Sentences with phrase «if by virtue of»

If by virtue of a declaration under paragraph 1, this Convention extends to one or more territorial units of a Contracting State:

If by virtue of a declaration under paragraph 1, this Protocol extends to one or more territorial units of a Contracting State:

As if by virtue of being male he had less to worry about than I did, regardless of the worth society might put on us for other aspects — such as our appearances.

If By virtue of his parents faith, obama can not be a Christian, then why are we Preaching the Gospel to the 41 % of the Unreached people groups, the Two - thirds of the world's population - more than 4.4 billion people, esp in windows1040 who are predominantly of islam and other religion?

Not exact matches

«Any recommendation that generates a fee for the advisor... if you get compensation by virtue of the person leaving the money in the plan and you are advising them to keep the money in the plan, that's likely to be fiduciary advice.»

If AutoZone grows at an average of 10 % per annum for the next decade, this means that in the first year alone, you would collect nearly an extra $ 87,000 in market wealth that you otherwise couldn't have earned simply by fact of the virtue that $ 868,686 is still invested for your benefit.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

If share price volatility equaled risk, then investing in private companies would be nearly risk free simply by virtue of there being no active price quotation for the shares!

It was only if those requirements were relaxed as a matter of federal law that it would become necessary to consider if those requirements could continue to apply ex proprio motu, or if they were inoperative or inapplicable by virtue of the doctrines of paramountcy and / or interjurisdictional immunity.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

This right of democratic choice and the responsibility of democratic governance is not promoted by judicial imperialism, even if justified as showing some responsiveness to popular sentiments or public virtues.

While many states» laws contain exempting clauses like Alaska's, these will not avail them if they are found to be state actors by virtue of their government ties.

If i was Hawkins, i would be a bit more toughtful, and look deep into his own huiman condition and accept he «s a living miracle granted by virtue of God, or, in scientific terms, Anti Matter, so, as to try and figure out why is he still alive, and what is his real mission on earth.

And a few of us remember from the No Left Turns days that, while ultimately not agreeing, he admitted the power of a Christian and virtue - ethics «media - fasting» case made against all TV by the commenter «wm.» «Wm» is a very erudite and Catholic (and yet also rock - attuned) professor whose identity I'll reveal if I get permission, and here's a taste of what he said in that thread:

Federal civil rights officials have absurdly claimed that they are the true heirs of Martin Luther King's moral legacy, by virtue of their having remained loyal to his «color blind» ideal — as if King's moral leadership consisted of this and nothing else.

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balIf ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balif the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

God is reality by virtue of the fact reality reflects God regardless if God is real or imagined.

If there are no natural frames, if each individual accomplishment is so by virtue of the willful framing it has created in order to integrate the elements of its experience, then the shift from «I» to «us» requires that some sort of encompassing frame be fashioneIf there are no natural frames, if each individual accomplishment is so by virtue of the willful framing it has created in order to integrate the elements of its experience, then the shift from «I» to «us» requires that some sort of encompassing frame be fashioneif each individual accomplishment is so by virtue of the willful framing it has created in order to integrate the elements of its experience, then the shift from «I» to «us» requires that some sort of encompassing frame be fashioned.

If a problem arises which is not dealt with clearly in the Qur» an or in the Sunnah, the answer is sought in the schools of thought, the theories worked out by «leaders of thought» who have been careful students of the Qur» an and the Sunnah, have thought profoundly about their inner meanings and understand their general principles, and who have special knowledge of virtue and the general welfare.

If eternal objects are effective in the becoming of actual occasions, it must be by virtue of some agency beyond themselves.

If you marry my wise daughter and settle down in the household, you will - by virtue of a family life lived well - gain all the wisdom that you are seeking.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

He holds the town together by virtue of his spiritual know - how, and if it was my town in question, I'd definitely want Morgan Freeman.

Indeed, if the past is infinite, it must share certain abstract characteristics, such as are embodied in Whitrow's two criteria, by virtue of its infinitude, with any other infinite sequence.

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

If humans deserve our moral regard by virtue of their possession of these qualities, would not other animals deserve similar consideration?

If theology is grounded in the supernatural innerrant revealed word of a sovreign G - d it stands a chance of being relevant by virtue of said canon being reliable in it's veracity, so we at least we begin with truth,....

To take this view is to adopt the very dubious proposition that if one has desires and inclinations and they are powerfully presented from the depths of the self, they are, by virtue of the strength of their presentation, both «natural» and «good.»

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

But Hartshorne effectively replies that, even if finite beings depend for their existence on the creative activity of God, it still remains true that if God had created a different world then He would have been somewhat different from the way He actually is by virtue of the fact that His perfect knowledge would have been of that world rather than of this world; and so the point still holds that divine cognitive relations to the creatures are partially constitutive of God.7

There is at least one: since being is power, every being has some power just by virtue of being; but then it is metaphysically impossible that God should have all the power.20 Or to make this an internal argument against the classical doctrine, the conclusion could be softened to read: «If there is anything other than God, God does not have all the power there is.»

It is never possessed as a secure possession or as a quieting insight, hut rather constantly has to make its way against all the temptations that continually emerge Out of existence and give man the illusion he can still dispose of himself and has his life in his own hands — even if it be by virtue of just such an insight....

If it turns out that the Christian god is in fact imaginary, then by virtue of this fact it is not real, and therefore it does not actually exist.

First, if a creative process begins with a telos and an aiming at an end, even though this end may be vague or only partially determinate, then the creative process begins, at least in part, by virtue of being lured.

If I do, I shall inevitably exist displaying all those abstract traits by virtue of which I am a human being.

On the other hand, there could be no cause by virtue of which all beings (or events) could cease to be, for if a being were the last being (or an event the last event) then either (1) it would have to be part of that being's intrinsic nature to be the last being or (2) something else would have to destroy it, cause it to cease to be.

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

So Niebuhr advised: «If it is not possible for modern man to hold by faith that there is a larger meaning in the intricate patterns of history than those which his own virtues or skills supply, he would do well to emphasize fortune and caprice in his calculations.»

If change really involves self - transcendence even, in certain circumstances, to a new essence, even though only in virtue of the dynamism of absolute Being, which of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spiriIf change really involves self - transcendence even, in certain circumstances, to a new essence, even though only in virtue of the dynamism of absolute Being, which of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spiriif matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spiriIf there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spirit.

If we only take things that can be empirically measured as being valid evidence (an empirical hermeneutic), then faith claims will, by virtue of being faith claims, remain unsubstantiated.

Such reduplication itself, of course, if, closely examined, would again raise the question how and in virtue of what power, something identical can be produced by a finite agent.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

I am not suggesting that we must all seek to live monastic lives, but the virtue of humility as explored by St Benedict has so much to teach us, especially if we are called to be Christ in our lives on earth and to see Christ in others.

Just as secular art in one sense gives glory to God by virtue of its very existence as it contributes to the manifold wonder and glory of creation — even if the artist does not acknowledge the creator — so also Christian art which intentionally points to God contributes to the beauty of creation and can be perceived as beautiful even to unbelief.

Each new experience, if added to the old self, would make that self a new totality that is different from the previous self by virtue of the newly added experience.

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

If on the other hand Agamemnon were to say to her, «In spite of the fact that the deity demands thee as a sacrifice, it might yet be possible that he did not demand it — by virtue viz. of the absurd,» he would that very instant become unintelligible to Iphigenia.

If he could say this by virtue of human calculation, Iphigenia would surely understand him, but from that it would follow that Agamemnon had not made the infinite movement of resignation, and so he is not a hero, and so the utterance of the seer is a sea - captain's tale and the whole occurrence a vaudeville.

The underlying idea is that if you're in the magic circle, where microphones, audiences, and book deals are possible, you must belong there by virtue of your integrity and authority.

If now we recall that the Church, by virtue of its origin, is the heir of the whole history of God's dealings with His people, we are in a position to draw from the Bible itself a solution of the problem posed in this chapter.