Sentences with phrase «at as a phenomenon»

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A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

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This phenomenon is known as the «uncanny valley,» the point at which a leap forward in technology outpaces a human's ability to cope.

The January effect is also a stock market phenomenon that occurs at the end of the year as investors begin to fret over taxes.

A quantum computer instead uses quantum bits — called qubits — which are atomic - scale structures that, through a phenomenon known as «superposition,» can be both zero and one at the same time.

Indeed, as Dement sees it — and he's been looking at the phenomenon for close to 50 years — a solid night's sleep is the secret to peak performance.

At the time, some people doubted Clinton's argument that the Internet would be as big a phenomenon and predicted that the web would kill jobs, Chambers said.

Just as debt deflation diverts income to pay interest and other financial charges — often at the cost of paying so much corporate cash flow that assets must be sold off to pay creditors — so the phenomenon leads to stripping the natural environment.

A provocative new report from Sentier Research gives us insight into what might be the key factor in the Trump phenomenon: A secular decline in the financial well - being of white working class males and what we can infer as the resulting anger directed at the political powers that be.

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well.

Note the strong trading volume right at the low — this is a recurring characteristic of short term lows in BTC (sometimes the low of the heavy volume candle is retested at lower volume before the trend actually turns — the same phenomenon can often be observed at short term highs as well).

We view the recent slowdown in Macau as a temporary phenomenon that has given us the opportunity to own one of the best - positioned global gaming companies at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic value.

This phenomenon is known as being «upside - down,» and it should be avoided at all costs.

This points out that everything that you explained as being only aplicable to god, which is an explanation given because no other explanation is seen, saying this is amazing so god did it, is nowhere near close to looking at these phenomena, observing and collecting the data on it and saying this is our best understanding of it to date.

While popular in the black church, it is not a solely black phenomenon, as seen in the ministry of Osteen, a best - selling author and megapastor at Lakewood Church in Houston.

@Scott: I find gravity fascinating as we can experience it, test it, and make those predictions and arrive at conclusive findings, but yet it still remains a phenomenon as we can not build anything to replicate it.

It has, of course, occasionally been so argued.4 The interpretation of Old Testament prophetism as an essentially ecstatic phenomenon differing not at all in this respect from the ecstatic prophecy characteristic of the ancient Near and Middle East continues to be advocated, especially by those who are persuaded of prevailing ancient Eastern institutional uniformity.5

Everything remains the same so far as phenomena are concerned, but at the same time everything becomes luminous, animated, loving.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

That claim, if looked at very carefully is very dangerous and feeds the God - as - Remote - Control phenomena that David so aptly criticised today.

Naming the coming to be at once of actual occasions «concrescence», Whitehead describes the phenomenon as a springing into existence (PR 35-6/52 -54).

No matter how much we may puzzle at the phenomenon we have to accept it as part of the world's realities.

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

But if we stand back a little, and look at the phenomenon as a whole, we can see that all is not confusion.

A similar impulse of group formation seems to have become operative along each zoological branch, but at very different ages of the earth; so far as we are able to judge, the phenomenon has occurred in each case at a predetermined age of the species under review.

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

We must look at it not simply as a set of historical events, but even more fundamentally as a cosmic phenomenon.

That such a phenomenon as the anti-Semitic pogrom could appear in Western society seemed at first incredible — in a society that has been for centuries impregnated with the principles of the Christian faith.

The idiom of resurrection can be genuinely used as an expression of hope for man only at the same time as one recognizes the finality of the phenomenon of death.

Pope John Paul put it like this: «We face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.»

But at the same time people have attempted to deny as many external influences as possible and to demonstrate that Buddhism is an exclusively Indian phenomenon.

We can be grateful to Keith Ward for so clearly exposing the fundamental misunderstanding at the heart of their arguments - that religion was invented by primitive people to explain natural phenomena such as floods and

This phenomenon of divergence functions rather like the lines of longitude on the surface of the planet, growing further apart as they move away from their point of origin at the earth's pole.

As such all other cosmic phenomena flow from this moment at Nazareth, ontologically that is, clearly not chronologically.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

What I set out to show, and hope to have shown, is that, viewed from a certain angle, the internal stir of the Cosmos no longer appears disorderly: it takes a given direction following a major axis of movement at the completion of which the human phenomenon becomes detached as the most advanced form of the largest and most characteristic of cosmic processes, that of in - folding.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

To the extent that this is simply a reaction against a static and abstract rationalism, it is wholly salutary; but it becomes pernicious if it goes so far as to cause us to overlook what is truly exceptional and essential in the phenomenon of Thought — the power of Consciousness to centrate so perfectly upon itself as to be able to situate itself (itself and the Universe at the same time) in the explicit framework of a present, a past and a future — that is to say, in a Space - Time continuum.

That is the view taken by many people as they gaze with melancholy disquiet at the turbulent swell of humanity; and by it the whole edifice of human relationships and social structures is reduced to the level of a regulated epi - phenomenon, having no value or substance of its own, and therefore no future in its own right.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquAs one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

I refer to those obscure and exceptional phenomena reported at all times throughout human history, which the «psychical - researchers,» with Mr. Frederic Myers at their head, are doing so much to rehabilitate; 7 such phenomena, namely, as religious conversions, providential leadings in answer to prayer, instantaneous healings, premonitions, apparitions at time of death, clairvoyant visions or impressions, and the whole range of mediumistic capacities, to say nothing of still more exceptional and incomprehensible things.

Since I am not a scientist, I am not always sure what I am looking at, nor do I have the theoretical background to discern all the implications of a particular phenomenon, but as a preacher — that is, someone who lives on stories — I find the stories rolling in from the frontiers of the new science as rich in meaning as any stories I know.

When we look at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;

The claim (implied by the book's subtitle «At the Heart of Tractarianism») that ethos can be regarded as central to the phenomenon of the Oxford Movement may also be doubted.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

In truth, it can be argued that even Parmenides treated change and motion at least as «appearances,» as belonging at least to the illusory realm of phenomena and not as mere non-entities; otherwise the division of his poem into two parts — «The Way of Truth» and «The Way of Opinion» — would lose its meaning.