Sentences with phrase «meaning of the world around»

Through arts integration, students construct greater meaning of the world around them.

They can't breathe, they can't function, and so they power down, conserving energy until they can find a more hospitable environment in which these neurons can fire, connect, and make meaning of the world around them.

Not exact matches

The growth of emerging economies means there is room for Canadian - manufactured goods around the world — but we're falling behind

This means that the manufacturers around the world are themselves potential customers for manufactured inputs exported from Canada to an ever - expanding set of trading partners.

content while the already tech - heavy world around you seems to be getting a little meaner, harsher, and more polarized, you can take a small measure of comfort knowing that there are people out there who see the world the same way.

That means people around the world are using the Foursquare app on their smartphones to check in to places like restaurants, pubs, gyms, hotels, campuses, stadiums, retail stores, and just about any other type of physical and even nonphysical locations.

This rising tide of connectedness in the world suddenly means that if you're an English - language publisher, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world where people speak English as a second language.

(Fastly is an edge cloud platform, which basically means it delivers content incredibly quickly by leveraging its network of servers around the world to reduce delivery latency and increase performance; the closer the content to a device, the quicker it's delivered.)

I mean, never before in the last thirty years have we seen so much of economic activity dependent on, not just the Fed, but I would generalize it to central banks around the world and the very accommodative policies.

No disrespect is meant to the incredible entrepreneurs around the world who are crushing it, but the United States was founded on a platform of entrepreneurship.

Last week, ethnographer and writer Christina Xu, and a growing cadre of friends from around the world, exemplified what it means to be an ally.

«Technology now gives us the means to extend the reach of high quality education around the world and to provide millions of people with access to learning and opportunities for advancement,» Levin, who also serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, said in a statement.

Old Navy, which has a leadership team that is 65 % female, says the flower installations are meant to honor the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of these and all women around the world.

That meant a new logo and a more rigorous rating system focused on «five - star plus» dining to bolster the standards of Thai restaurants around the world.

From its inception, Airbnb has made design the center of its business strategy and has endeavored to reinvent the norms around what hospitality means in a globalized world.

If this is true, by the way, it means that attempts at implementing liberalizing reforms are successful mainly during periods of great global liquidity, and this might have implications for China, especially if over the next few years global central banks begin to withdraw the huge liquidity injections that have underpinned asset bubbles around the world.

That's quite an impressive feat — according to Mike's calculations, there are around 20,000 studios in the world, meaning he already has more than 5 percent of them!

The purpose of Bitcoin Women's Day can be broken down into three key goals: first, to celebrate the accomplishments of women in the space; second, to raise awareness of issues and barriers they face both within and outside of that space; and third, to promote Bitcoin as a means of addressing some of the issues that women face around the world.

The technology underpinning bitcoin, however, operates using a decentralised payment system, which means that a payment between two parties is direct and relies on reliable copies of the ledger being distributed to a vast network of bitcoin users around the world, who can verify any changes.

Equity is one of those terms commonly thrown around in the world of finance, yet many people may only have a limited understanding of what it really means.

Calls for explanation have rippled around the world with Facebook even being called to account at a hearing in Singapore, of which the agenda was originally meant to solely focus on fake news.

Falling oil prices around the world have meant that Canada must diversify its revenue sources and take advantage of other economic opportunities.

While the nations of the world are united in fascination, and perhaps preoccupation, with cryptocurrencies — what they are, what they mean, and what to do about them — the United Nations is already using the blockchain to help people around the globe in a variety of humanitarian contexts.

I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let children around the world starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.

With good reason, millions of people around the world believe that learning about God and obeying him give meaning to life as nothing else can!

When I say that, I mean the amazing people all around the world I have met who have inspired me to live life fully and to embrace the kingdom of God with everything I've got.

We don't just investigate the world at a scientific level: We also seek to give meaning to our lives, and to connect our own small narratives with the larger narratives of the world around us.

«Our little family along with Alder Hey has become the centre of attention for many people around the world and it has meant we have not been able to live our lives as we would like,» he said.

As many have noted, this happened just before the first annual International Day of the Girl, meant to highlight gender inequity around the world — particularly as it concerns lack of education, child brides, and slavery.

In such a situation, all we can do is to construct systems of meaning, or relationships and identities around ourselves, to warm and to illumine in this dark and cold world.

The human consciousness is dependent for its vitality, interest and development on keeping open at least some of these channels, which are the only means of contact man has with the world around him.

Religious stories continue to be powerful engines of meaning for billions of persons around the world, as they have been for millennia.

You mean even the never - contacted - by - humans tribes, like the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island (and others like them around the world), would understand this + sign???

Understanding that the world around us is constantly getting older as we do is sobering in so many ways God meant it to be, reminding us daily of our humanity and our need for Him and the life that He provides.

«Spiritual thirst» is an apt metaphor: What we are witnessing around the world is not just a yearning for freedom, but, more fundamentally, a search for a canopy of meaning that will satisfy mankind's most basic spiritual instincts.

Also, if idealism means the doctrine that mind in various forms and manifestations is all we can possibly know, then I am one of many around the world who find no cogent argument against this.

My own denomination, the United Methodist, came into existence in the eighteenth century, helped to bring the gospel to the frontier in this country, took the gospel around the world, and devoted itself at home and abroad to realizing the social meaning of that gospel.

It has various names, but whatever we call it, it means understanding, friendship, sympathy, and appreciation of other people not those of our race, or our nation, or our economic class, but of all the folk that God has made the world around.

Sometimes it takes the form of a logical argument — a syllogistic proof or an argument based on analogy — but more often it adopts the rhetorical style, calling on man to reflect upon himself and the wonderful world around him so that by means of such reflection he might know his Lord.

Means of accommodating to «secularization» developed, the variety of which is illustrated by Smith in his sample of nations from around the world.

While the passage of this act by no means solves the religious freedom crisis around the world, it is a step in the right direction.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

When I asked what that meant in light of my circumstances, they said they would pray that «God will provide for my needs» while they went out to dinner and a movie with friends, bought new cars, and embarked on vacations around the world.

With all the advances in technology and everything, that does nt mean anything when the spirits and hearts of many people around the world are the way they are.

This is the beauty that we can see with the eyes of faith, and evangelization in this culture that denies transcendence means spreading this «sacramental» way of seeing the world around us.

And this means, if we are not to regard the world as having become suddenly meaningless and contradictory, that we are entitled to attribute the value of experimental and physical reality to everything, within us and around us, which shows itself to be a necessary condition for the preservation and heightening in Man of his powers of invention and purposive thinking.

What does this mean then for the water baptisms, and not just in Christianity, but also in Judaism, and in the numerous other religions around the world and throughout time that practiced some form of baptism in water?

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.

Roman nobility as Nietzsche means it wasn't exactly a product of philosophy, but Nietzsche's conviction that preserving nobility was only possible in the contemporary world via philosophy ought to be considered, I think, in light of his profound uneasiness and careful treading around the problem of the «actor's faith» that characterizes «really democratic ages.»

By «creator» which of the hundreds of creator gods from around the world do you think they meant?