Sentences with phrase «human achievement does»

I had hoped in a consciously paradoxical formulation to point to the fact that human achievement does not have the autonomy over against God that we are prone to attribute to it.

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During this milestone year, the tireless human rights organization celebrates its proudest achievements as it continues to prove its work is far from done.

Do we perpetuate our human existence until the end of time, when all of mankind's achievements will be forgotten and perish into nothingness?

Does it not fail to take into account our moral achievements, our merits, our greatness, our reality as human beings, which must be respected?

Its achievement is through the spiritual energy imparted by His spirit in human hearts, but its final consummation comes slowly through the joint efforts of God and man, working side by side, in the struggle to create a new and divine order and to make His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

It is this one - sidedness we have to correct because we do not want to give up the human achievements of the modern period.

The achievement of Aristotle which bears essentially upon my understanding of the importance of Whitehead is the incredibly subtle and suggestive manner in which Aristotle succeeds in doing justice to human being as a part of nature.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

While emphasizing that salvation takes place by grace, on the basis of the work of Christ rather than human effort or achievement, the Catechism seems reluctant to engage with the questions raised above and does little to reassure the anxieties of any readers familiar with the sixteenth - century debates.»

One may doubt that this results in the achievement of the kind of unity that has to do with the human being.

Using a graphic image, he concludes, «the normal human reaction to a great cultural achievement like the Bible is to do with it what the Philistines did to Samson: reduce it to impotence, then lock it in a mill to grind our aggressions and prejudices» (p. 233).

I don't consider the birth of either of my children particularly extraordinary (other than the amazing achievement of growing and presenting a fully formed human being to the world) but I have yet to hear someone share an experience exactly like mine.

These findings suggest that self - control may not be a crowning psychological achievement of human evolution and indeed may have nothing to do with self - awareness.

Anybody who does is going to enjoy it and will value the insights it offers into the technical and human struggle behind one of the greatest achievement in physics.

Not only do they construct several different tools for the purpose, but they use them sequentially — an achievement approaching the abilities of early Stone Age humans.

What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

Spending as much time in as many parts of the ship as we do, the inevitable second act troubles pain us not only for the threat to human life but for the damage to be incurred by this enchanting shared space, an engineering achievement of incalculable hubris.

The foundations and donors supporting the education reform movement do have one enormous advantage over their philanthropic counterparts in the arts, health, the environment, human services, and any number of other fields, namely, the presence of measures of student achievement that allow real comparisons of school performance.

States and districts are actively planning to use these dollars to bolster their human capital strategies, and there is momentum at the local level to do things better and smarter in order to accelerate student achievement.

Evidence from High School and Beyond», Economics of Education Review, March 1994, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 1 - 17; Ron Ferguson, «Paying for public education: New evidence on how and why money matters,» Harvard Journal on Legislation, Volume 28, Summer 1991, pp. 465 - 498; R. Strauss and E. Sawyer, «Some New Evidence on Teacher and Student Competencies», Economics of Education Review, Volume 5, Issue 1, 1986, pp. 41 - 48; M. McLaughlin and D. Marsh, «Staff development and school change,» Teachers College Record, Volume 80, Number 1,1978, pp. 69 - 94; D. Winkler, «Educational Achievement and School Peer Group Composition,» The Journal of Human Resources, Volume 10, No. 2, Spring 1975, pp. 189 - 204; A. Summers and B. Wolfe, «Do schools make a difference?»

* Achievement Unlocked * Sony did a great job at E3, but I wan na play METAL GEAR, MASS EFFECT, ASSASSIANS CREED, COD4, DRAKE»S FORTUNE, DARK SECTOR, BIOSHOCK, & yes, TOO HUMAN online co-op, & eventually GEARS OF WAR 2 way more than I do KILLZONE2 or HEAVENLY or LAIR if I had to chose.

When I was schoolboy we did projects on the Aswan High Dam, which was seen as a towering human achievement back in the seventies.

We know you have impressive credentials and achievements, but don't let the metrics overshadow your human capital accomplishments.

Moreover, when you focus on crafting an achievement oriented resume, you are less likely to use fluff language that doesn't carry weight with a machine or a human.