Sentences with phrase «given totality»

For me, given the totality of our circumstances, life aspirations, and risk tolerance — which will differ from every single reader of this article — I prefer the approach I've put in place.

It's just the best I know, given the totality of evidence that I've seen, but I might have missed something.

«Given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question.»

«After careful deliberation, given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question,» said Joon Kim, the acting U.S. attorney.

Contrast this with Hodgson who, once the men who appointed him had gone, had absolutely no support at any level of the club, and yet has been given the totality of the blame for the frankly embarrassing performances «phoned in by a number of Liverpool players during his short, unhappy reign.

Aleph - null must be merely assumed to exist as a given totality.

Again, given the totality of his commentary, this is a helluva bar to clear.

When you give the totality of your circumstance its annual second thought Thursday, think of the royals in hardscrabble antiquity raging with jealousy, and reflect:

Not exact matches

Awareness of death gives to life immediacy and depth, and makes life so intense that its totality is summed up in the present moment.

And it is because of this, it is because there exists in you this ineffable synthesis of what our human thought and experience would never have dared join together in order to adore them — element and totality, the one and the many, mind and matter, the infinite and the personal; it is because of the indefinable contours which this complexity gives to your appearance and to your activity, that my heart, enamoured of cosmic reality, gives itself passionately to you.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

because the Christian lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.

The death of God in Christ is an inevitable consequence of the movement of God into the world, of Spirit into flesh, and the actualization of the death of God in the totality of experience is a decisive sign of the continuing and forward movement of the divine process, as it continues to negate its particular and given expressions, by moving ever more fully into the depths of the profane.

«I don't want to say necessarily that nothing applies, but understanding Christ as a person and His very real experience of dying through capital punishment should give us a little bit more pause and reflection to think, what does it mean in the totality of the Gospel?

The evolving universe gives testimony to the totality of that gift.

Craig's reasoning here leads to the recognition that an infinite collection is something which, to be thought of at all, must be thought of as given all - at - once or given in totality.

There would, accordingly, be various units of process in the universe with the larger units generally incorporating the smaller units within themselves, But each unit, from the smallest (a given actual entity) to the largest (the divine community) would be structured the same way, i.e., as a self - sustaining unity in totality of functioning parts or members.

That goal is the expression, on the level of duty, of the demand, the claim — the Verlangen — which constitutes pure reason in its speculative and practical use; reason «demands the absolute totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing» (beginning of the Dialectic of the Critique of Practical Reason).

Now this totality is not given but demanded; it can not be given, not only because the critique of the transcendental illusion accompanies it without fail, but because practical reason, in its dialectic, institutes a new antinomy; what it demands, in fact, is that happiness be added to morality; it thus requires to be added to the object of its aim, that this object may be whole, what it excluded from its principles, that they might be pure.

The central mark of this order, according to Ellul, is technique, «the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of human development) in every field of human activity.»

As the natural sciences have helped man to understand his place in the totality of the universe, so they have also given him means by which he can adjust himself to the natural processes and by which he may even control them.

But given their unification in this manner, along with the guiding interest in numbering the objects concerned, the totality of objects does in fact appear to us as one intuitive whole in which the unifying relations («collective combinations») may be seen to be exactly what they are.

Edmund Husserl gave a detailed analysis of the course of experience through which we come to have the concept of a totality of things.

When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way, for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a particular «routing» of occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.

Assuming that Sunyata, or Total Emptiness, only appears as a consequence of the total emptying of consciousness and experience, can we surmise that God and the World can only appear as Totality or Total Togetherness as a consequence of the total emptying of everything which is given and manifest to us as God and the World?

Often it almost seems as if Whitehead gives precedence to prehension over [actual] entity, as when he drops the remark that a prehension could be taken for a [complete] actuality even though it ultimately makes up only an aspect of the [actual] entity [248] as a subordinate element of its totality.

But the classical mystical forms of Yes - saying are interior expressions of the metamorphosis of a profane emptiness and nothingness into a sacred totality, a totality of bliss drawing all things into itself, and thereby negating their original and given form.

From this we can realise that the communication of grace is not the giving of a whole sum to man, as if the totality was bestowed on him in one act or from the beginning of man's existence.

We can even specialize projective geometry in a manner parallel to the specialization that gives us Euclidean geometry, to obtain what Whitehead termed «anti-space,» and Adams «counter-space» (Adams and Wicher 1960): a space characterized by an «absolute point center,» corresponding to the «absolute plane at infinity» that lifts Euclidean geometry out of the totality of geometries contained in projective space.

With its hegemony diminished, universe has given way to other terms that capture the wider canvas on which the totality of reality may be painted.

Total solar eclipses are very rare events for any given place on Earth because totality is only seen where the Moon's umbra touches the Earth's surface.

The ORAC antioxidant food rating can not be easily measured, and it is the combination as well as the totality of the beneficial nutrients such as flavonoids and polyphenols which give the total score.

It is the totality of specific behaviors that will give you the best (or maybe the worst) impression of a prospective partner, says FBI criminal profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

Not all knowledge can be given to everyone in its totality, so each individual has some advantage over others through their possession of unique information.

In comprising our top ten we considered the totality of a dog's breed giving the most weight to intelligence, loyalty, and personality.

Within the sprawling totality of the Getty exhibition, this small installation effectively encapsulates the details of the scandal without giving it too much attention.

The totality of Lord's endeavour, the equanimity given to each part of the disassembled body and the omnipresent sense of New York's melancholic streets gave the room a pulse by letting the project breathe.

Within the totality of arts, painting and sculpture, more than the others, gave to artists in all mediums a new sense of freedom and possibility.

If we work towards making sustainability a reality in it's totality we can give the world a chance to be resilient and restore itself...

So, our adjustments in some sense «verify» against the sum totality of the rest of the observing system given a physical model based transfer function.

Selecting a start date because of sound reason with a demonstrable basis in physics or because it is the totality of the data set is not — especially when the conclusions you draw give due consideration (which David fails to do throughout this piece, leading him to a conclusion that is arse about face) to the limits of the data set would represent good analysis.

In rejecting that submission I had no intention of giving birth to erroneous notions, such as that causation was irrelevant or that the circumstances had to be separated into sections and each section to be analysed separately so as to lose sight of the totality of the relevant circumstances.»

Several modifications of the totality of circumstances test have been articulated to organize analysis in a given fact scenario.

the totality of the evidence and the peculiar factual circumstances of a given case will lead an experienced jurist to conclude that the fact - finding exercise applied at trial was flawed in light of the unreasonable result that it produced.

The economic problem of society... is not merely a problem of how to allocate «given» resources — if «given» is taken to mean given to a single mind... It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society... a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.

Naturally we all have an inner world of mental activities, such as the aforementioned familiar aspects of the mind, but the mindsight lens gives us the ability to sense these thoughts and feelings and not be taken over by them - it lets us see our thoughts and feelings as one aspect of who we are, not the totality of our identity.