Sentences with phrase «means of survival of»

This is the only means of survival of the human species.

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«You have survival of the fittest going on between these A.I. companies,» he said, «until you reach the point where you wonder if it becomes possible to understand how to ensure they are being fair — and how do you describe to a computer what that means, anyway?»

However, in a place such as Braddock, leaders see it as a means of survival.

Steven C. Bullock: The pyramid is a sign of strength and survival and long - lasting, and that's showing that the new nation is going to survive and last a long time, and it's built on 13 different steps meaning the 13 new states, the 13 former colonies.

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.

It may seem a waste of time, but if the unthinkable happens, it could mean the difference between a company's survival and an out - of - business sign.

It's a question of strategy that will pester myriad consulting firms in the future: Does their success, and perhaps very survival, mean being big or nimble?

This survival guide will help brands master the mobile domain and understand that a few obstacles don't mean the end of the road.

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.

«Survival of the fittest» simply means that organisms that adapt to their environment will thrive.

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.

This is the «category mistake» that he believes imperils the survival of the Jewish people and profoundly distorts the meaning of Judaism.

You don't know anything about evolution or what survival of the fittest actually means, so you might want to stop now before you make yourself look any more idiotic.

The progress and development of the national bourgeoisie was being bought at the cost of a lost independence, the increasing misery of the masses whose traditional means of survival were destroyed by cheap, factory - made goods, and a tightening of military repression against the consequent popular unrest.

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

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.

The irony of the novel is that the late modern world, in which we ask the self to be the sole source of meaning, value and purpose, is a world in which the survival of the self has become problematic.

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.

It is important to realize, however, that this pragmatic justification of CE underwrites only its general reliability at best and by no means guarantees its universal infallibility Even if generally reliable because of its survival value, it is quite possible that on a particular occasion an experience of CE via «withness of the body» might be misleading, illusive, or even delusive.14

Gaddis observes: «That, however, was simply a restatement of what Eisenhower had long since concluded: that the advent of thermonuclear weapons meant that war could no longer be an instrument of statecraft — rather the survival of states required that there be no war at all.»

Instead, the means of survival must be transmuted into another form, into a lifestyle which the anthropologist Paul Radin has shown to be a perennial type in human cultures: that of the skeptic.

Perhaps you have the meaning of God confused with the survival of the species.

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.

Humans have developed powerful brains which they use to threaten their own survival, to desire meaning where there is none, to speak of destiny when we can't define an ultimate good.

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.

You ask why, if none of it ultimately means anything beyond us, do we even want to contribute to our survival or that of our descendants.

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.

Nevertheless, we can say that at that point at which the surplus psychic energy became sufficient in quantity to enable the psychic life to become its own end rather than primarily a means to the survival and health of the body, the threshold was crossed dividing man from the animal.

But it is significant that an entire book could be written in 1977 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

«In Gaza, this cognitive fear [of ISIS] has meant that they see their survival as being contingent on their immigration.

Christianity has historically been a verbal religion, relying on scripture, liturgy, and theology as means of teaching and survival.

Jewish ethnic and religious survival thus depends on the active choice of Jews to advocate Judaism in authentically Jewish ways» which means Jews must actively choose to be chosen.

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.

It means leaving aside security, even survival, and probably a deep sense of justice.

It is a defense mechanism, a means of survival.

Yet the survival of Israel is so precarious, and threatened from so many directions, that Jews are entitled to be assured that whatever Christians say is not meant to weaken Israel and make it more vulnerable to attack.

can't figure out the meanings of the phrase «survival of the fittest» or the words «theory» or «law,» I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it doesn't have a clue what «perversion» means, either.

It is significant that an entire book could be written in 1970 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

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.

The meaning of the mystery is Love; and it is the only meaning as it is the enduring survival from what goes on in a world of «perishing occasions.»

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.

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.

The church institutions now in place — congregations, seminaries, church boards, as well as the multiple institutions of society — are all oriented to sustaining the conditions of their own survival, and in most cases sustaining the conditions of survival means maintaining the status quo.

I assume you have inaccurately applied biological evolution into your world view that morality has evolved as a means of survival rather than being set by God.

Survival of all peoples depends on regeneration through birth and the elimination of the imposing of death by selfish means and motivations.

None of the other values — of intelligence, creativity, conscience, or reverence — that education ought to promote has any meaning at all apart from the basal fact of human survival.

The ultimate random reinforcement is the one imposed by reality, that they who survive can assign whatever meaning to that survival, unchallenged by the notion that it could just as easily have gone the other way, and no force, no spirit, no god or force of any kind was supervising the battle, or caring about its outcome, or either of the combatants.