Sentences with phrase «immediate context for»

2 For people like Niebuhr, totalitarianism abroad and racism at home provided the most immediate context for thinking about the reforms that a progressive Christianity might bring to civilization.

The immediate context for the reception of revelation is the partly incommunicable consciousness of individual persons.

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Linker looks beyond the immediate context and wonders whether a future secular America will in fact bode well for liberals, especially given recent trends in the alt - right.

For example, the rise in immediate cost of transportation, in a context where its indirect effects on speeding the melting of the glaciers are recognized, will almost certainly favor local production of food.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

An established church may be the immediate context in which a religious movement appears, and it may be the focus of the movement's ideology, but this institution is in turn likely to depend on the state and the economic hierarchy for support.

All this diversity formed the immediate background and the living context for the rise of Christianity.

This brings a real and immediate need for model organism research platforms to put disease - causing genes into a biological context.

The drama is marked by a stilted formality, but it works, especially in the context of a story about how suffocating customs can be for a woman who plans to avoid marriage and stay with her immediate family, where she feels safe.

In my review, I likened it to Hitchcock's Rebecca (the great formative example of the trope in cinema), and how fascinating it can be to watch these characters cope with events for which we have no immediate context as viewers.

And (5) immediate feedback is most helpful for procedural or conceptual learning or at the beginning of the learning process and if the task is new and difficult (difficult relative to the learner's capability), and delayed feedback is best when tasks are simple (relative to the learner's capability) or when transfer to other contexts is sought.

Preferred activities provide immediate and, therefore powerful, incentives for work - completion within the context of mastery, high standards, and enjoyment.

Some interviewees focused on the need for systemic reform, whereas others didn't really refer to the context beyond their immediate working situation.

In Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio, researchers speculated that participating private schools may lack the immediate capacity and resources to educate students who are academically behind, who are English - language learners, or who have disabilities.50 This potential lack of capacity is of particular concern for the participating populations in all four contexts, because the students who tend to use vouchers are more likely to be behind academically.

On January 6, 2009, in the context of the failure of the clinical trial for Viprinex, [NTII]'s primary asset, Millennium Technology Value Partners delivered a letter urging [NTII] to take immediate and decisive action to monetize the remaining value of [NTII]'s assets for the benefit of its shareholders.

In this context, the artist uses the pencil as object and also as symbolic container; both as an immediate extension tool of the brain and as a device for creating a dynamic pattern or language.

Krauss will use the shed as a studio for producing artwork inspired by the immediate environment, both from the ecology of the Hudson Valley setting and from the institutional context of the Center for Curatorial Studies.

But if she makes topical reference to climate change, Bradford sets it in a larger artistic context, viewing its all too immediate threats in terms of poetry's traditional concern for our place in the universe.

Through studio projects, readings, discussions, and case studies, students in this class will engage the immediate context of the University as source material for their artworks as a means to explore the effect that research and knowledge production might have on contemporary artistic practice.

They called for justice and real solutions to the climate crisis, including steep and immediate reductions in carbon emissions, stopping fossil fuels and deforestation, building renewable community - owned energy solutions, and transforming our food systems, all in the context of respect for human rights.

Thus, for the scientist supporting policy - making, the immediate aim may not be to reduce uncertainty, but first to better quantify, classify and communicate both the uncertainty and the potential outcomes in the context of policy - making.

Clearly the immediate provocation is the plan to hold terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days; but Davis sees this as part of a wider attack on civil liberties, and in this context he refers to the creation of a «database state».

But the context in which abortion and contraceptive care are offered in the United States continues to shift, and recent changes in policy and practice offer up new opportunities for, as well as new challenges to, the provision of immediate postabortion care.

Strategic family therapy combines a strategic approach to finding a constructive form of change for individuals within the individual's immediate social context — namely the family.