Sentences with phrase «ascertain all»

Because these thirty - four forms of behavior are of common occurrence among alcoholics, they constitute a useful guide, not only in identifying an individual as an alcoholic, but in helping to ascertain approximately at what stage he has arrived in his sickness.

Whether it was inevitable that life and intelligence would eventually occur somewhere in the universe, given the nature of matter and sufficient time to allow random processes to explore all the possibilities, and whether intelligent life may also have occurred elsewhere in the universe, are questions which scientists have long argued and sought to ascertain.

In any such case, to say that all those so opposed to Atheism are just motivated in their opposition, because of fears and / or insecurity, that is humorous to me, considering that people are hardly what I would consider sufficiently qualified to ascertain much as absolute.

So, by that, compounded with problems such as Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, the observer's effect, and the like — the modern day human lacks sufficient qualification to ascertain a good part of their knowledge as being absolute.

He devised a «social complications» measure, to ascertain the amount of problem behavior connected with the drinking of each group.

«The truth is, you can easily ascertain who or what you love by just following your money.

Finally, there must be added a religio - sociological analysis, in our sense of the term, the aim of which is to analyze the social background, to describe the structure, and to ascertain the sociologically relevant implications of the religious movement and institutions.

Further, the shorter - term effects of capital punishment have been studied by examining the daily number of homicides reported in California over a ten - year period to ascertain whether the execution of convicts reduced the number.

Is doubt a reasonable way to ascertain truth?

Instead of having to ascertain their local community's needs and interests every three years and then planning how their station would program to meet those needs, the broadcaster was now required only to send a post card each year to the Commission, stating weather or not they had met the community's needs!

All these universes clustered together may well be but a ginormous jellyfish living within a great sea upon an world so vast, we will never truly be able to ascertain this plausibility of ginormous scalar revelation.»

The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes - flohr translated by richard and clara winston and harry zohn schocken books, 722 pages, $ 45 If a poll were conducted today to ascertain who is regarded to be the preeminent Jewish thinker of this century,....

She answers my every question, generally assumes when she gives me advice that I probably know what I am doing and she managed to ascertain with admirable sensitivity that I was not suffering from postnatal depression or being beaten by my husband.

It would have at least been courteous, one would think, if he had made more than a perfunctory effort to ascertain what religious persons actually do believe before presuming to instruct them on what they can not believe.

That event is so shrouded in legend that we can not obtain a clear knowledge of the details or ascertain the motives.

When we try to ascertain the theological intent underlying Gödel's mathematical investigations, though, several difficulties arise.

When seeking to ascertain if something is true, we need to ask ourselves, «Is there an unbroken tradition which seems to argue in a particular way?»

We must ascertain why, of all the many sects of Judaism, «Christianity was almost the only one which achieved a permanent separate existence, and why it was the only one which in numerical strength surpassed its parent.

If, moreover, we try to go beyond our own experience, we ascertain what others believe the authority of the Christian faith to be.

A recent California poll designed to ascertain the general population's views on the possibility of nuclear war revealed that 85 per cent thought they personally would experience a nuclear war.

The sentence is fluff and vague, without exacts how can one ascertain anything about this «truth» you speak of?

These are cases similar to the passages from Process 31 - 32, 32 and 46 studied in section 2 of this article, but different insofar as it is not possible to ascertain the presence, in them, of a component that manifests a concept of God as non-temporal.

What is much more difficult to ascertain, however, is the compossibility of all the different elements in a highly complex situation in which a large number of potentially competing values are simultaneously realized.

Seems impossible to ascertain.

To try to ascertain what «really happened» in those events we celebrate as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas seems a futile endeavor.

It proves too much because the enormity and duration of the historical crimes to be redressed make it impossible to define a proportionate penalty, since they make it impossible to ascertain what a disproportionate penalty would be.

I think that it's very difficult to ascertain real humility bubbling up from within a person and learned humility which might enhance one's power, prestige, and position.

We are quite literally in no position to ascertain all the facts, and what monstrous conceit makes any man suppose that, if we had them, we have the intelligence and the wisdom to understand them?

In this nominalist world, which is now our own world, reason is deployed not to ascertain what virtue and vice truly are, in accordance with the objective natural law, but to rationalize the definitions of vice and virtue that the powerful define, irrespective of the natural law.

The characterologist must ascertain the dominating power, a concept that reminds us of Leibniz's vinculum substantiale.

It is wise for the minister to encourage even those who are feeling relatively well to have a physical checkup to ascertain if there are less obvious organic problems which need treatment.

I do not know if any attempt has yet been made to ascertain the atomic content of these (it must amount to billions) but they are undoubtedly groups of proteins.

I find it helpful to ascertain who is leaving and why.

What Bellow thinks about Steiner is hard to ascertain.

It is quite clear to him that «the way in which we have tried to hear the church has been shaped by patterns of convenience, rather than the much more difficult commitment to ascertain what's going on through close analysis of congregational life.

Not that we may thereby swamp the thing in the wholesale condemnation which we pass on its inferior congeners, but rather that we may by contrast ascertain the more precisely in what its merits consist, by learning at the same time to what particular dangers of corruption it may also be exposed.

In a world that is increasingly being crowded together, we ascertain curious evidence that the widening effects of overpopulation and social inequity are creating frightening shapes of self - consciousness.

A refusal to make use of these tools to ascertain the proper text reading, its relation to other literature, and the cultural - historical milieu out of which it arose, is a move toward dishonesty prompted either by a fear of what might be discovered or by an impatience to get a sermon that can not tarry at books that are not heavy with homiletical fruit.

It is in the sharing that the Word has its existence, and to catch it in flight in order to ascertain which part is of the speaker and which of the hearer is impossible nonsense.

And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

The problem always was to ascertain in what sense then we are free.

Coercion is readily understood on the experiential level of social or physical behavior, but its proper metaphysical definition is difficult to ascertain.

... Realism may prove useful to insure that U.S. commitments do not exceed its finite power, but I fail to ascertain from Mr. Bacevich's description how it provides any clue as to what the goal of U.S. policy should be.

At first I am not primarily concerned about the marital status of the parents and I do not subject them to any sort of test to ascertain their degree of practising or not practising of the faith.

But it is the business of philosophy to ascertain that which is purely necessary and universal, and any limitation placed upon philosophical reason ultimately appears to be arbitrary.

As far as I can ascertain, he never told us.

The problem is rather epistemological: how could we possibly know the inner psychic experience of another to ascertain uniquely differing features of his structure?

Russell Kirk's place in twentieth «century intellectual life is difficult to ascertain.

One might argue (as does Vischer) that the more specific intent of the text is to point out how the original fall or original sin gives rise to a primal murder, though it is impossible to ascertain what is genuinely historical in this saga, nor should this even be attempted if we are to remain true to the central thrust of this passage.

Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.