Sentences with phrase «because at its essence»

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

Not exact matches

«I'll procrastinate tomorrow» is a humorous line that captures the essence of prolonging important tasks just because they don't seem very appealing at the moment.

In essence we murdered the one who is at once our creator and our only hope all because of petty jealousy, lust for power and the need to be right.

Lacombe explains, «if it is true that the substance produces at the interior of itself its own attributes, it does so because of necessities of its essence, which want to be expressed in a plurality of images of itself» (10:290).

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

In this book, then, and especially in the earlier part, I have sometimes resorted to a slight verbal elaboration, either because there was no alternative if one was to write English at all, or because two words seemed necessary to convey the full «poetic» content of one word in the French, or again because a verbal elaboration seemed more likely to communicate the colour (and colour is of the essence of vision) of the original.

If change really involves self - transcendence even, in certain circumstances, to a new essence, even though only in virtue of the dynamism of absolute Being, which of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spirit.

I must admit I rather hesitate to raise the issue of Shakespeare's religion, because at a fundamental level a concentration on his personal beliefs obscures the essence of his achievement.

This passage has been quoted at length because it expresses the essence of Hall's «eutopic vision.»

But if you and I decide that the quality of life of a quadraplegic does not make life worth living, then we in essence contribute to taking away that person's hope — because we don't do anything that may be in our power to give that person some equal chances at tomorrow.

The Port Authority says, in essence, that a window has passed for the church to rebuild at a nearby location with tens of millions of dollars of public money because construction at a security center at ground zero couldn't wait.

This magazine believes devoutly in conservation not only because it means more room to play in, better views to look at and a greener land to live in, but because the principle it represents is the essence of sport itself, the point and purpose of its being.

«We don't think that's good public policy because in essence what they're trying to do is absolve people from violent and heinous and felonious crimes,» Flanagan said at the state Republican convention in Buffalo this year.

«There's only so many dollars out on the street, so in essence this comes at the expense of a Democratic state Senate because Cuomo largely isn't sharing.»

In essence, the first pulse excites the chemical system from its original potential energy surface onto another surface, thus bypassing a bottleneck in the original pathway because the reaction leaps onto another pathway at just the right time.

In essence, I learned that everyone did not have my best interest at heart just because they wore the same minority labels as I.

Carson: Well, you know, I got drafted to play here with the Giants and playing middle linebacker, which is at the time, it was a position normally reserved for white guys because white guys, you know, it's a thinking man's position, (laughter); but you know, that's what it was referred to as — a «thinking - man's position», because in essence, you...

Because of the discrepancy, some had suggested that different physical mechanisms were at work and that there were, in essence, two kinds of sonoluminescence.

UH also works with local emergency medical service teams and provides equipment to use before arriving at hospitals because time is of the essence when dealing with trauma and other critical emergencies.

BDW: I think being a celebrity is at the essence of that, because I'd been doing romantic stuff even on stage in New York City in the 1960s.

If you love this series on PC then stick to it there because the essence of what makes HMM is just hinted at on PS2.

A few years back, when I attended a press conference for Palindromes at the Toronto film festival, Solondz explained that he'd decided to carve up his main character among eight actors — ranging from a little black girl to an obese young woman to a boy in drag to Jennifer Jason Leigh — because he couldn't make up his mind which one he wanted and felt that all of them communicated an innocence that was the character's essence.

In essence, a homeschool student never misses classes because lessons can be completed at virtually any time.

«I want this not just because it's good for the students themselves, the communities involved and it's good for our economy but because it really goes to the essence of what we are about as Americans,» Obama said at a White House signing ceremony.

And I want to consider this carefully in my speech to you today, because I think it is the essence, at the heart of our current parlous state of educational affairs.

I miss it, but I smile through my wistful nostalgia when I look at the photos, because I know that it is the virtual essence of the Summerhouse that remains.

I wonder if the money counters at Author Solutions, also AuthorHouse and a bunch of its other branded names, truly believe that the little people — the thousands of authors who have been misled, abused, assaulted and then had the soul of their author essence literally sucked away because the author just couldn't take it anymore — wouldn't start uniting... squawking... and finally take some action?

Because once an investor looks at cash as an option — in essence, the price of being able to scoop up a bargain when it becomes available — it is less tempting to be bothered by the fact that in the short term, it earns almost nothing.

However, because many dividend investors devote so much time and enthusiasm to identifying great companies at good prices, they mistakenly believe that this is the essence of the strategy.

I can't look at bankruptcy because of the potential of losing my government security clearance, which in essence would mean I would ultimately lose my job.

«if these ceremonies are not performed at the Ulun Swi temple, and the Masceti temple, and to Rambut Sedana, the rice terraces will not be productive, nothing will be sufficient, there will be short measures, not enough to eat or drink because the essence will be taken back by the deities of Mount Agung and Batur, so the realm will be consumed by drought, there will be plague and epidemics, human will be distressed, by the god who reign s in the Ulun Swi temple.

The essence of their idea is that the keyboard is wrapped around your hand, because despite how good we have all gotten at hotkeys and binds, they feel we could be faster on the draw and more comfortable in the process.

When I paint people, I strive to depict them so that their essence is comprehensible by hinting at their occupation and descent and featuring their personal accessories because they are informative and add to our ability to understand and interpret the characters.»

What was once our beloved American West, the promised land of adventurers and sleepyheads at the end of the motorized Oregon Trail that was Route 66, where an explorer's spirit was put to good use by way of burning rubber and gasoline whiffs, is now a less magical place that somehow glows more fascinating because you only catch it in cracks of structure and moments of conversation, so it's never been more important; a rare, practically exotic essence drenched in seemingly endless sunshine.

«We are going to put ourselves back on the financial road because this is, at essence, a financial issue,» she said.

I have a fondness for such simple conceptual models (e.g. I've made my own attempt posted at arXiv) because they provide a general picture of the essence — of course their precision is limited by their simplicity.

In essence you are telling your fellow citizens and mine (Canada; 17.3 tons p.c.) to ignore thousands of your fellow scientists who contribute to the IPCC and that we North Americans might as well keep on burning those fossil fuels at a vastly higher rate than any country in the world because the IPCC isn't 100 % certain that such action / inaction is causing global climate change!

So in essence, you don't use up all that you have left because at some point it just becomes too expensive, the alternatives are just a lot more attractive.

If lawyers feel that they can be replaced by computers, they are, in essence, equating themselves to a line worker at a GM plant because they're replaceable by technology.

The rule adds a provision indicating that the Secretary's access to information held by the covered entity may be at any time and without notice where exigent circumstances exist, such as where time is of the essence because documents might be hidden or destroyed.

Organizing food storage is satisfying because, at its essence, food is about nurturing.