Sentences with phrase «in given situations»

This allows researchers to understand what participants would do, or expect others to do, in given situations.

«Teaching young people how to better manage their personality traits or vulnerabilities helps them make the right decisions in given situations, whether it is a matter of overcoming their fears, managing thoughts that make them very emotional, controlling their compulsions, analyzing objectively the intentions of others or improving their self - perception.»

The book also challenges the reader about their own decision making in given situations, what factors to consider and how they would achieve certain outcomes.

«Teaching young people how to better manage their personality traits or vulnerabilities helps them make the right decisions in given situations, whether it is a matter of overcoming their fears, managing thoughts that make them very emotional, controlling their compulsions, analyzing objectively the intentions of others or improving their self - perception.»

They can calculate how to act in given situations and, hence, improve their results — regardless of their physical capabilities.

Or there may be within the same person two conflicting judgments about what is good in given situations.

That is, through our retention — or, as Merleau - Ponty puts it, «sedimentation» — of past experiences, we are, as Gestalt psychologists put it, «set» to perceive in given situations, and this «set» shapes, to a large extent, what we do perceive.

In this fashion we may readily grant that Socrates and Gautama and any number of saints or just plain good people have frequently achieved the maximum value possible in given situations without thereby claiming them to be Christs, on the grounds that the aims they so richly actualized were not specifically christological.

Unlike actual FitBits, Tsintzouras says the sensors provide actionable information and suggestions on what to do in given situations before it's too late.

Who else can provide context if your portfolio isn't growing as quickly as your peer group, if they believe you paid too high a price on a deal, if they question your due diligence in a given situation or whatever critique they might offer?

But it's not just that your passion is a better determinant of how you'll act in any given situation than your personality, it's also that your personality itself is less fixed than many quizzes suggest, as Rosenfeld's personal experience illustrates.

Asked about the remarkable arrest, in which the suspect appeared to draw an object from his pocket and point it at the policeman, Chief Saunders answered: «The officers here are taught to use as little force as possible in any given situation.»

Contrary to the received wisdom that self - interest is in our DNA (a belief that's led to no end of faulty assumptions about how homo economicus will respond in any given situation), Benkler adopts the research suggesting that altruism is passed down both culturally and genetically.

In any given situation, you can experience nagging thoughts and feelings of suspicion, anxiety, doubt, curiosity or wonder.

Ask yourself what your heart and gut say in any given situation.

The trick is to create a library in our brains that can understand concept because then we'll have more pull from in any given situation.

«The drawback to being an ambivert,» professor Grant told Bernstein, «is that it can sometimes be difficult for them to know which side of their personality to lead with in a given situation.»

I didn't think too much about how other people were feeling in any given situation.

But the bigger issue is understanding that when you're a leader, you have to be the bigger man or woman in any given situation.

Your response team should be knowledgeable, compassionate, and helpful in any given situation.

Mutations aren't invariably lethal and a mutation that is modestly detrimental in a given situation may prove beneficial as the situation changes (e.g. antibiotic resistant germs do grow modestly slower than non-resistant parental strains; however, this deficiency in growth is advantageous compared to death from the antibiotic).

As always, it depends entirely on which part of the Bible you choose to apply in any given situation.

I suggested that perhaps the lifeboats on the Titanic point to a more general sense that the stronger in a dangerous situation are morally compelled to protect the weaker in a dangerous situation, and that mothers can be awfully protective of their children after all, and that a man who (for whatever reason) might be weaker than a woman in a given situation should not feel like less of a man if she protects him.

The transcendental is not infinite and unattainable tasks, but the neighbour who is within reach in any given situation.

This realism gives him a clear idea of what the choices are in the given situation, but he will not take the action that is automatically indicated — though he will be tempted to do so; for reality, once seen, is hard to escape from.

Thus we must not oversimplify the issue and say that in a given situation the attitude of Christian love must always be that of meek acceptance and the patient smile.

It takes a fair amount of wisdom to discern when and how these various virtues come into play in any given situation.

To concentrate exclusively on being in touch with the mood or climate or feeling - for the world in any given situation is not yet relating to that world in a full, actual sense.

10) Catholics, in seeking to form their judgment as to whether the death penalty is to be supported as a general policy, or in a given situation, should be attentive to the guidance of the pope and the bishops.

I really like the points you bring up Carol; t feels like Jesusis saying to us «It's not about the law; it's notabout being «right,» it's about love; it's about making peace whatever that means and whatever that looks like in any given situation.»

Thus, a text that may strike us as an irrelevant throwback may, in a given situation, burn suddenly with new power.

When we add to this the free choices of humans, angels, and animals, it becomes utterly and completely impossible for humans to know with any degree of certainty «What» happened in any given situation.

This meant that he must understand himself as transcending his will in the sense of his power of choice among practicable alternatives in a given situation.

Even today, we often ask, What is one to do in a given situation?

With our partial knowledge and incomplete power, we may expect God to do something that in a given situation, God simply can't do because God's power is In relation to us and our situations.

After all, it's easy to speculate about what you'd do in any given situation — but it's hard to argue with some of the sobering data compiled below.

to have a conviction that (a person or thing) is, has been, or will be engaged in a given action or involved in a given situation: The fugitive is believed to be headed for the Mexican border.

Even kindness can make a man fail to meet the real demands of God in a given situation where something rigorous and unyielding is called for.

The service of God involves both the profoundest respect for the way in which the orders serve justice and mutuality in any given situation, and a continual attempt to find where they block the fuller community of life with life.

What emerges in a given situation as «operant religion» will differ considerably from the «formal religion» of the historic creeds, and more concern with the former is essential to understanding how belief systems function in people's daily lives.»

The first source for guidance in formulating a religious law, for determining what would be a good action in a given situation, is the Qur» an, whether its teaching is explicit or implicit.

As Griffin rightly claims, FWTs believe that significant freedom — the ability to determine how one will respond in a given situation — is so inherently valuable that to bestow it on humans is justified, even if such freedom is at times misused or abused.

Then in the preparation of the sermon he was to preach on the Sunday, he would do this with them in mind, so that he might be able to some degree at least to make the gospel relevant to them and meaningful for them, precisely in their given situation and need.

Do Americans really want their leaders making decisions based on faith as opposed to the facts at hand in any given situation?

In a given situation, the rights of the people committing the immoral act are always superseded by the rights of the potential victims.

Such a man, who in contrast to those learned in the Law really understands what is demanded of him in the given situation, is depicted in the story of the good Samaritan.

In any given situation when a bad thing happens, not only is there a nearly infinite number of small variables swirling around that event, but there are also a number of larger, governing principles which may be active, and which help explain why some of these bad things happen.

If in any given situation there is some mode of behavior that I believe to be inescapably qualified, in my imaginative feeling of it, by the sense of obligation, then the judgment that I ought to act in the manner in question is undeniable.

The problem of how far we can realize «the best possible» in any given situation, and the problem of the means to be employed, are partly matters of judgment.

Thus, it instinctively selects in a given situation whatever is like something already known, and in applying the principle that «like produces like,» tries to get some prevision of future states.