Sentences with phrase «modern understanding of»

As the standards were streamlined and revised to meet new needs, reflect modern understanding of child development, and support program quality and innovation, the NHSA Performance Standards Work Group submitted «Recommendations for Revisions to the Head Start Program Performance Standards» to the Office of Head Start.

While PTSD - like symptoms were recognized in combat veterans following many historical conflicts, the modern understanding of the condition dates to the 1980s.

Proposed plans include: · Introducing a power to dispense with the formalities for a will, to allow courts to recognise wills where the deceased's testamentary intentions are clear; · Enabling electronic wills provided that there is sufficient protection for testators against fraud and undue influence; · The creation of a separate doctrine of testamentary undue influence; · Bringing the test for testamentary capacity within the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to take into account modern understanding of conditions like dementia; and · Reducing the age at which a will can be made to 16.

We need a modern understanding of the rule of law and the associated implications for the legal system and profession upholding it.

In contrast, generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects ofCO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years into the future.»

All of these types of studies are crucial to the modern understanding of CO2 and climate.

It seems to me that if you want to participate in these threads from the asserted vantage point of a geophysicist, you will have review and revise many of your perceptions that are currently contradicted by modern understanding of the field.

I would not allow a Ph.D. candidate to pass their oral qualifying exam who did not know this history and could not relate it to our modern understanding of orbital structure as it arises in atomic shells and molecular bonds.

«Generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects of CO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of housands of years into the future.»

in antiquity to our modern understanding of art as creative expression in nearly any and every form, art is constantly present in our everyday lives.

From Plato's elaboration on the idea that art imitates nature in antiquity to our modern understanding of art as creative expression in nearly any and every form, art is constantly present in our everyday lives.

The earlier conception of the role of fertilizers as being that of making «two blades of grass grow where only one grew before» has given way to the more modern understanding of their function as being to make a crop yield $ 2 where only one was yielded before.

It is in an English encyclopaedia in 1757, that for the first time, the meaning of the verb to humiliate describes our modern understanding of humiliation as an antisocial violation of a person's dignity (W. I. Miller, 1993).

The modern understanding of the brain is that rather than being a static structure (which is what I was taught in medical school), this organ is constantly remodeling itself, a phenomenon scientists call neuroplasticity.

Pirahã, with its unusual features, has helped shape modern understanding of what those commonalities might be.

Alaska's new map reflects the changes in our modern understanding of geology as it builds on the past.

He proved the neuron is the basic unit in nervous system and provided a modern understanding of the nerve impulse.

This situation resonates with the schematic, contractual in essence, modern understanding of the terms nation and nationality.

Uncompromising support of a sensible alliance between traditional approaches to vineyard management and a modern understanding of the life cycle of the vine.

Be sure to make minor adjustments based on our modern understanding of nutrition; for example, many Beef Bourguignon recipes call for using wheat flour as a thickener, which I omitted (although I sometimes use white rice flour instead).

In this age of rapid change, and with our modern understanding of the human condition, we can see how much alters in a person's lifetime; we must remain open to what may come, and free to respond to new circumstances.

You should consult Sir Roger Penrose or Sir Anthony Leggett about the modern understanding of quantum theory and Bell's fundamental contribution before publishing such a misleading article.

He wishes to be modern, yet he is aware that any modern understanding of the halakhah sharply conflicts with «fifteen hundred years of [prior] halakhic activity.»

Anyone doubting that Bleich is prepared to have the proponents of a modern understanding of the halakhah go climb a tree need only consult his response to Gordis» essay in the same symposium in which Jacobs» reflections appear.

Reconciling the words of these inspired prophets with the modern understanding of inspiration and inerrancy is a difficult task indeed.

Bishop John Austin Baker, as dean of Westminster Abbey, put it this way — in a guide to the Abbey — commenting on the fact that the Abbey is the final resting place of Charles Darwin: «Today most Christians... are glad that one of the intellectual giants who laid the foundation of our modern understanding of the world should lie here in the house of God in whom he himself did not believe but whom we know so much better as a result of his discoveries.»

All of this can be presented to the world once again as a seamless vision of truth, understood all the more deeply and beautifully against the backdrop of a modern understanding of science and history.

Develop a strong understanding of the classical view of freedom — particularly the classical relationship between freedom and truth — as an alternative to the modern understanding of freedom as license.

School and church have failed to communicate to large segments of our population ai clear and convincing modern understanding of the universe.

It'd be like discounting the modern understanding of reproduction by citing middle - age beliefs regarding spontaneous generation of maggots and flies from dead meat.

If nothing is found wrong with this neutrino - velocity measurement, then of course the modern understanding of physics is thrown entirely «up in the air.»

Nonetheless, Altizer's thesis that Eliade has given us our only Christian and dialectical modern understanding of religion is not to be taken lightly.

«We do not here advocate an unheard - of modern understanding of Jesus; we ask rather that the implications of what the church has always said about Jesus as Word of the Father, as true God and true Man, be taken more seriously, as relevant to our social problems, than ever before.»

Noting the contemporary ambiguity even among dedicated Christians as to the deeper meaning of belief in God, Moltmann asks himself what the cross of Jesus means for our modern understanding of God.

I worry the modern understanding of God owes more to Colton Burpo than the prophet Isaiah.

Modern understanding of human behavior and sociology recognizes morality as an emergent phenomenon.

The «democratic» Christianity you speak of is nothing more than the product of your modern understanding of history.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

To understand why Behe's argument is so uncontested in the realm of fact, and yet why so many scientists find the concept of irreducible complexity not only difficult to accept but even impossible to consider, we should start by summarizing the modern understanding of Darwinism, as set out by Richard Dawkins.

Philosophically and theologically, Aristotle and Aquinas do not deal with addiction, but they do write extensively concerning the power of vice, which is intimately related to the more modern understanding of addiction.

And by doing that, we'll be able to help push the conversation towards a new, more modern understanding of America's middle class challenges — and spur fresh ideas for a new era.

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

Even if you maintain a literal view of the creation account, attempting to «disprove» modern understandings of our origins shouldn't be a faith - defining concern, because God never asked us to prove He existed to anyone.

Does it illuminate any larger truth about the relationship between traditional and modern understandings of the halakhah?

This alternative view of learners is also more consistent with modern understandings of brain plasticity and human learning.

Pupils are exposed to modern understandings of the divide and how it originated.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

But any entrepreneur in the modern age should understand the importance of the internet and websites.

«Since the brand's launch in 2010, Dove Men + Care has shown its understanding of modern masculinity,» he said.