Sentences with phrase «by a common sense of»

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

There can, he writes, be no association of men united by a common sense of right where there is no true justice, and there can be no justice where God is not honored.

The NYT really does live in their own alternative universe — untouched by common sense of most New Yorkers.

These groups are neither teams nor task forces — they are peers held together by a common sense of purpose and a real need to know what one another knows.

I guess our commenter was right — if we went by the common sense of Professor Hoffman in 1836, we would be advising clients to give up legal rights in the name of morality.

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By making employee interactions common, you can more easily build a much needed sense of community in your office.

Musk, proponent of hurtling people at 1,000 kilometres per hour through tubes powered by air pressure, has little time for common sense.

These common sense suggestions probably won't hurt your chances of being more charming, but they're not backed by science.

He added: «That's why this war against common sense waged by the government of this country is extremely dangerous.

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

Half of teenagers in the United States feel like they are addicted to their mobile phones and report feeling pressure to immediately respond to phone messages, according to a 2016 survey of children and their parents by Common Sense Media.

Experts, Salisbury remarked, «require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.»

Michael Powell, president and CEO of the Internet & Television Association (NCTA) and himself a former FCC chairman, said in a statement that «Pai has consistently demonstrated a common - sense philosophy that consumers are best served by a robust marketplace that encourages investment, innovation and competition.

While research from Common Sense Media shows that 84 percent of kids has a smartphone by 13 or 14 years old and another study shows...

He punctures the myth of the superiority of mutual funds and instead declares that by using a bit of common sense, low - cost index funds are the way to go for most modest stock investors.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

The greatest indignity of it all is that many of these funds that charge 1 - 2 % end up owning the same companies that you or I could figure out by applying a seventh grader's level of common sense.

Rising rates are not good for indebted governments, companies and individuals and not good for equities based on common sense backed by 55 years of data analysed objectively.

In short, I think TSP - like 401 (k) plans are a common sense retirement plan - a safe harbor of sorts from the confusing array of services, fee structures and investments offered by 401 (k) providers today.

Ben Carlson of A Wealth of Common Sense blog (and author of a great book by the same name), had a recent post Playing the Probabilities outlining that time has been an investor's best friend (for those investors that have had in some cases quite a bit of time), pointing to the following table.

Summary: A Wealth of Common Sense is a blog by Ben Carlson — a professional in the financial industry.

«In my opinion, good investing largely is common sense, made somewhat difficult by the behavioural imperfections of man» Ed Wachenheim

No reference to soaking anyone in sacred solution, in person or by proxy; the obvious, common sense meaning is a transcendence of the mind over mere physical existence.

What he took away by denying the possible objectivity and rationality of belief, he returned by reconceiving common sense and common action as expressions of natural inclinations and habits.

But not only was the Reaganite touting of America's innate decency and common - sense revealed to be quite naïve by the developments of 2005 - 2013, the Reaganite free - market philosophy was revealed in a number of ways to be deficient.

The malice in the article is there to be seen by anyone with an ounce of common sense and understanding.

I hope one day there is a uprising of common sense that drowns out the dogma spewed by the Christian a & & Holes.

Of course, theology is to be informed by common sense and by empirical study.

Well thank God (no pun intended) that religion is now dictated by common sense and facts, Its like children with Father Christmas, we grow out of it and logic tells you it just is «nt real.

A false fear of sacredness has prevented religion from being safeguarded by common sense.

Assuming that you agree that our common sense is that this phenomenon is to be explained by meteorology and not by referring to the wrath of God — why?

This is one of two major exceptions allowed by our common sense to the general rule that finite physical events are explainable by finite physical causes.

And yet, as often happens, Jesus» advice is also based on common sense — the sort of down - to - earth, practical wisdom that is dispensed today by people like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and that fills the Old Testament book of Proverbs.

Now the distinctions between «superior to actuality» and «superior even to possibility,» or between «superior to other possible individuals» and to «other possible states of oneself» (as an individual identical in spite of changes or alternate possible states), or again, between «superior in all,» «in some,» or «in no» respects of value — these distinctions are urged upon us by universal experience and common - sense modes of thought.

In fact, we might do better to point to the unknowability of God by using concepts that do not affront our common sense — and there are certainly enough unknowables (not lust unknowns, but unknowables) in the universe to do this.

The fact is, most of the defenses of American slavery were written by clergy who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.

The goal is to lightheartedly combat some of the vitriol coming out of the online Christian community by celebrating what we have in common and demonstrating that we can have a sense of humor when it comes to non-essential theological disagreements.

All profoundly religions people are gripped by a vision of reality which is not only beyond the state but beyond the difficult lessons of experience, beyond the realistic analysis of social forces and societal needs, beyond the prudential calculations of common sense, and beyond the fragmented bits of data we get from daily life.

Common sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generCommon sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next genercommon in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generation.

A vote by members of the British Medical Association (BMA) in favour of decriminalising abortion «defies common sense», according to the Christian Medical Fellowship.

The Declaration of Independence denounces the wicked conspiracy led by George III — the «royal beast» of Thomas Paine's Common Sense — to destroy American freedom.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

This passage makes it clear that experience is constituted by a combination of sense perception and memory, and that it has for its object the discernment of similarities held in common by a series of individuals.

For Thomas Aquinas, whose achievement culminates and, in that sense, represents the medieval consensus, law is «an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community» (61 5), and the natural law is «the rational creature's participation» (618) in the divine perfection that is the final end of all things.

Barack Obama first captured the imagination of many Americans (not all of them on the left) by arguing that decency and common sense resided in both Red and Blue America.

If I am morally required or permitted to act in a certain manner, and if that action has effects on you, then the moral validity of the prescription on which I act means that your acceptance of those effects is required by reason — and, in that sense, the prescription implies a common decision.

«And hence, in the second place, I concluded as assuredly that, in the obscurer places of that Testament (which are very many), the best and most natural method of searching out the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners of speech were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion of that nation; and how they took them, by whom they were spoken, and by whom they were heard.

Gods are fragile things they can be killed by a whiff of science and a dose of common sense.

Moreover if it did (assuming this to be possible in the framework of an overall Whiteheadian scheme), then it would itself be forcefully repudiated — and not simply by physicists, for the material world of common sense as well as of physics would be drastically impugned.

In opposition to the cult of expertise, he recommends a set of «patterns» that have been tested by time and common sense — things like «Zen Views,» «Tapestries of Light and Dark,» and «Open Shelves.»