Sentences with phrase «human failings because»

The point is that he finds a way to make us admire, despise, pity, and ultimately love the irascible egomaniac, even as Aaron Sorkin's script practically begs us to worship him despite human failings because of his genius.

Not exact matches

In previous cases recorded by the human rights organizations, citizens were denied access to plane tickets because they failed to follow a court ruling.

«I believe that the efficient market hypothesis fails because it ignores human nature, particularly the nature of most individuals to be followers, not leaders.

Of course, the government has taken on this human responsibility because the churches — filled with the Christian Right — have failed abysmally in following Christ's exhortations regarding taking care of the needy.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

What critics like these fail to see is that the reason sexual messaging is so effective is because, as humans, we have sexual desire hard - wired into us.

Because every human construct seem to fail us.

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«There is no comparison between jailing a human for the rest of their natural lifespan for committing a horrible crime and torturing someone for all of eternity simply because they fail to believe in a god...» ----------- Actually, it's a great ana.logy.

British loyalists failed because they had no story to match the sacred story of human rights.

There is no comparison between jailing a human for the rest of their natural lifespan for committing a horrible crime and torturing someone for all of eternity simply because they fail to believe in a god for which there is no proof of.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

We keep a low profile because for us nothing fails to get caught up in the dramatic tension between divine and human righteousness.

And you will fail because this is a human rights issue, not a morality issue.

If MacIntyre is captive to the terms of this disjunction, it is because, with Aristotle, he fails to distinguish adequately two branches of knowledge: eudaimonology, the object of which is human happiness and the means to attain it; and ethics, the object of which is human conduct in the light of reason as differentiating good from evil.

In proposing a way forward, the study rejects the primacy of place that is given to the therapeutic mentality because it fails to appreciate the role that religious devotion and faith play in the moral life of the priest, and has no proper understanding of human nature, original sin and free will.

The drive for social and economic unity Europe has thus failed because while it «fills the human wallet it fails to fill the human spirit».

I would be failing ethically because I take my beliefs to be not merely true, but of profound importance for all human persons.

The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical cultures had, how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated and frustrated in authoritarian societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

In both cases, civil rights could be — and were — denied to homosexuals and black persons because they failed to meet the culture's definition of human «spirit,» meaning a reasonable and sexually self - controlled person.

Dalgleish's failing as a human being... is that he is very careful to avoid commitment; detecting is in a sense an ideal job for him, because although he is constantly interfering with other people, finding things out about them and coming into their lives in a very dramatic way, he must remain detached — he'd be an unsatisfactory policeman otherwise.

Thus the first assumption as to the purpose of demythologizing, namely that the kerygma is a religious symbol objectifying a human potentiality for authentic existence, fails precisely because of what the kerygma symbolizes.

Reading this made me realise that I failed because I am just a human being.

But the churches have also made too little of explicit sexual behavior because they have failed to see that here is one of the basic vitalities of human existence and therefore an important clue to the deepest drive in the cosmos toward what Teilhard de Chardin called «amorization.»

kindof how when your a child you can't fly, but you try to imagine what it is like for the birds; however regardless of how much you attempt to imagine flight you can't understand it as a bird because you can't fly... even as an adult humans fail to truly understand what it is like to fly like a bird because we can't fly, so how can «god» understand death and create a creature that does die if he can't die?

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

I'm not afraid to fail in the kitchen because at the end of the day I'm only human.

Even though mothers» bodies are capable of miraculously growing a human being for nine months and bringing that precious new life into the world, those same life - giving bodies seem to be failing in ever - increasing numbers to provide life - giving nutrition to those precious babies because of issues with low milk supply.

Several not on the list have failed in human tests, usually because of unacceptable side effects.

Previous attempts to do the same in monkeys, however, have failed — a disappointment because monkeys are more similar than mice to humans, and thus likely a better harbinger of how stem cell treatments will fare in people.

Initial testing of the most widely - used contemporary 3D technology used for humans — using circular polarization to separate the two eyes» images — didn't work because the insects were so close to the screen that the glasses failed to separate the two eyes» images correctly.

But cloning efforts have failed because, unlike mouse or human oocytes, rat oocytes start to divide less than an hour after they are removed from the animal's body.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

They stated that the replacement system should be designed solely for human access to low earth orbit, because a vehicle with more ambitious goals (i.e. BEO human spaceflight) would certainly fail because the nation was not willing to provide the money it would require.

If true, this suggests the human trial with AFQ056 could have failed because the treatment just wasn't long enough to see an effect.

New Jersey Right to Life also filed a lawsuit against the ballot proposal because it fails to disclose that the money will also pay for human cloning.

Or your child is sick with recurrent asthma and ear infections and you want a dietary cure — you may be warned away from a highly effective therapy because members of the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association fail to understand basic scientific research about human protein needs and plant foods.

Hal's death, caused when he fails to please his human masters anymore and refused to obey them, fittingly comes about because of his arrogance and pride.

While Mission: Impossible II failed because it tried to turn Cruise's Ethan Hunt into a character with recognizably human traits, these three films succeed because they recognize that Cruise's greatest gift in his later years is his willingness to hang off the side of a plane, or climb the Burj Khalifa, or hold his breath for half an hour.

Because fundamentally humans keep failing and being cautious about the difference between correlation and causation.

Because of this, conservatives fail to appreciate that problems are often a result of bad structures that perpetuate human failings.

Just as importantly, conservatives fail to realize that reliance on tradition can often be as senseless as technocratic thinking because it is based on limited human reasoning.

«Most companion animals end up in shelters or in rescue programs because humans failed them, not because of something they did,» explains Nancy.

New dog owners might find training difficult and fail to make progress, because they expect dogs to think and act like humans, and are surprised and baffled when the dogs don't.

Several attempts to increase protection for animals in Ohio have failed in recent legislative sessions because they raised penalties for animal cruelty to a level equal to or above penalties for domestic violence against humans, shifted the burden of proof from the government to the accused animal owner, failed to provide for humane agent training, and did not exempt traditional and humane animal husbandry practices from the definition of cruelty.

It's important to understand that dogs will never disobey or fail at tasks because they hold a grudge, do not like their human, or feel the need to rebel or become the «alpha.»

I think one of the main reasons attempts to potty train fail is because pet owners tend to look at their dogs as four - legged humans, and if a human in your household were to use the floor instead of a bathroom to relieve himself, it would be quite upsetting.

So many dogs end up in shelters and being euthanized because we, as humans, have failed to understand them and to meet their needs.

The few times when the developers try to scare you is when they use pipes that suddenly emit a loud hiss when you're inches away, attempting to illicit the fake scare known as human reaction, and even that fails because their placement is incredibly predictable, as are the zombies hiding around corners.

Eugenics because it could be argued (note carefully, I do not so argue) that it failed for political reasons not scientific; if you can breed pigeons (an example used by Darwin) and beef cattle, why not breed humans?