Sentences with phrase «modern examples from»

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Other reasons modern shoppers flock to mobile vary; for example, mobile applications are often faster and more convenient than traditional websites accessed from a computer.

The New Rules of Sales and Service is written with dozens of examples from people who are achieving tremendous success with the five important aspects of modern selling and customer service.

«a welcome change from the standard business books... Scott and Halligan provide examples of modern - day companies that are illustrating the lessons.»

If you were truly reasonable, you would read the best examples of Christian philosophy - whether Aquinas (from the classical period) or modern writers such as Ravi Zacharias, R.C. Sproul, or even a popularizer like C.S. Lewis.

Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully challenged by the success of modern science (for example Jaeger's article in our last issue and in our September 2006 issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).

Here is one of those three examples, a quotation from the American scientist Will Provine: «Modern science directly implies that the world is organized strictly in accordance with deterministic principles or chance.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

A prime example is the entire modern phony yoga movement — ripped off from Hinduism and turned into an exercise business or weird «spiritual business.»

Until the student of origins can produce repeated examples of spontaneous generation (living organisms created entirely from non-living matter) followed by an evolutionary process, his speculations remain in the realm of philosophy and outside the strict standards of modern science.

There are excellent examples of churches from this era, such as the buildings of Eliel and Eero Saarinen in Columbus, Indiana (Tabernacle Church of Christ, 1942; North Christian, 1964), a city known for its splendidly effective embrace of modern architecture.

To pick an example from the cosmology chapter, if the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces recognised by modern physics, and which controls amongst other things the burning of the Sun, were slightly larger or slightly smaller, we could not exist.

Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, wrote an exuberant review of Science and the Modern World in which he saw Whitehead's philosophy as «exactly the emphasis which modern religion needs to rescue it from defeat on the one hand and from a too costly philosophical victory on the Modern World in which he saw Whitehead's philosophy as «exactly the emphasis which modern religion needs to rescue it from defeat on the one hand and from a too costly philosophical victory on the modern religion needs to rescue it from defeat on the one hand and from a too costly philosophical victory on the other.

Wahlberg gives the example of high school students who learn propositional truths of modern physics from textbooks.

Humanity Made for Christ When speaking to modern audiences, especially young adults, about what distinguishes us from the animals, it is not always a good idea to start with negative distinctions - pointing out, for example, that animals can not do such and such, but we can.

YOU seem to be suggesting that these modern concepts of human rights are leading us away from God and to hell, a belief that makes you a perfect example of why more and more people are rejecting Christianity!

A homely example from my rural Georgia childhood provides a parable of the way pessimists like Ellul, Seidenberg, and Mumford see the modern world.

Abundant examples from good literature are available, from the time when «they» became fixed in our language up through the modern era.

The fact that Whitehead understands human experience to consist in discrete «drops» or «actual occasions» of experience may be an example of the fact that Whitehead's generalizations were developed from more than one starting point, in this case modern quantum theory as well as psychology.

It was like a modern day US but what are the lessons we didn't learn from this example.

An example from European history concerns the development and institutionalization of modern science in the seventeenth century.

In Bellah's view, this capacity to differentiate symbols from the truths they convey is a prime example of the more complex, more highly differentiated character of modern religion.

In Prayer and Modern Man (1970), for example, Ellul examines the difficulties we experience in prayer stemming from our present «tragic crisis of language, in which words can no longer attain the level of speech.»

Over the last few decades, for example, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars of the American Founding have all pointed out that a smidgen of religious belief seems necessary to prevent modern liberalism from devouring its own political and economic gains.

In Malaysia, for example, it was skilful regulation of foreign investment that enabled the equity share ownership of Malaysians in the modern sector to increase from 30 % in 1970 to nearly 70 % in 1990.

Again I will give you another example taken from the state of modern physical science.

In today's intellectual climate, where so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.

And the secular Jews who founded modern Israel granted the Orthodox the right to control matters of personal life (marriage and divorce, for example) not only for pragmatic reasons (they wanted the political support of this group) but also because they realized that many, if not most, victims of the Holocaust came from its ranks.

The food is described as Modern European and you can see examples from my three visits in the photos below.

true.but surely you can see the potential he could have thru the middle with his dribbling skills and ability to shoot with both feet?You can have a big influence from the wing in the modern game (Ronaldos a good example), but its much easier to have an overall influence from the centre.If the Ox develops well he will play there but not for a few years at least, because that position is very overcrowded at Arsenal right now

From reversible seat to a Dutch design this stroller is an example of modern day modular stroller.

To paraphrase R.A. Heinlein, every society in history limited the franchise to some effect - for example, most modern democratic societies restrict franchise from persons underage, or frequently persons convicted of crimes.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

Thus, for example, if the modern history of the United States is considered, party dominance was exercised from 1860 — 1932 by the Republicans, the only significant period of Democratic presidency during this period being that of Woodrow Wilson from 1912 — 1920, and from 1932 — 1968 by the Democrats — the only Republican president in this period being Eisenhower.

«For the bone implantable devices, for example, such modern bio-compatible surfaces will directly benefit patients suffering from bone fracture, osteoporosis, and bone cancer.»

His own studies of the DNA of people living today have uncovered, for example, a stretch of DNA that seems to have come from encounters between moderns and H. erectus.

14 Environmental toxins From Donora, Pennsylvania, to Bhopal, India, modern history abounds with frightening examples of the dangers of industrial pollutants.

«If you were to paint the genomes of people in modern - day Maya, for example, you would use a mixed palette with colours from Spanish - like, West African and Native American DNA.

A 2015 study in Genome Research, for example, estimated that 25 percent of modern Eurasian wolf DNA actually comes from interbreeding with domesticated dogs.

For example, the modern languages of English and Latin descended from a common predecessor called proto - Indoeuropean.

Comparing DNA extracted from an ancient Ethiopian skeleton with modern examples shows some of our ancestors migrated back to Africa from Eurasia 3000 years ago

The authors conclude that unless the feather structures of Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx were greatly different from those of modern birds — for example if their rachis were solid rather than hollow like those of modern birds, a possibility they consider unlikely — then flapping flying must have been a later development.

For example, Senegal has «switched virtually its entire population from traditional stoves to modern ones, so it can be done,» climate scientist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, lead author of the study, wrote in an e-mail.

In one scenario, for example, they could choose a sofa made from environmentally friendly fabric but available only in outdated styles, or they could pick a more modern style of sofa made from fabric produced with harsh chemicals.

As the authors show with examples from ancient and modern teeth, the method is valuable for understanding a health condition that today affects more than 1 billion.

In this first example of that phenomenon in birds and nematodes, we learned that a class of parasites that is a present - day scourge once switched hosts from birds to mammals — a process that is all too familiar to modern epidemiologists.

«To go beyond this we use modern machine - learning methods where you don't necessarily know how a computer has made a decision about a particular sound, but by training it, which means showing it lots of previous examples, we can encourage a computer algorithm to generalise from those.»

Might Neanderthals have benefited from gaining modern human DNA, for example, in their version of the FOXP2 gene?

For example, only five genetic changes were needed to develop modern maize, or sweet corn, from the grasslike perennial teosinte.

Neanderthals apparently created the oldest known examples of a kind of bone tool used in Europe, thus raising the possibility that modern humans may have learned how to make these tools from Neanderthals, researchers say.

«Melissa is a wonderful example of someone who is absolutely real — can speak from the heart and is brave enough to draw upon and openly share her own personal experiences to prove that self belief is the modern woman's most valuable practice.»