Sentences with phrase «give them their characteristic form»

RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New Science of Life, systems such as molecules, crystals, cells, organs and organisms are organized by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.

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In reference to any given society the world of actual entities is to be conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristic becoming wider and more general as we widen the background.

This is clear in Whitehead's description of the natural social order: «In reference to any given society, the world of actual entities is to he conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristics become wider and more general as we widen the background» (PR 98 / 150).

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

Such freedom to hold to ones own beliefs, to give expression to them in characteristic forms, and to tell others about them ought to be the privilege of all human beings.

In part the realization of the Church community in the New World waits on the development of institutions able to give it form and wholeness; in part the institutionalization in denominations expresses the variety and unity characteristic of the community on this part of the planet.

For them, unity constituted the principal characteristic of the church of Christ, while mission was the outward expression of the task that Christ Himself delegated to it.46 The Metropolitan James of Melita, (the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the World Council of Churches), told the Assembly that the Orthodox church gives preponderance to unity, for it believes that unity in faith, aim and scope should form the substance for any missionary activity.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

What I set out to show, and hope to have shown, is that, viewed from a certain angle, the internal stir of the Cosmos no longer appears disorderly: it takes a given direction following a major axis of movement at the completion of which the human phenomenon becomes detached as the most advanced form of the largest and most characteristic of cosmic processes, that of in - folding.

There is a homology between them, but nothing allows us to derive the specific feature of religious language — i.e., that its referent moves among prophecy, narration, prescription, wisdom, and psalms, coordinating these diverse and partial forms of discourse by giving them a vanishing point and an index of incompleteness — nothing, I say, allows us to derive this from the general characteristics of the poetic function.

Admittedly, I am here presupposing that the universe is indeed a universe, a single all - comprehensive structured society of subsocieties with their constituent actual entities and that this all - comprehensive structured society possesses as a result a defining characteristic or common element of form which is analogously reproduced in the self - constitution of the myriad number of actual entities concrescing in the universe at any given moment.

For, in line with this proposal one can postulate that the universe or cosmic process is at any given moment an all - encompassing «structured society» or structured field of activity for all the actual entities emergent within it.4 Each actual entity, therefore, is able to derive its defining characteristic or common element of form from the ongoing structure of the society or societies to which it belongs.

Form for Leclerc is neither act taken as the static first act of the scholastics, nor even act taken as activity, the scholastic second act, but rather the specific character and structure of an activity — for example, the character of the activity which gives rise to the peculiar geometrical shapes characteristic of different molecules (PN 142 - 49).

Indeed, given the roots of this tradition in pietist and revivalist movements, it is characteristic in this ethos to invest high energy not only in communal worship but also in Bible study and prayer in intimate small - group settings in which students» individual piety may be nurtured and formed.

Ever since William James contrasted the religion of the «healthy minded» and that of the «sick soul,» (See The Varieties of Religious Experience) students of psychology of religion have wrestled with the distinguishing characteristics of health - giving and health - depleting forms of religion.

Dependent on the type of lactic acid bacteria used carbon dioxide, acetic acid, diacetyl, acetaldehyde and several other substances are formed in the conversion process, and these give the products their characteristic fresh taste and aroma.

Because voice is a characteristic unique to each person, it forms the basis of the authentication of the person, giving the attacker the keys to that person's privacy.»

After they're formed, melanocytes migrate to the bottom of the hair follicle, where they give off a person's characteristic hair color to keratinocytes that make up a hair.

Raunkier (1934) plant life - forms were also extrapolated throughout the 7 environments, these plant characteristics show continually expressed distribution patterns which were summarized by imposing the boundaries of Rastrigin's function, Gaussian process model to give spectra, for the results of this standardized analysis see Furze et al., 2013d.

Planned giving can take many forms, but all share the unique characteristic that they allow you to ultimately donate more to help save the lives of animals than you may have ever thought possible while retaining the flexibility to donate conservatively during the course of your lifetime.

The methods of teaching developed at the BMC — such as an emphasis on interpretation and dialogue in the form of the student critique (or «crit»)-- are still present in many of our most advanced art schools; the language of interdisciplinarity began at BMC and the mixture of disciplines and mediums gave way to what is largely regarded as the first «happening»; and the aspirations of intentional communities, utopian ways of thinking, bridging the gap between art and life, and the creation of a counter-culture that are characteristic of American culture in the 1960s all flourished at the college in the preceding decades.

He has been fascinated with the characteristics of ceramics such as the plasticity of clay that gives him many options and a spontaneous approach in building form.

They require so little from contemporary art, or so it seems to me, that they are prepared to help over the admittedly modest stile to victory one artist who produces lame conceptual objects, another whose installation is like a solemn sixth - form project, a third whose composition for six opera singers has startling characteristics purely as a piece of music, and a collective of 15 architects, all highly gifted but themselves bemused by the shortlisting, given the existence of (just for instance) the Stirling prize.

But at the very moment when one considers joined piecewise linear approximations [fig 4], without giving the reasons why the system would change its characteristics at that very time, perhaps it is more sensible to look for mechanisms (or effects, if we are unsure of the mechanisms) that describe the changing rate of change (leading to quadratic description) or perhaps even other functional forms: periodic, logistic, cubic.

The High Court confirmed that just because native title has different characteristics from other forms of title and derives from a different source, it does not mean it can be given less protection than other forms of title.

Given the lower rates of interactions with CF peers compared with non-CF peers, some forms of positive friendship qualities focused on direct contact (e.g., companionship) may be more difficult to achieve for adolescents with CF.. This difficulty could be compounded for boys with CF, given their gender - normative reliance on friendship qualities such as shared activities to a greater degree than more emotionally focused friendship goals characteristic of female friendships (e.g., Rose & Rudolph, 2Given the lower rates of interactions with CF peers compared with non-CF peers, some forms of positive friendship qualities focused on direct contact (e.g., companionship) may be more difficult to achieve for adolescents with CF.. This difficulty could be compounded for boys with CF, given their gender - normative reliance on friendship qualities such as shared activities to a greater degree than more emotionally focused friendship goals characteristic of female friendships (e.g., Rose & Rudolph, 2given their gender - normative reliance on friendship qualities such as shared activities to a greater degree than more emotionally focused friendship goals characteristic of female friendships (e.g., Rose & Rudolph, 2006).