Sentences with phrase «common denominator such»

I would encourage you to talk to your family members to see if there is a common denominator such as IGT (insufficient glandular tissue) that would genetically predispose you to a low milk supply.»

But this would be most marked for those philosophers of physics who tend to reduce all to a posited low - level common denominator such as bosons, or atoms or (in Richard Dawkins case) genes.

Although not all chronic disease is created equal with the same components, many share common denominators such as early inflammation, immune response, loss of blood supply, premature cell / tissue death and resultant scarring.

Law firms can address this lack of esprit de corps, he believes, through broader encouragement of affinity groups — not just built around common denominators such as race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation but around any number of shared interests: books, travel, music.

Not exact matches

Though religion in general and lowest common denominator religion were attacked in the fifties as a modern perversion of traditional religion by neo-orthodox critics and those like Will Herberg who were influenced by them, actually such general religion has a long and honorable history in Christendom.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

In order to reach such an optimistic conclusion, the authors sometimes use the least common denominator to define religion, enabling them to detect religious overtones in settings as diverse as a «Jello wrestling» contest between the dean of students and the college chaplain and the crowning of a homecoming queen.

A common denominator of Christian response» if there can be such a thing» is that guilt for Jesus» death is the burden of all sinners, but not of one person or group, especially when Jesus said, «No one takes my life; I lay it down myself» (John 10:18).

Hartshorne holds that the necessary is precisely the common denominator of all possible states of reality, but this common denominator is God's abstract existence as such.

If world society is ever to evolve, and social evolution is at least as important to man as biological, it will require a common base such as «being - before - the - cosmos,» i.e., a cosmic common denominator.

He warns of the real danger of dialogue leading to the dilution of confessional standards, leveling out all genuine differences, doctrinal minimalism, or what he calls common denominator ecumenicity, all of which have resulted in darkening the light of truth such that «believers do not even know at what points they are really one, to say nothing of the points on which they are divided.»

Kuyper certainly wouldn't have been pleased by his followers» failure to evangelize, and pillarization needn't lead to a lack of outward strategy, but historically such power - sharing agreements place a premium on reaching a least - common - denominator form of consensus and toning down differences.

These are also the common denominators that link so many chronic health issues such as digestive issues, sugar cravings, weight gain and chronic fatigue.

The unnatural Western diet «contributes to low - grade systemic inflammation and oxidative tissue stress and irritation, placing the immune system in an overactive state, a common denominator of conditions [such as] arthritis.»

Such casting decisions seem to be more about selling tickets than anything; kind of a lowest common denominator situation.

NF.A.2 (Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2).

5) populist fiction, such as «romance» novels that appeal to the lowest common denominator, again, for the sole purpose of making money.

The common denominator of such prohibited marketing activities is that they primarily seek free advertising.