Sentences with phrase «least in any formal way»

None of my close friends had done it, at least in any formal way, and we even had a crib ready for when my daughter graduated out of the bassinet next to our bed.

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When a Christian organization appears to endorse same - sex unions, even in ways that avoid formal cooperation, the world views it as proclaiming, at least tacitly, that it does not believe that marriage is between man and woman or that sex is reserved for marriage.

If it is understood in a strongly mentalistic way, as consisting exclusively in what the agent has it in mind to do, then the agent can at least try to avoid formal cooperation by excluding from his plans the evil effects of the action he is cooperating with.

It may be impossible to demonstrate that Christianity contains a new idea of God — every element in the formal Christian conception can be found, at least implicitly, in the Old Testament — but even an «objective» outsider will recognize that in Christianity the reality of God is experienced in a new way.

Some trace the new way of thinking about ecosystems — at least in formal research — to ecologist David Tilman at the University of Minnesota in St Paul.

I think what may have killed my faith in the formal channels and gatekeepers who hold the keys to opportunity in the creative world was, at least in part, the years I spent being a gatekeeper myself first as an intern at Seattle Repertory Theatre, then at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, where I and my interns would slowly, slowly, slowly plow our way through the piles, and piles, and piles of good, and bad, and terrible submissions from authors and their agents.