Sentences with phrase «incomprehensible at»

If your emailed resume or CV has a filename that's unclear at best or incomprehensible at worst, recruiters aren't going to bother spending even 6 seconds on it, and if they do actually download the attachment, they're more likely to overlook it later.

So if your emailed resume or CV has a filename that's unclear at best or incomprehensible at worst, recruiters aren't going to bother spending even 6 seconds on it, and if they do actually download the attachment, they're more likely to overlook it later.

Brook Riley continued: «A 27 % energy savings target is incomprehensible at a time when Europe is facing energy insecurity and is considering dangerous alternatives like shale gas and tar sands, and giving massive subsidies to nuclear, to meet demand.»

And they learn to read from materials that are often boring at best and incomprehensible at worst, according to researchers from the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois.

Although practically incomprehensible at times, Zu takes a standard mythological story — that of gods who inhabit a mountain fortress - like home and, in the process of defending that home from a benevolent enemy, take in a wayward but stubbornly idealistic mortal — and stuffs it with enough special effects to choke even the most dedicated workhorse of a fan.

The jury must determine whether the facts of the case as established by testimony in court fit the legal definition of the offense with which the defendant is charged — a definition likely to be complicated at best, incomprehensible at worst.

And the language of that book, with the «thees» and «thous» and «asketh» and «beggeth,» was to me incomprehensible at best and silly at worst.

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That meant no more two - year contracts, no more roaming fees, no more incomprehensible charges at the bottom of every bill.

Although it is telling that you would put the onus on the person receiving the message, and being dismissive of their ability to comprehend your incomprehensible way of writing, rather than to look at yourself and the way you communicate.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded as absent or superfluous in ordinary human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator of the world as Barth thought him to be.

Our bodies are a precisely arranged set of organs that are run by our incomprehensible brain, sending out the proper hormone or signals at just the right time or when there is a need.

The outstanding Russian media expert El Lissitsky incidentally demanded an «electro - library» as far back as 1923 — a request which, given the technical conditions of the time, must have seemed ridiculous or at least incomprehensible.

With the wonderment of an outsider, I try to understand the seemingly incomprehensible (to me, at least) pull that faith exerts over so many people's lives.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Children raised in homes that are both unready and unwanting of the responsibilities that come with raising a child, are placed at a disadvantage so severe it is near incomprehensible - particularly if their mother did drugs while pregnant.

In the vast medley of private and public actions and political and economic decisions, in the enormous and incomprehensible complexity of the history of men, some decisions and works finally accomplish the intention of God, or are at least chosen and adopted by him.

If that revelation is true, then «[e] very single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God.»

The question that is put to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our thought and the ethical consequences of our thought concerning Jesus the Christ to the ontological matrix in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one at the center of our confession as the bearer of «substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.

With the wonderment of an outsider, I try to understand the seemingly incomprehensible (to me, at least) pull that the belief in Evolution and the Big Bang exerts over so many people's lives.

It is «just at the height of Job's trial... just in the midst of the terror of the other, the incomprehensible, ununderstandable works, just from out of the secret,» that God's ways of working are revealed.

The content of revelation is a promise which, because it has never yet been completely fulfilled, can never be fixed or finished, but remains incalculable and to some extent mysteriously incomprehensible And the reception of this revelation means that we experience a gracious, extravagant, and surprising future dawning at the frontiers of our own lives here and now.

The well - known advocate of atheistic humanism, Corliss Lamont, was quick to argue that Whitehead's use of «God» in «nonsupernaturalistic ways» was both deceptive and incomprehensible.4 And Max Otto raged at the audacity of Whitehead's attempt to do metaphysics at a time when «the millions» are concerned about human suffering and need a restructuring of society.5

In A Preface to Morals, an attempt at humanistic theology, Lippman charged Whitehead with having a conception of God «which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians,» a conception which «may satisfy a metaphysical need in the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at all.

Such a notion he finds incomprehensible, for he can see God at work only in the reality of his personal life and in his transformation.

in every respect, too, He is man, the formation of God; and thus He took up man into Himself, the invisible becoming visible, the incomprehensible being made comprehensible, the impassible becoming capable of suffering, and the Word being made man, thus summing up all things in Himself: so that as in super-celestial, spiritual, and invisible things, the Word of God is supreme, so also in things visible and corporeal He might possess the supremacy, and, taking to Himself the pre-eminence, as well as constituting Himself Head of the Church, He might draw all things to Himself at the proper time.

If ever there was an opportunity in human history for the reconstruction of faith, for the self - disclosure of the Incomprehensible Transcendent source of being as God, as wholly loyal to his creation, as redeemer of all the promises given with the gift of existence itself, then it was at this point where faith in him became incarnate.

But about this people concern themselves very little in our age which they think has reached the highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.

To summarize, it is especially at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

It is at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

If the patriarch and matriarch of the faith can laugh at God's incomprehensible ways, argues Cohen, then surely such laughter has a theological warrant.

You're rant is rather incomprehensible, you're all over the map, but if you really believe that corporations, or any business would have an individual at the «C» level who was promoting anything out of hate, you are completely ignorant, don't know a thing about the corporate world, and absolutely nothing about law, free markets, or economics.

He apparently can not agree with Mark that the tetrarch Herod would suppose that John had risen from the dead, so he ascribes this opinion to others (9:7 - 9) He realizes that the beginning of Jesus» mission, as Mark relates it, is historically incomprehensible, and he therefore tells how Jesus read from Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth and stated that the prophecy had been fulfilled (4:21).

I refer to those obscure and exceptional phenomena reported at all times throughout human history, which the «psychical - researchers,» with Mr. Frederic Myers at their head, are doing so much to rehabilitate; 7 such phenomena, namely, as religious conversions, providential leadings in answer to prayer, instantaneous healings, premonitions, apparitions at time of death, clairvoyant visions or impressions, and the whole range of mediumistic capacities, to say nothing of still more exceptional and incomprehensible things.

At the present time, we are seeing a number of authoritarian expressions born of the frustrations people feel about the unjust and incomprehensible world in which we live.

For Joe Sixpack, who is barely at the «I didn't know that there was more than one Greek text» stage, that functionality introduces a complexity that is almost incomprehensible.

The blessed have arrived at perfection, a state of complete wholeness and maturity that is at least as incomprehensible to us now as the rewards of adulthood are to those caught in the hectic fever of adolescence.

In addition, at least some of the New Testament writings were intended for liturgical use, and liturgical language emphasizes the continuity of Christianity by preserving archaic expressions — which are sometimes, though not often, incomprehensible to later generations.

And as one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of this century has said: «the emergence of even the simplest mind from no mind at all seems to me at least utterly incomprehensible» (Wright 1953 p. 14).

The win / win benefits to not only the environment but also health care — with plant - based diets known to reduce heart disease, diabetes, several types of cancer, and obesity (currently at a shocking 23 per cent, with 60 per cent of Canadians overweight)-- make this negligence incomprehensible.»

At least you brought some reality into that sentence by admitting it doesn't always work out, but to say Wenger is master at motivation is incomprehensiblAt least you brought some reality into that sentence by admitting it doesn't always work out, but to say Wenger is master at motivation is incomprehensiblat motivation is incomprehensible!

The Eagles are going to win at least seven games, pull a nice upset, and suffer a couple of incomprehensible losses.

That's incomprehensible,» the folks at Blazers Edge, SB Nation's Trail Blazers blog, point out.

After an exhale at the 12th, Jordan Spieth makes another incomprehensible mess at the Masters and is once again the talk of the tournament at Augusta.

It has been truly astonishing — almost incomprehensible — the progress that Pochettino has made at Spurs.

Unders is the side I prefer on the goal markets as it is incomprehensible that Villa collapse defensively at home in their new boss» first game in front of the Villa faithful.

In between, he rages at his enemies: Robin Cook, foreign dignatories, Gillian Duffy, clueless aides, Alistair Darling, the incomprehensible English and, above all... You Know Who.

With this in mind, it seems incomprehensible that we could be contemplating a rise in VAT at this stage.

Nick Clegg said that, «It would be utterly incomprehensible for millions of people, if suddenly the priority is to give 300,000 people at the very, very top a tax break.».