Sentences with phrase «form of concrete»

A civilian company may take your word for it that someone with your background is a change leader; the federal government wants proof in the form of concrete examples and results.
During the 1940s Davis gravitated to a purer form of concrete art, often using pen - and - ink drawings as preliminary studies, although he continued to include lettering and traces of adverts in his pictures.
In this work the artist blacked out the lines of Stéphane Mallarmé's eponymous poem to create a purely aesthetic form of concrete poetry.
The painter and sculptor Lars - Gunnar Nordström was a self - taught artist who began his career as a kind of cubist primitivist but soon moved on to a severe form of Concrete art.
A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.
His conviction was overturned on the basis of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that those favors have to be in the form of concrete actions, such as filing a lawsuit or holding a hearing.
In other words, the subjective moods and motivations of these individuals become an external reality in the form of concrete symbols that can be discussed or acted upon.
In both, furthermore, what is perceived is a concrete individual entity, not a universal and not a sensum representing the entity, and the form by which this is effected is an individualized form of the concrete individual object.
It would be a fictitious story expressing certain timeless truths or beliefs in the form of a concrete and particular narrative.
This kind of segmentation can be difficult to pinpoint because it's not always in the form of concrete information like geographic segmentation or age, which are clear and concrete sets of data.
«Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.

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Any meeting that won't directly generate revenue or cost savings — either in the form of a key decision or a concrete plan of action — is a complete waste of money.
He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.
His novel idea was to use two connected pieces of polystyrene as forms for poured concrete.
Architects, contractors, engineers and equipment sellers should all see some uplift, as should makers of infrastructure inputs such as concrete, formed steel and utility poles.
But inside the modernist glass - and - concrete chancery building that rises up along Havana's iconic seawall, the Malecón, both the intelligence officials and senior diplomats guessed that the noises were «just another form of harassment» by the Cuban government, one official said.
In the second part of this two - part series, UpCounsel attorney Thomas View delivers five concrete tips that should form the basis of your defense strategy in a software audit.
The company operates in five segments: Retail Building Materials (36 % of March - period sales, excluding sales allowances); Industrial (30 %); Manufactured Housing (15 %); Residential Construction (14 %); and Commercial Construction & Concrete Forming (5 %).
To have a politics of attention, they suggest, we need people who can attend to the concrete needs of families and neighborhoods, of schools, museums, and other forms of cultural life.
While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.
At the same time, the event in its symbolic form expresses a contrast or pattern of contrasts between concrete actuality and relevant forms of potentiality.
This was the need to include aesthetic appreciation as an educational aim, a counterweight to words and numbers in the form of attention to the concrete.
He arrives at this standpoint by first claiming that the actual form and practice of liberation theology attends only to the concrete liberation of specific groups (PIPT vii - viii).
The sense in which a prehension is a concrete element divided out of an actual entity requires the prehension to be partial with respect to its subjective form.
This brings us to Bonhoeffer's second point, which is that truth is always concrete and is never a principle: «The truthfulness of our words that we owe to God must take on concrete form in the world.
Here Bonhoeffer wrestles with a profound existential question that plagued his conscience: «The truthfulness of our words that we owe to God must take on concrete form in the world.
Kindness and compassion are how the church is to live, and in that concrete form of life the other polities of the world will be instructed and redeemed.
But Scholasticism conceived such, in its universality and its intelligibility, as clear - cut and static, somehow transcending the specific, concrete, dynamic environmental context of the various individual things which it in - forms.
But there's no doubt that there are certain things needed if Anglicanorum coetibus is to take concrete form here: one of them is that the existing hierarchy should in the early stages help and cooperate with it, while at the same time rigorously respecting andfostering the new jurisdiction's absolute independence.
But this is the same polarity that we found operative in the concrete universal, though the conception of logical form, and thus the logical basis upon which the rejection of separately persisting externally related individuals rests, is entirely different.
Some are rebuilding knowledge on the basis of the concrete situations, some are trying out new economic forms, some are creating the basis of a new kind of politics, and some are inventing new cultures.
Instead, being pastoral means being the body of Christ in some concrete living form as people turn to the church and its members for assistance and guidance in living their lives.
Aristotle states explicitly that of the many senses of the word, «nature,» the first and most proper is that by which «nature» means that principle that allows an entity, over and above its adventitious processes, itself to grow) 12 «Nature» is entity in the sense of form, with the additional condition that it is now regarded as «in some sense the factor which initiates movement and rest «13 of just those processes that take place within the concrete being itself that «has» the nature.
A pure form is simply a pure form, incapable of specifying its relevance to concrete actualization.
Theologians move in two worlds, working not only with the abstract categories of philosophy but also with the highly concrete and often complex literary forms of the Bible.
It can exhibit the «old» dogma from quite a different angle, and profoundly alter the concrete form in which it appears in the thought and especially in the life of the Church.
But insofar as in this boundary - concept becoming is thought of as lacking all determination (although in the concrete there exists only a determinate becoming), it is, in its relation to form, just as radically to be thought of as potency, as Aristotelian «primary matter.»
As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.
Moreover, only very little in the constitution of the Church is really of immutable divine law, and this law itself will inevitably exist in concrete historical forms which are not simply unchangeable.
Only when the passion of Jesus has been consummated in the epiphany of the death of God in the concrete actuality of history does God himself appear in his apocalyptic form as a dying Satan:
But each moment of divine conceptuality can only entertain possibility as a continuum (which is always generic) and can only create one determinate result, a result that includes all the generic aspects of all previously specified determinations by including the determinations themselves, the «abstract is in the concrete, [so] any concrete contains the entire unlimited form» (Divine 144).
We could then ask whether becoming as the fully actual is the only form of being or whether less concrete things are also forms of being.
Only someone who overlooks the fact that this answer itself has a real history which is a history of the reality reflected on as well as of the reflection itself, can think that the Church with its principles, because they too can be given concrete form, is always able to follow directly on the heels of what is new in the changing course of history and that only by its own fault and failure could the Church lag behind events in its theological reflection on morals.
But it makes just as much sense, or more, to say that precisely because becoming is the fully concrete reality, becoming is the primary form of «being,» or that each instance of becoming is «a being.»
Thus, «universal, but concrete effectiveness» can take place by means of «hybrid prehensions» of passed events regarding their identity, forming novelty («mentality») in an immediacy of actualization, which can not sufficiently be attained by any physical causality.
While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.
Hartshorne is willing to begin with the metaphysical reality of God and other selves (not just as a postulate, but as concrete existences), and then to use inference and imagination to provide an account of their nature and relations — an account which can he more or less adequate to its object, given the limitations of our form of consciousness.
But because the data of conceptual feelings are eternal objects or abstract forms of definiteness, the relationality is one of abstract pattern rather than of concrete particulars.
It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.
And it's essential — rather than moving on — that we take concrete steps toward eradicating all forms of sexism that lead to harassment, abuse and violence.
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