Sentences with phrase «defined by the existence»

This issue is defined by the existence of a greater number of Bitcoin transactions that need to use the Bitcoin blockchain than the blockchain can immediately accommodate, and this issue manifests itself to users via occasionally longer wait times for transaction confirmation and higher transaction fees.

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After two and a half years of a cramped existence defined largely by the pain in his back and arms — he says he used to lie in bed for hours pressing a spot on his forearm, imagining he had a button there that could shut the pain off — Rahimi is largely pain free.

The collapse of the global economic - political paradigm that was fostered and nurtured by neo-classical economic theories built on childish abstracts which failed to embrace the physical and mathematical realities of existence defined by universal laws of matter and energy.

It is this sentiment expressed by a number of non theists that eternal life, immortality, perpetual existence, however you choose to define it, is something that holds little appeal.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

This view defines Christian faith in terms of continuity in a mode of existence, while recognizing the constantly new intellectual task of articulating doctrines required and supported by it.

The Bultmannian idea of personal history that defines human existence and its authenticity are criticized by Eliade.

God's perfect love and goodness is perfectly compatible with those persons who refuse the gift of salvation and immortality, but whose ongoing existence is defined by an ongoing rejection of the very God of love in whom they continue to «live and move and have their being.»

«Adam is not defined by an essence since for human reality essence comes after existence.

The exception to this is the early work by Valerie Saiving suggesting that the sin of pride as defined throughout the tradition, but particularly in the works of Niebuhr, actually defined male existence, and that the sin most apt to describe female existence is the sin of a lack of centered existence.

In point of fact, such is the natural order followed by our rational knowledge: we first conceive certain beings, then we define their essences, and last we affirm their existence by means of a judgment.

The reality of it is this: that we incline to define ourselves, take the measure of our actuality, admit as educative and civilizing, acknowledge as relevant and powerful — only that in experience or reflection which is authenticated by its occurrence within the biographical brackets of the self's existence.

Christian ethics is defined as the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ applied to the daily demands and decisions of human existence.

The highest can no longer be defined by an exalted kind of activity; it all turns on the spirit in which one lives whatever one lives, even the most mundane existence.»

Although dictionary.com defines Rapture as:» the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence» and this is a term used by many Christians regarding the second - coming of their Savior; it is also defined as: «ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy».

A trust in God's promise leads away from earlier styles of human existence defined simply by the seasons.

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

Eschatological existence is defined as «a new existence in detachment from the world, the attitude implied by hos me in 1 Cor.

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

The chasm created by this history within evangelical groups that define their existence in terms of the Fundamentalist - Modernist controversy will continue to cause folks like Piper to be cautious about what Lecrae and Tisby are doing.

He accuses the government of «trying to define child poverty out of existence» by changing the way in which it is measured.

But whenever [reason] takes on the semblance of literal understanding, fortified by meticulous logical argument, it becomes illegitimate... precisely on the grounds that it is no longer simply pointing or reaching toward realities that form the depths of existence, but is presuming to define, describe, or characterize them in logical terms... (FFS 129)

As an ignostic (not to be confused with «agnostic») I am forever open to the potential existence of «god», but I am unwilling to accept the common model as defined by the religionist or «spiritualist».

The battle cry is this war was notoriously formulated by Justice Kennedy in the Casey decision upholding the abortion license in America: «At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

You see, evil is defined by the absence of good, and so God by being the author of complete goodness or Shalom, makes possible the existence of things which are not good, or are evil.

22 Through such suffering reconciliation and renewal of love are effected (in ways more fully explored by Browning), bringing into existence a new community, the church, which Williams defines as «the community which lives by participation in the atonement.

Until now, studies that challenged the existence of Planet Nine using the data available for these trans - Neptunian objects argued that there had been systematic errors linked to the orientations of the orbits (defined by three angles), due to the way in which the observations had been made.

But he cautions that, due to the small sample size used by the team, «it is not possible to see well - defined trends that would suggest the existence of bystander effects.»

The members of a moving group (and its actual existence) are established by the degree to which their motions define a common convergent point in the sky.

Questlove has become the go - to guy for pop - music perspective in music documentaries for a reason he proves once again here: He brings a musician's knowledge of why a piece of music is special (his analysis here of «Don't Stop «Til You Get Enough» is a mini-music class) as well as a fan's appreciation for what that music meant to millions of ordinary people — how Jackson's music during this era not only defined the time, but made the world a better place simply by its existence.

Don Lino (voiced by Robert De Niro, Analyze This) is the godfather of the sharks, but his son Lenny (Jack Black, School of Rock) is a disgrace to their kind, as he is a pacifist and a vegetarian, eschewing that which defines the shark's existence.

Lily is haunted by memories — of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence.

Then, by accident, the 401 (k) plan, and other defined contribution [DC] plans came into existence.

Most owners of certain working breeds were upset by this negation of their breeds» functions, which can be defined as reasons for their existence.

The term «abstract classicists» was coined in 1959 by curator and critic Jules Langsner to define these four southern California painters whose work he grouped in a seminal exhibition that year at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park (prior to LACMA's existence as an independent art museum).

The market continues to prefer a canon defined by individual male superstars whom Sturtevant's whole existence reflects as negation.

The glass boxes repeatedly employed by the artist act to define the art work's space, whilst simultaneously commenting on the «fragility of existence».

The ambiguous sets are defined by movements of extension and contraction that signal the tension inherent to a fragmented existence described by the artist as «a closed but broken form».

At a moment when human life is still defined by biological limits and life spans, these artists remind us that we are on the cusp of technologically augmented existence, in which consciousness itself will be altered.

Robert Irwin, Maria Nordman, James Turrell, and Douglas Wheeler are among a cadre of American artists who pioneered a distinctive approach to making art, defined by experiential existence and manifested in ephemeral installations.

While White Light exposes the limitations one faces when they are defined by their limited perceptions and the gaze of others, the viewer is reminded that there is hope for absolute freedom over our existence and essence.

Her work is created by a wholly original mash - up of Western modernism and post-modernism, classical South Asian and Tibetan traditions, and is always defined by the commonality of the painter's touch and sensitivity for process and materiality, creating work of a deeply personal iconography that investigates the universal dilemmas and mysteries of existence.

Despite the existence of a democratically elected assembly since 1979 in the form of the European Parliament, the links between this parliament and the status of Union citizenship have been ambiguous [1] with the parliament representing not a single group of Union citizens but rather the «peoples» of Europe, those peoples being defined by Member States and national law.

And, unfortunately for many attorneys who define their existence by a hard - earned membership in the legal profession, the powerful despair they experience when that profession overwhelms and demoralizes them doesn't leave them much psychological real estate for constructing a future they can believe in.

By defining jurisdictional questions almost out of existence, Justice Rothstein avoided this conflict.

It is a tried and tested formula, with the actual existence of tokens as well as all accompanying chain movement, defined by ironclad mathematical smart contract algorithms.

As defined in the present study, access encompassed both knowledge regarding the existence and location of facilities and perceptions of their ability to get there, either by themselves or with the assistance of an adult for transport.

Recognizing the existence of different views on the concept of mental health promotion, Sartorius (Sartorius, 1998), the former WHO Director of Mental Health, preferred to define it as a means by which individuals, groups or large populations can enhance their competence, self - esteem and sense of well - being.