Sentences with phrase «emphasis on the study»

The oriental traditions too have their intellectual tradition but in America today there is much less emphasis on studying the sutras, say, than on the practice of meditation.

Then I start feeling a little burned out, so I return to a heavy emphasis on study and prayer.

There are others that maintain a certain religious ethos and an emphasis on the study of religion without restricting freedom of inquiry.

«This time instead we focused on its electronic properties with special emphasis on the study of BSS.»

To carry out novel investigations based on spectro - polarimetric observations with ground - based and space solar telescopes, with emphasis on the study of the magnetic field in chromospheric and coronal structures and its coupling with the underlying photosphere.

When the staff at Montezuma - Cortez High School in Cortez, Colorado, assessed its needs, they determined that an increased emphasis on study skills and career planning would most benefit students.

offers a strong emphasis on study skills / critical reading that will help [my] child become a more confident, independent learner;

This chapter reviews the economic literature on international differences in educational achievement, restricting itself to comparative analyses that are not possible within single countries and placing particular emphasis on studies trying to address key issues of empirical identification.

US schools are responding by internationalizing their curriculum and putting increased emphasis on study abroad, creating many more and varied opportunities for students to study abroad as part of their degree program.

Ms. Williams earned her masters degree in experimental psychology with an emphasis on the study of animal behavior.

The golden age for U.S. science over the span of my career was under the administration of Bush 41, with abundant funding and an emphasis on studying the problems rather than on acting on them.

In many law schools, there's as much emphasis on studying the law as a discipline as there is on learning practical lawyering skills.

Because insurance companies place heavy emphasis on studies and driving experience, young motorists virtually stand no choice of getting lower premiums on their own.

This article addresses the proposed causal relation between maternal sensitivity and child development with an emphasis on studies that have applied an intervention strategy targeting the former.

Not exact matches

I went to Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in global studies, with an emphasis on culture and art.

Its undergraduate college puts an emphasis on four areas — arts, sciences, international studies, and writing — and offers more than 70 majors, including astronomy, theater studies, and economics.

A 2006 University of Colorado study on «student beliefs about physics and learning physics» found (emphasis added)

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides... Read more

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides a nice, deep dive into the issue.

The emphasis on clarification (it even appears in the study title) is clearly intentional, stopping short of specifying any precise legislative amendments.

Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.

The emphasis has always been on punishing or killing predators rather than studying them.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

«While «ethnic» churches continue to cater to Latino immigrants, white, non-Latino Catholics now place less emphasis on the importance of the Church,» the UNL study says.

The HJ put more emphasis on physical and military training than on academic study.

The emphasis on actual entities and prehensions obscures the significance of time in Whitehead's later philosophy, although it was through the development of the study of time in nature that his final position was reached.

A core activity is Bible study groups which has an emphasis on friendship, prayer, and mutual support.

While Reform's growth could be challenged based on their redefinition of Jewish identity (to include those Jews born of a Jewish a parent), what can not be waved aside is the very noticeable emphasis it is placing on ritual adult education and Jewish study.

This development provides the makings of a sequel to the late Richard Hofstadter's study of anti-intellectualism in America, a phenomenon he related to Protestant revivalism, with its exaggerated emphasis on feeling.

Wheeler cites the research done by Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education in intensively examining theological faculties in several seminaries, with particular emphasis on whether such schools will be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who are currently retiring.

These new studies give some additional attention to Paul's orientation toward the Galatian audience and thus follow the advice of the classical writers.10 Emphases on Pauline exhortation, ithos, and example do turn the focus of study toward Paul's relation to the Galatians and away from Paul's answer to the charges of his opponents.11

Maybe the emphasis needs to be less on content and more or learning how to learn, though that might work only if denominations built expectations for continued study into the way they think about the careers of their pastors.

In education this value orientation with respect to work results in emphasis on general studies that is, studies that are devoted to the growth of humane values and not simply to technical competence.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

Their primary focus is disciplined study with an emphasis on personal commitment.

The fourth is seldom noticed, and yet in some ways is closer to the essence of liberal studies than the other three, and on that account is particularly worthy of emphasis.

If Christian publishers ought to be searching seriously for the next generation of essayists and story crafters rather than putting so much emphasis on Bible - study tomes and self - help books.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Recent studies of the miracle stories in the Gospels in comparison with those told of Jewish and pagan saints and sages or «divine men» have brought out the fact that the emphasis on faith as a condition of healing is a distinctive element in the Gospel narratives.

Wesley's emphasis on the small group — most famously, his disciplined, close - knit «CLASS meetings» — has shaped the landscape of modern American spirituality through «cell groups,» Bible studies, and many other small - group modes of fellowship and worship.

Also, in light of the previous point, this sort of makes pastors and preachers the dealers in this transaction, which is why you will very often find the most Bible addicts in a church where the pastor and preacher places an heavy and constant emphasis on attending church, listening to sermons, daily Bible reading, and going to Bible studies.

A critical study of this inheritance provides a constant source of new lessons, lessons which, today, place the emphasis on long term transition, on the multiplicity of strategies and on democracy as a means and not only as an objective.

This emphasis on the secular world became the central thrust of the World Council of Churches study on «The Missionary Structure of the Congregations».

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

Stressing the relevance of a given course or discipline to the modern world, putting more emphasis on psychological and sociological studies, or locating students in field situations, while important, will not solve the problem.

the emphasis on «new forms» of missionary action has incurred the criticism that this study is not living up to its title insofar as it does not show great interest in the work of existing congregations where, it is said, the church after all carries on its major work....

We can see here an emphasis on the dignity and value of the human person that was at the heart of Pope John Paul's philosophical studies and is echoed both in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council — to which he made noted contributions as a bishop — and in subsequent teachings of the Magisterium.

In the churches I have attended and pastored, we placed a heavy emphasis on faithful church attendance at both the church service and at Sunday school, and highly recommended that people attend a mid-week Bible study.

On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned»On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned»on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned».

The study does see a «general tendency... toward a greater emphasis on cooperation and the achievement of a genuine community within the faculty,» and it calls for the development of ways to further this trend.