Sentences with phrase «fact by virtue of»

It is quite evident this wasn't about science or facts by virtue of Nye's implicit condescension.

Not exact matches

«We were successful by virtue of the fact that we got the aircraft into the air,» McDuffee said.

In this case, the recipients of the transfer payments will increase their spending and, by virtue of the fact that the funding of these payments is created, figuratively, out of thin air, no other entity need cut back on her / his current spending.

If AutoZone grows at an average of 10 % per annum for the next decade, this means that in the first year alone, you would collect nearly an extra $ 87,000 in market wealth that you otherwise couldn't have earned simply by fact of the virtue that $ 868,686 is still invested for your benefit.

Apart from that, it does pay to have visual content along the information one wishes to convey in posts by virtue of the fact that tweets with photos received 35 % more retweets than those without; tweets with videos receive 28 % more retweets than those without.

The key to the strength of Victorian virtues was that those virtues were not, in fact, just middle class but were shared by nearly everyone: from the Queen down to the poorest Cockney, nearly everyone believed in the public good that came from observance of the national ethic.

God is reality by virtue of the fact reality reflects God regardless if God is real or imagined.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

«God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans.»

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

Do you actually believe that baby wasn't innocent, by virtue of the fact that it's dead?

All natural or artifactual systems exhibit certain fundamental features of structure, behavior, and interaction shared in common by virtue of the fact that they are systems.

Women have developed a passive dissociation from the world by virtue of the fact that the world and its politics are man - made, homo - relational.

But Hartshorne effectively replies that, even if finite beings depend for their existence on the creative activity of God, it still remains true that if God had created a different world then He would have been somewhat different from the way He actually is by virtue of the fact that His perfect knowledge would have been of that world rather than of this world; and so the point still holds that divine cognitive relations to the creatures are partially constitutive of God.7

And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

If it turns out that the Christian god is in fact imaginary, then by virtue of this fact it is not real, and therefore it does not actually exist.

Despite the fact that, by virtue of being a woman she would have been considered an unreliable witness whose testimony wouldn't hold up in court, Mary Magdalene is charged with telling the world that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

So the unhappy creatures in this text in Revelation are in the presence of the Lamb by virtue of the fact that he sustains them in existence, and they may even be aware of this fact.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

If change really involves self - transcendence even, in certain circumstances, to a new essence, even though only in virtue of the dynamism of absolute Being, which of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spirit.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

I'm not saying that by virtue of the fact that a «harsh thing» was said, Jesus was being exclusive.

The fact is that they believe in those distinctives, and by virtue of them believing in those distinctives, they are bound to follow a particular way of thinking.

So in the final chapter, Lanzetta questions post-Conciliar approaches to ecumenism where the «dogmatic» (to do with knowing the truth) is juxtaposed to the «pastoral» «which starts out from the historic and pragmatic fact, and on behalf of this aims at possible dialogue, without changing teaching, but de facto neither improving understanding of it, but even with the risk of altering its significance by virtue of the dialogue method chosen...».

Each of us, by virtue of the very fact of being human, is like God.

Statements of one period are «felt as fact» in virtue of their congruity with the spirit, practice, and basic assumptions of a time; they are not «felt as fact» by another period because, in the unstoppable running of water over the dam, the spirit, practice, and basic assumption of a time became altered.

And all of this... is being attempted by virtue of the fact of the very things you claimed to hate earlier in your posting where you said:» What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things without question based on fear.

If on the other hand Agamemnon were to say to her, «In spite of the fact that the deity demands thee as a sacrifice, it might yet be possible that he did not demand it — by virtue viz. of the absurd,» he would that very instant become unintelligible to Iphigenia.

by virtue of the facts he states about our uniqueness and prowess as «the best,» he gives no solid reason to change.

Biblically speaking, all human beings are blessed by God by virtue of the fact they are created in his image, and fundamentally equal.

Whilst not having the supreme degree of the pontifical office, and notwithstanding the fact that they depend on the bishops in the exercise of their own proper power, the priests are for all that associated with them by reason of their sacerdotal dignity; and in virtue of the sacrament of Orders, after the image of Christ, the supreme and eternal priest (Heb.

There are lots of «good» things that I fight for in this world, but the two that could be considered driven by my atheistic views are: 1) No childhood brain washing by religious people, which leads to adults who think it's a virtue to ignore facts (ie, faith).

By virtue of the fact that liberal democracy is an association of communities, each of which has its own vision of God and the good, rather than itself being the highest institutional expression of one such community, it does indeed operate without a common substantive conception of the good.

We are implicated in these historical crimes, says the liberal, and deserve to be penalized for them, by virtue of the fact (a) that we are the beneficiaries of social arrangements built on the foundations laid by this past exploitation; and (b) that despite our protests, we continue to treat and regard the historically victimized in discriminatory and injurious ways, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unconsciously.

The deists were influential well beyond the theological arena by virtue of the fact that a large number of this country's Founding Fathers were Deists, whether closeted or openly.

at 484:»... any given fact, by virtue of its internal relations to all other facts, reflects in itself the eternally objective structure of the concrete world which includes it.

Likewise, an electron or a proton would be an enduring object by virtue of the fact that, besides the «yet more ultimate actual entities» within the electronic or protonic society (PR 139), the «electronic and protonic actual entities» (PR 139) are regnant occasions within the society in which they are members.

The self is a relational or social self; it is what it is by virtue of its relationships; in fact, in one sense, it is its relationship.

He is perhaps best understood as intending that the molecule can be treated as an enduring object (i.e., a serially - ordered society of actual occasions) by virtue of the fact that it contains a series of regnant molecular occasions.

But the metaphysical reason for the possibility of similarity and difference, according to the Platonic realist, consists in the fact that value can be ingredient with multiplicity in different parts of a process only by virtue of different structures or patterns.

This is at first glance an anomalous position to find Habermas taking, because he generally appears to be skeptical of religion, treating it as a form of ideology that systematically distorts communication by virtue of the fact that religious people generally seem to be unable to abandon their own suppositions long enough to truly consider the interests and values of others.

Apart from the pressures on my time, which have been quite heavy as we prepared for the various events in the life of CCA, one of the reasons for this is the fact that there has been a tendency, perhaps even the assumption, that by virtue of my position in the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), what I say on any given topic indicates official position.

The openness of the civic culture has depended on the fact that these groups and traditions have functioned as teachers of virtue and morality, sustaining by their various lights a general predisposition toward acting well.

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Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

The school is not a Christian congregation, but it is related to a number of Christian communities by virtue of the fact that its students, (and faculty) are active members of them.

«Anthropological reflection, in fact, leads to the recognition that, by virtue of the substantial unity of body and spirit, the human genome not only has a biological significance, but also possesses anthropological dignity, which has its basis in the spiritual soul that pervades it and gives it life.»

Such a community has claims on the individual by virtue of the fact that it has existed before him and will continue to exist after him.

Our attention is heightened because there is an increase of mental feeling, and this in turn procures a greater depth of feeling in general by virtue of the fact that the contrast with physical feeling is increased.