Sentences with phrase «general significance of»

You could rephrase this question to ask about the general significance of «abandonment» on a work's copyright.

Continuing an anthropomorphic sensibility begun in her dart paintings, Feu à volonté featured two works, Homage to Bob Rauschenberg and Tir de Jasper Johns (both 1961), which Saint Phalle gifted as individual «portraits» to her friends after inviting them to execute the shootings prior to installation.25 Reviewing the show for the New York Herald Tribune, John Ashbery noted the general significance of her intervention, writing, «[She] has invented a new kind of painting that must be finished by the spectator [emphasis mine] with the aid of the rifle bullets fired at the canvas.»

The general significance of Jerusalem to Christians outside the Holy Land entered a period of decline during the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire but resumed again c. 325 when Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Helena, endowed Jerusalem with churches and shrines, making it the foremost centre of Christian pilgrimage, see also Constantine I and Christianity.

Consequently, this argument contributes very little either toward defending the cognitive significance of Stapp's proof or toward clarifying the status of the unknowable spin values with which the proof deals; the same can be said of his argument defending the general significance of talk about possibilities.

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The move by AA to beef up its Code is an opportunity to emphasize several key points about the role and significance of a Code of Ethics in general.

A nascent literature on depression and Instagram use has so far either yielded results that are too general or too labor - intensive to be of practical significance for predictive analytics [14, 15].

The policies adopted by Housing NSW and the State Govt are, of course, underpinned by economic rationalism, and completely ignore the social and historical significance of the properties and the area in general.

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

Through several public policy initiatives, NACO represents Angel asset class issues of national significance, assumes a leadership role in areas requiring national coordination and support, and promotes the Angel asset class to the general public in Canada and abroad.

For example, the general support of the working classes for the Reform Bill of 1832 gains in significance when placed against their bitterly disappointed aspirations for voting rights and their increased awareness of class discrimination.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

The broader significance of the chapter lies in whatever light it throws on the psychological understanding of authoritarian religion in general.

«Special revelation» means that God does not make himself known primarily in the general experiences of mankind, but in particular critical historical happenings of unusually great significance.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

In «The Christmas Oratorio» his comic witnesses of the Nativity train attention on our common human foibles and show that the general drudgery and pettiness of our lives may contain an underlying dimension of significance and worth.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

It is the task of general sociology to investigate the sociological significance of the various forms of intellectual and practical expression of religious experience (myth, doctrine; prayer, sacrifice, rites; organization, constitution, authority); it falls to the specific sociological study to cover sociologically concrete, historical examples: a Sioux (Omaha) Indian myth, an Egyptian doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, Murngin or Mohammedan prayer, the Yoruba practice of sacrifice, the constitution of the earliest Buddhist Samgha, Samoyed priesthood, etc..

In general, however, men attach too much significance to work performance and recognition of their achievement, while women doubt their ability to function in the public work world.

The independent springing up of other writers who have sought to answer this need in a similar way is as much a testimony to the significance of the general trend of Buber's thought as is the rapidly increasing number of thinkers who have been directly or indirectly influenced by him.

The significance of conceptualizing these responses as a distinct set of variables is that cultural innovations are seen as a result of specific actions, not just general phenomena that emerge automatically and mysteriously from structural conditions.

All Christian groups give a general sacramental significance to the acts of Christian worship.

In a world where every actuality incarnates God, even if in a very diminished way, the christological problem must be put quite differently: what is the special characteristic of general human significance defining a Christ - event, enabling Christians to confess that they find it decisively realized in Jesus of Nazareth?

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

The theologian might add that for each person the basic religious questions deal with the significance of his individual life — the only one each of us experiences from the inside — and his relation to the singular God, who is never one of a general class of objects.

To understand the significance of the world forces of collectivization, and what it is that they so imperiously demand of us, we need to look down from a great height and contemplate, in their widest, most general aspect, the organic relationships linking consciousness and complexity within the Universe.

A primary reason, both in point of time and significance, for the general low estimate of preaching is to be found in the nature of American Christianity.

And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

It is of less significance to know how many of such optimistic or resigned «wisdom» sayings were really spoken by Jesus, than to see that the view of man set forth in this proverbial wisdom is in general accepted by Jesus.

By failing to grasp the true significance of such concepts as history and love, Screwtape does not perceive the enrichment that time, in general, and Christianity, in particular, offer to persons.

In resignation I make renunciation of everything, this movement I make by myself, and if I do not make it, it is because I am cowardly and effeminate and without enthusiasm and do not feel the significance of the lofty dignity which is assigned to every man, that of being his own censor, which is a far prouder title than that of Censor General to the whole Roman Republic.

The significance for mental health of the orality of the worship service in general and the communion sacrament in particular can be understood in this context.

First, however, I should like to address myself to the question of the general historical significance of Whitehead's particular dilemma.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

Schama shows how this theatrically composed picture replaced the reality of the General's death, and thus the significance of his life and of the battle he fought, in the minds of generation after generation of schoolboys to suit the political mythology of the British Empire.

For theology (I would say) is founded in occasions of insight and disclosure when, to put it at its most general, the universe declares itself in a particular way around some group of events which thus take on a cosmic significance.

And yet, in spite of the materialistic tone, Marx's writings are related to issues of general philosophical significance, and his later writings on economy and society are meaningful only within this wider context.

We then would have literalized the metaphor so as to deprive it of its general ethical significance.

We have discussed in general terms the significance of the messianic life - style for providing direction and content for our mission.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

API has an excellent resource list, but these are what I consider the essentials, as they illustrate the significance of family connection, unconditionality, communication, and general AP principals.

The general practice is to move to larger majority requirements for issues of larger significance, such as constitutional changes.

It therefore has little significance for the General Election, where there will be a clear choice: another five years of this tired and failing Labour Government or change, hope and optimism under David Cameron's Conservatives.»

Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti last night played down the significance of opinion polls, which she said had failed to predict Brexit or Donald Trump's victory.

The debate about electoral reform should include firstly attitudes to political parties (in general terms, not the particular parties) and secondly the importance of the individual candidates (again in general terms) and their significance in our democratic system.

They are litmus tests of the more general mood of the country, totems of wider significance, tipping points that change politics.

«I do not consider the main significance of the general theory of relativity to be the prediction of some tiny observable effects,» wrote Einstein in 1930.

«With more knowledge about the significance of diet, I hope it will become possible to personalise the diet instead of having general dietary guidelines as we have today.»

Although the first attempts to electrostatically swell water channels in lipid mesophases date back to early 2000's and have continued steadily until recently, this is the first demonstrated evolution of this strategy into a methodology of general significance.

The core Nature journals tend to publish very strong research, often of general significance across and within disciplines.

10.30 - 11.00 Stackebradt, Erko (Professor, Leibnitz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Coordinator, MIRRI - Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braunschweig, Germany): Scientists and (their) microbial resources: responsibilities revisited 11.00 - 11.30 Balázs, Ervin (Member of HAS, Professor, Director - general, Centre for Agricultural Reserch, Hungarian Academy of Science, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccination