Sentences with phrase «as powerful means»

Readers gain a deeper appreciation for the rich nuances of creative arts and play therapy as powerful means of helping survivors of attachment trauma.

As you probably know, despite the noise and overload in social media, I've long seen Twitter and similar tools as a powerful means of sharing and shaping ideas and building long - distance collaborative networks.

He uses photography, projected still images with soundtracks, film, video and performance, as powerful means of conveying his reflections on the meaning of image and language.

The exhibition demonstrates how the act of drawing took on a central role in his practice at this stage, both as a favored medium in its own right and as a powerful means of translating and transforming his sources of pop iconography.

The principle of establishing clear performance targets and the goal of teaching for understanding fit together as a powerful means of linking curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

«Ultimately, it's about every teacher getting better every day as a powerful means of improving student outcomes.»

Most activists in the voucher movement are dedicated to improving the public schools, and they see vouchers as a powerful means of effecting improvement through greater choice and competition.

Outdoor activities have been recognised as a powerful means of engaging young people in more positive activities across all year groups.

From August 25, Dover Street Market will exhibit eight t - shirts featuring graphics from the Stüssy archive, with the aim of exploring the garment's role as a powerful means of communication.

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He is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America (Bloomsbury Press, 2009); it was released in paperback as Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government and the Secret History of the Last Fifty Years.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Kenny said, «European leaders need to be over here talking to Republicans, Democrats and the administration about what membership of the European Union means and the relationship that it can have with as powerful an entity as the United States.»

The latter has a much more sophisticated and well - armed military, powerful, dedicated allies in Tehran and is a key piece of the Arab - Israeli puzzle, which means regional fall - outs will be as serious as they're unpredictable.

As the number of initial fundings balloons, and as nontraditional money creates a powerful updraft for companies that make it through the initial cull, the imperative to cross the valley by any means necessary becomes ever more urgenAs the number of initial fundings balloons, and as nontraditional money creates a powerful updraft for companies that make it through the initial cull, the imperative to cross the valley by any means necessary becomes ever more urgenas nontraditional money creates a powerful updraft for companies that make it through the initial cull, the imperative to cross the valley by any means necessary becomes ever more urgent.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

The notion of listening for deeper meaning of what has been said can be so powerful for marketers as well.

That means Millennials can become especially powerful cross-generational advocates of brands — as well as influential critics.

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planeAs Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planeas targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

This means that as men get more successful and powerful, both men and women like them better.

But the victims of terminal illnesses, poverty, and heinous crimes are forced to suffer the consequences as well — while the great and powerful Oz, i mean, God, sits back and watches.

A powerful inducement to believe in Christ is the abundant life of meaning and purpose He alone can give, and the crowning experience of life as His intimate companion in the world to come, not to mention the obvious fact that through this faith one escapes the corruption of the lake of fire.

As David Griffin states: «If the world is an actual creation, and not simply a complex idea in the divine mind, or simply aspects of modes» of God, then all - powerful can not mean having all the power» (GPE 269 - 70).

I find the raising of Lazarus from the dead (John 12) more difficult to accept as historical, although its symbolic meaning as brought out by John is powerful.

In his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, issued in 1939, Pope Pius XI deplored the fact that «these most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain.»

The crude superstition of man's prayer as a means of instructing God or altering his intention was overpassed and praying became both congruous with the Christian idea of God and effectively powerful in spiritual result — «Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.»

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

Secondly, can you imagine if on gods level he's actually not nearly as powerful as you think he is, it's just he's so much more powerful than you (or at least you perceive him to be) that you give him powers he doesn't posess, I mean you are just taking other people from 2,000 word for it that this is what god is like and sure you pray, but like you said, you just know, god hasn't come down and spoken with you, sent you a note, a vision or any other nonesense.

Your formula is meant to be simplistic and «powerful», but your understanding of really large numbers is what is actually what is holding you back from accepting evolution as being true.

Religious stories continue to be powerful engines of meaning for billions of persons around the world, as they have been for millennia.

He either meant for Jesus to be crucified or he's nowhere near as powerful as people say he is).

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

The cross of Christ was not meant to provide a means of forgiveness for a humanity that is universally condemned for the sins they could not avoid if they had wanted to (doctrine of Original Sin) but God gave his Son as a graphic and powerful demonstration that God forgives any and all, and invites everyone into the Kingdom of God wherein a person is given the Holy Spirit to help overcome and be free from sin.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.

Christianity as a mass movement so powerful that Constantine finally had to yield to its pressure was more a Matthean Christianity; and that means it was, through Matthew, really connnected to Jesus.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

Greek anthropomorphism was fundamentally the picturing of the gods as ideal humans, and this, at the Homeric stage of development, meant humans who were beautiful, wise, and powerful.

By this I mean that although love will not use coercive measures, driving people to do what they will not do otherwise, making them (as the phrase has it) act in contradiction to their own freely chosen decision, love is the most powerful of all agencies in the world.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

Sure, God's salvation is unspeakably powerful and it is eternal (meaning that it never ends for the faithful) but God does not force it upon us if we decide we don't want it for whatever reason such as the cost of maintaining it is too high.

Something has then taken place just as powerful and inconceivable as birth, the saying «Here I am as I am» finds a new meaning.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

A different reason, too, for the literary philosemitism of Ulysses: Leopold Bloom's bumbling personality casts him as the butt of jokes and disdain, but he's also the means for yoking the story of Odysseus with the story of Europe's Jews; a person and a people hounded by the powerful.

Thus, virtue and vice have no objective meaning; instead, the powerful define them as they please.

Joanne Whittering, a consecrated virgin and Oxford theology graduate, shows how such consecrated living is seen by the modern magisterium as a powerful embodiment of a key meaning of femininity.

Meaning it is a creative and powerful Word that carries it's own authority as it witnesses to Christ and His promises.

Since seriously meant paradox defines good poetry, it is no accident that «the babe turns out to be, as a matter of fact, perhaps the most powerful symbol in the tragedy» (WWU 37).

Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

Which means you and I serve as a faith - based anchor, pulling the powerful entertainment juggernaut back toward a moral center.

«Planned Parenthood has probably never been more powerful — and that means it has also never been more vulnerable to both external pressures and internal ones such as a change in leadership.»