Sentences with phrase «conditioned by the past»

For full freedom of decision, the occasion needs all possible alternatives, as conditioned by the past, including divine valuation.

So what God can offer is always conditioned by past actual decisions made in response to God's past offers of an optimal becoming.

The future of the universe at any stage of its history is conditioned by the past and awaits the spontaneity of the novel occasions as in their season they come into being.

etc»; your view on education is correct, but more then 95 % from «parents» are conditioned by the Past / Tradition, so their education is based on the Past, so you get secondhand Human Beings; you understand what is going wrong in our Society..

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What was once an apparently invincible business is swept under by changing times and market conditions — and the dogged determination to keep doing what's worked in the past rather than find new opportunities for a different future.

A May report by the Guardian detailed the tough work conditions at the company's Fremont, California, factory, revealing that hundreds of ambulances have been called over the past several years for injuries, fainting, and dizzy spells.

In August 2015, the merged company posted a message on its website: «Due to unfavorable trading condition in the past few months, FXCAP is filing for bankruptcy,» it said, according to a screenshot made available by the investor group.

Two weeks earlier, a New York Times article on Amazon's white collar working conditions and subsequent stories by the e-commerce giant's past and present workers created a firestorm in some circles and a shrug in other cliques.

In the past, such as when Comcast (CMCSA) obtained NBC in 2010, companies have been able to overcome such objections by pledging to abide by certain conditions.

While growth to date has been led mainly by the United States and China, there have been encouraging signs over the past year that growth is becoming very broadly based, with conditions improving in Japan as well as in a number of other economies.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

Looking back over the past fifteen years, in months when high yield credit spreads were widening, indicating tighter financial conditions and more risk aversion, the S&P 500 outperformed the Russell 2000 by an average of roughly 0.45 percent.

Brazil has struggled in the past years, bogged down by unfavorable economic conditions including a collapse in growth.

Overall, as the statements after the past five Board meetings have made clear, the sequence of changes to the cash rate, other adjustments by lenders in response to the rise in term funding costs since mid 2007 and tighter credit standards have combined to produce financial conditions that are tight.

Another element of domestic financial conditions is the exchange rate, which has appreciated, in trade - weighted terms, by around 18 per cent over the past year, reducing the stimulus provided to the traded goods sector.

In contrast to the improving conditions in the business sector, household spending has been flat over the past year, held back by a relatively subdued labour market.

The price of wheat has risen by 8 1/2 per cent in the past three months, as adverse weather conditions in Europe have reduced the expected size of the world wheat crop for 2003/04.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

A nexal set N is temporally fragmented by a duration D when the following three conditions hold: (1) Some members of N are in the past of D; (2) some members of N are in the future of D; and (3) but no members of N are in D. Thus D is a temporal hiatus in the becoming of N (see Whitehead, Process 322).

A member of African society has a moral responsibility in regards to past generations to venerate the ancestors; a moral responsibility in regards to the present generation to consider the well - being of his / her contemporaries throughout the community; and a moral responsibility in regards to future generations to create conditions which serve the well - being of those who are called «the beautiful ones» by Ayi Kwei Armah in his classical novel — The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

Numbers are projected from current primary conditions, economic conditions and past performance patterns and the lack of competence being displayed by the current administration.

Looked at from the point of view of its prehension of past occasions, an actual entity (say, in the personally ordered society of actual entities which constitute the «self» of a human being) can be viewed as conditioned by, caused by, the other entities which it objectifies.

By contrast, fixed - time» is an attitude of lowered expectations and acquiescence in the face of less favorable conditions, but not necessarily to the absolutizing of the past by tenacious retention of its attributeBy contrast, fixed - time» is an attitude of lowered expectations and acquiescence in the face of less favorable conditions, but not necessarily to the absolutizing of the past by tenacious retention of its attributeby tenacious retention of its attributes.

If the meaning of our principle of historical aetiology, as opposed to an eye - witness report by someone who was himself present at the event, has been understood, we presumably also possess a criterion for judging what was correct in the description given by traditional theology of the blessed, supernatural, original condition of man, as opposed to what was a simplified projection into the past, into human beginnings, of the state of man as it ought to be and will be in the future.

At another level, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory reflects Balmer's attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his own fundamentalist past and to identify «those kernels of truth and insight into the human condition» that he suspects are embedded within the evangelical message but that have become distorted by consumerism and other corrosive elements of American culture.

Divine persuasion is highly opportunistic, seeking to maximize possibilities for increasing complexity which are consistent with the actual conditions imposed by the past through efficient causation.

The range of real possibility relative to past causal conditions may remain constant, but the effective options within this range may be curtailed by threat.

If this divine efficient causality transcends the past conditions in some unlimited way, then the occasion would be completely determined by its past, and could not exercise its own self - creativity.

As a result, we are totally dependent upon God to initiate salvation for us, which He did in eternity past by choosing to save some, without any condition or merit on the part of those whom He chose (Unconditional Election).

In our human situation or condition, we are greatly impeded in the move to self realization (or in religious idiom, to fulfillment in God) by the accumulated wrong doings we have inherited thanks to the causal efficacy of the past upon the present.

Freedom is an indetermination in the potentialities for present action which are constituted by all the influences and stimuli, all «heredity and environment,» all past experiences, an indetermination removed only by the actuality (event, experience, act) itself, and always in such fashion that other acts of determination would have been possible in view of the given total conditions up to the moment of the act.

«To feel (perceive) a prior event is to be causally conditioned by it, and both causation and perception are aspects of «memory» - an awareness of the past.

The fact that the «subjective form» assigned to a past entity by a present entity in prehension is variable testifies to this basic condition of ambiguity of past occasions with reference to present ones.

We were men of the twentieth century, carried along (unless we struggled heroically) by very powerful psychological currents: We tended, therefore, to follow the contingent trend of the moment as though it were an absolute; we over-dramatized the apparent novelty of our condition; we indulged a kind of collective Oedipus complex, resenting and rejecting whatever smacked of the past.

It is not surprising that man, burdened with obsolete «knowledge» — his spontaneous reflexing conditioned only by past experience, and as yet unable to realize himself as being already a world man — fails to comprehend and cope logically with the birth of Universe Man.

You have to work under pressure conditions and you always have to live in the present and not by past glory.

The experiences of the past five years should have conditioned us by now.

For some, flexibility and resilience is taxed by postpartum mood disorders, traumatic birth experiences, medical conditions, or a past history of abuse.

«Humiliation peaks when you are convinced that the Other has intruded into the private realm of your own life and has made you utterly dependent... [A] future in utter contrast with an idealized, glorified past a future in which your political, economic, social, cultural conditions are dictated by the Other.»

Moreover, by fielding more candidates than in the past, the Democrats should be able to take advantage of wave conditions.

In the latter half of March, the governor made a series of trips to complexes run by the New York City Housing Authority, where he has hardly been a regular presence in the past, declaring the conditions disgraceful and proclaiming that he wanted to «expose» the problems, as if no one involved in a system that needs close to $ 25 billion in capital repairs had noticed.

The mustangs clatter past us into a metal chute that holds them while handlers check their physical condition and sort them by sex.

As of 3 July, more than half of the 48 contiguous US states had seen drought conditions, the largest percentage for the past 12 years, according to the US Drought Monitor service, run by the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

By mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea icBy mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea icby compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea ice.

Turner added, «These are precisely the conditions we experienced in Sydney over the past weekend — waves from the north - east, combined with unusually high sea levels brought on by king tides wreaked considerable damage.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

«By understanding in depth the effects of past climatic conditions on extinct biodiversity we might be able to anticipate these trends in the future.

Scientists using ice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous future.

By comparing the results of agent - based models against real archeological evidence, anthropologists can identify past conditions and circumstances that led different civilizations around the world into periods of growth and decline.