Sentences with phrase «new fact of life»

I know this is easier said than done for most consumers, but it is just a new fact of life.

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The fact that millions of people live close together allows new opportunities for clean mass transportation, for example.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

U.S. and Soviet spies during the Cold War assumed it wasn't just their enemy but their own government keeping tabs on them, so maybe this really isn't paranoia at all, but just the facts of life in the brave new world of meta data - crunching by the world's superpowers.

For example, nearly half the Jews in America live in New York City alone, and the fact that the city of New York is so important to the life of the country taken together with the fact that 30 per cent of the population of that city is Jewish has the effect of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relief.

Fun Fact: Says Heath: «We've always placed a focus on staying personally connected to the mission first - hand, so in addition to hosting regular team giving events, we also developed our Hive Initiation program: On the day that each new employee joins Bombas, before doing anything else, they are given 10 pairs of donation socks to walk around the city [with] and hand out, while interacting first - hand with those living on the streets.»

If you or other email - reliant people in your life need a reminder of this stark fact, check out a new HBR blogs post from Vanessa Bohns.

They are full of hope for you — for «your promise,» for a life filled with happiness and health, and for the fact that your arrival gave them a slightly more personal way to announce their new Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

In fact, though, boomers are heading into a period of great disruption in their lives, and it's putting a good deal of their consumer activity in play, according to a new eMarketer report, «How Boomers Still Matter: A Disruptive Life Stage Puts Their Consumer Behavior in Play.»

I feel like your views on real estate are highly colored by the fact that you've lived in New York and San Francisco, two areas that have experienced incredible bull markets due to falling crime, falling interest rates, foreign buying, and the increased desirability of living in cities.

The majority, in Mr. Helmreich's telling, were able to find new lives, largely because of simple» in fact, rather old - fashioned» virtues.

It would certainly be both unwise and disobedient for me to say much about the fact that, by coming to be Dean of Berkeley, I am beginning a very new phase in my own life.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

to the new intellectual environment, combined with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate the emerging biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.

That such complete giving of the self should, in fact, give new life is the deepest mystery of God's being and is hinted at, as if in analogy, in the birth of a child.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

In fact, in some ways his birth and his life — and eventually his death — introduced new forms of suffering, making these people's lives more difficult than they otherwise would have been.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

The fact that we are in the midst of an enormous transformation toward a «universal civilization» suggests that only in a new confrontation with localistic, cultural and nationalistic idolatries of all sorts, and only by clariflying what universal realities are worth living and dying for, can we find hope.

On the contrary, the very fact that it is possible to produce a secularized version of the New Testament conception of faith proves that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural about the Christian life.

In fact allowances can also thus be made for the role of chance in the emergence of life and in the mutations that are required for the evolution of new species.

The fact that the popular classic Life Together and the little - known Act and Being are the first to be published symbolizes the value of the new translation project.

Indeed it is much easier to imagine the souls of the dead living on in some new kind of existence than it is to accept as fact that they have really died.

That doesn't change the fact that the New Testament is a collection folktales that were intermingled with real life politics and intended for an audience of jewish xenophobes.

In fact, in the New Testament, the divine epiphany in Christ is represented in terms of temporal categories: his incarnation or birth, his life, passion, death and rebirth or resurrection.

Though we are only now beginning to realize it, as our awareness of this fact increases we move into new possibilities for becoming sensitized to the life of God in his incarnate form, that is, in the world Christologically viewed.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

But the fact is what was considered a positive expression of the incorporation of new people into the life of the churches now exemplifies the division of the churches.

Just this past week, on Good Friday in fact, the formation of a «new Christian coalition, called the Circle of Protection,» was announced, intended «to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people.»

Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

The appalling fact the local ministers confronted was that their parishioners would not accept these new older people into the life and work of the congregations.

The fact that this was done in the name of Jesus shows the growing emphasis for new converts to «fully identify» themselves in their new life with the teachings, example, and values of Jesus Christ.

Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients for new life, new planets, new humans in fact as both you and I and everyone on the planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.

Partly because of bad luck in the sinking of a ship containing Wallace's collection of specimens, he produced nothing remotely like the immense mass of facts assembled by the primary founder of the new science of living things.

(Wolfgang Köhler, The Place of Values in a World of Facts [New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 1938]; Vivas, The Moral Life and the Ethical Life, op.

The naïve interest of the author of Acts in the miraculous should not prevent us from recognizing that he is in fact describing a corporate life which had this new quality.

Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.

Dan Hofstadter, ed., Mexico 1946 -73 (New York: Facts on File, 1974), p. 65; Bertram D. Wolfe, La Fabulosa Vida de Diego Rivera [The Fabulous life of Diego Rivera](Mexico City: Editorial Diana, 1972), p. 310.

To equivocate same sex and opposite sex relationships is basically to tell opposite sex couples that the gift of new life they bring forth is not special — when in fact it is very special.

The church, as it engages in evangelism, apologizes for this fact or sidesteps it at the peril of its own institutional survival and at the peril of the new believer's life in Christ.

And given the inroads into American family life, including the fact that 40 percent of births these days are to unmarried women, it is doubtful that if the amendment were up for ratification today, a new Phyllis Schlafly would be able to find many of those apple - pie - baking Middle - American housewives to staff her battalions.

This is a natural consequence of the fact that in the creaturely world it is the female who is most closely identified with the birth of new life.

For Karl Barth man always appears to remain on the knife edge between the love of God and the abyss of damnation.24 Reinhold Niebuhr holds that we are redeemed from sin in principle, but whether we are redeemed in fact is not made clear.25 Christ, he says, is our hope, not our possession.26 And again he suggests that only in the moment of prayer can man really love God and his neighbor with the love which Christ has shown to us.27 Emil Brunner comes closer to positive affirmation of the new life of the man to whom the love of God has come with power.

Niebuhr's explication of Galatians 2:20 assumed that God's grace as Power for man's life has a double connotation; the first suggests that the new life has been achieved through grace as a power not our own, while the second suggests that the new life is not yet an achieved fact.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

The parabolic nature of this vision is confirmed by the fact that it is followed by a second picture (which some think may have been added later) in which it is not a battlefield but a graveyard from which Israel will rise to new life.

That tension arises from the fact that Christianity has always conceived this created world as essentially good, and yet it has always looked beyond this world to a consummation of life in a new order as man's true end.

My New Year's resolution is to front only the essential facts of life so that when I come to die, I will know that I truly lived.

Eric Klinenberg, a New York University professor and author of the widely touted Going Solo, celebrates the fact that «cities create the conditions that make living alone a more social experience.