Sentences with phrase «by virtue of taking»

Although the district court found that Geeslin had «assumed the risk or consented to the entire contact between he and the Defendant,» by virtue of taking the courtside seat, we find that analysis applies only to the initial contact between Geeslin and Bryant and not the secondary, offensive contact described by Geeslin.

Your life, as you know it now, will by virtue of you taking control of your finances, will probably improve your health as mentioned above, not to mention the elimination of stress, debt elimination, and the improvement of your credit and credit score.

Just by virtue of taking this approach, however, you take much of the heat that fuels explosive outbursts out of the equation.

Heineman ultimately settles on a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedent.

A feeling that, simply by virtue of taking it down off of the shelf, you've instantly created a special occasion for yourself.

Not exact matches

Take care of all of your stakeholders, and make sure that you as leaders model the virtues of selflessness, trust, and caring for all the lives you impact — including those whose livelihoods may be impacted by your technology.»

Like anyone along the route of proposed oil or gas pipelines, Rosinski was in a position where, had she not signed the agreement, her land would have been taken anyway by virtue of eminent domain — a right the government can assert to seize private property for public use.

Okay, maybe you're not the kind of person who'll mark this august occasion by taking to the streets carrying pro-401 (k) banners while chanting slogans touting the virtues of target - date retirement funds.

This increases the types of new businesses that can be created by virtue of the aggregators existing (YouTube creators, Amazon merchants, small publications, etc.); regulators should take care to preserve these new opportunities (and even protect them).

Silver lining: by virtue of having renters in place before the local market went further south (when hospital closed), we were able to take a substantial ordinary loss on last year's tax return.

EverStream focuses on infrastructure projects with energy off ‐ take contracts, proven and reliable technology and strong visibility into revenues and cash flows in sectors where the team has a demonstrable edge by virtue of its experience and its sponsor base.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

These understandings are what humans take for granted by virtue of being socialized into a particular imaginary.

The dissolution of this opposition takes place only when each form of the Godhead, by virtue of its inherent independence, dissolves itself in itself: «Therefore that element which has for its essence, not independent self - existence but simple being, is what empties and abandons itself, gives itself unto death, and so reconciles Absolute Being with its own self.»

To take this view is to adopt the very dubious proposition that if one has desires and inclinations and they are powerfully presented from the depths of the self, they are, by virtue of the strength of their presentation, both «natural» and «good.»

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

The following year we took up the interpretation of the phrase «The Communion of Saints» that appears in the Apostles» Creed, and there we affirmed that, by virtue of our communion with Christ, we are in a certain, albeit imperfect, communion with one another in his body, the Church.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

This movement is distinctive by virtue of the seriousness with which it takes, and criticizes, modern science.

I take Whitehead literally when he says that these units by virtue of objective immortality, live everlastingly, but not literally when he says they perish.

First, process thought «rings true» to women's experience by virtue of its comprehensive ability to take account of women's experience.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

If we only take things that can be empirically measured as being valid evidence (an empirical hermeneutic), then faith claims will, by virtue of being faith claims, remain unsubstantiated.

On the basis of this initial idolatry it develops a morality in which economic worth becomes the standard by which to measure all other values and the economic virtues take precedence over courage, temperance, wisdom and justice, over charity, humility and fidelity.

Every state by virtue of what it takes to be a state, which is the use of force and coercion to get people to obey the laws of man, runs contrary to the golden rule.

Many who are more comfortable with deduction's tightly - woven syllogisms often forget that their major premise was arrived at inductively or was taken for truth by virtue of the authority of its source.

In identifying specific causal relations, event A, is almost always judged to be the cause of B, (that is, when our judgment is reasonable) because of the prior conjunction of events of sort A with events of sort B, or analogous evidence, rather than on the basis of direct discrimination of a process in B, taking account of, flowing from, or forming itself by virtue of Ai (PNK 87).4

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

And so, by virtue of its having this character of prevenience, it is an indispensable notion for any theology that takes seriously the biblical theme of promise.

He may have despised the simple catechism of his German congregation, just as we «moderns» take offense at the minimalistic theology of many of the folk who inhabit our standard - brand churches, but he knew also that they had a great deal to teach the young pastor by virtue of having surveyed the land «across the river» and having dared to cross the chilly waters of Jordan with a sense of divine protection.

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

This is at first glance an anomalous position to find Habermas taking, because he generally appears to be skeptical of religion, treating it as a form of ideology that systematically distorts communication by virtue of the fact that religious people generally seem to be unable to abandon their own suppositions long enough to truly consider the interests and values of others.

Take away the Devil and we are left with the Protestant citadel, the «better self,» the conscience, which thus becomes the site of the Last Judgment, where the believer, confronted with the laws of God, acknowledges that he is a sinner and declares himself at the same time to be righteous by virtue of Christ's sacrifice.

One can not forget that it, too, took form by virtue of reason» (CR, p. l09).

We've taken the virtue of authenticity and made it into a brand represented by moody filters paired with ultra-curated kitchen - scapes.

But I did repeat it and link to it, and yet here we are, with several people choosing to take offense by virtue of ignoring or disbelieving what I wrote.

A win today would take Mark Hughes's side out of the bottom three by virtue of goal difference, ahead of a return home to face Chelsea next weekend.

With PSG wasting plenty of chances, the Bulgarians hung in there and deserve to take their place in the Europa League by virtue of finishing third in the group.

However, City still have work to do if they are to take their seat at European football's top table next season by virtue of finishing in the Premier League's top four.

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By all means, Andy, take recommendations from Paterson who put all of his girlfriends on the payroll and paragons of virtue like Carl Andrews.

It is no coincidence that a far - right military junta decided to try to take the islands by force in 1982, partly to distract from its own economic inadequacies and partly out of the need for right - wing dictatorships to gather momentum by virtue of perceived strength.

By virtue of being Democrats and in the minority in Congress, Connecticut's Congressional delegation has had little input on significant legislation since President Donald Trump took office.

The electoral body, however, stated that it could not take any action against Governor Bello as he still enjoys immunity by virtue of Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution.

[32] The Parliamentary Speaker İsmail Kahraman, who is unable to take part in the vote by virtue of being the Speaker, was hospitalised during the vote, meaning that AKP deputy speaker Ahmet Aydın presided over the proceedings and was therefore unable to cast a vote.

That is not to be taken as an endorsement, but rather an acknowledgement of the fact that — by virtue of experience, energy, inclination and native intelligence — Andrew Cuomo is indisputably well qualified to seek New York's highest office.

Once implanted into the seminiferous tubules of mice (where the animals» sperm production takes place), they differentiated into what the scientists termed «germ - cell - like cells,» simply by virtue of the environment in which they were placed.

So if you feel you «should» slow it down, do a double take and ask yourself if you've been able to see your potential partner's «godliness» or what God has expressed through them and in them by virtue of their character.