Sentences with phrase «at least the characters of»

Not exact matches

While this controversy never circulated to that level («Goodfellas» also has Irish and Jewish - Americans as major characters), «Goodfellas» at least showed that Scorsese was aware of prejudice against Italians.

While Colbert's Late Show has consistently ranked second in the ratings behind NBC's The Tonight Show, Monday night's live return of both Stewart and the Colbert Report character did manage to boost the show's ratings for at least one night.

The cast of characters he meets includes con artists, pimps, and Israeli intelligence agents — or at least, people who claim to be, online.

Japan is asking for the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone to be classified as a no - go area for Pokémon after the discovery of at least one of the game's characters on a power station's site.

On the rare occasions that they actually show a character in a church, it's usually for a wedding or a funeral — despite the fact that even the most limited estimates have shown that at least half of America's 300 million citizens attend church services fairly regularly.

This one tells about Mitt's good character (like willingness to drop his regular business affairs to help search for the daughter of the coworker, sounds like he ate the costs of paying several employees to have them aid in the search), and the other side of the spectrum of how at least one Mormon woman felt that Mitt had offended her.

That, at least, is my own hunch about the reason for the relative paucity of material about the family coming from the churches and the character of what material there is, What to do in such circumstances?

The character of the imperial cult, at least in the eastern empire, is the subject of considerable debate at present, as can be seen by a cursory examination of the two most significant works on the subject: S. R. F. Price's Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family.

To me, this means it's about character issues and behaviors that may disqualify a leader from a role of public ministry, at least temporarily and perhaps permanently.

Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least as much a function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square as of any concern about a loss of society's fundamental moral character.

The juxtaposition of these two comments on the threefold character of an actual occasion indicates that Whitehead expressed at least two different conceptions of God in Process and Reality, and at least some of the passages depicting the final concept are insertions.11 It turns out that all of them can be so construed, except for the main text (V.2.3 - 6) which Whitehead reserved for the end.

Accordingly, what happens during the occasions process of becoming is, in part at least, «merely the outcome of the subjective aim of the subject, determining what it is integrally to be, in its own character of the superject of its own process» (PR 369).

I'm fully aware of Chad's character (at least the one he presents on this blog)-- he is ignorant, smarmy, and, most importantly, dishonest.

This work is necessary to provide for practical theology a method and procedure (built at least in part on an ethic of principles) and help it to avoid the danger of associating the ethical core of practical theology with an ethic of virtue and character.

At least that must be the conclusion if his claim is to be supported merely by conformation and reproduction, which ultimately involve nothing more than the transmission of character.

In this situation how could we give meaningful content to the idea that God extends subjective aims to the various actors in the little drama we have constructed, that is, provides subjective aims which have the potential, at least, to affect the outcome of events, and have, therefore, the potential to affect the character of God's future experience?

The Book and the Brotherhood, for instance runs to more than 600 pages; it has at least eight major characters; and its themes include love and the failures of love, death, belief and disbelief in God, friendship, Marxism, and the social condition of contemporary...

In neither case does the eulogy take on the character of an elegy: for both men, neoconservatism departs the scene not because it has failed but because it has, in large part at least, succeeded in what it set out to accomplish.

Nevertheless, it is, I believe, by no means a hopeless task to recover from the Pauline epistles some indication at least of the character and content of Paul's preaching, and not only of his distinctive preaching, but of what he preached in common with other Christian missionaries.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

Perhaps the real reason is that the literature itself is of a character which is lacking, at least, in popular interest.

With each modulation Wagner purposely strains the tenor's voice more, the growing physical strain of the music conveying the emotional conflict within the character: although praising the goddess with his lips, his heart, or at least part of his heart, lies elsewhere.

His «wisdom» consisted, we suspect, in his profligate and ultimately self - flattering sponsorship of native and imported «wisdom» artists — articulate writers and reciters of a kind of prephilosophical moral philosophy current in the Near Eastern world of the tenth century and preserved, in essential character at least, in Proverbs, in many of the Psalms, and, in a different vein, in the Prologue and Epilogue of job (Job 1 - 2; 42:7 - 17).

«If you believe that government has the responsibility to promote the common good and general welfare and moral good of the society and it's ordained by God to do that, then for me, I would probably want someone with character and is interested in those questions at least,» he said.

The Book and the Brotherhood, for instance runs to more than 600 pages; it has at least eight major characters; and its themes include love and the failures of love, death, belief and disbelief in God, friendship, Marxism, and the social condition of contemporary Britain.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

At least some of our citizens have come to see that the present organization of our economic life, including the corporation, threatens not only our democratic government, because of its inordinate political influence, but also our national character and form of life, because of its propagation of the idea of wealth as merely the accumulation of consumer goods.

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

If I understand his thesis correctly, it is very similar to what I have argued here — that the Old Testament must be interpreted in light of the New and that, at least occasionally, reports in the Old Testament (about what God commanded people to do) must be relativized in light of the character of God revealed in Jesus Christ who is the Word of God in person.»

One of these was the hope of at least a temporary restoration from Sheol and a vindication of his character at the judgment seat of God.

Both also suppose that the smallest units of reality have a character which resembles human experience at least in that it involves internal relations.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

In this process, masterminded at least partly by Gutenberg, printers placed reusable, individual letters or characters of type in a form to create a printable page.

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

They are all parts of the great story of God whose central character (for Christians, at least) is Jesus Christ.

Now, all the effective components in this picture — the instructional interactions and the events with a specific character, into which they are drawn together — have the character of intentions, so we are already, in our basic view of science, in a world in which conceptions of Value are at least not foreign and maybe are inescapable.

But if we want to hold fast to a legitimate plurality of successful intellectual apprehensions of the world, then must not at least either the theory's claims to adequacy, precision, and universality be varied or the presuppositions of the unity and simple basic character of the world be given up?

The answer, at least in part, can be found in the changing character of the American Catholic Church.

Some of them may well have later fled to the Internet in the hope they'd find their wife: soft in character, tall, with model looks, joker, non-smoker, prays in tongues at least 45 minutes a day, preferably a virgin, never confronts but isn't a pushover... and so the list continues.

Still, the show's island is at the least a purgatorial landscape — it's no coincidence that several of the characters are Catholic, lapsed and otherwise — where the things that the castaways carry from their previous lives provide the raw material for suffering, struggle, and growth.

The peculiar character of Deuteronomy and its post-Amos-Isaiah status is equally revealed in regulations that are new, at least in the sense that they do not appear in the Covenant Code.

Indeed, even the worldwide demand for movies, tapes, and videos suggests at least the high permeability and at most the pervasive character of some levels of human sensibilities in what some want to see as radically (distinct and encapsulated.

Driscoll signals an intention to withdraw from the use of social media for at least the rest of the year and to spend his energies «growing in Christ - like character by grace» and spending time with his family and his church.

Sometimes I'm awkward in real life, and in real life at least I can have more than 140 characters to explain myself, and use facial expressions, or loudly nervous - laugh my way out of it.

At least Arsenal showed a tiny bit of Brendan Rodgers favourite «character», and came back into the game.

Now, puberty does cruel things to a child — most of us would be best served by serving in camera - free prison camps between the ages of 10 and 14 — and Lino Facioli (the actor playing Robin) is hardly the only hormonal disaster on the show (see also: Stark, Bran), but at least his wiener teen face serves his dainty, dim - witted character.

We need a new spine and we need that spine to be full of big characters, one of them should be our new captain, at least 3 if not all 4 should be big in stature too as our current squad is simply too small.

This finishing stretch has character and allows for leaderboard movement, and at the end of a round, allows for the potential, at least, for someone to make a big charge.

I didn't think so we clearly lack players with character we can scrape out a result of a win or a draw at least

I thought trump was off his rocker but at least he keeps his ramblings to one hundres and forty characters... Luck fate history absent Frenchmen plus a slightly recent setback and a bit of half baked Hegelian philosophy thrown in for good measure... Hilarious stuff but you might want to go back in to hibernation