Sentences with phrase «narrow forms of»

The most absurd, the most laughable, the most narrow forms of religious culture can nevertheless be — or so Keillor's voice is able to convince us — effective channels of real grace.

Their non-bank and commercial status confines their activities to narrow forms of lending, affinity partnerships, and lead generation.

These two, much more than Luther, narrowed the forms of religious communication almost entirely to the Word as expressed through Scripture and sermon.

The fact that none of this is discussed shows what a narrow form of politics the Labour Campaign for Free Movement is.

There is in principle therefore good reason why the courts should now recognise that the undoubted public interest in facilitating the process of mediation as a desirable and often preferable means of dispute resolution, by comparison with the full panoply of a trial, justifies the identification of a narrow form of mediator secret privilege of the type described above.

There has also been a tendency for solicitors to take a risk averse approach; parties often stick with what they know, perhaps worried that a narrower form of disclosure might enable their opponent to withhold damaging documents.

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Consequently, there may be greater labour cost pressures than are evident in narrower official wage measures which do not capture these forms of payment.

In Figure 1 you can see that GLD is reaching the end of a triangle formed by an extremely narrow and ever tighter trading range.

Mercy is not the Enlightenment's narrow notion of a cancellation of deserved punishment but is rather a will to «[promote] and [draw] good from all the forms of evil existing in the world and in man.»

At one stage of that long journey the mountains gather themselves to form a deep narrow canyon through which the Fraser must pass.

Billy Graham, pastor to presidents, promulgated a form of public religion that differs from that of Jerry FaIwell and Tim LaHaye, whose narrow vision of a Christian America, suggests Meacham, has engendered much ideological conflict.

It forms them into people of narrow vision and diminished humanity.

In the hands of men who evaded the real moral issues and who were narrower in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 1939.

It is not just free - floating groups banded together for narrow political gain, but an intelligent form of life requiring the constant engagement of its members in discussion and decision - making, in defining and redefining its goals and purposes.

When such devotion is nominally assumed but is actually weak, it is necessary to set up stringent legalistic regulations which define within a narrow range the allowable forms of published and broadcast materials.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image... Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he can not find within the narrow confines of swirling, personal experience.

The Editor in the Preface says that the Tract «polemises against a form of narrow sectarian Secularism which refuses to be sensitive to tradition and faith» and argues that Secularism needs to be rethought taking religious faith seriously, that «only then can Secularism reclaim the ideological space which Fundamentalists are threatening to take over, only then can Secularists capture the minds of the people» (p.vi).

Fortunately, historic events are narrowing the practical gap between the two forms of postmodernism.

Thus the liberal arts were separated from the rather narrow focus on Christianity that characterized their medieval and early Protestant form, while being reshaped by the influence of the Renaissance.

Rather than narrowing the focus of inquiry and polarizing discussion, a more appropriate and helpful function would be bringing to bear on a situation the sum total of perspectives, disciplines and facilities in order to form an adequate understanding of the options which can lead to solutions.

Romanticism charges rationalism «with the enervation on the one hand and the accentuation of natural vitalities on the other; with the creation of too broad and too narrow forms for the expression of the will - to - live or the will - to - power.

We often try to exclude the contrast that makes for wider vision, (Today such exclusiveness may take the form of a refusal to encounter the challenging plurality of religions, thus narrowing our understanding of revelation and forfeiting opportunities for a widening of our notion of the mystery of God.)

The narrow and exclusive assertions of Christian fundamentalists give the impression to the modern world that theirs is the only genuine form that Christianity can assume, and hide the fact that the secular world owes its origin and character to its Christian matrix.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

Yet, even in this narrow form, we are forced to a more basic question: Why did God choose Israel, of all the nations in the world, to receive the Torah?

The point here, however, is to draw out implications of the narrower truth that a Christian congregation's social form is also shaped by its social space, which in turn is importantly and distinctively, if not exhaustively, shaped by the way biblical writings are used in the congregation's common life.

l) «What, in short, is the «mechanism» by which God makes himself known to man, by which the Almighty touches the mightless, by which the Limitless penetrates the narrow confines of the limited, by which Time enters moment, by which the Holy invades the unholy, and the Word speaks in words» Even when this happens, as ultimately it did, as with finality it always does, in the person of Jesus Christ, all the forms and ingenuity of human language are inadequate to give it mechanical explanation.

At times, it seems she is referring to virtually all Christians who are seeking new forms of Christian expression and / or belief, but at others, particularly in the last chapter, she does seem to narrow participants in the Great Emergence to those labeled either «emerging» or «emergent» specifically.

Dried California whole chile pods Dried Chile California is the dried form of the Anaheim chiles, which are pale to a medium green with a long, narrow shape.

Matrix Packaging Machinery, a member of the ProMach family of brands, introduces the high speed Morpheus XL vertical form / fill / seal bagger, a new solution for accurately forming and filling narrow to extra wide bags of frozen poultry pieces at up to 120 bags per minute on one compact platform.

Stem twelve to fifteen inches high, strong and branching; leaves comparatively small, long, narrow, and sharply pointed; flowers white, three - fourths of an inch in diameter; pod, or fruit, erect, nearly globular or cherry - form, and, at maturity, of a deep, rich, glossy, scarlet color.

If Newcastle United's dramatic transformation from running joke with a dead manager walking into one of the Premier League's form teams and slayers of Chelsea can be narrowed down to one thing, it would have to be Alan Pardew's decision to move French midfielder Moussa Sissoko into the centre of the park, where he has begun to control games with a potent mixture of physicality and creativity.

Barcelona host Manchester City at the Camp Nou, after taking home a narrow 2 - 1 lead over the Premier League champions in the first - leg of the last 16 Champions League tie, and the Spanish giants are in tip - top form.

Auba and Mkhi playing as the right and left forward but «narrow», they combines well at BvB and having them play off each other in counters could replicate that fantastic form they shown which resulting in bags and bags of goals.

A player in top form despite Southampton's narrow defeat to Arsenal, goalkeeper Fraser Forster pulled off a string of great saves to keep the Gunners out time and time again.

It came in the form of a narrow 1 - 0 win over Cesena.

Barring a miraculous turnaround in form, and a comeback of Lazarus proportions, Sunderland's ten consecutive seasons in the Premier League, including some narrow escapes in recent years, is about to come to an end.

Their first win of the campaign came in the form of a narrow and somewhat fortunate 2 - 1 victory at home to Wigan Athletic, a side who were suffering a dip in form themselves at the time.

What's more, their record on the road isn't all that great, either, with their only away success this season coming in the form of a narrow and surprise 1 - 0 victory at Tottenham, a team who scored nine last Sunday.

Fans have been appalled with what they've seen so far this season from Alex McLeish and his team, with the club languishing down in 15TH following a dismal run of form which has seen them record one league win in 2012 − a narrow 3 - 2 success away at struggling Wolves.

A win for Palace here and I think they will feel they are likely to be safe and I think given their form and the return of Wilfried Zaha, I think they will go to Vicarage Road and eke out a narrow win here, though perhaps not as dramatically as they did at Selhurst Park earlier in the season.

Even the narrowest streets have some form of sidewalk, and there are always ways around the myriad of staircases.

Visitors walk through its increasingly narrowing form, leaving baggage, burdens, pains, fears, and mementos to be burned away at the end of the week.

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Plugged milk ducts, also called clogged milk ducts or blocked milk ducts, are hard, tender lumps that form in the narrow milk ducts of the breast.

Although the security of its European and North American member states forms its core purposes, a strictly transatlantic or regional view is too narrow to fully describe what NATO does.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

It was a defining issue in the 1969 elections, as a result of which they were able to form a government, though with a very narrow majority, and the issue in the subsequent 1972 elections which they won comfortably.

The forms are now posted on JCOPE's website and contain letters that symbolize relatively narrow ranges of earnings.

«To read this book is to suffer a form of intellectual claustrophobia, trapped in Oliver's narrow world,» said James Kirkup in a scathing review in October.