Sentences with phrase «by observation of others»

While it's debatable whether or not leaders are born, we think they are shaped by their environment and by their observation of others.

Not exact matches

Evolution is supported by a wide range of observations throughout the fields of genetics, anatomy, ecology, animal behavior, paleontology, and others.

It does this, not by guess work, and certainly not by indulging personal preference or caprice, but by employing scientific methods of observation, analysis, hypothesis and verification, which are well tested in other fields of study.

I was reminded of the similarities the other day when I happened upon biologist Jerry A. Coyne's observation that «evolution is like an architect who can not design a building from scratch, but must build every new structure by adapting a preexisting building, keeping the structure habitable all the while.»

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

Of course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of otherOf course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of otherof Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of otherof Christian formation at the expense of otherof others.

That you are so ready to call millions of other Christians not Christians (and I'm sure in many cases — vice versa) only supports the observation by Jefferson I quoted above.

«Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform.»

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

On the other hand, the wave lengths of light corresponding to various colors are admissible scientific data because they are confirmable by observations that anyone can make.

On the other hand, the concrete aspect of God is his dependent, related, and contingent actuality; and it, being entirely inaccessible to rational proof, can only be known by direct, empirical observation or «encounter.

Truth is everything, as it is, without any observation of it or interpretation of it by man or any other creature.

Building on the observations of H. Richard Niebuhr, Bellah shows how the gap between the religious pluralism of Ernst Troeltsch and the absolute distinction between the revelation of God in Christ versus other religions can be bridged by the Christian without being unfaithful.

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

While others were always ready to evoke the occult and supernatural in their efforts to explain the most difficult crimes, it was this balding and unassuming Catholic priest who invariably solved the mystery by means of the most everyday, commonplace observations.

Traditional church architecture may have sprung from contingent roots, but it has been refined by millennia of observation: God is omnipresent, but we perceive the divine presence better in some places than in others.

Finally, I am reminded of an observation that the blogger «Camassia» once made regarding A Place at the Table, a book by a gay author named Bruce Bawer: «The unintentionally funny part of Bawer's book was that he accused other Christians of not being real Christians because, among other things, they accuse other Christians of not being real Christians.»

Using the advanced mathematics of the period Burridan and Nicole Oresme (c. 1325 - 1382) amongst others had to conclude that previous ideas on motion and gravity introduced by Aristotle were false according to observation and reason.

As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence on the very value - system of the community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic practices like festivals and related rituals.

This parable bears the stamp of authenticity, not only in that it coheres with the others of this group, but also in that we find ourselves once again confronted by the sure and sympathetic observation of Palestinian life so characteristic of Jesus.

Observations on the Cuisine of Ceylon, by James Emerson Tennent, 1860 The domestic economy of the great body of the Singhalese, who inhabit Colombo and the other towns of the island, is of the simplest and most inexpensive character.

«By the time we entered tranche two of our program, a much larger group, it was around 60 per cent... Based on declining whistle - blower activity over time, and other observations to date, we expect we will see this non-compliance rate decline further as we complete the final tranche of audits during 2018 - 19.»

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly have went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win for Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier has denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly had went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win to Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier had denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

An observation by Dr. Rachel Milsteing Goldenhar helped explain a part of the reason why many parents view themselves as failures and also struggle to praise themselves as well as other parents.

Its content in breast milk is variable26 and depends on DHA sources in the maternal diet, 6,27 including fish; infant DHA status in turn depends on the DHA content of ingested breast milk.27 Randomized trials of DHA supplementation during lactation have found beneficial effects of DHA on early motor skills28 and sustained attention29 but not visual motor function or general cognition.28, 30 Our observation may be explained by DHA or nutrients in fish other than DHA.

But by drawing on the observations and experiences of other open adoption bloggers, Lori gives her book something else: authenticity.

I find that parents are at an advantage over other professionals since you have years - worth of observations to go by.

However, as with other observational studies, these results may have been affected by confounding variables that were unknown and thus not accounted for, and the observation of an association gives no proof of causality.

The warning followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership of the increasing resort to acts of brigandage by sets of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak of Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to threaten national security and public peace in parts of South East geopolitical Zone and some other conterminous States.

«The warning followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership of the increasing resort to acts of brigandage by sets of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to threaten national security and public peace in parts of South East geopolitical Zone and some other conterminous States» IGP Arase said.

«Observations with multiple space telescopes have revealed that, while other neutron stars spin multiple times a minute, this object rotates only once about every 6.5 hours — making it by far the slowest - spinning star in its class discovered to date,» said David Burrows, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

Observations made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal gas diving into four small black holes within a few light - years of the galaxy's core, where thousands of other hidden holes may also orbit.

By 1908, a book of medical observations on the Pima and other Southwest tribes noted increased obesity incidence, and included this image of a Ute woman.

On the other hand, observations by Cassini indicate that the small satellites orbiting near the outer edge of the main ring system have a dense core.

It would focus on the composition and thickness of the ocean, already reckoned to be briny and rich in magnesium salts following previous observations of seeps to the surface by other space probes flying nearby.

So the ribosomal fragments that we were finding explain a lot of things, explains among other things the observation that CCD seems to be caused by everything.

Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

The filter Nakata developed and then refined with help from his Stanford colleagues represents a new way of processing the ambient noise by comparing each observation to every other observation, which boosts the body - wave signal while reducing the noise.

In the simulation, they found that over decades colonies would appear and disappear (much like observations of actual fairy circles) and that they would eventually self - organize into regularly spaced honeycomb patterns, with each colony surrounded by six others.

Other than in previous publications, optical rogue waves in this system are clearly ruled by atmospheric turbulence in a gas cell, effectively enabling the observation of a storm in a test tube.

These and other observations suggest that many different classes of regulatory substances achieve certain of their biological effects by altering the phosphorylation of specific proteins.

In this way, observations by ALMA and other radio telescopes complement those of optical telescopes.

This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth - size planets.

Other things can also cause brightness fluctuations, so all Kepler candidates must be confirmed either by other sorts of observations or more detailed statistical analysis of the Kepler Other things can also cause brightness fluctuations, so all Kepler candidates must be confirmed either by other sorts of observations or more detailed statistical analysis of the Kepler other sorts of observations or more detailed statistical analysis of the Kepler data.

Dr. Mike Sleutel continues: «We were struck by the unexpected complexity of the process, which proved to be far more intricate than the working models we and other in the field had prior to these observations.

They then used the earlier observations of the changing abundances of the three pairs of predators and prey — leveraging data sets collected by other scientists — to show how the models would apply.

By tracing the development of what we now call the «scientific method» — an approach, developed over centuries, that emphasizes experiments and observations rather than reasoning from first principles — he makes the argument that science, unlike other ways of interpreting the world around us, can offer true progress.

One is the «spine pruning theory,» supported by the observation that the frontal brain regions of people with schizophrenia have fewer dendritic spines, the tentacles on the receiving ends of neurons that process signals from other cells.