Sentences with phrase «dominated by expectations»

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Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

We live in a culture that is dominated by heightened expectations of rationalism, clarity of mind, and productivity.

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

That reading Twain — and more specifically, in participating in a class discussion dominated by the interventions of the white majority students in the class — could cause significant discomfort for African American students in the room is certainly an understandable expectation.

The year has been dominated by these two more in the expectation of what they would do each week than in what they actually did.

With Scottish politics now dominated by two big parties, small parties under pressure and women's representation on the wane, the Electoral Reform Society say action is now needed to ensure that Scotland's political system can continue to meet the original aspirations and expectations of the advocates of devolution.

The expectation was that a new Democratic majority, led by Malcolm Smith of Queens and dominated by New York City lawmakers, would pay attention to upstate issues.

That feeling is familiar to Coogler, who directed 2015's Rocky spinoff, Creed, which also remade expectations in a genre dominated by white - male archetypes.

The first half of this year in the housing sector was dominated by talks of affordability, the impact of speculators, talk about bubbles, overheated markets and the expectation of both an interest rate hike and a housing market correction.

That by itself does not prove that they had a negative expectation value and there might have been many simultaneous positive experiences that dominate the net outcome.

These trends match the expectations for OA driven by increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, confirming that this vector dominates the anthropogenic perturbation of pH in the open ocean.

Clients» expectations around efficiency, innovation and change dominate the industry press but efforts to change don't seem to be impressing the most important audience — the clients (according to, for example, a recent survey of in - house counsel by Thompson Hine.)

Children who are dominated by older siblings at home would be handicapped, not helped, by the expectation that they will also be dominated by their peers.

For both types of partnership types, cited reasons relating to communication and relationship quality dominated, followed by unfaithfulness / adultery which, given the data are representative of the general population, support a focus on these topics in the context of changing partnership formation, and socio - cultural shifts in expectations of, and pressures on modern relationships, in preventive and therapeutic interventions addressing live - in partnership breakdown.

Straits [47] found, through hypothetical vignettes, that women's long - term fertility preferences were dominated by their employment opportunities, and that fertility preferences change with inter-cohort shifts in values and expectations of women.

Mall ownership, for example, is dominated by publicly owned companies that «live and die» by funds from operations (FFO), and earnings that miss expectations by even pennies per share can spur significant drops in stock prices, Pastore adds.

Expectations for the coming six months for business and employment conditions were dominated (70 + percent) by «same» responses, with small increases in «better» and small declines in «worse.»