Sentences with phrase «by doing precisely»

: / I think we, as adoptive moms, can lead by example when one of our family members (or friends) adopt, by doing precisely the things you've mentioned.

Debt consolidation is a great way to improve your score by doing precisely this.

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The billionaire argues that «it's precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker.»

«It's precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker,» Thiel said.

Douglas Hyndman, who heads the Canadian Securities Transition Office that Flaherty set up to push this file, even told Maclean's in an email that the Supreme Court, by directing federal policy - makers to consider regulating systemic risks, shifted their attention «precisely where Canada needs to do a better job to get regulation right.»

That's precisely what households in Germany did, and by 2016, the European country became the world's biggest investor in the yellow metal.

I did indeed wince at the assumption that investment lost in carbon - intensive industries will automatically be offset by precisely equivalent investment gains in other industries.

This is precisely what AngelList did through their recently launched Docs feature by offering a standard, but flexible, term sheet for seed financings.

The worst harm done by gratuitous, judgmental proclamations that «AIDS is God's damning curse upon homosexuals» is precisely in the tremendous temptation on the part of the AIDS sufferer to believe it, thus raising one more obstacle to faith in God's all - sufficient grace.

The Fundamentalontologie of Sein und Zeit «goes deeper» than existing ontology (if it does) precisely by restoring to the traditional role of temporal presence the larger context of the problem of the unity of all three horizons.4

When this is done, no argument is needed against the real presence of a past figure, for a past figure by definition is not the present subjectivity, is not contemporary, and is precisely one no longer subject to being presented through the senses.7 The presence of a past figure can be made intelligible and justified only by a quite different notion of presence specifically appropriate to the relation of the past to the present.

Some religions, it is true, succeed precisely by helping persons forget the misery and drudgery of daily toil; but such faiths provide a means for coping with work, they do not ignore it.

Providing for his own security by making friends is precisely what the steward did.

Didn't Jesus come precisely to teach the Jews that there was a better way than trying to abide by so many rules and regulations?

Is there any way in which this school's particular way of «having to do with God» can honor and embrace academic disciplines precisely by employing them in its own interests «having to do with God»

Who needs ~ a «work» day to fall BETWEEN the High Day Sabbath... and the WEEKLY Sabbath ~ if the proper DUTIES of the ~ High Day Sabbath ~ pertained precisely the ~» work» ~ of the particular ~ High Day Sabbath ~ «according to the customary ethics of the Jews» — THE LAW — DEMANDED such ~» work» ~ shall be done by the faithful, «good and just» «disciple» and «honourable counsellor» of the LAW — such as Joseph and Nicodemus who «themselves», have «waited for the Kingdom of God» and these, very «three days» in its messianic «GLORY»?

This is precisely what Bonhoeffer does by introducing the concept of this - worldly transcendence.

I was (as I still am) regularly moved to tears by melodies that I know (though I did not then know) are designed to do precisely that.

I very frequently get an email or a comment from someone saying something like: doesn't it embarrass you to make money here by selling your drawings which are precisely criticizing how some churches and...

For that life the Church does not offer patterns, but strength to endure it even without patterns, and it offers this strength precisely by fulfilling the religious function which properly belongs to it.

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

By analogy, a postwar suburb has all the ingredients (in Aristotelian terms, the material cause) of a pizza, but it is not a pizza precisely because it does not have the form of a pizza.

Old Testament history consistently understands and interprets the present from the past; and if, thus, the past is in the present, its meaning for the present is precisely because it is past — by what God has done Israel understands what God is doing and what he will do.

The OT was established by Jews, not by Christians, so voting on it would be to solidify that which already existed and that is precisely what was done with the New Testament as well.

This gospel is precisely a recording of what was said and done by Christ «in order», and the Marcan «order» of events is generally agreed to be clear and intelligible.

What we have done here is (a) accept that mathematics arises from experience, (b) recognize that we can get a general idea of twoness from our experience, (c) accept constraints on our experience — what we can assert as existing and what we can construct — by accepting some formal system, in this case a system defining set theory, and (d) acknowledge that we can define precisely within that system what we mean by number, successor of a number and in the process twoness.

It is precisely the truly good that is done «by faith alone.»

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.

Unconsciousness of despair is like unconsciousness of dread (cf.. The Concept of Dread by Vigilius Haufniensis): the dread characteristic of spiritlessness is recognizable precisely by the spiritless sense of security; but nevertheless dread is at the bottom of it, and when the enchantment of illusion is broken, when existence begins to totter, then too does despair manifest itself as that which was at the bottom.

These queries demand answers, for my self - understanding, my sense of worth, my identity and my community have been wrapped up with fulfilling what I have believed to be an appropriate and vital response to God's calling, to serve God by serving the church, and more precisely to do so in the field of theological education.

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

Precisely that kind of man, «transported by his passion» — in this case his being caught up into a relationship with God in Christ, although it may very well be true in other ways as well, since to be «transported» by passion is to enter upon the most profound experience possible to human beings — precisely such a man does feel and know what is nothing other than «the secret of the universPrecisely that kind of man, «transported by his passion» — in this case his being caught up into a relationship with God in Christ, although it may very well be true in other ways as well, since to be «transported» by passion is to enter upon the most profound experience possible to human beings — precisely such a man does feel and know what is nothing other than «the secret of the universprecisely such a man does feel and know what is nothing other than «the secret of the universe».

Thus if he accedes to the devil's request he will be fulfilling precisely the intention of God, but he will be doing it by his own means, at his own time, and according to his own decision.

The fact that something surpasses all understanding is proved by three... reasons, which, whatever else they may be good for, surely do not surpass the understanding, but precisely on the contrary make it evident to the understanding that this bliss does not surpass the understanding; for, after all, reasons certainly lie within the compass of the understanding.

But Christianity, which is the first discoverer of the paradoxes, is in this case also as paradoxical as possible; it works directly against itself when it establishes sin so securely as a position that it seems a perfect impossibility to do away with it again — and then it is precisely Christianity which, by the atonement, would do away with it so completely that it is as though drowned in the sea.

Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.

But never - the-less I would reason to guess that what you do do is precisely what is expected of you by your church.

Yet I think that I do not exaggerate when I say that the chief impression received by an observer is precisely the divine impassibility, the intransigence of the divine demand, and the requirement from men of a servile obedience rather than life in «the glorious liberty of the children of God».

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

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.

Yet that's precisely what Tchividjian has done with Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different (Multnomah, April 2009).

If they don't, if they succumb to the outcry of what almost inevitably is a vocal minority, they are teaching precisely the wrong lesson — that any decision by any duly constituted body can be reversed, if only you're loud enough.

But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way.

Thus we experience precisely in freedom what is meant by God, even if we do not name or consider this ineffable, incomprehensible, infinite goal of freedom, which makes possible the distance to the object of our choice, the actual space of freedom.

If we finally say that man experiences what is meant by God precisely while exercising his responsible freedom we do not mean that the Deus absconditus has thus already become the Deus revelatus.

But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

Moreover, any fair - minded person will recognise that much of what Pope Francis has been (rightly) applauded for was made possible by John Paul II doing precisely the same things: so a model has been set for the future, and it's a John Paul II model.»

«God» — divinity and divine and glorious — however, did not, and it was precisely by virtue of His hypostatic union (humanity AND divinity united together) that Christ was able to conquer.

This is important: We can define, classify, and understand the world by learning about what potentialities for action a thing has or does not have precisely because the nature of a thing is its principle of intelligibility — that which makes us capable of understanding it.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.