Sentences with phrase «endowed with»

In an attempt to inject some realism into the study of rationality, Gerd Gigerenzer and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin are investigating the idea that evolution has endowed us with a set of mental shortcuts — tools for making quick decisions.

And human beings probably aren't endowed with a functionalvomeronasal organ — an anatomic sensor of pheromone signals that is foundin many amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

If endowed with the capacity to ask enough yes - or - no questions, either one should presumably eventually arrive at the solution to even the most complicated of questions.

Yet, brain - controlled prosthetic limbs have not been endowed with this critical sense.

Women are, of course, uniquely wonderful, each doubtlessly endowed with traits that would legitimately endear her to colleagues and associates.

The beauty of being human is that, unlike much of the rest of the animal kingdom, we are endowed with opposable thumbs, large brains, and the ability to purchase on credit.

Although they lived in a land richly endowed with carnivores, our ancestors could not run like the gazelle, burrow like the rabbit, climb trees like the gibbon, fly away like the flamingo, or fight back like the elephant.

And remember: Tony Stark is a self - made superhero; he was never endowed with any superpowers by an outside source.

Twelve transgenic piglets endowed with a mouse UCP1 gene were better able to maintain their body temperature than their unmodified counterparts when they were exposed to cold for a 4 - hour period, the authors report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

About seven villages in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State that have been experiencing shortage of water for over twenty years have been endowed with...

President Akufo - Addo, who has on various national and international platforms emphasized his belief that Ghana, like many other African countries, is endowed with enormous resources to guarantee its growth, said that a government under him is «bent on mobilizing Ghana's own considerable resources to resolve Ghana's problems.»

A key pillar of this vision is to leverage on Information Communication technology (ICT), to take advantage of the vast brain power Ghanaians have been endowed with to make a difference in the lives of the ordinary Ghanaian.

Regardless of religion or ethnicity, we believe that any credible Nigerian endowed with vision and the credentials for good governance can lead this country.

Yet this is precisely what the founders of our republic envisioned when they devised the Electoral College, a singular body with a singular purpose: to afford, as Alexander Hamilton explained to the people of New York in Federalist No. 68, «a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.»»

It wasn't always this way for the Senate, which from the 1960s until the late 2000s had been a relatively sleep chamber controlled by Republicans endowed with virtual fiefdoms of legislative earmarks.

But it's the same God that endowed us with knowledge and as the adage goes, God helps those who help themselves.»

By article 46, the first defendant is endowed with independence in the performance of its functions including the initiation, regulation and conduct of elections in the country... In our opinion and as part of our function to declare what the law is, the above words which are unambiguous insulate the Electoral Commission from any external direction and or control in the performance of the functions conferred on it under article 45... A fair consideration of the functions of the first defendant reveals that the demand which was made on it by the plaintiffs regarding the presence of ineligible and deceased persons and the latter's refusal to acquiesce in the said demands which provoked the action herein relates to its mandate under article 45 (a) «to compile the register of voters and revise it at such periods as may be determined by law».

Thank God for abundant natural resources that HE endowed us with.

He observed that the region was endowed with numerous resources including, minerals, water bodies, forest reserves, tourist sites, cultural and archaeological reserves and rich human resources.

Our state is endowed with natural resources.

We must reject the western conception of humanism which developed during the renaissance when human endeavors were devoted to material gains and adapt to African humanism which sees man primarily as a spiritual being endowed with dignity, integrity, respect and value.

Maitama, a former Minister of Solid Minerals in the sixties, said that as a former minister he is aware that Nigeria is endowed with the wealth of resources outside oil, saying the country has gold, diamond and other resources.

«As a country, we seem to have left the role of career choices and proper counselling of students to teachers, some of whom may not be professionally endowed with the right knowledge and skills to perform that task,» he said.

In his 1866 book, Illusions of Co-operatives [20], Cernuschi argues that the only consistent trait one can recognise in co-operatives is that they are usually endowed with little capital.

Describing Bature as a man endowed with «a great sense of analysis», Mr Agyapong said his loss is a great loss for the NDC family, especially the Mahama family.

Regrettably, The Gambia, through Jammeh's suicidal refusal to relinquish power even after been disgraced at the poll, was reminding the world why Africa remains on her knees despite all the potential God has endowed her with.

Sitting in the peaceable and pleasurable region of East Africa, Tanzania is one country that is endowed with the variety of tourism assets.

Are we endowed with Natural Rights from the day we are born?

Our evolutionary inheritance provides us with a predisposed tabula rasa, devoid of innate ideas but endowed with a degree of fundamental hardwiring in the form of a set of instincts aimed narrowly at survival, passed on through our genetic heritage.

Instead we're a republic, built upon the novel concept that the individual is endowed with inalienable rights, and that it is for the interest of their protection and growth that they surrender a portion of those rights to the government.

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

With the area endowed with a number of young footballers, he assured them he will be bringing a number of scouts to watch them and provide them with live changing careers in football.

While some frown on this aversion to the fantastical, concerned that it discourages children from being imaginative, I would argue that play food endowed with human characteristics, forces the adult's imagination on the child.

For the mothers who have been endowed with less than they'd like up top, pregnancy and breastfeeding may allow the girls to grow just a bit bigger.

Your little girl will be endowed with a history of great women who have proudly bore this name before her.

She came endowed with genetic material that goes back to her ancestors.

It's a long and frustrating road for the father who is not naturally endowed with a strong dose of patience.

A loquacious raconteur endowed with total recall, he is able to talk for what seems almost ever about such long - forgotten players as Moses Solomon, «The Rabbi of Swat,» a slugger the Giants brought up in the»20s to lure Jewish fans into the Polo Grounds, and one - armed Daily, a Cleveland pitcher back in the»80s who used to get into fights on the field and chop away at his adversaries with the stump of his left arm.

He should also be endowed with Suarez's skills and finishing.

Australia is endowed with some of the world's best energy resources, has good skills in low emissions technologies, strong institutions and established trading relationships with key consumers of energy.

Our distinctive superfruit tea is generously endowed with the taste of cherries, berries, pomegranates and a smidgen of licorice.

But they would have to wait to accomplish the assignment until God endowed them with the power, which would come through the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

I know this because every single one of them has been endowed with human characteristics proving that we created them, not the other way around.

And we must urgently pray to be filled with the spirit of God, for only when we are endowed with power from on high will we be what God has called us to be and do what he has called us to do.

The prophet, endowed with this ecstatic character and given access to these sacred mysteries, reports his experiences and interprets their meaning, as far as he is able, to the congregation.

The church order as he saw it was to be based on the following principles: The government is responsible for the temporal and eternal welfare of its subjects, because it is endowed with the sword, and has power over life and death.

The sense of power and control over one's life remains, however, when they also are endowed with something Antonovski (1979) calls «lawfulness,» that is, when meaning is attributed as much to a miracle as to the absence of one, and people believe that «things will be how they should be.»

Human beings, including Americans, are endowed with a natural moral wisdom, and are also prone to acting against it.

It is contrary to the doctrine of a divinely instituted Church, founded by Jesus Christ on the rock of Peter, and endowed with an infallible teaching office through the assistance of the Holy Spirit.

Because history is made up cumulatively of the actions and experiences of persons endowed with the elusive quality of freedom, its intelligibility is not easily comprehended, that is, if it has any intelligibility at all.