Sentences with phrase «by knowledge and an understanding»

«I haven't been impressed by their knowledge and understanding of killer whale biology,» said Craig Matkin, a marine mammal biologist from Homer, Alaska, who has been studying orcas for 20 years.

All we need is the will to change, which needs to be motivated by knowledge and an understanding of the science of climate change.

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By thinking through small cultural confrontations, those who live abroad come to understand their values, preferences, and personalities better, and they carry this self - knowledge with them when they come home.

Everyone knows reading is an important source of knowledge, but many don't understand how much they can actually learn by hitting the pause button, sitting down and picking up a book.

We had a clear delineation and understanding of whose client it ultimately was, but we all became better providers of knowledge for our clients by occasionally using this collaborative approach.

It was only by finally articulating one's own thoughts and bringing them into «open air,» that the student could fully understand the depths of his own knowledge.

The site, which includes a help desk and crowd - sourced knowledge base, was built to provide activists at the greatest risk of surveillance with culturally relevant digital safety tips, tools and support, vetted by technologists that understand and are participants in social movements.

«RBC is the bank of choice for correspondent banks with offices in Canada as a result of our ability to offer clients access to RBC's solid infrastructure and branch network as well as the knowledge and understanding of foreign markets, technical expertise and strong client focus provided by our Banks, Brokers and Exchanges team.

By now you should understand what an elevator pitch is, the right way of creating elevator pitches, and have the necessary knowledge to effectively craft one for yourself — IN NO TIME AT ALL.

By combining our deep insurance knowledge, understanding, and experience with modern technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, we have created an entirely new and more effective way do distribute an essential business service to the deeply neglected small business market.

At the same time, I saw that even with tribesmen of varying investment experience and knowledge here was a community which was less focused / obsessed on «which stock» or «when i will get my target price» or «will you tell me what to buy» and more focused on rational discussions — analysis which can be understood clearly by visitors with basic investment and stock market terminology knowledge.

It updates and refines our understanding of how the IMF seeks to wield ideational power by analysing the Fund's post-crash their ability to influence what constitutes legitimate knowledge, and their ability fix meanings attached to economic policies within the social process of constructing economic orthodoxy.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

Also, the Bible, was created by people who could only understand what their culture and knowledge allowed them to understand at the time it was written.

And with your knowledge of scientific understanding you should easily know that the «we don't know for sure» position is the one taken by the scientific community regarding the issue.

If you cant control your mind and understand by way of knowledge... then you will wind up like them.

Likewise when God says «Let there be light,» that is much more understandable by saying it means the «Light of Understanding,» like invention of language and tools, and the knowledge of right and wrong.

As a lawyer and judge, my understanding of the Bible has naturally become colored by my experiences in, and knowledge of, the law and the legal system.

His understanding was blurred and clouded by his lack of knowledge, real belief and True Faith.

If a problem arises which is not dealt with clearly in the Qur» an or in the Sunnah, the answer is sought in the schools of thought, the theories worked out by «leaders of thought» who have been careful students of the Qur» an and the Sunnah, have thought profoundly about their inner meanings and understand their general principles, and who have special knowledge of virtue and the general welfare.

Say: The Spirit is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little» (Surah XVII, 85), indicates that the identification of the soul is His own concern and that the human mind is too limited to understand such a supernatural reality.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

By training and experience, the staff clergyman's expertise is in the area of religious knowledge and understanding.

Two sentences in the discussion of reason in the earlier version of the report could be taken to support the use of such analysis: «By reason we relate our witness to the full range of human knowledge and experience,» and «By our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»

Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the history of science presents the idea that changes or increases in our understanding not only fill out gaps in previous knowledge, but at times bring about a reorganisation of the structure of the theories or paradigms by which previous ideas were organised and understood.

If you don't know about Islam, then learn about it to understand and be able to at least speak out of knowledge, not just opinion by association (that is to Christianity).

With that in mind, I generally discount all of the science and knowledge that has been developed throughout human history as being useful for living in the world we understand, but not truth by any means.

I was brought to the knowledge of Christ from reading the Old Testament and understood the gospel by the time I got to Isaiah, my depravity and need for a savior.

If this were not sufficient to discourage some who, like me, are at best indifferent to and wearied by Heidegger's thought, such as it is given to us to understand, it seems oddest of all that Heideggerians themselves have not, to my knowledge, taken up the problem of the relation of Heidegger's life to his thinking — especially as it marks the involvement of Heidegger (officially and publicly, or privately and spiritually) in the Nazi movement.

If either of you lacks knowledge of your own or your spouse's sexual potential, read a book like The Marriage Art by John H. Eichenlaub (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1961) to increase your understanding and therefore your enjoyment of sexuality.

To have experienced and understood, in order to teach others to experience and understand, that all human enrichment is but dross except inasmuch as it becomes the most precious and incorruptible of all things by adding itself to an immortal centre of love: such is the supreme knowledge and the ultimate lesson to be imparted by the Christian educator.

The idea was affirmed by Benjamin Rush who called for a university dedicated to «those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic, social and political happiness.»

His great achievement, contrary to the tendencies of his time, in marrying knowledge through faith with knowledge gained by reason, is mirrored in his understanding of Scripture's letter and spirit.

By the next century, however, the dialectic of classical theoria was evident in the scholastic conceptualism which put concepts and logic before understanding, so that knowledge was misunderstood as an intuition of nexi between concepts.

I fear that he is right in speculating that not only has our age lost its knowledge of our cultural and spiritual traditions, but we have even lost the sensibility by which to understand them.

He had risen from the peasantry, and to the end he understood his people and was properly restrained by his knowledge of their stubborn love of freedom and by the nature of his own position as dependent upon them.

The best short summary of the traditional, natural law understanding of conscience was given by Thomas Aquinas when he said that the core principles of the moral law are the same for all «both as to rectitude and as to knowledge» — in other words, that they are not only right for all but known to all.

These letters try to guide people to paths of good conduct by discussing such topics as knowing God and knowing one's self, understanding one's situation in this world and in the life to come, seeking knowledge devoutly, and behaving devoutly.

The Gospel of Mark also presupposed the conditions of life in Palestine in Jesus» day: but the book could be understood by readers with only the scantiest and sketchiest knowledge of things Palestinian.

There are, in the history of philosophy, continually renewed controversies between those who, where the theory of knowledge is concerned, are commonly called realists, and those who are sometimes called idealists, but also constructivists, between those for whom truth resides in the end in correspondence between proposition and fact, and those for whom it is something brought into being by more or less autonomous understanding.

He is grabbed in the pit of his stomach by the knowledge that he can be replaced by the threat of non-being, and anger, envy, and hostility flow quickly, and the urge to kill is easy to understand.

Your comfortable life and gadgets that you use were all made possible by these hard working scientists so you might want to pay them some respect and try to understand the knowledge that they are trying to convey to you.

The early modern view of knowers as conditioned only by the known has given place to a far more insightful understanding of every act of knowledge as conditioned by the particular historical, cultural, economic, gender, and racial situation.

He never actually uses «community» as a significant analytical category, but he constantly refers to collectivities of one sort or another in his effort to substantiate what he takes to be the only defensible understanding of knowledge (what is warrantably assertible by us) and truth (whatever is good for us to believe).

When we study the history of Europe and America we can assume at least a minimal knowledge about the influence of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religious thought and practices, but for the study of the history of Asia we must prepare ourselves by gaining a sympathetic understanding of the quite different religious ideas and practices of that part of the world.

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

Several recent studies by research organizations, among them Biblical Archaeology Review and Pew International, have revealed that atheists and agnostics have a more substantial knowledge and understanding of the Bible than True Believers.

Again, we have to consider the knowledge and ability to understand certain principles by those who wrote God's inspired word for the reasons I mentiond above.

Third, the quality of the discussion — the level of knowledge and understanding revealed by the group — is not very great.

Some of it was about Sufi like teachings on meditation and going only within and I will have to admit it was borderline a bit too mystical for me to understand... but then I tried to picture how they may have been influenced by Eastern meditation and that not by having the knowledge we have today, perhaps that made more sense then and perhaps even for some people it makes sense today.