Sentences with phrase «obscure ways in»

I think political correctness has done a lot to obscure the ways in which people are much more diverse in their interests than we give them credit for.

These practical advantages should not obscure the way in which the spirit of love may inform non-violent strategies.

This separatist concept helps to obscure the way in which the oppression of women is structurally integrated with that of class and race.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, the goal, he says, should be to «create intuitive graphical representations of the underlying data» in ways that allow non-data scientists «to explore it without having to sit at a terminal and type in a bunch of obscure commands.»

Yet this obscures the reality that, already by late 1914, all belligerents were stuck in a war that was supposed to have ended soon, according to optimists across Europe, but inconveniently had not, leaving the armies jammed in a conflict that generals and politicians could see no easy way out of.

It wears on the body in all sorts of other ways, both obvious and obscure.

You can even hear it in the in - store music choices, usually well - known songs remixed by obscure artists — another way to embrace pop while trying to maintain an indie edge.

If the teacher wasn't in close proximity, what would stop the teacher's bullets from hitting other students who might be in the way and obscured by gunsmoke?

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I love the whole discussion and arguing cases with bright people, or reviewing an obscure company, or the best way to play that macro thematic on demand in that country.

The bump stock — a previously obscure gun accessory that became infamous last year when a shooter in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire at helpless concertgoers — is on its way to being banned in Maryland.

and they tend to gloss over cultural elements to these texts in ways that obscure their true meaning.

It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with other revealed religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and particular» serve more to obscure than reveal the truth.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

7 We are applying the law of continuity here, according to which «nothing could ever burst forth as final across the different thresholds successively traversed by evolution (however critical they be) which has not already existed in an obscure and primordial way» (The Phenomenon of Man, p. 71).

The doctrine of the Trinity is often formulated in ways that obscure the unity of God.

The testimony that he brings appears all the more significant because prophetic intuitions are all the more striking when they pass through slumbering or stubborn prophets who perceive only in an obscure way what they convey to us.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Sha'ul tells them in regard to their being SetApart from evil that they were to receive and expect this, because YAHWEH was working it in them, this work many believers pass right by as obscure, «Now YAHWEH our ABBA, and our Master YAHSHUA, may they direct our way to you and may our Master increase and overflow your love, one to another, to all people also, even as we love you.

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Yet they are not meeting in such a way as to give rise to a definite new conception but only so as to obscure the definite outlines of each traditional idea.

Exorcizing the concept «God» from the system leaves me in a stance very similar to that of Paul van Buren, who holds that the essence of Christianity is an ethical message about how to live a life and that «God» talk is a dated, misleading, unhelpful, obscure way of saying what Christianity wants to say about what it is to be a man and to live a moral life.

In the words of Allen Tate: «The abstraction of the modern mind has obscured their way into the natural order.

Oddly enough, Augustine was writing about the mysteries found within the book of Genesis, when he said, «in matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

They obscure the fact that modern governments can not avoid influencing families, directly and indirectly, in countless ways.

But pastors should realize that they and their members may think about Christian faith in ways that obscure whole realms of experience.

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Otherwise, the Bible becomes the prisoner of what was once believed to be scientifically true: «In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have receiveIn matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have receivein Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have receivein very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Just how this might occur in the divine nature remains incredibly obscure — God's ways are in many respects not our ways.

But the message of eternal life in God should not be proclaimed in such a way as to obscure death as the teacher of wisdom.

The message of eternal life in God should not be proclaimed in such a way as to obscure death as the teacher of wisdom.

Ch» eng Hao, for instance, wrote «everyone's nature is obscured in some way and as a consequence he can not follow the Wway and as a consequence he can not follow the WayWay.

in considering ancient philosophies as ways of life, too often obscures their substance.

He was interpreted in ways which partly obscured him — as all interpretations must — but the most authentic records of his teachings, life, death, and resurrection were preserved and honored, and he was given chief place in the Church which was declared to be his body.

The simple act of breathing links us in this curiously intimate way with every historical figure and the most obscure of our forebears in every epoch.

This counterpoint of our emotional life may be conjured up in a powerful way by Mahler's music, but its apparent directness may obscure its complex roots in diacritical relationships which the various musical forms bear to each other.

Back in 2008 they hadn't found a way to put our government's secure mobiel e-mail programs on the IPhone or Android platforms yet, they had only developed it for Blackberry, PALM treos, and a few more obscure models.

Is it not incontestable, a matter of everyday experience, that each of these, to the extent that he believes (and sees the other believe) in the future of the world, feels a basic human sympathy for the other — not for any sentimental reason, but arising out of the obscure recognition that both are going the same way, and that despite all ideological differences they will eventually, in some manner, come together on the same summit?

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Based on what I've learned from nearly two decades in church ministry, here are some ways we Christians are obscuring Jesus and hurting people, and severely damaging our testimony in the world in the process:

Maybe it's because, in my former life working in magazine publishing, I spent many hours considering the Best Web Headline, but I have a way of Internet searching that calls up obscure travel listicles that are, surprisingly, really helpful.

I just think that was a timing throw, in all reality as the tackle gets pushed into the area which will obscure his throw he should have slid right and probably thrown it away since those plays usually don't have much in the way of contingencies.

Some are bona fide legends — Flórián Albert picked up five in 1965 - 66, while the inevitable Lionel Messi did the same against obscure German outfit Bayer Leverkusen in 2011/12 — while others never made it all the way up the pantheon.

Of those Austrian drivers to have made it to F1 however, some of them have enjoyed massive amounts of success, and there are of course some more obscure ones who hung around for a season or two without much in the way of results.

He's not got undue loyalty to any one club, having come an awful long way from an obscure little mining town in Chile.

And I will say this (I don't doubt that other medical professionals told her this as well, though maybe in a kinder more obscure way): a diagnosis of HIE with seizures and an abnormal MRI is NOT a «normal, healthy baby».

The clash between Iain Duncan Smith and George Osborne has generated tumultuous waves but obscures a fundamental question: What do the duo and Conservative MPs on either side of the clash consider to be a sensible level of public spending, one that provides high quality public services in a way that the UK can afford?

Back in June, Peter and I asked how so many Leave campaigns all stumbled upon the same obscure branding company in Ely, if they weren't co-ordinating in other ways that they ought to have declared to the Electoral Commission.