Sentences with phrase «guide the nature of»

Spirits that identify and guide the nature of a community also appear in the New Testament.

The plain text, long lists, and completely self - guided nature of the software make it almost impossible for new filers to understand.

The guided nature of the code causes it to pull video and audio, based on voice - over and tags written into the metadata of each file and the narrative.

A firm can, in this way, put its own stamp on the graduate's approach, and guide the nature of the research experience.

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Poloz is fond of invoking Mother Nature as the benevolent force that will ultimately guide Canada's economy to better days.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

I was recently working on a project where we were doing aggressive emails list building, things like exactly what you're talking about, where we have buyers» guides and things of that nature, and we ended up with, «Well, do we put these people in MailChimp or do we put them in WooCommerce?»

But analysts and investors must keep a skeptical nature when studying the performance of companies, say the authors of Financial Statement Analysis, A Practitioner's Guide.

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

Are not the laws of nature an expression of God's guiding providence?

To avoid purely «subjectivistic» values, Camus, via the Greeks, posited the limits and beauty of «objective» nature as man's sure guide.

The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.

The primary social question in regard to occupation is whether work is determined by the requirements of a sovereign economic mechanism or by deliberate social planning guided by an integral concept of human nature.

A theology of nature is needed when the guiding images at the center of theology as such are not informed by what needs to be learned in reflection on nature.

Nature seems less a nurturing mother, or a pattern to guide conduct, than a structured reservoir of power which can be bent to human ends.

The minister's understanding of the nature and prognosis of the problem puts him in a stronger position to help guide the family and interpret the patient's behavior and the therapy to them.

Many of us, however, see nature as a poor moral guide.

«The subsequent course of nature, teaches, that God, indeed, gave motion to matter; but that, in the beginning, he so guided the various motion of the parts of it, as to contrive them into the world he design'd they should compose; and establish'd those rules of motion, and that order amongst things corporeal, which we call the laws of nature.

Inference and imagination can go astray, but the laws of nature and logic are reliable enough, in Hartshorne's view, to guide us in making inferences and imagining «the other» as it really is; otherwise the knowledge of nature, God, and the self could not increase through history, as Hartshorne is convinced it does.

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

Whitehead» s religiously - guided education might have been unsuited for modern times, yet it is fair to say that his profound philosophical development had its beginning in some very early insights, for example, the concept of the consequent nature of God and the evidence of God's presence in the pattern of beauty in mathematics.

Though it is not at all impossible that Aristotle took certain clues from the examination of subjective experience to guide him in his investigation of nature at large, what he clearly did not do was take the subjective experience as a model for the essential constitution of the basic entities of the universe.

God's Law isn't a list of arbitrary rules, but help guide us to understanding and conforming to His nature, which is the only real source of Goodness.

We need to learn from his prayers in Justice and Mercy (edited by his wife, Ursula M. Niebuhr, and, unhappily, out of print), as well as from his analyses in The Nature and Destiny of Man (in print, one hopes, in perpetuity) Since it is wholeness that we seek, Reinhold Niebuhr can be pre-eminently helpful in our quest, not only as guide but also as exemplar.

In yesterday's post we saw that Scripture and theology seems to indicate that in some way humans were enabled by God to guide and control natural forces, but when we sinned, we lost this ability, and nature spun out of control.

Might not this be the reason we are so reluctant to let Jesus be our guide in how to understand the character and nature of God?

As preachers of the gospel it is expected that they themselves have experienced its power; as guides to the life of penitence and faith they need to know directly the nature of the humble and contrite heart.

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

Thereby they guide the direction of normal research, which is «an attempt to force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible boxes that the paradigm supplies».18 Like solving a puzzle or playing a game of chess, normal science seeks solutions within an accepted framework; the rules of the game are already established.

Our regular guide to the Word of God in the Sunday Liturgy 23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: B 07.09.03 Mk 7, 31 - 37 Grace perfects through human nature.

Kass would like nature to serve as some kind of moral guide, but he does not develop how that could best be done.

Jesus is regarded as the Divine Wayshower who, having fully realized his own divine nature, can guide each person to a realization of the Christ — the presence of God — within her or himself.

The American romance with science means that, as Kass writes, «we adhere more and more to the scientific view of nature and man, which both gives us enormous power and, at the same time, denies all possibilities of standards to guide its use.»

The agrarian program urges us to learn from and live within the limits of creation, to take nature as our guide.

But as laws in a traditional government are of a negative nature, defining the boundaries of behavior, but insufficient in themselves to inspire it, so terror is insufficient in a totalitarian state to motivate and guide human behavior.

The same reasoning, that the physical prehensions are guided by the subjective aim derived from the primordial nature, is also present in the other mention of «subjective aim» in this final chapter:

Hence the aptness of another of Whitehead's maxims: «As we think, we live» (MT 63), which could serve as a guide for natural philosophers bent on sailing into the stormy intersection of nature and culture — «As we think about the imaginative dimensions of our world - makings, so we will live.»

News is a common feature of most media systems around the world and its transformations illustrate the nature of modern media systems as well as the guiding models for understanding media.

Evolution may have organized the universe, but our life is nothing but CHAOS, with NO guide line, NO purpose whatsoever, except the one that we give ourselves as members of a society, as we have to live together which is engraved in our nature, thus making us social animals, perhaps, and necessiciated for the continuity of the our species.

We have the faith of the church through the ages to guide, correct, and strengthen us against the distortions that our natures so willingly design.

Thus, Ratzinger asked, is Boff guided by faith or by «principles of an ideological nature»?

Blame Mother Nature, but turn to good and decent atheists to guide you through the complexities of life.

Because any normative account of human nature, or natural law, would be inherently dangerous: Such knowledge sets out to guide, and thus delimit, our choices according to objective measures.

So the discussion ought to have turned to an intensive consideration of the synoptic tradition, especially since we now had form criticism to guide us as to the true nature of that tradition, but unfortunately it did this only in part.

Alice's special contribution to Experience Alexander Valley will be a limited edition illustrated nature guide to assist in the observation of native species while hiking.

29 - Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve A haven for hikers and nature enthusiasts, and harboring some of California's rarest landscapes, the Santa Rosa Plateau offers naturalist - guided, interpretive walking tours for groups, midweek.

The Bud represents everything that Australian Organic is about: The growth and promise of spring, the sign of big things growing from the initial organic movement, and the strength and logic of nature and natural (biological and organic) systems in guiding our choices in life.

This book is both a celebration of real ingredients and a guide to eating the best, the healthiest and the tastiest food - just as nature intended.