Sentences with phrase «good occasion for us»

As Judith observed in # 16, the emotional impact of extreme events like Katrina has been sometimes perceived as a good occasion for incriminating GHGs and changing our mind about them.

While I'm making my way through dozens of papers I have to study, I decided that 1st day of February is a good occasion for a new inspirational post.

The mini-derby is always a good occasion for the younger players to get a taste of things to come once, or if, they're promoted to the senior squad.

This remark is a good occasion for stressing Hartshorne's indebtedness to Peirce.

The Lawler / Deneen exchange is a good occasion for me to explain where I stand on some of these fundamentals... or for me to start figure it out, rather.

A good occasion for reexamining the religion and politics of left and right is offered by Richard Rorty's recent little book, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth - Century America (Harvard University Press).

I can think of no better occasion for seeking to find a solution to the problem of developing an Canadian constitution in Canada — of finally «patriating» our constitution — than when we have reached agreement on constitutional protection of the basic rights of the citizen.

With O.J. Simpson facing sentencing today on charges of armed robbery, what better occasion for a retrospective on the lawyers involved in O.J.'s landmark trial of the century.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, accessories are the best and easiest way to spruce up an outfit, so we've included one bright and colorful pocket square for those occasions where you plan to rock a suit or blazer but also want to have a little fun.

«It was much better than I thought it would be,» said Carlos Royal, 45, a professor who came with a friend dressed in Santa hats and took selfies for the occasion in front of the theater's Hollywood sign marquis.

But a slew of new research is revealing that my inability to immerse myself in my phone may be good for me, just like unplugging from your phone on occasion may be good for you.

By offering a number of paid sick days each year, you give good employees breathing space for those rare occasions when they are too ill to come in.

Similarly, «the perfect gift for all occasions» is, by definition, best for no occasion.

«Constructive wallowing,» she argues, isn't simply a failure of backbone and grit, it's an occasion for self - compassion and a chance to learn about your negative feelings and fear so you can get better at working through them.

Lastly, your suit selection should be well - rounded so that you can dress for any occasion.

While I do enjoy this pie, it's better suited for other occasions such as Easter or a random pie craving.

It only stays in my wallet when I use my FSA card for health care expenses, Amex isn't accepted or on the very rare occasion when I'd reap significantly better rewards by using a different card.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

Let us think of process philosophy as a method designed for use on such occasions, evoked by such disputes as an instrument of reasonable good sense and creative imagination, one that will serve to fix what had broken down and to get things running smoothly once again.

It is better to say merely that a potential datum is not in the end objectifiable in this particular occasion, given its final determinate character; the reason for this is the decision to eliminate.

A process theology of nature, in which every occasion of experience has some power of self - determination, is one of the best options for environmental ethics today.

Richard as well as for the people of St. John's the day of installation was a glorious occasion.

Every occasion is something for itself as well as something for others.

Instead of relying on divine propositional feeling, it seems better to have the nascent occasion simply take over the divine prehending the world, for God is unifying, and evaluating (in terms of his subjective forms) that world in every way which he can.

Just as it's unsettling to be reminded that Bach's Well - Tempered Clavier was a set of keyboard exercises composed «for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning,» it's remarkable how much eerily flawless craftsmanship Waugh displays even when the occasion of his writing is casual or mundane.

God provides for each new occasion its «initial aim,» the maximal good that this occasion can accomplish as it actualizes itself.

51 In his discussion of how both God and world operate upon a becoming occasion, God always is working with the «given,» that is, the actuality of past decisions for good or for ill and all qualities inbetween.

Every actual occasion has value in and for itself as well.

For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support...

But a Christian reading of process - philosophy could very well make its own the words of the Psalmist, «God maketh even the wrath of man» — and the maladjustment and failure in nature too, we might add — «to turn to his praise» — which is to say, to be mysteriously transmuted into opportunities and occasions for the realization of possible goods.

7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming of a not - yet - existing occasion and the relations between existing things.

A new translation of a classic text provides an occasion for reading a well - thumbed favorite afresh.

«Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.»

Since the initial aim is not just for any actual occasion, but for this actual occasion, it seems better to say that God is objectified by one of his propositional feelings than by one of his pure conceptual feelings.

Whatever one's work or calling, occasions arise for professing one's allegiance to Christ and for inviting friends and associates, as well as casual acquaintances, to share one's faith.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

One man wrote this: «Our patience is improved, by bearing calmly the indignities he strives to load us with; our charity is enflamed by returning good for ill, and by pardoning and forgiving the injuries he does us; our prudence is increased by wisely managing ourselves in our demeanor, so as not to give him opportunity to wound us; our fortitude is strengthened by the manful repelling of scorns, and by giving occasions for the display of an undaunted courage in all our actions; our industry is strengthened and confirmed by watching all his attacks and stratagems; and by our contriving how we may best acquit ourselves in all our contests.»

-- Michael P. Steinberg A new translation of a classic text provides an occasion for reading a well - thumbed favorite afresh.

Rather, faith is the immediate occasion for challenging and developing thought so that it can better integrate itself with reality as a whole.

On all too many occasions, hanging would truly be «too good for him,» but that familiar phrase reminds us how far civilized law restrains itself from meting out thoroughgoing retribution, presumably for reasons that must supersede society's legitimate concern for reciprocity, proportionality and just deserts.

It is God who draws from every occasion all the possibilities for continued experience, and it is God who offers us those possibilities in the order of what is best from God's point of view.

While I have a deep appreciation for beautifully worded prayers (and share in them on occasion), I'm convinced that the prayer the Father longs for is one of childlike simplicity flowing from a heart of confidence and trust in the One who knows us better and more intimately than we know ourselves.

But besides the fact that Thomas Aquinas says that bad arguments for God's existence do more harm than good, since they give unbelievers an occasion to laugh (ST I, q. 46, art. 2, response), I would also claim that apologetics is not that difficult.

He discusses language, style and arrangement of the Qur» an, as well as differences between the early (Meccan) and later (Medinan) revelations and the importance of the «occasions of revelation» for understanding particular passages.

He has trained and fought with a mighty band of warriors (geborim), some of whom on occasion have saved his life (21:15 - 17) or tilted with Philistine giants (21:18 - 21); and once, in a moving episode of mutual loyalty and admiration between men and leader, three of their number risked seemingly probable death to answer David's longing for the cool water of Bethlehem's well (23:13 - 17).

When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.

Hence a mysterious but genuine part of the divine agency in the world (of which more will be said later in this chapter) is the way in which the error, the maladjustment, the refusal to move forward, the «evil» in the world, precisely because (and precisely in the degree that) it enters into the divine concern, can become the occasion for new possibilities of good.

Therefore, our Christian attitude toward whatever is evil is a firm rejection of it and an earnest effort against it, to the end that it shall be overcome, negated, removed from the world or transformed into an occasion for good to emerge.

Once again, it must be made clear that talk of enrichment is not meant to suggest that God becomes any more «God» than he always has been; what is intended by such language is simply that, because God is supremely related to all occasions, these various occurrences provide material for his fuller expression in relationship with creation and at the same time bring about an enhancement of the divine joy as well as a participation through «suffering» (or sharing as participation) in all that takes place in the world.

God furnishes the initial direction, but the occasion is responsible for its actualization, whether for good or for evil.