Sentences with phrase «by notions»

At the time B.C. was the only jurisdiction in Canada with that rule and the industry feared that wily Alberta Realtors, unfettered by notions of singular professionalism, would cross-border poach while relying on their other jobs as cattle ranchers and oil barons to supplement their income.

Courts have too long ignored laws calling for custody decisions to be made in children's best interests, they say, and judges are overly influenced by notions about the mother - child bond.

Hatoum's work is informed by notions of violence and separation but goes well beyond the political discourses on the conflict in the Middle East.

Most recently, Jago has taken the idioms of spray painting to a level of sophistication rarely seen in the medium, completely uninhibited by any notions of what spray painting is, or should be.

Inspired by the notions of belief and communication, his conceptually polyrhythmic yet elegantly executed works create environments that function as alternative spaces for thinking and contemplation.

Inspired by the notions of belief and communication, his conceptually...

He is developing a critique of painting as a «minor form» informed by notions of the model and the fragment both in studio practice and writing.

Guided by notions that art matters, that artists» voices are important in shaping society, and that public spaces are places or creative and free expression, Creative Time has been collaborating with thousands of artists to present the most innovative art in the public realm over the past four decades.

First, it would be a great shame if the natural development of BSL as the organic, dynamic language of the deaf community were to be interrupted in any way by notions of «correctness» which will inevitably accompany the publication of this dictionary.

So, Labour, if it follows Labour Uncut's advice, and avoids this dastardly trap by our Etonian masters, will have accepted social cleansing, greater inequality, etc, not merely as some sort of forced defeat by parliamentary arithmetic, but as a conscious decision, perhaps justified by some notions by some of a «tactical retreat» (don't laugh).

The criminal justice system is dominated by notions of retribution, vengeance, punishment and isolation.

What Whitehead really discusses is the «Extensive Continuum,» and the fundamental relation is «extensive connection» which was defined by notions of whole, part, and overlapping.

Modern thought has been dominated by notions of eternal being, natural laws, and scientific determinisms, with the result that man's creativity, hope, and awareness of freedom have been stifled.

Like Teddy Roosevelt's Realpolitik internationalism, Wilsonian idealism was shaped by notions of Anglo - Saxon cultural superiority that contemporary progressives would find more than a little embarrassing.

Holtzbrinck Ventures led the round, and was joined by Notion Capital and Frog Capital.

'» It turns out even an experienced investor like Graham can be influenced by the notion that entrepreneurial success is genetically predetermined — inherit the right combination of money - making DNA, and you'll wind up the founder of the next billion - dollar startup.

In the summer of 2006, Mackey was hiking when he was struck by the notion that he should go to a $ 1 - a-year salary.

«You can't be constrained by cut - and - paste planning principles or by the notion that your personal estate and corporate estate plans are different and separate.

The first action that they consider is using coconuts as their form of currency — an idea that is quickly overshadowed by the notion of using seashells to represent the coconuts (clearly a jab at the idea of a federal reserve).

By that notion, God is merely reacting to the whims of men who themselves ordain whatsoever comes to pass.

It is a fact that Mormons baptize dead people, even those, such as holocaust survivors, who would be deeply offended by the notion.

It is questionable whether this relation is captured by the notion of phases or segments in a longitudinal series.

These young new members weren't encumbered by the notion that lay people were incapable of doing ministry.

One side tenderly enraptured by the notion of a few, great sacred texts to be preserved against the ravage of time as a precious resource without which we shall surely perish as a people.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

Others were bothered by the notion of church - based voting, whether or not you participated in it.

there is nothing to be proven by any notion of slavery what so ever.

It can be correlated with a positive idea by the notion of totality.

This requires that the notion of God as Eros, the persuading force in the world, be complemented by the notion of God as final Beauty: «This Beauty has always within it the renewal derived from the Advance of the Temporal World.

What can we gain by this notion of «universality?»

Science has for a few hundred years been shaped by the notion that everything can be measured or defined by clear rules but quantum physics is not like that.

There is a Christian tradition appalled by the notion that punishment, rather than the grace - filled instruments of service, compassion, forgiveness and the sacraments, might be the means of creating obedience.

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

On the other hand, it would seem that for Santayana, Whitehead's attempt to replace this by the notion of actual occasions prehending each other represents no advance on this.

The quantitative aspect of intensity, whereby pattern is the primitive feature of existents, receives elaboration in regard to perception by Alexander and Bergson, in a manner that may certainly have influenced Whitehead, inspiring him at the same time to devise a revisionist scheme in which unnecessary distinctions between quantitative and qualitative patterns could be maintained by a firmer metaphysical grasp of the nature of intensity per se (particularly its ontological rescuability from infection by the notion of measurable extensive quanta).24

Furthermore, Ely's statement that «the very notion of «redemption through suffering» implies a divorce between suffering as a means and as an end» and his contention that the individuality of finite things does not count are both denied in Whitehead's system by the notion that the meaning of existence is «now — for God and man.

They pursue some journeys of the imagination set in motion by the notion of «conciliar fellowship.»

Now, what is important here is that the pattern of development from the finite to the infinite as Peirce defines it can be accounted for by the notion of agape.

By the notion of «interpretation» I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

We need to overcome this notion of a «logical future,» which arises from the projection of current trends in line with what is feasible, by the notion of a «willed future,» which projects images based on what is humanly desirable.

When Lemaître began his work, the «steady - state» model of the universe dominated cosmology; after the work of Lemaître and others, the steady - state model was supplanted by the notion of an expanding universe that began with the Big Bang — or what Fr.

Our sex life had always been good, but I was increasingly troubled by the notion that maybe he was fantasizing about men when he was with me, that maybe he HAD to fantasize about men in order to be with me...

I remain respectful of but unintimidated by the notion of the «ministry of the laity.»

This would mean that they are in effect agreeing to adhere to some other vision of the truth» a vision governed, evidently, by a notion of what scientific history permits or requires.

Indeed, «the attitude of mind guided by this notion would be one that was most capable of maximizing the value possibilities for a particular experience» (p. 3).

The official gathering achieved little more than a reaffirmation of international allegiance to economism modified by the notion that the economic growth it seeks should be sustainable.

Whitehead's theory is further articulated by the notion of the presented duration.

It may be that every rationalistic inquiry, which is committed to the belief that something intelligible and (at least partially) true can be said about the world as we find it, is obliged to acknowledge mysteries evoked by the notion of an imagination capable of overcoming the divisive effects of the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible that Plato introduced into metaphysics.

God «the Father» was displaced by a notion of an impersonal first principle — variously understood as «mind» or «spirit.»

The ultimate random reinforcement is the one imposed by reality, that they who survive can assign whatever meaning to that survival, unchallenged by the notion that it could just as easily have gone the other way, and no force, no spirit, no god or force of any kind was supervising the battle, or caring about its outcome, or either of the combatants.