Sentences with phrase «kind of act as»

There's a few seamed pieces on the long part of the boot that kind of act as «stoppers» around your ankle and above your calf.

And the IPCC, too, since they kind of acted as the «gatekeeper» for studies that ended up in the IPCC reports.

Not exact matches

Such network validates these acts and would then execute them, which can range to different kinds such as data, transactions, records, cryptocurrencies, and merges them with the others to give birth to a new block of data.

Barring that, the Star paywall will likely act like paywalls before it: as a significant but not transformational shift, the kind of thing that makes a lot of noise, but in the end doesn't change very much at all.

The locals saw us doing this and started coming to us with all kinds of electricity issues, work issues, transportation issues — I spent the majority of my first deployment acting essentially as the mayor of a small town.

In that context, the Labo could tap into parents» desire to draw kids» attention away from screens, at least a little bit, acting as a kind of bridge from the digital world back into the real one.

And for a long time serotonin acted as a kind of red herring.

To achieve what essentially will be a new and dynamic art medium, Electronic Arts acts as a kind of production company with teams of draftspeople, writers, and musicians, who are signed up in much the same way as a record or movie company signs up talent.

Currently, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act - the strongest law of its kind on the books - does not bar companies from sharing students» data, as long as the user consents.

This group of Uber employees flew into Miami for 10 days in part for a work retreat, and in part to act as a kind of advance squad, whose duties include networking with hospitality workers, scouting venues, and recruiting Miami Uber drivers.

Facebook, Google, Netflix and Zynga all got their start in business as scrappy, small, startup companies, and it's this kind of ingenuity that the recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is intended to stimulate.

If you are «firing blanks» as it were, then, according to the bible, you should not partake of any kind of se xual act no matter what.

When I came to the realization about theological concepts acting as a substitute for a relationship with God, I started to see and hear that kind of stuff all over the place in church.

I know now, why God and Jesus stay invisible; with this kind of emissary running around acting like a pompous uncaring FOOL «In «His» Name», would YOU appear to mankind?!? I sure as hell wouldn't.

However, just as religious beliefs have caused some serious problems for the world, I can cite you instance after instance of the love of God (or for love's sake) having driven men and women to incredibly kind acts for the betterment of mankind.

It has got away for so long with the kind of lunatic word - games that allow death - by - torture to be presented as an act of love, and eternal torment in the flames of hell to be seen as a necessary act of justice, that we should perhaps not be surprised that it has also managed to dupe its followers into seeing the systematic suppression and silencing of women as an act of liberation and equality.

He could categorically choose the way of antinomian libertinism (as did the Valentinians), in which case the pneumatic self acted as if it had «a positive injunction to perform every kind of action, with the idea of rendering to nature its own and thereby exhausting its powers.»

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

But frankly, all the pastors ought to be doing in the first place is being a servant and a slave to others — that's what a pastor is anyway, at least what sketchy little bits of «pastor» roles can be made out in the NT, as it's scarcely mentioned — not necessarily standing up there and teaching everyone two or three times a week, running the show, and acting like some kind of CEO.

If the cost of addressing these kind of issues is to be wrongly perceived as having misunderstood, as acting in a way that is consistent with a hindrance to women (as in this instance by you) rather than what is actually happening — a combination of life experience and informed opinion acting in a way that is conducive to equality, dignity and empowerment for women then this is a price I am willing to pay for the sake of women's well being.

Such wanton disregard for this kind of act is nearly as bad as the crime itself.

Serious pain in just one small part of your body — the kind that sears and penetrates — can act as a great weight on you.

He then utilized terminology that for decades informed the basic stance of process theology on the nature of true power, though, as we shall see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the world by an act of suffering with the kind of power which leaves its object free to respond in humility and love.»

First, no one can hold «this kind of discourse» unless (as we have seen) he is also and simultaneously acting as spokesman for the oppressed and attacking the unjust order with every nonviolent weapon.

This was for Augustine and for all the Church Fathers not only an act of philosophic rationality, but also a confirmation of Christian piety as they ascribed to God all power, all completeness, all perfection of every kind.4 Most important for our consideration was their conviction that all temporality, change, becoming, and passivity signify lack of perfection.

Positive values act as a kind of «lure», negative values as a threat.

Taken internally it is a cure for disorders of all kinds and acts as a general tonic.

Unless one thinks that God's act of creation is purely arbitrary — and it would be incoherent to attribute arbitrariness of any kind to a God of infinite goodness (an argument for another time)-- then one must understand creation as a direct expression of God's own Logos.

Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom in question is lessened in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds of interference are immoral.

If there is a «wrong» kind of Christian it is the one who uses the Bible as an excuse or to justify their actions (war, slavery, discrimination, oppression, suppression, or condemnation) and it is the one who ignores the preaching of Jesus (tolerance, love, forgiveness, inclusion) and turns instead to a handful of lines in the Old Testament more in keeping with how they prefer to act.

Since we live in the kind of world we do, a good addition to the basic image would be one person seated directly beside the minister, obviously acting as a translator — since language too is a variant.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

On a macro level however, if you can convince enough people to be more like you and do acts of compassion and good, doesn't that help society as a whole, even if those acts are returned in kind?

To think of the agent, an act source that comes - to - be and passes away, as a self - sufficient power would surely be to assign him a self - identity of too momentous a kind.

Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to the unthankful and to those who are wicked.»

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

Reason came into importance in dealing with these forms, and even when it was turned upon itself and upon the soul as a whole, it had no other kind of categories by which to think than those which were achieved by this psychic act of distancing.

The problem that Mr. Bottum correctly identifies is that those such as Chomsky who do not believe in nonmaterial beings literally can not make sense of the kinds of things done by those who still speak and act in powerful mythic symbols.

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

Instead of acting as apologists for the divorce culture, West and Hewlett propose a Parents» Bill of Rights, a kind of work in progress outlined at the end of the book and on flyers abundantly distributed during their book tour.

More to the point, just as William Paley, in his perverse way, acted as a kind of accidental midwife to Darwin's theory, so too I think the speculations of Michael J. Behe and William A. Dembski (and others, many of whom belong to the Discovery Institute) will lead not to a more robust theism but to a new impetus to find adequate explanatory laws for chemical complexity.

The delegates are appealed to as individuals, yet we know they must act under compulsions and orders which are determined by all kinds of political stakes and decisions at home.

As a conservative Christian I'm against perverse sexual acts of any kind, murder, gossip, abortion, and a whole gamut of immoral actions that we all struggle with and see others struggle with.

In that tradition, instead of thinking of God as a persuasive power who acts as a kind of lure toward which things move, which was Aristotle's conception, Aquinas and others adopted the understanding that God creates by being the ultimate efficient cause for the world.

As there thus seems to be no one elementary religious emotion, but only a common storehouse of emotions upon which religious objects may draw, so there might conceivably also prove to be no one specific and essential kind of religious object, and no one specific and essential kind of religious act.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimer's disease to be a «kind of death,» a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move on with their life — so long as they act mercifully and provide a means for care of that spouse.

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As more than immediate, they must include distinct moments of some kind of internal distancing, a marking of a distinction a «stepping back» and an implicit awareness of what is occurring during an act of intuiting.

Every decision is a response to a lure or solicitation; that is how God effectively «acts» in a creative process from which he is nowhere absent, by permitting things to «make themselves» as decisions are undertaken that «decide» the degree and kind of actualization that will occur.