Sentences with phrase «modern examples in»

The art makers long standing occupation with movement, both away from and out toward the viewer in space has modern examples in Frank Stella's «Exotic Bird» series, wherein arabesque, curly - q drafting tool shapes leap brightly off the canvas, and in the monochrome, «Spatial» paintings of Lucio Fontana, wherein slashes through the stretched canvas pull the space just behind the artwork directly into viewer consideration.

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Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

Because these modern - day apps, like Uber's ride - sharing platform for example, contain many different moving parts, require many resources, and must not easily overload under heavy use, they need to be powered by numerous computers, tethered together in what's known as distributed computing.

Today it remains a landmark collection of some of the best examples of mid-century modern architecture in the city, and it has the real estate prices to prove it, with average home prices of almost $ 2.4 million.

Shaving brushes made with synthetic bristles are growing in popularity and have gotten much better in recent years, with modern examples boasting impressive softness and flexibility (although

His forthcoming book, EQ, Applied, shares fascinating research, modern examples, and personal stories that illustrate how emotional intelligence works in the real world.

For example, American Giant partners with Carolina Cotton Works in Gaffney, S.C., a mill that exports 75 percent of its product and is considered one of the most modern yarning facilities in the world.

His experiments, writes Tim Harford, «are a modern classic in evolutionary biology, and a striking example of how a population adapts to a new problem.»

In its release describing the initiative, the Attorney General's office cited examples of pimps and sex trafficking rings who posted pictures of minors on websites like Backpage and Craigslist, describing the practice as «modern day slavery.»

A better modern example is Japan, the miracle economy of the 1980s (just as the U.S. was in the 1990s and naughties).

With all due respect to Fred Wilson, another true believer — and, to be clear, an enormous amount of respect is due — it says a lot that, in the midst of this massive boom, he's citing «Rare Pepe Cards,» of all things, as a prime example of an interesting modern blockchain app.

There are a number of examples in Canadian case law where issuers were attempting to sell «utilities» or something similar to modern day tokens and coins, where the court simply didn't buy the argument.

For example, why women were portrayed (in modern TV anyways) as being as interested in sex as men.

C. S. Lewis offers a modern example of effective apologetics in an unchurched world.

Give me an example of anyone «forcing» a belief on anybody in the modern world.

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

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.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

In the case of Abraham Lincoln, for example, it was not only the things that Lincoln did, but it was also the things that he said and (in this modern instance) the things that he wrote in letters and state papers, which make it possible for us to know the kind of man that he really waIn the case of Abraham Lincoln, for example, it was not only the things that Lincoln did, but it was also the things that he said and (in this modern instance) the things that he wrote in letters and state papers, which make it possible for us to know the kind of man that he really wain this modern instance) the things that he wrote in letters and state papers, which make it possible for us to know the kind of man that he really wain letters and state papers, which make it possible for us to know the kind of man that he really was.

For example, at one point, Maher voices his opinion that modern «Christianity,» with pastors wearing expensive suits and watches, driving fancy cars, and preaching in giant buildings, can not be what Jesus wanted for His future followers.

Those who believe that miracles are refuted by modern science may view them symbolically rather than literally, saying, for example, that the stilling of the storm (Mark 4:35 - 41) shows that God is with the believer in the storms of life.

Wherever we turn to the fullest and most total expressions of modern imaginative vision, as, for example, in Blake, Proust, and Joyce, we find that a new and total world of vision is established and maintained only by way of a dissolution or reversal of our given selfhood.

Of course, their sense of community is based on tribalism and isn't all - encompassing in the same way that, for example, modern Christianity is (okay SOME Christianity), but the underlying principles at work are similar, if not identical.

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.

For example, a theologian may assume that modern knowledge leads us to conceive the universe as a nexus of cause and effect such that total determinism prevails in nature.

I shall discuss how much traditional metaphysics and theology needs to be revised in the light of modern scientific discoveries with four examples: the «new physics» of the 17th century, the theory of relativity, quantum theory and evolution.

My favorite example of mixed metaphors in church is the one in which the pastor, after a laborious explanation of what a modern interpretation of girding one's loins might be and why, shouted that we all, needed to lift up our skirts and let Jesus go all the way.

For example, Whitehead himself, in introducing his chapter on God in Science and the Modern World, says that Aristotle was the last European metaphysician of first - rate importance who was entirely dispassionate in his understanding of God.

For example, what has come about in the shift of imagery exemplified in the new physics and in emergent thinking generally represents not so much a reaction as a radical reconception of fundamental notions, altering the modern consciousness itself.

Perhaps encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II's tireless journeys in search of a new church order, Jakovos and Demetrios have embarked on a series of visits to ecclesiastical capitals, ancient and modern.

F. C. Happold, for example, in his Religious Faith and Twentieth - Century Man, published in 1966, spoke of the mystical «as as a way out of the spiritual dilemma of modern man.»

For example, several modern popes have championed the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, but they did so in very dissimilar ways.

And as for the origin of species and evolution in terms of the scientific method, that scientific method has given us the ability to decode the DNA genome of many animals, and to show where, back in time, the various relatives of man and modern apes, for example, branched off into separate species.

The Fifties seemed to be the one clear example in modern American history of social, cultural, and moral renewal.

Occasionally, writers deal with modern examples — people such as Albert Schweitzer, Jean Vanier, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, or Martin Luther King, Jr. — who found themselves compelled and impelled by what someone has called «a hand pushing in the middle of your back.»

For example, modern economics are now able to indulge their tastes (as economists put it in their cold way) for environmental change, social justice, human rights.

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.

Whitehead» s religiously - guided education might have been unsuited for modern times, yet it is fair to say that his profound philosophical development had its beginning in some very early insights, for example, the concept of the consequent nature of God and the evidence of God's presence in the pattern of beauty in mathematics.

Thus we find examples of the just war tradition in theorists of the law of nations and in positive international law; we have a form of this tradition in modern military codes, rules of engagement, and praxis; and two of the most important theorists of just war over the past forty years have been the Protestant theologian Paul Ramsey and the political philosopher Michael Walzer.

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.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).

An example of one of these common moral problems found in advertising but not by any means restricted to it or newly created by the modern industrialization of persuasion is the obligation of the speaker to be sincere.

To seek consciously to become a saint, or attain «union,» as is advocated by some modern mystics, (See for example the writings of Gerald Heard, in particular The Third Morality [New York: William Morrow, London: Cassell, 1937], chaps.

The cheetah is a nice example of the consequences of low genetic diversity; however, it should be noted that a founding pair of two would invariably produce far less genetic diversity than we see in modern cheetah populations.

In much of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there is little demonstrated interest in modern contraception, but considerable concern about infertilitIn much of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there is little demonstrated interest in modern contraception, but considerable concern about infertilitin modern contraception, but considerable concern about infertility.

For example, «the fresh and vivid style of Mark» has been explained as the result of Peter's vivid personal recollections — forgetting that people did not usually write that way in ancient times, but far more prosaically, far less romantically; the exploitation of literary personality is a very modern innovation.

A perfect example of a dangerous fundamentalist, frustrated in his ability to indoctrinate and retaliate by modern, evolved common law.