Sentences with phrase «least understood by»

Coinsurance (the percentage of costs paid by a patient after paying their deductible) was the term least understood by survey respondents.

Daoism, a religious tradition with roots in China dating back more than 2,000 years, is undoubtedly the major world religion least understood by Westerners.

Apparently, the brain is the least understood by the medical community of all the human body parts.

That symbolic aspect of the policy was really important - and not in the least understood by the policy's critics.

Not exact matches

Quite apart from the argument over OSFI - style oversight, the former federal official and others stress this segment of the market at least requires more transparency and clearer data so regulators and the Bank of Canada can better understand the credit landscape and the extent of high - risk loans issued by private lenders.

Social media is an ongoing and basically 24/7 production process feeding an expanding set of digital channels that need to be understood, rationalized, and managed — at least initially by you as CEO in terms of creating the «voice» and direction of the communications and in determining the objectives being sought.

In a deposition brought by Sir Martin Broughton, the Liverpool chairman at the time is asked if he understood «there was at least an attempt to contact Bill Gates and Bob Kraft in the US?»

Fortunately, the type of annuity you're asking about — an immediate annuity — is (by annuity standards at least) the easiest to understand and, to my mind the type with the greatest potential for helping people who want more guaranteed lifetime income than Social Security alone will provide.

That's why, ultimately, I can't really blame Jana Partners for pushing for a break - up... Qualcomm's licenses by themselves would be a money gusher, at least for a few years, and while I think most investors are more long - term oriented than people think, I can absolutely understand the temptation — and associated price premium — associated with money in hand now.

I'll be quite happy if at least stocks are being held by those who understand the full narrative of the recent half - cycle, and have seen, considered, and discarded our work.

«The answer may be entirely innocent,» Mr. Denton said, musing on the question of whether Mr. Harder was paid by someone other than Mr. Hogan, «but I think in order for people to understand what's going on here, what the stakes are, I think it's important that it be out in public, or at least that he'd be asked the question in public.»

By agreeing to these terms, I confirm that I am at least 18 years of age and that I have read and understand the entire Independent Contractor Agreement.

Jesus appears to have been followed by a core group of around seventy for at least some of His ministry, but His relationship to this larger «congregation» contrasts with that of the twelve which He lived with for some three years (and others — some of whom only met Him perhaps once, but clearly understood and accepted His care and counsel).

I've been able to accommodate faith and science, at least to a degree by Paul's words about our flawed human understanding and seeing through a glass darkly..

The whole deal with miracles is that by nature they can not be proven because miracles defy the laws of nature or at least what we understand to be the laws of nature.

A miracle, as I would understand it, would be an event that can not be explained by natural causes (or at least so unlikely and / or misunderstood as to make it seem that way).

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.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

With a firm and simple belief in God which could be understood by the humblest and least educated, with a fiery confidence in Mohammed as the supreme prophet of God, with reverence for Jesus but declaring that Christians had misrepresented him, that he was not the unique Son of God, and that to Mohammed had been given a later revelation, with the type of fatalism and belief in heaven which reinforced ardor in battle, Islam proved the faith of warriors.

This model is rooted in an understanding of schooling already at least four centuries old by the time Christian churches appeared on the scene.

No one can develop freely in this world and find full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

I'm not surprised by the lack of originality, but I hope you at least understand why this claim by believers is simply part and parcel of their heightened sense of «holier than thou».

The recognition of these problems is not new although Hartshorne's work on the concept of God has made important contributions to our understanding of them, not least by suggesting ways in which they can be avoided without detriment to the true deity of God.

If you don't know about Islam, then learn about it to understand and be able to at least speak out of knowledge, not just opinion by association (that is to Christianity).

But Campolo at least makes the theologically responsible argument that «you can only understand the rest of the Bible when you read it from the perspective provided by Christ.»

In my experience at least Hartshorne's a priori claims, far from impoverishing experience, actually enhance it by leading to a structure of understanding which gives due weight to both the abstract and the concrete, both the necessary and the contingent, both the unchanging and the changing aspects of reality.

Hence in opposition to Whitehead, at least as he understands him, Leclerc advocates a modified Aristotelianism, according to which the subordinate entities within a physical organism «act on each other reciprocally, and are thus each modified, in some respect, by the relationship, that is, by their acting» (NPE 309).

Nor can I see that a single test, least of all a simple reference to the Bible as understood by the recipient of the special revelation, is now or ever will be a sufficient safeguard against the vagaries to which intensely sincere minds are sometimes even more liable than those whose convictions are less fiercely one - sided.

By their very nature as «performatives» they entail for their understanding what we might call «host» statements, some at least of which must be descriptive.

Old Testament materials prepare the way for this understanding by naming the name of God in connection with historical events and by interpreting his reality, partly at least, in terms of his involvement in the fortunes of Israel.

Then my identity no longer derives from things or from the attitudes of others but, to some degree at least, stems from a clearer understanding of the truth of my relationship to God; and this understanding can sharply decrease the fear generated by ignorance of who I really am.

No, spiritually understood, he has by his venture cared for them in the best possible way, for by this he has shown them that he at least has faith in Providence.

«Thus the method which earlier he (Leibniz) wanted, asked for, received, and understood with difficulty, he discovered forsooth either first or at least by his own effort.»

I am not sure why Satan and his angels ever thought they could defeat God by rebelling against him, but we must believe that they know God at least as well — if not better — than we do, and so the lack of understanding must be ours.

As such, it is at least a partially alien criterion by which to appreciate biblical traditions, since their understanding of divine power is rather different, a subject we shall turn to in the next chapter.

I wonder if you think it is possible to understand her and still be repelled or at least put off by her ideas.

At least that's my understanding regarding a Nothingness that goes way beyond all celestial things held by Nothingness and Nothingness does traverse ever inwards to hold together all atoms.

There can be absolutely no doubt that collective Israel — judged, smitten by Yahweh, disfigured, uprooted — has at least influenced the understanding of the meaning and mission of the Servant.

However remote the sinner is from grace, and however great the transformation to be effected by forgiveness, yet pardon is for him the most comprehensible thing in the world, as easy to understand as a word of love and pardon between man and man, without being in the least something to take for granted.

Followed by a tent in the southern region... I completely understand his decision... at least from that perspective... can't have the entire audience, team, etc seeing said «tent»

Nor should we belittle the possibility that theological dialogue with these movements might one day be the more fruitful because their self - understanding is not, at least in most instances, defined by the longstanding Protestant - Catholic antitheses of the Northern Hemisphere.

This is what I hope to persuade you of by drawing your attention to an altogether extraordinary and highly suggestive condition of the world around us, one which we all see and are subject to, but without paying any attention to it, or at least without understanding it: I mean the increasingly rapid growth in the human world of the forces of collectivization.

Many of them do not understand that the threat of catastrophic judgment is brought on by their nation as nation and by its vested interests: neglect of the least privileged in this country and beyond, economic exploitation, popular media saturated in violence, the support of repressive client regimes, military buildup and the corporate destruction of the environment.

It was their claim that the risen Jesus appeared to Mary at the tomb, to two of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, to at least eleven disciples in a locked room in Jerusalem, later to Thomas, then again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberius, and apparently on other occasions over a forty day period, then finally at «the ascension» (however one understands his last appearance to them).

When we study the history of Europe and America we can assume at least a minimal knowledge about the influence of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religious thought and practices, but for the study of the history of Asia we must prepare ourselves by gaining a sympathetic understanding of the quite different religious ideas and practices of that part of the world.

I understand Whitehead to say that time, in the sense of successiveness, is metaphysically necessary whereas space, or at least anything like what we mean by space, is not.

In the second place, it should be understood by everyone concerned that schools of religion are not like other schools in at least one respect.

One of the obvious difficulties with these suggestions is that the fundamental issue as to how the individual churches themselves have internalized different understandings of baptism as being a part of their existence and self - identity, an existence and identity which has very often been at least partially shaped as a reaction to the teachings propounded by other churches, has not been adequately addressed.

My point is that on the surface, at least, the analysis of «X is omnipotent» that goes with Griffin's third position concerning the deficiency of Premise X does not capture the idea of perfect power as understood by Griffin and as generally understood in discussions of this topic.

I think you need a philosophy 101 course, or at least a bit better understanding of what is being claimed by theists.