Sentences with phrase «evening of affinity»

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But UPS» affinity for them is helping keep the planes alive, even if they are a tiny portion of Boeing's order book of more than 5,800 planes.

Even during my time in sales, I was always close to the engineers and developers, and had an affinity to that part of the business.

Not only do they make you feel something, they encourage you to believe in something and hold it up as worthy of affinity and even loyalty.

It is a holistic approach that can be led with product functionality (think Apple), customer service (think Nordstrom), creating an affinity group or lifestyle association (think Harley - Davidson), creating an experience (think Disney theme parks) or even by creating a bridge to the customer with ancillary products, services, content or experiences that are important to the customer (think food companies with time - saving recipes), depending on what is of most importance to customers.

But even the more conservative wings of the Wesleyan tradition (which because of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation of Christian faith, have often felt some affinity with the fundamentalist wing of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home in the circles of either modem fundamentalism or more recently in neo-evangelicalism.

Even more, everything is animated with a flow of Presence and of Love — the spirit which, emanating from the supreme pole of personalization, fosters and nourishes the mutual affinity of individualities in process of convergence.

Even the term community is not fully adequate, for although it has affinities to the community, the church is one of a kind.35 The uniqueness of the community is found in its divine institution rather than in pure doctrine.36

Pope John Paul II also embraces this close connection, writing in his letter to artists (1999), «True art has a close affinity with the world of faith, so that, even in situations where culture and the Church are far apart, art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience.»

Even in a circumstance involving two separate contexts or horizons, that of the text itself and that of its readers temporally, linguistically and culturally removed from it, distanciation can not prevent appropriation from experiencing affective affinity with the fullness of the otherness of the text.

Not surprisingly, many advocates in the biblical theology camp were quick to point out these apparent «elective affinities,» even to the extent of claiming Barth in support of their views.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

Atoms themselves have affinities and repulsions, even as some biologists have an affinity for a theory of most pure and orthodox Natural Selection, and a repulsion to anything that smells of Lamarck.

Even though he's handsome, his affinity for comic books, video games and Death Cab For Cutie have landed him an outside seat to the goings - on of his rich counterparts in his high school.

Thus his vision, beginning with man accepting, affirming, even willing the death of God in a radical sense, ends with man willing to participate in the utter desolation of the secular or the profane, willing to undergo the discipline of darkness, the dark night of the soul (here Altizer's affinity with the religious existentialists, who may not have God but who don't at all like not having him, is clearest), while the possibility of a new epiphany of the sacred, a rebirth of the possibility of having God once more is awaited.

The Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Book of James, and the Gospel of the Hebrews have such close affinities that most scholars assume the maternal Holy Spirit is meant in all three texts, even though it is perfectly clear only in the Gospel of the Hebrews.

The mental pole, however, even while it is the prime means of simplification, is also the route to novelty by virtue of its essential affinity for eternal objects.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is aware of Vardy's deep affinity with Leicester and has indicated the club are prepared to wait for a decision even though a delay risks complicating their transfer plans.

Even during his two periods of military service — as a Marine Engineering officer in the Navy in the 1960s and as an aircraft loadmaster in the Air Force and trainer for the Air National Guard in the 1980s — he demonstrated an affinity for the logistics of moving people and cargo around.

Best of all, the derivatives were even more effective than the original compound, without leading to that worrisome estrogenic metabolite or showing much affinity themselves for estrogen receptors.

The algorithm can also accurately predict the effect of mutations on gene expression even for very low - affinity binding sites — regions in the genome where transcription factors bind to DNA, but do so in hard - to - detect ways.

The affinity of IDE for insulin is so high, however, that the presence of even small amounts of insulin completely inhibits the degradation of Aβ.30 Insulin acts as a kind of competitive inhibitor, such that when insulin is present, IDE will be «busy» clearing it, leaving Aβ to accumulate.

Even the jokes reserved for die - hard Smith fans, those aware of his affinity for Daredevil and his dislike for Paul Thomas Anderson's «'' Magnolia,»» are there.

The unit is comprised of soldiers who have a high affinity for ragnite, and even Jutlands own Princess Ophelia has joined the ranks.

The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.

And even though she may or may not be aware of the fact that she's Zelda, she still has an affinity for Triforce - related combo moves...

«It sounds weird, but it was clear right away even for me,» she says of her affinity to Alma.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci redirects his biting wit and affinity for savage infighting to a political environment even more cutthroat than Washington: the Moscow of 1953, when a cerebral hemorrhage put Joseph Stalin on his death bed and created a void of leadership within his power - hungry inner circle.

For example, the Rusted Kushala SnS has the highest average raw of all SnS in 4U, even with -45 % affinity and the Lucent Narga LS in 3U has garbage raw that even its 50 % affinity can't save.

Additionally, it's not necessary to make Emma's current beau, architect Daniel Riddick (Ioan Gruffudd), the absolute worst person in all of San Francisco, the audience's empathy and affinity unlikely to ever have gone his direction had he just been presented with more of an even keel.

The evening will include an experience of racial affinity groupings with other participants.

The satin chrome finish on the door handles, the «695 Rivale» badge on the tailgate and rear wings, and the satin chrome moulding on the tailgate, all make this model even more unmistakable, evoking the affinity of style with the side view of the new Riva yachts.

Brilliantly observant, Ghost World captures the unthinking cruelty and insecurity of teenagers, but what is most impressive (and distinguishes it from the mocking approach of much of Clowes» work) is its sympathy, evident not only in deep understanding of the young protagonists but also in affinity for the supporting characters — even the parents, when they are glimpsed, are sympathetically depicted.

However, the characters are sufficiently compelling that even readers new to the series will have developed an affinity for them by the end of the novel - and will come away believing their time has been very well well spent.

One of our amazing adoption center volunteers, Pam Couchell, has a special affinity for black cats and wasn't put off by Emorie's early hiding and even growling.

Therefore, understanding dominance, submission, aggression, and the dog's affinity for group living are important to the process even though thousands of years of canine husbandry have moderated their purpose and we are limited to the uncertainties of inter-species interaction.

Most of the Shih Tzu names here are unconventional, and even if you don't have a particular affinity toward the celebrities mentioned here, you may find yourself attracted to the names they've chosen.

A basic mental affinity, even a certain type of personality seems to be necessary when training a dog.

The aggressive marketing continues for so - called «affinity cards,» which feature the image of something a consumer loves such as a sports team, a university, or even a picture of the family pet.

You'll have to know a vague idea of each character's «role» in a group (which is fairly obvious once you're at the 50 + hour time mark), you probably need to know how to level artes (which the game does a very nice job of explaining), and knowing how to gem (even only on a very basic level) would probably be helpful, but you by no means have to go into the world of affinity coins to complete the main story assuming you are a player of average skill and ability level, nor do you have to feel the innate need to update your character's equipment every 5 minutes (unless if you're preparing for a boss encounter).

The unit is comprised of soldiers who have a high affinity for ragnite, and even Jutland's own Princess Ophelia has joined the ranks.

Those with any interest in mysteries, walking sims, or even adventures (an affinity for space helps too) would be smart to add Tacoma to their collection on their platform of choice.

So although American viewers will reflexively relate the streaming brushstrokes in her paintings to New York School painting, or to the work of an American closer to her in age, such as David Reed, she may feel just as much affinity for European practitioners of improvisational painting such as Pierre Soulages, Howard Hodgkin or even Gerhard Richter.

This tiny Texas town has become a bucket - list destination for anyone with an affinity for Minimalism and even the mildest sense of adventure.

Henri Matisse is a really foundational artist for me, as is late 1960s American and European conceptual art, certain Arte Povera artists, as well as French and German painting of the 1960s through to the»80s — Yves Klein, Daniel Buren, Martin Barre, Olivier Mosset, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Sigmar Polke — not to mention many non-art practices, such as design, writing and music... I haven't ever really felt or even understood the need to situate myself in any lineage, other than a sort of elective affinities grouping, which is maybe a very contemporary luxury for an artist.

The reactivity and degree of water affinity of fog CCN become potentially even more complex when taking into account back trajectories of air masses over industrial and urban landscapes.

And even if what eeveryone cared about in practice was some simple high - level summary like the function of a protein (e.g., something like the O2 affinity of hemoglobin), nobody would present a new model with hundreds of parameters and focus only on its fit to a few - parameter curve of bound O2 vs. partial pressure of O2.

You might even consider starting your own group as a means of forming a nucleus of connections centered around a common interest, background, specialty, affinity, etc..

KC, I suspect your affinity for the dissent in Bruker is more based on your personal beliefs, and not so much an interest in reconciling the needs of our population, or even advancing the position of women in these situations.

Insofar as maintaining standards is concerned, I also agree with you that, in essence, one should be very leery of, for example, U of Leicester's willingness to accept (and then assuredly graduate) students with barely average and even below average undergrad marks and no demonstrated affinity for the type of thinking useful to lawyers (which the LSAT is designed, imperfectly I grant you (but nothing is perfect), to illuminate).

From powerboats to mega yachts, we understand our clients» affinity for the pleasures of watercraft ownership and can provide protection against physical damage, salvage costs and even the cost of temporary replacement watercraft in the event of a loss.