Sentences with phrase «historical experience against»

Interest rates remain low across the yield curve; credit is freely available and is growing at a solid pace; and the exchange rate is near the low end of historical experience against most countries.

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Our difficult experience in the recent half - cycle resulted from my insistence in 2009 on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data, because the resulting methods of classifying market return / risk profiles picked up that historical regularity.

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

For all of us, the invitation is clear; to follow Jesus in identification and sharing with the weak, marginalized and poor of the world, because in them we encounter him: Knowing from the Gospel and from historical experience that to be rich is to risk forfeiting the kingdom, and knowing how close the links are, in today's world, between the abundance of some and the needs of others, Christians are challenged to follow him, surrendering all they are and have to the kingdom, to a struggle that commits us against all injustice, against all want.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

The singular nature of this moment may be that it provides the opportunity for a less inhibited engagement of Catholic teaching and democratic theory — less inhibited from the Catholic side because of the historical ascendancy of democracy in the framework of the Anglo - American experience, rather than the French revolutionary framework with its powerful animus against religion in general and Catholicism in particular.

That is, it not only does evil, does wrong, but in violating the pact of the covenant, it goes directly against what identifies it as a people and always has: the liberative act of the exodus, the historical experience of having come up from Egypt thanks to its alliance, its covenant, with God.

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota — a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical and historical canvas, astonishing for its richness and texture and scope, and for the utter immersiveness of its reading experience.

Young drivers without a whole lot of experience behind the wheel have the historical record working against them, so for them it can be next to impossible to find affordable auto insurance coverage.

While this has a lot to do with the ongoing impact of historical experience and cultural as well as societal norms against the employment of women, as with other gulf country states, Saudi Arabia is highly dependent on foreign workers.