Sentences with phrase «distinguishing mark of»

Miguel: Another distinguishing mark of computer games is that they afford interesting solitary play.

A dovetail joint — where a portion of one side of the drawer is carved out and the other side is carved to fit the space exactly — used to be the distinguishing mark of high - end cabinetry, but not any more.

But in line with design chief Gorden Wagener's move towards removing excess lines from surfaces, the new car loses the dramatic sweeping swage line that was a distinguishing mark of the outgoing model.

The interconnectedness of Marvel Comics» universe has been a distinguishing mark of the publisher since the water - vs - fire battle of the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch in Marvel Mystery Comics # 8 - 9 (1940).

There's also an engraved pattern along the top, which is the distinguishing mark of many brown formal shoes for men.

Placed side by side, there are differences easily discernible which would not, however, be readily noted by the average purchaser seeing the respective bottles on different occasions, the chief distinguishing mark of defendant's being a picture of a live oak tree with a blue background and the word «Evangeline» preceding «Tabasco Sauce.»

Very few interpretations of Whitehead have noted the importance of harmony, aesthetic, logical, social, cosmic, and divine, which is the distinguishing mark of the Pythagoreans.

But the Holy One has said, I have established a Law, have fixed a decree; you are not to transgress my decree, which is written; this is the distinguishing mark of my Law.»

As Scott Manetsch has noted, in the decades and centuries that followed the Reformation, the Psalms served as «the distinguishing mark of Reformed worship and the cri de coeur of embattled French Protestantism.»

The molecules provide the necessary stability, but only the occurrences or «occasions» in empty space are capable of the novelty and spontaneity that are the distinguishing mark of life.

In fact, a distinguishing mark of the new atheism is that it leaves no room for a sense of moral ambiguity in anything that smacks of faith.

Roughly, the distinguishing mark of action is that it is «intentional,» it is «done on purpose,» it has an end or motive.

The distinguishing mark of Hebrew poetry is not rhyme or meter, though it has a kind of rhythm.

Charles Hartshorne holds that concrete reality is actuality and that actuality is definite or determinate.1 Does he mean only that definiteness or determinateness is a distinguishing mark of concrete reality?

It is important to recognize that notwithstanding our easy castigation of certain ancient individuals as «false prophets,» the distinguishing mark of all three classes of religious leaders was, in the main, their high sincerity.

Confirmation «tatoos» your soul with the mark of Christ our King, a distinguishing mark of dignity which you carry with you into the next life

This is my explanation, my doctrine, of this distinguishing mark of our faith.

When we say that the system of which Adolf Hitler has been the prophet (and that, to an increasing degree, is his rôle) is fundamentally religious, we mean that it includes the element of absolute commitment which is everywhere the distinguishing mark of religion.

It is the detached form which is the distinguishing mark of perceptual activity for the Greek, and it is this which accounts for the presence of substance within substance.

I am told that perhaps only 50 per cent of the youngest generations of Pentecostals cultivate the distinguishing mark of speaking in tongues.

The distinguishing mark of religious experience as opposed to descriptive generalization or conceptual insight is the inclusive generality of relationships embedded in the particular physical feelings associated with religious experience.

We may also say that the distinguishing mark of a formative prescription is its explicit neutrality to all substantive ones; that is, asserting the former does nor explicitly affirm or deny the moral validity of any prescription whose prescribed action is partisan in some or other moral disagreement.

Confirmation «tatoos» your soul with the mark of Christ our King, a distinguishing mark of dignity which you carry with you into the next life How we use these gifts will depend on our own unique and individual vocations.

The encyclical opens with the claim that «a distinguishing mark of Christians is the fact that they have a future.»

The distinguished marks of quietism are conformity, accommodation and acquiescence.

Even for such a complex entity as this, then, it still remains true that its very being bears the distinguishing marks of process and creativity.

The distinguishing marks of the church in Rome are not faith, hope and love, but verbal sparring, contempt and attacks leveled at others.

Our forefather, John Calvin, followed Martin Luther in identifying the distinguishing marks of the church as the preaching of the Word of God and the observance of the sacraments.

Not exact matches

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Mark Boedecker, the president of CMIT Solutions of Southwest Charlotte, is one of CMIT's distinguished franchise partners continuing to make a difference for small and medium - sized businesses (SMBs) in the communities he -LSB-...]

Templeton gave the company a strong portfolio of international equity funds as well as the expertise of emerging markets guru Dr. Mark Mobius, who, during his distinguished career, spent more than 40 years working in emerging markets all over the world.

In the Book of Mormon it says that the Native Americans they call the Lamanits had a mark put on them so that the Nephites could distinguish who the bad tribe was.

Perhaps, just as George Bush Sr. had to wrap himself in the American flag to make himself visible, the current flock of candidates have to have their distinguishing marks.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

This assurance bears the clear implication that since the Church exists through the prior and present action of God's grace its dependence upon that action ought to be its distinguishing mark.

I see no harm in its being believed, if that belief has the good Consequence, as probably it has, of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the Unbelievers in his Government of the world with any peculiar Marks of his Displeasure.»

They found the realism of the parables of Jesus as their distinguishing mark when compared to the parables of the Old Testament and that of the Rabbis.

One could thus do no better than to distinguish carefully among clergy men betweeen the mark of God when they announce the divine orders and the corrupt man when they are thinking only of satisfying their passions.

All Jews knew of the prophecies in the Old Testament that the distinguishing mark that the Messiah had come would be His healing miracles.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

If we think our catoragization of «one another» is determined by our ability to distinguish right from wrong, then I think we miss the mark.

Perhaps the most characteristic mark of the American church as distinguished from the church elsewhere in the world has been activism.

The quest is distinguished from mere adventure, a trait which marks a great deal of nonfantasy fiction (going back, perhaps, to the picaresque novel).

For me this phrase just means that we should value, respect, cherish and love each human inherently because they are fellow human beings regardless of any labels we wish to put on them and that it is helpful and constructive to distinguish people's «mark - missing» behaviour from their inherent value as a human being i.e. «I think what Donald Trump said about banning all Muslims from the United States of America is stupid» and NOT «Donald Trump is stupid».

This collection of fifteen essays - with such distinguished contributors as Alister McGrath, John R. W. Stott, Mark A. Noll, James M. Houston, Colin Brown, Kenneth Kantzer, Bruce Waltke, and Roger Nicole - is published in honor of Packer's seventieth birthday and pays due honor to an exemplary scholar whose distinguished career has had such wide influence.

One of the marks of Bellow's literary style is a childlike playfulness — what Schiller called naïveté, an innocent delight in existence, as distinguished from sentimentality, mature reflection on experience.

Mark of course distinguishes the stages of Jesus» preresurrection and post-resurrection Messiahship, but there is no trace in Mark of the Pauline terminology «according to the flesh» and «according to the Spirit» — not to mention the question whether or not Mark thought of Christ as pre-existent (probably not).

The atoms, the elements of the elements, are likewise distinguished, and then below theatom, to particles that mark the present limits of human knowledge.

Third, it is noteworthy that in Man's Vision of God Hartshorne distinguishes between God's «purpose as laid down before all the worlds, or rather before each and every world» — which is part of God's eternal and unchanging aspect — and «the more and more particular purposes which mark the approach to, and..., the achievements of purpose which mark arrival at, any given point of time» (MVG 237, my italics).

• Even if one agrees with Mark Noll, who is perhaps the most distinguished Evangelical historian we have, Dale at least offers a helpful insight into the history and thought of a movement most other Christians in America tend to dismiss as rubes, fundamentalists, reactionaries, crazies (snake handling?