Sentences with phrase «done by any layman»

You don't even need experts for its installation as it can be done by any layman.

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For all these contain also matters of concern to the laity, even though perhaps stated imperfectly and in a way which might have been done better by a more competent layman.

No one will be able to do responsible theological work during the remainder of the twentieth century without taking account of the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne; and all who study it, layman and theologian alike, will be profited, if not fully convinced, by it.

Scientists who don't agree with evolution or at least admit that there is no concrete evidence to back it up, generally get overshadowed (in layman's terms — shutout) by science organizations that dominate the scientific community.

In language that the medical layman can easily understand, he unflinchingly, unsparingly, and in detail describes the process by which diseases such as heart failure, Alzheimer's, and cancer will eventually kill us all, and, if they do not, old age surely will.

But neither can any of it be accomplished, especially in our modern world, by some people vaguely known as «laymen» unless the functional leadership activity within the church does something responsible of itself and with the laymen.

The principal effort in this area was the Sunday School Movement, founded in 1918 by Habib Jirjal, an educated layman of the middle class, who decided that the political and religious movements then current in Egypt did not serve Coptic interests.

This is for two reasons: first, the minister by the detachment of his vocation knows less about the layman's problems than laymen do; and second, such groups too easily run into one more discourse to which by long conditioning it is customary to listen passively without being very much stirred to action.

Even in the absence of organized effort by church leaders there are enormously important things which any layman can do to discover, to act upon, and to communicate the gospel.

If laymen have been encouraged to do this by a core group, and if they share their problems and receive advice in conversation with other members, this too is deployment.

It needs laymen who are called by God for the purpose, trained with all the wisdom and sophistication experience can give, and who are willing to take the risks of using the forms of power available to them to do the works of love.

Many laymen, for example, are puzzled by the question, «In what ways did you or might you have helped the preacher preach his sermon?»

Most of these in this case were worked through casually without particular design and method, and mostly by the layman because the preacher seemed defensive and never did directly engage him.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a problem for democracy that is not posed by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and laymen share.

Some laymen may do a job of befriending by taking certain people in trouble into their homes — the unwed mother, the youth who is away from home and in need of certain boundaries, the mental hospital returnee.

In layman's terms: I want to get bigger but I don't want to get fat AND I want to do it by next Monday when I go on vacation.....

Morton Meyers's style is totally accessible to the layman and very readable, filled with anecdotes and enhanced by the occasional illustration; not only providing an enlightening read but leaving the reader with a wealth of bite - sized «did you know» facts to share on any occasion when the subject of health and medicine comes up, which tends to be an increasingly popular topic as we get inexorably closer to shuffling off our mortal coil!

Best New Series • Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image) • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

John, it appears to this layman onlooker that in this case (and probably in many, many others) the thermometer data is being put to uses never originally intended, to wit, to measure «global warming» as evidenced by a hacked - together «global thermometer grid» that does not and was never intended to collect the «pure» ambient air temperatures of the locations where the thermometers have been placed.

Comments, suggestions and corrections are particularly solicited as this is a little more scientifically ambitious than previous pieces I've done, and chances for significant scientific screw - ups by this layman are presumably enhanced accordingly.

Roger Pielke Sr. confronts specific issues regarding specific scientists regularly at his blog, so does Roger Pielke Jr. (BTW I received «The Climate Fix» in the mail yesterday and look forward to when I can order a book by Dr. Judith Curry that I have a chance of understanding — your current publications are beyond a layman's grasp & quite pricey).

again i appreciate the time and effort required to respond to layman as well as the more informed poster, very different to the position maintained by others who would do well to follow the example.

What I don't see much value in, is «discussion of the science» by laymen like many of the commenters here (including me), that simply leads people to retreat into despair and hopelessness and a sense that «it's too late» to do anything.

There is a lot of jargon on the benefits booklet that the company hides behind, mis - categorizes the claims submitted by providers and refuses to pay citing the lower limits on other items that clearly (even to a layman) do not apply to your case.

Offered with ease of access for the layman as well as being easily customised by developers, NVO seeks to serve the end - user in maintaining that private keys and assets remain on the client devices and do not pass through a 3rd party or a custodian i.e. an exchange, at any time.

Reddit user G1lius has been doing a great job keeping the community informed about these discussions by writing up a weekly summary from a layman's perspective.

If asked from a layman that what does he understand by Wall Street, he would probably say that it is the most dynamic and famous place to put your investments and try your luck to generate more wealth out of your money.