Sentences with phrase «notion of giving»

If Nano Tip Bot proves a hit, and eventually expands to these other social media platforms, it would appear to be rather threatening to the outlook of the lesser - known Gifto, for their entire concept appears underpinned by this notion of giving fans the opportunity to tip content creators, albeit via a convertible virtual gift rather than a straightforward cryptocurrency transaction (i.e., what Nano's latest innovation is offering with Nano Tip Bot).

We speak with Gert on the notion of giving banks specific classes of licences for specific transactions and levying a transaction tax on banks.

It may not have the mainstream appeal of the story about the Georgetown Law graduate who sold his law degree on craigslist, but blogger, and Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature, Stephen Bloom of the Believer's Guide to Legal Issues, has built a following around the notion of giving your law license to God.

The notion of giving people access to the art world is the default sales pitch of a variety of recent art - world business ventures, most of them run by advisors like Brosseau and Gaffney, and it is both condescending and accurate.

«The new updates, Atlas Rises included, appear to build greatly upon the simple notion of giving players things to do, from crafting homes to completing actual missions.

For example, they don't give learners zeros as they overcame the notion of giving up on learners.

«We reject the notion of giving up on any of our schools,» de Blasio said.

«Some students are very intimidated by the whole notion of giving a teacher feedback, so I often ask a leading question in the comments section to get the ball rolling.

Relatively quickly, we landed on the notion of giving students a taste of the digital job market by building websites for nonprofits.

It was a no - nonsense, deeply felt call to the industry to pay more than lip service to the notion of giving women a seat at the table.

I'm going to take a sidetrack for a minute about that notion of giving up, or «letting oneself go» and fitted clothing.

Forget the idea of a bumbling, hapless Mr. Mom, fumbling through changing diapers, panicking at the thought of bottle - feeding the baby, or recoiling in horror at the notion of giving his toddler a bath.

He said «international development seems to invoke some kind of moral terror, balking at the notion of giving to the most needy» for some Conservative members.

If your portfolio was up 20 % last year, however, you probably bristle at the notion of giving that back for some poor farmer in Nigeria.

[Brightman's] notion of the Given as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses, as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54

Rather than fostering contradiction, these works beg a curious question, which simultaneously challenges the notion of a given and complete truth whilst hinting that reality could be hiding somewhere behind the apparent foreground.

Not exact matches

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

Dina Cover of TD Bank was sure we would see an economic boom from new oilsands investment given «the notion that oilsands are a safer method of oil production (than Gulf Coast offshore).»

«Lots of folks get cold feet when it comes to taking that needed three - day weekend,» Baer writes before offering common excuses we give ourselves for not taking the time we need to maintain our mental balance — such as fears it will hold back our careers or misguided notions that those with a bit of scheduling flexibility (aka freelancers and entrepreneurs) don't need to take time to themselves in the same way regular employees do.

The company said it was a mistake, but the episode gave yet more currency to the notion that the chain dubbed «Whole Paycheck» was out of touch.

And on top of that was the whole notion of a movement — putting technology in the hands of individuals, giving them a lot more power.

That notion of melding interesting, obscure or hot button topics with fan communities has proven so popular that it's lured hundreds of millions of users who generate tens of billions of page views annually, giving rise to a site slogan that plausibly reads «The front page of the internet.»

But all along there was the strategic notion of melding the paper with The Tribune, given the obvious challenges of two papers operating successfully in the same major market.

He then talked up the notion of «giving people complete control» over the content they share — claiming this is «the most important principle for Facebook».

If I hadn't been given some very helpful financial advice early in my career, I would not have had the faintest notion of compounding interest or the importance of retirement savings.

Understanding individual stocks is pretty straightforward; it's the notion of a mutual fund that gives some investors problems.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

«Many Protestant churches have liberalized their notions of ethics, giving a theological justification to homosexuality and blessing same - sex couples,» he said.

No al, I said ideal, because I meant god is an idea — I am implying (albeit unsuccessfully, given your question) that our notion of god is a concept, something that we are taught and upon which people build.

I think first people need to give up on the notion of the God.

The notion that humanity is inherently good need simply take a brief look at the news — any given day of the week.

The AA program seeks to reverse this catastrophic farrago by rewriting the mental pathways of the addict using his residual spiritual notions to restore God as the ultimate witness to his behavior, coaxing him to live again in harmony with his given nature and natural limits.

It requires that we not only give up the notion of divine ownership of the earth, but also divine ownership of our souls as well.

The same reasons BC condemns the readers and contributors to this forum — that we think, question, use our own God - given intelligence and reasoning skills, don't accept the easy answers, and are accepting of differences which create no harm — are the very things that make that notion quite bizarre.

As an ordered set of such quasi-places, time comprises a field of peculiarly unbridgeable distances, and the account I have just given of Heidegger's notion of Dasein's «free past» will seem to require a metaphysically preposterous «action at a distance.»

Just because you have given up on learning, and settled into a cozy nook of a reality, based on ideals and comforting notions, doesn't give you the right to actively discourage other people from education.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

Process thought proposes that events are more basic than are the kinds of things that have given rise to the notion of substance.

I am in the process of giving up this notion of God - a God who knows everything, helps people when they need him, actually loves us no matter what (that unconditionally loving God is not necessarily a Christian notion either).

But the thrust of Camus» remarks is to support the notion that beauty requires an artist who imposes style on the world to give it a meaning it otherwise would lack.

The very notion that a moral vision should be embodied in community life and relational obligations, rather than in the choices of any given individual, is a direct challenge to the ethic of expressive individualism that animates our popular culture.

A second negative step is to give up the notion of truth as unchanging and immutable.

And given the way in which sex and gender now lie at the heart of contemporary notions of identity, the law could effectively require churches to accept any and every identity claim of every person who passes through its doors.

Interestingly enough, the Sartrian notion of man's pour - soi or projective self, as distinguished from his sheer given - ness as en - soi, has a considerable similarity to the general process - idea which we are expounding, whatever may be the differences between the two in statement and interpretation.

In the area of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of question.

«There's no such thing as «paying your debt to society,» and in Christian terms, the notion of forgiveness and giving people a second chance is simply not a reality if you have any drug offense on your record,» he says.

Instead, he rejects the notion that the fact of my having been born in the United States should give me greater standing than a migrant from Eritrea.

When we have become intellectually mature enough to give up childish notions of divine intrusions and rescue expeditions, even with respect to Jesus himself (about whom we speak in the next chapter), and to trust in God who is revealing the divine self as actively energizing within the world, we shall be able to have a more soundly based and more credible view of the divine reality.

The notion of repetition, we have seen already, gives rise to, and is incorporated in, Whitehead's theory of (causal) objectification.

«Christian freedom is not, as St Paul says, a gift to be used as «an opportunity for self - indulgence» (Galatians 5:13) but the freedom to give ourselves in loving service... it has absolutely nothing to do with a truncated notion of a happiness that is defined — at least in America — in terms of consumer choice.»