Sentences with phrase «human hands at»

From the time a blossom is set, an apple can be touched by human hands at least ten times before it is harvested.

It is actually an amputation comparable to the removal of the fingers of the human hand at the last knuckle.

With an interest in printed matter, Louis also resurrects old found pages of books and maps in his collages on paper that create new landscapes of shape and color with an inert celebration of the human hand at work.

The process of hand - printing also adds the distinction of the human hand at work, revealing its slight imperfections and laborious effort in the final piece.

Not exact matches

Instead, the command will need to «not appear as being part of the task at hand — which means the robot must think it's deciding to turn itself off instead of obeying the orders of a pesky human.

Creating a practice in the office of openly supporting one another on a human level will let an employee quickly review a challenging personal matter and then put it aside so she can return to the work task at hand.

Asked about the worst career advice she ever received, Ahrendts tells of the time she was working at a big corporation and a human resources manager told her that she needed to make changes — like not talking so emotionally with her hands — if she wanted to be considered «CEO material.»

Products like Halo, on one hand «can be seen as a form of harm reduction,» says Sharon Akabas, the associate director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University.

We humans don't typically agree on all that much, but there is at least one thing that an impressive amount of us accept: which hand is easiest to control.

Smith says his new job at a human - resources firm requires even more hands - on computer skills, so he knew he had to get further training.

In fact, «there has never been any report of a human population in which left - handed individuals predominate», according to archaeologist Natalie Uomini at the University of Liverpool in the UK.

At least 12,000 women in Russia die at the hands of their abusers each year, according to Human Rights WatcAt least 12,000 women in Russia die at the hands of their abusers each year, according to Human Rights Watcat the hands of their abusers each year, according to Human Rights Watch.

Broad Listening, on the other hand, claims that it can identify why people do things, or at least give the insights into why, so that a human can figure it out completely.

Human hands are way better at doing that.

Again, the point at hand is valuing human life in all its forms, from the zygote to our coffins, whether you are atheist or a theist.

Did Jesus Christ really come to South America and was seen in the human flesh, hundreds of years after his death and was sitting at the right hand of God.

To make this claim is not to say, however, that the genius of human creativity is always identical with God's hand at work.

It would be better, we think, to use the new means at hand to reduce human suffering as much as we can while protecting human freedom and dignity.

Most of the harm my family ever suffered at human «hands» happened in the church community.

On the other hand, a true - believing Gnostic, oriented to a transcendental state of being, would have to see the computer as the means the Demiurge uses to imprison humans more securely in the world of time and matter in which the rigged environment frustrates any attempt at transcendental relief.

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.

Animals can similarly be represented by human beings who have devoted themselves to studying how animals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their torture.

For the more we examine the human situation — and the more we can do of this at first hand the better — the more we see that a deficiency of love is the root cause of nearly all our most refractory problems.

The argument that life begins at conception is absurd in that what should be said is parasitic life begins at conception, actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life is basically in the hands of the host — mother.

The mystical exaltation of violence at the hands of Hitler and of all modern revolutionaries makes people forget that violence means bloodshed, means human beings screaming in pain and fear.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

If only born - again Christians go to heaven, then the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony and the hands of angry God.

On the other hand the Church can not in all cases leave the individual human being to seek the answer on his own account and at his own risk.

But one way or another all advocates of animal rights, process thinkers included, lament the fact that so many domesticated animals can and do suffer unnecessarily at the hands of humans.

If we're honest, this state of affairs is what every human heart longs for and wants to return to — a world where the things we touch cooperate and flourish at our hands, a world free of material decay and relational static.

By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science, yet such corruption of human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.

On the other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience, is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.

Plus IF this God suffered as Human than he would have understood the Reality of it and IF he was so compassionate and even empathetic, he would HAVE FIXED things out of sheer desire to not let anyone suffer so randomly and soemtimes allegedly at his very hands.

I do understand why the sight of two homosexuals holding hands at a concert might have turned the stomach of a hardworking, dedicated churchwoman I know who has never in her life committed an act or espoused a position that her family, church, and society at large couldn't warmly approve; still, it's hard to forgive a human revulsion that won't question itself.

Long lists of human rights, while they may sometimes be well intended, only obfuscate the question and distract us from the work at hand.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

On the other hand, human destiny is a historical drama which begins at creation, reaches a climax at the coming of Christ, and moves on to conclude at Judgment Day.

Indeed, those deities were not really gods at all, but merely objects made by human hands and absurdly worshiped.

Pagan mythology it is, ensconced in our time and embraced in our church, where we have supposed that we can know the glory of immortal God while worshiping also at the altar of our powerful and overwhelmingly impressive national Baal, an image, in the final analysis, simply made by human minds and hands.

It comes from Daniel 7:13, where the seer sees a human figure receiving power and glory at God's hands.

To apply this principle to the issue at hand, we would have to say that given the effect — the development of a human body — the cause bringing this about must be a human cause.

Human beings are now collectively contrasted with the remainder of what exists, and this is all understood as what is present at hand as a thing.

Its suffering at the hands of the all - too - human past and present will eternally recur.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called «the uncircumcision» by those who are called «the circumcision» — a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands — remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

The proposition certainly applies to human kind - from the first dependency of our being conceived, to the last grace ministered to us at the hand of another in Christ's name, the last prayer whispered in our ear by loved ones as we die.

It began with the human life of Jesus, but culminates in his being «raised up,» both as the living Head of the body and as «seated in heavenly place» at the right hand of God, thus becoming a privileged means of interaction and mediation between God and man.

In the midst of punishment at the hands of humans, Jesus loved and loved violently.