Sentences with phrase «central problems of life»

It undermined my earlier assumption... that there could be no conflict between true ends, true answers to the central problems of life.

But the hero appears as a man of distinguished patience only in the relatively brief prologue of the work; and the sensitive reader of Job may well wonder whether the primary concern of the writing is the problem of suffering or that one vast, central problem of life under God, the life of faith.

Whether we are liberal or conservative Christians, we must confess that the central problem of our lives is that we are torn apart by the conflict between our attraction to the good news of God's abundance and the power of our belief in scarcity — a belief that makes us greedy, mean and unneighborly.

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And it is because I see this problem as so far from solution, yet so central to my own sense of satisfaction with our public life, that I despair over our government's lack of commitment to its resolution.

(Hebrews 10:25) Indeed, so central were these problems to certain of the early Christians that Professor E. F. Scott can say of religion: «For some it is an inward fellowship with God, for some an inspiration to right living, for some the highest exercise of reason.

Thus, the central challenge posed by black theology is that neoclassical metaphysics consider the realities of oppression as among the most important, if not the most important of the relevant empirical facts to be used together with non-empirical principles for the illumination of value problems of personal and social life.

Its last four lines focused on the central problem which haunts celebrators of Martin Luther on his 500th birthday: «All Works and all Societies are bad; The Just shall live by Faith,» he cried in dread.

«4 Growth groups offer a setting in which students and teachers can wrestle together with the value dilemmas and relationship problems which are central to the development of a workable life - style; they can promote the integration of relevant content from our culture in this process.

How to be the kind of person who can stand up to life, face its difficult challenges and hardships, and carry off a victory in quality of character and useful living — that central problem confronts us all.

Central to the problem of the family altar has been the unexamined acceptance of it in theory, while the non-practicing silent majority listen with respect, feeling a bit guilty at this hiatus in the family life.4

It is the central problem of the origin of life, when aggregations of matter obeying only elementary physical laws first began to constrain individual molecules to a functional, collective behavior.

Here Jacques Monod (1971) would appear to agree with Popper in that he calls the problem of the human central nervous system «the second frontier,» comparing its difficulty with the «first frontier,» the problem of the origin of life itself.

To solve its central problem as a professional school, the seminary must find some way to unify what it has to say to the churches, must make this clear to the student without letting the message get lost among dispersed areas of study, and must devise effective pedagogies aimed finally at the life of the church.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

This is the central problem for every Christian interpretation of love, and it underlies all the special ethical questions such as those dealing with the sexual life, with the struggle for justice, and the intellectual life which we are to consider in later chapters.

As we have said, it is very likely that the area of sexual morality is central here, not only because it has to do with a problem of such striking contemporary relevance but because it follows from the significant role which sexuality plays in the total pattern of human life.

Gordon W. Allport asks: «May not (at least sometimes an acquired world outlook constitute the central motive of life and, if it is disordered, the ultimate therapeutic problem?

An iPad or other tablet computer solves most of those problems, and if it's synced live with the campaign's central database via wireless connection, new supporters could have a welcome email offering volunteer opportunities waiting for them when they get home.

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

According to the survey, urban dwellers, females, and the majority of people living in the Western, Eastern and Central regions, identified unemployment as their biggest problem in country.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

I am a young man growing up to live in a country where the development of the country rest on the shoulders of everybody.I always become confuse especially when disasters like flood occurs in this nation of ours.One of the problem we have as a nation is a deliberate attempt of us as citizens to shift our responsibility to the central government.People might say because of the fact that they pay tax, government must take responsibility of everything that concerns us.My question is can any government take responsibility of our life?NO.

And visibility is a real problem for Guiana dolphins, which live off the western Atlantic coast of Central and South America and hunt fish in turbid water and muddy sediments.

«Plants are often peripheral to modern life, but they were central to fundamental problems of determining what is food and what is fatal across evolutionary time,» says psychological scientist and study author Annie Wertz of Yale University.

And while the causes of the condition aren't fully understood, there are known factors that contribute to the likelihood of an ADHD diagnosis, including one's genetics, environment (including lead exposure early in life), and developmental problems, like abnormalities in the central nervous system.

Back pain, in turn, is a driving force behind opioid drug use, which makes it a central focus not just for decreasing disability claims and improving health and quality of life for millions of people, but also for tackling a rapidly growing problem of legal drug abuse and the associated death toll.

Drugs are not a problem so much as a way of life; the central black characters in the movie never use drugs themselves, but trade in them, with death as a cost of doing business.

Not shitheels, exactly, the central characters have all been dealt bum hands by life, which make some of their behaviours understandable, if not forgivable - problems with authority, complex vocabularies of offensive language paired with an inability to meaningfully communicate, and possibly - related penchants for domestic violence.

It covers the many different types of engineering, with the central message that engineers can improve people's lives and solve problems around the world.

A central problem with the nudge approach is that we know too little about the lives of others to know with confidence what is good for them or how our nudges will affect their entire lives.

A central problem with this approach is that we know too little about the lives of others to know with confidence what is good for them or how our nudges will affect their entire lives.

Instead of honestly acknowledging the root causes of struggling schools and investing in real equity in public education, today's policymakers and deep - pocketed corporate education «reformers» offer misguided strategies that fail to address the central problem: a failure to invest in Black, Brown and poor children, the educators who teach them and the communities in which they live.

Chocolate contains caffeine and theobromine, both of which can over-stimulate the central nervous system and cause serious, even life - threatening, health problems to dogs.

Considering environmental impacts of MTM / VF, in combination with evidence that the health of people living in surface - mining regions of the central Appalachians is compromised by mining activities, we conclude that MTM / VF permits should not be granted unless new methods can be subjected to rigorous peer review and shown to remedy these problems.

Most climate change communication, like Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's What We Know campaign, websites like Climate Central and Real Climate, or academic programs like Yale's Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, is predicated on the belief that if people know the facts about climate change and finally understand just how serious the problem is, they will surely raise their voices and demand that our governments and business leaders DO SOMETHING!

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»

Considering environmental impacts of [mountain top mining / valley filling], in combination with evidence that the health of people living in surface - mining regions of the central Appalachians may be compromised by mining activities, we conclude that [mountain top mining / valley filling] permits should not be granted unless new methods can be subjected to rigorous peer - review and shown to remedy these problems.»

The stated purpose of this law, unfortunately, fails to address the underlying systemic problem and contradicts a central objective of a welfare program: to improve the lives of vulnerable people.

Australia's island economy, geographical diversity of ports and trades and export - led economy mean that shipping and logistics are central to our everyday lives, so the problems we help with every day feel important in a very real way.

Highlights Monitor the progress of various clients and institute adjustments when necessary Effectively communicate with parolees, fellow parole officers and representatives of the court Compile and analyze various court reports Ensure full compliance with State regulations and standard operation procedures of the facility Apply strong problem solving skills in different situations Assist parolees in securing jobs and other necessary resources to transition into civilian life Strong public relations skills Proficient in Microsoft Office Experience Probation Officer 1/1/2010 — Present Central Offender Services — Augusta, GA Manage the cases of several different parolees simultaneously Ensure that parolees have access to needed resources to make a successful transition out of the system Maintain an in - depth understanding of the criminal justice system and current and pending laws Hold periodic meetings with paroles to ensure that they are meeting all requirements for their parole Analyze various court reports to determine appropriate courses of action with clients Receive and address parolee issues to help keep them on the right path

The Central Florida Pornography Addiction Center was launched to combat the near rampart problem, pornography and sexual addiction, of our society that is attacking the homes and personal lives of even the most righteous.

He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and teacher training program in four countries in Central America.

«When callers have a problem, they need a live voice at the other end or they get more frustrated,» says Vic Vacek, CPM, president of Central Management in Houston.