Sentences with phrase «just as the certainties»

The associations of night and death also relate to Glyver's metaphorical blindness: he is convinced that he sees things as they really are; in fact, he is blind to their real meaning, enveloped as he is in misperception and misapprehension, just as the certainties of day, and of life itself, are enveloped and obscured by the shadows of night and death.

Not exact matches

Just as it's a certainty that not all the 50 self - driving car companies currently experimenting in California will exist five years from now, consolidation will come to this market too.

As a provincial election draws near, just who will represent the governing Progressive Conservative Party from the Lacombe - Ponoka riding is nowhere near a certainty.

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

I don't think that will happen — largely because Grayling's certainty can often look just as faith - filled as the fundamentalism he critiques.

As is often the case when I write about confronting doubt or questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky questions and just enjoy the bliss of absolute certainty that should accompany true faith.

So, too, the life of faith is a life of emptiness and darkness in the desert where one's truth and certainty as food for the journey are not a verifiable and present truth but a promise, just as the manna was a promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.

The Spirit will meet you there just as much as the Spirit met you in your days of certainty and know - it - all - ness.

The uncertainty is just as much a part of the quantum state as the certainty.

And on earth there are signs [of G - D's existence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty, just as [there are signs thereof] within your own selves: can you not, then, see?

Your certainty that life exists in other planets, in the absence of concrete proof, is just as delusional.

«Therefore, illumined by his [the Spirit's] power, we believe neither by our own nor by anyone else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

It's just that open theists are so confident in God's intelligence that we don't think God would have to foreknow an event as a certainty to guarantee this.

The God of unlimited intelligence has a virtually infinite amount of contingency plans that will be enacted just in case things unfold a certain way, and each and every one of these contingency plans are just as perfect as they'd have been if God had foreknown as a certainty that things would unfolded this particular way.

Just as androcentric competition in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of women - slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.

'» The technical discussions as to when or whether nuclear weapons can be used without violating just war criteria are irrelevant unless the question of escalation can be answered with certainty.

Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed.

And just as it is impossible in the physical world to know with certainty why a drop of water runs down the right hand side of a knuckle instead of the left hand side, so also, we can never know with absolute certainty why some bad things happen in this world.

But in fact, he is just as certain and committed as the atheist: whereas the atheist is absolutely certain that God does not exist, the agnostic is absolutely certain that God can not be known with certainty.

There is no certainty as to just when it appeared.

It feels like science and I appreciate the certainty it provides us that our recipe will turn out just as expected.

It may not happen just yet though, despite the fact that some media sources were talking about the transfer as a certainty.

For some, it means that I'm just there, in the room, present as a woman who preserves normalcy in birth, and knows with 100 % certainty that this mom has got it going on!

But, as there is no certainty that Keynes» approach would have made that much difference after the great crash, can we be so sure he is the right guide just now?

And just as succeeding in green industry requires this vision, focus, and certainty, so too in other key sectors.

«Consistent with,» isn't the same as identification with certainty, but in this case it's like looking for your best friend, in a place where you would expect him to be, and seeing someone there that looks just like him.

«As we look at multiple factors, I don't think we'll ever be able to — with 100 percent certainty — predict someone's performance in any activity, not just sports,» Macnamara said.

I'm not so sure how he could know this with such certainty, but in any case, just as it wasn't the airplanes that killed Kong, it was beauty that killed the beast, so I would argue that it wasn't yoga that injured Mr. Black, it was pride and fanaticism that injured the yogi.

It's by no means a flawless show, and there's no certainty that even a trio as strong as this one can float the series by sheer force of will, but if the last 10 minutes are any indication, Up All Night may just find itself the most elusive trophy of all: an audience.

Lee implies much, to the very brink of certainty, but just as much is withheld.

Ultimately the only certainty is that this flick is yet another harbinger that the total collapse of civilization as we know it has drawn just a little closer.

The seemingly innocuous structure of Kiarostami's film, a series of apparently mundane conversations with wildly spinning depths that over time accumulate such weight, such possibility, that builds to a crescendo with the year's most shattering momentum, wins out over Boal's screenplay that is more than just the effective distillation of a decade of history, but a radical (for Hollywood at least) rethinking of character and a fascinating, open - ended exploration of what counts as evidence and certainty in the post-Iraq War world.

In 2009, Mckinsey published an article entitled «Consumer Decision Journey» by David Court et Al where they coined the term Consumer Decision Journey (CDJ): This is basically the journey of an online customer and how they go from uncertainty to certainty just to end up into being a loyal customer, and eventually act as an evangelist for the brand.

I have lived / worked in both an urban area and a suburban area, and I can tell you with certainty that there are just as many ineffective teachers in the suburbs as there are in inner - city schools.

At just twenty - years - old, Rachel Jensby finds herself faced with a desperate reality: either continue to hand her nineteen - month - old daughter over to the man who is sexually abusing her as the court has ordered her to do, or go into hiding to help her child escape the certainty of further sexual assaults.

It is possible to overpay for certainty, just as it is possible to overlever companies with reliable cash flow.

Some elder hamsters are not as meticulous about it, and for reasons that I'm not sure anyone can explain with certainty in every case, some hamsters are just prone to having their claws grow quickly and excessively long.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

Based on the evidence as it currently exists, it just is not a valid scientific position to assert with certainty that human emissions have caused recent changes to the climate, and therefore the policy implications that stem from that.

The whole point of the global warming scare is to take an uncertain and unproven scientific hypothesis and insist on it as an absolute scientific certainty requiring immediate action — which just so happens to be a very specific agenda that aligns perfectly with a certain political outlook.

I would think, as a physicist you should know that there is no absolute certainty not just about about any hypothesis, but also about any theory in nature sciences.

«The trends are not good, and if I just sat around in my former life as a soldier, if I just waited around for someone to walk in and say, «This is with a hundred percent certainty,» I'd be waiting forever,» he said.

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

It's impossible to guarantee anything in science or engineering to 100 % certainty, and as former employees of NASA, every one of the authors and signers knows it instinctively: Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger, and Columbia, just for starters.

As I said above, there are many past climate events for which we lack the data to explain with certainty, and this is just one of them.

As he put it, the potential results of climate change vary from the benign to the catastrophic, and anyone claiming certainty that the consequences will be benign is just fooling himself.

Oh, it's not absolute, but given that your personal disbelief in evolution vs. creationism is similar to Roy Spencer's, and that Lindzen's disbelief in evidence that smoking causes cancer and heart disease is reflected in his belief that AGW isn't a problem, we can say with certainty (as has been said above) that it's not people whose position is «just like» anti-science types, but that they're often the * same people *.

Whether the intent was to mislead or just paint a nice tidy picture, the fact is the graphic did mislead many other scientists and lay people into a false degreee of certainty as to the unprecedented nature of recent warming.

My approach to lawyers as a commercial entity is based on my near - certainty that the legal market of the future will include many providers, of which lawyers will be just one.