Sentences with phrase «existence as»

In June 2016, the Legislature passed a bill that would eventually ban committees from having this dual existence as a PAC and super PAC.

The provision of broadband for rural areas underpins their existence as sustainable communities.

Still, this community struggles to sustain its existence as an integral part of the state and nation building processes.

«This trend of sad development came as a result of government's failure to address some fundamental socio - economic, geographical and political issues challenging our common existence as a nation.

In fact, Mr. President, a number of the countries represented here in these debates of the General Assembly — particularly those from the so - called developing world — were not in existence as sovereign nations.

We're talking about my very existence as a full - fledged human being in the eyes of the law of the State of New York... and the laws of the United States of America.

This is the cause of sibling rivalry: the older child perceives the younger sibling's very existence as a threat to his or her security.

It appears we have reached the point in our existence as humans where we must silently and quietly go to the sanctuary of our own homes and utter our «judgments» and opinions only to ourselves while making sure our windows are closed and our blinds are pulled.

My existence as a mother had become absolutely dreadful.

However, their sheer existence as a top - flight outfit has suddenly come under immediate threat and they face another uphill task squeezing points out of this fixture with an Aston Villa side who have shown mass amounts of improvement of late.

The «break his face» comment is one thing and it is as clear as day that the mew Manchester United boss has a big problem with the prof and sometimes appears to take his longevity or even his existence as a personal affront.

In today's financial climate a number of clubs have fallen by the wayside, thrust out of existence as quickly as they were formed, but below are 11 who have stood the test of time to become the oldest clubs in the world.

Raw is now full of a bunch of teams that have spent most of their existence as jobbers.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

Thus modern South Africa owes its existence as a functioning, multiracial democracy partly to the braiding together of two epic sports stories — one from a largely black game, the other from a historically white one.

But there are no referenda of the teams» very existence as we saw with the C's, Clippers, Raptors, Hawks, and Pacers in the first round.

The two here probably began their existence as wild varieties that were later domesticated.

Having begun its existence as a trucking company in 1970, Morning Star still hauls all of its own tomatoes.

There are here also, as in the longer discourses, accounts of Buddha's former existences, one is of his one - time existence as Jotipala, another as a king, Makhadeva.

The deadness with which custom invests the familiar vanishes, and existence as a whole appears transfigured.

On an ontological level, process thought suggests that this experience of human existence as relational is not an exception to all other forms of existence, but is an exemplification of what existence is about.

Silber judges that the United States is seriously beset by very large ills which diminish the quality of life here and which, if not corrected or lessened, imperil our existence as we have known it.

This is the point at which their Christian existence as married people is most vividly expressed.

Belonging to the Eucharist as Laity The Christian existence that is expressed by lay people in the Liturgy is, however, precisely an existence as lay people.

For that reason there can be no adequate faith in the Resurrection without a deep hope here and now for the future of our own historical existence as tied up with the future of Christ and the whole of human history.

It is «existential» in that it inheres in human existence as a part of what Tillich calls our «heritage of finitude.»

The most fundamental way in which to characterise the participation of lay people in the Liturgy is by saying that it is an expression of their existence as Christian people.

The argument here goes to random chaos culminating in a perfectly balanced universe where our existence hangs on a thread so thin the slightest variation of any component ends existence as we know it.

The only idea which can rightly be said to exist is the uncreated Word of God which has the same existence as God and proceeds from Him by eternal generation.

The reason is clear: the discussion about existence as a perfection, as if that were all that is involved, does not make explicit the far more important point that, in the case of «God,» properly understood, nonexistence was never a real possibility, a consideration entirely overlooked by those who blithely say that, of course, we all know that no existence can be derived from «mere» ideas.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

At the very least, it would seem that a good god would make his existence as known as gravity — so that all believed generally, and then maybe allow confusion throughout the ages and across the globe..

If we can not trust existence as evidence that contradicts nothingness, then we can not claim anything objectively.

If that is our prayer, then it informs existence as solidarity.

No longer can we live as if we were in an earlier age, when ethical teaching was either ignorant of what we now know to be the case or unwilling to give due recognition to human existence as we have come to understand it.

The Vatican in its Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day offers an answer: the human being must be respected as a person from the first instance of his or her existence as a fertilized egg.

The Christian answer, however, invariably seems to take God's existence as a given.

The problem is that the «on and on it goes» explanation actually is not an answer — unless we concede that this suggests infinite time and material existence as I suggested originally.

Multiplicity and disunity are as strong a feature of our existence as psychosomatic unity.

Hence it does not pose the problem of existence as an existential question, but asks in existentialist analysis about the meaning of existence in the abstract: for it is aware that the existential problem can be answered only in existence itself.

This seems to be bound up with his rejection of the ontology which has its ultimate basis in existence as such.

So, you point out that there are so many versions or ideas as to who or what God is and yet you automatically conclude that if there is a God that God would provide undisputable proof of existence as if you know what a supposed omnipotent and omniscient being would do?

Our existence as the human race has often depended upon what they see.»

Is human compassion alone ever sufficient to produce the initiative to cut off such an existence as this, relatively protected from coercion, from the ills of human temper, from arbitrary authority, from far - reaching and unremitting responsibility» Will human compassion alone serve to terminate such an existence in favor of the fearfully vexed, dangerous, and apparently hopeless role which Moses is soon to assume»

Christ's existence as a person is found is multiple sources — Jewish, Christian, Coptic, etc..

They refer to those things without which existence as we know it would be impossible.

To be human is to be moving toward the image of God, who is Love, to be moving also toward a richer existence as created, finite, and inevitably defective lovers.

I do not claim absolute knowledge of God's existence as many believers do for this to me represents pure dishonesty.

There are not just six proofs for God's present existence, there are proofs for his past and future existence as well.

Since there is no inherent meaning in life or existence as a whole then religion is completely moot.