Sentences with phrase «means of survival for»

It actually creates a situation where freedom can not exist, it's how prisons function... i.e. racial gangs as a means of survival for the individual.

Maria had emigrated from Nigeria, leaving behind three children in order to find in Italy some means of survival for her family.

This doesn't mean that we're physically prepared for some cataclysmic event in terms of having a well - stocked fallout shelter, but rather that we enjoy the mental exercise of imagining the imminent peril and possible means of survival for humans as a species.

Salt, of course, is not simply a flavoring for one's food, but the means of survival for those who labor all day in the heat of the sun (Eccles.

Not exact matches

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

But while the continuing survival of the Jews and its meaning is a theological puzzlement for Christianity, it is not for Miller... So Christianity, for which Miller has a high regard, perforce takes seriously the faith of Mr. Miller's fathers, while he himself can not.

Our evolution from apes means we aren't necessarily here for a specific purpose, but rather by luck of the draw and good old fashioned survival instinct.

Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular story, because it draws from a treasury of narrative elements available to all groups of people as they struggle for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation in the worldwide mission of establishing God's shalom.

Being outside of the womb does not mean its not dependent on its mother for survival.

But with huge plant investments and the nightmare of retrenchment facing educational institutions, the temptation is to see students not as ends for which schools exist, but as means to the economic survival of the institutions themselves.

So basically he just acts out the bible, caring for those that have the least... instead of just paying lip - service to it in vile, mean - spirited churches that blame people for their own poverty and support an every - man - for - himself - survival - of - the - fittest mentality.

She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

However, it must not be forgotten that Paraiyar religion is not only the collective expression of dismantling and reassembling dominant patterns of meaning for the sake of this Dalit community's human survival and humane enrichment.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

The notion that the life of relational power calls for a stature which transcends the life of unilateral power does not mean, however, that relational power has greater survival capability than unilateral power.

For a blogger who wants to bring doctrine to life, its confusing you don't want us to use scripture to justify our means of survival and ministry.

For blacks, religion is a spiritual force to prime the pump of survival, a means to the end of racial advancement, not an end in itself.

«Death for a person,» declares Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas, «means ceasing to love and to be loved, ceasing to be unique and unrepeatable, whereas life for the person means the survival of the uniqueness of its hypostasis [personification], which is affirmed and maintained by love.»

To me it appears that the struggle to restore the meaningfulness of the word» God,» which means to justify the horizon in which this word can have its appropriate reference, is a matter of ultimate importance for the health, even for the survival, of Christian faith.

Never has humanity disposed of so many resources and technical means for resolving the problems of survival and wellbeing.

For eating, instead of being the comforting, colorful, expressive activity of days long past is now a merely a means of survival.

Making sure the match does go ahead couldn't be more important to Wolves» survival cause, as another cancellation will mean no chance of bolstering their meagre points tally and would thus leave the door wide open for bottom - placed West Ham to leapfrog them and possibly force Wolves to nosedive into 2011 bottom of the Premier League — Physiologically, a huge blow for the team.

Now, by no means I mean to say that Stoke City are a team fighting for survival but they picked up 11 points out of 15 against teams which were fancied above them.

Wolves and Blackburn will go into» Survival Sunday» sat side - by - side in the table, a solitary point above the relegation places meaning victory for either side, regardless of whatever drama unfolds elsewhere around the country, would be enough to guarantee the victor a berth into the 2011/2012 Barclay's Premier League.

Liverpool aren't in action until Sunday meaning victory for Pardew's men on Saturday would see them go within a solitary point of the Europa League qualifying berths, a tasty incentive considering survival was the main goal at the start of the season.

Sometimes you have to wonder to what degree entertainment is meant to feature for the majority of clubs in the modern game, their part is to make up the numbers and hope for survival if you listened to many in the media.

Understanding and accepting individual differences in babies and knowing that the survival of the group meant survival of the individual babies allowed for parents to do what was necessary and to be supported in doing so.

As emotional as it is for a mum or dad to see their baby in NICU or SCBU, the care given in these units mean even little ones delivered as early as 26 weeks have a very good chance of survival and normal development.

The increasing survival rates of soldiers having lost multiple limbs means care costs and compensation will continue to be on the agenda, while issues such as post traumatic stress disorder for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans may not fully emerge for decades.

This could mean a better chance of survival for these patients».

This is more or less dependent on the fate of the eurozone, meaning the survival prospects for the coalition are closely tied to what happens in Greece, Spain and elsewhere.

In a joint - report entitled No Recourse - No Safety, Amnesty argues a safe escape route and the means of survival are «critical» for women at risk of abuse and central to their decision to leave.

Both amendments will be aimed at easing the approval process for redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel (in nonreporter speak, that means giving the project a better chance at survival).

David Ucko of the RAND Corporation argued in an article for the International Institute of Strategic Studies» journal Survival that ministers» prioritisation of «domestic political agendas» meant Britain's «position in the world» had to be called into question.

«We also call on Prof Dokubo to unveil his blueprint, give a clear policy direction for the amnesty programme beneficiaries, as well as his action plan to forestall more Niger Delta youths from going into criminality as a means of survival.

It will be of no use to invent means for impeding the activities responsible for cancerous growth if the same activities are also required for the survival of normal cells.

«Typically, when we're looking at the world, there's far more information than we can process at any one moment, but it is very important to be able to process much of that information for means of survival,» Ro says.

The finding that hemozoin formation is not essential for parasite survival in reticulocytes suggests that the parasites can develop different means of survival in the blood affording them certain drug resistance.

To tease out these links, Clive Jones and Richard Ostfeld's team at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, and Jerry Wolff of Oregon State University in Corvallis first showed by trapping mice in experimental forest plots that fewer mice means much greater survival rates for gypsy moth pupae.

Mankoff and his colleagues argue that making a strong clinical case for these new imaging techniques will mean demonstrating their ability to improve traditional treatment outcomes such as progression - free survival and quality of life.

«This remodeling process of the cell proteome by autophagy is an important immune - suppressive survival mechanism for Ras - driven cancers, and inhibiting autophagy can provide a means to target these aggressive cancers,» notes White, who is also a distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

Just how often and why, and what that means for their populations» survival, is the subject of intense research.

And the increase could mean trouble for redwoods up north, where coastal fog is key to the survival of some of the world's tallest trees.

This is unusual because invasive species with greater genetic diversity often have a greater chance at survival — a more diverse gene pool means more variety in traits of individuals for natural selection to act upon and allow the species to survive and thrive in a new area.

Food grew so sparse in certain regions that for some, cannibalism was the only means of survival.

These shorter winters mean the swans — which were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 1800s — now have more time to eat and grow strong before embarking on a long migration to the Pacific Northwest each fall, improving their chances for survival.

Researchers must understand their subjects only by glimpses, bodies on beaches, orby what RV Shearwater is doing today, which is taking samples of water, squirting them with formaldehyde, then analyzing how rich the water is in copepods and what that means for the reproduction, health, and survival of the right whale.

With our high - maintenance bodies and big brains, these difficult conditions would have meant that food sharing was essential for the survival of the young, says Hrdy.

Importantly, the survival curves for these groups did not begin to diverge until year 2 or beyond after initial surgery, and continued to widen for the entire 10 - year period, which means preliminary results from the relatively small DeCOG - SLT study — with its 3 - year median follow - up [4]-- can not be relied upon to justify changing the standard of care away from CLND.