Not exact matches
But the truth
of it is — and this is a point I work hard to
impress upon my students — that leadership isn't a function reserved for the top
of the food - chain.
Instead
of dryly asking local businesses if they wanted to buy ad space, he
impressed upon businesses how important the literary magazine was to the creative contingent
of the school.
It's always well to
impress upon older women the importance
of friendliness and courtesy.
Like a branch concept being used by Citi in New York, the centrepiece
of RBC's so - called retail store is a futuristic financial - planning table designed to
impress upon consumers just how far banking has come from the days
of long lines and not - so - great service.
Since its inception, America's Road Team has
impressed upon millions
of drivers the trucking industry's safety record, essentiality, and professionalism.
Mid-month, the USTR is holding a hearing for the public airing
of views about the Section 301 remedies, where it will be
impressed upon the administration how costly a trade war would be.
First, Trump has rotten legal help that has not explained to him or has not
impressed upon him the nature
of the charges he might face.
To avoid rotating managers at the point where active skill might matter most, institutional investors need more support to
impress upon their boards the importance
of a full market cycle.
In our pluralistic and morally confused society, this fact
impresses upon us the importance
of clearly identifying our loyalties.
The aim
of work is to
impress some temporary human purpose
upon some component
of the world; the aim
of explanation is to reveal the world as it is and not merely in respect
of its potential to satisfy human wants.
To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws
impressed upon matter by the Creator that the production and extinction
of the past and present inhabitants
of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death
of the individual... There is grandeur in this view
of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one...»
The image
impressed upon the Shroud is that
of a dead man, but the blood speaks
of his life.
One
of the chief ways they «
impressed» these principles
upon the «impressionable» ones in their homes was through the songs they sang with them.
And something cruel, no doubt unintentionally cruel, about
impressing upon a young child that his public identity is that
of victim.
Its heightened, often ironic attention to the past has served to
impress upon society the importance
of having a retrospective view
of things.
What
impressed itself
upon me the most is the injustice
of this world.
The metaphor is Adam Smith's, who went on to observe in The Theory
of Moral Sentiments that «the pieces
upon the chess - board have no other principle
of motion besides that which the hand
impresses upon them,» whereas «in the great chess - board
of human society, every single piece has a principle
of motion
of its own, altogether different from that with the legislature might choose to
impress upon it.»
To imagine that God looks
upon physical death as many men do, or to think
of him as
impressed by numbers, violence or size, is simply to think
of God as a magnified man — a monstrously inadequate conception.
From my Whiteheadian perspective I can usually understand why they adopt the view they hold, what factors in the whole
of reality have so
impressed themselves
upon them that they allow their vision to be dominated by those factors.
I really think that the Spirit is at work to
impress a similar idea
upon lots
of people all at the same time.
For in this, instead
of impressing upon him a holy fear and shame before the Good, he is polluting the pure one by teaching him the fear
of loss
of money, loss
of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule
of fools, the laughter
of the frivolous, the cowardly whining
of consideration, the inflated triviality
of the moment, the fluttering mist - forms
of vapor.
What did Paul and the other writers
of the New Testament try to
impress upon the readers
of their letters?
In each age
of the world distinguished by high activity there will be found at its culmination, and among the agencies leading to that culmination, some profound cosmological outlook, implicitly accepted,
impressing its own type
upon the current springs
of action (AI 12; cf. AI 83).
But I try to
impress upon them that God's vocation for them is broader than just «student,» along the lines
of «Christian person serving God in various ways and maturing thereby.»
The constant presence
of the Sabaean, Nabataean, and Axumite intermediaries along the route
impressed upon Augustus that for the sake
of his empire's welfare and for the sake
of his own interest in Egypt, the necessity to take steps to make Roman trade with India easier and more profitable for state and people.
Initially
impressed by the current consensus as to the kerygmatic nature
of the Gospels (7), Stauffer bases the possibility
of a positivistic quest
upon the existence
of new sources (8).
Upon these Gentile Christian churches Paul
impressed the mark
of his own strong personality.
By Saturday the main thrust
of what the text wants to say starts to
impress itself
upon me.
We have seen that what was decisive in the appearance
of the Buddha as against the teaching
of the Upanisads was the reintroduction
of personal power into the worldview
of the Indians; the thought
of help,
of merciful help, was thoroughly
impressed upon them.
The persistence and growth
of the influence
of Jesus seem also to be assured by the proven ability
of Christianity to survive the death
of cultures with which it has been intimately associated and, after a period
of crisis provoked by the collapse
of such a culture, not only to win a foothold in the new, succeeding culture but also to make a deeper
impress upon it than
upon its predecessor.
In a real sense they, at least the older
of them, are not really Indian in origin at all, but were produced either before the Aryans had set foot on Indian soil, or were composed by Aryans, i.e., the foreign invaders, before India had had time to put her own
impress upon them.
Therefore, it is critical for Luke to
impress upon his reader the importance
of studying, researching, investigating, examining, and considering the historical accuracy and theological truths which Luke presents in his book.
News reports
of the last several months freshly
impress upon the mind the bright prospects for the human future now that science, greed, and justice have joined forces against the wickedness
of the cigarette industry.
The trauma
of those who lost family and friends at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania
impressed itself
upon us all.
In his case there was no body
of accepted knowledge
of the seen world to confine and actually hamper the processes
of his imagination by
impressing upon him what was really possible.
Of course, the pastor is busy, or should be, and the fact that he is no longer in the seminary library early
impresses itself
upon him.
The situation
impresses upon us, yet again, that the roots
of our crisis are more
of the intellect than
of the will.
Even a cursory check
of the news will
impress upon a reasonable person that some areas
of the world are just too dangerous to be as a normal, unarmed civilian.
These are the things we should be
impressing upon women, not the world's definition
of beauty.
My own time as a scientist
impressed upon me the privilege
of being able to investigate a universe that is both rationally transparent and rationally beautiful, capable
of being represented in elegant mathematical forms.
For that is exactly what has happened over the last four hundred years, as all the aspects
of the new world have been slowly
impressing themselves
upon man.
Thus the transformation
of a person from first - year medical student to licensed physician is
impressed upon him or her.
The fragility
of the earth has not yet
impressed itself
upon us.
LAW I: Every body continues in a state
of rest, or
of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces
impressed upon it.
If I didn't have an adequate perceptual apparatus, the sun could go on shining forever without
impressing any ideas
upon me; if gold were not capable
of being melted, fire could not be said to have the power
of melting gold.
Such an intuitive or ecstatic insight often possesses a compelling urgency that lends it the character
of logical necessity; i.e., at times the vision seems to
impress itself
upon cognitive awareness with forceful cogency.
He submitted to baptism in order to set a good example for others and to
impress upon them that they should accept baptism and repentance for the remission
of their sins.
There is the image
of the seal
impressed upon wax as Christ's image is
impressed upon human nature.
By interpreting the symbolic process cosmologically we may envisage reality (the aesthetic whole) rather than our subjectivity as taking the initiative, first by linking us to itself in our primary perception and second by flowing through the channels
of our perception until it comes closer to the pole
of secondary perception (without ever quite arriving) where it can
impress its importance
upon us in a more vivid manner.
Christianity, therefore, and with it the influence
of Jesus, had made an
impress upon a strategic area from which it might most readily spread to the rest
of mankind.