Sentences with phrase «influenced by the forces»

Are we the sum total of our biology and environment or are we capable of being influenced by forces outside the boundary of personal consciousness and physical connection?

The speaker's race is the most inside - baseball election in the city — because it's open only to elected Council members, and even then heavily influenced by forces like county Democratic bosses and labor unions.

«Landforms are influenced by forces that aren't intuitive to us because those forces aren't so important on Earth.

It has an orbit that takes the object so far away from the Sun (some 3000 times farther than Earth) that it is likely being influenced by forces of gravity from beyond our Solar System such as other stars and the galactic tide.

Our lives are constantly influenced by the forces of history, economy and politics.

Lorene Anderson's hypnotic paintings are abstracted landscapes influenced by the forces of nature.

So a step forward to address the problem JC raises here might be to convene an independent body of respected individuals or diverse backgrounds to identify and rate the degree to which particular fields of science are politicized — that is prone to being influenced by forces external to the science itself.

The question is whether or not Earth's climate is influenced by the force in the Sun?

With a lack of significant new supply in the pipeline, per - unit housing will continue to be primarily influenced by forces in the multifamily market.

Not exact matches

As for General Motors and Ford, their plans were set in motion before Trump was elected, and the companies said the decisions were not influenced by politics but by market forces.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Externally focused leaders are driven by outside forces that influence and affect their company.

The model developed by Taylor predicts that instead of 2 % per year, the percentage of CEOs forced out per year would be closer to 13 % if boards were not influenced by these personal factors.

Also, I've mentioned previously that the long end of the yield curve today is probably being influenced by international forces, as rates are lower overseas.

While China still is the dominant force behind the success that bitcoin has had in Asia, India's influence may just help the digital currency hit new heights, especially if adopted by the country's, highly unbanked population.

Not many truly understand the market as an almost - living entity, though, something that changes by the second and can be influenced by a wide variety of outside forces that aren't always completely understood.

Or atleast influenced by some sort of evil force, bad intention, or selfish desire?

Of course, some could argue that they were not possessed, but were only being influenced by Satanic forces.

Forced gender roles impacts relationships in countless negative ways, but the one I want to unpack here is the way this form of legalism can hamper honest communication between spouses by requiring women to «influence» their husbands without ever actually leading them.

There is indeed a law of nature which stipulates that, when the antecedent force causing the ball's motion is X, the ball shall travel A amount of distance during B amount of time (this distance is increased or lessened by influences during the ball's motion).

The influence of psychoanalytic concepts gradually re moved this moralism, revealing the manner in which behavior is conditioned by early experiences and by unconscious forces which are not subject to the will.

This same imbalance is also evident in Religion in the Making, where Whitehead speaks of «force of belief cleansing the inward parts» (RM 58), without also calling attention to the reciprocal influence that the «inward parts» can play in cleansing the individual's «force of belief,» While it is certainly the case that physical experience can be enlarged and purified of narrow emotions by virtue of its fusion with conceptual operations, this is but one aspect of the dipolarity.

In 1998, however, a meta - analysis in Psychological Bulletin found that most victims of pedophilia turned out only «slightly less well adjusted» than the average adult, with the probability of maladjustment being influenced by the degree of physical force or coercion present in pedophilic encounters.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

Historical Muhammad was a typical despot... He ordered his followers to raid, kill any who did not convert... later as his influence grew - he when on his own crusade... taking of much of the middle east by force.

MAGIC: the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

The sun drenched valley of the Nile and the flooded plains of ancient Sumer both exerted profound influence in the molding of the outlook of ancient men for whom Egypt and Babylonia were the world and their forces the realities by which man must direct his life.

And certainly nomadic influence continued a potent force in Israel's life, reinforced by the steady infiltration of desert wanderers who entered and lived much as Abraham had done many centuries before.

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

The chemical environment of the molecule and the molecule itself are in constant, dynamic interaction, influenced by the magnitude of physical forces and configuration of chemicals within the cell.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

Science is also a part of the social order, influenced by practical needs, economic forces, and intellectual assumptions.

The second danger is that often under the influence of established powers they might become weighed down in bureaucracy and end up becoming centres of power themselves, which are forced little by little to subscribe to the dominant logic in order to reproduce socially.

There began to be the sense that events could be influenced only by large - scale, remote economic or governmental forces, or by extreme political initiatives on the right or on the left.

A third possible reason is the sudden toll of death among the Assyrian forces by plague (the angel of the Lord, 19:35) The sequence and detail of events may now be irrecoverable and we do not doubt the influence of popular legend in the third possible explanation.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

In any case, the hypothesis of physical chance posits an indeterminacy at the base of cosmic reality, and this again forces us to ask whether the natural world is influenced by any sort of ordering principle.

The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.

Therefore, if nature is in any way affected by God at a fundamental level, its being influenced would not have to be imagined as a completely passive reception of divine causal force.

That is, Whitehead does not believe that the construction of a cosmology or natural theology is a purely «rational» activity, if that would mean that it is not profoundly influenced and shaped by all sorts of historical and personal forces.

I think that's part of what it means to be human — we have free will and are shaped and influenced by both internal and external forces.

All the wars, murders, rapes, and abuse in the world have been influenced by Satanic forces in some way or another.

Perhaps he has been influenced by the way things did not exactly go according to plan for Cesc after he forced his way out of the Emirates or perhaps he is just more appreciative of what the Gunners and Arsene Wenger have done for his fledgling career.

Wenger only managed to build the invincible's due to David Dein being the man who done the transfers, since he got forced out by the old profit driven board, we have not had such influence in the board to get the specific players that Wenger wants, instead bargain buys of what we use to get ended up arriving.

Referees and linesmen are ambitious, especially at the highest levels and that allows the corrupters to profit from their eagerness to advance, in order to influence the results of a game.Add in the already inherent subconscious bias referees bring to every game, the stresses that can disturb their concentration during a game, the fear they have of being demoted, the ubiquitous competition and rivalry that top level officials always have between them and others, and we have a great cocktail that can be easily exploited by dishonest forces.

I finally resolved that packing my own kids lunches, modeling healthy choices and lifestyle, and trying to influence those kids forced to eat school lunch by sending enough in my kids» lunch boxes that they can share when asked is all I can do.

Led by Reps. Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan, New York members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to use his influence to ensure that Jakiw Palij — a convicted Nazi guard — is deported, so New Yorkers and Americans are not forced to live with «a painful reminder for Americans who fought against the Nazis or lost loved ones in the Holocaust.»

Does the threat of military force by the United States have much of an influence on other countries» actions?