Sentences with phrase «general tendencies of»

The surroundings of Klein's artistic career changed over years, but some of the general tendencies of the time reflected in his work.

I want to know about general tendencies of the gay dating scene in.

Moreover, Pope Francis has adopted a style of leadership that works against the general tendencies of our times.

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

In large part this has been an expression of the general tendency of the academic world.

The general tendency of the Church in the twentieth century has been toward a conception of social responsibility which virtually made it an agent of secular society.

Surely, that would be the general tendency of a club towards a young player who knows he is not first - choice but is still willing to stay and fight for his place in the side.

Pat argues that it is the general tendency of climate models when forced with exponentially increasing CO2 concentrations (as were the models used in Dr. Covey's CMIP project) to produce a nearly linear temperature rise into the future.

The general tendency of PHD is the opposite: we recommend getting about 30 % of calories as carbs, and 5/6 of all carb calories from glucose.

As shown in Table 2, effect sizes were all positive, illustrating the general tendency of the middle school students in this baseline data sample to be more positive in their perceptions of STEM than were the preservice teachers.

Yet this impressive - seeming average outperformance should be viewed in the context of a general tendency of stocks to outperform once they have attracted the intense interest of known activist investors.

In amongst the multimedia examples in the column was one from Teddy TV titled «Trend and variation» — purporting to teach the viewer the difference between trend («an average or general tendency of a series of data points to move in a certain direction over time, represented by a line or curve on a graph») and variation («common cause variation is also known as «noise» or «natural patterns,»» the squiggles on a graph).

But even so, probably a bad idea, due to the general tendency of government not being accountable for it's actions.

Not exact matches

One quick note about «short ETFs» in general is that most of them have a tendency to underperform their underlying indexes as the holding period increases.

Others, such as the tendency for investors to become increasingly eager to chase high yields as the general level of interest rates falls, suggest a need for caution.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Its presence there, however mistakenly justified, serves as a continuing corrective particularly to ascetic Christian tendencies, and to an otherworldly view of Scripture and biblical faith in general.

We have already suggested that the idealizing tendency, common to legend in general, is conspicuously weak in the stories of the patriarchs.

But in general, I am totally with you, aside for the occasional guilty pleasure of coming here and helping theists trip themselves on their lack of logic, for (judgement) their political tendencies are actually very dangerous for people like you.

There are changes in the intimacy pattern in the various stages of the marriage, but there is also a tendency for the couple to maintain a general continuity of relationship style over the years.

But it is also important that Europeans who come here are challenged, as well — particularly by our American cautiousness about the tendencies of states, institutions, and power structures in general.

The essential matter is that, given the general context of the surrounding religions, and given the general popular tendency, there was a total reversal.

General scientific tendencies since the end of the Seventeenth Century.

The main philosophic difficulty that the Syllabus faces comes out in «General scientific tendencies since the end of the Seventeenth Century.

The tendency to assign too great a role to reason or mind in the general scheme of things is well exemplified in the works of Hegel.

And while it is true that such an approach does offer a more «down to earth» understanding of the relation of mind to nature, here there is a seemingly equal tendency to assign too great a role to the place of nature in the general scheme of things, resulting in the general devaluation of reason or mind.

Whereas Hegel may be said to exemplify the tendency to assign too great a role to mind in the general scheme of things, it is Nietzsche who perhaps best represents the opposite or contrary tendency, namely that of assigning too great a place to nature over mind.

There is a tendency to overlook interdependency as a part of healthy human relations, both those of husband and wife and also those of people in general.

Early liberal responses to the new sexual freedom of youth had a tendency to present sexuality as the good gift of God without exploring general biblical guidelines for responsible sexual expression.4

Now in this regard, the general tendency among students and historians of philosophy has been to see process philosophy as firmly emplaced on the Continental side.

6 While some variation of the «vitalist» hypothesis appears necessary in historical perspective, the recent findings of Nobel - laureate chemist Ilya Prigogine regarding the tendency toward self - organization and greater complexity in dissipative chemical structures shows that the evolution of complexity is itself compatible with, rather than contrary to the general physical principles of thermodynamics.

It is clear that Whitehead sees a parallel between the physical and mental aspects of dipolar occasions and the practical (physical) and theoretical (mental) aspects which together constitute the proper function of Reason as a counterweight to the general tendency towards dissolution and decay (FR 32f.).

The study does see a «general tendency... toward a greater emphasis on cooperation and the achievement of a genuine community within the faculty,» and it calls for the development of ways to further this trend.

In consequence of all these motives you probably are disposed, unless some special utility can be shown in some individual's discipline, to treat the general tendency to asceticism as pathological.

It is in part to this phenomenon, emphasized especially by the presence of the central organ of the church, the papacy, that I would link the tendency of Italian thinkers of all persuasions to think in terms of elites, of governing classes and political classes, more or less clearly differentiated from the general population.

To these tendencies from Egypt were added the general modern conceptions of the period.

The miracles recorded in the gospel follow the same general pattern as in the synoptic gospels, although the tendency of the evangelist to use them as a peg for a controversy or discourse introduces a further artificial element into his gospel.

The sort of liberalism which looks with contempt upon conservative groups and their schools or even on conservative tendencies in theology in general, calling them all «Fundamentalist,» and the kind of conservatism that abhors all critical movements alike, cut themselves off from each other in the theological world more effectively than do Baptists from Presbyterians, Methodists from Anglicans.

Determined to debunk my mother's complexion - based love of Gwyneth, I informed her that the cookbook was getting terrible reviews, the media and general public were criticizing Gwyneth for her narcissistic and elitist tendencies, and that many believed Gwyn had completely lost touch with reality.

If the Browns are down to choosing between Chubb and Penn State running back Saquon Barkley here, all you need to do is look at is the tendencies of Browns General Manager John Dorsey.

And when we take away these tendencies, our players just kind of hang out in the general vicinity of the basketball.

Following losses the same issues re-emerge, sometimes to extreme levels if the loss was exceptionally bad, like at Liverpool, but invariably this has a tendency to subside over time due to a variety of factors like a general sense of apathy, a return to the win column or the misplaced belief that those in charge have finally learned their lesson and big changes are in the offing.

The tendency has been to bog down in fights between the Right and the Left, where conservatives were worried that character education programs were all about teaching mushy diversity and general sort of tolerance, and liberals were worried that character education was about teaching religion and more conservative values.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

It is the reason President Akufo - Addo must be cheered on at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly as President in about a fortnight from now and it is the reason we shouldn't endorse the growing tendency to wish ill of the Black Stars though I am not unaware of leading NPP officials making provocative statements about how the NDC Government was responsible for the poor results in earlier qualifiers and how only NPP supporters will be sent to Russia, but we must regardless always learn to rise above the misguided few and reach out for the Ghana Flag anytime it is about our dear country.

At the same time, this preoccupation with general models of the political is supposed to be the most appropriate response to the depoliticising social tendencies unleashed by globalised neoliberalism.

(Wild conjecture: I suspect that it has both to do with the relatively young age of social networking site users in a year in which the darn kids are politically active, as well as with the natural tendency of all social spaces to attract people who are in general directed outward into the public sphere.)

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

This anti-democratic tendency affects not just the electorate in general, but the very heart of political decision - making.

I half expected the polls to all converge together in the run up to the election, as they have a tendency to do before general elections, but in reality we got the same sort of contrast as we do in Westminster polls.