Sentences with phrase «human terms becomes»

For this reason the periodically recurring notion that the story of Jesus is only a myth — the story of a god — transposed into human terms becomes more and more untenable.

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Modern slavery has become a catch - all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave - like exploitation.

Musk's long - term vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet as «a nice place to be» — and allow humans to become a multi-planetary species.

«Musk's long - term vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet as «a nice place to be» — and allow humans to become a multiplanetary species.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul, and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversion.

And the proof of this is that today, in order to remain human or to become more fully human, all the peoples from end to end of the earth are being inexorably led to formulate the world's hopes and problems in the very terms devised by the West.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

In the simplest terms then, human social experience is a form of togetherness in which there is a sharing of feeling, a concordance of emotion, between two or more individuals who become immanently related one to another by the very character of their mutual experience.

In broad terms it may be affirmed that the Human, having become aware of its uncompleted state, can not lend itself without reluctance, still less give itself with passion, to any course that may attract it unless there be some kind of discernible and definitive consummation to be looked for at the end, if only as a limit.

Jesus is presented as the fulfilment of natural human potentialities, with his «divinity» understood not in ontological terms but in relation to his divinely inspired response to God by which he became the brightest manifestation of God's action in human life.

But as men became more and more aware of moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.

Though he became a Catholic late in life, he was, I think, in theological terms what one would call a «skeptical fideist»: temperamentally and through wide experience a skeptic, his skepticism took the form of an incapacity to believe in all merely human authority or power.

Unfortunately, «Christian» has become a term that carries a lot of pretentiousness, so it seems to me that we might need to do a bit triage by shelving the label «Christian» if it helps us figure out what it means to be human, which may help reinvigorate the term as people see Christ in our human engagements rather than our church attendance.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) last week urged the Food and Drug Administration to ensure any proposed long - term sodium reduction targets are based on a review of the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) for sodium, future knowledge gained from work on the short - term sodium reduction targets, results of new research that will become available on human health outcomes and dietary sodium intake, and the emergence of new technologies that allows sodium reduction targets to be safely and effectively achieved.

«My focus was on human parasites, but through my training I became more interested in parasites that infect animals because those parasites can have a tremendous impact on humans in terms of their livelihoods being dependent on the health of their animals,» Zajac says.

Behaviors that evolved as survival mechanisms to ensure that an animal feeds itself become inconvenient and potentially detrimental side effects in industrialized human populations where cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, rather than starvation, pose greater risks to long - term survival.

I mean, it really helped us to figure that DDT was a problem for one, and pesticides in general were an issue that we need to think about in terms of human health and people are, you know, becoming increasingly aware even today of that issue.

As a result, one of the most important forms of human activity, with a demonstrated capacity to affect our lives in profound ways, has become isolated from the kinds of con - siderations that together define the term «human».

Nunez calls on researchers to become more precise with their terms and suggests that it could be productive to investigate «what seems to be nearly universal in human cultures and in many nonhuman animals too: a «quantical» ability and not a numerical one.»

We need to realize how diverse human genetics is becoming in terms of the research being done as well as the types of questions being asked, so everyone should feel welcome and embrace their differences as strengths so we can solve problems as effectively as possible.

Since he became the fit healthy human he needed to be in order to lose the 90 pounds and keep it off, it was no big deal for him to stick with healthy living over the long term and continue living healthy and fit today.

An actor who has demonstrated a fearless capacity for exploring the darker side of human nature, Peter Sarsgaard became synonymous with the term «edgy young performer.»

At times the spectacle seems distracting from the human story, at other times his determination to ground the action in human terms (with all the mortal dangers involved) becomes alarmingly intense, less a superhero action movie than a grim urban tragedy (Berg's on - the - job directorial training on the medical drama Chicago Hope comes in handy here).

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

With average human life expectancy climbing higher and higher each year as retirement age remains around 65 - years - old, it's becoming increasingly important for people to take action when it comes to long - term financial planning.

Companion animals are commonly considered to be family members, and the human - animal bond has become a household term.

Organic cat food has become a buzz word, and is often used in conjunction with terms like natural, human grade ingredients, holistic, and premium cat food.

Acknowledgment of the human - animal bond has become a cornerstone of veterinary practice, and evidence suggests that practitioners who pay close attention to the various aspects of the human - animal bond will thrive both financially and in terms of finding their work enjoyable and rewarding.

But when our dogs become aggressive about keeping hold of their bones or toys or bed, the first thing we must do is not to see the issue as one of our dog engaging in «point scoring» with ulterior motives of longer term control of his human pack, but rather as one of safety for ourselves.

(human nature being what it is, various commissions, study groups and poobahs feel compelled to change the terms and classifications at regular intervals - at just about the time that physicians, veterinarians and the public become comfortable with the terms that are currently in use.)

The reason is because constant use of antibiotics for treating kennel cough in dogs can lead to resistant bacteria, same as in humans, which makes them become less effective long - term (13).

Cage said that he wanted to push «Detroit Become Human» to its limits in terms of graphics and features.

If the trailer is anything to go by Detroit: Become Human will be in line with other Cage made games in terms of nuanced storytelling.

If you see the concept expressed in physical form, then it becomes relatable on more human (aesthetic or emotional) terms.

Wise beyond her years, and very needed at this time, Toyin spoke with Saint Heron on the mercuriality of humans becoming, the fluidity of the term identity and the perception of Blackness.

Macfarlane warns that «we have become titanic geological agents, our legacy legible for millennia to come» in an attempt to urge human beings to consider the implications of our actions in terms of «deep time» — beyond the here and now.

In robotics, the term «uncanny valley» is used to describe the phenomenon where humans become attracted to, and then strongly repelled by humanoid robots the more «realistic» the robots become.

In recent years, we've seen an amazing shift of this term that saw it become predominantly connected to computer sciences — yet, an idea of a loop has always been present in all aspects of the human creativity.

It is a human tendency (becoming more prevalent I feel) not to have a lot of foresight and think only short - term.

Human action which is not respectful of nature becomes a boomerang for human beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed «the globalization of indifference» and the «economy of exclusion» (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generatHuman action which is not respectful of nature becomes a boomerang for human beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed «the globalization of indifference» and the «economy of exclusion» (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generathuman beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed «the globalization of indifference» and the «economy of exclusion» (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generations.

I agree with him on the basic issue that as a scientific question whether human influences on climate have become determinative is not closed (although we would probably disagree as to whether the answer is currently likely, very likely or a slam dunk in IPCC / CIA terms.

From Cape Cod's coast to South Asia's Sunderbans, communities are grappling with an unnerving consequence of trying to build a «good» Anthropocene, the term increasingly applied to Earth's age of humans, in which we've become a powerful influence on everything from the climate system to evolution.

To help each other become responsibly fewer in our human numbers, more conscious, more environmentally resourceful, educated and ultimately compassionate stewards of this one EARTH, what could possibly be wrong with that long term goal?

Then, with a wealthy and reducing global population that can afford to take care of the environment, with advances in technology we can only dream of, the world can become a better place with long term sustainability and an end to avoidable human suffering.

Furthermore, Siberia would be one of the regions for which climate change would indeed be a regional warming - it is already heating up [wikipedia.org] much faster than any other part of the globe, and if it keeps doing so, it will become much more prospective for human settlement and agriculture, and in short - term perspective provide for easier access to the vast natural resources of the region.

In recent decades the term has also become associated with the issues of global warming and climate change induced by human activity.