Sentences with phrase «from elements of his life»

Born in Australia, but now living in Switzerland with his wife and his dog, his stories cross a wide geographical range but often draw from elements of his life and experiences in the two countries he calls home.

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«Bitcoin and a lot of its other virtual currency counterparts really have elements of all of the different asset classes, whether they're meeting payment, whether it's a long - term asset,» Giancarlo told CNBC on «Fast Money» Monday, live from the annual Milken Conference in Los Angeles.
So if you're looking for ways to learn from Sweetgreen's success and reach peak performance in your own company, think about how you can introduce or strengthen each of these elementsliving and working with integrity, being intentional, and always persisting.
Among them is the service's high operational tempo over the last three decades, enticements from private industry, and frustration with elements of Air Force life.
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Can you create for me a life from a random collection of elements?
Within days, a coaltion force consisting of elements from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Netherlands, and Turkey was mobilized, saving many lives.
The lack of a positive, high - priority response from a series of Republican administrations to what is now a long - standing, continuously worsening social problem has allowed politically marginal and intellectually moribund elements to retain a credibility and force in our political life far beyond what their accomplishments would otherwise support.
I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.
In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that life could originate from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200 years earlier, who also believed that the basic elements of the universe was just air and water), was untrue.
Because here, it is called the galactic habitable zone and contains just the right concentrations of chemical elements needed to support life as well being away from dangerous radiation.
It is obvious also, from the appearance of sporting and acting «celebrities» in the empire, that this element of the imperial programme became a lively component in the private lives of inhabitants of the empire.
And that is why, in our prayer at the altar, we ask that the consecration may be brought about for us: Ut nobis Corpus et Sanguis fiat... 3 If I firmly believe that everything around me is the body and blood of the Word, 4 then for me (and in one sense for me alone) is brought about that marvellous «diaphany» which causes the luminous warmth of a single life to be objectively discernible in and to shine forth from the depths of every event, every element: whereas if, unhappily, my faith should flag, at once the light is quenched and everything becomes darkened, everything disintegrates.
Rather, the primary element in his preaching was the proclamation of the coming of God's righteous reign, but both the motive and the meaning of his faith in that new order of life were inseparable from his care for personality.
It has often been charged that by focusing attention away from «the world» to God, the kingdom of heaven, and eternal life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly element that nullifies human culture.
It is at best a prolegomenon which seeks to suggest an element in the ministry of Jesus that gives it a constitutive as distinct from an exemplary character, that makes it the supreme action of all history (action that is fully and entirely human, yet unique), action which crowns a ministry in which the ambiguities of human life are progressively articulated, being action in which their burden is endured à l'outrance.
If man today is asking can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional element in an abstract scheme, it may be fruitful to realize that knowledge and experience of God involve a cyclic growth process from experience to schematization, from formulation to God present in the dynamism of man's life and activity.
For Whitehead there truly is a divine element in the whole of things apart from which there would be no life, or thought, or freedom, or love.
Certainly the new element can not simply be separated from one's ordinary life, but by fulfilling the precepts of the catechism and the commandments of the Church and being in this sense a good Christian, we have not yet adequately responded to God's call to our concrete and unique person.
Existence of life was created from water (among other material) so water is an essential element of life... Adam was created from mud (has water), so water is one of the elements to create life and without it no life will be present.
As Erich Auerbach, a literary critic Frei much admired, once wrote of the Bible: «Far from seeking... merely to make us forget our own reality for a few hours, it seeks to overcome our reality: we are to fit our own life into its world, feel ourselves to be elements in its structure of universal history.
These signs are made by ordinary people from elements of everyday life.
The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»
Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.
Second, each moment of our lives makes its positive or negative contribution to God immediately upon its occurrence, as well as through the cumulative reality we call the «I.» Third, since God's consequent nature «passes back into the temporal world and qualifies this world, «157 our lives, being elements in God, also «reach back to influence the world» even apart from our direct social immortality.
When we know that the ultimate end of man is in the very life of God, we can view the entire universe and all its laws, from the symmetry of the elements to the Incarnation of Christ, as part of one evolutionary Providence or Divine Wisdom.
Kaplan believes that different religions result from the fact that each civilization sees in the important elements of its life media through which its people may achieve self - fulfillment or salvation.
Perception arises from the same cause which has brought into being the chain of nervous elements, with the organs which sustain them and with life in general.
«20 Niebuhr said it is a tragedy that the church cultivates its spirituality by divorcing itself from an understanding of the brutal elements of collective life.
But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.
It is true that purposefulness is much harder to see in lifeless than in living things, since the element of appetite, of striving for a good as a goal, seems absent from the former, whereas it becomes increasingly important and evident in the latter in proportion to their complexity, their rank in the hierarchy of living forms.
It calls every member of the Church • to renew their faith; • to make an actual effort to share it; • to recognise, certainly, a growing awareness of people to the changing circumstances of life today; • to value what is positive in every culture, while at the same time purifying it from elements that are contrary to the full realisation of the person according to the design of God revealed in Christ.
June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.
Process - relational thinkers here find scientific backing for their contention that there is an element of freedom, mentality, purpose in anything actual at all, and that needs to be the case in a consistently evolutionary view where the complex forms of life emerge from the simple.
The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.
Borrowing definitions from J. S. Furnivall, the editors thought pluralism was comprised of «two or more elements which live side by side, yet without mingling, in one political unit.»
Hitherto, in the eyes of a Science too much accustomed to reconstruct the world on one spatial axis extending in a line from the infinitely small to the infinitely great, the larger molecules of organic chemistry, and still more the living cellular composites, have existed without any defined position, like wandering stars, in the general scheme of cosmic elements.
What we then see is a flood of sympathetic forces, spreading from the heart of the system, which transforms the whole nature of the phenomenon: sympathy in the first place (an act of quasi-adoration) on the part of all the elements gathered together for the general impulse that carries them along; and also the sympathy (this time fraternal) of each separate element for all that is most unique and incommunicable in each of the co-elements with which it converges in the unity, not only of a single act of vision but of a single living subject.
(g) The mythological element in the kerygma is not, we have shown, the importation into the New Testament of ideas from non-Biblical religions, ideas which could be eliminated or superseded by interpreting the underlying understanding of human life.
Because a mother - figure of her nature and the defining element of the womb, the vessel of life, bespeaks a determination, and a prompting from another, from one outside.
These relative entities have evolved in a cosmic totality which is our serial Universe; they represent a process of coming to be in which the composite is built up on the simple; and the process is a continuum; it progresses on and on, from the particles of matter to the most complex synthesis of elements, from these to life, from life to the anthropoids.
******************** If we look at all the six elements that the Dua above is asking Allah for refuge from, we would realise that all of them are anti-Productivity elements that if removed from our lives we can move forward much quicker and be more productive.
Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.
But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature: the mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
Occasions of contact with such elements are avoided: the saintly life must deepen its spiritual consistency and keep unspotted from the world.
But at the same time, a culture of life can not be achieved without some element of righteous anger — at the injustices that create the conditions for abortion, at the abortionists who perpetrate it, and at the organizations which profit from it.
This recognition of the politicised nature of identity will be of assistance in the attempt to understand the characteristic of the hyphen as something which is not isolated but as an entity which has the power to draw together elements which come from the living past, while being informed about the machinations of the present, and anticipating an uncertain future.
Another chain of events led from heavy elements to the origin of life.
Another chain of events led from heavy elements to life.
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