Sentences with phrase «employed by»

Moses here uses the same logic later employed by Heinrich Himmler when he advocated murdering Jewish children.

«As it turns out, GE designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every important weapons system employed by the USA during the Gulf War, including the much - praised Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B - 52 bomber, the AWACS plane, the Apache and Cobra helicopters and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system.

«Quality of life» rhetoric is today employed by the proponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Nonetheless, perhaps it is time, following McInerny's lead, to turn to Thomas again, just as his thought was employed by the Church time and time again for a refutation of error and a clear exposition of the whole of revealed truth.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

In assessing the legal prospects for mediating structures, I have mentioned the technique employed by Congress in the Adolescent Family Life Act, the receptiveness of the majority of the Supreme Court Justices in Bowen v. Kendrick toward that technique, and the openness even of the dissenting Justices to accord weight to the protection of intermediate associations as such under certain circumstances.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

«We are proud of the robust and diverse faith outreach program employed by the Democratic Party that begins with volunteer faith captains in precincts all across the country and ends with a Chairman who spent a year as a missionary and has made faith outreach among our highest priorities as a Party,» he said, referring to DNC chairman Tim Kaine.

He does not inquire whether the interpretive patterns employed by the historical witness were the same as his own, or even compatible with them.

The techniques and the «agentic» manner of thought employed by the historical critical method were themselves functions of the kinds of questions asked and the presuppositions shared under the old paradigm.

Recourse to God as an explanation of a phenomenon experienced is not a method employed by the natural sciences.

He is employed by no club or casino.

To put the point in the blunt terms employed by Justice Harold Blackmun toward the end of his career on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit on a Court that reviews and affirms capital convictions, I am part of «the machinery of death.»

The sheer length and complexity of great novels, their patient playing out of the consequences of our moral choices, make them infinitely more useful than the brief schematic narratives that are commonly employed by moral philosophers to illustrate their claims.

Even though my writing these words — homosexual conduct is sinful, and homosexual desires are objectively disordered — makes it very nearly impossible for me to be employed by a Fortune 500 company, become a professor at a major university, get appointed to government office, or in any way receive preferment in establishment institutions in America.

Contemporary Islamic reform: Both Khalidi and Kepel are sharply critical of what they believe are counterproductive approaches currently being employed by the U.S. Kepel argues that the most important battle in the war for Muslim minds will be fought not in Iraq or Israel / Palestine, but in the suburbs of Paris, London and other Western cities where Islam is now a fixture, Two prominent Muslims — Feisal Abdul Rauf and Tariq Ramadan — develop this theme in new books that have attracted considerable attention.

Generally speaking, Daniel Dennett's method in all his books is too often reminiscent of the forensic technique employed by the Snark, in the Barrister's dream, to defend a pig charged with abandoning its sty: The Snark admits the desertion but then immediately claims this as proof of the pig's alibi (for the creature was obviously absent from the scene of the crime at the time of its commission).

This is very interesting to me because although I'm a minister, I'm employed by the government as a civil servant.

First, I would certainly agree that Scripture is typically employed by both sides in debates over dogma and creeds.

Silverman has been the President of American Atheists since 2010, and has been employed by the group since 2004 when he became their National Spokesperson.

Those who would fight them in court can find precious few lawyers in the region not already employed by the coal companies.

What started with just six women sewing in a single room has grown to over 150 women and girls employed by one of International Princess ™ Project's three sewing centers in India.

The programme would also be greatly strengthened if the compilers would put into simpler and age appropriate form the admittedly very technical language employed by Pope John Paul II in his explication of sexuality and marriage in what the Pope himself described as «theology of the body».

Arkes contends that moral reasoning not only illuminates the proper reach of existing constitutional principles but may properly be employed by judges to create new constitutional principles.

To compare the several structures of existence with each other, it is necessary to employ terms foreign to the self - understanding of some of them and even to use terms employed by them in ways not identical with their own usage.

This quest was strengthened when he was employed by a widow, called Khadijah, to take trading caravans north to Syria.

State militia were called out to support the thugs and detectives employed by the railroads.

Let me say then that to be received into, made an integral part of, and gladly employed by God for his own wonderful enrichment and for the enhancement of his working in the creation, is a destiny such that we can feel nothing other than gratitude and delight in its prospect.

And yet it is the latter (5) that have usually been employed by scientists in their attempts to understand categories 1 - 4 in a fundamental way.

The same erotic language employed by the lovers in the Song without negative connotation is condemned when found on the harlot's lips (Prov.

Yet she also thinks that the framework employed by codependence theorists shapes conclusions that are ultimately one - sided.

Their proposal is in accordance with all other representatives of process thought when employed by Christian theology.

I am employed by Houston Baptist University.

That phraseology had been employed by Francis Cardinal George in welcoming Benedict to the meeting, and thus the pope's repeating of it was, at least formally, not a statement of reproach but of agreement with the bishops.

The deliberate crudeness of Cranach's crucifix functionally resembles the strategy employed by modern newscasts when they show campaign commercials inside an obviously fictive TV set.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

More recently they have been employed by the Colombian army to do the dirty work of terrorizing the campesinos and community leaders who are the real focus of the present war.

no, it won't matter if the economy improves... it's a diversion topic employed by the lib media in an attempt to take attention off of barry's failed presidency..

The approach employed by both thinkers is hypothetical - deductive.

Good god, did you really think someone is employed by CNN to read every post and decide whether or not it measures up to some liberal standard?

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

Mr. Cathy is not denying hom.ose.xuals the opportunity to eat or be employed by his company.

These are approaches to religion employed by «social scientists» who presumably refrain from making what are called value judgments.

Well, part of the problem is that the legends in the Bible frequently exhibit mythological archetypes that have been employed by countless religions, such as the God martyred for mankind's salvation.

The first is «exocentricism» as employed by 20th - century philosophical anthropology — one must ground one's identity outside oneself — but for which Pannenberg finds a foundation in Luther's understanding of faith.

«In fact», Chamorro continued, «the practices advocated in the manual were employed by the F.D.N. troops.

The diversity of means employed by low - intensity - conflict strategists blurs classical distinctions between military and economic aid, humanitarian assistance, and military operations.

It was used by Greek literary scholars in the ancient world to interpret the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and it was employed by Jewish thinkers — for example, Philo of Alexandria — to interpret the Pentateuch.

Whether or not one uses the term «original sin» — and its usefulness has certainly been limited by the manner in which it has been employed by the literalists — the facts of experience which men were trying to verbalize when they coined the term must be taken into account in understanding the alcoholic and his situation.

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.