Sentences with phrase «by use of an analogy»

The U.S. strategy of managing terror in El Salvador can be illustrated by use of an analogy.

Classical Christian theology, however, has accepted that it is possible to speak of God by the use of analogy.

Not exact matches

Goldberg uses an analogy from the world of retail to illustrate the point: «Going into Home Depot doesn't let you build a house all by yourself if you haven't done it before.»

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

Ben Bernanke's False Analogy Global Research On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Analogy Global Research On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech.

[7] The federal corporate income tax code's limits on the deductibility of corporate charitable giving are often used by analogy by courts seeking guidance on whether a gift was reasonable in amount.

On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

Even though the scripture uses some aspects of ancient mil life to help us understand spiritual truths, the mil life and church life are not a perfect analogy or paradigm by which to judge the other.

«Some would theologize that the church is Christ's body»... well, yes, that is one analogy used by author of Ephesians.

However, I believe that there is a notion in process philosophy by which one could, using the same self - body analogy, more adequately explain what would constitute a «special» act of God, and thereby better explain how Jesus could be God's decisive act.

Gregory of Nyssa, (c.330 - c395), who was bishop of Nyssa, but exiled for a time by the Arian party» used this analogy: «We may be confronted by many who individually share in human nature, such as Peter, James and John, yet the «man» in them is one.»

By the use of a brilliant analogy this twelfth section begins by describing the true and the false way of reading or listening to a devotional address and the following sections set forth with pointed directness the central issue of what it means to be an individuaBy the use of a brilliant analogy this twelfth section begins by describing the true and the false way of reading or listening to a devotional address and the following sections set forth with pointed directness the central issue of what it means to be an individuaby describing the true and the false way of reading or listening to a devotional address and the following sections set forth with pointed directness the central issue of what it means to be an individual.

The late Howard Thurman once described the necessary aspect of the struggle for liberation by using an analogy from nature.7 Thurman recalled that on one occasion during his childhood in Daytona Beach, he happened upon a tiny green snake crawling along a dirt path.

A better analogy would be: Using a map that has been used successfully for 2000 years to get from point A to point B versus, using a brand new map that was written by a group of geographers last year, but has not been fully teUsing a map that has been used successfully for 2000 years to get from point A to point B versus, using a brand new map that was written by a group of geographers last year, but has not been fully teusing a brand new map that was written by a group of geographers last year, but has not been fully tested.

Within physics complementary models are used in the domain of the unobservably small, whose characteristics seem to be radically unlike those of everyday objects; the electron can not be adequately visualized or consistently described by familiar analogies.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

All Shi`as accept these four sources of religious law, but those who derive religious laws from testaments and Traditions define reasoning as the use of analogy, or parallels from Tradition, rather than deductive and inductive reasoning; those who follow the principles of jurisprudence do not accept reasoning by analogy as valid.

We prefer to use the analogies furnished by the Scriptures, analogies which are intrinsic to an evolutionary frame of reference.

they represent Paul's effort, by using every analogy which ordinary experience presented, to make vivid and clear the reality of the salvation offered in Christ.

By using the human body of Christ analogy, Ed is blending the paradigm of discardable wineskins with the paradigm of living / valuable wine.

Jonathan Edwards uses the analogy of the way the sun brings about light and warmth by its essential nature, but brings about dark and cold by dropping below the horizon.

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

A statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like.

Anything positive that we may say about God is not to be understood univocally; we can use only the language of analogy, and it is within a bracket, as it were, which is governed by a negative sign that all theology is enclosed.

The author uses the square dance as an analogy of Whitehead's eternal objects — the primary structure by which experience is unified.

This website posits that it was not about sacrifice but about a Will (as in last will and testament), which is another analogy used by the author of Hebrews.

Hence the role of metaphor in explanation depends not only upon analogy, but also upon the more detailed specification of the presupposed environment brought about in the stretching of meaning by the metaphorical use of language.

For Anselm, who made extensive use of it, this model was based on a profound experience of guilt interpreted by means of legal analogies.9 Second, the sacrificial victim model uses the images of the temple sacrifice.

If our living well and helping others to do so serves God, then, by any reasonable analogy in the use of «serves,» God acquires a value God would otherwise lack.

It is precisely here that the scientists I have mentioned have been most impressed by process thinking, for they also see such an analogy running through the order of nature and they find that the use of that analogy is valuable to them in their work.

Together with the principle that in God's revelation no word is without significance this conception of scripture leads to an atomistic exegesis, which interprets sentences, clauses, phrases, and even single words, independently of the context of the historical occasion, as divine oracles; combines them with other similarly detached utterances; and makes large use of analogy of expressions, often by purely verbal association.

To use an analogy suggested by Professor Charles Hartshorne, it constitutes the last page of our book of life.

A theoretical model, then, is an imagined mechanism or process, postulated by analogy with familiar mechanisms or processes and used to construct a theory to correlate a set of observations.

I preordered through Amazon but am too tech dense to figure out how to photo the receipt, so here is a cut & paste: Items Ordered Price 1 of: Gluten - Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More), Hunn, Nicole Condition: New Sold by: Amazon.com LLC $ 14.78 So many bread memories, no wonder bread has been used as an analogy for human love and nurturing for centuries.

What this is, to use an automotive analogy, is trying to fix a lack of traction by changing lane of operation when what they should do is mount wider tires.

The guy was a head coach who QUIT on his new owner that he retroactively had signed a contract with, then intervewed for the Jets head job where I guess he brought a little too much Buffalo to the interview since he was eliminated from contention in just a couple of weeks, and now hes in Jacksonville where his main job is protecting Blake Bortles, which to use a Jacksonville analogy - is like being a strip mall rent - a-cop where your anchor store is a Big Lots that has been over run by opossoms.

After a Jan. 27 win at Granada, LeQuesne used an NBA analogy by pointing out that it would be similar to putting all of the Golden State Warriors» current success on All - Stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.

When Bowman ran a small group for children with recently separated or divorced parents, she used a rain - and - sun analogy by asking about the positives and negatives of the new family structure.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

Decision - makers can make use of history in shaping foreign policy in two different ways: one by analogy, the other by chronology.

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

This can be described by using the analogy of a person standing on the edge of a diving board.

The team uses an analogy to the primary care doctor conducting a check - up on a patient: A doctor may be able to detect early warning signs of an illness by running a quick exam, like bloodwork or blood pressure tests.

We chose this route of administration in analogy to the prion field, in which most of the experiments to analyze prion infection by periphery are performed using this route of exposure.

The existence of gravitational waves was first proposed in 1893 by Oliver Heaviside, when the self - taught English physicist used an analogy that likened the propagation of gravity to that of electricity.

Another analogy used by Dr Eenfeldt (diet doctor) is that you can get cured of a sunburn, but this does not mean that you can go out in the sun too long unprotected without getting burned again.

Debby Martin: «Josh has extensive knowlege of biochemistry and physiology as well as a deep understanding of the course content — which he helps students learn by using teaching strategies such as: diagrams, analogies, Q&A, and review.

One of the most effective ways to help learners relate to the eLearning experience is by using eLearning analogies exactly like the one you just read.

He countered by using the analogy of an athletic person.