Sentences with phrase «narrow sense of»

As we look for the ways in which clients have been adversely affected by their trauma, it can inadvertently narrow our sense of who they are, and solidify their identities as «damaged» or «broken.»

Note that I am using the term «common law marriage» in the somewhat narrow sense of a marriage not formally licensed by the government based upon the principles of the English common law as received by the jurisdiction in question.

49 Here, the Commission's imposition of the fine was arguably not «punitive» in the narrow sense of the word; that is, it may not have been imposed as a punishment for Mr. Thow's moral failings, and it may not have been motivated by a desire for retribution or to denounce his conduct.

Dubos was one of our founding fathers, present at the creation, and the first part of his essay traces his sometimes - painful steps from bench scientist as a bacteriologist to someone profoundly focused on the human condition and the ways that the world that humans inherit, alter and leave behind shape human health, not only in the narrow sense of healthy people but in the larger sense of societal health and well - being.

While it is easy to imagine the meaning of that word in the narrow sense of graphic design for characters and the like, in this article we're going to take a deeper look at the question of «what is game design?»

«The specific socialization in academic institutions leads to a very narrow sense of what is worthwhile employment,... and that is mostly only academic work,» Müller says.

BUSCH: One of the best examples is in California, where studies have shown that green jobs — in the narrow sense of generating clean electricity or doing other pollution - reduction work — are growing about three times faster than other types of jobs.

The particular brand of scientific humanism which affects so much of our thinking is either agnostic, in the less narrow sense of that term, or rigidly atheistic.

However, we want to suggest that the word politics need not be understood in this narrow sense of «party politics».

Only in a rather narrow sense of the word «reality» can we talk about «process and reality.»

But in the narrow sense of rationality and technical reasoning, its function seems to be abating.

To be sure, their approach has not been «technical» in the narrow sense of giving exclusive attention to such questions as enrollment, funding and school reorganization.

But this question presupposes a very narrow sense of «influence.»

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

They're doing it with a clear, narrow sense of purpose, a sublime customer experience, and the kind of coherence that seems all but impossible when a company gets old and big, and its founding idea lost to time and well - intended meddling.

The introduction to process theology which David Griffin and I wrote together in 1975 as a summary of where we had come accurately reflects the interests and concerns that had dominated our reflection prior to that time.11 Political interests, in the narrower sense of political, were consciously omitted because we had not engaged them sufficiently to have anything distinctive to say.

Its concern is with what is sometimes called «liturgical preaching», but I do not mean this in the narrower sense of preaching upon the appointed lections in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

Some landlords think of «pets» in the narrowest sense of the word.

They don't want a conversation, they just want an audience — a «follower» in the narrowest sense of the word.

Not exact matches

Given the importance of business regulation and compliance, the narrowed geographical focus makes sense.

«We are moving forward with a continued sense of urgency on our four strategic priorities: narrowing our focus on clients, products, and geographies where we can grow profitably; driving for efficiency; growing through innovation and optimizing our data assets and client relationships; and returning excess capital to shareholders,» he added.

Ethereum in the narrow sense refers to a suite of protocols that define a platform for decentralised applications.

The project has the challenge of high country and weather as well as a relatively erratic ore body in the sense that the gold is high grade and located in relatively narrow veins.

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

It means that he has voluntarily renounced sex in the narrower sense, the way of expressing love and creating family as is proper to marriage.

Anyone who is that blind to their own bigotry, who is that narrow minded and holds that much hatred and contempt for other people, just because of who they are, can't possibly come to their senses in a short blog conversation.

Hence we must conclude with Professors Branscomb, Lohmeyer, Werner, Bishop Rawlinson, and other recent writers, that Mark's point of view is that which was «in general characteristic of the Gentile - Christian Church of the first century,» but that it was not, «in the narrower and more distinctive sense of the words, a «Pauline» Gospel.»

According to Lewis, modern man lives in a tiny windowless universe, his boundaries narrowed to too small a focus.75 Through such play experiences as the reading of stories - when one could experience life «in a sense «for fun,» and with [his] feet on the fender» - Lewis believed that modern man could perhaps recapture a sense of his distant horizons, much as he once had.76 For Lewis, a story was the embodiment of, or mediation of, the «more.»

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

It is a sense that fineness of achievement is, as it were, a key unlocking treasures that the narrow nature of things would keep remote.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

We could then suppose that when Whitehead developed the idea of the consequent nature in the narrow sense, he created the «primordial nature» as a contrasting term This hypothesis would make sense of the present text of PR without supposing that Whitehead began working on the Gifford Lectures only with a noninteractive God little different from the abstract principle of concretion of SMW» (PS 15: 200).

Now the «feelings» toward which the «prehending subject of the proposition» is drawn are not simply affective in the narrow sense.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

The secular historian does not have this particular and narrow concentration of interest, but thinks of «tua res agitur» in the comprehensive sense that «nothing human is foreign to thee».

Whereas in Marx's day, most wealth consisted in land and capital in the narrow sense, today financial wealth, often called financial «capital,» dwarfs both of these.

For example, the distinction between land and capital in the narrow sense is important as is that between both of these and financial capital.

Since my concerns in this essay are with the ability to own and control capital in the narrow sense, my understanding of capital includes land and financial capital as well as capital in the strict sense.

Jesus wanted love of neighbour to be understood in a universal sense as the quality of divine love than the narrow circle of natural affection and concern.

Once accept the disclosure of God in Christ (and in all that is Christ - like in human experience, for we ought not to be exclusively christo - centric in the narrower sense); once take that disclosure with utmost seriousness — and then God as «pure unbounded love» becomes central in our thinking.

In the narrow sense, I view these as precursors of process thought.

The breadth of Moltmann's interests may be one reason that the term political does not appear as the encompassing horizon of his theology, even though he is never oblivious to the political dimension, in the narrower sense, of what he is doing.

Edward Hadas has never formally studied economics, and I believe his negative arguments would be stronger if he had, for he would known that within the discipline there are elements of a cult, i.e. that there is a sense among economists that their narrow outlook is the only true way of seeing the world.

Perhaps this celebration of the «me» is fitting therapy for today's largely unemployed movie audience (unemployed in both the narrow and broad senses).

And until we recover the ancient and deeply Catholic axiom of the primacy of the common good, which is also the primacy of supernaturalized politics and Christianized culture, we can not make much sense out of the narrower Rerum Novarum tradition.

Most of us can testify to the sense of hurt we have felt when someone with whom we thought we were in close rapport in some group of friends — or in family life in the narrower sense — demonstrates by act that he or she does not really very much care for us.

But, still, a chance of controversy comes up over the word «divine,» if we take it in the definition in too narrow a sense.