Sentences with phrase «more general understanding»

Thus, the tension between a plural understanding of regulations and a more general understanding of law is bringing into view a new landscape in which general legal frameworks — grounded in well - known legal theories stemming from 20th - century legal positivism or sociological jurisprudence — are made compatible with specific forms of rights management on the Web.
Each company comes in with a greater or lesser degree of expertise in their own field but usually without a more general understanding of building science.
One plan, sure to spark interest in the art community — though it's also meant to foster a more general understanding of collections policy — will urge members to post «in a timely manner» lists of deaccessioned art.
English students will be forced to take on whole works by Shakespeare, rather than just single acts or scenes, in a bid to promote a more general understanding of the plays.
His more general understanding of Christian ~ experience has been colored by this personal frustration, with the result that he has reduced the Christian life to the mere memory of a past event (he labels this «Israel») which seeks to make its believers hard, tight, and controlled.
If these more general understandings are inadequate, then the correlative concept of power will also be truncated or inadequate in some other way.

Not exact matches

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.
«I think there are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a more general area of «understanding and explaining human behavior,»» says Mocan.
More than three dozen World Trade Centers from across the globe officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding on agriculture during the WTCA's 49th General Assembly in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
There are some broad, general changes that will affect every business but to understand how this plan will affect you specifically, you need to know more specifically the kind of entity you are.
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.
If you read this one book you'll know enough to invest sensibly for retirement without getting ripped off by financial product salespeople, and you'll understand more about investing than 85 % of the general population.
«Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data,» Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and Deputy General Counsel Ashlie Beringer wrote in a statement Wednesday, Most of the security page updates have been in the works for some time, «but the events of the past several days underscore their importance.»
In general, members of the ILC see themselves as more traditional than the LWF in their understanding of Scriptural authority and confessional Lutheran theology.
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.
Quite the contrary, what is more general is lower on that scale of value, a point that Jews who affirm the divine election of Israel and Christians who affirm the Incarnation can readily understand.
Dan, if that were the general understanding of the Golden Rule, I would be far more likely to agree with you; however, even the author of this article defines the Golden Rule with a similar «flawed» logic.
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 explosion in information, the need for increasingly specialized skills to acquire or understand that information, and the resulting emergence of a professionalized faculty more interested in their narrow research programs than the general education of students: these have led, the canonicists argue, to a dangerous «dispersal of authority,» to a «loss of integrity in the bachelor's degree» (ICC; TM).
So we must turn to more general considerations, and here there are two that are decisive: (1) the translation «within you» would give us a meaning and usage completely without parallel elsewhere in the teaching of Jesus concerning the Kingdom; and (2) in the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus - Gospel of Thomas tradition, where «within you» is certainly understood, the saying has to be recast to make this meaning unambiguous.
So even if the general account of this understanding of the future is accurate, it is very difficult to make that account more specific and to keep our own prejudices out when doing so.
The Counter-Culture became less defined by a positive understanding of the alternative culture it offered, and more by a general antagonism towards the «Establishment.»
Why would you expect more than half the population to understand this scientific theory any more than you would expect half the population to undersand the Theory of General Relativity?
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.
Therefore, one may much more easily comprehend the intricacies of Hartshorne's philosophy if he already commands a general understanding of Whitehead.
A predetermined understanding of woman's rightful roles too often dictates such choices, as well as the more general method of interpretation evangelicals choose.
The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.
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.
However, if he is accepting, understanding, caring, then he will contribute more to the general evaluation of his brother.
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.
The more we can take and understand general oversight as function and not as status, the easier will be the solution to this problem.
New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general
«Thus an analysis of the Encyclical Ut unum sint shows an extensive convergence with the proposals of the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches as to how the challenge raised by the task of reception can be met by a more complete and rounded understanding of what reception is.
However, this opposition has to be understood in the context of the more general mistrust of science prevailing at the time, given the international climate of socialism, which it saw as a consequence of evolutionism.
In this talk I shall, however, describe in general terms how the quantum theory, understood somewhat more imaginatively than is usually done, can point to a new order in physics, which I call the enfolded order, or the implicate order.
They share a common aim, viz., the understanding of facts (less general principles) in terms of general principles (more general principles).
With these dangers under consideration, Whitehead's cosmology sees its goal in the elucidation of heterogeneous experiences and in the enabling of a general experience, in the elucidation and understanding in more complex associations of experience.
Granted, we all understand that General Conference is made up of more varied parts than an Indian elephant.
Their target is the general educated reader who seeks to understand «the Bible as a work of great literary force and authority, a work of which it is entirely credible that it should have shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia or more.
There is a general need for more understanding, comfort and expertise on the part of the clergy in their ministry to patients with cancer and to their families.
Protestant sexual ethics in general have a more celebrative and less goal - oriented understanding of sexuality, and it is on this basis that contraception is not proscribed by Protestant theology.
Yea, what is more (and herein lies all the concession one can make to human understanding and human thinking), one might praise the pagan who really managed to despair, not over the world, not over himself in general, but over his sin.
Wedderspoon has twisted the general public's understanding of Manuka honey's antibacterial activity by misleading their customers into thinking that they were getting more than what they paid for»
We'll stick with general per - play numbers (instead of my preferred S&P) because it's a bit more universal in terms of who does or doesn't understand it.
I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.
«[IndyCar] is a different culture, a different way of understanding motorsport or sport in general - much more open, much more friendly to all of us.
I understand hating the use of the «excuse» line in a general sense, but (as with everything else in the world) it's important to apply context and see if your «excuse» is actually just more of an «explanation.»
«Some players are more than this, they understand the position, but they understand football in general.
Cleverley has made zero accurate through balls all season — this could be understood if you were the deepest lying defensive midfielder in the world but he's not, he's a general central midfielder by trade and you could argue he's meant to be more offensive than Michael Carrick.
I just wish more people understood the benefits of breastfeeding in general.
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