Sentences with phrase «from confronting the reality»

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

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Since entering the German market in 2008, Morrow says, the company has had to confront the reality that businesses in Germany approach their printing operations quite differently from businesses in, for example, Italy.

Today through careful and prolonged reflection, often requiring the aid of a trained counselor, we may gain considerable ability to distinguish between that which comes from our unconscious symbolization and the external reality we confront, although even the most rational of us should be very hesitant about claiming much success.

When man confronts the question of the meaning of his life he finds that the question can only be answered if he sees that he is related to a transcendent reality, a God whose being is of a different order from that of all creatures and processes in our experience, who is the «unconditioned» ground of all being, to use Tillich's phrase.

And yet, when it came time to write a book about church (which, like every book, began with the rather rigorous and uncomfortable exercise of confronting my own bullshit), I couldn't deny the reality that, as much as I may dream of it, there's no starting from scratch... for any of us.

But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

Hence we are, on the one hand, confronted with an abundance of material, rich in analysis and content from a variety of perspectives that can offer to the Indian church sensitive viewpoints and creative directions for the understanding and practice of mission in India today, and, on the other, still confronted with the reality that, in so far as the mission question is concerned, an agreed upon standpoint, either in theological or practical terms continues to be elusive.

Confronted with this kind of reality, our present concern calls for a perspective on baptism which differs from the more usual biblical or theological approaches.

I may get into some trouble for saying this, but I don't care; we simply can't afford any more suicides or families caught in the middle: I think it's time for evangelicals to confront reality and move away from the «reparative therapy» approach, which seems to be doing far more harm than good.

Thus, while his presence takes all value and reality from the world, his equally absolute and permanent absence makes the world into the only reality which man can confront, the only sphere in and against which he can and must apply his demand for substantial and absolute values.

Less than 18 months after being elected speaker, Paul Ryan has emerged from the defeat of the health care bill badly damaged, retaining a grip on the job but left to confront the realities of his failure — imperiling the odd - couple partnership that was supposed to sustain a new era of conservative government under unified Republican rule.

From Sai Buhari to Kai Buhari is how ordinary Nigerians have constructed the social reality which confronts them in present day Nigeria.

Funny, exhausting, polemical and poetic, it is a joyous assertion of Gomes» belief that storytelling serves as an escape from reality, and a way to confront and transcend even the most difficult of times.

As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.

Not much is officially known about the sequel, although Stiller has said that it will focus on Derek and Hansel confronting the reality of a world that has moved on beyond them — with newer, younger, sexier models taking their place and a company looking to remove them from the business altogether.

SNL - alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader confront harsh realities in the upcoming release from Roadside Attractions The Skeleton Twins.

That's a fancy way of saying that most people go to the movies to get away from reality while a sizable minority value confronting it.

SNL - alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader confront harsh realities in the upcoming release from Roadside Attractions The Skeleton...

Meanwhile, his wife (Bérénice Bejo from The Artist) finds love with another man (Tahar Rahim from A Prophet), a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

The LA Unified School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the minutiae of charter school applications.

Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the «slyly subversive» (O, The Oprah Magazine) Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced by femmes d'un certain age with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of hilarious self - deprecation.

In «A Private Experience,» a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away.

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Executed only a few months before his death, the work shows Warhol in the signature peroxide fright wig of his late career, staring starkly out from the canvas in an emotionally arresting vision that confronts the reality of time head on.

«I don't try to produce beautiful artefacts to satisfy our senses and console us from harsh reality, but to bring that reality to the forefront of artistic representation and confront us with it,» said Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, who was born in Madrid in 1966.

Sept. 26 — Dec. 19, 2015 «RENEE STOUT: Wild World» @ Hemphill Fine Art Washington, D.C. Working in a range of mediums from painting and photography to assemblage, Renee Stout «confronts difficult realities in her personal life and attempts to better understand the human condition.»

«RENEE STOUT: Wild World» @ Hemphill Fine Art Washington, D.C. Working in a range of mediums from painting and photography to assemblage, Renee Stout «confronts difficult realities in her personal life and attempts to better understand the human condition.»

The seeming about - face in Guston's work that was announced by his first, and only, exhibition at the powerful Marlborough Gallery — representing many other Abstract Expressionists or their estates — resulted from the acute discrepancy he felt existed between the transcendental qualities of his abstract work and the harsh, down - to - earth realities of America in crisis, and his need to confront that strife head on.

From President Obama to GE's Jeff Immelt, leaders are confronting the reality we face: The global population will hit 9 billion by 2050, and we need our resources to scale and stay within our finite and dwindling carbon budget.

Scientists have done their job, it is time now to confront the reality of human - induced climate change resulting from emission of CO2 from fossil fuel consumption.»

What the evidence shows us is that rather than retreating from reality as the climate denialists would have us do, humanity must ignore these empty distractions and confront our new reality.

I do not need to add that all our experiences in this century, which has consistently confronted us with the totally unexpected, stand in flagrant contradiction to these notions and doctrines, whose very popularity seems to consist in offering a comfortable, speculative or pseudo-scientific refuge from reality.

One of the most common complaints I hear from recent graduates is that they feel under - prepared to deal with the day - to - day realities of practice that they are confronting as articling students or recent calls.

Further, the disadvantages arising from the «realities of the litigation process» have to be confronted.

These statements have emerged from a process of sharing, learning and confronting the reality of the churches» involvement in the separation and removal of Indigenous children.