Sentences with phrase «for privation»

Throughout, Horwitz also searches for Cook the man: a restless prodigy who fled his peasant boyhood, and later the luxury of Georgian London, for the privation and peril of sailing off the edge of the map.

From Castillion and Schumpeter to Casson many characteristics have been brought together, which can be classified into the generic terms of «ability» (e.g., intelligence, intuition, persistence) and «ambition» (e.g., enthusiasm, thinking of investments, willingness, and readiness for privation).

Not exact matches

People who have suffered great privation might be excused for a certain grasping acquisitiveness born of a fear of want.

September 11, 2001, I was reminded, demonstrated the truth of this, surely; and those of us who teach undergraduates must be aware that, for all the cultural privations they suffer, they are often decent and admirable.

Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects God's reconciliation to man and nature; «For love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&raqFor love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&raqfor itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&raqfor itself, even though it will not want to...»

For its sake people are prepared to undergo singular privations and take enormous risks.

For in any tense, if the latter assertion is true, then there still is the problem of having to assume that the privation of the property of whiteness is itself an existing fact which corresponds to a true denial.

But a negative fact which has no positive bearing, no relevance in or for actuality, and which makes no empirical difference, is a privation and only that.

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

Christian thought has traditionally, of necessity, defined evil as a privation of the good, possessing no essence or nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play in God's determination of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can in no way supply any imagined deficiency in God's or creation's goodness.

This limitation is not a privation, but a gift that allows for the discovery of the love that springs from wonder in the face of difference.

Many have just had privations throughout their lives and are happy for company, as more than one has said to me, somebody — anybody — who will «love» them.

It was for other people to suffer the privations of the system if it kept one's own ideological house of cards intact.

Poverty atlases that map the extent of privation have existed for decades as a means to alert urban leaders to areas lacking basic services, such as water, electricity and sanitation.

Whatever privation was noted — no spare parts for trains, unsafe conditions in coal mines, empty shelves in shops — they would simply say: «Yes, the Gang of Four... but they're gone now.»

Marsh neither understates the privations and terror of Hawking's illness, nor overstates the potential for inspirational uplift in his survival.

In this illuminating, graceful novel, Zarr demonstrates how privation can reverberate through many areas of a teen's life, and nicely emphasizes that problems don't need to be violent or catastrophic in order for one to ask for help (which, thankfully, Gem eventually does).

This left us with few options if we wanted to play games — to escape the toil and privation for just a few hours.

And mandating that the life - saving, life - transforming power of fossil fuels remain buried in the ground is a prescription for early death, privation, and suffering for billions of our fellow human beings.

We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational freedom; to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms.

The problem is that it is not easy to find out information about the institutional experience for the child and therefore we don't know the extent of early privation experienced by these children.