Sentences with phrase «as the guiding principles of»

So as long as the guiding principles of management teams do not change, then corporations with strong histories of increasing dividends have high probabilities of doing so in the future.

Sensate culture emphasizes sensory experience as the guiding principle of human life.

The unifying bond as well as guiding principle of the tribes had been their loyalty to their God: neither monarch, priest, nor organization had held them together, but all responded when their God spoke through the one chosen by him to save his people.

And, insofar as we actualize a unity of outlook and purpose with our peers through our common appreciation of the Christ - image, and our appropriation of this image as the guiding principle of our lives, we realize ever more perfectly that mutual inherence in one another and in God that is at the same time present actuality and (in its perfection) goal for every actual occasion.

It has held its own as the guiding principle of scientific studies ever since.

And one line from it struck me as the guiding principle of many of the year's best films: «Don't you think they are the same thing?

As a guiding principle of restructured schools and systemic reform, outcomes - based education becomes a new way of approaching students and viewing classrooms.

That philosophy is still alive and well as a guiding principle of AAHA today.

If this budget was unanimously accepted as the guiding principle of global climate policy and stringent action was taken to limit emissions to 1000 GtCO2, could we be reasonably certain that warming would be limited below 2 °C?

the Trial Judge proceeded on an incorrect principle of law by failing to consider, as the guiding principle of assessment, the rental rate for a comparable vehicle; and

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In 1991, it became the first U.S. company to officially adopt theTransFair internationally recognized standards of fair trade as guiding principles for itsbusiness.

For his part, Vid Ponnapalli, CFP and founder of Unique Financial Advisors, explains investment philosophy as a set of guiding principles underlying the process of choosing appropriate investments for a given situation.

While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The guiding principles are that the Community Standards should reflect the cultural norms of our community, that each person should see as little objectionable content as possible, and each person should be able to share what they want while being told they can not share something as little as possible.

Along with work requirements, the agencies are instructed to follow nine «Principles of Economic Mobility» to guide their proposed changes, including giving states more flexibility, encouraging private sector involvement, and promoting marriage as a means to escape poverty.

«As the market for natural and organic foods and nutritional supplements continues to grow, having a story based on a set of founding principles that have guided us throughout our 60 year history... helps when talking to investors,» Kemper Isley, co-president of the company, and son of the founders Margaret and Philip Isley, said in an email.

The last few weeks of September will see a double - barreled shot, of sorts, as two stalwarts in loose monetary policy may signal that they are on the cusp of stepping away from that guiding principle — or not.

The site, run by Vishal Khandelwal, who has immense experience in equity markets gives tremendous insights in various fields of personal finance like financial planning, behavioural finance, traps and pitfalls in investing as also the guiding principles on how to invest in shares.

On the same point, I know many, many people of faith who do not «force» their views on others, yet instead use their faith as their guiding principle to share love, kindness, and goodness to others.

He looked at each situation and used the principles of the Gospel as the central guide point — even if it didn't sit well with people.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

They envision a Gaullist synthesis, revised to emphasize Catholicism as the basis and guiding principle of French civilization, in reference to which even its most liberal, secular dimensions must be understood and justified.

I don't know what sorts of «punishment» God might have in store for people after death, but again, using Jesus as the guiding principle, I highly doubt that God is going to torture people for all eternity by burning them in fire.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

And I wanted to introduce the topic through a series of questions, precisely because questions are about as far as I can go with this topic without tripping up on my own failed attempts to establish guiding principles or rules about how to engage other people with wisdom, conviction, and grace online.

The internal principle, the force which animates and guides the spiritual life of the priest, inasmuch as he is configured to Christ the head and shepherd, is pastoral charity, as a participation in Jesus Christ's own pastoral charity.»

He failed to acknowledge that the entire purpose of the Church's principles on issues such as the end of life is to create a standard of conduct clear enough to guide believers through their most trying challenges.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

Rather, it informs all as to the basic principles that ought to be taken into account in coming to specific judgments, in interpreting the particularities of human situations and in guiding concerted action.

This is the guiding principle with which to think about Christian communication, the place of the media, old and new technologies, and the work of WACC as a community of communicators.

One guiding principle is what Tillich calls «theonomy,» which means a situation where the divine ground of being shines through the finite conditions of historical existence and where man sees the orders of truth and right as the law of his own being.

Of course, what she means is that they are valid as general guiding principles; but not always easily applied in specific concrete circumstances.

Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

As I continue to seek to understand the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament, my approach has been to see Jesus Christ as the interpretive principle, the guiding ethic, the hermeneutical trump card of all of the Word of GoAs I continue to seek to understand the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament, my approach has been to see Jesus Christ as the interpretive principle, the guiding ethic, the hermeneutical trump card of all of the Word of Goas the interpretive principle, the guiding ethic, the hermeneutical trump card of all of the Word of God.

He is always keen to present the truth about the Catholic Church's promotion of science, and so the first chapters of his new bookare dedicated to that issue, starting with an analysis of the positive attitude to science taken by Pope John Paul ii, who held as a guiding principle «the harmony existing between scientific truth and revealed truth.»

But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

Then, following the words of the Prophet and guided by reason, man will search for the principles of the Imamate and of the Day of Resurrection; and since on the basis of reasoning he accepts the words of the Prophet and of Imams as the basis for truth, he will acknowledge the truth of the Day of Resurrection.

For Wilson these roots and some of this knowledge are themselves guided by what he believes are the universal and eternal principles of Darwinian evolutionary theory Wilson never acknowledges that, by relying on that theory and by generalizing it, he subscribes to principles that transcend particular histories just as surely as do the ideas of the theological and philosophical transcendentalists.

The first group has clearly worked out principles of jurisprudence as a guide, with accepted procedures for legal actions, while the second group uses only testaments and Tradition as guides for their actions.

But as obnoxious as they are, they aren't trying to do things like make ancient theological thought, much of which is of neolithic vintage, the guiding principle for modern society's legal system.

Religion is at one and the same time irrelevant as a sure guide to the perplexities of practice and eternally relevant as ultimate transcendent principle.

When they are true to their guiding principles, both faiths insist on the sanctity of the person as a seeker of God, and from this should duly follow recognition of religious freedom as the first of human rights.

These two great principles, then — love and Justice — must be rather regulative of our application of other principles than taken as immediate guides to social policy... It can all be summed up in a phrase: the aim of a Christian social order is the fullest possible development of individual personality in the widest and deepest possible fellowship.

The philosophy of history he produced over the next four decades can be seen as a monumental effort toward the satisfaction of that requirement, but whether it is truly «Christian» in character has remained a source of controversy, due both to the principles that guide Voegelin's exposition of meaning in history and to his analysis of Christianity itself.

I've never known anyone who claimed to use the ten commandments as a guiding principle to ever break any of them (fortunately, «thou shalt not diddle altar boys» is not on the list).

Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic, simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...

An act of love issuing from one's own clearly manifested character can not flow smoothly through the world to its objects as guided by principle.

I do believe there are core truths in His teaching that are eternal and the chief truth I seek to use as my guiding principle in life is summed up in the law of love.