Sentences with phrase «difficulty in»

You may not realize it, but no matter where you live, there are people all around you who experience great pain, turmoil, and difficulty in life.

Likewise a faction in the Episcopal Church that had difficulty in relating to women clerics and changes in liturgy has broken off to form the Anglican Catholic Church.

Most of us have been strongly influenced by these since birth and have great difficulty in finding freedom we have not yet experienced the necessary renewing of mind.

I have difficulty in attending church!

If you see the difficulty in this, you can appreciate the reaction of persons of faith to attacks upon that faith.

The difficulty in finding good placements has diminished the attractiveness of the ministry as a vocation for many promising young persons.

I have italicized two words, «particular possibilities,» to indicate that Whitehead at this time saw no particular difficulty in connecting God's very abstract alternatives with the particular concerns of concrescing actual occasions.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

Such a State is thrown back on positive law, which is purely relativistic, and can cause serious problems — for example, the newly unified Germany had great difficulty in prosecuting Erich Honecker for his crimes, since they were not illegal under the old system of the DDR.

If that were the case, then I would indeed have difficulty in speaking of regional inclusion, for it would be strange to think of a single region as being created out of nothing twice!

Then, when the severance was complete, the educators had no difficulty in interpreting their institutions» relation to the churches as no more than historical.

Pope Benedict XVI describes the difficulty in his foreword to the first volume of Jesus of Nazareth: Historical - critical scholarship separated the «historical Jesus» and the «Christ of faith.»

They will put their trust in what exalts them — Elhanan's sufferings — and in what thwarts them — «the ambiguities of Jewish life, most of all life in the diaspora,» symbolized by their difficulty in harmonizing fidelity to Israel and fidelity to truth.

The difficulty in which we find ourselves, however, is this: If the Bible itself, the revelatory, identity - defining text of the Christian community, is portrayed as oppressive, on what basis do we know God or relate to God?

We disagreed about God but I understood his difficulty in that subject.

Ours, however, is an epoch that has enormous difficulty in discerning such threads — the age of Hegel and Marx, at least on this score, is past.

Chard, if you have difficulty in grasping the difference, wrest a fetus of 8 weeks from a uterus and keep it alive.

In the II Corinthians passage Paul also linked foolishness with this own difficulty in speaking the gospel.

I only point this out because, given you post, you seem to have difficulty in thinking across platforms).

The confusion in understanding the church's place in God's mission (missio Dei) and the conflicting convictions on God's work in secular history led to the difficulty in identifying what is involved in Christian mission.

Still, the principal difficulty in the way of UN adoption of the Charter remains, a fundamental incompatibility in the general outlooks of the two sides.

With the best will in the world, environmentalists whose personal experience is middle class have difficulty in understanding those who have not had the same benefits.

The difficulty in explaining satisfactorily this balance between the actuality of the constituent and that of the complex whole, has so often motivated metaphysical stances which (in effect) attempt to deny it.

A major difficulty in interpreting Process and Reality is that of reconciling his theory of extension in Part IV with his system of categories in Part I. None of those categories concerns the concept of region.

The only big difficulty in following his logic is his tendency to digress from his main point then return; it doesn't translate well into English.

This last point would, in my opinion, merit careful examination, because it represents a possible solution to an inherent difficulty in the Aristotelian approach to universals and particulars.

The reasons for the difficulty in answering what time is are several, including the paradoxes of being and non-being; the experiential and emotional weightiness of the subject (consider, for example, the temporal character of hope, despair, regret, satisfaction, and boredom); and the metaphysical centrality of time in understanding such things as substances, events, causation, and consciousness.

In explicating his own notion of «dynamism» Sullivan notes that, «Whitehead, among the philosophers, has conceived the universe as an organism, and certainly there is no difficulty in seeing living organisms as particular dynamisms.»

Thus contemporary theology is stalemated between a longstanding affirmation which does not touch the lives of many, and an appreciation of the needs and aspirations of contemporary experience which has great difficulty in being theological.

Jim has obviosuly experienced some difficulty in his life.

That is why Augustine thought he knew what time is but had difficulty in saying what it is.

Our difficulty in understanding today's sexual patterns is that we compare them with the 19th century Victorian middle class and stop there.

Students have difficulty in thinking, feeling and expressing themselves symbolically.

One difficulty in this period lies in determining at which level he was operating — the cosmic or the human — in any given text.

A major problem in the care of the mentally ill is that once a person has been defined as deviant (i.e., mentally ill) and to a large extent taken out of the community for treatment, that person will usually experience great difficulty in re-entry into the community.

If the traditional formulations of God show him to be the Perfect Good, Absolute Truth and Supreme Being, since goodness, truth and being are positive values, then there should not be too great a difficulty in accepting a formulation of God's eternity as Absolute or Perfect Time, since time is now revealed to us as positive, thanks to the discovery of evolution.

If what we are trying to understand here were only a peculiar intellectual difficulty in conceiving how time and eternity can be related, the problem would be an abstract one hardly worthy of special attention so far as the meaning of love is concerned.

Now to a static mind, there is a difficulty in understanding the proper role of faith.

Luke may have had no difficulty in answering this: it went up, spatially, to heaven.

It is a secret that an age like ours — an age of great sophistication, vast achievement and jaded sensibilities — has some difficulty in grasping.

All scientists have difficulty in accepting anything they can not see, or touch or measure.

Gregory recognized that this individual is having difficulty in developing what we today would call increased ego strength and personal identity.

Because men have difficulty in dealing with paradox and ambiguity, they can not accept the evil in themselves, and so they project it onto others: human enemies (which explains the prevalence of war) or an omnipotent God (which allows them to avoid their own responsibility).

The normal woman should have little difficulty in knowing which bodily revelations can provoke men and stir up lust in them.

The second issue that could have beenaddressed is that raised by Patrick FitzPatrick who saw the «deprecation of reason in order to make faith more acceptable'a s a difficulty in Newman's approach to his teaching of the illative sense.

He cited pressure on beds and difficulty in nursing confused or difficult - to - manage elderly patients as factors.

Part of the difficulty in seeing th ~ need for a Ground to the evolutionary process is that this Ground is not perceivable.

Nor can this intellectual and spiritual incapacity be put down simply to the sin of the hearers; rather it is the consequence of a genuine and honest difficulty in understanding.

The first major qualification of the apparent «leisure revolution» is the difficulty in defining the word leisure itself.

Similarly in a universe where each creature formed a little enclosed unit, designed simply for its own sake and theoretically transposable at will, we should find some difficulty in justifying in our own minds the presence of individuals whose potentialities and upward - soaring drives had been painfully impeded.