Sentences with phrase «as vicissitude»

He settles for the low register of the highly articulate, frequently quoting the Bard while showing off his V for vocabulary, with predictable emphasis on such polysyllabic entries as vicissitude, vivisection and veracity.

Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.

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The administration's solutions include strengthening the progressive tax code, as well as creating new programs that insulate workers from the increasing vicissitudes of the economy.

Dramatizing the trauma of expulsion from Paradise, Maine sometimes employs the cadences of the Old Testament («The sun rises and sets and does not change») and sometimes the concise, allusive conjunction of high and low that characterizes modern prose (as in the Babel image, or when Eve reflects on their vicissitudes «ever since their departure from the Garden to fight their way through this deathtrap called Creation»).

In spite of the vicissitudes of human history the developing sequence of events that constitute the history of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ is simply non-negotiable.

Ear God's time remains the same «yesterday and today and forever» (Heb 13:8).28 God is «not affected by the vicissitudes which mark the time of his creatures, for on the contrary he remains the absolute master of time: «With the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day» (2 Pet 3:8; cf. Ps 90:4).»

Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair.

Yet, subsequent science has not been nearly as unkind to Bergson as the positivism of the mid-20th century was.20 And today we no longer need to throw the passengers and cargo overboard to save the ship of Whitehead's thought from the stormy vicissitudes of history.

Although sanctification in the life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an experience as it is in the individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.

But these regulations are not arbitrary: They are designed to preserve the mystique of the club as an Eden set apart from the vicissitudes of the world.

The concrete possibility of «freedom in the light of hope» rests on our ability to specify the «innovation of meaning» given us in Scripture as reliably the same innovation in all circumstances and vicissitudes.

Apart from the conviction that the supreme Ruler is also good, the vicissitudes of history appear as the «trampling march of unconscious power «6 or at most as stages in the spiral of evolutionary progress wherein the anticipated goal fails to redeem the loss along the way.

When we recognize the original point as that of the contrast between the handful of seed and the bushels of harvest, and when we set the parable finally in the context of the proclamation of God acting as king in the experience of men confronted by the message and ministry of Jesus, what is the significance of a story about a Palestinian peasant who sows handfuls of seed and, despite all the agricultural vicissitudes of that time and place, gathers in bushels of harvest?

That Jesus died nobly or showed confidence in God are historical statements, subject to the vicissitudes of historical research, but that his death fulfilled the purpose of God in regard to «my sins» is certainly not such a statement, and it lies beyond the power of the historian even to consider it, even though, as a Christian, he might believe it.

In spite of all colonial vicissitudes the formal definition of the work of the ministry remained as stated in the Virginia laws of 1619: «duely [to] read divine service, and exercise their ministerial function according to the Ecclesiastical laws and orders of the Churche of Englande... «42 Thus the goal and the determination of the generations of dedicated ministers who served the English Church throughout this period might be expressed in the words of that early governor of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale.

As I watch my little girl navigate the vicissitudes of life in general and childhood in particular, I'm struck by one recurring thought: you couldn't pay me a million dollars to be a kid again.

Equally, a basic income attached to individuals as a right of citizenship is more likely to be realised and entrenched if it is bundled up with a permanent funding source, and so is quarantined from the vicissitudes of annual budget rounds and spending decisions.

Cells can respond to a host of environmental vicissitudes such as changes in nutrients, bursts of hormones, or encroaching neighbors, for instance.

As a warning to animal lovers, the title character sometimes has more in common with a tube of meat meant to be gnashed by life's vicissitudes.

As it is, Reitman has given us a witty, elegant movie that is nonetheless, like its protagonist, somewhat aloof from the vicissitudes experienced by mere mortals.

(As proof of the vicissitudes of the judicial enterprise, the actual article in the state constitution that formed the basis of this conclusion, and the Herculean struggles surrounding the CFE suit, contain these 26 words: «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.»)

The book is certainly full of people who feel beaten up in one way or another — disappointed, out of luck, gypped of what they once expected and still feel they deserve — but these hardships aren't the work of particular enemies so much as life's vicissitudes.

Although the statement in the petition might be short, I believe you can research out of your curiosity why self - publishing must be recognized as a viable and profitable platform for authors rather than insignificant vicissitudes in publishing.

Until the developed stock markets retreat from record levels of valuation, we expect to have less portfolio exposure to equities going forward and more exposure to event driven situations such as liquidations and reorganizations that are not so dependent on the vicissitudes of the stock market for their investment return.

Description The island of Bali has long been characterized in the world as the last «paradise» on earth, a traditional society insulated from the modern world and its vicissitudes, whose inhabitants have exceptional artistic talents and consecrate a considerable amount of time and wealth to sumptuous ceremonies for their own pleasure and that of their gods.

As abstraction sustains the artist, the artist revivifies abstraction, measuring it against the vicissitudes of daily life and the contingencies of professional practice, in ways unexpectedly sincere and mysteriously personal.

Organized in groupings that explore varied themes — such as «Women, Men, and Other Beasts,» «Primal Landscapes,» «An Art of Memory,» and «Vicissitudes of the Grid» — the show features key works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Philip Pearlstein, and Robert Rauschenberg.

The subject is not time itself, but rather the ever - changing vicissitudes of artistic practice both internal to an artist and as conceived by a viewer as time passes.

All the works are recent and indicate the current focus of the artist's interest in the vicissitudes of color as an optical phenomenon and physical embodiment as texture and material.

This drapes from the ceiling, cascading down and over a bed of leaves; arranged around this are recording what the artist describes as «the vicissitudes of life».

As such, a flexible system can take into account vicissitudes not directly related to immediate grid electricity needs.

«The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system» — Dianne Dumanoski, Rethinking Environmentalism

«Protection of reputation should be declared a stand - alone constitutional right under section 7 of the Charter, subject to the same vicissitudes as freedom of expression, namely, the further removed from its core value, the less worthy of protection,» states Timothy Danson, lead counsel for the doctor, in written submissions filed with the Court of Appeal.

The current thinking, available on all good guru blogs near you, is that skills and business awareness is the new «paradigmatic paradigm» and that knowledge of «law» is not actually necessary to practise law or is, at best, an inconvenience — as my brother Professor RD Charon observed earlier in the summer: Guest post: Professor R.D. Charon on the vicissitudes of a career in Law