Sentences with phrase «larger questions of»

Instead of addressing Posner's challenge directly, the appeals court instead dives deep into legal pedantry and turf - guarding: it quibbles at length over recondite rules, but never addresses the larger questions of efficiency and incentives that hat the patent system is supposed to regulate.

On the larger questions of the day, I fall between Ribstein and Wilson.

He expertly employs technology and light to frame larger questions of perception, high - tech dependency, and privacy in a world where the very idea of limits is slowly melting away.

Frazier has compellingly set her story of three generations — her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself — against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility.

Interacting with urban architecture and natural elements including sand, water, and air, Martine attempts to preserve these untamable elements, connecting her personal quest with larger questions of who we are in the world and our relationship to the planet.

Though linked to their own times and places, such works are also connected to larger questions of being in the world, questions that are primarily considered philosophical or religious, linked to the language and pursuit of the sublime.

Although small, Gallace's paintings touch upon the larger questions of belonging and ownership in American history and contemporary life.

By printing the photographs on lithographic press in two color print, Shahbazi effectively alters our perception of time and reality such that the works become an intriguing exercise not only about the use of materials and process, but also about larger questions of truth and apprehension.

Sculpture now seemed fundamentally and freshly engaged with the larger questions of the time about art - making.

These three New York stories, happening in quick succession, touched on larger questions of how images, ideas, and resources are contained and circulated in the new millennium, both within and without the art world.

The most prominent critique is that an emphasis on grit is a way of «blaming the victim» — rather than take up larger questions of social, economic, and racial justice, if only the most disadvantaged kids were a little «grittier» they could make it in...

Its classical and religious symbolism points to larger questions of inherent faith in higher powers, but rarely at the expense of genre licks, the irruptive nature of the film's final shot tantalisingly ambiguous.

By demonstrating that key individual species within the ecosystem can play a disproportionally large role in carbon cycling, this study helps bring us a step closer to understanding the function these microbes play in larger questions of climate warming and increased acidity in the ocean.

The neo-orthodoxy of the 1940s and «50s was bad enough when it tried to hold on to a revealed kerygma that no longer made contact with an increasingly secular world, but at least those theologians took seriously the larger questions of ontology and epistemology and sought for some meaningful overview.

Elizabeth Achtemeier and Roland M. Frye deal specifically with issues of biblical interpretation, while Garrett Green, Colin Gunton, and Janet Martin Soskice explore larger questions of metaphor and religious language.

Has it no word of its own to offer about the larger questions of human welfare?

But how can the natural sciences answer larger questions of philosophical meaning?

By human adequacy I mean its capacity for dealing with the larger questions of right and wrong, good and bad, which people face In their quest for a satisfying, happy life.

The larger questions of meaning are largely unanswerable by science in a satisfying way.

It was precisely by looking away from himself and grappling with the larger questions of the common good, the just and the unjust, that a man was able to make himself appear, to reveal who he was and how he was different from others.

Trump trying to wrangle people into silence with nondisclosure agreements brings up the larger question of what, exactly, he's afraid will get out.

Before proceeding to illustrate how the Whiteheadian solution to this problem parallels the Indian, it should be pointed out that an answer to the larger question of the relation of brahman to creativity as process or becoming emerged.

And finally I shall relate the contributions of both thinkers to the larger question of nature and purpose.

Humani Generis by Pope Pius XII is a recent exception, but in that letter, a scientific theory was touched on only peripherally: that is, as the theory of evolution applied to the larger question of reason and its ability to reveal the existence of a personal God and the spiritual soul.

Here, we don't just illuminate where Mitt Romney and Barack Obama stand on the issues that matter to our readers; we also delve into the larger question of how politics and faith should coexist in the public space.

The problem that has been under discussion is, of course, a part of the larger question of the relationship between love and justice.

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

That Paul was a violent persecutor of early Christians, and came into theological conflict with Peter and James at Antioch over the larger question of allowing Gentiles to be believers without following Mosaic Law is unquestioned.

(This question has been vigorously discussed, frequently in connection with the larger question of how real and close was Jesus» influence upon Paul.

We do this to understand the impact that television is having upon our worship practices and take on the larger question of how we are to interpret our faith in our «electronic» cultural milieu.

At this point we may observe that the question of the truth of revelation converges with the larger question of the reality of God.

All I ask of apologists for the system is that they recognize the latter truth as also a consequence of globalism, and that they then ask the larger question of the compatibility of a capitalist culture with Christian values.

And then, of course, there is the larger question of what constitutes appropriate accommodations for food allergic children in schools.

But on the larger question of local control... You say:» If you believe that school food professionals at the district level a) know what they're doing and b) have the kids wellness at heart, then why do they need to be micromanaged through regulation?»

But if, as cosmologists expect, the acceleration turns out to be a recent phenomenon, researchers may be able to determine its cause — and perhaps answer the larger question of the destiny of the universe — by learning when and how the expansion began picking up speed.

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

One of them is the large question of the health - care system.

«In a time of increasing concern about overtreatment, the risk - benefit ratio of bilateral mastectomy warrants careful consideration and raises the larger question of how physicians and society should respond to a patient's preference for a morbid, costly intervention of dubious effectiveness,» the authors write.

Then there's the larger question of whether science should study treatments for a condition that is not, in mental health terms, a problem.

But the larger question of what caused the narcolepsy of Ben and other children remains unresolved.

That said, Moe's analysis does not, and can not, address the larger question of how social disparity would be distributed within each sector if all students were given vouchers to attend any school - public or private.

Second, there is the even larger question of what is a well - educated person and what skills does one need to be ready for the choices after high school.

The larger question of why we develop global citizens is frequently left out of discussions.

We bet cost concerns also played a big role, along with the larger question of where the brand should be positioned.

While the expansion was announced shortly after launch due to a leak by Microsoft's Xbox Marketplace, we knew the expansion was coming, but when was the largest question of them all.

Rosenberg saw the artist's task as a heroic exploration of the most profound issues of personal identity and experience in relation to the large questions of the human condition.

The Festival brings up a larger question of cultural specificity amidst the ever - expanding waves of globalism, and whether it is possible to understand and integrate the kind of cultural differences presented in this kind of exchange, rather than simply marking them off as expressions of a culture more exotic than our own.

I also agree that model predictions of 0.2 C surface warming per decade were clearly inaccurate, but on the larger question of climate trends, they were probably not very far off.

The question to be addressed here is that of managing human generated global warming specifically, and more generally the larger question of sustainable growth, as all follow from the same underlying causes, and are amenable of the same solution.

But the larger question of how best to manage certain hazards looms, too.