Sentences with phrase «certain kinds of action»

It is all God, and is not promised or guaranteed to anyone else for a certain kind of action or type of faith.

Links to information about certain kinds of actions — such as criminal convictions — of continuing relevance might remain.

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While many might not admit it, some in the tech world have been angered by Microsoft's actions on issues around competition and innovation, and take a certain delight in watching the company suffer a kind of comeuppance.

Some of the kinds of transactions that Bitcoin can support include so - called M of N transactions, which require agreement between a certain subset of a group, and can be used for escrow, mediation, or shared financial management; time - locked transactions, in which bitcoins are distributed on a strict schedule, useful for trusts or wills; and even data - conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real - world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

In the terms of a traditional distinction, there are no perfect duties, duties «not to do, or not to omit, an action of a certain [specific] kind,» whatever the consequences, because all specific duties can be canceled by the imperfect duty «to promote a certain general end» (Donagan 154).

The kind of action from social awareness that is demanded by perfect love is such as must admit the tragic reality that there are people who are genuinely intent upon using their freedom to destroy the freedom of others, and that, under certain circumstances, love itself may dictate that «It is better that many should die prematurely than that nearly all men should live in a permanent state of hostility or slavery» (MVG 173).

There's no law that says the President has to be a certain kind of Christian, and actions speak so much louder than words.

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

S. A. Graves points out that while it is possible that a certain individual (J) freely chooses to perform a certain action (A), it is not possible for God to bring it about that J freely chooses to do A. Were God to bring it about that J chooses to do A, J's choice to do A would not count as free.2 Consider another kind of case proposed by Alvin Plantinga.

In order to justify his acceptance of a utilitarian moral theory, Hartshorne must also face the question why a certain kind of experience should be acknowledged as the ultimate end of human action.

Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity of narrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.

For instance, if you like to do a certain type of activity (say, running), there are specialized strollers made just for that, with the perfect wheels for that kind of action.

given the strong words and actions, it is quite a wonder that the deal isn't done... recently we see that the county is still piling on discovered shortcomings of the RR: what is presented as a disappointing amount of track that has been repaired... So, here's the picture: if the lease runs to completion, it is almost certain the county will be compelled to reissue the lease... with the kind of effort and investment that has been expended, ie, build a rail road!

`' In the last four years, because of the need to undertake certain important reforms, in order that the economy will grow exponentially, we must take storm actions, and when you have an opportunistic opponents who are ready take advantage of any such difficulty, then you will have the kind of result we all found.»

«Counting also includes some kind of memory, since the plant must remember — at least for a certain time interval — how many action potentials have been evoked before.»

If there's a certain airlessness to Folman's live - action aesthetic and a tendency to over-egg some of the speeches, it does set up a kind of artificial, sci - fi - ish tone early on, even in this, the least fantastical part of the film.

Even those who find extended success at a certain kind of picture — say, Will Smith in heroic sci - fi action or Adam Sandler in goofy romantic comedies — eventually find audiences growing tired of their shtick and wanting them to challenge themselves.

Taika Waititi's latest is funny, sweet and harks back to a certain kind of innocent 80s action - adventure.

This analysis reflects the fact that the federal Constitution protects us from certain kinds of governmental action — such as state - imposed segregation, prohibitions on free speech, or invasions of personal privacy — but does not create expansive positive rights or guarantee governmental assistance.

It's great to ponder these issues, but we are all predisposed to certain kinds of behaviors, actions and reactions.

«Now we take the human function to be a certain kind of life, and take this life to be the soul's activity and actions that express reason, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these.

And that such things may result in gatekeeper actions where some kids may not be able to check out certain kinds of books.

In this view, persons are to receive goods in accord with their capacities for certain kinds of elevated intellectual reflection, artistic creativity, and noble and courageous actions.

Thankfully, this pulled game isn't one of them, and it will serve as a certain kind of mortar for future «justified» actions against corporate N.

Nights of Azure, while enjoyable, is kind of hit - and - miss, and the same can be said of the team's next new property, Blue Reflection, despite the new game being somewhat better in certain aspects than the team's 2015 action role - playing game.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

The piece has stirred all kinds of debate about what the artist's motivations could have been: Was this a coy way of commenting on affirmative action, on the supposed «advantages» conferred on certain underrepresented minorities?

We're essentially in a race between our potency, our awareness of the expressed and potential ramifications of our actions and our growing awareness of the deeply embedded perceptual and behavioral traits that shape how we do, or don't, address certain kinds of risks.

Without some new kinds of policies and human - driven action, humankind could soon come face to face with daunting, human - caused challenges, over which human beings appear to have at least a modicum of control because the increase of conspicious per capita consumption, seemingly endless production, and skyrocketing propagation by the human species has evidently brought certain global challenges into being.

There is still time though and as evidence mounts certain organisations or persons will have enough information to probably file civil claims for damages and future governments could probably consider some kind of strong action.

It's because Prince John's England is so deeply unjust that we condone certain actions there that we would normally condemn, like certain kinds of robbery and treason.

Indeed, the importance of this manual signing activity in conferring the significance of important legal actions is memorialized in a group of statutes collectively known as the «statute of frauds» which says that certain kinds of legal acts are only legally effective if they are in writing and «signed» by the party against whom the document will be enforced.

So far as foreign divorces are concerned, the validity of such documents will depend on whether the divorce is obtained by way of «proceedings» (i.e. involving some sort of judicial or civil process) or pronounced without such action (certain kinds of talaq, for example).

55D 7.6 Suspension of services Each Member State reserves the right to suspend the international telecommunication service, either generally or only for certain relations and / or for certain kinds of correspondence, outgoing, incoming or in transit, provided that it immediately notifies such action to each of the other Member States through the Secretary - General.

In support of this claim, TAV referred to, among other things, certain mandatory internal policies produced by Total, which required incidents of this kind to be investigated and reported as a matter of course, for the purposes of determining the causes of such incidents in order to develop remedial action plans, take corrective action and prevent their reoccurrence.

Some actions you can take include paying off more of your mortgage, choosing a higher deductible, foregoing certain kinds of coverage, improving security and weather protection on your home, buying in a safer neighborhood, and getting rid of dangerous objects in your home, like trampolines.