Sentences with phrase «not of itself an aberration»

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Rather, he said, sellers are finally coming to grips with the fact that the prices of 2014 were an aberration and aren't coming back anytime soon.

She does not, however, see the current administration as particularly unique: «The political rhetoric and style of governance we've been seeing is not an aberration.»

Perhaps the attractive prices of the past were the aberrations, not the full prices of today.

OUR habit of airing our dirty laundry and the cleaning of it IS something that they do not understand, but when we point out that we're admitting our imperfections and showing the world, as well as ourselves, that we're cleaning up those aberrations, they begin to understand.

The aberrations, corruptions and perversions of this world don't worry me at all.

For the family of faith, adoption is the norm, not an aberration.

I thank God that today we have the ability to research the origins and development of language, and do not have to be held prisoner by aberrations and perversions of words that convey distortions of truth.

The aberrations, abominations, corruptions and perversions of the world and in the world don't worry me at all.

It is no surprise that Christians can't own the fact that Breivik is one of their own; a more fanatic, violent aberration of Christianity.

Chateaubriant, Oradour, the Rue des Saussaies, Tulle, Dachau, and Auschwitz have all demonstrated to us that Evil is not an appearance, that knowing its causes does not dispel it, that it is not opposed to Good as a confused idea is to a clear one, that it is not the effect of passions which might be cured, of a fear which might be overcome, of a passing aberration which might be excused, of an ignorance which might be enlightened, that it can in no way be turned, brought back, reduced, and incorporated into idealistic humanism....

Those that did not (what today we would call a sociopath, which is an genetic aberration from the norm), either wandered off alone and got eaten, or got their heads bashed by a rock by the society that was tired of their crap.

But apart from such aberrations, this vision of afterlife just seems boring and not very attractive.

There are so many aberrations of truth it is not funny.

From this perspective, contemporary social issue disputes, such as that over abortion, are not temporary aberrations, but rather the stuff of future politics, where an agenda of «traditional values» confronts an agenda of «personal liberation» or what Ronald Inglehart has called, somewhat misleadingly, «postmaterial» values.

But then why not equally call religion an aberration of the digestive function, and prove one's point by the worship of Bacchus and Ceres, or by the ecstatic feelings of some other saints about the Eucharist?

The vast majority of congregations using and experimenting with computer technology and the Internet are not promoting aberrations of Christian or congregational life.

The genius of Newman's idea is that Mary comes to symbolise not only the faith of the unlearned, but of the Doctors of the Church also, who need «to investigate, and weigh, and define, as well as to profess the Gospel; to draw the line between truth and heresy; to anticipate or remedy the various aberrations of wrong reason; to combat pride and recklessness with one's own arms; and thus to triumph over the sophist and the innovator.»

At the heart of the controversy over sexual behavior modification is the idea that same - sex attraction is not a permanent and inborn condition but rather an aberration that's often rooted in childhood trauma.

And the aberrations of marriage won't stop there.

Without recourse to an immutable reality impervious to biological aberration, the progressive can not defend the will as any more reliable an indicator of gender identity than the rest of the fallible human body to which it belongs.

And I'm not attacking Darwin — but social Darwinianism which was an aberration that we should all lament — and still has sway today in how we see the least of the least in, at least, North American Society.

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It is to ask that economists learn ecology and that ecologists learn economics; that science meets religion and both learn from each other; that our innermost human problems are seen, not simply as some personal aberration, but as intimately linked with the sort of society we create for ourselves.

Such excessive concentration of power, Boff believes, leads to domination, centralization, marginalization of the faithful, triumphalism and institutional hubris — an extensive laundry list of aberrations from which not even the Sacred Congregation itself is exempted.

If Jesus of Nazareth is truly / fully human as well as truly / fully Divine and WITHOUT SIN, then * sin * can not be intrinsic to our human nature; but must be an aberration.

Fr Bertram maintains convincingly that this model is, in fact, a historical aberration, not the norm for living out secular priesthood until the upheavals of the French Revolution.

Schmitz's examples are not isolated aberrations but are symptomatic of the illiberal attitudes and ad hoc morality of political convenience that now typify many of those on the left.

However, the betting public seems to view that loss as an aberration, not a trend, with more than 6 out of 10 spread bets picking New Orleans to bounce back and win by at least 9 points in the SuperDome.

Your next world champion would do well to behold the last one, the 2011 Cardinals, a 90 - win team without so much as a 15 - game winner, not as an aberration but as a model of how to exploit the new postseason.

Then last weekend's game against Oakland wasn't an aberration but a sign of things to come this season.

The huge win over Leicester City appears to be an aberration, as United are not showing huge signs of improvement.

But the real Home Office tactic is now clear: they are trying to quarantine the damage, so that the misbehavior is viewed not as a matter of policy, but an aberration.

Doesn't Cuomo know the deeds of Joe Percoco was no aberration?

These contrasting years are not aberrations — since 2000, in any one year, 30 % of civil wars had more than two combatants, from 1946 - 1999, 20 % did.

(Mr. Cuomo was not accused of any wrongdoing in the Percoco trial and has called his former aide's behavior a «total aberration.»)

«In view of the multi-ethnic setting of the state, and the fact that the executive power has shifted to the central senatorial axis, it will be a political aberration if the speakership position does not shift to another zone,» Aiyelabowo stated.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry, who served as an election observer for the Carter Center, said while there were «little aberrations here and there,» the election was not rigged.

The generational aberration of a post-Buhari Atiku Presidency has dawned nation - wide and Buhari surely knows who will not succeed him in 2019 should he excuse himself from re-contesting.

He said, «The position of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President is at the moment under heavy threat, because in no distant time, the APC Senator in - waiting from Imo State, Benjamin Uwajumogu, will take over the seat on the grounds that it is an aberration that a PDP senator from the South - East is deputy to an APC Senate President because, before now, the APC could not produce a senator from the South - East zone.

«As a result of these observed aberrations wherein the position of the National Chairman has been apparently sold and auctioned to the highest bidder I as an Omoluabi and as an authentic Atona of Yoruba land, I will not partake in this charade.

As a result of these observed aberrations wherein the position of the National Chairman has been apparently sold and auctioned to the highest bidder, I, as an Omoluabi and as an authentic Atona of Yorubaland, will not partake in this charade.

Obtaining high - res images of the retina is not so easy, however, due to aberrations caused by imperfections in the cornea and crystalline lens.

Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart articulated the logic this way: «While it is true that the seed of original sin carries with it every type of deviation, aberration, perversion, and wrongdoing, the homosexual can not claim to have been born that way any more than the drunkard, gambler, killer, etc..»

• Due to an auditory aberration during his interview, we misquoted Rob Hopkins, who believes that the effects of peak oil will be felt by 2013, not 2030 as previously stated (6 February, p 25).

However, Evans says «other accounts do not generally explain math disability in terms of underlying brain structures, though the disorder must ultimately depend on aberrations in the brain.»

More importantly, the displays could one day aid people with more complex visual problems, known as high order aberrations, which can not be corrected by eyeglasses, said Brian Barsky, UC Berkeley professor of computer science and vision science, and affiliate professor of optometry.

With help from using a Titan 80 - 300 aberration - corrected transmission electron microscope at EMSL and other instruments, they determined the reaction does not depend on the amount of steam added, which is indicative of benzene's adsorption on the catalyst.

The advent of human - induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology has provided a unique opportunity to establish cellular models of disease from individual patients, and to study the effects of the underlying genetic aberrations upon multiple different cell types, many of which would not normally be accessible.

Recent studies have shown that belly fat is not metabolically inert, but rather actively promotes the secretion of many powerful hormones that not only make it more difficult to lose body weight, but also promote systemic inflammation that raises the risk for heart failure, cardiovascular diseases and DNA aberrations that help cancer cells to grow and metastasize.

Vinegar is known to help in cases of diarrhea, the mechanism is not known, and I read a lot of aberrations about that.