Sentences with phrase «as the instances of»

As instances of obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic illnesses are on the rise, a subculture where eating less is prized can seem farfetched and against the grain.

If the complaint is serious or widespread, such as an instance of serial sexual harassment, or large - scale «creative bookkeeping,» you want to hire an outside lawyer or accountant right away, but smaller complaints might not merit such a measure.

Many seized on the tweet as another instance of Trump defending men accused of sexual misconduct and violence, citing Senate candidate Roy Moore and former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly as past examples.

When the central banks of other, and especially poorer, nations do this sort of thing, economists (including some who work for the Fed) refer to their policies, not as examples of enlightened monetary management, but as instances of financial repression.

If mercy is the fundamental attribute of God, then it can not be understood as an instance of justice; justice must rather be understood from the perspective of divine mercy.»

It can not be, since all sexual arrangements are judged as instances of «committed relationships.»

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.

For Whitehead, also, we could understand each actual occasion as an instance of «dependent origination.»

And I continue to be impressed by how many otherwise sensible people criticize that proposition as an instance of uncritical chauvinism rather than the carefully nuanced moral judgment that it is.

In other words, it is as repeated — i.e., as another instance of itself — that the one entity is present in the other.

He cites Dr. Beaulieu's proposal as an instance of the banalizing of abortion.

In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the phrase integrity of creation was clear in general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings of the Church and Society Working Committee, the phrase has come to name the intrinsic value that each and every living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental value that living beings can have for one another and for God as instances of an evolutionary and web - like creation.

Some Christians who are quite sure that they are not Catholics may view that claim as an instance of outrageous ecclesiastical cheekiness, of recruiting by definition people who do not want to be Catholics.

they then go on to explain the occurrence of the subjective data of perception by treating them as instances of law - like regularities of types of objective physical occurrences.

There, on «the threshold of heaven,» as the English critic Lucy Beckett has suggested, the old philosopher may at last have identified poetic beauty not as a creative substitute for divine revelation, but as an instance of «our participation in truth.»

As a process theologian I understand that one may realize one's identity as an instance of pratitya samutpada and thus as an embodiment of the Dharmakaya.

There is no larger context, no frame for the understanding of my religion that encompasses it: it can only encompass, it can not be encompassed; it can not be seen as an instance of something, but only as the context within which all instances of things occur.

The fighting of some wars and the failure to fight others may have been questioned as instances of disobedience to God, but the institution of warfare as such was not questioned.4

As a preliminary point it is worth noting that neither a civilized society nor a Society per se is to be classified as an instance of what Whitehead calls an «actual entity» or primary existent.

To exist as human is to exist as an instance of «becoming» or developing (for better or worse) and also to belong with others of our kind in a great enterprise to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for ill.

But most of the descriptions they attach to it appertain to impersonal states of affairs — «high unemployment» or «inequality of incomes» or «lack of a living wage» are cited as instances of «social injustice.»

Furthermore, science is interested in repeatable events, reducible to general laws; it has no interest in that which is individual or unique, except as an instance of general laws.

Measures which, if directly controlled by God, should be interpreted as instances of God's wrath may not have been so intended.

Leave it to the New York Times to find someone willing to claim, ridiculously, that the Regnerus and LaCour cases are fundamentally similar as instances of «debunked» research.

No one thinks for a moment that this act would be condemned by the Pope as an instance of «lying.»

(I may cite, as an instance of this poverty of thought, the French film sheltering behind so many famous names, La Vie Commence Demain.)

Attention to the concrete satisfies further the positive moral requirement of concern with the different needs of this or that man as an individual rather than as an instance of a generalized group.

But the pronouncement of the monsignor, who admittedly was in an expansive mood after an excellent dinner with an unusually good merlot, struck me as another instance of overextension.

As an instance of this type may be mentioned a woman of sixty - eight of whom the writer made a special study.

President Obama has nuanced our notions of universal truths as instances of America's assertions of exceptionalism, when, as he reminds us, «Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.»

The title given this book, Becoming and Belonging, indicates the general approach that I have taken: to exist as human is to exist as an instance of «becoming» or developing (for better or worse) and is also to belong with others of our kind in a great enterprise in which each one of us belongs and to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for ill.

Also, since transition as an instance of unification is an instance of togetherness which does not involve consciousness.

Churches» limited exemption from antidiscrimination law is not and can not be justified as a special privilege for religion but simply as an instance of the autonomy, privacy, and «freedom of association» enjoyed by all members of the constitutional community, religious and nonreligious alike.

Those who hold this view pride themselves on not taking any handouts and certainly refuse to offer them, viewing tax dollars spent on programs assisting those less fortunate as an instance of government overstepping its boundaries.

This as another instance of the political class ignoring the views and opinions of the people that elected them.

He will single out bankers» pay and MPs» expenses as instances of the breakdown in standards which have seen «greed, selfishness and immorality» become the norm».

The level of discordance among the nuclear and mitochondrial markers from the three species, the authors assert, is best explained as an instance of natural hybridization.

Initially appearing as an instance of the American government discouraging vigilante justice and blind, emotional hatred for the enemy, we quickly realise this is far from the case.

While tales of union hypocrisy are as common as instances of Donald Trump sticking his Ferragamos in his mouth, there is one facet of union two - facedness that is under - reported — the role of union as employer.

It is important to note that Opportunity Scholarships in other states have faced issues, such as instances of misuse and abuse when not appropriately regulated or monitored.

Other problems with GM processes meant that this defect continued, such as an instance of changing the ignition switch part without changing the part number.

The first chapter or so was disorienting because of the inexplicable portrayal of the animal kingdom; I also wondered while reading where the humans were in relation to the story, such as the instance of the raccoon who sailed over from the gold rush in San Francisco.

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Compounding the confusion, I interpreted the words of one of my critics (someone for whom I have the greatest respect) as an instance of «Ageism.»

Today all colleges and universities use an anti-plagiarism software as instances of plagiarism are exceeded all levels.

The court case we've run is alleging breaches of the responsible lending obligations, as well as some instances of unconscionable conduct in relation to a series of loans that were given to consumers for the purchase of motor vehicles.

Rampage attacks were defined as instances of a dog attacking multiple people or animals during a single incident.

Serial attacks were defined as instances of a dog injuring someone after having injured a person or an animal on a previous occasion.

The Portland - based artist works across a variety of media incorporating objects, poetry and publication through what is self - described as instances of «weird touching» or «speculative frictions» that move in and out of physical and digital spaces.