Sentences with phrase «more against this self»

The cutting edge of philosophy for two centuries has worked more against this self - evidence than for it.

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Because I reasoned that feelings of threat pose a barrier to transgressors» willingness to offer comprehensive apologies, I examined whether self - affirmation could buffer against this threat and consequently promote more effective apologies,» Schumann explains on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology blog.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

While the smile may be self - defense against an agonizing foe, it feels less about him and more about you.

The ride - hail company is not only going through a complete overhaul of its culture and governance, it's also navigating a major self - driving lawsuit brought against it by Alphabet, and it lost more than $ 700 million last quarter — though that's down from more than $ 900 million.

All three insisted therefore that Protestantism should be characterized more by its positive witness than by a negative self - definition over against its enemies.

Sin is not merely overt transgressions against society such as murder, theft, or adultery; it appears more often in the subtler forms of the killing of personality by anger and unkindness; the stealing of reputation by gossip or of opportunities by self - seeking; the marring of thoughts by attention to the lustful or the obscene.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.

A self «can open itself to its world and make its decisions by sensitively responding to all the influences that bear upon it, or it may close itself against its world and make its decisions on the basis of a much more restricted sensitivity than is actually possible for it.

More specifically, I shall contend that Hartshorne's arguments against the Thomistic denials of internal relatedness, potentiality, complexity, and contingency (of some properties), arguments that I take to be wholly successful, do not, as Hartshorne seems to suppose, suffice also to dispose of the Thomistic doctrines of omnipotence, immutability, nontemporality, creation ex nihilo, and unsurpassibility even by self.

Even more amazingly, the prideful, self worshipping King Nebuchadnezzar decrees that there is no God like the God of the Hebrew boys and that anyone who speaks against the Lord will be killed and their property destroyed (Daniel 1 - 3).

Nowhere is his moral project more apparent than in a short essay in Against the Self - Images of the Age, originally published in 1971.

Against this self - complimenting triumphalism, Dugin insists that liberalism is not a universal ideal but rather the next stage of Western imperialism — more precisely, American imperialism.

It was very necessary to protest against that bourgeois self - satisfaction which, by a convenient reversal of the gospel, considered being good simply as a preliminary to being Christian and which supposed that the ascent from being good to being Christian could be accomplished more or less without a break.

While all of these factors will not operate equally on every level, a combination of one or more will be found at work on each of three levels: (1) factors which make one vulnerable to alcoholism; (2) factors which determine the selection of alcoholism as a symptom, as over against all the other types of psychopathological symptoms; and (3) factors which cause alcoholism to be self - perpetuating once it has reached a certain point.

Now, since persuasion at the human level is the clue to the wider and all - encompassing cosmic aim or purpose, we can affirm that precisely as and when the human agent responds by deciding for, not against, the lure of love, the invitation comes to us to become more and more genuinely instrumental to that love — although «instrumental» is not exactly right, since our own self - realization is integral to the picture.

If a preacher does not possess the spiritual consciousness to speak out against these paralyzing societal forces, they are nothing more than a self help speaker with fans who shell out big dollars for books and CDs.

His impression is that the Fundamentalist is more concerned with his code than with the vast spiritual issues of life — love, kindness, patience, tolerance, pride, self - righteousness, bitterness, or humility... It is against this mind - set in Fundamentalism that the writer wishes to protest.

... Disgust, self - contempt, self - hatred — rhetoric against the sin and (still more) vilification of sexuality or the body in themselves — are emphatically not the weapons for this warfare.

Since incorporating as a non-profit in 2003, CSWA has conducted more than 200 self - assessment workshops with more than 1,500 vintners and growers who have assessed their operations against 277 sustainable winegrowing criteria.

Not surprisingly with our greater self doubt in play the opposition achieve more against us.

The # 25million signing from Arsenal has been a shadow of his former self since arriving at the Etihad Stadium, and his laziness and unwillingness to work for the team has cost City on several occasions this season, none more so than when he jumped out of the way of the ball to allow his fellow Arsenal team mate Robin van Persie to score the winning goal against his team for Manchester United.

But ever since it became a commandment — Thou shalt not celebrate against a team you once played for, even a little bit, even just on loan — it's become clear that this is nothing more than self - basting.

We shouldnt put all the blame on him, we struggle to score a goal on open play against West Brom we have bigger problem than just Mike Dean philosophy / self sustain those are an academy and 2nd division standard not a bigger club like Arsenal we cant even beat top 5 any more

After returning in an ugly loss to the Heat on Friday, Paul looked more like his old self on Sunday against the New York Knicks.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

There are multiple hypotheses for the mechanisms behind breastfeeding and childhood obesity and one of them pertains to the poor self - regulation of energy intake among formula - fed infants.19 In contrast to infants fed at the breast who may need to actively suckle, formula - fed infants are more likely to be passive in the feeding process, and caregivers» control might undermine infants» capability for self - regulation to balance energy intake against internal cues of hunger and satiety.

At times it required a resistant and resentful tug - of - war in which my Pre-Mommy self strained at the rope against Motherhood, unwilling to yield up one more inch of ground.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Article 5 The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

ALBANY — Sean Eldridge is a self - funder, a good Democrat on the issues, has the blessing of party bosses for his run for Congress against Chris Gibson, can talk about creating jobs with an investment fund and, again, as the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has more than enough money to self - fund an aggressive campaign.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

I want to once again remind readers that self - defense — including defense against tyrannical government — is more than a right guaranteed in the Second Amendment to our Constitution; it is a duty assigned us in Nature by our Creator.

Well, and a personal fortune, but even that comes with a downside: Because Stringer is now running against a self - funder, he gets more money from the city's public finance system.

But the Federation of Small Business hit out at the plans which they said meant more red tape and said it was proof of a continuing vendetta against Britain's 4.75 m self - employed.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

She is warning against people starting to self - medicate with cordyceps until more is known about the compound.

The fusion rate in the core is in a self - correcting equilibrium: a slightly higher rate of fusion would cause the core to heat up more and expand slightly against the weight of the outer layers, reducing the fusion rate and correcting the perturbation; and a slightly lower rate would cause the core to shrink slightly, increasing the fusion rate and again reverting it to its present level.

Important to note: Although at - home self - care strategies are the first - line defense against TMJ pain, if your jaw remains locked or restricted in movement for more than two or three days, you should see a doctor immediately for an X-ray.

Long story short, doing yoga will improve your mental fortitude and help you fight against your more primal self.

More autoimmune marker papers: From Questioning Answers blog: «Autoantibodies by the way, refers to antibodies against self tissue as per what has been noted in various autoimmune conditions / diseases,» and Paul Whiteley cites to: Plasma Autoantibodies (Disease Associations) located at: http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/plasma-autoantibodies-disease-associations.

Immune tolerance is where the body is able to effectively discriminate against self vs. non-self tissue and is able to create a more precise inflammatory process so as to not have significant collateral tissue damage (2).

She's also not against sharing her glam squad secrets with the world — and at a more than accessible price — because she launched a self - named haircare collection at Target.

Fortunately their staid young romance is set against the far more diverting courtship between the cynical but self - sacrificing Mrs Erlynne and the daft but self - knowing Tuppy — much more nuanced rôles, played to perfection by Helen Hunt and Tom Wilkinson.

It's a mild disappointment, but still more agreeable viewing than Alex Ross Perry's adeptly abrasive Listen Up Philip (Eureka, 15), in which Jason Schwartzman's young, chronically unpleasant New York novelist rails against all and any who might obstruct, oppose or simply ignore his perceived genius, bypassing his out - of - patience girlfriend (a glowing, film - crowning Elisabeth Moss) and stopping only at his own cross-generational foil: the Philip Roth - style literary titan (Jonathan Pryce) who provided the very model for his self - styled misanthropy.

I did wish that Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith — who return as the rival housemasters Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall — had more to do, but their absences are compensated for by Kenneth Branagh as a self - adoring teacher of defense against the dark arts, and Jason Isaacs as the viperous Lucius Malfoy, father of Draco.

And though opponents of school choice have a long list of complaints (some more valid than others), they are hardly powerless to address them, provided they recognize that working with (rather than against) the choice movement is in their enlightened self - interest.