Sentences with phrase «as the motive of»

(We understand that to be truly «social» is to consider the needs of others as the motive of our actions.)

It becomes a little sinister as the motives of Kurt and Charlotte start to seem a little crueler than we might expect.

Once you take a step back to evaluate both the veracity as well as motives of a supposed expert or authority, much of our natural authority bias evaporates.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

Yet, it's so much that we will ever attain any level of perfection but that we should always check our motives and actions, weighing them constantly, and then striving to stay consistent as much as we can.

Though the attackers framed their actions as a defense of journalistic objectivity, most observers found the real motive to be a backlash against cultural diversification and gender sensitivity in video games.

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

The Trump Administration has pointed to Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation as reasons for his termination, but Democrats (and some Republicans) have questioned Trump's motives and timing.

This works under the guise of including the CC'd as a general FYI and for transparency, but the real motive is to make sure the main recipient knows that multiple people are expecting a reply.

The underlying motive might be to boost their own ego, but because their self - worth is so wrapped up in their idea of themselves as saint - like this actually produces helpful rather than harmful behavior.

In «The Better Angels of Our Nature,» Pinker categorized «five inner demons» as psychological systems that can be triggered to release aggression, along with «four better angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altruism.

As for your disrespect on display towards «a profit motive», I take it part of your philosophy was receiving a salary that barely met your basic needs for a spartan living and not a dollar more, right?

During contract renegotiations at the end of 2011, Electro - Motive locked out its workers after they refused to take substantial cuts in benefits and pay, some as large as 50 percent.

Among other nonverbal signals, a «substantial body of evidence... indicates that facial expressions serve as rich nonverbal cues that can powerfully communicate important interpersonal intentions and motives» [23] p730.

Because if he, as a proxy for the Justice Department (specifically the FBI), can be painted as anti-Trump, then it means his hiring of special counsel Robert Mueller had ulterior anti-Trump motives.

We look to things such as contemporaneous corroboration, such as motive to lie, such as the totality of evidence (that photograph!)

«Nor is there anything «secret» about the [president's] motive specific to the issuance of the executive order: Rudolph Giuliani explained on television how the executive order came to be,» Judge Derrick Watson wrote last March, citing Giuliani's remarks as evidence of the order's anti-Muslim bias.

Amazingly, some of neo-cons at Fox News are now questioning the legitimacy and motives for U.S. belligerence toward Russia using Syria as the «host.»

At this time, we're not gonna go into what Pai's motives may have been but it has been reported that the NRA, which has been lobbying for the repeal of these regulations has now honored him with a valuable handmade Kentucky long gun as a prize for the part he played «standing up under pressure with grace, dignity and principled discipline»

Weymouth New Testament Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

For example, Tyerman frequently notes that religious motives or pious idealism played roles in the Crusades but only as a qualifier to subsequent descriptions of political and economic motives.

My great concern for evangelicals in the United States, whether they are pragmatically voting for Trump or withdrawing from politics altogether, is how they are embracing fear as a legitimate motive for followers of Jesus Christ.

TEMPTATION and Its SOURCE: the peril of temptation is not the same as the danger of a frontal attack by an enemy who has openly announced his motives: «your destruction.»

As for the motives of the actors and the community, it is admittedly dangerous to speculate.

The outcry of complaints about Bishop Eddie Long cover feature is getting louder as many question the timing and the motives of the magazine.

In bypassing questions as to the practice of the early Church in this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the

to ascribe anything but evil intent to the Pope's motives make one suspect that it is not one decision that is the real problem: it is really about the fact that the nature of Catholicism and the role of the Pope have at their core a claim so audacious as to provoke outrage.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

He does indeed teach the rigorous requirement for purity of motive; but there is forgiveness for those who sin in this area as in any other, and his severest judgments are reserved for the proud, the exploiters, and the self - righteous.

So I see prayer as a tool to help focus our energies using themes from the bible but that ultimately we'd grow and progress into other forms that did nt require speech as a show of how pious we are — thats the danger of prayer imho that we can be doing it for ulterior motives and end up like the Pharisee who said thank God I am not like the sinners.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

There is no escaping the extreme difficulty that confronts any attempt to frame a doctrine of the Atonement as a result of the growing recognition of the extent to which motives of theological and apologetic construction determine the Gospels as we have them.

The very depth of his preoccupation with the theological problem presented by the terrible fate meted out to Jesus as a result of the Jewish and Roman leaders» readiness to co-operate in his destruction makes him a questionable witness to the motives and intentions with which the Lord approached and confronted his supreme hour.

Those who, perhaps out of some earnest motive, abstain too much from food may elicit new vices of excess, such as harshly judging others» motives.

This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public.

It makes sense that, as we do outward good works, others be allowed to behold something of our inner motives for doing them, and of the positive effect of our hidden good motives — though the good deed is not to be done primarily in order to be outwardly observed by others.

There are all sorts of other motives, such as wanting to live up to our own image of ourselves as Christians, that corrupt agapé even in our nobler actions.

The motive of joy has been replaced by prudence (As in the reminiscence of the parable in the Clementine Recognitions iii, 62.)

Without realizing it I was trying to articulate a relational ontology as a companion piece to the profoundly moral motives and commitments of liberation theology.

The present motive which leads him to behave in that way now, assuming by the word «now» Hartshorne's 1 / 10th of a second as defining «present» (CSPM 175), is likely to be identical with the motive which will lead him, to behave in the same sort of way tomorrow.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

Deep - seated motives, dispositions and intentions do not appear to have the same kind of temporality as the clocked events of the physical world or the events of a supposed «stream of consciousness.

Perhaps we should talk, as J. Vekuyl suggests, of «impure motives.»

We are not dealing here with the concept of conversion as such but with conversion as a missionary motive.

The fact is that just as I am an African American I find it foolish when other African Americans attempt to declare that all Caucasians are of a single thought or motive.

When all of existence is discovered to be sacred and one's life is viewed as a trust to be invested in enhancing human values, motive - power for significant involvement is created.

And even if we do consider individuals as isalated entities, Augustine's exposure of the moral ambiguity of every human initiative and intention — indeed, the impossibility of even knowing for certain our real motives — renders pure Pelagianism incomprehensible.

It must be given as an offering in love, not as a manifestation of my superiority — offered without calculation or ulterior motives and without any hint that my word is the final word to be spoken on the subject.