Sentences with phrase «light thrown on»

This will be helpful while driving in the midst of heavy rain because fog lights has enough light thrown on the road, thus, make your car a lot easier to see.

(Thanks ahead of time for any light thrown on this important question, and thank again to SA for raising it.)

The broader significance of the chapter lies in whatever light it throws on the psychological understanding of authoritarian religion in general.

The great contribution of biology to the understanding of human nature is the light it throws on the significance of time.

These are important both for the permanent wisdom they yield, as part of our Christian Scriptures, and for the light they throw on the framework of Jewish life and thought in the midst of which Jesus lived and did the work of his earthly ministry.

Philippe recommends reading the book «one chapter a day and then taking time to meditate on it, re-reading the quotations in the context of your personal prayer, and asking yourself what light they throw on your own life, what invitations our Lord is making to you through them.»

The question is worth asking, not just for the light it throws on the past, but for the illumination it offers to the present.

Not exact matches

And while that personal experience might be of little interest to anyone else, it does throw some light on Perth's Uber versus taxi debate.

Florida, on the other hand, is relaxing its mandatory prison sentences in light of the ruling, throwing out every mandatory life sentence given to inmates who committed their crimes while a juvenile.

Demonstrators lit Dumpsters on fire and threw stones at a member of parliament.

One of my first at home / Saturday morning projects as a 10 year - old boy was to build a robot with tin cans my Mom had thrown out and plenty of lead solder and an «Archer» soldering gun, which still works after 50 years, even the little light on the front!

Goldman Sachs CEO called this combination like throwing a bit more lighter fluid on a fire that was already going.

Others argue that Benchmark's suit has thrown lighter fluid on an already fragile working relationship, and is yet another example of greedy investors looking out for their bottom line instead of the founder's vision.

The report also throws light on how Flipkart could manage to generate these high satisfaction rates, it says, that Flipkart has a great offline service and superb delivery rates and its way of adapting social media also makes it to enjoy this satisfaction score.

«The swift knee - jerk reaction to throw Akin, a strong conservative pro-life, pro-family born again Christian under the bus by some in the Republican Party is shining the light on their actual agenda,» Lane continued.

Ah, jon, I CA N'T throw much light on anything.

In any case, in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of control.

Then I lit a crumpled up ball of newspaper, lit it on fire, and threw it in.

Form - critical studies in the prophets have thrown considerable light on the question of the ecstatic factor in prophetism.

For example, some scientists do attempt to throw light on human behavior through the study of other creatures.

This notion of nondominant living strands may also throw light on Whitehead's view of how mental originality is «canalized»: «By this transmission the mental originality of the living occasions receives a character and a depth.

Functionality, and the extensional view of classes, afford modern logic a greatly increased flexibility not available to traditional logic, and throw a whole new light on both the problems we have isolated, and against which Hegel directed his dialectical logic.

This focus on politics may throw a light on major recent events such as.

He certainly should pay a hefty price for throwing light on the nefarious actions of the Catholic church, and we should transfer the disgust we should have for the church directly onto him.

Unless more light is thrown on this question, «therapeutic religion,» or the religion which heals, may be developed quite outside the church.

After hearing the news, Abdulrahman turned on the light, threw open his bedroom window and shouted for joy.

We will attempt to throw some light on these questions in the six chapters that lie ahead.

Rather, it is a series that we repeat each time a new appreciation of the demand and promise of the gospel throws fresh light on areas of our lives that our journey toward maturing has not yet touched or not touched deeply enough.

Archeologists tell us that in Paul's day, some of the arrows and spears had tips made of some sort of combustible material which was then lit on fire and shot or thrown into the enemy forces.

The theory and practice constituted a rich orientation to reality, one that covered many of the areas with which the Western traditions dealt but also others on which the Western traditions throw little light.

But in fact Newman's significance sweeps wider than that, for he throws much light on that burning issue which now goes under the umbrella label of «relativism,» an often vaguely used term that I tried to define here.

I propose that a metaphysical analysis of what he meant by being throws light on the answer.

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

Moyers's people had swarmed over the Indiana University campus in successive waves of producers, executive producers, directors and associate directors; of lighting people, camera people, sound people and questions - from - the - audience people; had added a participant (Nicholas von Hoffman) to be sure the affair would be telegenic; had phoned the panelists before the event with their own list of topics and ideas; had thrown together a wooden platform just for their cameras, which cameras prevented many in the actual audience from seeing the panelists; had shifted the meeting rooms to meet the exacting requirements for the paraphernalia of television; had fed questions to members of the audience, and instructions «from the truck» to the moderator («move on»); and then had fashioned from 12 hours of tape one hour that might have been made in a New York city hotel room.

It can even play with inconsistency; and can thus throw light on the consistent, and persistent, elements in experience by comparison with what in imagination is inconsistent with them» (PR 5/7).

He shows what light a specific moral psychology throws on human events and also how those events sharpen awareness of the fragility of our moral condition.

Perhaps also this book not only may throw light on the fundamental purposes by which education should be directed, but may at the same time suggest the outlines of a relevant and mature faith for modern man — a faith that grows directly out of the daily struggle to make responsible decisions.

Some additional light must now be thrown on this doctrine.

If you throw out scientific hypotheses, you must then deny simple, everyday life experiences like knowing that when you flip a switch a light goes on or off or when you heat water, it will boil over.

Robert Bellah and his associates throw some general light on this absence in their recent sociological study of American culture, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Harper & Row, 1985).

At the foot of the headland is a lighthouse or beacon, not casting rays on every side, but throwing one bar of light through the darkness.

In addition to their inherent value, they also throw light on the background of John Paul II's many writings on the meaning of work.

The New Testament message deals with human experience and throws its revealing light on human motives, desires, and action.

It is our hope that this new perspective will throw light on persistent human problems, and open the way to some new assessment of the forms which the spirit of love may be taking in contemporary life.

No complete light has yet been thrown on the secret processes taking place in the microscopic recesses of the cell.

This fact that death's meaning is always related and interpreted in experience throws light on one of the difficult themes of the New Testament, the connection of death with sin.

This may throw light on the character of their contents.

The idea of the Word throws a decisive light on the famous theopneustia debate.

I will not have discharged my self - chosen duties successfully without referring to two passages by notable founders that throw special if idiosyncratic light on religion.

We watch the throngs flood through the doors of amusement parks and department stores and think that if we can get such crowds to buy our wares and attend our concerts, they might be unaware when we throw the Gospel into their cart as well, as if it were some blue - light special Christmas candy on December 26th.