Sentences with phrase «human features in»

Students observe and document natural and human features in their locale (during a walk around the neighborhood or a trip downtown, for example), and evaluate the impact of changes made by humans, such as the leveling of an area for a subdivision or the damming of a local stream or river.

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Does a brutal dictatorship in the Horn of Africa, featuring systematic slavery and more generally an awful record of human rights abuse sound like a place you want to do business?

We should expect alien visitors, were they not so frequently featured in such films, to be deeply puzzled at this peculiar human ritual.

«Night of the Living Dead,» made for about $ 100,000, featured flesh - hungry ghouls trying to feast on humans holed up in a Pennsylvania house.

Maximizing everyone's human potential is a key feature of the 2018 Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services.

«The advancements we are making are great, but we still have a long way to go» before creating robots like those featured in Hollywood movies that can speak, think, walk, and move like humans.

«It is a sad feature of the human predicament, in personal as in public life, that whenever one has the agreeable sensation of being impressively moral, one probably is not,» Kennan said.

Jolie has also been criticised by Human Rights Watch for cooperating with the Cambodian army, who provided 500 soldiers to feature in its footage.

Silver, someone that Business Insider once crowned the unsung hero of Google DeepMind, added: «By not using this human data, features, or expertise in any fashion, we've actually removed the constraints of human knowledge.

I am not arguing that these alternative instruments will be successful in countering asset price bubbles and credit imbalances, because I think bubbles are a permanent feature of the landscape resulting from entrenched human behaviour.

Most of those concerns focus on the singularity, a soon - to - arrive crossover point in the affairs of man and machine, where machines overtake human intelligence, and we cease to be the most interesting feature of the planet.

Private equity firm Apollo's party, hosted in a Greek restaurant near Central Park, featured «live statues»: humans standing completely still, painted to look like marble.

The afternoon of GCUC Day One featured several presentations that focused on how the human factor and connections that are inherent in coworking can drive change in cities and lives.

Over his 34 years in daily newspapers, he has traveled overseas and around the nation, covering wars and natural disasters, writing both breaking news stories and human - interest features.

Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 2: The Moral Imperative of PrivacyChapter 6: Privacy is a Prerequisite of Human Rightsby Wendy McElroy (Crypto) Privacy Prevents Violence and Crime (Chapter 6, Segment 1) Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word «anarchy», in a crypto - anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

However, I respect the honesty and pride that some of these featured Pastors have in disclosing the oppressive and violent tenets of their religous system.Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are oppressive and sometimes violent towards gay members of the human family.

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

I have contended further that one can not know what the essence of experience is, or whether temporality is a part of it, merely through generalization of features found in human experience.

If there is a God who exists concretely, who endures over the course of human and cosmic history, and who is affected by and affects what occurs in that history, then that God would consist of an ordered series of unit - experiences, each exemplifying the necessary abstract features essential to a divine experience, each experiencing both the divine and the nondivine experiences which had preceded it, and each in turn being felt by the divine and nondivine experiences which succeed it.

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

To a Christian, these claimed motivations have one common feature, disrespect for the centrality of morality in human nature.

Thus everything rests on God's freedom, and yet the truly astonishing feature in these stories is that everything rests also on human decisions.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

The theory generalizes the repetition of the past that is evident in conscious, mnemonic occasions of human experience into a feature of all actual occasions, human or nonhuman.

«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»

It's not simply that we were in the loins of our ancestors, that we have their DNA or something like that, but rather, a perennial feature of the human condition is that we are in bondage to one pharaoh, one lord or another, and we stand in need of liberation.

Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront in our everyday life.

example: what logical function would a certain feature of the human body serve in the grand scale of nature?

The Southern Baptist branch was based on segregation when it formed, splitting from its parent Baptist Church which apparently could not in theory subjugate individuals to being less than human based on skin, eye, and hair color and features.

The modalities are featured most prominently in phenomenological accounts of human experience, in some analyses of action, and in the pragmatic and temporal factors of knowledge such as prediction and verification.

Nevertheless, while acknowledging that this notion of freedom in its individualistic extreme can not remain uncriticized, we must also assert that the sense of personal human dignity is very much a feature of any modern definition of human existence and can not be facilely discarded.

Vestigial features, study of ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, examining pseudogenes, study of endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl all add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

A sixth dimension, closely related to the first, third, and fourth dimensions, is grounding the theological position historically, showing the new features to be authentic developments of the Holy - Spirit - inspired trajectory of the human spirit that is recorded in the biblical tradition.

12 Herman's more recent work indicates that language experience affects what features are attended to by both dolphins and human beings in sign recognition.

Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.

The usual form is that God in all essential features guided the production of the Bible, through human instrumentality.

Aetiologically the latter could not and did not make any statements regarding details of the way in which these structural features of human existence actually came about.

The distinctive features of Antiochenes were in their interpretation of the scriptures, in their Christology and in their reflections on human nature.

Featuring a truly all - star voice cast back when stars were less inclined to do voice work (Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum and even Steve Martin got in the game), Prince of Egypt is largely faithful to the biblical narrative and even manages some real moments of human drama.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy taleIn Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy talein the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Although a number of features of Jaspers» presentation are highly dubious, significantly similar developments in human existence did occur in the first millennium before Christ independently in China, India, Persia, Palestine, and Greece.

But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy is consequent upon a particular type of bodily amplification and selection of sense data derived from the stream of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the human situation through selective conscious attention to some, but not all, of the features of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.

How far this creativity can go in creating the human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have with other persons who embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.

The salient features of Niebuhr's doctrine of sin, then, are the universality of sin, sin's existence as an objective fact in human experience, sin's tendency to perpetuate and aggravate itself, a meaningful sense in which there is bondage of the will, and the inability of man to extricate himself from the situation of unbelief.

One of the most disturbing features about the human heart, its tendency toward jealousy, leaped out at me once in a line by novelist Gore Vidal: «Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.»

The truly intimidating feature of a greatly extended life span, much less earthly immortality, is that just about everything else in human life would have to be changed to make it worthwhile.

From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith is not a glitch but a feature of a free society, which encourages the development of a variety of human types.

For precisely all that has been said can also be objected to the doctrine of the immediate creation of every human soul in the course of history, if this creation makes of God's action in a special manner a member of the chain of created causes, even if only in regard to a particular finite being, which in contrast to others and by its special individual and temporal features has no intra - mundane ground and basis.

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.