Sentences with phrase «from events of the past»

Is the enigmatic multimillionaire looking for a distraction from the events of the past few months?

The specific content of the future that interprets the present is drawn from events of the past (whether the recent or the remote past).

So, what has the climate journalism community learned from the events of the past year?

Here are three things lawyers who are addicted to bad law firm marketing (and Lindsay Lohan) can learn from the events of the past few weeks:

Not exact matches

In the past, when people of color were treated with indignity and disdain for simply existing, most responses from company leaders involved an approach of firing an employee, a feeble apology, and business as usual once the event faded from the headlines.

From music festivals to skydiving adventures to sporting events, the shift means that brands selling physical goods will no longer be able to get by using the traditional sales and marketing tactics of decades past.

In the past, such ROI calculations have been largely based on feedback obtained from surveys submitted after the conclusion of the event.

With such a program it is not possible to hide from participants whether or not they received the intervention and outcome measures rely on self - reports of events that may have occurred a few years in the past.

That diversity is on display in a major way at the Los Angeles Times» second annual L.A. Food Bowl festival, which runs for the full month of May and includes hundreds of different meal events from high - profile chefs like Nancy Silverton (Mozza), Curtis Stone (Gwen) and Yoshihiro Narisawa whose eponymous Tokyo restaurant Gold said made him «shudder with pleasure» in his review this past month.

Word counts and article tallies are not everything, but they represent two simple ways of measuring what even casual news consumers undoubtedly feel — that last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is not fading from headlines as rapidly as similar events have in the recent past.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

One is simply that the large group of survivor - activists is more noteworthy than what we've seen from past events.

This past year, we've posted hundreds of articles on topics ranging from social justice and current events to new music and studying the Bible.

Crane's concept of plot can be adapted for historical narratives and for historical events if we make the transition from «people - centered» fiction to «event - centered» accounts of the past.

But the real presence of the past event is distinct from simply the presence of these changing ideas.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

After exchanging greetings the two old men, both suffering from diabetes and the afternoon heat, walked arm - in - arm past rug shops, falafel stands, vendors of rosaries and frankincense, into the massive Crusader - built Church of the Holy Sepulchre (constructed on the ruins of Constantine's Anastasis) where a Byzantine liturgy of thanksgiving was conducted to mark the event.

What makes common sense to me is that this is coming from the same volume of scripture that has within it revelations from the past present and future from the time in which the events that were written about took place.

The original form of Jesus has disappeared from view, transcendence has been swallowed up by immanence, the events of our salvation history have passed into the dead and lifeless moments of an irrevocable past, no heaven can appear above the infinite stretches of a purely exterior spatiality, and no grace can appear within the isolated subjectivity of a momentary consciousness.

(c) Soteriological movement: God, who for Whitehead is the beginning of each event (PR 244) and the original power of novelty (PR 67), is also the release from the repetition of the past, i.e., the repetition of evil, guilt, and death.33 On this basis, theology can follow its soteriological function; namely, «to show how the World is founded on something beyond mere transient fact, and how it issues into something beyond the perishing of occasions» (AI 172).

This establishes that the logical impossibility of specifying some infinitely remote past event O is equivalent to the logical impossibility of specifying some infinitely remote future event B» (infinitely remote from E).

Moreover, the traditional African perception that events move backward in time from Sasa to Zamani reminds me of Whitehead's doctrine of perpetual perishing; and also, the perception that all events are preserved in the eternal reality of the Zamani — «the state of collective immortality» — reminds me of Whitehead's doctrine of the objective immortality of the past.

Legend retains from the rubrics of history only the concern for sequence; yet in legend it is always a sequence determined not by past event but by present faith.

Similarly, if event A is in the past of event B, then A is earlier than B, and B is later than A, and hence the B - series characteristics follow from the A-series characteristics, as the A-series characteristics follow from the B - series characteristics.

History is customarily understood as an interrelation of events none of which are significant in themselves but only in terms of their connection with the past from which they spring and the future to which they give rise.

For the event to which we have been led back by all lines of approach, from outside and from inside, is not some remote, forgotten episode of the past, recovered, as it might be, through digging up an ancient tomb or unearthing a manuscript in a cave.

The past which the Christian community or tradition inherits is first of all the event from which it took its origin — Jesus Christ as an historical reality, with all that this includes such as the preparation in Judaism for his coming, the way in which he was received and understood in his own time, his own sense of vocation for whatever he undertook, and the way in which he has come to have significance for later generations.

Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.

For the most part it is the force of the past events that determines what is felt and to what degree; so what is prehension from the side of the new event is causality from the side of the past ones.

In Whitehead's system a physical feeling is the perception of a past event as distinguished from a «conceptual feeling» which is the entertainment of an eternal object.

He begins his pulsating, momentary existence as an individual from a set of complex impulses derived from the ongoing energy of past events as they objectify themselves into the present.

To say an event is «past» for God does not mean that ii is absent from his present awareness; it means that it is not the «final increment» of determinate detail contained in that aware.

Mar. 18, 2013 — People suffering from complicated grief may have difficulty recalling specific events from their past or imagining specific events in the future, but not when those events involve the partner they lost, according to a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Insofar as events differ meaningfully from their past, not simply reiterating that which they have inherited, they display some degree of mentality.

It is just that love that can redeem personal identities like Sam's and his father's from their distorting bondage to past events, for it is God's love for them that grounds the worth of their lives.

If yes, then the event must itself be more than just an event of past history: it must include within itself as an event of the past this meta - historical, existential significance, and it must be possible to extract that significance from the event itself.

Our identification with the death of Christ, it maintains, is not merely a present event, but a present event controlled by a real event of the past — i.e. the dying of Christ: «Bultmann takes over from Heidegger the concept of existence, and uses it to describe the stripping away of illusions and the consequent entry into the authentic human existence.

Accordingly, Sawicki argues, «It would be a misconception to regard the gospel words as referring, after the fact, to some event separate and self - contained that happened independently of those words and that subsists apart from them somewhere in the human past.,,, [14] And «those who want to see the Lord must devote themselves to liturgy and the poor (better yet, the liturgy with the poor) as well as to printed texts.»

This sweeping generalization from Ms. Smith's prehension of her past experience is based on the speculation that the relations that constitute all atomic events can also be understood as prehensions.

The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk of nature, the mineral level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient of a series of events leading up to it.

It may involve (as it sometimes does) a process of extrapolation from the present scene, whereby divine commitment to the future is proclaimed in divine judgment or in redemption, or in both; or it may sweep backward in time to bring past events forcefully into the present with incisive relevance.

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.

First, there must be essential features deriving from past events in the person's life that carry obligation from the past Second, there must be essential features deriving from the future and binding a person's present actions in terms of norms for future consequences These future - derived essential features might be consciously anticipated, but even if they are not a person still is responsible for unanticipated consequences.

> From then on, Judaism was to be a religion of the Book, and no small part of it, along with the accounts of the great events of their past, was embodied in the law.

And similarly, when possession is taken of the land and Joshua's work is done, we read as if from his lips that magnificent confessional recital of past events in Josh.

The locus of productive activity thereby shifts from the past causes to the present event, which is active in virtue of its own power.

Although we differ on at least one point in the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy (he holds the system to require that God acts efficiently by mediating to present events finite efficient causes derived from the past), I do not see how his God acts coercively in any of the senses outlined in the previous chapter.

The emergence of mind in the course of individual development from the fertilized egg presents a similar problem and one that is an everyday occurrence instead of a single event in the remote past.

In fact, Bultmann is at pains to divorce what he calls the historicity of the cross from the crucifixion of Jesus as an event in the past: «The real meaning of the cross is that it has created a new and permanent situation in history.

But we must remember that God is not absent from events that monotonously repeat their past, for he is the ground of order.