Sentences with phrase «attention in»

Someone who had paid attention in school when they were a kid, would have said «It's estimated to be 3.5 billion years old.

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.The book that got it all started was Hiding from Humanity: Disgust,....

Already in the early church there were times when persons of wealth and social status were given far more attention in the congregation than were the poor.

Director of Advocacy at the international Christian charity Tearfund, Ruth Valerio, said: «The Archbishop is absolutely right when he talks about the need for immediate attention in the battle against climate change.

Amid widespread criticism and growing concern for neighborhoods that have yet to receive due attention in Hurricane Sandy's wake, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced that the New York City Marathon will be canceled for the first time in 40 years.

The Obama administration's drone policy has drawn a great deal of attention in the last few months.

Despite many questions in detail, however, such contributions as we have ascribed to him — selective attention in dealing with his religious heritage, profound insight into the moral meanings of monotheism, and contagious reality in his experience of God as a towering and penetrating fact — seem assured.

TV conditioning leads to the expectation that there will be a new point of view or focus of interest or even subject matter every few minutes, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for the young to sustain attention in situations where there is a fixed point of view or an extended linear progression.

That will occupy our attention in the next chapter.

Theology that does not wrestle with life issues is not worthy of people's attention in the marketplace.

It is a command to come to full attention in the here and now.

I know facts are hard to come by with you funndies, but at least try to pay a bit more attention in history class.

I suspect that none of this would have made the news if the soldier's commanding officers had simply agreed to let this individual stand at attention in lieu of bowing his / her head, instead of threatening exclusion from a well - deserved acknowledgment of achievement.

You stand at attention in front of a chaplain because he is a CAPTAIN.

So to all you pagans out there maybe you should have paid attention in science!

Hope College in Holland, Michigan, has not received much attention in the discussion of church - related colleges.

Both the Samaritan woman and Mary Magdalene are proclaimers of Jesus in John, and both receive extended attention in the Johannine narratives.48

Standing at attention in this situation (as opposed to bowing head in prayer) is absolutely respectful and appropriate, and your military leaders have ruled correctly on this one.

It is important to make it abundantly clear at this point that the crucial problem is the spiritual problem, and we here mean by spiritual that area which is the object of attention in philosophy and theology as against that area in which the object of attention is mechanical contrivance.

A monk of the Holy Mountain says that when small children turn their attention in some direction and laugh without a reason, it means that they see their angel.

It turns our attention in any given issue away from our spouse and puts it on us.

The poor of the earth are reading reality from the other side, from the side of those who do not get the attention of the history books written by the conquerors, but who surely get God's attention in the book of life.

Compared to anti «Semitism, the phenomenon of «philo «Semitism»» defined as admiration and support for the Jewish people» has received relatively little attention in recent Jewish historiography.

Other classical writers have spoken of prayer as «the attentive presence of God» — putting ourselves with attention in the presence of him who is always with us but is not thus attended to all the time.

In respect, then, to the human concerns that occupy our attention in these chapters, becoming and belonging, as characteristic of love - in - action, will be emphasized.

Various theologies compete for attention in a highly pluralized field, and no theology has made much of a public impact.

I never thought breastfeeding could get so much attention in public.

It fell pretty much into obscurity until the German theologian of hope, Jürgen Moltmann, gave it serious attention in his The Trinity and the Kingdom46 in 1980.

All of this was brought again to my attention in a recent book I read, Down We Go by Kathy Escobar.

What needs our especial attention in this matter, however, is that every experience, with or without the high commission of the Church's ordination, opens the question of authority to interpret the Gospel.

He received plenty of media attention in June last year when he released a brief statement which called for «the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church».

Paul and Silas get most of the attention in Acts, but John Mark later becomes very important and helpful to Paul (Col 4:10).

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

Btw, maybe you should have paid attention in school.

This sense, at least initially, is impartial to its truth or falsity; but attention in any event is on the external world precisely in its pastness or actuality.

The issue of how to interpret the alleged finality of Christian revelation is receiving considerable attention in theology today, and in Chapter 4 we shall look into it somewhat more closely.

In my opinion W. A. Christian did not give this fact sufficient attention in his excellent interpretation of Whitehead.

A good bit of public attention in recent years has been focused on developments at the beginning of life: new reproductive technologies, for instance, and research on embryos.

Why are they the ones that get all the attention in Scripture?

This question has received a measure of attention in thc last decade.2 His second question concerned the temporal length of the divine present.

To these we shall give some attention in the next.

Evocation of another world, the third trait characterizing fantasy literature, has received attention in critical circles and has been well elucidated by such scholars as Eric Rabkin, C. N. Manlove and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Evangelism received prominent attention in the plenary presentations of the Assembly.

These are the ones that get the most attention in our churches, but get relatively little attention in Scripture in comparison to biblical calls for justice, love, and mercy to the poor, needy, outcast, rejected, and oppressed.

More ironically still, the favorite sin we love to condemn in others the most are usually the sins that are mentioned by Scripture the least, whereas the «favorite sins» we ourselves commit are the sins that get a lot of attention in Scripture.

Matthew 6 Aramaic Bible in Plain English ---------------------------- 1Pay attention in your charity giving, that you do it not in front of people so that you may be seen by them, otherwise there is no reward for you with your Father in Heaven.

September 11 raised the profile of Islam in the U.S. and, according to Rauf, it caused the Western world to pay attention in a way that made Muslims the subject of intense suspicion.

It is these actual entities to which Whitehead directs our attention in his philosophy.

Attention in class might well be called to some of the revolutionary methodological aspects of their work: the new combination of experiment and theory, the role of mathematical analysis, concentration on descriptive explanation (how a process occurs, not why), the prominence of the categories of space and time, invention of concepts not directly observable (e.g., acceleration), and the problem of freedom in science.

In this book he is able at length to elaborate on the key distinction between evolution and ideology which he drew to the world's attention in his now - famous article in the New York Times in July 2005.