Sentences with phrase «by affinity»

All well and good, but if it's a high - profile case, lots of people may take a passionate interest in it — not excluding involved policemen who are quite convinced the accused is guilty; and by affinity, non-involved policemen, though ignorant of the detailed facts of the case, may also be convinced.

Process and product sound boring, but Gibbs has succeeded in deconstructing the too - familiar while refreshing it only by affinity with other photo - based work such as Robert Bechtle's and Chuck Close's.

And by affinity, we mean obsession.

At first I was taken aback by her affinity for constant movement, but by the end of the week it became quite endearing.

School supporters are quick to declare success sometimes amplified by affinity groups, boards, and investors.

There's also a kind of majesty, one borne out by an affinity for subtly grand melodies, which works in juxtaposition to the album's brief, jewel - like cuts — most of these tracks clock in at well under four minutes, and the entire LP barely reaches 40 minutes.

The French dating site helps to locate a potential match and helps in matchmaking by affinity.

Here we characterise Myst2 / Kat7 / Hbo1 protein interactions in mouse embryonic stem cells by affinity purification coupled to mass spectrometry.

1) Unless your organization's email content regularly involves commercial - sounding language (e.g., you are selling products in an estore, or promoting services provided by affinity marketers), content - only spam scoring systems are of relatively limited utility.

This dessert recipe was inspired by affinity for watermelon, especially in the winter when it's typically nowhere to be seen.

When one reflects on Boethius» formula for the eternity of God, quoted with approval by Aquinas, 28 «the simultaneously whole and perfect possession of interminable life,» one may well be struck by its affinity to the Whiteheadian concept of an infinite concresence.

And being united by affinities of character, they move with less impediment and more vigor than any other bodies can move, and constitute, no doubt, that form of the sacramental host by which Jesus Christ intends to give freedom to the world.49

Shown together, the works in the installation represent the result of a dialogue between Cruzvillegas and Kuri, who are also long time friends and colleagues, creating an idealized world of cultural exchange that is defined by affinities rather than differences.

Not exact matches

And many in the Muslim community who you would suspect would feel an affinity with Aboutaleb instead feel ignored by him.

Many of the ads include a disclosure by Facebook about why the user is seeing the ad, which can be anything from their age to their affinity for folk music.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

His arrival in China has been accompanied by a series of interviews on that country's state media in which Duterte has voiced his affinity for the Asian giant and his hopes to affirm good relations between the two countries.

With this affinity, the rink could work with the non-profit to offer special skating classes or one - time discounts, delivered by working with the non-profit to secure attendees» names and emails.

It is a holistic approach that can be led with product functionality (think Apple), customer service (think Nordstrom), creating an affinity group or lifestyle association (think Harley - Davidson), creating an experience (think Disney theme parks) or even by creating a bridge to the customer with ancillary products, services, content or experiences that are important to the customer (think food companies with time - saving recipes), depending on what is of most importance to customers.

We have a strong brand and continue to raise brand awareness among sellers by enhancing our services and fostering rapid adoption through increased brand affinity, public relations, and strategic partnerships.

The salars are largely underlain and surrounded by volcanic rocks of andesitic to basaltic affinity that make up some of the 800 volcanoes located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile.

Furthermore, the company believes that inclusiveness is equally important to diversity and strives to exercise these beliefs in its employment practices by maintaining resource and affinity groups, such as Awesome Women in Engineering (AWE), Women at Yelp, Parents of Yelp, Ethnic Diversity Group, Veterans at Yelp, and OUTburst, a group for LGBTQQIA individuals.

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Although this essentially methodological affinity has been duly recorded and commented upon (most notably by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers2) there has, as yet, been no exploration of the extent to which Deleuze's metaphysics parallels that of Whitehead in terms of its content — the extent to which his own system of «descriptive notions» mirrors, departs from, or fractures, the categoreal scheme of Process and Reality.

One by one also I number all those who make up that other beloved family which has gradually surrounded me, its unity fashioned out of the most disparate elements, with affinities of the heart, of scientific research and of thought.

To eat it is to acquire a taste and an affinity for that which in everything is above everything — a taste and an affinity which will henceforward make impossible for me all the joys by which my life has been warmed.

Here I introduce that exploration with a brief characterization of the metaphysical position especially as it is stated by Alfred North Whitehead; Whitehead's is the seminal mind which provided the main structure of thought which is process philosophy.47 Whitehead has a close affinity to the classical metaphysical tradition.

One striking affinity between all these philosophers, except Peirce, is the central role in their metaphysics played by the notion of «the specious present.»

There truly is a strong affinity here to Santayana's idea of intent or animal faith as the way in which we turn dumbly to a reality beyond, whose character can only be more exactly specified for us by the essences which we intuit.

She casts doubt on the assertion that there is an intrinsic affinity between certain religious ideas and political orientations by showing how similar ideas lead to different outcomes in different settings.

Yet there has also been much speculation, often prompted by explicit considerations of Weber, that Puritanism had paved the way for the Lockean theory of democracy through an elective affinity of ideas.

We need no longer leave these relations at the level of correlational affinities if the process by which these affinities develop begins to take on specific shape.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

This approach, which is associated with Karl Barth, Jacques Ellul, and Wilhelm Vischer, among others, and which also has certain affinities with the confessional stances of Gerhard van Rad and Brevard Childs, seeks to supplement the historical - critical method by theological exegesis in which the innermost intentions of the author are related to the center and culmination of sacred history mirrored in the Bible, namely, the advent of Jesus Christ.

This development, he urged, should be welcomed rather than resisted by the churches, since there is a natural affinity between socialism and the Christian ethic.

The whole domain of Western culture, in its political, economic, intellectual and ethical aspects, is seen as ruled by ideologies which have no affinity with the Christian faith.

They are of two kinds: forces of compression, which by external and internal determinisms bring about a first stage of enforced unification; and subsequently forces of attraction, which through the action of internal affinity effect a genuine unanimization by free consent.

Unusual for contemporary theologians, he is much influenced by the eighteenth - century Jonathan Edwards, and some readers will discern a strong affinity with Hans Urs von Balthasar.

How else explain the affinity between the cognitive qualities of the human mind and the laws by which the universe moves?

There is of course no special affinity between crankiness as such and superior intellect, (Superior intellect, as Professor Bain has admirably shown, seems to consist in nothing so much as in a large development of the faculty of association by similarity.)

If they were asked they would probably admit that there was a special affinity between the classical world view and Greek religion or the tragic view of life, whereas the modern world view - is so contaminated and corrupted by idolatry that it can not provide a basis for the Greek view of life.

Similarly Paul was a called apostle, legitimately recognized by the community as a teacher of faith, yet he approached the Corinthians with exceptional empathic affinity: «Do not think we are dictating the terms of your faith; your hold on your faith is secure enough.

Though this view is by no means identical to the one that Palmer advocates, some of the affinities between the two are quite striking.

Once again, this function is in no way to be identified with poetry understood as something opposed to prose and defined by a certain affinity of sense, rhythm, image, and sound.

I suggested that the very excess of external compression to which we are subjected by the relative contraction of our planet may one day cause us to breach that mysterious wall of growing repulsion which, more often than not, sets the human molecules in opposition to one another, and enter the powerful, still unknown field of our basic affinities.

In the sharing of Christian experience and mutual reinforcement in the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.»

The affinity between the book of Micah and the Isaiah circle is further marked by the presence of an oracle, the so - called «floating oracle,» common to both books.

On the other hand, self - identified evangelicals are linked among themselves by a set of elective affinities, while belonging to a potpourri of Protestant denominations that display only a limited and variable concern about their own existence in institutional separation from one another, let alone from the Roman Catholic Church.

so i have a strong affinity for ensuring your survival... and thus you by extension... as long as you are not incredibly inconvenient.»