Sentences with phrase «life of creatures such»

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Due to the time frames involved in spawning generation after generation of complex creatures, such experimentation is necessarily limited to specimens with short life spans / gestational periods like bacteria, single cell organisms and fruit flies.

Pope Benedict XVI himself has said that an «industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.»

Such a creature is not a blob of tissue or, as the Roe opinion so felicitously put it, a «potential life.»

[9] The significance of this is that God remains ever most intimate to a thing in its essence and constitution, yet without depriving it of its individuality and distinctiveness as a creature of such - and - such a sort, indeed guaranteeing that it come to be and remain so for the time, or span of life, he apportions for it.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.

For several generations, such leading Christian thinkers as Robert Boyle and William Paley had seen the intricate, interrelated parts of living creatures as irrefutable evidence of the wisdom, power, and goodness of the divine craftsman who had made them so carefully and thoughtfully.

No, God is intimately involved in our daily lives, but this first point of the chaos theory simply argues that God is such a believer in having true relationships with His creatures, that He gave us true and genuine freedom within creation, so that we can choose to love and serve Him (or not).

But it is only by passing through such a chaos that we can reach the new world lying upon our horizon, a world reversing the forms and structures of our inherited consciousness and experience, and a world promising a new life and freedom to that broken and guilty creature, man.

Our final judgment of the worth of such a life as this will depend largely on our conception of God, and of the sort of conduct he is best pleased with in his creatures.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

It's funny that creatures such as ourselves» forked radishes, cousins to the ant, the sparrow, and the orangutan» are yet capable of ratiocination, and in his philosophical tales McCall Smith deftly exploits the comic potential of that incongruity even as he argues for a certain vision of the examined life.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

No other horror creatures invite quite the same breadth of paranoid speculation as zombies, perhaps because they embody such a pure, reflective sense of terror: animated corpses dependent on living flesh for survival.

Omega - 3's proliferate in cold - blooded creatures that live primarily in cooler environments because the fats don't harden in chilly water like omega - 6 fatty acids do (hence, the high level of omega - 3's in cold - water fish such as salmon).

It was Charles Darwin who coined the term «living fossil» to describe extant creatures, such as the gar (another Great Lakes resident) and the lungfish, which have been present for many millions of years in the fossil record yet appear to have undergone very little anatomical change.

With their unusually large brains relative to their body size and advanced cognition, parrots live in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competitors.

T. rex may be the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, but how did evolution produce such a marvellous creature, the biggest predator ever to live on land?

Such creatures have the potential to address some of the big questions about the nature of life itself, including what types of lifeforms we might find in extreme environments, like space.

Although they are identified as such in tiny type on the credits page, a casual reader would assume that these are pictures of living creatures.

In this way, such an impeccable system was complete where living organism generates oxygen and the ozone layer, and as a result of it, creatures make further evolution.

Would it be simple forms of life such as bacteria, viruses or algae, or more advanced, multi-cellular creatures, perhaps even intelligent beings?

All life on Earth has evolved to be in alignment with the 24 - hour revolution of our planet on its axis, and this alignment has caused us to evolve such that we are actually functioning as though we are two quite different creatures: one by day and a completely separate one by night!

We can bet that even a real lover of women finds himself at such a moment in his life when he has to confess that he does not understand these creatures.

It tempts viewers with its tease of an idyllic story - maybe the humble forest creatures will defeat the evils and live happily ever after - especially with such intimidating supernatural powers!

Some 16 years after the original series made such a dramatic splash, Blue Planet II, narrated by the 90 - year - old broadcaster, is airing seven episodes, including incredible bioluminescent sea creatures, which glow in the dark at the bottom of the deepest oceans — similar to the incredible flashlight fish and illuminating jellyfish at SEA LIFE Blackpool.

I've been doing agility since 1993 — with different dogs, of course, because these dear creatures have such short lives — and am lucky enough to live in the Irish countryside and to have a garden large enough to fit a full - size agility arena where I can train my own dogs and accommodate our local club's agility classes.

We did a little research and found even more titles that you can't read on a Kindle, Nook, iPad (no matter what version it is) or any other e-book reader, such as The Life of Pi by Yann Martell, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock, Creatures That Once Were Men by Maxim Gorky and Being and Time by Martin Heidegger.

She knows where to draw the reader's eye in such a way that brings the bustling forest to life — including snappy moments of onomatopoeia (twitches and clicks and drips from both the forest creatures and the rain)-- without tiring us.

However, those cloning methods could be used only in experiments with a small number of primitive living creatures, such as sea urchins and salamanders.

Such protection is hard to apply to a living creature with the result that, in spite of existing legislation designed to protect consumers, many retailers and breeders are able to get away with flouting their duty of care and simply avoid the consequences.

We live in such a crappy dismantled world I would feel bad bringing more living creatures here to suffer the unknown at the hands of the almighty human.

From pets to wild creatures, animals play a vital part of our daily lives, such as companionship and sources of nutrition.

The hull of the corn is made of cellulose and as such is indigestible, however, the inside is full of carbs, proteins and fats (all of which the cells in every living creature's body uses) that are nutrituous which is what is released when you grind the corn.

Glide amongst magnificent schools of fish, see vibrant coral life and search for rare marine creatures such as elusive pigmy sea horses.

The chances of seeing these magnificent creatures and other sea life, such as sea turtles, are about 95 %.

«While I will in my daily life strive to contribute to conservation efforts, such as using less plastic and avoiding sharks fin, I hope to be able to share my love of the sea and its fascinating creatures through my writings and my love for diving, such that others too, will work towards protecting our earth.

This oceanic island is surrounded by shear walls of soft coral home to myriad of marine life and attracting large pelagic creatures such as green sea - turtles and immense schools of barracudas.

Each exciting adventure lets you observe an array of fascinating and unusual creatures, such as birds, lizards, aquatic life, and the famous Galapagos tortoise.

Every single one of the 265 rooms are a suite with separate living space, private balconies, ocean views, and extra creature comforts such as Nespresso machines in the rooms.

The Gili islands have excellent diving, with an impressive array of sea creatures and plant life to be seen, such as green and hawksbill turtles, manta rays, bumphead parrotfish and more.

Choices such as choosing to save the life of one species of creature can weigh heavily on the end game and cause problems later on and so decisions that were made really came down as a matter of your morals and how exactly you want things to play out.

There are some nice touches, such as a sea creature commenting that «life's a carp shoot,» but most of the humor is forced and the voice acting, with the exception of the always reliable Patrick Warburton as a balloonist, is sub-par.

In my narrative silkscreen prints of human - animal hybrid creatures in urban environments, I create alternate worlds that are often based off of cities I have lived in, such as my hometown of Providence, RI and New York, where I live now.

Actual objects are something of a rarity for him, though he's recently been building sophisticated, uncanny fish tanks, and populating them with various kinds of underwater plants and sea creatures, such as a hermit crab that lives inside a model of Brancusi's 1910 sculpture Sleeping Muse.

The artist is known for works that include living creatures — such as Huyghe's recent work «Human», part of the Pierre Huyghe retrospective in LACMA's Resnick Pavilion.

Creatures such as deer, snails, and humans, often depicted in death or distress, speak to the human condition of life as temporary and fleeting.

The implication of such research is that study of shorter - lived, tinier creatures may provide more information about adaptation and loss in the rapidly warming Arctic than, for instance, study of seals and polar bears.

We were wondering at this point: fluffy creatures don't live in abstract climates such as «the south» of England, so what sense does it make to use data about the whole of England, or large parts of it?

They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important, such as poverty and infectious disease and public education and public health, and the preservation of living creatures on land and in the oceans, not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans.