Sentences with phrase «be an alien concept»

This is an alien concept to most people in America today who believe Whatever.

Real work is an alien concept to them and this arrogant damaging manager too.

In France or Italy, the idea of civic pride in despair would be an alien concept, and it's one of the few things now that can be said to be definitively British.

It's seems to be an alien concept with our back four at the moment that defending properly might mean we concede less goals.

I agree that for a lot of parents today instinct and parenting are alien concepts.

The notion of actively trying to attract Tory voters is an alien concept within today's party.

I know a few people who love drinking coffee but dislike coffee in desserts -LRB-... it's an alien concept to me!).

Compact SUVs were an alien concept 5 years back but have become a significant car body style today.

It's called «growing the market» and appears to be an alien concept to the current trad pubs.

The clicker is an event marker and the use of event markers is an alien concept to some of us at first.

Political maturity is an alien concept in BC.

We believe that after reading the sample resume given below, resume writing will no longer be an alien concept for you.

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The idea that this phone is a living thing that becomes more useful over time is a very alien concept in a mechanical world.

This time of year many of us pause in our personal lives and give thanks, but when it comes to American business, giving thanks is pretty alien concept.

If an alien species manipulates objects, interacts with its peers and combines concepts, the cognitive approach therefore predicts there might be enough mental architecture in common to make its language accessible to humans.

Then too, the very idea of theology, many Jews contend, is a Christian concept and alien to Judaism, which is grounded in commandments (mitzvot) and peoplehood.

The concept of sacrifice and death so completely alien to me I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately.

It is very unlikely that John was making the point that regeneration preceded faith, the concept would have been utterly alien to him.

God is supposedly so far more advanced and totally alien from us to even begin to comprehend, yet believers just take him at his word that he's good, just and loving, the way we understand those concepts.

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident abeing based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident aBeing, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

Bonhoeffer avers that the concept of the state is pagan in origin and is alien to the New Testament.

Nature (physis in Greek) in the sense of nonhuman self - existent reality does not occur in the Old or the New Testament; it is a concept alien to the biblical world.

As a matter of fact, the concept is not really alien to Christian and ecclesiastical tradition.

Such a conception is in no sense, as compared with the viewpoint of these sayings of Jesus, further developed or more profound; rather it results from a wholly different premise, a wholly different conception of God and man; it is based on the concept of law, aesthetically applied, which is entirely alien to Judaism and to Jesus.

Far from the imposition of an alien rationalism, such a demand for clarity and comprehensiveness is therefore a necessary desideratum of any interpretive theory, whether in epistemology or in the history of ideas.17 Recognition of the need for such comprehensive and mutually exclusive concepts need not restrict, but can rather uncover possible, if perhaps neglected schemes for both historical and constructive presentation.

The concept of forgiveness by God may seem alien to many people in the modern world and there are those who feel that guilt is an unhealthy reaction.

The symbols and concepts which the Church uses may appear to be alien, however much it wants to put new content into them.

The concept of the redeemed soul in the midst of an unredeemed world is alien to the Jew, profoundly alien, inaccessible from the primal ground of his existence.

In particular, she nicely develops the ways in which a concept of alien dignity protects us, because it is a dignity that does not have to be earned and can not be lost, and equalizes us, because it is bestowed by God upon all.

She analyzes Helmut Thielicke's concept of «alien dignity» and notes the paradox that we may be more secure with an alien dignity than with one we think we have earned.

The concept of non-being is an unconscious hangover from a pagan cosmic dualism which owes more to Plato than to Aristotle and is alien to Thomas Aquinas.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

It's totally alien to our concept of freedom, justice, and values.

Had this been done, it would have led to the conclusion that the word logos did not embody a concept alien to Old Testament revelation but could be used to sum up the completion of revelation as understood by the Old Testament.

Mind you, I'm not a believer, and so the concept of «I was taught this and so it is right» is alien to me.

Cups is such an alien concept to most people in the UK.

2) They also view Usmanov as somewhat of a foreign and alien concept as he has a somewhat unsavoury reputation which was encouraged and fostered by the Hill woods who if I recall made David Deins situation untenable when jhe suggested a chelski like foreign investor the statement as I remember it from Peter Hill Wood was» we do not sell to foreign investors» lol what the hell is Kroenke??

Oh and a top class manager like Mourinho or Ferguson would actually do the thing that is completely alien to Wenger and that is strengthen in the close season — strange concept I know but is a major factor in seeing your team improve.

Some of you reading this might not have even imagined the existence of such fathers 30 years ago, and the concept might still be alien to some.

Though many are not into organic food consumption habit, it is not an alien concept.

Here in India, homeschooling is really an alien sort of concept.

If a western family is practicing attachment parenting, this is not an alien concept and elimination communication is a simple adjunct.

This led to a fundamental strategic change as the US and USSR accepted the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which was, and is still, alien to the American historical strategic culture because it effectively embraces vulnerability.

We know that political parties are rooted in the communities, yet we deliberately sidelined the grassroots and adopted concepts which are alien to politics.

Any attempt to keep Jeremy Corbyn off the Labour leadership would be «alien to the concept of natural justice», union chief Len McCluskey has warned.

Indeed, it would be alien to the concept of natural justice that Jeremy Corbyn is not automatically on the ballot paper.»

The report added, «The concept of «A Leader» of the party at any level is alien to the PDP constitution.

He helped formulate the concept of seeking alien civilizations by listening for their radio broadcasts; he lobbied for nuclear disarmament, believing that atomic power should be wielded only for constructive effect; and he helped Charles and Ray Eames create Powers of Ten, perhaps the most stunning science movie ever filmed.

Games that ask you to piece together alien physics are a great way for people to grasp the head - twisting concept of higher dimensions

Paul Davies is director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University and author of The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).