Sentences with phrase «much as a substance»

For, we understand the divine mystery not so much as a substance as relationship.

The language, the mirage, the smoke and mirrors, it all matters as much as the substance.

According to a research done at Tabriz University in Iran, onion juice can raise testosterone levels as much as substances like nolvadex or clomid.

So: should scope matter as much as substance here?

And like any good highlights reel, form matters almost as much as substance.

Remember: When it comes to resumes, style can matter just as much as substance — and sometimes even more.

More streamlined than many other headphones on the market, this particular pair places a premium on style as much as substance.

Not exact matches

Much of my research was about developing materials that record physical properties of substances they come into contact with as visual patterns someone could read by eye.

I believe that the re-orientation of British politics under Corbyn and in particular of the Labour Party is highly beneficial, not only to the large strata within British society that have been discarded in the last 20 to 30 years, but interestingly also for British business that produces real stuff as opposed to the City of London and various other service sectors that produce precarious jobs and nothing much of substance.

Aesthetically pleasing as it is, savvy workplace design is as much substance as it is style.

The other candidates either tried to co-opt the tone though not the substance of Paul's Fed bashing (Gingrich and Perry did this) or just stayed out of Paul's way as much as possible on the issue without affirming Paul's critique (Romney.)

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

First, God is often presented very much like Brahman, as the universal substance underlying all things.

There is much truth in the saying, at least if we think of the self as a self - enclosed substance isolated within the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin.

Anyway, your point leads to the speculation that the difference between the physical body and the spiritual body is not so much of substance as of degree.

There can be no doubt that in the case of sensation for Aristotle one substance is in another just as much and virtually in the same way as it is for Whitehead, despite the latter's claim to the contrary (cf., e.g., PR 79).1

But Calvin emphasized the immutability of God as much as the earlier substance - oriented theologians had done.

Much official theology seems to have gone wrong, first, in confining the incarnating action of God to Jesus alone, so that he appears to enter the world as a catastrophic intrusion, as someone has put it, unrelated to the rest of the God - world and God - humankind relationship; and second, in speaking of Jesus in «substance» idiom, thus suggesting a static deity who in some fashion is implanted in, takes the place of, or is incomprehensibly united with another static «substance» called human.

Rahner's work, for example, could be studied from this viewpoint as a rich resource ready for the mining of much of the best of the «Catholic substance.»

The models often used to describe this have been unsatisfactory, to be sure: talk of «substance» has led to much confusion and misunderstanding, as has talk of the union of wills or the association of divine / human consciousnesses.

So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.159

Again, according to his theory of causality that establishes that a substance has at least as much reality as its effect, his idea of God can not be more perfect than God, who, as the cause, must surely exist.

According to Descartes, a substance «must have at least as much reality in the cause as in its effect» (39).

Beginning with Aristotle much of western philosophy may be understood as various attempts to understand reality utilizing the basic concept of substance.

In this new form, and having lost nothing of its physical reality (indeed, as much superior to its first state as the Noosphere is superior to the simple, isolated phylum) it acquires, by becoming exterior to the individual, an incomparable substance and capacity.

He is as much God as Father and Son, and He too is «of the same substance» («unius substantiae, unius quoque esse naturae» Toledo XI 675 AD - DS 527).

In doing so, it has merged in substance with much non-Catholic theology of revelation as well.

It is too much to ask, even of the most enlightened readers of theology, that they become acquainted with two thousand years of terminological and doctrinal controversy as a condition for being introduced to the substance of their faith.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

The analysis of the subatomic entities leads to quanta of energy that are much better described as energy - events than as substances.

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

It is very much your standard method of evading substance and seeking to present yourself as some beacon of wisdom.

Without wishing for a moment to denigrate the brilliant intellectual substance of Polkinghorne's work or his intention to advance toward a cogent statement of truth, I would characterize his work (in this book and in much of his other work) and that of other scientist - theologians as a form of confession.

It is my view, however, that abandoning the discussion of what a substance is and of whether there is anything that fits this requirement has not removed substance thinking from a dominant role in academia as well as in much of our society.

As thy substance is give alms of it, according to thine abundance; if thou have much, according to the abundance thereof, give alms; if thou have little bestow it, and be not afraid to give alms according to that little; for thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity; because alms delivereth from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.

As one historian of nationalism puts it: «The Protestant Revolution, by disrupting the Catholic Church and subjecting the Christian community to national variations of form and substance, dissolved much of the intellectual and moral cement which had long held European peoples together.

This is because although most «Protestants» stripped the mystical substance out of their Communion observance, they left pretty much everything else exactly as it was.

At least I assume he does, though it is true that he does not talk that much about substance as that which exists in itself, preferring to focus on it as that which is one, and which is a center of action.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

For one thing, the beans contain a substance that behaves very much like estrogen in the human body — which has the potential to increase cancer risks, as well as contribute to developmental problems in children.

Regardless of how little or how much of the substance remains on your baby's skin after birth, consider keeping the vernix caseosa on your newborn's skin for as long as possible.

Io may be one of the slightest names in the book, but there aren't many two - letter names with as much substance as this Greek mythological example.

As was much discussed during the Psychoactive Substances Act's progression through Parliament, the government's definition of psychoactivity that «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state,» was about as vague as it could possibly bAs was much discussed during the Psychoactive Substances Act's progression through Parliament, the government's definition of psychoactivity that «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state,» was about as vague as it could possibly bas vague as it could possibly bas it could possibly be.

Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, report in a recent study that hormone fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle may affect the brain as much as do substances such as caffeine, methamphetamines or the popular attention drug Ritalin.

Imaging studies by Nora Volkow, head of the medical department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, revealed that the brains of cocaine addicts release half as much dopamine as substance - free subjects.

Watson said his team still needs to determine which substances would work best at reflecting light, how much is needed to have an effect, and the possible unintended consequences of injecting the particles into the atmosphere, such as acid rain, ozone depletion or weather pattern disruption.

As lived experiences are reconstructed and replayed, their substance is reassessed and inevitably rearranged, modified minimally or very much in terms of their factual composition and emotional accompaniment.

Although arsenic hasn't been studied in as much detail as other toxins found in industrial materials, such as mercury or PCBs, scientists say it underscores the finding that minute exposures to such substances can do great harm.

(Dark matter is a mysterious, theorized substance thought to account for one quarter of the universe's mass, some five times as much as ordinary matter provides.)