Sentences with phrase «makes dependence upon them»

Hundreds of years of Christian preaching have taken place in such a context; and while it is properly asserted that the erosion from the mind even of the church of the rich referents traditionally clustered about the Easter narratives makes dependence upon them questionable, it must nevertheless be pointed out that a process can be reversed.

Not exact matches

So even if we can plausibly imagine that a slightly better Morsi and a slightly more disciplined opposition might have existed and could have made better choices over the course of the last year, and thus allowed the fragile shoot of democratic compromise to take hold, these choices weren't made, and so the chasm between the liberals and the faithful, and the dependence of the former upon the army, are now simply the facts of Egyptian situation, the ones that one must now work from, right?

Let's face it, by the global standard we are rich, and that wealth has made us complacent in our dependence upon God for provision.

3 Here I must make particular acknowledgment of von Rad's Des Erste Buch Mose, cited in Chapter I. Readers familiar with that work will recognize both the dependence upon, and the departure from, von Rad's interpretation.

It is the way life makes way for more life.9 Death establishes a common fate for every living thing, and thus gives a decisive character to our dependence upon God and our unity with all His creatures.

Moskop thus makes at least three important claims in his brief essay: I) that the five theses adequately and unambiguously represent the framework of Hartshorne's moral philosophy, 2) that Hartshorne's metaphysics justifies not only a broad understanding of altruism but rather a dependence upon an understanding of the principle of utility quite similar to that of utilitarianism, and 3) that in both Hartshorne's moral philosophy and his metaphysics the claims of justice are necessarily subordinate to those of utility.

It is on this lattermost level that the evolutionary process itself becomes self - conscious, reflects back upon itself and its dependence on a creator who made the world as a process consistent with its own principles but not totally self - sufficient.

Remember, «diaper - free» means free from dependence upon diapers... not necessarily naked (or scantily clad) when other options might make more sense.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

Austerity advocates are knowingly or unknowingly the useful idiots of the bloated financial sector, as artificially limiting government expenditure and giveaways to public assets, makes more room for and dependence upon private debt issuance.

Even more dangerous to the rule of law: more such national standards will be required to serve the legislation that will be made necessary by our increasing dependence upon electronic records and information management technology.

And so lawyers have to increase the price of legal services because more time is needed to produce them due to changing circumstances, i.e., the rapidly increasing volumes of law, their complexity, dependence upon technology, and the great volumes of records that electronic technology has made possible.