Sentences with phrase «norms for what»

There are very strict norms for what VCs are accustomed to investing in: Delaware C - Corporations.

Praised for innovations in resource management and squad - based interface, we continued to challenge the norms for what RTS game is and what it could be.

This material norm for what is appropriate to Christian theology also provides guidance to how process theology, from this perspective, attends to Scripture.

What these symptoms reveal is nothing less than the breakdown of the cultural values that glue society together, because in that society there is no longer a culturally accepted norm for what is right and what is wrong.

a little out of the norm for what we cook.

That appears to be the norm for what is a rather rare Mustang model.

«TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION» is what registrants, seemingly unwittingly, accept as the norm for what passes as good governance.

Not exact matches

In Foursquare, for example, people can be noteworthy and attain badges within the system for doing such things as being the biggest regular at a certain place (What Norm and Cliff from «Cheers» would do with this...) and going to a venue in which a lot of Foursquare members of the opposite sex are present.

What's needed is a framework for the type of «smart, fair trade deals» that Clinton says should be the norm.

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

What started as a novelty has become the norm, with a vast number of ICOs now earmarking a portion of their tokens for free distribution.

Use the bible for what it was intended, moral stories of how people should act, although current societal norms would certainly preclude stoning and other current justice and civil rights departures from the rigid teachings / interpretations of the bible.

For gay people — what if you were seen to be the norm, if you were the majority?

I vote for a low key servant leadership in a democratic system, structures that help us focus on the right stuff without dictating what should happen, and conserning norms, I prefer values before rules.

«What used to be the format for 11 - 14s has become the norm for 8 - 11 year olds and is more akin to an open youth group with an epilogue talk.

In his charming memoir, Frederic Warburg says that the prominent Jewish community in Berlin appeared to be split down the middle between those hundreds of thousands of Jews who elected to stay and seek a restoration of judicial norms for both the Jews and citizens in general and the equally large numbers of Jews who chose the hard road of migration and a loss of what seemed to be personal security as well as homes and possessions.

I think the «sin» is not in being different than the norm, but in trying to force something that isn't right for you — sacrificing, not in a noble way but a harmful way, who you are, remaining in a relationship or trying to be something you simply can not be, because that's what's expected regardless of the consequences to your wellbeing.

This book, in my opinion, is to actually minimize the great apostasy taking place in our churches; especially among those who were never taught the real meaning of being «last instead of first», to help those who come into the church who may bring with them societal norms of entitlement and «whats in it for me» attitudes and behaviors.

Especially if you go through a big life changing event such as leaving the church it is nice to be able to explore new ways of thinking and acting which don't necessarily fit into what was previously the norm for you.

This can be seen in the end of labour contracts or at the very least, a general weakening of the once stable and fixed labour contract - which was the norm in the richest countries - and the general rise in uncertainty and unemployment and, for those still working, a deterioration in working conditions around what is called flexibility.

Biblical norms and historical models must be related to contemporary possibilities with an imaginative grasp of what this history is apt to imply for those who see it against the background of their own fears and choices.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

Matthew Yglesias has gotten some criticism for celebrating Clinton for being «more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas,» and for being the kind of person who «believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best.»

For it is the discriminating norms of justice which are used to delineate the questions as to what is mine and what is thine.

Just because the Holy Spirit directs and leads one in a direction that is not the norm, just as Paul clearly related regarding his actions on this subject, does not make it a rule for everyone else, and much harm is done when people decide that everyone else must follow the unique road that the Holy Spirit has directed them down and declaring to be a sin what is clearly not a sin.

So I'll be ok, I just sincerely hope that this remains an anomaly and never becomes the norm and even then it will probably always make me a little sad for what it could have been.

Yet for years there were religion - based norms that clearly limited what faculty could profess or how they could behave — including, in some instances, to what church they could belong — that excluded candidates from appointment at these institutions.

Refreshingly Charlton sees purpose in physical reality: «I am suggesting that teleological explainability is the norm, that we may expect there to be some reason for what happens unless we have some ground for thinking it happens for no reason.»

Sometimes what the moral norm of civility demands is that we restrain our self - expression for the sake of our community.

So if «two men shall be lying in the bed,» is what God wanted it to read (and I believe it is because it was really for the latter days in which we live and two men in bed is not taboo and is almost norm), then one or both of them can be saved just as anyone else.

I think what you are «wishing» for is actually the norm in Scripture.

Internalizing the language, concepts and communicative norms of a particular field is crucial to the development of competencies in that field (see, for example, P. N. Johnson - Laird, Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness [Harvard University Press, 19831 and George Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind [University of Chicago Press, 1987]-RRB-.

Furthermore, even the identification of the putative content of experience proves to be normed by whatever hermeneutical analysis is employed, for one can only imagine, much less recognize as present, what one can come to identify somehow.16 Finally, some hermeneutical analysis is also presupposed by and, therefore, normative of any argument from experience, whether of the individual or the communal type, since it is only experience as interpretable in terms of some description or other to which one can ever appeal either for the mutual corroboration of such descriptions or for their illustration of a theistic interpretation.

I also modified [the law] at least — there was nothing in the law that would require me to do this, but I did not sign death warrants for people that were close or below what now is the norm related to IQ.

Without defining what type of material content such norms should have, I want to say only that the formal requirement for moral decisions is that they be rationally and self - consciously, not naturally and «blindly,» determined.

Bishop Yevstariy Zoria, spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate has already noted, however, that «existing canonical norms» are exactly what his Church appeals to, since according to existing canonical norms, it is the Ecumenical Patriarchate (the Mother Church from which Ukraine received Christianity in 988 AD) and not the Moscow Patriarchate, that should be the arbiter of Orthodox canonical norms with regard to the situation of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

What David learned early from the example of his parents (and the FBI visitation in worship) was that there may well be consequences for taking a stand that goes against societal norms.

The Court also said «(t) he norms and standards of today require businesses who wish to gain access to the homes of people for extended selling opportunities to exhibit honesty and openness in what they are doing, not to apply deceptive ruses to gain entry».

With ridiculous and over inflated transfer fees seemingly the norm these days when a Premier League club is interested, it would be handy if any prospective transfer targets were to let their wish to sign for Arsenal be known and according to The Mirror this is just what the Lyone and France international forward Alexandre Lacazette has done this week.

All this is accepted blindly as being the norms of football for no other reason than it is what the Market wants and does (sic ``... like «trading», football is a results business»)-- indeed these values are lauded and held up on high so that we now reach the point here when even a truly great manager is being subjected to a witch - hunt by sections of the media and so - called fans who question his tenure of his post and ask what has he got to do to be sacked.

For him 4 - 0, 6 - 0, 8 - 2, 6 - 3 defeats are acceptable, in fact they are the norm against top sides in recent times and he thinks he got what it takes to turn it around.

exactly whats up with guys telling pple what to do.everyone has a right of making his / her choice and respect is earned not by history but by the present.its upto him now to win our respect back (transfer market and nxt season) just supporting blindly is boll... this has to stop whats up with pple telling others the right norm of behavior.pple raised the banners coz they are disappointed and hve a right to be.lets be frank nxt season if no epl title for arsenal and another scramble for top four will we still be glorifying wenger??

Second of all, I knew camping was going to be so out of the norm for him that he wouldn't behave like he normally did at home, no matter what.

In my mind UL does not mean that we love our children only when all the conditions are met - they are living up to our standards and norms... For me, UL means that despite all the faults we might see in our child (our subjective opinion), despite the child's life path that is different of what we had in our mind for him, we still love hFor me, UL means that despite all the faults we might see in our child (our subjective opinion), despite the child's life path that is different of what we had in our mind for him, we still love hfor him, we still love him.

There are very few nods to students» other - than - French ethnic backgrounds, and — so far as I can tell — no accommodations for dietary demands outside what is assumed to be the norm.

In many instances I risked the practice's and my own credibility, my license, and even my freedom because as a practitioner working outside the norm, I could face criminal charges for supporting a woman's individual rights when those decisions differ from the standard of care or from what the average jury member would choose for their own healthcare.

I guess that is just what happens when you're pregnant... Yoga pants become the norm, anything but slippers hurt your feet and buying new shoes for your hubby is more fun than trying to cram your swollen feet into a pair of stilettos.

I learned so much about meeting parents where they are and giving them evidence - based information about what children need for optimal development — that nevertheless often runs counter to the cultural norm.

I think what worries me the most is the idea that part of the way that cost affective allocation of resources will happen is that midwives will be the norm for care in pregnancy and birth.

Ina May Gaskin's C - section statistics over 40 years: 1.7 % American hospital C - section statistics: 32 % not including routine episiotomy and so on... Oh yes, I know who I would trust for my child's birth... And if the price of an intact body and a peaceful birth was «gentle stimulation» I would accept it with no hesitation... Of course I live in France where obstetric violence is the norm and home birth nearly considered as criminal by the establishment, but where puritanism is long gone (thank God)... You may remove this post as you did for my previous one... It's OK we've got lots of you this side of the Atlantic telling us what's good or bad for us and we trust them less and less.