Sentences with phrase «more general things»

Whether you can say more general things about medieval times using these and other proxies (cf osborn and briffa 2006) is another question.

Conversations can natural evolve from more general things to adoption - specific thoughts and experiences.

That's one example of a more general thing, which is having Customer Support on level footing, connected and dialed - in to the rest of the company.

«Another, more general thing to consider,» adds Marsh, «is the overall scene in the country you're thinking of moving to.

Not exact matches

We'd like to see companies like General Mills really stepping in, in a big way, to do even more things that would make a difference.

And as I suggested recently with regard to the Ray Rice scandal, cases involving famous men doing awful things don't necessarily help us understand the ethical subtlety of the more general problem of whether to fire employees who do bad things off the job.

The «buy American» thing is just a special case of the more general plea we often hear to «support your local economy.»

Bose owns a number of important patents related to noise cancelling tech, and in general seems to have made that more of its thing.

Once again, small businesses are more hopeful for a prosperous 2016, compared to just 13 percent of the general consumer population who expect things to be in better shape in the next six months.

As a general matter, I think that more seed funding is a great thing.

«There are certainly things that are illegal content, so that is more of an area where talking about regulations could make sense, but so much of what comes up in general discussion about this is out of reach of government action from the get - go.»

This whole idea is they're bringing in tariffs that go into general revenues to pay for things like more Economic Action Plan ads rather than helping Canadian artists continue to success in producing world class music.

Things are just more expensive in general than they were years ago, or viewed differently, the dollar in your pocket can purchase fewer goods than you could in the past.

In the absence of a suitable operational response the Minister of Defense can and must do one thing: to instruct his director general to immediately contact Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. and order more Iron Dome batteries, which can then be swiftly deployed along the country's borders.

Moreover, all the genuinely good things the Internet brought seemed to even more directly make us dependent on a system almost no - one understood that much of — this of course had always applied to market capitalism in general, but now such dependence was more immediately and viscerally apparent.

And again, you are correct, I did not use it and erroneously used the less precise and more general word «majority» It was an error which unfortunately I can not correct because CNN does not allow edits... which is a good thing... I don't believe in revising history.

It's a shame that tf can't understand an alternate view a bit more, because in the end, in a general time and a general place, for key things most of us, regardless of belief system, I think are often aiming for the same thing.

The loose use of evangelicalalso results in frequent headlines declaring that evangelicals divorce, engage in extramarital sex and do other un-evangelical things at more or less the same rates as the general population.

It ought to be apparent that in most respects this conception of God, which Charles Hartshorne has called «neoclassical theism» or «the di - polar conception of God,» is a natural consequence of the more general process way of seeing things or looking at the world.

The consideration of these general limitations at the base of actual things, as distinct from the limitations peculiar to each actual occasion will be more fully resumed in the chapter on «God.»»

In general, evangelicals are often more likely to perceive things as being cheating than the general population, although Mormons were more likely than evangelicals to call things cheating on most issues.

Just as potentiality for process is the meaning of the more general term «entity» or «thing,» so «decision» is the added meaning of the word «actual» in the term «actual entity.»

Finally, to complete the task immediately at hand, let me point out that Whitehead has also made abundantly clear the synonymity of the terms «being», «entity» and «thing»»... «potentiality for process» is the meaning of the more general term «entity» or «thing»» (PR 68).

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

If this is perhaps unfair to the scientific community, it points to a more general truth: A heavily mechanized, technologized society is permanently at risk of forgetting those things which can not be produced or consumed, only delighted in.

The general sate of things dictates, More religious influence = Greater moral behavor.

This doesn't surprise me at all, in general the more religious the person the less they know about most things.

But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.

Anyone who has immersed himself in a certain subject is infinitely more alive to other things than the person who has stopped short at a general education, even though these subjects be completely outside his special field.

He taught that creation and incarnation both declare «the thing - character of the creature and its general purpose of service to man».16 «Everything in the world is more and more subject to total domination by him and appears as derived directly from him.

By approaching the problem from this more critical stance it may be hoped that a less subjectivist, more balanced account of the place of mind and nature in the general scheme of things will result.

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.

Given Whitehead's general principle of reciprocity (of the interconnectedness of all things) we are more than justified in concluding that nature possesses structures analogous to those which we find present in mind (though the exact nature of those structures must remain open to particular investigation, that is, they must be discovered through specialized modes of inquiry such as those of the special sciences).

I would say that it's more that she's figured out that the bible and religion in general is bull but like a child with a security blanket, she doesn't want to believe what she's figured out (like the child not wanting to believe that they've outgrown the blankie) and is desperately trying to rationalize clinging to her faith when the best thing she could do is free herself from what she deep down inside knows is untrue and silly ancient myths.

In this case it is the more naturalistic conditions of finitude, contingency, chance, and decay which take center stage in the general scheme of things, with mind being placed in the more subordinate, passive role of the «conditioned.»

Many people could raise their general level of wellness at the same time they enhance their appearance and self - image, by doing two things — drastically reducing or eliminating the intake of junk food, refined sugar, and other carbohydrates, saturated fats, alcohol, and nicotine; and adding more healthful foods to their diets including vegetable proteins, whole - grain cereals and bread, raw vegetables and fruits, and high fiber foods.

And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

By dropping the mention of «things strangled» and by adding the Golden Rule, the decree assumed a form in which it could be understood as a more general moral command.

Mr. Nuechterlein's rhetoric, labeling orthodox critics of Benke as «ultraconservatives» with a «sectarian mentality» and a «blinkered preoccupation with unionism,» sounded much more like the kind of orthodoxy - bashing one has come to expect from the mainstream media than the thoughtful commentary typical of First Things in general and Mr. Nuechterlein's work in particular.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

A third general declared, «use media to flood their minds with all manner of immorality, violence, and blasphemy — eventually they will lust and crave after these things more and more creating a hatred for all that is Godly and good.

We want the same thing in general we need more states men who care for the country and less politicians who sway the masses.

The classic study in the 1980s by Robert and Linda Lichter and Stanley Rothman of the media elite (major reporters and executives at ABC, CBS, and NBC news, Time and Newsweek, and the New York Times and Washington Post) confirmed what everyone who pays attention to such things had already known: the men and women who give us the news are, as a group, politically more liberal, morally more permissive, and religiously more indifferent than the general public.

St Thomas distinguished between oblation and sacrifice, and used the former as the more general term, as we see in II: II, q. 85 a. 3 ad.3: «A sacrifice, properly speaking, requires that something be done to the thing which is offered to God... The very word signifies this, since sacrifice is so called because a man does something sacred (facit sacrum).

On the whole, throughout the period we have been considering, it was recognized that while «religion is every man's general calling,» «it hath pleased the divine wisdom to call forth a select number of men who, being delivered from those entanglements [of worldly affairs] and having their minds more highly purified and more peculiarly fitted for the offices of religion, may attend continually on that very thing.»

Everyone liked it, and the general consensus that the only thing that would make it more awesome would be to toast it and to eat it with jam.

«One of the things that we have placed focus on in our company and requires even more attention, is a dynamic training program, to offer the right type of service to really help improve the overall image within the food industry and to help raise the customer service bar in general in the BVI, which has an economy based on tourism and financial services,» she says.

If you stray from the recipe below, one thing to keep in mind with adapting another recipe is that in general you will need to add a touch more gluten - free flour mix or a little extra egg white to a traditional, «glutenous» recipe, but this is what has worked best for me so far.

In general, I've been trying to move towards a more plant - based diet full of whole foods and reducing my intake of a few things like dairy, grains, and processed sugar.

Other things that i think have been causing the gloss to come off from Woolworths and result in a more volatile stock price is its implementation problems with its hardware and general merchandise divisions.