Sentences with phrase «much significance in»

I'm a big fan of this survey, but don't see much significance in short - term shifts.

But the proper name carried much significance in eighteenth century Europe: forms of address and etiquette of the name's use were part of a careful code of respect and hierarchy.

fashion can be thought of as frivolous and shallow by some; as something without much significance in life.

Early signs seem to indicate that his presence and intelligence in attacking areas is well utilised, alongside a well structured close control first touch, which is required in a demanding league and a club which places much significance in high technical proficiency.

Whether Christians ought to have agreed to that contract is an interesting historical and theological question, but not really of much significance in our present circumstances» for agree to it Christians did.

Not exact matches

But Zuckerberg's linguistic feat clearly has much more significance than just dazzling us and his in - laws.

Second, though he downplays the significance, Reifschneider finds that the Fed will likely not have as much room to cut rates as it would like under the so - called «optimal control» method that Yellen has extolled in the past.

For all this, fans gave him the nickname «Bitcoin Jesus», a Biblical charge that seems to hold as much significance now, even as his standing in the community has changed.

Like so much else that is unfolding in North Dakota, the orders were fraught with cultural and historic significance.

The significance of this is not so much the new level of the exchange rate as the apparent change in direction and market sentiment.

The idea is that Christmas is in danger of losing its edge because we are focusing too much on the holiday hustle and bustle and not enough on the holy significance of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.

As meaningful as my marriage is and as much as I am in love with my husband — my marriage is not — no, it CAN NOT be the only relationship that holds «significance» in my life.

But it also shows how much noise and how little weight or worth or significance there is in what man does.

What I dare to query in Professor Lampe's argument is a bias in the direction of exemplarism; this though he insists that the Resurrection of Christ has much more than a purely cognitive significance.

Much so - called «reasonable religion» is so lacking in emotional warmth as to fail in real significance.

But in fact Newman's significance sweeps wider than that, for he throws much light on that burning issue which now goes under the umbrella label of «relativism,» an often vaguely used term that I tried to define here.

I did grow up christian, however, in Sunday School they never taught much more than «Love Jesus» and told us some of the stories without really explaining the significance.

There is no longer any significance to any particular concrete new thing, but there is significance in the fact that there is so much quantity of the new.

Of course if that writer intended something else, as he may well have done, namely that the «times», in the sense of the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statement.

In general, however, men attach too much significance to work performance and recognition of their achievement, while women doubt their ability to function in the public work worlIn general, however, men attach too much significance to work performance and recognition of their achievement, while women doubt their ability to function in the public work worlin the public work world.

If the Bible is nothing more than a true and accurate record of human ideas, then it doesn't help us much at all in knowing anything for sure about God, ourselves, our condition, or anything of eternal significance.

The independent springing up of other writers who have sought to answer this need in a similar way is as much a testimony to the significance of the general trend of Buber's thought as is the rapidly increasing number of thinkers who have been directly or indirectly influenced by him.

The focusing of attention is closely associated with significance, and much of what is not attended to in the visual field is also significantly ordered.

11:24 - 25), or only that they continued Jesus» practice of a fellowship - meal with his disciples, is much disputed, but the testimony of Paul (I Cor.11: 23) taken in conjunction with the firm tradition that Jesus had given to bread and wine a new significance at the Last Supper, support the view that from the very earliest days Christians repeated the substance of that rite.

The native genius and character of the several peoples of the Western world; the profound significance of the Greek intellect still potent in the analytic mood of the present; the constructive, organizing genius of Rome: all these and much more have gone into the making of the modern dwelling of the human spirit.

The phrase «Son of God with power» there carries much the same ideas as the phrase «Lord and Christ» in the Jerusalem kerygma, for its significance is Messianic rather than properly theological.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.

To learn to put up with this empirical church is the way both of Christian humility at its best and of Christian growth in God's grace, not to mention the patent fact that such cooperation may do much to make the empirical institution more conformable to its intention and significance as the Body of Christ.

So much for an attempt to interpret several important strains in early Christian reflection upon the significance of Jesus.

So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.

There are a limited number of instances where the parable in very much its original form made a point of significance to the early Church, even if that was different from the point originally intended by the historical Jesus, and in such cases the gospel form of the parable may approximate to the original, e.g. the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son.

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

Here in fact a new principle is enunciated which permits a much deeper anthropological and theological analysis of the conjugalact: the principle that its unitive significance and its procreative significance are inherent to it, in inseparable connection.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

«I think the organization that owns the Empire State Building seeing this as a religious request is really missing much of the significance of the life's work of Mother Teresa, across the world and in New York City,» Quinn said.

The command, for example, to love one's neighbor loses much of its urgency if the distinction between you and the neighbor is «empty;» If the whole world is present in this «here - now,» and if this «here - now» is present throughout the whole world, then the significance and even the reality of the particular developments in history have been radically compromised.

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

Globalization in fact has unleashed a social revolution the significance and impact of which is at least as much as those that the Industrial Revolution which took place in the last century brought about.

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.

Editor James Taylor of the United Church of Canada suggests that today the church is in a new Reformation, the significance of which for the life of the church may be as dramatic as the Reformation in the sixteenth century, which derived much of its monentum from the development of print.

But they do not consider that the Christian Church has much to say to them on the subject — perhaps with justice, since so often, in Christian circles, prayer has become little more than a formal exercise without deep significance for this or that particular man or woman.

The significance of the event is in any case much too uncertain to throw light on the nature of Jesus» spiritual life.

Both ways of doing it are appropriate — the simple ones because often the significance of an action is best known in stark simplicity, the elaborate ones because it is natural for men to wish to surround a treasured occasion with as much dignity as they can manage.

Here I go (feel free to add): 1) with Cech and Gabriel, the emergence of Bellerin and Coquelin, a resurgent Monreal and a healthy Gibbs and Debuchey our defence is in much better shape than this time last year 2) no one of any significance left 3) our young players on loan eg Zelalem and Crowley and in the academy eg Fortune and Reine - Adelaide are looking great 4) our injury record can't be as bad as last year, can it Shad Forsyth?

By saying greatest, we are bringing elements into the mix such as historical significance and how much more dominant a team was compared to its own contemporary competition, not just in the Sac - Joaquin Section but for Northern California and the state in general.

Spurs are still holding out hopes of catching Leicester City and, with United very much in the middle of a scramble for the last Champions League position, tomorrow's game is of huge significance for both teams.

These items will have much more significance if he's involved in the decision - making process.

In Germanic and Celtic cultures, the ash tree held much significance.