Sentences with phrase «even decisive»

Parental income is closely tied to, or even decisive for, many of the mediators that have previously been found to be most influential.24, 43

Note that it doesn't take a majority of people, or anywhere close, to have a significant — even decisive — impact: In an apathetic world, the active involvement of only a few percentage points of the citizenry is sufficient to make a difference.

However strong or even decisive these undercurrents were, they were exactly that: undercurrents.

The latest in a long list of big - money coups is the prolific Edin Dzeko, scorer of 66 goals in 111 appearances for the 2008/2009 German Bundesliga winners Wolfsburg, and a player who we genuinely believe will prove a key addition, possibly even decisive considering how badly City have been crying out for an out - an - out striker for so long.

i disagree because even though they are very good managers everybody knows that it takes time to get used to the pl, new manager means new players whom will need time to hit the ground running, also for the team to gel and like you said some players might even flop, i think a good start to the season is going to be very important even decisive do you agree??

But for others the argument is terribly convincing and even decisive.

Nevertheless, given the choice between Jesus and Gautama understood in this way, the reasons for staying with Jesus today seem to be strong, even decisive.

Not exact matches

She's taken a few decisive actions since becoming premier, even if they aren't the big - ticket items.

Successful people make their own luck by putting themselves out there, listening to their instincts and taking decisive action, even if it seems risky or impulsive at the time.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took a step toward passage of tax legislation that is a top White House priority, setting up a likely decisive vote later this week even though it was unclear if the bill had enough Republican support to become law.

Even a great team can have enough of those to affect a particular game, but the results at the end of the season represent the return from hundreds or even thousands of individual risks - all important contributions, but none decisive nor catastropEven a great team can have enough of those to affect a particular game, but the results at the end of the season represent the return from hundreds or even thousands of individual risks - all important contributions, but none decisive nor catastropeven thousands of individual risks - all important contributions, but none decisive nor catastrophic.

«More decisive action was necessary in 2009, but maybe even in 2008,» Brown said.

Decisive is that only the Son became man, and has borne the sins of the whole mankind, even of you and me.

Judging by the glee with which many within the rebellion have greeted the military crackdown on the Brotherhood, it's doubtful that the Tamarrod would ever again agree to allow the Islamists, or even just the religious, a decisive hand in writing a constitution....

None of these factors can be overlooked, even though the last is the most important and most decisive.

Thereby the decisive distinction is evident by which even for Aristotle a natural entity — entity in the full sense of the word — is regarded as a subject» and «superject» of its own process, to use Whitehead's language.

While the Jew awaits a Messiah of the future, the Christian knows that the Messiah - Son of Man has come in Jesus Christ, that his coming was a real and decisive event, and that he will be present with us even to the coming of the end of the world.

Indeed, even its most outspoken supporters have often lamented that Occupy lacks a coherent position and a decisive direction.

The sexual revolution was a decisive shift, perhaps even of human nature itself: we can fairly precisely date the arrival of the pill with this shift.

In the second place, Brunner shows that even the most skeptical accounts leave us with a historical figure, and with a figure who does witness to his own person as decisive.

Hence it came about (to cite here an example which has at the same time a deeper relation to the whole study) that the pagans judged self - slaughter so lightly, yea, even praised it, notwithstanding that for the spirit it is the most decisive sin, that to break out of existence in this way is rebellion against God.

From the French Revolution onward we've entertained dreams of a single, profound, and decisive moment that will transform society, or even human nature itself.

Moreover, it is even now possible to say that Hartshorne's strenuous mental labors have not been in vain, for he has already made a decisive mark upon contemporary American philosophy and theology.

The result is a decisive exhibition of how things are meant to be — for even if humans had not sinned, this would have been the divine purpose for humanity.

But even though the older Buddhism remained very much aware of its fundamentally autosoteriological conceptions, it also recognized that the Buddha was decisive as the leader to salvation.

Even if correct, however, God would not therefore be «the reason that» there is an occasion, nor would God's creative role be more «decisive» than that of eternal objects, the past, or the becoming occasion itself.

It was closely connected with a sense of relatedness to God such that he saw the response of men to his message and himself as decisive for their response to God or even identical with it.

Not only did the Copenhagen Summit not usher in a binding pact, it failed even to take a decisive step towards a pact that would be adopted at the next meeting (COP - 16) in Mexico at the end of 2010.

In A Process Christology, David R. Griffin notes the same difficulties we have raised about these proposals: «They have not made use of the notion that the content of God's ideal aims for men varies... If this notion of Whitehead's is not used, the resulting Christology has a somewhat Pelagian quality, suggesting that Jesus» specialness is due solely to human initiative — if Jesus was God's decisive revelation, this did not result even partially from any special activity on God's part in any sense.

The history of Jesus, even as history, was of decisive importance for the tradition, just because in the Preaching the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus were held to be the climax of all history, the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Nor is psychoanalysis decisive in the matter, for it is not necessarily the case that belief in God is a projection of infantile needs and wishes; it could very well be that the desire to be free of all restraints and bonds is an adolescent and even infantile projection of the destructive forces of pride and hate that threaten to destroy the individual.

However, since even the tiniest region contains an infinity of points, this argument is not decisive.

We feel with our own hands or even within our own bodies the decisive punch and kick of a life that is yet unformed and know that still there is life.

The move of Christianity to the global South might suggest a decisive move toward literal and even fundamentalist readings of the Bible.

Nevertheless, it seems to me as a Protestant outsider that, when one sets Newman in the context of his brothers, the conservative interpretation is surely strengthened: John, Charles, and Frank were all responding to the same challenges to authority; in juxtaposing them, it is clear that it was the paths of the other two brothers which represented that of private conscience and there seems no reasonable way to interpret Newman's move to Rome as anything other than a decisive rejection of such a move in all of its forms, even the moderately Christian.

To accept even the right of self «defense, as the Pope does, is to accept the all «too «human logic of worldly power structures and to ignore the decisive victory of the Lamb.

Many assume that the Vatican's unique and powerful role in Europe gave it special options and responsibilities, and that a more decisive and outspoken pope could have changed the course of history, perhaps even preventing the genocide.

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibilEven for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibileven when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

Hence if the Moment is to have decisive significance — and if not we speak Socratically whatever we may say, even if through not even understanding ourselves we imagine that we have advanced far beyond that simple man of wisdom who divided judgment incorruptibly between the God and man and himself, a judge more just than Minos, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus — if the Moment has decisive significance the breach is made, and man can not return.

Yet, as the early Church Father St Justin points out, not even the fervent devotees, or worshippers, of Sol invictus («unconquered sun») were prepared to lay down their lives for the sun — unlike the decisive witness of martyrdom of Christians.

Now if the latter is to have decisive significance, the seeker must be destitute of the Truth up to the very moment of his learning it; he can not even have possessed it in the form of ignorance, for in that case the moment becomes merely occasional.

Even when market with its goal of economic growth became decisive for economic activities in capitalism, it was never accepted as decisive for the lion - economic areas of social or cultural life.

All that would be claimed is this: If we engage in the practice of theological education, then we commit ourselves to the view that it is possible to make truth claims about God and to weigh arguments in favor of and against them, even if they never are and perhaps never can be «knock down» decisive arguments.

Also, if Whitehead sometime had a decisive religious experience, I have found no record, or even the slightest reference, to it.

So even if Paul, and the creed he quotes, use «on the third day» to mean a great and decisive day, no one can show any reason to doubt that they also meant to pinpoint a particular day shortly after the crucifixion.

Anita: «Becoming a mom pushed me to be stronger, more decisive, intuitive, efficient and even - keeled.

I'm worried that even if we don't concede in the prem that we won't be able to score coz there's no decisive passing OH how I miss Bergkamp

Facing elimination, the Houston Rockets (48 - 44 ATS overall, 20 - 26 ATS at home) will look to even their series with the San Antonio Spurs (47 - 47 ATS overall, 24 - 19 ATS on the road) to force a decisive...

To reintegrate himself, show professionalism and have a decisive impact for the Reds, that's arguably more than enough for them to fight even harder to keep him at the club.

If there were question marks over why Balotelli was signed in the summer, there will be even more people wondering why Rodgers threw on a player with only two goals all season at such a decisive moment in his side's season.