Sentences with phrase «complex acts of»

Does it demand less complex acts of discernment?

Insofar as any history is a complex act of remembering, how and what is remembered is of utmost importance.

The including and excluding jointly constitute a complex act of decision which is momentary but not instantaneous.

«Online dating requires a very specific, complex act of self - identity,» he told ABC.

It is in the complex act of learning to read that students are laying down the groundwork for long - term change.

This way of thinking may be a different, more analytical way to approach the complex act of teaching than we are used to, but it soon becomes a more nuanced and targeted way to plan and teach, and by increasing the teacher's expertise, real student learning results!

«Thin slices» has become a way of thinking about the complex act of teaching as a set of observable and specific teaching behaviors.

Not exact matches

Her advice is simple, and perhaps intuitive, but it acts to squash any doubt that a more complex or expensive approach is required to understand the mechanics of book publishing.

The simple act of selling is more complex than ever before.

It's likely that the U.K. would continue to be bound by European law during that period, although it could take a more aggressive stance and repeal the U.K.'s European Communities Act of 1972 immediately, but that would have extremely complex legal consequences and overshadow the separation negotiations.

Section 831 of the law (entitled «Closure of Unintended Loopholes») made several changes to the Social Security Act and closed two complex loopholes that were used primarily by married couples.

This acts as quick introduction to the investment opportunity and highlights some of the more complex legal documents that will follow.

EMLP is not as much a pure - play infrastructure MLP approach as it is a diversified, complex basket that goes beyond MLPs in order to meet 1940 Act restrictions on the amount of MLP exposure an ETF can have.

Due to complex reporting requirements, the Obama administration delayed implementation of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) shared responsibility requirements, which requires employers with 50 or more full - time equivalent employees to provide adequate and affordable health insurance or pay penalties.

A WORLD OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES The Global Opportunity Report acts as a GPS, helping leaders navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape.

For all its track record of innovation and investment the US has created for its tech businesses some interesting competitive disadvantages: high noise levels of spam and marketing, erosion of trust and degraded value of personal data, laws like Patriot Act and FISAAA which justifiably piss non-USians off, programs like PRISM which seriously undermine the credibility of the companies affected, the dead hand and zombie brain of an out of control military - industrial complex.

The details are complex, but the basic idea, oversimplifying quite a bit, is that Apple's backup systems will act a like a giant iPhone: User data is protected with a combination of the user's password and a strong encryption key that's physically locked into a hardware module and can't be easily extracted.

Meanwhile, we've seen numerous gyrations of the U.S. dollar (USD) exchange rate driver of markets (PC3), which can act in complex ways on the economy and on cash flows.

CFTC acting chairman Christopher Giancarlo's plan to simplify some of the agency's overly - complex post-crisis rules will come as a welcome relief to the futures and options market.

So, we have complex rules that, since the Jobs Act of 2012, the SEC is in the process of revising.

Please go back and re-read that story, as I think you will find that the underlying message is quite a bit more complex than just the simplistic act of butseks.

In his examination of personal acts, Wojtyla seeks to describe the complex of elements issuing forth in human actions, and also to ask the further question about the good towards which such actions must tend.

The human body alone is to complex to be a random act of any set of molecules; and that's not counting the billions of other species of animals, plants, and insects.

In place of accepting a basic ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

Thus they are carried away by a whole complex of emotions and ideas; authentic spirituality, aspiration for a true church, suffering with the poorest of the poor; but also, sociological conformism, assent to commonplace notions, a bad social conscience (which relieves the individual of his responsibility), extremist and excessive simplification (for it must never be forgotten that recourse to violence is always and above all an act of inhuman simplification).

The complex substance is a unity of being because a «thing» is what God knows it to be -LSB-... T] he Being of God -LSB-...] as Pure Act is the only sufficient reason for the unity and entity of every form of being, and the overall unity... of Nature.»

Indeed, «What exists are men and women who yield to impulses and surrender to activities quite diverse and always complex,» but do we conclude that there are only single acts of adultery and no such thing as adultery and adulterers?

Only God can resolve this sin - guilt - suffering - death complex, and Christians believe, however their interpretations may vary, that «God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself» But quite apart from this act of reconciliation it is most important to realize that Jesus declared categorically that reconciliation with God is an impossibility without reconciliation with man.

The new translation of Act and Being is remarkably clear, and the introduction, afterword and notes help the reader to grasp the complex argument.

As the Christian thing concretely present, a congregation is a complex of practices comprised of bodily and mental acts regarding ourselves, our neighbors, our shared social and physical contexts, and God.

An example of ontic power would be the asymmetrical interdependence of the macroscopic features of the act of speaking, including all the dynamic movement of subjectivity towards understanding that goes with the words, with a whole complex of neuronal activity.

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to iOf this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to iof the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

The action in question is that of bearing witness to God in all of one's life and behavior and in all the complex variety of acts and attitudes that this involves.

But I shall not explore that difference just now, but simply say that by my act of speaking I exercise causal power of a complex sort on the world about me.2

They constitute an ingenious and endlessly various complex of acts that enable a person to do and to get the most of what he wants without letting his avarice show and without getting a reputation that will close off or diminish his supply of gratifications.

These principles also indicate the standards to be used in sex education — the basic ideals to be inculcated by explicit instruction in homes and at appropriate levels in schools, and even more essentially by the complex of accepted acts built into social and cultural patterns.

The metaphorical response to the saving act of God in history, that subtle and complex instance of attending to ultimacy in our immediacies, to the mystery of the Kingdom in the midst of historical circumstances, is thus seen to be a persisting and unexpendable witness to the very realities that inform and sustain our authentic existence.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Resurrection was now the event in which Jesus left the tomb to show himself to his disciples and the Easter complex now had to be completed with an act of ascension to heaven.

Such acts of fulfillment are complex wholes or processes which seem to require an enduring self to make sense of them.

So the process of counting the ten dots is a complex act which has the same self at the beginning and the end of the act.

We can hope to come to greater clarity and greater ability to say what the intention or (more unusually) complex of intentions are in our acts.

They are incessantly involved in a complex of various interpretive, constructive acts, while claiming the interpretive act authorized by the Bible to be the normative one.

This Trinitarian complex of remembrance of Christ, appeal to the Spirit, and thanksgiving to the Father is not simply one aspect of the church's life; rather, it is the very act of the church's life, the act in which the church's koinonia is realized.

Whitehead in his turn, as Lewis Ford has pointed out, claimed that anything complex needs an explanation in a decision somewhere, and even the metaphysical structures of the world are the result of the divine primordial act giving order to the otherwise chaotic eternal objects (cf. 2).

Did it ever occur to you that maybe these people you speak of have been deeply hurt and are acting out of that hurt, not a «poor me» complex as you assume?

I do not agree that a part of a mind can perform an act which the whole mind does not perform, for the simple reason that I experience mind and its action as an indivisible, although complex, whole.

has aroused quite the greatest commotion in the reception of his work, we can also concentrate on the determination which sustains itself in the feelings of diverse objectified occasions or on the common element which sustains itself in these objectified occasions, and we speak about the act of feeling a more or less complex «eternal object» (cf. PR 233/356 with regard to the shift of perspectives presented here).