Sentences with phrase «drew upon what»

It is now well known that the great Modernist artists often drew upon what they saw as «primitive» models, from Picasso's use of African masks to Frank Lloyd Wright's freely quoted Mayan motifs.

I really just drew upon what was on the page.

But why couldn't we consciously create natural slaves who are content to be who they are — as most of the people are in the Brave New World (and the book by that name doesn't even draw upon what might well be possible through genetic engineering)?

They move on to other educational environments with ease and draw upon what they have learned at Waldorf to fuel all of their future endeavors.

Drawing upon what she learned from students in a New York museum's activist art class, Dewhurst provides art educators with strategies to incorporate activist art projects in their teaching.

When you are establishing a scene, take the time to draw upon what you remember from a particular location with all your senses.

Fortunately we don't need to reinvent the wheel when working with people, we can draw upon what we already know.

Draw upon what you enjoy; use examples from your academic, professional or extra-curricular life that suggest you're strongly motivated for the role and can relate closely to the organisation.

Another good technique is to draw upon what your clients tell you and feed it back to them.

Not exact matches

What sources can I draw upon for comparison?

«The experience of the broad oriental tradition of a married clergy could also be drawn upon,» he writes, without specificying what that means in the context of the debate over married clergy in non-Eastern traditions.

Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Silicon Valley management consultant and former high - tech senior executive Steve Tobak shows you exactly what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and exceptional business leader in today's highly competitive world.

Whose experience, what learning, could they draw upon to make a good guess?

------------------- Upon what standard do lean in order to draw the conclusion that anyone's morality may be judged as wrong?

I don't think that's what Catholic dogma teaches — it is merely for the type of suffering you are describing, that during suffering, the strength one can draw upon is from a closeness with God (or a feeling of something greater that can help one).

However, everyone of us are constantly drawing conclusions based upon limited facts — this chair will hold me because it has always held me before and for my next vacation I'll go to Disney or What should I fix for dinner tonight?.

In African Religions and Philosophy, John S. Mbiti addresses the question of what remains after one's physical life by drawing upon a traditional African distinction between (1) the living.

This guy claims to have been inspired by the scriptures of his choosing, but how that does that differ from anyone else drawing upon their personal revelations of what God is to them.

My failure to realize what was happening to my mind sooner, has to do with the fact that Christians are told that they must draw close to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to do.

Doesn't that mean that they actually drew upon their own consciences and senses of compassion to do what they felt was right, directly contrary to what the Bible and common Christian thinking at the time suggested?

When the Holy Spirit descended upon the first Christians at Pentecost, Peter draws from the words of the prophet Joel to describe what has happened:

I wonder what it's like for those women when they aren't together, when they aren't drawing upon the sisterhood of tragedy.

Just as the ancients used the terms «wind» and «breath» metaphorically to refer to the invisible «spiritual» forces that operate in human societies and motivate their cultures, so we may need to draw upon such vague and indefinite terms in order to understand what is happening in this tradition.

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»

We have names for those who announce upon drawing up a chair exactly where the conversation is going and with what conclusions, just as we do for those who insult us by explaining the joke and telling it again.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

So in case what has been expounded here is correct, in case there is no incommensurability in a human life, and what there is of the incommensurable is only such by an accident from which no consequences can be drawn, in so far as existence is regarded in terms of the idea, Hegel is right; but he is not right in talking about faith or in allowing Abraham to be regarded as the father of it; for by the latter he has pronounced judgment both upon Abraham and upon faith.

That is what I propose to discuss here: not from the viewpoint of Sirius, as the saying is — that is to say, with the lofty detachment of an observer seeing things from so far off that they fail to touch him — but with the anxious intensity of a son of Earth who draws back in order to be able to see more deeply into the matter and spirit of a movement upon which his happiness depends.

For if we, as I indicated before, still had moral and emotional capital to draw on from that other, that earlier, call it Judeo - Christian (a usage I am not crazy about) world, our children had only our reserves of «Why not» and «So what» to depend upon.

There is no minister who knows what he is about who has not been renewed again and again through discovering in others, even those in desperate need of help, a strength upon which he himself drew afresh.

When the Holy Spirit descended upon the first Christians at Pentecost, Peter drew from the words of the prophet Joel to describe what had happened, saying, «Your sons and daughters will prophesy... Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy» (Acts 2:17 — 18).

What his personal values are prior to the crisis and what previous reflection he can draw upon are always important determinative components in any decisWhat his personal values are prior to the crisis and what previous reflection he can draw upon are always important determinative components in any deciswhat previous reflection he can draw upon are always important determinative components in any decision.

Three issues ago, and then again in the last issue, he's devoted «The Back Page» to persuading us that most modern men and women, even the faithful among us, find it hard to think of nature as morally purposeful, and therefore won't be persuaded by arguments that draw upon a robust notion of what things are for.

Then, I allow the convicting and drawing work of the Holy Spirit upon that person and their natural, logical questions to lead me into what other information about the gospel I might share.

In my case the disease was distinctly what would be classed as nervous, not organic; but from such opportunities as I have had of observing, I have come to the conclusion that the dividing line that has been drawn is an arbitrary one, the nerves controlling the internal activities and the nutrition of the body throughout; and I believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease of any kind, if it can be brought to bear.

«What distinguishes us is drawing upon that longevity, we've been around since the hand - crank days and every day we are reproving ourselves in this field,» he says.

I try to draw upon my experience to give them advice on the floor and tell them what they should expect at this level.

What they share is a desire to find a vocation that draws upon all their abilities and talents and gives them room to apply those talents in service to improving our world.

She was seeking your validation that she'd learned something from what she'd been observing about step relationships and she wanted you to confirm that was drawing logical conclusions based upon her having learned that step brothers are brothers who don't have the same parents as she does.

In fact these reasons are exactly what draws pregnant women to the book store scavenging for resources that might help them improve upon the world they are about to bring - forth their child.

Assuming that the party decided to try to capture the spirit of the primary as opposed to letting it come down to internal power plays, what experience could they draw upon?)

What kind of sources did you draw upon this time around to get a sense of the nature, pervasiveness, and also limits of the Gaullian myth?

To shore up this rather thin gruel, Sturgeon drew upon findings from what appeared to be a private focus group.

While the findings of the contested Toas memo, detailed later in this story, are fairly complex and specific, the lawsuit also draws upon Dr. Haldar's own emails and other, previously unpublicized SUNY documents, placing his alleged missteps in the broader context of what he calls «SUNY Poly's fiscal institutional mismanagement.»

In what has become a sad obligation for prominent federal law enforcement officials, Daly expressed dismay at the blight of corruption prosecutions and convictions visited upon Connecticut since the 20th century was drawing to a close.

«What marks us out from the past is our failure, in a revolutionary time, to think afresh about liberty, drawing upon ideas from the past and applying them to the challenges we face,» he warns.

Released today, the group's 2014 report, Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators, draws upon student test results, government spending, employment statistics, and other metrics to make the case for what OECD Secretary - General Angel Gurría calls «the critical role that education and skills play in fostering social progress.»

There's a lot you don't know, but if you can take the basic ingredients and come up with something that draws upon local microorganisms, techniques that were used such as fermenting in pottery, or bronze, you can play with the variables and see what you come up with.»

The new program, called Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have learned in course work and what they are required to teach in the classroom.

What's Next: The team is continuing to examine this approach, drawing upon PNNL's nearly 50 years of geochemistry and biogeochemistry experience.