Sentences with phrase «insist upon their points»

True, this anti-Christian faith is coming into action under different names in different parts of the world; but the more these alternative versions of the postwar paganism insist upon their points of difference — the more they abuse and attack one another — the more clearly they betray their kinship with one another to the eyes of the Christian observer.

Not exact matches

One who still denies evolution at this point is making it clear that once they've decided something is true, they will insist upon it no matter how thoroughly it is disproven.

But things will start to change when we insist upon seeing the human person as the focal point of historical inquiry, the cynosure of historical meaning, the fleetingly visible figure to be sought in history's lavish carpet.

We can now deal with the question, earlier deferred, of how it is possible to insist upon internal relations between occasions while at the same time recognizing that from a logical point of view the members of a class of particulars defined by a function would have to be externally related.

In the second place, the point of view which would insist upon an absolute distinction between Jesus Christ and all other instances of divine revelation is not confined to the so - called «neo-orthodox.»

The liberal transaction in which victimized blacks insist upon relief from guilt - ridden whites often points away from the necessity for us to be engaged in our own improvement.

The first point that must be insisted upon is that the extensive continuum is, in a sense to be specified, associated with potentiality.

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

Interestingly enough, what is suggested here is the same point upon which we have already insisted: that life for human beings is a process of «becoming» and is not to be understood as an entirely completed and finished affair.

The «Marcan hypothesis,» as Bishop Rawlinson insists in his Commentary, is no longer tenable — the hypothesis, namely, that Mark's order and point of view are infallible and must be adhered to in every case — and yet the general outline of the ministry, as given by Mark, is not only the earliest outline we have, but commends itself upon grounds of probability.

My point with Concert was that the non theists tend to insist upon verifiable, objective truth in order to know with certainty, something that was not possible in his scenario and yet he still made the adamant claim.

But to return to my original point, Whitehead also insists that «the form of process is not wholly dependent upon derivation from the past.

In part we differ in that among all the points of christology, I am disinclined to insist upon one as the point.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

At this point in his article, Scoville discussed a situation that modern home bakers still face: «One will insist upon having a vanilla extract made from the best Mexican beans, while the other will be satisfied with an extract prepared from Tahiti or Vanillon beans, or from some combination of these with vanillin, tonka, or cumarin.

However, without an approved CVA - the Inland Revnue's objection nullified the CVA - the Football League insisted upon on 15 - point sanction before returning the «Golden Share» (Membership of the League).

I make it a point to be casual about the wine pull, letting other people use it whenever they insist upon being helpful, though I often awaken in the night, convinced that it has been thrown away during the cleanup period, and then I go downstairs and open the drawer and see it, but return to bed convinced that I have nevertheless had an accurate premonition of its fate following the next dinner party.

My point was that if RWA goes too far towards trying to punish Harlequin in the future, it might actually end up engaging in actual price - fixing (not any wussy interference with contract): specifically, insisting upon price points and punishing publishers (or authors with publishers) that don't comply.

It really is one of the most adrenaline and fun - packed days out currently on offer in Bali.See Bali Adventures Tours insist that there is a minimum of two people per booking, upon which welcome guests will be picked up from their hotels in Kuta, Seminyak, Nusa Dua, Sanur, or even from Ubud, and taken in style and fully air - conditioned vehicle to the start point of the ATV tour.

Ijichi's work, like that of Agnes Martin, which it brings to mind at points, insists upon seeing not as a search for value but as a source of it.

So why do you insist upon using that year as your starting point, SebastianH, but then simultaneously complain about using extreme or anomalous years as starting points?

But there is a substantive point behind insisting upon a stable distribution along the lines of Emmy Noether's (first) Theorem; a symmetry discovered in nature leads to a conservation law.

My Lords, as to the preliminary point in this case, I have entertained grave doubts, and I can not say that even now those doubts have been entirely removed; but it does not seem to me a question upon which I should insist so strongly on my own opinion that I should differ from the rest of your Lordships.