Sentences with phrase «more insistence»

Call it yet one more insistence on the century's relevance at the end of the century.

with the latest on Tylan being slightly increased and with more insistence on longer duration....

The injustice and the terror have affected almost every family in my parish in some way, and we pray for peace with more and more insistence.

In a similar way, but with even more insistence and clarity; Kraus does the same (61 and 63).

Not exact matches

Researchers link these tendencies to outcomes like greater financial returns, more attention paid to risk oversight and control, and insistence on conflict - of - interest guidelines.

One of the more baffling aspects of the iPod tax dispute was the CBSA's insistence that end - use certificates were required for retail sales of consumer electronics that claim duty - free protection through the 9948.00.00 provision.

To hear Stack tell it, this turnaround owes much to SRC's exacting quantitative controls, but even more to its almost evangelical insistence on giving human potential its due.

The only promises that Trump has not wavered on, like his insistence on deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism, would create more problems than solutions for American businesses.

Knowing that if a compromise isn't reached between Speaker Boehner and President Obama, the result is a likely recession, should small - business groups back Boehner's insistence that the Bush tax cuts be preserved for everyone or should they acquiesce to the President's call for higher tax rates on people earning more than $ 200,000 a year?

UBC's Pauly concedes that the MSC is improving business practices — for example, its insistence of traceability makes product mislabelling more difficult.

In any event, there's no question or argument that my insistence on stress - testing against Depression - era data was a painful shot to the foot in this cycle, and is more painful because, at least to - date, it turned out to be unnecessary in hindsight.

At Rosa's insistence, Pelton gave the manuscript a more thorough reading.

Zuckerberg's insistence that Facebook strives for political neutrality is not any more likely to convince conservatives that the company is not suppressing their speech than the denial of the 2016 Gizmodo report.

And why, despite the modern academy's insistence that disciplines not be ordered hierarchically, do many of us implicitly (if quietly) continue to value the humanities more highly than we value technical fields?

As it happens, however, I was also toting a copy of The Pilgrim's Progress, with its insistence on the need to get up and go on more urgent business....

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo - Christian heritage.

But there is more to it than that: this is not some bureaucratic response to a Vatican document that most Catholics have never heard of (the General Directory), but an insistence that the entire teaching of the Catechismitself should be at the heart of everything that happens in Catholic Schools.

Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George Encounter, 168 pages, $ 15.99 No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the....

On the issue of sacraments, which dominated much of the discussion (partly due to Leithart's firm insistence on the absolute necessity of weekly communion), Sanders said little, given his low - church Zwinglianism on the issue, Trueman admitted their importance but stressed the centrality of the Word, and Leithart camped out on his own more sociological De Lubacian sacramentology.

We can discover a reversal of the kenotic movement of the Word in the very insistence of the religious Christian that faith has for once and for all been given, that it is fully and finally present in the Scriptures, the liturgies, the creeds, and the dogmas of the past, and can in no sense undergo a development or transformation that moves beyond its original expression to new and more universal forms.

My insistence on the inseparability of liturgy and politics is not an endorsement of trendy efforts to make Christian liturgy «more relevant.»

This is the approach to experience that we have sought to inspire in our children, more by model than insistence.

To illustrate, a person who relinquishes his insistence that his marriage supply far more intimacy than is possible in that relationship, can then enjoy and value the closeness that is actually there.

The story illustrates Hauerwas's insistence that Christian pacifists ought not think that being nonviolent will make the world safer; it might well make it more violent.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

The counterculture of the sixties has become the common culture today, and Americans are united only by an insistence on «ever fewer restraints on the sovereign self» and an insatiable desire «for ever more material comforts and pleasures.»

Fortunately, it is exactly that insistence on delusion and denial, and this refusal to accept or adapt to the realities of the modern world, that is causing organized religion in the US to crumble more and more rapidly.

Indeed, it is precisely in this respect that he diverges from the traditional subjectivist approach: his insistence on a more primitive mode of experience than is generally recognized as the starting point for metaphysical investigation.

As Phil Culbertson warns in The new Adam, «The insistence that to «do» something is categorically more manly than to «be» something, or simply «to be», is a common male temptation».28 Yet this linear approach can target technical skill to reduce suffering, easing very real needs when carried out with sensitivity to the people involved.

Once more, differences in historic definitions of the ministry are less due to exclusive insistence on some one interpretation of what constitutes a call than to variations in the emphasis placed on the various elements present in every call.

The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are about sex and sexual activity.

I am shocked by the Christian teachings that instruct people specifically «how» to study God's Word in the «right» way — «how much time to spend» praying and studying the Bible — «how» to come to the «right» interpretation of each Scripture verse / passage (guided by them — tying the hands of God and Jesus» Holy Spirit, and ignoring that God's Word is living and active...)-- insistence that increased Bible study, prayer and intersession, by their sheer weight, automatically make us closer to being better Christians — closer to perfection and more pleasing to our Lord and Savior.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

A more convincing advantage of Singer's eclecticism is his insistence that each of us be allowed to create a personal fable, untroubled by moral bullies with their easy absolutisms.

Whitehead, quoting a New Testament saying, expresses it this way:»... the higher intellectual feelings are haunted by the vague insistence of another order, where there is no unrest, no travel, no shipwreck: «There shall be no more sea.»»

There is a lot of farcical chin - pulling in the book over various «possible candidates for nothingness» and «what «nothing» might actually comprise,» along with an earnest insistence that any «definition» of nothingness must ultimately be «based on empirical evidence» and that ««nothing» is every bit as physical as «something»» — as if «nothingness» were a highly unusual kind of stuff that is more difficult to observe or measure than other things are.

In a planetized Humanity the insistence upon irreversibility becomes a specific requisite of action; and it can only grow and continue to grow as Life reveals itself as being ever more rich, an ever heavier load.

If we have regard for what may fairly be described as the «catholic» or «ecumenical» tradition in Christian theology, nothing is more striking than its repeated insistence that Christian belief in God is essentially reasonable.

Jainism stresses, more than either Buddhism or Hinduism, ascetic practice as a way to salvation, and its insistence on the principle of non-injury, Ahimsa, is more absolute and far - reaching than that of any segment of Hinduism or Buddhism which also hold it.

If we admit that in some matters the Reformers were greatly mistaken, we are more free to recognize other areas where they may still be ahead of us: Calvin's insistence on a weekly Eucharist for the whole community or John Knox's stress on gathering the congregation about the Lord's table.

Turning to the more specifically theological elements of Hartshorne's thought, it is beyond doubt that his greatest contribution to contemporary theology and Christian thought is his massive and persuasive insistence upon the divine relativity.

Except maybe BG's unclarified insistence that muslims deserve more wariness than other groups of people.

Nowhere was its insistence that the nation observe the proper separation of church and state more apparent than in the area of education.

In no regard is the attitude of certain passages in the New Testament more troublesome to modern minds than in this insistence that eternal bliss for the good and eternal torment for the bad would be an ethically satisfying finale for the universe.

Furthermore, if by way of preparation for the meeting, some preliminary reading has been done by the participants, if the leader lets them feel that they are not just «lecture - fodder» but part of the whole enterprise, and if there is insistence on something more than being at the «receiving - end,» the discussion and the questions and the desire for further exploration will almost inevitably follow.

Barfield's insistence on the more - than - utilitarian implications of regarding language as metaphoric is matched by the later Heidegger's statement that language is the «house of Being.»

One of Hartshorne's signal contributions is to have made metaphysics somewhat more respectable than it was, by virtue of his insistence on logical rigor and clarity.

A significantly more just society will acknowledge King's insistence that love entails a concern for good means as well as a good will.

That's like Obama's insistence that everyone pay more taxes because it's «just a good thing to do.»