Sentences with phrase «defined as an attempt»

Bradley's work, like that of his contemporaries, can be defined as an attempt to overcome what was generally regarded as the central problematic of the age: the dichotomy of nature and spirit, «poetry and fact» (ETR 444).2 In this context it is not surprising that he and his generation turned to the reconciliatory absolutisms of the German Idealists, particularly Hegel.

This effort was conducted with total disregard of the Peter Principal which is defined as the attempt to promote or -LSB-...]

Ultimately, the visions were defined as an attempt of the mind to deal with neglect and isolation.

In the survey, «identity theft» was defined as the attempted or successful misuse of an existing account, such as a debit or credit account, misuse of personal information to open a new account, or misuse of personal information for other fraudulent purposes.

In these cases, treatment planning can be defined as an attempt to narrow the gap between the different points of view, with respect for the fact that they might be different, or «How do we reach our goals?».

Not exact matches

People don't see themselves as one - dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

Wikipedia defines social proof, also known as informational social influence, as «a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior for a given situation.»

As in those other beverage categories, there is an attempt to set some parameters to define exactly what «craft» means.

Please note that this article attempts to provide information about your tax obligations as defined by United States law (and interpreted by the IRS under the direction of the Treasury Department).

The Texas Act would apply to any person who (i) beneficially owns any securities of a «Texas - based public company» (defined as a publicly traded company whose «headquarters» are located in Texas) and (ii) is an «activist investor» (defined as any person who directly or indirectly nominates or attempts to nominate directors or makes or attempts to make a shareholder proposal with respect to the company).

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As such Islam is far superior to atheism and other man - made attempts at defining violence.

The attempt to define pregnancy as a illness is disgusting and the advocates must be condemned.

I had a seminary professor who defined idolatry as «an attempt to guarantee one's future».

Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing people to Christian faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help people help themselves through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).

Challies defines mysticism as «those forms of Christian spirituality which attempt direct or unmediated access to God» and mentions, generally, the popularity of books on spiritual disciplines and spiritual formation and, specifically, books by Christian authors like Sarah Young and John Eldredge.

Also set aside is the view that what defines an inquiry as theology is a distinctive subjectivity or consciousness that the person who is engaged in theology is attempting to bring to reflective and self - critical expression.

's continued mention of science (not mentioned by his addressee) and his botched attempt to define nearly everyone as a «socie», it's quite obvious this idiot has a severe mental hang - up.

My question to you is that being aware that the Creation scriptures do not, just state an instant «all at once» creation by God, but detailed steps of Creation, can you explain how the writer of Genesis came to see these steps when it would take mankind hundreds of years to attempt to define the steps as evolution?

this god would be endlessly curious, and insatiably experiential... this god would be masculine and feminine, and ginormous and infinitesimal, and truthful and compassionate, expansive and contractive, and both light and dark, and both knowable and yet ineffable, and this god would be All in All, and in us * as * us... pretty much like god is, without all the religious attempts to define and confine who / how god is.

But Kierkegaard opposed «repetition» to «recollection,» attempting to define repetition as a transcendent or religious movement by virtue of the absurd, while noting that «eternity is the true repetition» (Repetition, p. xxii).

I appreciate that you attempted to define pacifism, but as you've seen yourself, there is no one definition that can be applied to all «pacifists.»

The cardinal number of a given class is ordinarily thought of as a property of the class, but the attempt so to define cardinal number would rock the «Principia» to its foundations.

I think differing is a good thing and that some attempts at equality that have defined it as being the same have been well intentioned but contrived to the detriment of both men and women.

Its rigid compositional attempt to define a rational space is undermined by the floating figures and particularly by the raw application of paint, which sits on the surface of the canvas and reminds us of its autonomous nature as scraped pigment.

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

You are now attempting to take the practice of «meditation,» which is typically understood, and defined and practiced, especially in the Easter Religious context as a «quieting, and stilling of the body and mind, to clear the mind of negativity, and create states of peace, harmony, joy, etc...

As we have hinted, theories about the mode of that presentness reflect an almost presumptuous human attempt to define and describe what can be apprehended only by faith.

It would be strange if I disputed this, when these very lectures which I am giving are (as you will see more clearly from now onwards) a laborious attempt to extract from the privacies of religious experience some general facts which can be defined in formulas upon which everybody may agree.

His attempt to define faith as a willingness to commit in the face of uncertainty (p. 68) while using certainty (p. 50) is like a relativist arguing against absolutes by using the absolute statement that «There are no absolutes.

It defines conversion therapy as any therapeutic approach assumes one gender identity is «inherently preferable to any other, and attempts to bring about a change of sexual orientation or gender identity, or seeks to supress an individual's expression of sexual orientation or gender identity on that basis.»

1) Define nothingness 2) Using words not in common vernacular as often as you do has only one of two purposes: a) To attempt and confuse people into agreeing with you; b) Self - gratification in a perceived superiority in vocabulary.

1) Define nothingness 2) Using words not in common vernacular as often as you do has only one of two purposes: a) To attempt and confuse people into agreeingwith you; b) Self - gratification in a perceived superiority in vocabulary.

Because he viewed the odyssey of humanity as the endless attempt to achieve its idea in the individual, Humboldt could define the task of its interpreter, the philosopher - historian, as «the delineation of the striving of an idea to come into existence.»

And since the issue that defines the contrast, how the self relates to itself and to God, is so fundamental, other Christian groups either fall on one side of this divide (Anglicans on the Catholic side, for example) or represent questionable attempts to straddle it (Calvin and Barth as less dialectial versions of Luther).

Definition of Irony: Believer in Jesus Christ as the literal Son of the Man in the Sky scolds others for living out their fantasies, and in the process attempts to define hers as Real.

The very attempt to define or concretize the freedom born of the Spirit can be read as an attempt to achieve closure on God's truth.

Barth defines religion, in his attack on it, as something like man's arrogant and grasping attempt to become God, so it is hard to see what all the posturing is about.

Philosophy is the attempt to arrive at one intellectual world as defined by the systematic relationship of the categories of its system.

Even though these attempts at typification do not yet lead to consolidated results — Whitehead tries above all to define common sense as a «middle» level between the mathematized natural scientific and the individual emotional grasps of reality — he acquires in this phase several fruitful insights which will also leave their mark on his mature cosmology.

The attempt to define «pure potentiality,» as an ultimate range of possibility that has no restrictions (where anything at all is possible), rather than defining it as the supreme range of possibility presented by the cosmically complex and inclusive determinations of the divine series, will always fail.

It needed some courage and some naivete to set about cutting them: courage because to cut some of them was defined, ultimately, as treason; naivete because many people had attempted the job before and had failed.

It seems that a good deal of confusion has arisen because of lack of clarity concerning the nature of violence, Building on the analysis of Troy Organ («The Anatomy of Violence,» The Personalist, Autumn 1970), we might define a violent act as one in which the agent, according to the judgment of an ideal observer, is objectively attempting to impose his will upon another.

On both sides we have our anal core and just as much as they try to say they speak for the group as a whole, those opposed on both sides... will attempt to define the entire group by these ones on the fringes.

But the New Liberal (my fellow professor to the core) defines freedom as the right to promote her views, and oppression as the attempt of others to express theirs.

What the regulation did not attempt to do was define an organic product: instead it defined organic production, so that in law an organic product was defined as the end result of organic production.

There's no perfect «bench» player, because everyone here defines a bench player as someone who can attempt replacing someone in the starting XI, but if they have that capability they surely want minutes at another team.

Both games will play a pivotal part in the future of English football and I expect we will look back at the next week as the defining moment in our attempt to qualify.

An article I wrote in March attempted to forecast how Hillary Clinton's campaign would seek to «win the narrative game» by defining the election as a choice between unity and division, love versus hate, hope over fear, and the like.

The new commercial by a pro-McCain group, A Secure Arizona, will target Republican primary voters on air and online as the fifth - term lawmaker attempts to define his race on the issue of national security and fend off primary opponents in a contest that already features former state Sen. Kelli Ward.