Sentences with phrase «benevolent nature»

This concern, however, was dissipated in mid-September, 2012 when the gods made their benevolent nature clear.

Writes Erle Ellis in a new Breakthrough Debate with Bill McKibben, Nils Gilman, and others, «Human populations have been sustained far beyond their «natural limits» for millennia, not by benevolent nature, but by increasingly engineered environments and increasing use of energy.»

This fact actually reaffirms the benevolent nature of reverse mortgage loans, because the loans provide help and positive financial options for seniors.

Social media and public relations may be more effective in convincing consumers of the benevolent nature of a company's actions and thereby increase the positive impact of corporate social responsibility on the perceived performance of a company's products.

Governor called on Africans to save humanity by using the benevolent nature through knowledge into an advancement of man.

All that, plus they want to hide fact that all the premises of their religion around the divinity of Christ and the supposed benevolent nature of their rather horrid BOMITS and so on have zero support in evidence, and their bizarro ceremonies and smokescreens don't fool people quite as well as they did in pre-internet times.

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Poloz is fond of invoking Mother Nature as the benevolent force that will ultimately guide Canada's economy to better days.

benevolent in nature — most certainly evil — no, Jesus was the spotless perfect sacrifice simply disinterested — gave up his life that we may live.

So, let's see, before we go any further, is your god benevolent in nature, or evil, or simply disinterested?

The «argument from design» reasons, from the fact that Nature's laws are mathematical, and her parts benevolently adapted to each other, that this cause is both intellectual and benevolent.

Conceived as we now conceive them, as so many fortunate escapes from almost limitless processes of destruction, the benevolent adaptations which we find in Nature suggest a deity very different from the one who figured in the earlier versions of the argument.

In it, he speaks of Mother Nature and talks of the world as a benevolent deity.

But I have a VERY healthy respect for the fact that nature isn't some benevolent goddess.).

It also contains, however, an intellectual history of moral philosophy, a theory of virtue, and an account of human nature as being part of a larger framework created by a benevolent deity.

That second nature is expressed in the unreported «10,000 acts of kindness,» as the late Stephen Jay Gould memorably styled the number of typically benevolent interactions among people for every hostile act.

- nature scenario that harks back to Fessenden's own «Wendigo» and provides a nice chaser to a summer movie season populated by cuddly penguins and benevolent cheetahs.

Because of the benevolent, passive nature of the animal welfare community, certain operant conditioning (such as live prey) and «training» may be philosophically unacceptable.

Once you've picked up enough, a swarm of benevolent insects guide you to the monster like Mother Nature's own GPS.

Visual artist Hugo Dalton contends that Mother Nature is a Dominatrix, not a benevolent figure, through an exhibition of sculptural installations and wall drawings based on frescoes at Pompeii.

When I think of Martin Puryear's work, I think of its exquisite nature in relationship to our contemporary history, and of the benevolent yet fierce spirit that each piece generates.

Just another example of our foolish acceptance of the notion that all bad outcomes must result from malfeasance, as nature is, of course, itself benevolent.

Those that have argue for increasing aerosols and their benevolent haze (see Nature 1077 - 1078, 30 April 2009).

(36) This follows, as discussed above, from the nature of the rights that the right to negotiate is designed to protect, rights based on the traditions and culture of Indigenous people, not rights bequeathed by a benevolent government.