Sentences with phrase «defined by the question»

If your interest in economics can be defined by the question «at what point do I need to start stockpiling canned food», this is the part where you might wish to pay attention.

The Ethics Committee findings issued Wednesday unfolded in parallel with a political campaign that was defined by questions of workplace harassment by McLaughlin.

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The Laozi, by contrast, questions the very idea that we should try to come up with innovative strategies within a defined, predictable arena, whether that is the battlefield or dinner table, the boardroom or the steel industry.

The tool is not great at allowing you to define a segmented audience — you'll have to hack the tool by including questions in your survey that allow you to do segmentation later.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

Organic reach, as defined by Facebook is «the number of unique people who saw your post in News Feed or on your Page, including people who saw it from a story shared by a friend when they liked, commented on or shared your post, answered a question or responded to an event.»

I was also intrigued by the way you questioned not only the sustainability but also the ideology of the housing boom, noting how going into debt — taking on a huge mortgage — had become defined as an «investment,» as a path to not only wealth but freedom as well.

Question is that while we are told that we should not to define Islam by the actions of a few where are the voices in the middle east when the people are chanting death to America over the pastor wanting to but.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

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.

We can now deal with the question, earlier deferred, of how it is possible to insist upon internal relations between occasions while at the same time recognizing that from a logical point of view the members of a class of particulars defined by a function would have to be externally related.

Whereas peoplehood was the bedrock of Jewish identity in the twentieth century, the concept today is being defined by means of the religious - existential question posed above.

The liberation that love engenders and the claim that it lays upon us are absolutely binding; they are kerygmatic address, which, as Bultmann interprets Paul, «accosts each individual, throwing the person himself into question by rendering his self - understanding problematic, and demanding a decision of hint» The kerygma can be defined as «absolute» in two respects.

Whatever the answer to this question, we shall certainly be able to develop certain less complete implications of each of the basic experiences by which religion will be defined.

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?

An encyclopedia defined by a religion raises these questions in an acute form.

There is, then, for any action so defined, a presumption against it for the agent in question; or, what is the same thing, a presumption that it does not follow just from the nature of the agent that the action in question may rightly be performed by that agent.

Buber defines «philosophical anthropology» as the study of «the wholeness of man,» and he lists the following as among the problems «which are implicitly set up at the same time by this question»:

It is rather defined by policies and rules of procedure attached to the office in question.

In verse 17, after being questioned by the Jews about the Sabbath violation on Jesus» part, he defines Jesus as a prophet because of his act of healing.

From this we can easily perceive that the aesthetic concept of spiritlessness by no means furnishes the scale for judging what is despair and what is not — which moreover is a matter of course; for since it is unable to define what spirit truly is, how could the aesthetical make answer to a question which does not exist for it at all?

To answer that question, the results of historical study of Christianity can be subjected to philosophical analysis to determine the essence of Christianity, that which defines it and yields criteria by which to assess any particular teaching, institution, or practice that claims to be «Christian.»

The question at issue, as defined by the Basingers, is only whether a traditional free - will theodicy is necessarily less adequate than a process theodicy» (ER 88).

I recall an instance at a big conference here some years ago where a Christian musician I respected (although we have some pretty different views on some issues) refused to be cornered by a line of questions (framed more like an interrogation) which would have made him espouse the party line on spirituality as defined by those running the event.

2:10 asks the question which introduces the new dimension; and it is interesting to note that the question is itself preceded by two rhetorical questions which at once are addressed to and define the covenant community: «Have we not all one father?

So, in the context, the question is how should the Church at large address this growing problem as defined by the Bible to help people like this (Do you think is the church's job?).

Secondly, the opposite danger exists, that of cultural leveling... In this way one loses sight of the profound significance of the culture of different nations, of the traditions of the various peoples, by which the individual defines himself in relation to life's fundamental questions.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The important question is whether a right, defined by religion, has for the world good news.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

The sense of the faithful is not left out of the question by the Holy See among the preliminary acts of defining a doctrine.

The writings of Thomas Aquinas and the authors who inspired and succeeded him are ambiguous on the question: Are human beings to be defined by the characteristics which they share with other creatures or by the features which set them apart?

The lowest common denominator is not defined by the one who asks questions.

No one ever questioned the toughness of legendary coach Tom Osborne's Nebraska teams, squads defined by powerful linemen and bruising fullbacks.

The question mark for that unit is, who will be counted on to build depth in a unit that's defined by depth?

To see a mother in the midst of the most poignant life defining moment she will ever experience (as designed by the release of incredible birthing hormones to cause her to fight madly for the protection of her newborn AKA - survival) be told that she is not strong enough, fast enough, quiet enough, she asks to many questions, etc is nothing short of cruel.

A question later posed by an audience member on how to define civilians prompted Dr Slim to add that the sometimes questionable neutrality of civilians can bring about challenges in making that definition.

However, there are fundamental questions over building a strategic approach to the conflict that if answered could provide more solid bedrock to policies that have too often been defined by a tactical responsiveness as opposed to a long term vision.

This question does not appear to be about governments, policies and political processes within the scope defined by the community.

Judge Caproni, in her decision, did not say she thought Silver's case was closely related to McDonnell's, but did concede that the way jurors were told to define «official acts» in corruption cases could be questioned by a higher court, in light of the McDonnell case.

Geist said it becomes a question of how hardship will be defined by the state.

That ought to be an American birthright, and beyond the painful tumult caused by Paladino's words still awaits, unanswered, the defining question:

Tags are a means of connecting experts with questions they will be able to answer by sorting questions into specific, well - defined categories.

This is a harder question than it initially seems; and depends on whether a party is defined by the stereotypes of their opponents.

Despite these new opportunities, genetics remains a field defined by uncertainty, as both FDA and industry wrestle with questions of data analysis, side effects, and other issues.

These normal in vivo immune responses in IL -2-deficient mice question the importance of IL - 2 as defined by in vitro studies.

By definition, that is not something they can simply do themselves, if they select the reviewers, define the questions and the scope to be considered.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

These three scientific questions are at the core of the Mars scientific exploration defined by the Reference Mission.

Indeed, it has proven challenging for our team to converge on a set of well - defined goals in its first meeting; but by the end of the meeting we did identify our next steps and, I believe, made progress forward in surveying the questions, problems, and goals for the field.