Sentences with phrase «behavior as acting»

Professionals who work with teens describe troubling teen behavior as acting out, meaning this behavior is the outward expression of underlying issues that need attention.

Sometimes parent - child interaction can contribute to the child's feeding problem due to improper food presentation or misinterpreting the child's behavior as an act of regression or rejection.

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They are always so shocked when they are called out for their bad behavior, as if they should be allowed to act and say whatever they want.

Acting as an invisible layer, XSense shows results within minutes by collecting data from around the OT Network and utilizing Big Data and Machine Learning to better understand the its operational behavior.

What annoys me about this behavior, which is practiced very often today as well, is that for some reason corporate managers seem to act like these buybacks — when they are earmarked for the purpose of offsetting stock options — exist in a vacuum where the laws of economics are suspended.

Just as I would not expect to know every characteristic of a friend or lover or to explain every motivation for their behavior or to approve of every act which they commit or fail to commit, I don't expect to know those things about God.

People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.

If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Just as the naming of things represents a child's first act of classification and an ability to share in social conventions, the naming of factors that shape one's experience is the first step towards understanding how those factors influence one's thought and behavior.

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

And the specific act that self - perfects — that secures the First Good — is the choice of the Second Good as the reason for specific behavior.

Furthermore, the deconstuction and revision of the Bible to «accept» sinful acts and behaviors as part of the «Jesus loves everyone no matter what» school of thought is par for the course with the practioners of same here in this forum.

Persons of the same sex can not marry because they can not do what married couples can, i.e., consummate their union by a bodily act in which they become the common subjects of an act that, precisely as human behavior, is eminently fit both for the communication of spousal love and for the generation of new human life.

Imprecatory prayer is when you beseech God to harm or punish someone you think deserves it, either as an act of vengeance for something they did to you, or generally because their behavior or lifestyle offends you.

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

The gay community has been so exercised to deny that homosexual orientation is chosen that it runs the danger of draining homosexual behavior of its human dimension as a chosen act or life.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

Such behaviors may be as blatant as simulating a sexual act with a doll or another child, or they may be more subtle, such as walking or talking in seductively adultlike ways.

President Robert Mugabe has gone so far as to compare homosexual acts with animal behavior.

But this form of homosexual behavior — an act that is chosen — is quite different from homosexual Christians today who may not remember knowing themselves as other than homosexual in orientation.

Other times, they may be aware their behavior is wrong (although they are less likely to see it as abusive) and simply think they have to act that way to remain part of the dysfunctional system they are in.

c) This passage does not denounce homosexual behavior as a whole, but just the specific act of anal sex.

Beyond that, it is probably the case that our bodies are as deeply engaged in our mental happenings, including mental acts, as they are in our overt behavior.

This point is just as relevant, of course, to any type of self - destructive behavior, or to acts of economic injustice, as it is to homosexual practice.

c) This passage does not denounce hom ose xual behavior as a whole, but just the specific act of anal se x.

The Bible does not condemn people for things that they can't change about themselves, but we all have the ability to control our behavior and not commit certain acts that are called out as being sinful.

Wal - Mart has been known for years to act in defiance of employee rights, and they are absolutely vicious to you if you are one of their vendors, yet somehow this behavior gets portrayed within the media as Christian?

What is more, in no area of human experience is it so easy to deny or violate Love - in - act and to remain content in superficial and unfulfilling decisions and actions as it is in the realm of sexual behavior.

As Justin investigated these testimonies further, he learned that most followed a pattern in which the gay man developed attractions to men during puberty, acted on those feelings at some point (usually destructively, with anonymous sex, drugs, and other addictions), found that life to be unfulfilling, reconnected with Jesus, and walked away from their past behaviors.

Whereas we commonly understand religion and theology as beginning with an inner and personal experience that only later seeks a community or tradition, the postliberal asserts that the community's ways of speaking and acting, its rites and rituals, its patterns of life and behavior shape and indeed make possible certain kinds of experience.

For to do good only to those who do good to us, to be kind only to those who are kind to us, means acting as the sinners and heathen also do, that is, it is the behavior of the natural, selfish man.

Religious zealots who proclaim these deep religious beliefs who then act counter to those very beliefs make no sense to me, any sane person realizes this type of behavior and comments as simply hypocrisy.

The implications of expressing the thesis as such an equation are (1) if the viewed action is not at all salient for the person (i.e., = 0) the action will not affect the viewer's behavior («act»); (2) the chance that a particular viewed action will affect a person's behavior will decrease to the extent that they have other alternatives in their «repertoire»; and (3) if the individual is not aroused to act he will not exhibit the viewed behavior, no matter how salient it is.

Or, as Gallagher echoes Merleau - Ponty, «At times, I act «in the first person,» while at other times, in fact most of the time, a more habitual or pre-personal thread of occasions [subordinate «living persons»] unifies my behavior.»

The point is more in the justification of the immoral act, if people believe they are acting in their god's behalf, they can rationalize the behavior, where as if the good person had no god that they worshiped they would have no justification for immoral behavior.

In other words, watching programs with violence did not lead to increases in aggressive behavior either in the sample as a whole or in subgroups predisposed toward acting aggressively.

«Or maybe «childbearing» is a placeholder for a wide range of faithful behaviors» — Luther's omne officium, or all acts of Christian calling — «and the verse isn't asking to be read too woodenly as if it were singling out one particular action.»

There can be many reasons why a child acts out, and API believes that it's our job as parents to identify the unmet needs of the child and help him express his needs and feelings in more positive ways, rather than punish him for the challenging behavior.

There are a number of possible reasons for acting out behavior, and few are as simple as «he's a bad kid.»

By: Rebecah Freeling / Parenting Coach and Behavior Specialist Question: Dear Rebecah - My parents are acting as the surrogate grandparents of a very «spirited,» strong - willed, 6 - year - old boy.

It sounds crazy — as random acts of dominating inanimate objects is weird behavior — but parents are like magicians and distraction backed by confidence is the # 1 secret behind all magic tricks!

Children are not shown a model of behavior, and natural consequences act as the only control.

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This might not always be a direct influence on the part of the friend acting as role model, but the fact remains that many children want to mimic behaviors they admire.