Sentences with phrase «certain practices which»

The plan for the series of six meetings which we are having together includes the discussions of some questions that are often asked by Church people and by inquirers — questions concerning the meaning of important beliefs of the Christian Church, questions concerning certain practices which we find among those who are members of the Church.
Or maybe early leaders in the positions of power did eactly what was done «eventually» in Christianity, which is to adopt certain practices which makes its easier to attract converts, especially when you tell them its all the same thing?

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(The 10,000 hours number was inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, in which he describes that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice or experience to achieve mastery in a certain field.)
The project included identifying companies, like American Express, that demonstrate a strong and genuine commitment to diversity, interviewing leading diversity experts, including Bernard Anderson, Wharton practice professor of management, on the characteristics of an effective diversity program, and looking at which companies are doing the best at meeting certain standards and why.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.
«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»
Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.
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.
I am glad you are practicing a Bible study method which studies the Scripture in - depth, rather than just accepting whatever a certain Bible teacher tells you to think.
Rather, it is the existence of a certain universalistic quality in the jurisprudence, the scholarship, the media and the religion that is decisive — a universalistic quality which, precisely because it transcends particular beliefs and practices, can bring the particulars of that situation under critical scrutiny.
But before doing so, it is important to recall that there are certain theological presuppositions that set bounds on our thinking and practice, both in communication and mission, which should be made explicit.
The dominant image of the Protestant ministry is of the preacher in the pulpit with an open Bible before him, which involves a rejection of certain aspects of medieval Catholic theology and practice, and results in some cases in pathological distortion of the preacher - pulpit - Bible image.
But for all its patrons and benefits, there are certain deceptions being practiced in TM which trouble me: claims to originality, claims to compatibility with all religions, claims that TM is not a religion, claims that it is best not to tell an initiate where he is being led.
There are certain deceptions being practiced in Transcendental Meditation which are troubling: claims to originality, claims to compatibility with all religions, claims that TM is not a religion, claims that it is best not to tell an initiate where he is being led.
Beliefs and ways of life, save in respect to certain minimal attitudes and practices without which social life could not successfully be carried on, are matters of private rather than public business.
Primarily, however, it is the television industry itself that has been driven by attempts to develop theories and practices which would bring about certain predictable kinds of behavior — to get people to buy a particular brand, to prefer one product over another, to vote for a particular candidate, and so on.
To a certain extent, Christianity could resist these kinds of evil structures; so it was not a denial of other religions, but the denial of evil practices which were exploitative, oppressive and dehumanizing.
This constituency includes persons now repelled by organized religion because they can not accept certain positions (such as opposition to evolutionary theory or to birth - control practice) which they have been exposed to in some churches and which they assume characterize all churches.
Large numbers of more or less devout people, and even certain branches of the church, cling to beliefs and practices which are essentially magical and hence deny the supremacy of God.
Eduardo, for instance, got a penalty which allowed his side to take the lead when he did it and a smattering of foreign players who have been pilloried for diving have claimed there are certain situations when the practice is acceptale.
Taking it a step further, he travels to Germany and Austria every three weeks to make certain that all the companies with which he does business are operating under appropriate and ethical business practices, ensuring that My Organic Formula maintains the highest level of safety, as well as an adequate supply of the products you love!
The grass roots organization Improving Birth coined the term «obstetric violence» - which is playing out in labor and delivery units in certain parts of the world; the World Health Organization called for increased scrutiny of these disrespectful childbirth care practices, as women treated in this way, feel assaulted and violated, and must be taken as seriously as rape.
Though it only has to apply to 10 percent of its purchases right now, the district is also following a Good Food Purchasing Policy which requires food to meet certain standards for animal welfare, fair labor practices, sustainability and support of the local economy.
The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.
Whether you go with a Family Practice Physician or a Pediatrician make sure you choose a provider who's board certified, which means that he or she has passed certain exams and completed on going education.
Take your child to the toilet at certain times every single day to practice potty timing, which is a bit different from training.
But let us take for example the practice of human sacrifice which has been long regarded with horror in the West, yet was seen as a noble and pious act in certain cultures (e.g. the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).
The bill, which prohibits harassment «with respect to certain non-exclusive protected classes, including, but not limited to, the student's actual or perceived «race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex,» requires schools to:
In practice, however, the ban — which applies to wells using more than a certain amount of fluid — will eliminate the most attractive sites because drillers now won't «have enough water» to operate effectively, says Robert Jackson, a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
«Inasmuch as eyetracking now can be built into mobile phones and tablets, it will be fairly easy to also install software that can assist learners when they are reading - for instance by adjusting the text's difficulty or suggesting texts which contain a certain type of words that the learner finds difficult and therefore needs to practice,» suggests Sigrid Klerke.
This practice, which entails growing the same crop on the same land repeatedly, has certain advantages for farmers but may not always be good agronomy.
It concluded with a three - day site visit in December, at which a team of appraisers from the ANCC observed nursing practice in action, making certain that day - to - day performance measured up to the standards set by the ANCC.
I get this question a lot and it shows a certain mindfulness about approaching the practice, which is great.
So if you're working to prioritize certain practices, which ones should you aim for?
There are certain powerful brands which use a variety of deceitful marketing practices to push their products more effectively, and that includes everything in the spectrum of pseudoscience and half - fabricated and stupendously exaggerated claims.
It turns out that this type of diet is not necessarily new, and is based on principles of Intermittent Fasting (IF), which can be practiced in a variety of ways, but essentially suggests that going without food for certain periods of time (the length may vary depending on the particular diet plan) may have several health benefits.
Elimination diets are dietary plans in which certain foods that are thought to cause allergies and other digestive reactions are selectively eliminated, and is the most commonly practiced dietary modification in eczema patients.
Only certain practices are appropriate for you as a unique individual, and knowing which ones are beneficial for you can help in ways you never thought possible.
Only certain practices are appropriate for you as a unique individual, and knowing which ones are beneficial for you can help in ways that you never thought possible.
I am certain I practiced for years in the manner which you described: emphasizing my natural tendencies towards high levels of activity, and avoiding slower more restorative and grounding work.
Recognize that formal Buddhist meditation practice requires that you follow certain Buddhist precepts, which encompass wholesomeness, kindness, compassion, ultimate reality, etc..
This project will study how certain key district - and school - level policies and practices influence the ways in which the PBL courses are taken up and implemented.
«The marking group will look at marking and feedback in schools which are successfully raising standards without generating unnecessary workload, with a focus on the implications of certain practices such as «deep marking».
Through the Outreach strand, the larger focus of the initiative, researchers develop and support informative and interactive educational experiences which vary in length and time commitment involved as well as those that are designed to meet the needs of different audiences with the ISV network — those new to PZ ideas, those familiar with some PZ frameworks who want to extend their learning to other frameworks and tools, and those with a long history of using certain frameworks who want to deepen and push their practice in new ways.
Fiarman says this group - learning mentality — which centers on the idea that everyone involved is working on their practice — helps especially with superintendents and principals who, having achieved a certain level in their career, are reluctant to admit they don't have all of the answers.
The realities Ngounou saw for teachers, administrators, families, and students working in education painted a bleak picture of the future, one in which despite all the hard work a certain feeling of powerlessness about policies and practices remained.
Make the challenges and tasks relevant to the role they do at work, or the situation in which they will need to practice a certain skill.
Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.
Theory and practice are placed in a relationship of reciprocity, but one in which, to a certain extent, practice takes precedence over theory.»
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