Sentences with phrase «examples of living things»

The formation and history of our region are described and highlighted with examples of living things that occurred here in the past.

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Procrastinators of course love these examples of people from history who did great things very late in life.

But it's a perfect example of how the «Internet of things» has suddenly come to life in cities.

Examples of work - life program components include things like flexible work arrangements (such as flexible hours or a compressed workweek), allowing part - time schedules, offering telecommuting options, permitting «shift swapping» (for companies with around - the - clock work shifts), or providing discretionary leave, such as paternity, educational, community - service, or sabbatical.

Swipe files work well as lead magnets because they're real - life examples of things that have been tried and tested and work.

It's only in the last century that people have tried to make the Bible fit their beliefs rather then align their life with what the bible says, and look at the results, the world is in turmoil and on a downward spiral out of control and this article is a good example of trying to make God's word an excuse to do every wrong thing there is real good reporting.

One more time and one positive example of prayer changing things is the life of William Wilberforce and the end of the English slave trade.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

For one thing, it means one isn't Jean - Paul Sartre, the «archetypal example» of anti-political, «literary politics,» a manner of «engaging with political life that deliberately... ignored reality and that preferred to remain on the level of an abstract theory or a kind of pure, contentless moralizing.»

Theo thinks that saying Hawking thinks that we could have come from life forms from another plant, this is an example of one of the best scientists believing in crazy things.

It is best to first understand the things Jesus said as God came to us in the form of man so that we could see by his example and life the full attributes of God.

1st of all I try to live my life according to God's word and Jesus's example, laying down worldly things every day and living a set apart life, as us all Christians are called to live.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier with those who don't value the material things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods happiness

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

Though some of these examples of things that become do refer to what happens within the internal life of one actual entity, still others refer to relationships between objectified actual entities at transition.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

People coming back from being brain dead... well couple of things to this, One can you give me an example of this actually happening and for how long was this person brain dead before coming back to life?

Examples of imaginable worlds that would be incompatible with process metaphysics are: a world in which the elementary units of nature were enduring substances, especially if they were inert and fully determined; a world in which space and other things existed independently of temporal processes; a world in which an absolute gap separated living and nonliving things, or sentient and insentient individuals, or else a world in which there were no sentient things whatsoever.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Candler is an example of a theological school which construes the Christian thing as «an offer, as news about the possibility of new and fulfilled or blessed life that one may appropriate for oneself».

It's seems that Tony (if that's your real name) seems to only focus on the negative aspects of the Sikh's, but fails to mention all the great things Sikhs have done, for example sacrifice 80,000 lives in ww1 and ww2 fighting along side the British.

This is a happy and inspiring story — the only sad thing is that the Riches are unable to recount that the various battles — for example to ensure that marriage is once again established as the foundation of community life, or to ensure protection for unborn babies from abortion — had been won.

No, what it means is that when you pray for the things Jesus prays for, when you pray for the things that according to the teachings, life, example, and will of Jesus, when you pray these things, they will be done for you.

For example there is no discussion of the celebrated passage in book nineteen on the «compromise between human wills [of the two cities] about the things relevant to mortal life.»

An example of this would be the origin of life in general in dead matter which in its highest and most complicated possible forms develops in the direction of the frontier with living things.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

And to be honest, we TRUELY religious people are cherry - pickers of bible because we only follow whatever good things and examples written on it that would strenghten us and improve our lives both in spiritual and temporal aspects.

Speaking to Harvard's graduating class, Oprah Winfrey explained that there was no such thing as failure — «Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction,» she said — giving as an example the initial failure of her television network.

Then came the realization of what life could be, must be, and with Christ as our example and support, will be, for «Behold, I make all things new» (Revelations 21:5)- more gratitude.

but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i die i get to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.

As E. G. Selwyn puts it, the Christian believer is a man who has «the Lord's example behind him, and the hope of glory in front of him», and by these two things the tone and character of his life is dominated and dictated.

The problem is that everyone of those examples might consider themselves to be «living for Jesus» when in fact the only thing they are living for is the acceptance and approval of the religious community that they are themselves a part of.

Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

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God states that when you execute murderers, these things stop happening amongst you [Deuteronomy 19:20], by way of the example that it sets to others who would have no respect for life.

For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as well as of the related aspects of «the last things».

They believe in the voluntary, inchoate fellowship of worshippers whose lives should, all other things being equal, set an example of the best that America offers.

And she explains the life of St. Francis very well - revealing, for example, that the process of change was a gradual thing and that it began with simple gifts to the poor and a real commitment to prayer, and the more dramatic events such as the encounter with the Crucifix at San Damiano came only after this preparation.

The author focuses on two contrasting ways of life that were open to Christians in the third decade of the Movement: to live according to the example of Christ, or to set their minds on earthy, sensual things.

Brian Goodwin is a contemporary example of the neo-Platonist tradition, which emphasizes formative principles in living things and searches for fundamental anatomical patterns -» archetypes» - for each class of organism.

For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.

During Darwin's time, we did not know a lot of things, for example, the physical elements of life and how traits are inherited literally.

For example, here is a sentence that describes the confusion among the followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple: «Every one of them was steeped in traditional religion, and they left it because they found a group of people that loved them, that gave them more answers, that cared for them, that generated warmth — when all they did was sit in pews and have meaningless things told to them so they could go out and live meaningless lives.»

It is fairly evident that Simon Magus, for example, is not a good witness for early Christian life; for one thing, he regarded himself as the saviour of mankind, or rather of a small fraction of mankind, the spiritually élite.

I can't change the example Jesus gave to fit what we're experiencing, but what I can do is teach people to live in the grace of what we're experiencing, because all things work together for good.

Born and bred in Mumbai and now living in London, Manjiri knows a thing or two about balancing her spices and this vibrant soup is a good example of that skill in the kitchen.

Her latest book, The Homemade Vegan Pantry shares a very practical approach to stocking your kitchen with the types of things you always wish you'd tried (glorious butterless butter, or maybe your own tofu, for examples) to those you've probably never considered, such as soup concentrates, to make your life easier.

I was hoping to cook my own things and photograph them, but my cat has been sick recently and is costing me about $ 2000, so I'm surviving on bread and canned soup and living vicariously through cooking blogs (of which yours is a spectacular example).