Sentences with phrase «not accepting challenging»

Seeing learning as a way to obtain more money, respect, or love can result in your not accepting challenging learning opportunities because you want to avoid failures and making mistakes.

How could they not accept this challenge?

If you can't accept challenges to The Science, a priori — however well or poorly conceived those challenges are — it's not unfair to wonder if The Science is in fact merely dogma, and you a zealot.

Not exact matches

Most of us just don't know how to break down and challenge healthcare costs, so we accept the fees without protest and millions of Americans are declaring bankruptcy thanks to medical bills.

This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

@sciper: ok so you're saying that faith, which requires no proof works well with science that requires not only proof, but is only accepted if challenged by peers and tested over and over again... sure they get along great.

One may or may not accept Thomas's metaphysical analysis, but at least one can see that the doctrine of creation, in its philosophical foundations, is not challenged by any discovery in the natural sciences.

I haven't given up on them entirely: some of them will migrate toward religion as they accept some of life's responsibilities and meet some of life's challenges.

Or, for those who do not like his solutions, the time has come to accept them as a challenge to come up with better ones.

Dr David Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's College, London, has pointed out that he does not accept that brain death can be assumed for any cadaver with a beating - heart, and challenges the ethical acceptability of the use of any such cadaver for donor purposes [13].

I won't discuss any of the topics you have raised, but I will only encourage you to ask questions, challenge every single doctrine, and (as much as is possible) refuse to accept any single side of an issue without investigating other reasonable answers as well.

It is vital that people reject or accept Christianity because of this central message and challenge, and not because of a secondary and unnecessary theological framework which many of us find outdated and incomprehensible.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

As a legal scholar, I had hoped Judge Thomas would accept Senator Biden's challenge and articulate a vision of natural law with real content, but this was not to be.

He could not accept that result, and so set out to provide an account of the status of purposes in his last work.33 Had it not been for Hartshorne's repeated challenges regarding this in the correspondence, I do not think Brightman would have ever addressed the problem in detail.

I do not accept the argument and could challenge it in detail, but let us accept it for the moment.

Is Peter's idea of messiahship being challenged, and the new portrayal not one that he can accept?

They accept his challenge, but their minds are only fixed on a vainglorious prize and not on the means of achieving it.

For now I'm accepting my own personal challenge to teach in a way that is not coercive or oppressive, but encourages people to happily recognize their own spiritual condition and to willingly move deeper into a life of love.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

They know they don't have all the answers and are willing to be challenged as well as accepted.

Coover should not be grouped with existentialists like Camus, however, for whereas Camus seeks to challenge the absurd through action and thereby affirm self in the face of the tragic human condition, Coover is more inclined just to accept life's condition, to play the game for what it is.

The chaplain will accept the challenge Dr. Kübler - Ross has forcefully given him to stop and listen to the dying, but he will further face the prospect of ministering to patients who are not able to speak peacefully and calmly about death.

The US has, for reasons of its own (including fears that the treaty can pose a challenge to such laws as the Helms - Burton law and the D'Amato law which seek to penalize foreign corporations which trade with or invest in Cuba, Iran or Libya), declared that it would not accept the treaty in its present form.

But in the early stages, when a new contender first challenges an accepted paradigm, the criteria do not yield an unambiguous verdict; the experimental evidence and the relative weights assigned to diverse criteria are debatable and subject to individual judgment.

Christians: accepting gravity as real, only because they can't find a shred of anything in the Bible to challenge it.

He has consistently challenged me to accept the Bible on its own terms, honoring it for what it is, not what I think it would be.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

Your faith is a simple faith; one that does not challenge, but accepts blindly.

I don't expect folks to like or accept my views... nor do I openly discuss them or challenge others with them.

Thus, while it does not automatically accept any radical or novel idea, religious naturalism can help us to be genuinely open to the continuing challenge of the ideal aspects of transcendence, and thus willing to entertain radically new ideas and approaches.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

I don't believe I'm not saying anything much different than what you wrote above, but I would encourage you to point out that shaping role of culture that underlies who we become as humans rather than simply accepting cultural assumptions as givens that can not themselves be challenged.

Fortunately I can say that even those parts I do not accept, challenge me in making my own conclusions.

People can accept those challenges from me in a way that they might not from someone else.

I agree that it is often good to be challenged by the study notes we don't accept or agree with, because this then challenges us to study and think more.

She also says a big challenge to overcome is learning to accept that you can't be all things to all people.

And this is not an exaggeration, I accepted a challenge...

Not for Beloved — challenge accepted.

The biggest advancements in humanity and society have come from people who do not accept the status quo and go out and try new things, people who continually challenge the system and want a change when they see its necessary.

Naturally, taking Messi to China would take football to a completely different level in the Far East, but at 30 years of age and as he continues to dazzle for the Catalan giants with 27 goals and 14 assists in 34 appearances in all competitions this season, it's surely not the right time for him to leave to accept that challenge.

We, The New Day, accept the Shield's challenge at Survivor Series but request that all shock - absorbing body armor including (but not limited to) protective vests, shoulder pads, and heavy wool sweaters be disallowed for competitive use.

Staleys owner George Halas challenged the All - Americans to a rematch for the following day, an offer Buffalo accepted on the condition that it not be counted in the standings.

the season has been an embarrassment we aren't challenging for any major honours with Wenger and even the AKBs know it they just won't accept it!

If that doesn't happen, then I guess we will have to accept supporting a squad that doesn't intend to challenge for titles, or i d k. Side note, I've been really disappointed all season seeing Rosicky on the bench.

I don't even see why Draxler would accept the swap... from champions league challenging and league winners to top 4 also runs and europa league challengers...

He'll accept ur challenge, provided u won't make mention of the following: (1) Stadium debts.

«I'm not concerned about our size because the girls accept the challenge and work around it.

We might sometimes think that all these people are bashing us but they I think they all have high expectations for us, they expect us to be more than what are giving for a club of our status, you don't see them criticizing Spuds, Liverpool, Everton etc as much as they do us because they know we are so close to being a real challenging team but we have accepted and convinced ourselves with our excuses..

Everyone knows he lacks pace and for the most part makes up for it with brilliant reading of the game and timing of his challenges but when he IS beaten by a ball that goes over his head, he doesn't even put in the effort to sprint back, he just accepts defeat / relies on others to bail him out.