Sentences with phrase «defined by the sense»

Very often, responses to accountability and the No Child Left Behind law are defined by the sense of urgency with which one hopes to change the current educational system.

San Francisco, both in myth and reality, has always been a nexus of productive subcultures defined by a sense of urgency and radicality where someone like the Dead Kennedy's punk - rocker front man Jello Biafra could run for mayor and be taken seriously.

Spring is popularly defined by the senses — the bustling and buzzing of renewed insect activity, shrill and gurgling bird song, and the shockingly iridescent greens, purples and yellows that symphonically burst from the landscape.

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It makes fiscal sense if you want to plan for the long - term, but in the Alberta context, it symbolizes an awkward culture shift for a political party that defined itself by this rally cry.

Isn't it a matter of conscience (in Hobbes's sense) to abide by the rules that define the profession you've signed up for?

What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

A second sense of nature refers to those essential qualities of a thing that define the kind of thing it is in terms of both its distinguishing features and above all its final cause, its end, its telos (the latter sense classically formulated by Aristotle as «The nature of a thing is its end.

Above and beyond the single denominations, it is characterized by a Protestant Christian consensus that is not defined in denominational terms but rather in association with its sense of a special religious mission toward the rest of the world.

Culture in this more limited sense, as defined by the attributes of a cultured person, is an important formative factor in the total culture of a people but can not be identified with it.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

To this day there is controversy over whether Dante actually wrote the «Letter to Cangrande,» whose author overtly claims that he wrote the Comedy making use of the four senses of Scripture, almost exactly as these are defined by St. Thomas near the beginning of the Summa (I, i, 10).

People now tend not to be shaped and defined by our membership of a signficant single community (such as the church) because that community has a compelling sense of «otherness».

It holds that a principle or principles of human rights must be independent of any comprehensive telos to which all human activity ought to be directed, that is, a telos defined by reality as such and, in that sense, metaphysical.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

[Brightman's] notion of the Given as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses, as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

(1) In one sense, «knowledge of God» and «ordinary knowledge» (including theological knowledge — I use these clumsy concepts here mainly to distinguish them and so to argue their relatedness) are related because they set each other off; they help define one another by spelling out what each is not.

Since authority is defined by its right to command, and since only persons command, only persons have authority in the proper sense of the word.

Being in space and time is defined in common - sense experience by a law of self - identity and of mutual exclusion.

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

In this sense, our humanity is defined by Jesus, our humanity does not define Jesus.

In this sense the physical is defined by reference to the entities of theoretical physics.

A divinity school or seminary community is defined by its practices in a double sense.

Hence simultaneity for Whitehead is the spatial spread of events in a given inertial frame as defined by a given duration, and is Newtonian in the sense that each instantaneous space in a frame provides a single present class of all events in nature relative to that frame.

Once again, this function is in no way to be identified with poetry understood as something opposed to prose and defined by a certain affinity of sense, rhythm, image, and sound.

exhibit interest in the social and discursive processes of «demarcation» by which orthodoxies define, and thereby in some sense create, heresies — not only as the inevitable cartographic by - products of the impulse to draw boundaries and create centers, but also (paradoxically, and in multiple ways) as necessary sources of «nourishment» for orthodoxies themselves.

When it comes to spiritual growth, first one must define what one means by spiritual, which some posters have done here, albeit in a somewhat nebulous fashion, or perhaps my senses are too dull to pick up your exact meaning as some of the words you use have such broad semantics in various contexts.

It need only be remarked here that the method is not a deductive method, nor is it designed to isolate for immediate sense - perception the geometrical relations defined by the method.

Similarly, oral interpretation has defined itself by an interest in enhancing or enlivening the experience of literature in performance and in doing so, restores a sense of the «original» engagement between author and audience.

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

That pre-eminence can be sensed in the words used by Pius XII on the occasion of the definition of the Assumption of Our Lady «By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matby Pius XII on the occasion of the definition of the Assumption of Our Lady «By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (MatBy the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matby the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matby our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matt.

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

For Whitehead defines «nature» as immediacy or «sense - awareness and interprets that in Bradley's anti-atomistic terms as a whole or continuum (EPNK 7; CN 14) with «ragged edges» (CN 50; cf. AR 156) which is «differentiated» or «diversified» by reflection (EPNK 59, 68f.

It's a landscape out of Ecclesiastes, in a sense, defined by its «essential fragility, its constant, unstoppable movement toward death,» as King puts it — a landscape where time is a thief and death is a mystery and where the hope of a resurrection is weaker than the fear of the dark.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

Doing away with the hum - drum name, which to them evoked slow lines, and well... salads in the traditional sense, they chose to define the program by focusing on the garden, a place where a wide variety of fruits and veggies are grown, not just for salads, but for lots of healthy eating choices.

His career has come to be defined by the goals and assists he provides in tandem with his excellent passing and positional sense.

Our Downtown's sense of place is defined by its distinctive architecture that gives a nod to Arlington Heights» rich history that dates back to the 1800s.

Doing away with the hum - drum name, which to them evoked slow lines, and well... salads in the traditional sense, they chose to define the program by focusing on the garden, a place where a wide variety of fruits and veggies are grown, not just for salads, but for lots of healthy eating choices.

IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE WHEN SOMETHING MOST EVERY BABY OR TODDLER DOES NATURALLY IS DEFINED AS A, «PROBLEM» BY THE SLEEP «EXPERTS» AND «BABY WHISPERERS».

On reading the speech itself, I think Cruddas» argument to be very much about how to define the battleground by defining Labour's fundamental sense of mission and purpose, animating it in a concrete programme.

Democrats have been «pushed» rather than «pulled» by Republicans, as they have increasingly and successfully defined the perimeters of «common sense» foreign policy.

It is [defined by] the pragmatism, common sense, and basic sanity of the British people, worlds apart from highfalutin sermonising».

They were not Tories in a conventional sense, but right - leaning ideologues — «Thatcherites» — that defined themselves by their opposition to Big Government.

Cuomo carried on, sustained by a unique sense of humor and self - defined destiny.

Common sense should be defined by the the majority, not a louder minority.

The range of the measurement depth can be determined by measuring a physical quantity called the inelastic mean free path (IMFP), which defines how far an electron can travel in a material while retaining its original energy level in a statistical sense.

«Sensing interactions between molecules: Nanoscientists have developed an atomically defined probe tip with extraordinary stability which enables them to image molecular structures by atomic force microscopy.»