Sentences with phrase «as radical an idea»

The idea of compassion is as radical an idea as you can think of, when people are building walls everywhere.»

While not quite as radical an idea as making all of New York's 42nd Street pedestrianized and get a light rail system, a new pilot program to turn sections of the Times Square and Herald Square into pedestrianized zones

While not quite as radical an idea as making all of New York's 42nd Street pedestrianized and get a light rail system, a new pilot program to turn sections of the Times Square and Herald Square into pedestrianized zones is worth checking out: Under the plan «Green Light for Midtown», the some of the criss - crossing streets at both locations will be turned into outdoor plazas.

«When we talked about moving legal practice management to the cloud, we saw it originally as a radical idea,» Newton said during my visit earlier this month.

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As a result, Finnegan is a big advocate of the concept of working backwards, «especially when thinking about building businesses based on emerging technologies and ideas that are truly radical and transformational.»

It's an idea that the organizers have apparently been looking into, with a 4,000 acre property in Northern Nevada even identified as the ideal site for a permanent community where the Burning Man principles of «radical inclusion» and «gifting» could be the law of the land year - round.

«At the time it was a radical idea for a band to add a «call to action'to an album as an overt way to build their mailing list — and by extension, their following,» write Halligan and Scott.

As mighty as they may be, though, they all sprouted from someone's irrepressible, radical idea — which is to say: They were all inventeAs mighty as they may be, though, they all sprouted from someone's irrepressible, radical idea — which is to say: They were all inventeas they may be, though, they all sprouted from someone's irrepressible, radical idea — which is to say: They were all invented.

DUBNER: All right, so let me ask you: You've become famous, I would say, for encouraging what's known as radical transparency and radical truthfulness — both of which are in pursuit of an idea - meritocracy.

Traditionalists find themselves ill at ease» to put it mildly» in today's postmodernist intellectual world, a world whose «animating spirit,» as Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, «is a radical relativism and skepticism that rejects any idea of truth, knowledge, or objectivity» («The Christian University: A Call to Counterrevolution,» FT, January).

Oh, something like «Do unto others as you would have them do unto you» might work, but I think many of these folks would consider that too radical an idea.

I repeat: I hope I am wrong; but I am, all the same, beginning to wonder if the warm support with which even quite unexpected people in our hierarchy (like Bishop Hollis) greeted the establishment of the Ordinariate this time round (you will remember the hostility with which they squashed a similar but less radical basic idea in the Nineties) was really as wholehearted as it seemed at the time: or were they simply saying what they knew the Pope wanted them to say, but without any real belief in the idea itself?

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

But it does suggest that the radical falsity of primitive religious ideas as they stand is not an argument for atheism, as it is rather commonly held to be.

Radical as his ideas are, they deserve attention in a world that seems bent on suicide.

A radical shift has obviously taken place in your beliefs since you left GES for you to now be promoting such an unbiblical idea as this.

For this identification meant a radical redefinition of the whole idea of the Word, as that idea may have been known by members of the Christian community.

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

I suppose this is a step in the right direction, but I think that in general, the idea of «small groups» as a program or ministry of the church (whether it is of first or secondary importance) falls far short of the the radical change that is needed to truly be the church in the world.

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.

At one point there appeared an emergent idea so radical in its nature as to constitute a departure from traditional Judaism.

As a Creationist, I find the idea that I have to believe in such radical concepts as «Science,» and «The Laws of Physics» offensivAs a Creationist, I find the idea that I have to believe in such radical concepts as «Science,» and «The Laws of Physics» offensivas «Science,» and «The Laws of Physics» offensive.

As such it is always subject to errors that can be controlled but not governed entirely by practical and / or socially established evaluative or critical methods.18 The indispensable factor of interpretation in the dynamic processes of semiosis even leads to the idea that there is a generic form of imagination in physical becoming, in addition to a primary or radical form in human perception, a consideration that would indeed justify calling creativity the category of the ultimate, just as Whitehead maintainAs such it is always subject to errors that can be controlled but not governed entirely by practical and / or socially established evaluative or critical methods.18 The indispensable factor of interpretation in the dynamic processes of semiosis even leads to the idea that there is a generic form of imagination in physical becoming, in addition to a primary or radical form in human perception, a consideration that would indeed justify calling creativity the category of the ultimate, just as Whitehead maintainas Whitehead maintains.

I am sure that the socialism being preached by the radical sectarians on the far left, modeled on the ideas of Fidel Castro or the thought of Mao Tse - tung, leaders of two societies about as different from the United States as it is possible to be, is not the answer.

The ideas presented might strike one as radical if not impossible, but on page 35 he well makes the case for trying, given the dramatic ways in which family life can be changed through failure.

While Tinder never explicitly equates his notion of agape with rights - based claims, he is not as careful as he might have been to make clear the radical distinction between these two ideas.

The Court moved a long way toward making homosexual conduct a constitutional right, adopted the radical feminist view that men and women are essentially identical, continued to view the First Amendment as a protection of self - gratification rather than of the free articulation of ideas, and overturned two hundred years of history to hold that political patronage is unconstitutional.

I suffer from Crohn's disease and decided a radical change of diet might be a very good idea, especially as I'm such a sugar lover, So I've cut out sugar (was already gluten - free, and a veggie) and have stuck to good, healthy Ella - type food for the last week.it's already made a massive difference.

I know that BLW is still seen as a bit of a «radical» idea in our society, so until more parents are willing to accept it, they should indeed be encouraged their own healthy baby food.

Today, LLL's «radical» ideas have been accepted as the standard pediatric practice for breast - feeding.

People's view of the «crazy radical ideas» from LLL shifted as these became mainstream medical advice.

But perhaps because of its unusualness, Ellis was able to introduce an idea that remains as radical and tantalizing today as it was in his time: trial marriages, in which he envisioned couples exploring a temporary union of varying levels of commitment that allowed them to have sex, access birth control and have an easy divorce if desired, as long as no children were involved.

The idea that the people in control of that system would be radical democrats is surely as convincing as Marx's insistence that the representatives of the proletariat would manage resources in the interests of all.

The founding itself, however can be seen as a radical jump away from tradition onto an untried form of government, a move at odds with the idea conservatism.

Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, himself branded with the dreaded Westminster tag of «one to watch», cites Badenoch (along with fellow 2017 Tory MPs Bim Afolami and Ben Bradley — more on him later) as «seriously impressive, capable and [colleagues] who have got some very radical Conservative ideas.»

But all this is lost on John Mann and Graham Stringer, who repeatedly call on the Labour leadership «to listen to the people» as if this were a new and radical idea.

«There's just a real human intensity to it, and as a medium for carrying the idea of violent compassion as a radical thing, it has a lot of application to today; a period of almost unprecedented cruelty in politics, certainly compared to the last 30 or 40 years.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

But he spoke of the need to be a «more radical party with more radical ideas» if it wanted to be seen as a «grown - up party».

«It will be impossible for people such as me who want constantly to come forward with radical ideas from the right and for Labour Members who want to come forward with radical ideas from the left to wade through the dominance of the Liberal establishment in the other place.

Whereas other nations might hang back nervously to see how things develop, the Dutch are trying out radical new ideas as soon as they see them in print.

In this case, he was testing the idea that a buildup of cellular damage caused by oxidation — technically, the chemical removal of electrons from a molecule by highly reactive compounds, such as free radicals — is the main mechanism behind aging.

Radical utopias are out of fashion in the 21st century, but if they ever do reemerge, I suspect it will be thanks to the open - ended nature of software, because virtual communities can serve as a proof of concept for ideas that might seem implausible were they merely described on paper.

SAN FRANCISCO — The specter of climate change has prompted radical ideas, such as pumping CO2 into the deep ocean to slow its buildup in the air.

Gregory and Eldredge's critique provides several good ideas, such as incurring a developmental cost for making radical body - plan changes.

Schindall's group had a radical idea: Cover the plates with millions of microscopic filaments known as carbon nanotubes.

NSF tests «radical» idea of using grant applicants as reviewers to ease strain on peer - review system

Study coauthors Rammohan Rao of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Dale Bredesen of the Buck Institute and UCLA «have provided evidence for a novel — in fact, radical — idea: that ApoE somehow gains access to the nucleosol and acts as a conventional transcription factor, influencing the expression of a large number of genes,» Steven Barger, who studies neurodegenerative disease at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and was not involved in the study, wrote in an email to The Scientist.

Botstein and Davis led an effort that resulted in an idea that at the time was absolutely radical, namely, that you don't have to map the observable traits, known as phenotypes, but instead can follow inheritance patterns using random differences in DNA as genetic markers — differences neutral to evolution and that have nothing to do with observable traits.

Beta - carotene is an important part of the diet because of it's anti-oxidant properties which protect the body against free radicals but it's not a good idea to use it as your only source of Vitamin A since studies show that many people do not convert beta - carotene into retinol well enough.