Sentences with phrase «certain human situations»

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This reflects the inadequate information on which he relied, a certain hope about the human situation that kept him from assuming the worst, and a habitual skepticism about reports of priestly immorality» an inevitable reaction given what had been a standard practice of deception in Communist intelligence services.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

One can very well agree that Christian existence has always been an ontological possibility for man, in the sense that it does not entail «changing human nature into a supernature, «54 and yet say that it is an antic possibility only for those in a certain historical situation.

With a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and again.

Until the gospel actually enters the historical situation of a certain person, a non-Christian religion contains not only elements of a natural knowledge of God mixed with depravation caused by original sin and human elements, but also supernatural elements of grace.

In a certain historical situation even the so - called human law of the Church may be required by an absolute moral demand or even by ins divinum.

For both Augustine and Hobbes the bellum omnium is a marginal case, illustrative of certain truths about human nature but not, except in situations of exceptional breakdown, actually descriptive of normal human existence.

There are others who understand the human situation more in terms akin to those prevailing in certain areas in New Testament days, when it seemed to many men that they were in the control of forces indifferent to their fate and that God, however potentially powerful, was very far off.

But the question is: Are there certain unchangeable facts in the human situation which compel us to recognize that the contradiction between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world is ineradicably present in life itself?

In this relation to one's fellow men dialogical freedom enters history even more deeply, because it is concerned not only with the sovereign God, but also with the decisions of human beings, by which it is determined and which, in certain situations, it has to determine itself.

Such notions have little or nothing to do with love; they are a matter of human justice which may be a mode of love's expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because love is ultimately not concerned with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest of love is with persons, persons in society with their fellows, and the fulfillment of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.

The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.

Therefore, in spite of the selfish impulses in human nature, a certain optimism is in order regarding the human situation.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

Shame is among the myriad normal emotions felt by humans in certain social situations.

«There are certain situations where human DNA analysis or standard fingerprinting doesn't work, maybe this is just another tool,» says Noah Fierer, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Pigeons are capable of switching between two tasks as quickly as humans — and even more quickly in certain situations.

«We can mimic those situations in animal models to demonstrate how certain biochemical markers, such as cortisol, may be elevated in those animals and that may also be elevated in our human population,» which may illustrate environmentally induced epigenetic changes that cause an elevated risk of colorectal cancer, Winn said.

Younger and his cast are able to create fully realized human beings who come across not as functions for the purpose of this movie or who are only present to further certain plot strands, but instead as individuals who have found themselves in the circumstances of this dour situation who are each trying to figure out how best to deal with it.

My approach was to merge two things that we never really link — compare how humans and atoms behave similarly in certain situations.

Voluntary action, free from direct economic benefits, is characterized by intrinsic motivations which promote, primarily by altruism focused towards the improvement of the social situation of certain human groups that are generally at a disadvantage against the human group which comes from the volunteer.

In certain situations, there may be no substitute for human interaction.

As dog owners who see our pets as part of the family, it's very easy for us to assume they react to certain situations in the way a human might.

In certain situations, a cat purrs to signal to another party — feline or human — that it poses no threat to that individual.

Tilting one way — in the direction of the thumb on the hand that's holding your phone — is also much harder than the other because of the way the human wrist operates, which leaves you at a bit of a disadvantage in certain situations.

It is important to understand that the ratification of the Convention will have little impact on present - day legislation and the current situation in Canada, since the rights to associate and bargain freely are already very clearly protected in Canada, under both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the human rights legislation of every province, as well as by certain provisions of the Canada Labour Code and the statutes of the different provinces dealing with labour relations.

The main issue in these situations is that they're all targeted to human error, and therefore there is no certain action that could be taken in order to mitigate the risk of a loss of this nature.

In Eric's situation, specific reads much better to both the human eye and sorting algorithms (computer programs that let hiring managers find people with certain skillsets).