christian catechesis, such as the insistence upon a radical reorientation of moral standards, and upon membership in a society carrying solemn obligations; such, again, as the recital of typical commandments which the convert will be expected to observe, and the warning of the danger of persecution» with demands for constancy.

The question is ridiculous, since yes, the religious leaders (Jews) had a hand in killing Jesus, but the conclusion that modern Jews are responsible is also ridiculous, as well as the insistence on retracting the question by the ADL, whose whole point is to prevent people from blaming modern Jews, not whether the answer is true or not.

Not exact matches

At the core of that is this insistence that you should look into your core experiences as the roots of finding something new.

And, despite Meyers» insistence that Trump would not have appeared on his show anyway, the GOP candidate is a frequent media presence who made a number of late - night TV visits in the early months of his campaign, including with Meyers» NBC colleagues like Jimmy Fallon, on The Tonight Show, as well as a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.

In the same way that Bach spoke of his mother as a strong female influence in his life, and Tory credited her success in part to her fathers insistence that she could do whatever she wanted to, Leroux also praised her parents for their guidance.

The ethos of the Bush - era CIA was «know - nothingism,» as Paul Krugman put it at The New York Times, «the insistence that there are simple, brute - force, instant - gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise.»

Tesla (tsla) seems likely to benefit from the new move, as it has shunned the joint venture option — its insistence on going it alone in China, with a production facility in the Shanghai free trade zone, seemed certain to earn it that 25 % price bump, but no longer.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

According to one person present at the summit, China's insistence on a reference that the European Union will eventually recognize China as an economy driven by the market, not the state, blocked the final 60 - point statement.

Monti, however, was critical of German and other insistence on austerity and surrender of control as the price for assistance to countries struggling with unsustainable bond yields.

One of the most obvious areas of abuse concerns the resolute insistence by most public companies to have the CEO serve as chairman of the board.

His insistence on his own management team could be seen as his way of ensuring the best possible execution of a bad combination.

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Still, the fact is that I've adopted a constructive outlook after every bear market decline in over 30 years as a professional investor (including late - 2008 after the market collapsed by over 40 %, though that shift was truncated by my insistence on stress - testing), and I've also repeatedly anticipated the steepest losses.

TIMING Giuliani's insistence the money had nothing to do with the campaign is complicated by the fact that Daniels» silence was secured just days before the 2016 presidential election, and as Trump was dealing with the fallout from the «Access Hollywood» tape in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

But China is likely to complain about any eventual duties since Commerce will judge it as a «nonmarket» economy, despite Beijing's long - standing insistence that the state no longer determines prices.

The Fed's continued insistence that it will raise rates soon is especially perplexing as inflation continues to run below its 2 % target, and the U-6 unemployment rate — which accounts for discouraged workers and those working part - time because they can't find full time work — is still well above pre-crisis levels.

I'd even go so far as to say that it is only in Christianity, with its holding up of texts, where there's an insistence from mainstream sects to not make an effort to look beyond the text itself.

John Paul II's Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in 1985, and Benedict XVI's insistence on a «hermeneutic of continuity» rather than rupture have both helped to recover a «deeper reception of the Council» as the Synod's final report requested.

Collapsing the Practical into the Principle One possible response to declining relevance is the insistence that my ministry forms offer something better, even as their fruitfulness erodes.

her pride in her «great sense of modesty,» her insistence that we all don sackcloth, preferably after shaving our heads (like a novice, she marked her arrival in Paris by bobbing her hair) remind me of no one as much as Pope Francis.

The fact that it can not be measured is what qualifies it as supernatural and so your insistence that it be measured is closer to a symptom of mental illness than my assurance that you will never attain proof and that your only hope of experiencing the same phenomenon is to submit yourself to the experience of it by whatever path you feel «calls you».

Yet it must be said in fairness that there is probably as much paternalism in the liberal's all-wise insistence on «appropriate technology» in the face of a new nation's determination to have its own steel plants as in the conservative's all-wise insistence on monogamous marriage in the face of tribal insistence on polygamy.

As it happens, however, I was also toting a copy of The Pilgrim's Progress, with its insistence on the need to get up and go on more urgent business....

When this is combined with the insistence that this is wholly ineffable, it becomes possible to think that those who have discovered God in this way are experiencing the same reality as that which Buddhists have identified.

Waldo's monastic lifestyle and ideas were similar to those of the pope's namesake, Francis of Assisi, but his insistence on preaching as a lay person, and on speaking out against the excesses of the church, got him excommunicated.

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo - Christian heritage.

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

The split, insofar as one has occurred, is due as much to the insistence of scientists that human beings are part of a wholly purposeless world as to the naïve and distorted beliefs of many Christians.

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It also gives rise to her insistence that we must respect the «historical integrity and moral autonomy» of Jesus, Paul, and the evangelists as people of their own time and place, concerned with issues (such as purity regulations) that do not concern us, and unaware of our concerns as modern Christians or Jews.

Such putative rights as, for instance, the right to abortion not only have no warrant in the Declaration but clearly violate its insistence upon the rights of the family, of religion, and of conscience.

In fact, the very insistence on staying completely off any form of alcohol is seen as one of its biggest drawbacks.

Catholics insistence that women are just not as fitting as men to be priests because Jesus had a penis.

That is, Hegel's purposes (among others) may well have been: (A) to provide an alternative scheme to Aristotelian logical abstraction; and (B) to provide an alternative to the concomitant mechanism and the psychological atomism of his own day, and to the concomitant logical scheme and the Newtonian mathematical model of externally related particulars, as well as to the dogmatic insistence upon the subject - predicate form of this logic and to the substance - attribute ontology that was its metaphysical correlate.

What Lynch is driving at with his insistence on the analogical imagination, which finds in the images of limitation «the path to whatever the self is seeking: to insight, or beauty, or, for that matter, to God,» is directly related to what I have called metaphor as method.

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

His rejection of independently existing substance in favor of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out of the feelings of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form of order is aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process of reality, are all examples of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.

We ought to join in their insistence on nonviolence as the absolute principle, in their condemnation of all forms of violence

The bulk of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that marriage constitutes a true sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves as something of a foil for the book's extended argument.

55 But even this awareness is qualified by the insistence that the power of God can be understood as one that «dominates all» and is «master over all,» 56 leading to the realization of «the complete dependence of everything real upon God.»