Sentences with phrase «not with any concrete»

Velvet Goldmine reflects on these questions, coming up not with concrete answers, but more purely emotional ones.

Our joy is based on the new and the concept of the thing, not with any concrete delivery or reason.

Like an abstract expressionist, i deal only with universal truths not with concrete realities.

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«This isn't just a misconception, it's a concrete problem,» said Lilia Xie, a research associate with Boston - based Lux Research.

«You don't want to be bouncing off the walls, but you want to be able to explain why this is an enormous opportunity you actually care about, with real concrete and tangible reasons.»

Indeed, even if your top line revenues were to stay flat for the next few years, there are ways to make significant advances to your bottom line growth with some simple, if not occasionally controversial, concrete steps.

A concrete goal outlined in the declaration was the formal ending the state of war that has existed since the 1950 - 53 Korean War was halted with a truce, not a treaty.

We hope to benefit by helping the men and women who work with us develop concrete skills that are valuable not just our company but to them, no matter where they work.»

In urban settings with concrete, or places where the ground isn't letting the leak surface, the SmartBall will work far better than using infrared detection tools.

Don't think of it as a formal document but as a collection of your stories, combined with concrete goals.

President Donald Trump will not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unless Pyongyang takes «concrete actions,» the White House said on Friday as it faced criticism for agreeing to talks that would boost Kim's standing.

OnePlus isn't making any concrete promises about its new facial recognition, however, as the company said it's designed more for convenience when unlocking the phone rather than security - intensive tasks like making mobile payments with Android Pay.

In a report released Wednesday, the European Environment agency said Italy hasn't presented «any concrete plan» on how to close the gap with such credits.

Don't confuse someone's credentials with the kind of proper concerns and concrete commitments that it takes to do this very critical job correctly.

Sticking to a rural theme, all might not be well with Margaret River's biggest (and ugliest) project, the concrete mausoleum known as the Palandri winery.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

While advice like this is hard to disagree with, it's not useful or concrete.

I don't mean to pry with the down payment question; my intent was to parlay your concrete income example into an illustration on how leverage can bolster returns.

Teams come together and discuss their goals or projects but don't come up with concrete solutions or plans.

During a joint press announcement with Moon after Friday's summit, Kim said he will implement the agreement reached with Moon, but he did not specify concrete steps to attain the goal, raising skepticism about whether Trump will be persuaded by Kim's decision.

As you won't have any concrete figures to work with at the start of your venture, you'll have to estimate to the best of your ability.

Unlike the S&P 500, the resistance is not as concrete with the Nasdaq Composite ($ COMPX), as it has never fully recovered after selling off from the highs in 2000.

He slams faith, he slams UFO's, he slams anything his tiny little brain can't explain with concrete facts.

In sum, then, the penalty for neglecting to allow for a divine temporal freedom beyond that of God's primordial nature is to be required to grant, in effect, that the timeless and the abstract adequately describe the temporal and the concrete, even the concrete acts of divine love for individuals.2 Such a view does not agree with the deliverance of religious experience.

He starts, not with the purely concrete, for which abstractions are to be found, but with such more or less suitable abstractions as are already available, and seeks to improve them, having in mind experiences of the concrete.

But there is another set of images or «clues» that we must deal with if we are to attend not just seriously but honestly to the concrete actualities of our embodied existence.

This metaphorical vision is what separates O'Connor from both fundamentalism, with its literalism, and from Barth, with his avoidance, if not fear, of the sensuous, temporal, and concrete.

Not only did He ask questions, but He rarely responded to questions asked of Him with a straightforward, concise, concrete answer.

The feminine Church is not something abstract, but a real subject with concrete individuals, beginning with Mary, who through Christ have been given a share in the divine Trinitarian life.

On the other hand, if the concrete way this school does «have to do with God» is ordered to education for ministerial functions, is it not then in practice using «having to do with God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with God for God's own sake»)?

Theologians move in two worlds, working not only with the abstract categories of philosophy but also with the highly concrete and often complex literary forms of the Bible.

He must learn more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.

Not only must the overarching goal shape the transactions that constitute its concrete location in some social setting so that they cohere with the abilities and capacities it teaches as instruments for understanding God.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

All that has been said about the limits of the Church's ministry in the concrete shaping of the world must not itself be regarded as a formula with the help of which all problems regarding criticism of the Church can be solved.

I don't mind them using their freedom of speech to lobby others to adopt their view, but constantly proposing spurious legislation with absolutely nothing concrete to back it up should be view the same way frivolous lawsuits are and those who can not give any evidence to their claims should be penalized for wasting everyone else's time.

The treatment of the history of the past must not start with generalized statements, but with concrete examples exhibiting the slow succession of period to period, and of mode of life to mode of life, and of race to race.

And in part, this is because the inclusion of the abstract is the inclusion of an aspect of God that is not consistent with those emotions and experiences that are contained in the concrete aspect of God.

Hartshorne is willing to begin with the metaphysical reality of God and other selves (not just as a postulate, but as concrete existences), and then to use inference and imagination to provide an account of their nature and relations — an account which can he more or less adequate to its object, given the limitations of our form of consciousness.

We are concerned with the word «entry» in Whitehead's statement, for persons do not only enter into the concrete, we endure in the concrete.

Splendid ideals are common enough, but until the ideals are fused with a concrete embodiment their power is not causally efficacious.

Insisting upon clarity in the definition of The Given and the datum self is not the same as insisting upon clarity in the given phenomena of experience, and Brightman is again charging Hartshorne with mistaking abstractions (definitions) for concrete realities — of misplaced concreteness.

This approach did not begin as an academic perspective but rather emerged out of the concrete experience of the poor and of the pastors who lived and worked with them.

Even with your concrete plan, sometimes it won't happen.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

If you don't make a concrete plan, your time with God won't happen.

For Buber the meaning of the symbol is found not in its universality but in the fact that it points to a concrete event which witnesses just as it is, in all its concreteness, transitoriness, and uniqueness, to the relation with the Absolute.

The fact is that Abelard was trying to say, with his own passionate awareness of what love can mean in human experience, that in Jesus, God gave us not so much an example of what we should be like but — and this is the big point in his teaching — a vivid and compelling demonstration in a concrete event in history that God does love humanity and will go to any lengths to win from them their glad and committed response.

This does not mean a change in the problem itself so much as a shift of emphasis and a greater concern with its concrete applications in the modern world.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.