Sentences with phrase «changes in the orientations of»

Stapp's thesis is quite compatible with its being determined experimentally that changes in the orientation of the spin - measuring device applied to one member of such a pair of particles have no significant effect upon the statistical make - up of spin - measurement results for the second member of such particle pairs.

As readers of Evangelical Catholicism, my book on deep reform in the 21st - century Church, will remember, I proposed just such a change in the orientation of celebrant and congregation during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: Priest and people would face each other during the Liturgy of the Word; celebrant and congregation would then pray together, facing the same direction, throughout the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south become interchanged.

Scientists are using a pioneering method of «caging» and cooling water molecules to study the change in orientation of the magnetic nuclei at the centre of each hydrogen atom — a process which transforms the molecule from one form of water to another.

The goggles have accelerometers and magnetometers to detect changes in the orientation of the user's head — if the individual turns left, right, up or down, his or her view of the virtual world pivots accordingly.

Sandy Kawano said: «The transition from fins to limbs marks the most dramatic change in orientation of the locomotor forces from contact with the ground.

Regarding changes in the orientations of acculturation, after the implementation of the civic and intercultural program teachers are less assimilationists and students are less individualists than before.

Through a pretest - posttest design, the teachers and students» changes in orientations of acculturation and stereotypes towards Roma and Romanians were measured.

The 2goPad SL10 also includes an accelerometer, which means a change in orientation of the tablet will lead to a corresponding change in the display.

Not exact matches

Now, when people join, we give them a two - day orientation in which they learn some of that history, but we try to balance it by celebrating change and new people.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

For all of us — whether gay, straight, bisexual or asexual — our sexual orientation in an innate part of us, an immutable characteristic, that can not and will not be changed, and is ignored at our emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual peril.

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of se - xual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

As Randy Thomasson, the president of a group in opposition to the bill, SaveCalifornia.com, explained to CBN News, «AB 2943 is only triggered when money is being exchanged for «sexual orientation change efforts.

Ever since her story was featured in Christianity Today nearly a year ago, Butterfield has become something of a celebrity within the conservative evangelical world, and every time I'm in conversation with someone about the potential dangers of «conversion therapy» (which seeks to change a person's sexual orientation through counseling and prayer), her name invariably comes up.

Just search on «ex-ex-gay», and your heart will be broken to read of all the men and women that underwent useless therapy, cycles of «forgiveness», following the Law of Moses, being filled with the Spirit (or delivered from demons), and even marrying a heterosexual in order to change their behaviour and / or sexual orientation.

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of sexual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

«In light of [the] would - be scientific intellectual model, matters of faith appear as archaic... This way of thinking... has changed man's basic orientation towards reality.

Sexual orientation has been the focal point for quite some time for special attention in law to overcome disadvantage (real or alleged) for those with attraction to persons of the same sex; and now, increasingly those who wish to change sex or dress as a person of the opposite sex.

Still, in spite of his conviction that homosexual practice is against God's will, Wesley says he has not been able to change his orientation.

What form does pastoral care take in a parish bleeding from internal conflicts about life and ministry in a neighborhood undergoing rapid changes in matters of race, age, economic class and sexual orientation?

It is proper and timely that our interest be awakened in the personhood of homosexual individuals who have no wish to change their sexual orientation — and let us not forget the women.

It is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that this orientation has been particularly valued by scholars interested in exploring the changing face of contemporary religion.

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, and so on.7

And this higher and liberating orientation by grace of man's transcendence as spirit, changing as it does in good Thomistic doctrine the very horizon of spiritual activity (the «formal object»), constitutes by the nature of the case a «revelation», even if it presents no new conceptual object to the mind, and therefore, if accepted, is faith.

There may indeed be one great decisive step which changes the orientation of one's life and, in looking backward, we see it standing out, luminous and clear above all others.

Obviously this limitation in the material being, its lack of the immanent self - possession given by transcendent dynamic orientation towards being as such, is of a metaphysical kind; it must not be imagined that the real intrinsic negativity that belongs to the nature of a particular material existent could of itself be stripped from it so that by a cosmic process of becoming it could change into spirit.

I couldn't talk to any higher ups in the church about it, and when I eventually did they either told me to keep praying about it, or that they had never heard of anyone able to change their sexual orientation — so I should just live with it.

Each of our Great Awakenings has brought about major changes in our cultural orientation.

An ecological - systems orientation to change and growth helps keep one aware, when attempting to effect change in one circle, of the interdependence of that dimension of change with all other dimensions.

It's certainly possible that I'm wildly optimistic (it would not be the first time), but I am inclined to disagree with the recent suggestions of Joseph Knippenberg and Matthew Franck, based on recent (possible) changes in policy on sexual orientation, that the Boy Scouts of America....

It is a source of great frustration because even though women, people of color, and people of various sexual orientations and identities are raising their voices and sometimes being heard, those at the control center are straight white men who may be or pretend to be sympathetic to their voices but are unable or unwilling to change the landscape because they're hopelessly entangled in it.

At the same time, h0m0 who are bothered by or in conflict with their feelings but who are either uninterested in changing, or unable to change, their orientation can be helped to accept themselves as they are and to rid themselves of self - hatred.

And for those looking for citation, it seems at least part of Bob's original post is lifted from «Homosexuality and Sexual Orientation Disturbance: Proposed Change in DSM - II, 6th Printing, page 44 POSITION STATEMENT (RETIRED)», which was published in December 1973.

Acceptance of negative feelings about suffering, along with changes in life style and orientation and in attitude toward dying, aim at liberating the sufferer to retrieve primal trust.

The petition, launched in response to the suicide of a child born a boy and given the name Joshua Ryan Alcorn who felt himself to be a girl and called himself Leelah, conflated therapeutic practices aimed at treating gender dysphoria and those aimed at sexual orientation change.

For the purposes of our sketch of the Christian life, however, a shift in terminology helps us note the need to change our orientation to God in order to tap the new mode of divine presence.

Research findings reported by Charles Truax and Robert Carkhuff show that the therapeutic triad — empathic understanding, positive regard, and congruence — are highly correlated with constructive change in therapy whatever the conceptual orientation of the therapist.

The «ex-gay» approach was the topic of our second discussion around Torn, and as I said there, I think this may be the most difficult reality for the Church, and evangelicals in particular, to accept — that we have to move beyond the default setting of trying to change people's sexual orientation upon learning they are gay.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus earlier this summer by proposing to a meeting of liturgists in London that the Catholic Church return to the practice of priest and people praying in the same direction during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: a change in liturgical «orientation» the cardinal described as the entire congregation looking together toward the Lord who is to come.

Depending on how severe this becomes, a couple's therapist, particularly one with an attachment orientation, might be required to help facilitate changes in the safe environment of the therapist's office.

However, after attending a weekend of orientation with our amazing agency, Friends in Adoption, our views completely changed.

You can change the orientation of the pens and location of the HEXBUG to make different size circles and even make the pen robot move in a line.

Previously, parents celebrated their child's one year birthday by changing their car seat orientation, but recent research has shown that babies fair better in the rear facing position so it is important to keep them in that position for as long as possible, regardless of how old they are.

We have registered a general change in the ideological orientation of the political elite.

Such liberal hopes for foreign policy change are deeply embedded in the belief that individual and domestic factors have a major influence on the foreign policy behaviour of states — and Pakistan's India policy is at the very heart of its overall orientation in international relations.

Labour's advance on 5 May, beating the Tories in the English local elections, is a result of the party's change of orientation under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The state will implement a series of multifaceted actions to prevent the practice of conversion therapy, which is used in attempts to change the sexual orientation of an individual.

The body explained that it was making the call because some «patriotic citizens approached us to help Nigerian youth find out the whereabouts of that cash given that the participants in the two streams of the NYSC last year felt short - changed» which was a result of the «inexplicable reduction in the number of statutory days for orientation camp last year.»