Sentences with phrase «gave me language for»

The Psalter gave him a language for despair, metaphors to describe what it meant to feel poured out on the ground, melted down like a blob of wax, dried up like a broken clay fragment.

Maybe that's what good teaching does, it gives us language for our minds for what our hearts already know or suspect.

Virginia Woolf observed that the poets give us language for all sorts and conditions of love but don't offer ready language for a common headache.

When I came back to Christianity I came back to a form of the faith that gave me language for what I experienced to be true.

So Clara gave him the language for the promise he makes with his name.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

«Morphometrics gives you a language for talking about shapes,» says Jim Rohlf of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

But perhaps this article will give language for it.

Not exact matches

Given the expansion of the Internet to nearly every corner of the globe — and every audience's preference for content in their native language - there's definitive proof that there's an audience for localized websites and collateral.

According to Whoriskey, ``... executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled...» Setting aside imprecision of language, that suggests a significant disparity — not disparity of outcomes (which are a given, here) but disparity of rate of improvement.

Those locations will be a little closer to home for clients who might be apprehensive about the Philippines and will give TaskUs some redundancy for Spanish - language support.

«Given that she states her goal is accuracy and verification, that sounds like the language for an audit,» Ned Foley, the director of Election Law at Moritz at Ohio State's law school tells Business Insider.

Allows any system or programming language to compute anything that is computable (given sufficient resources), allowing for the deployment of smart contracts and decentralized applications.

The rationale for excluding those languages is that users can fit more thoughts into fewer characters given the nature of their written language.

Congressional investigators have interviewed ex-Donald Trump aides and advisers including J.D. Gordon, the national security policy representative at last year's GOP convention, about the campaign's push to remove proposed language from the 2016 Republican platform that called for giving weapons to Ukraine.

Multilingual support may give AvaTrade and advantage compared to smaller brokers, offering support for fourteen languages.

YRA HARRIS: Well for the Bank of Japan, Kuroda tried to give us a different spin on it thinking that maybe they were going to put an end to it, but as soon as the dollar / Yen softened off of that, I forget what the exact phrase was, it was from a speech in Switzerland in mid-November where he used certain language that spooked the market, but then he walked it back of course.

That, in light of $ 3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security: (a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat; (b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative; (c) all departmental evaluations of the Initiative; (d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor - General be given all necessary resources to perform an in - depth forensic audit until the missing $ 3.1 billion is found and accounted for.

The language used by the Fed also gave further weight to the potential commencement of its plan for balance sheet normalization at its next meeting in September.

For example, Australia proposes giving all its students access to learning an Asian language, not just Mandarin, but also Bahasa (Indonesia), Hindi, Japanese and Korean.

Marie is that mentor we've been wishing for who spoke our language, understands our struggles & gives sound advice that we can apply without even knowing us in person!

As the beings given speech or complex language by nature, we've been given excellences, responsibilities, perversities, and the potential for both good and evil not given to the other animals.

Should not the very language of their dismissiveness give these defenders pause for asking whether, if it is the conservatives who are unhappy, it may be because the liberals are getting their way in using the ecclesiastical machinery to promote their ends?

When young Solomon prays for wisdom at the beginning of his kingship — a prayer that pleases God — he asks for a heart that discerns good and evil, using the same language that gives a name to this tree (1 Kings 3:9).

There are many ways in which such language can be given an orthodox construction: If, for example, you take your definition of «justice» from a law textbook (Aquinas likes the Roman jurist Ulpian) or from ordinary political usage, then there's no problem in saying God's mercy surpasses that.

One of the great privileges of parenthood is walking with our children in prayer, I think, because we give them their first language for how they speak with God.

Isaiah 64 gives us the language to cry out for God's forgiveness and beckon God's presence — in our homes, in our churches, on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in the midst of the violence, materialism, injustice, and complacency that characterizes our present Empire.

Second, if it is not given in our «language», we need to step back and look for the linguistic difference before we judge it as not enough.

In those two words we give the reason for our longing for the most expensive language and images we can create, for we know this child's glory calls forth every possible beauty of utterance, image, art and song.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

Once God is regarded as an actual entity, the use of personalistic language follows naturally, for our basic clue to the nature of an actual entity is given in our own immediate human experience.

If David's psalms give individuals language for emotions and obligations and joys and predicaments predicated upon the Fall of Man and the Law, then Homer's poem is of the other eternity.

Instruction in Islam is given in local languages at the lower levels, but for higher studies a good knowledge of Arabic is necessary and mastery of Persian and Turkish is required for any extensive research.

This requires a willing suspension of disbelief in our own language; knowledge and judgment and nuance, everything that makes the tongue a living spirit, must give way for a labored impossibility.

Egalitarian families may not give the same fantasy for the man, but a team is built between the husband and wife, with one language that has no hidden (or double) meanings.

The revelation consists first and foremost in the person of Jesus Christ himself, but this can become material for theological use only as it is given in human language.

The reason for this suggested change of language is that wholes are established at transition, and creative process (as in 2b) uses the togetherness of the many prehensions (that give birth to the new whole at transition) to make a new specification.

Whitehead considers the command of language such a crucial element for self - identity and understanding that he writes, «The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls» (MT 57).

The one thing which the New Testament language on these matters gives us no ground for is the notion that the theological task could be exercised in isolation from the bearers of other gifts or from the surveillance of the total community.

For hermeneutics lives or dies by its ability to take history and language seriously, to give the other (whether person, event or text) our attention as other, not as a projection of our present fears, hopes and desires.

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us language, actually uses language to communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a metaphor for some non-cognitive way in which we are made aware of his presence.

You can say whatever you want to... Al Quran teaches that God created human in different nationality, ethnicity, language so that one can interact with other and then HE gave free will to every single one of the human... and every one of us will be held accountable for the using of this «free will»....

Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

In biblical language, the Spirit «takes of the things of Christ and declares them unto us», always in a manner which is both appropriate to the Church's origin and also available for and intelligible in this or that given moment of the tradition's development.

In clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itself.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

For these reasons I will speak of science and religion as alternative languages using alternative models, and restrict the term «complementary» to models of the same logical type within a given language.