Sentences with phrase «more human achievement»

This makes salvation seem like one more human achievement.

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It's a great way to get people comfortable with recognizing their own achievement, hearing how they've positively impacted others, and connecting on a more human level.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

Coors Light recently decided to talk more about its beer and less about human achievement as it seeks to reverse a sales slump.

But, then, the inherited world is also more important insofar as it includes human achievements.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

For what exhilarates us human creatures more than freedom, more than the glory of achievement, is the joy of finding and surrendering to a Beauty greater than man, the rapture of being possessed.

Niebuhr said that if «biblical thought seems to neglect the creative aspect of the extension of human powers in its prophecies of doom upon proud nations, this is due only to the fact that it is more certain than is Greek thought that, whatever the creative nature of human achievements, there is always a destructive element in human power.»

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

But even more daunting, his own productivity and protean creativity so defy the imagination that one might almost sympathize with the Shakespeare «deniers if the candidates put forward in his stead were not themselves such pathetic blue «blood epicenes» not to mention the fact that the achievement would still remain inexplicable coming from any human being, whatever the color of his blood.

Yet it would be overly romanticizing to say that everything in modern Japan shows a perfect blending of humans and the environment; that is more likely a private achievement, expressed more in one's enclosed garden than in the public arena — witness the beer bottles littering the pilgrim's path up Mt. Fuji!

«Low - income children appear to have more difficulty accomplishing planning tasks efficiently, and this, in turn, partially explains the income - achievement gap,» according to Gary Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, one of the study's researchers.

Left unchecked, radical extremists will eradicate the evidence of more than 10,000 years of human achievement in Syria and Iraq, and the problem is spreading.

It is a far more remarkable achievement than merely canalizing energy flow through the human species, as by bringing wild lands under pasture, regardless of a declining rate of flow through the ecosystem as a whole.

«One hopes,» Repcheck writes, «that he had at least a glimmer of the ultimate impact of his achievement as he lay on his bed after his stroke in the winter of 1543, waiting to meet his God, whose beautiful creation he had seen more clearly than any human before him.»

That is how he became more famous for deciphering the human genome than the international army of scientists who shared the achievement, how he hopes to understand every microbe in the ocean (through his Global Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial life.

In a Western culture so focused on achievement, on striving for more, on testing human limits, it can be easy to transfer a «push yourself»...

The achievement on a small budget, editing and practical effects as Tetsuo gets less and less human and more and more machine is just incredible.

A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and achievement by looking at more than 21,000 students across three states.

The 10 studies mark a key early step by Strategic Management of Human Capital to reshape the national dialogue on how districts can improve student achievement by getting better talent and managing it more effectively.

If, as research indicates and many teachers suspect, student achievement is more highly correlated with student interests than with cognitive ability, then we should make curriculum design based on human interests a primary focus for professional development during the next decade.

Other plans have been presented already and more will come before the school board as well, because there are subcommittees in each of the five objectives of Human Capital, Learning and Teaching, Achievement, Balanced Assessment, and Community Engagement.

* Achievement Unlocked * Sony did a great job at E3, but I wan na play METAL GEAR, MASS EFFECT, ASSASSIANS CREED, COD4, DRAKE»S FORTUNE, DARK SECTOR, BIOSHOCK, & yes, TOO HUMAN online co-op, & eventually GEARS OF WAR 2 way more than I do KILLZONE2 or HEAVENLY or LAIR if I had to chose.

In fact, allowing players to gain real rewards would make a number of people more interested in achievements since we humans love to earn stuff.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

She pondered the impressive achievement and adaptive competence of living creatures who preceded humans, begetting more diverse and complex forms over 3.5 billion years on a fiercely wild and often inhospitable planet.

Therefore it is all the more surprising that it has been omitted from Labour's list of «top 50» achievements in favour of the inclusion of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The more than 75 years The Ford Foundation has worked hard to create social change worldwide as it follows its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, increase international cooperation, and advance human achievement for those around the world.

The resume should also be able to pinpoint what background the candidate has in the human resource niche so it is important to chart out your responsibilities and achievements as much... Read More»

When talking about past events, focus on more positive events (eg, exams passed, good stories re child / friends, achievements, human qualities)