Sentences with phrase «interpreted as an act»

The fact that the Street has BAC with a up 9 % revenue estimate for Q1 «17 can only be interpreted as an act of extraordinary generosity, especially when you consider that the full year estimate is just half that number.

I think he doesn't and that your «proof» is just some coincidences you decided to interpret as acts of God.

Jesus» death was interpreted as an act of atonement and as a victory over the forces of sin and death that hold humanity captive.

But when the Holocaust is interpreted as an act so monstrous that it is separate and distinct from all other human evil; when the victims are understood as a special case among all other victims of oppression; when the men who did this deed are differentiated from all other men as being singularly demonic and non-human — then there is no connection between those criminals and ourselves, no possible continuum between our sin and Nazi sin.

Not every legislative proposal needs to be interpreted as an act of war.»

It might almost be interpreted as an act of hostility.

They usually lick their fur to clean themselves, so biting nails can also be interpreted as an act of keeping their body clean.

Not exact matches

But over the years, employers have reached differing conclusions about how the Act's language should be interpreted — specifically the line that says employers must treat pregnant women the same as «other persons not so affected [by pregnancy] but similar in their ability or inability to work.»

More importantly, they process and interpret information in the same was as speculators and rather than act to stabilize prices (by buying for value when prices decline), they tend to enhance volatility by reinforcing appreciation and depreciation expectations.

The OCC has interpreted the National Bank Act to be «sufficiently adaptable» for it to regulate national banks that «engage in new activities as part of the business of banking or to engage in traditional activities in new ways.»

But he also acted in a manner consistent with the rule of law as it has been clearly interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.

Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation to fix the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling which interpreted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) as guaranteeing closely - held private corporations the right to deny birth control coverage to women.

We will not focus on the beloved's letter, that this passage, for example, may be interpreted in this way, and that passage in that way — oh, no, the important thing to us will be to act as soon as possible.

He interprets the woman's act of worship as preparation for his burial.

As a result, the death of the Egyptian first - borns and the death of David's first son to Bathsheba, are interpreted as God's acts of punishmenAs a result, the death of the Egyptian first - borns and the death of David's first son to Bathsheba, are interpreted as God's acts of punishmenas God's acts of punishment.

To interpret acts of violence by those who oppose God's people as fulfillments of prophecy is to believe that God has something else in mind.

Such transcendent joy can be interpreted a merciful illusion, a regression to childish magic, or in an act of faith can also be understood as a «signal of transcendence.»

I interpreted everything that happened around me and within me as acts of God.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

Hartshorne suggests, however, that resurrection can be interpreted as a «synthesis of one's life in God, the divine act of envisagement that keeps adding up the story of one's terrestrial existence, producing a total reality that is invisible to us on earth» (LP 261 - 62).

On the basis of an argument that partially parallels my own up to this point, Boers concludes that in this passage «acts that are as such non-Christian, even though performed by Christians — they were not done in the name of Christ — are used to interpret the meaning of the confession of Christ» (6:72).

The entry point into the debate has varied, but there has always been an awareness in the Church that the search for visible unity and the communion the churches seek, is connected inextricably with the authority with which the Church interprets and lives up to its traditions, but also the way in which we act as Christians in the world.

The Mishnah interprets the command «Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart» as loving God with both the «good» and the «evil» impulses; this means loving Him with and through the act of decision, so that the ardour of passion is transformed and enters with its whole power into the single deed.

This was not an act of schism as some Roman Catholics have interpreted it.

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church members.

To interpret significant events as special acts of God is to turn God into an agent of mechanical intervention.

This concern figures prominently in the case of cremation, which is disturbing to the sister who interprets that act as a violation of her sister and a threat to her resurrection.

It aims at interpreting religious ideas, acts, and institutions «as they present themselves,» giving due consideration of their «intention» and apart from any preconceived philosophical, theological, metaphysical, or psychological theory.

A few hundred years ago, gods, ghosts and goblins inhabited the terrifying night and virtually every act of Mother Nature was interpreted as God acting in some way.

Interdependence, intersubjectivity, and the peculiarities of consciousness are tools provided through process thought for developing a notion of original sin in which original sin can be interpreted as inherited structures of consciousness, acting as socially sanctioned norms, that assume the ill - being of earth or any of its inhabitants.

It is state in which which our brains are acting as if called upon to interpret real sensory input when actually experiencing much less coherent stimuli than reality provides.

Only in this way is it ultimately conceivable even in a Christian philosophy that the anima intellectualis is per se ipsam the form and act of materia prima, as a Thomistic philosophy interprets the teaching of the Council of Vienne that the spiritual soul is of itself the form of the body.

Thus the revelation in Christ, at first received as an act of God in and through an event of which Jesus was the heart and center, tends more and more to be interpreted as God himself become a man.

The affect of this Presence is interpreted by Christians as God's graceful self - disclosure, in other words, as an opportunity for God to act «confessionally» in the sociopolitical context of ritual.

In spite of the attempt of national leaders and the mass media to interpret the incident as a malicious terrorist act of disgruntled and frustrated people full of evil intensions, for many North Americans it was difficult, if not impossible, to accept it as non-religious.

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

The importance of the second and third issues is obvious for decisions about a written constitution, which later was interpreted as involving judicial review of acts of Congress, and for a federal union of states having partial autonomy under a national government.

Karma may be interpreted as a kind of cosmic justice, a moral law of cause and effect; or it may be seen as simply an orderly world in which every act has its inevitable consequence.

I have christian friends from other churchs and there women do these things and they do it because that is how they interpret the word.Its optional and not inforced by the church or by there husbands.They do it as an act of worship to the Lord.The point is how you interpret the word that was what i was getting at as we know the word is the inspired word of God to understand it we need the inspiration of the holy spirit otherwise the word is dead and brings no life.In the case of mother etta she was called to preach and God used her as an evengelist in her day her ministry grew she witnessed to thousands she healed the sick and saved the lost you can argue over a point but the proof is there that God uses women just as he uses men in ministry today.

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

This dynamic is what theologians describe as a «word - act» revelation: God's words interpret God's actions.

You act as if the Holy Spirit automatically, simultaneously, interprets a wide variety of truth, which is then either accepted or rejected by pastors and laypeople based on — what the Bible says.

While most of the attention on the Supreme Court's HHS mandate cases has properly centered on whether the Court will interpret the protections of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to include corporations as well as individuals, an even more malignant threat....

With respect to the understanding of homosexuality, therefore, neither homosexual condition nor homosexual inclination nor specifically homosexual acts may be interpreted as excluding one from the domain of God's gracious intention.

Scripture was interpreted as commanding either ascetical acts or acts of charity.

Clarett meant no disrespect by going to Shanahan, though one might interpret his request as an extension of his prima donna act in college.

Because the bill specifies «with mankind,» a number of LGBT outlets have pointed out that any act of anal or oral sex could be interpreted as illegal as the wording essentially equates sodomy and bestiality.

The misguided nanny state, as advanced by Michelle Obama's «Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act,» was interpreted by Secretary [Tom] Vilsack to be a directive that, because some kids are overweight, he would put every child on a diet.

Not for the faint hearted... Be warned, this isn't family friendly as it does contain come nudity and quite questionable acts of «fashion» that could be interpreted as sexual in nature.