Sentences with phrase «more general tendency»

The redefinition of jihad as peaceful self - struggle is part of a more general tendency to soften Islam's harsher edges in dealing with it in the classroom.

Not exact matches

Wiebe's tendency to address issues in general terms and to resist close comparative study also weakens his more theoretical argument.

Given the general tendency to confuse the two, it is important to understand the limited sense in which natural law or moral philosophy is useful, indeed indispensable, to constitutional adjudication, and the larger, more free - hand sense in which it is pernicious.

And while it is true that such an approach does offer a more «down to earth» understanding of the relation of mind to nature, here there is a seemingly equal tendency to assign too great a role to the place of nature in the general scheme of things, resulting in the general devaluation of reason or mind.

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

It is in part to this phenomenon, emphasized especially by the presence of the central organ of the church, the papacy, that I would link the tendency of Italian thinkers of all persuasions to think in terms of elites, of governing classes and political classes, more or less clearly differentiated from the general population.

Recreational «drug» use such as is currently allowed by law here in the U.S. puts upon the general populace many social discords that have tendencies to demoralize the individual welfares thereby lowering the nation's social wellbeing... Synthetically made pharmaceutical drugs can not replace naturally occurring drugs and such synthetics are apt to be more harmful and way more addictive than the naturally occurring ones.

The sort of liberalism which looks with contempt upon conservative groups and their schools or even on conservative tendencies in theology in general, calling them all «Fundamentalist,» and the kind of conservatism that abhors all critical movements alike, cut themselves off from each other in the theological world more effectively than do Baptists from Presbyterians, Methodists from Anglicans.

The tendency has been to bog down in fights between the Right and the Left, where conservatives were worried that character education programs were all about teaching mushy diversity and general sort of tolerance, and liberals were worried that character education was about teaching religion and more conservative values.

First, consumption: The general tendency across many countries is that most people rely far more on TV than on the press for news.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

The researchers found that the IWAH was stable over time, distinct from a general empathy and tendency to identify with others, and was more than the mere absence of authoritarianism, social dominance and ethnocentrism.

The second is the tendency of more prosperous populations to consume more food in general, and to increase the proportion of meat and dairy in their diets.

But the global - mean rainfall is thermodynamically constrained to increase more slowly, so we expect a general tendency to increased drought as well.

In general, we can all benefit from exploring pelvis mobility and directionality without banning any particular direction (try Pelvic Rocking, Pelvic Clock, and Balance the Pelvis from my book)-- means, let's relax and play with our pelvis» positions in many directions, feel our tendencies, learn what our default placement is... and then learn what we need to do to help our default position become more balanced.

That's a shame, since the same basic dysfunctions that ail general education afflict special education too: middling (or worse) teacher quality; an inclination to throw «more people» at any problem; a reluctance to look at cost - effectiveness; a crazy quilt of governance and decision - making authorities; a tendency to add rather than replace or redirect; and a full - on fear of results - based accountability.

To avoid the common tendency to get lost in a long list of questions, district or school staff should, in general, identify no more than five or six crucial questions that get at the heart of what they need to know.

As shown in Table 2, effect sizes were all positive, illustrating the general tendency of the middle school students in this baseline data sample to be more positive in their perceptions of STEM than were the preservice teachers.

In fact, the first sign of ageing is often a general decrease in activity, combined with a tendency to sleep longer and more soundly.

The collection includes many of Calderara's own works, plus more than 300 artworks by dozens of international artists with whom he had relationships of friendship and esteem, all joined together by a general tendency towards abstraction.

There are two primary externalities that result from our emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — 1) an enhancement of the greenhouse effect, which results in an alteration of the energy flow in the earth's climate and a general tendency to warm the global average surface temperature, and 2) an enhancement of the rate of photosynthesis in plants and a general tendency to result in more efficient growth and an overall healthier condition of vegetation (including crops).

A number of modelling studies have also projected a general tendency for more intense but fewer storms outside the tropics, with a tendency towards more extreme wind events and higher ocean waves in several regions in association with those deepened cyclones.

Moreover, the study arrives at a series of interesting and more general conclusions with regard to the development and the future evolution of public services in the EU law context: The author observes that there is a tendency to provide public services in a competitive mode rather than by a single undertaking or that the designation of the provider at least (and increasingly) has to occur through competitive tendering.

That is, existing studies have failed to detangle the possibility that the associations between support - seeking and intimacy may be attributable to (1) a relationship - general tendency in which people are generally more likely to perceive their social relationships as intimate and seek support from their social partners and / or (2) a unique dyadic system that exists only in their romantic relationships.