Sentences with phrase «idea of certain people»

I think that many people can relate to the idea of certain people choosing to take the bible as a means to not have to have think any longer.

Not exact matches

«It was that idea that there was some fixed number of jobs and that they had to go to a certain group of people.

The idea that people could take a simple, noninvasive test and have a better, if still imperfect, sense of their long - term risk for developing certain disorders had a natural appeal to Bergh.

«You need to be careful of giving air to certain people and certain ideas, and I think the media can create a bigger story and bigger attention for something who doesn't need that.»

«Yes, interpersonal interactions are needed to stimulate certain kinds of creativity and generativity, so isolating people in offices is clearly not a good idea,» he asserts.

Since when did people of the Bronze Age were ever less intelligent or developed than we are today other than certain technological advancements, which by the way not even everything technologically speaking is necessarily more advance today it was say two thousand, three thousand, or even four thousand years ago, so I have no idea where you get that reasoning from.

Her band's escalating popularity means she's quickly becoming a person of note; one with fans who have a certain idea of what she's supposed to be like.

As Ransom explained it: «What we need for the moment is not so much a body of belief as a body of people familiarized with certain ideas.

- Fundamental intolerance towards certain legitimate groups of people and ideas on the part of a race - obsessed government.

Some people are disturbed by the idea that Christian faith may rest only upon the testimony of certain individuals to have experienced a vision of Jesus after his death.

But many of our donors are old, wealthy, white people and they have a certain idea of what godliness looks like,» Bournes said.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

The purpose rather is to call up Paul Ricoeur's reflection on why we pay attention when certain people speak and why we find what they say convincing: «The term testimony should be applied to words, works, actions, and to lives which attest to an intention, an inspiration, an idea at the heart of experience and history which nonetheless transcend experience and history.»

While that sounds great in theory, and many people would tacitly, or even with great show agree to such an idea, I fear that in practice the Bible is often not seen through the lens of Jesus, but rather through the lens of a certain theology or through the lens of the beliefs of groups or even individuals.

The idea that the U.S. was an unquestioned military colossus athwart the world, which no power or people could effectively oppose, was hubristic nonsense certain to get the country into deep trouble — as it did — and bring the U.S. Army to the point of collapse, as happened in Vietnam and may well happen again in Iraq (and Afghanistan).

Jesus invites all men to come unto him, not just a select few ~ Religion what some love to call religiosity are ideas, religious beliefs that are confined to a certain group of people.

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

Especially is this so, as long as there remains a certain hangover from the not so distant past when orthodoxy was virtuous, doubt was appalling, and heresy was morally wicked, if, then, without being repelled by the wide range of disagreement and uncertainty among Christian people, we ask questions about their idea of God, we shall expect to receive diverse answers.

For how else are we to carry a certain idea of justice or goodness to extremes if not by conforming our judgment of eminence to the testimony given outside of us in history by the words, the deeds, and the lives of certain exceptional people who are not necessarily famous, but who testify by their excellence to that very way of eminence that reflection attempts to reproduce in itself and for itself?

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

Also for Hegel, the acceptance of a certain form of religion conditions the development of a corresponding form of political community: a people's idea of God determines what they are, and accordingly the form of their states.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

I'm talking about how an idea like religion tries to dictate its own version of morality to others by declaring a certain group of people as being abominations... oh, but we still love you, you crazy little abomination you... so long as you do only what we tell you is ok.

The baby is going to require a certain amount over the 24 hours and for people who are struggling with milk supply during the day or unable to pump enough while they're at work, this idea of reverse cycling, co-sleeping, having your baby with you and nursing during the night could really make it a lot easier so you don't have to supply the baby with so much while you're gone.

Just to put in my.02 on this, this is a very difficult problem to have, and I believe that there are no truly right or wrong answers — the right answer is whatever you find that works best for you and your baby, which may be a combination of things; certain ideas may be very wrong for some people and very right for others.

These people may share some, even all, of the core of ideas, but don't have the cult mentality, and are simply individuals with certain preferences.

Dr Slim discussed the rise of the idea that certain people should be protected in times of war, suggesting that the word «civilian» became a centrepiece of policy during the Bosnian War of the 1990s.

Virality — The word «viral» is nowadays used a lot, but it links to an older idea that we are influenced by the behaviour of the people we are socially connected to, and that because of this, certain behaviours - everything from how we look to whether we are obese — are copied, replicated and spread through social networks.

We believe that once an idea gets to a certain point it needs resources beyond those available to the people internal to the university campus; a larger goal of EDG is therefore to create an extended family of resources outside UCSF for EDG participants.

The companies often will have a good idea of what people will do with their products, but they're usually wrong to a certain degree and people do crazy stuff and some of it is completely unanticipated by the manufacturers and yet ends up being a huge part of the business.

«This study provides support for this idea that antibodies under certain conditions can be bad and actually cause severe disease when people are infected with dengue,» says viral immunologist Sujan Shresta of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California.

«When I started grad school, there was this idea that there were certain areas that people should study,» says Wager, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ironically, Neitz had once rejected this idea because it failed to explain why people lacking a certain type of photoreceptor still showed normal sensitivity when exposed to that shade of light.

«The idea was that people's attitude towards cycling may have to do with certain puritan aspects of the Norwegian national character,» says Fyhri.

His book goes on to answer that question by describing how certain people have no fear of presenting their ideas to anyone who may be able to help them; these savvy few combine this «no fear» approach with excellent persuasion and negotiation skills.

In contrast, deontological approaches focus on moral rules and ideas of rights and duties, such that certain things (like killing an innocent person) are wrong even if they maximize good outcomes (like saving extra lives).

I actually have been playing with the idea of putting simple procedures on paper so that people can understand why we are doing things in a certain way.

People are frightened by the idea of releasing small cane toads in advance of the main front, even if the release point is only a few kilometres from the current front, in an area that is certain to be invaded by toads within a few months.

Some people swear by specific exercises, saying how much they helped them build certain parts of their body, so another lifter would think it would be a good idea to start doing them.

Sticking to a strict sleep schedule is always a good idea, says Dr. Winter, especially if you're someone who has trouble putting down your to - do list come bedtime: «There are certain kinds of people who need to actually set a bedtime alarm to force themselves to get into bed.»

Given what we know about clinical nutrition, that sometimes a startling mix of foods can be used to help people in certain disease states — more ice cream and gravy for someone undergoing cancer treatment, less protein and fewer vegetables for someone with kidney disease — and since dividing your risk among a wide variety of different foods can help hedge your health bets, the idea that there are universally good or bad foods doesn't hold up well under scrutiny.

This recent review found that there was not significant evidence to prove that selenium supplementation helped prevent or cure cancer and further highlighted the idea that while low selenium levels have been found in people with certain illnesses, we're still not sure if it's more of a symptom or a cause of the illnesses.

I am certain you have no idea the countless number of people your postings have helped, just the words of encouragement that I've read in your weekly emails so far have helped me.

(I.E. if you wore a certain pair of boots a month ago in an outfit post, use that photo again in your Black Friday post guide, and link back to that old post so people can get an idea of how to wear them!)

If you are looking for that certain person, a long or short - term relationship or even just a companion, let go of any old ideas you had about online dating and drop them a line or give them a call.

You should be serious in your endeavor to search for an ideal partner, as there are certain Spanish women who are averse to the idea of casual flirting as they are on the lookout for people, with whom they can share a memorable and everlasting relationship.

Once you stop expecting other people to act a certain way and meet your expectations (expectations that they have no idea about — I might add) and just go on dates with aim of making a connection, nothing more, you'll find dating becomes a whole lot more relaxed and fun.

And after a certain amount of time passes (and the failures mount up) people tend to give up on the idea.

As we'll talk about in a minute, this doesn't have to be brutal honesty, but you should be certain to give potential dates a good enough idea of what you look like that they won't be shocked when they finally meet you in person.

But I felt that in a certain way this idea of the problem of people that are more or less «legitimate» than others — who defines what is love and who can draw the line to say this is not legitimate and this is legitimate?