Sentences with phrase «find peculiar»

I find it peculiar that someone unburdened of the responsibility to provide hard statistical evidence should be commenting on a site that has nothing to do with their business model.

Thus I find it peculiar that children are more affected by their fathers than their mothers.

I also find it peculiar because women express their feelings more overtly than do men.

I therefore find it peculiar when Federal Justice Minister, Peter MacKay, bemoans Canadians» loss of faith in the criminal justice system while in the same breath repeating his oft - made promise to rain a fury of new tough - on - crime hail from on - high upon the

I find it peculiar and somewhat disturbing that Greenpeace and the NYT are going after Soon for the wrong reasons.

«In closing, let me say also that I find it peculiar that Miskolczi is submitting this to a journal with a focus on public health.

As another example, I find it peculiar that in the U.S. so much attention is paid to the so called Historical Climate network.

I find it peculiar that Mr. Han Solo, who is so honestly adamant about his skepticism of Mr. Desiderio's paintings can not being himself to use his real name.

I find it peculiar that Sakurai didn't mention Pikachu's hats in Smash Bros. when he brought up Pikachu's license disallowing clothing on the character.

There in the data forest, you find the peculiar tissue structure you've been looking for — your chance to make a small advance against a big disease.

Does anyone else find it peculiar that an Unborn Fetus is sacred and holy and when the child is born without monetary support the once sacred Fetus becomes a welfare food stamp bum and cheat not worthy of an education?

Those who reflect insufficiently find it peculiar that people suffer the oppression of this kind of sovereign with docility and patience, that they do not open their eyes to the vices and excesses of the clergymen who degrade them, and that they endure from a head that is shorn what they wold not suffer from a head crowned with laurels.

I think of you as a human being, albeit one with a few ideas that I find peculiar.

I found a peculiar euphoria in thinking about my theory, which I thought about all the time,» Wise, who wrote a book on the subject, explained.

The pastor went to Romans 12:2 («Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind») and explained, «One of the ways we show we are sons and daughters of God is there's been an inward transformation that has lead to an external, outward transformation that the world finds peculiar.»

Voyager 1 also found a peculiar deficit of high - energy particles known as anomalous cosmic rays.

However, two zoologists in South Africa have found a peculiar exception.

When his latest interviewee falls through and his trip to Canada looks to be wasted he finds a peculiar advertisement that leads him into the snare of Howard Howe (Michael Parks).

Considering the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollar at the time, I found this peculiar to say the least.

When 12 - year - old Reuben finds a peculiar, magical watch that has the power to turn its owner invisible, he's propelled on the adventure of a lifetime.

Stumbling across Hyrule's more quirky denizens is wondrous, and finding peculiar challenges — such as a desert island that puts you into a Lost - style survival challenge — never fails to put a smile on your face.

I found this peculiar and intriguing, because he had dumped so many hours into a niche indie space game, but has an Xbox One and usually focuses on more traditional blockbuster AAA titles (this will be important later).

Smith explored the objecthood of painting, but rather than merely reiterating a deadening literalism or an empty formalism symptomatic of the 70's, he found a peculiar new kind of lyricism that still might have ramifications for the future of abstract painting.

Not exact matches

AUSTRALIANS finds themselves in the peculiar position that whichever party wins the coming federal election, a former party leader has been promised a senior ministerial post.

When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.

Early this week, Lululemon Athletica found itself in the news for a very peculiar reason: a news outlet questioned if apparel maker's longest - serving board member was an actual person.

When the concept of emotional intelligence was introduced to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.

When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 % of the time.

At first blush, it may seem peculiar that there is a difference between feeling happy and finding life meaningful.

The global financial crisis and several factors peculiar to Georgia have affected foreign direct investment inflows, but investors willing to deal with tensions and risks will find opportunities.

But this is still one of those peculiar muckraking books that can find no muck to rake.

We are then left with some 300 verses in Matthew containing narratives and discourses peculiar to that gospel, and about 550 verses in Luke containing matter not found in the other gospels.

Peculiar Christendom, whose most pressing problem seems to consist in this, that God's grace in this direction should be too free, that hell, instead of being amply populated, might one day perhaps be found empty.

In the first place, we must return to the peculiar situation in which Mascall finds himself in claiming rational necessity for a position that most rational people reject.

Vitality, Completeness, Fulfillment — these are not to be found among the immediate commonplaces of life, but in transcending them, or escaping from them, or in that peculiar form of excess: exceeding them.

The future of the papacy, like most of its past, will be found in a particular resolution of this peculiar tension.

Moreover, he appears to find the secret in a peculiar and paradoxical blend of self - suppression and self - assertion in the teacher.

It includes several sayings found also in Luke and one in both Mark and Luke, but so much of it is peculiar to Matthew and distinctive in content and language that the use of a special written source seems probable if not certain.

Not only is there in everybody a divine particle, but there is in everybody one peculiar to him, to be found nowhere else....

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

Human dignity is «to be found in the kind of life that honors and upholds the peculiar nature that is ours.»

In Christian worship, therefore, we shall expect to find the expression of the peculiar affirmation and the special quality of the Christian faith and the responsive movement of man to God as he reacts to God's action towards him.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

It is our faith that in that Man it did not «fail», not because it had peculiar privileges or unique divine prerogatives, but because it held fast to its «initial aim», making that its own «subjective aim» and thus through «the travail» which mortal existence imposed upon it finding the «satisfaction» or fulfilment which was its destiny.

Bernard Lonergan has defined method as a «set of directives guiding a process to a result,» and today theology struggles to find the appropriate directives for dealing with its own peculiar subject matter, revelation.

If some visitor from another planet, knowing nothing at all about this world of ours, should drop down upon us, he would surely find that the biped who was erect had a peculiar characteristic marking his behavior — he would observe this creature on his knees in what the creature called «the presence of the invisible God.»

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

I have found that on occasion I really sympathize with a friend of mine who feels that organizations of people are to be avoided as the plague; but I think that is peculiar of me, probably because I live in a rather close - knit community and sometimes find a «gold - fish» existence somewhat fatiguing.

Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that of an intense spiritual nature with a keen imagination and a desperately sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering of the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures; (c).

At most, such study so interpreted shows us that one corner of nature is in some respects absolutely peculiar, revealing the introduction of unprecedented forms of reality not to be explained by anything found in the rest of nature.