Sentences with phrase «obscured one important»

But this obscures an important distinction.

But these averages obscure important differences within income groups.

All of this is true — but it obscures an important difference between the two forms of Boomer nostalgia.

But it has also tended to obscure the important fact that the Bible is a definite body of literature, with its own intrinsic unity.

We believe that many current interpretations have obscured important elements in that faith and have thereby confused the Christian conscience.

[4] However, left at that, «wisdom» obscures important differences.

Amid the tension over this matter, language becomes hyperbolic — which can sometimes obscure the important issues.

Excitement over the new planet in Pegasus couldn't obscure another important astronomical discovery made in 1995: the best evidence yet for the existence of brown dwarfs.

«It is noteworthy that the most pronounced HLB symptoms and higher early pathogen titer, which are the two criteria most widely used in assessing HLB resistance, were not associated with the greatest suppression of growth and cropping, and focus on early symptomatic traits may obscure important disease tolerance,» the authors said.

In some applications, including those in education, averaging can obscure important individual differences, lead to one - size - fits - no - one designs, and value sameness over uniqueness.

Sure, touchscreens are helpful for some things, but as often as not they're horribly imprecise (and I click the wrong link on a web page or miss a tiny button), your fingers obscure some important screen element, or I miss the tactile feedback of a good old - fashioned control pad on games.

On board your ship, your friendly AI's dialogue obscures important menus, while the font size is horribly small.

Does he really think he is making a contribution that will do anything other than gratify his ego and obscure the important issues?

However, climatological zonal average wind can obscure important aspects of jet streams (such as the distinction between polar and subtropical).

The deficiency of the arguments for an assumption of falsity or an assumption of truth shouldn't obscure the important moral question those arguments are trying to answer.

To slur them together is to obscure this important distinction.

But it also carries the risk of obscuring important subtleties attributable both to handholding condition and specific neural region.

Not exact matches

Media will cover obscure Olympic sports to no end, but are ignoring Canadian winners in a more important field.

The second one is a bit more obscure but very important.

Many of the names are obscure in the present day, but after you read the biography, you have no doubt that they were important to their era.

Three panel members — Senators Walter F. Mondale, Philip A. Hart and Gary Hart — have warned that the report is «diluted» in important respects, and that the secrecy stamp has caused some of the report's «most important implications [to be] either lost or obscured in vague language.»

In fact it could with justice be said that the principles are all the more important as ultimate orientation and guides, the more complicated, obscure and inaccessible to total conscious analysis the reality becomes which man himself creates and in which he must morally subsist.

She has lived an obscure but important life.

They obscure many important and subtle distinctions in mathematics and its philosophy.

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

The fact that the idiom has had a much longer and more varied history should make it possible for it to be rescued from bondage to a narrow usage which not only turns out to be unwarranted, but which is in actual danger of obscuring, even obliterating, an important value of the idiom.

Surpassing even the considerable efforts of Bradley, McTaggart, Royce, James, Peirce, Bergson, Alexander, Lotze and a host of other important practitioners of the metaphysical art, Whitehead developed a truly novel and original metaphysical stance that is sufficiently complex so as to border either on the profoundly esoteric or the arcane and obscure.

Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in «Divorce and Remarriage» (August / September) are obscured by some important insensitivities.

In so far as this process of transfiguration has obscured or distorted important elements in the historical life of Jesus — as in some measure has undoubtedly occurred — it is unfortunate and untrue.

It seems important to remember, however, that low - intensity conflict is a war of images designed to obscure reality.

Besides all this, the specific relation between the Father and the Logos is most important in safeguarding two truths, often obscured in theology's ongoing dialogue with philosophy:

Whether or not Mr. Gore understands the difference between the notions of climate and weather, it is important that we not obscure it by too facile generalizations about chaotic and irregular behavior.

But this difference, which may be less real and important than I think, does not obscure my appreciation of the truth and brilliance of Dr. Morrison's discussion of the concreteness of revelation and of its inseparable connection with the community.

I do not wish to denigrate the sermon as an important part of worship, but when the sermon is not only the central intention of worship but may also have lost its power of confronting the worshiper with the gospel, then the purpose of worship is at least seriously obscured.

God teaches this important lesson by specially recording the obscure stories of people like Ruth and Rehab.

When any act of faithfulness becomes so important that the activity obscures the ability of the people to know and praise the faithfulness of God to them, then they have forgotten that God is the source of all human love.

By contrast, Safranski's largely uncritical survey of German Romanticism's major figures and movements, extending from the 1770s to 1945, often obscures significant tensions and contradictions both amonghis protagonists and, more important, withinthe works of individual writers.

It is also important not to allow the external, which in unfamiliar traditions may seem strange and even comic, to obscure the life - giving mystery which can never be contained in human words or artifacts.

This act of obedience to God by an obscure man was one of the most important events in the religious history of the human race.

However important and well intentioned the back to basics movement may be, there are some more fundamental educational issues that this movement fails to take into account, and, in fact, tends to obscure.

In short, the important parameter that is obscured in Goheen's suggestion is the critical necessity of attending to the content of what a philosopher believes men can, and do, experience.

The preoccupation with the political aspects of religious television, though, has tended to ignore and obscure other important dimensions of the phenomenon.

What is evident in Japan just because there is such a thing as Shintõ is more obscure in Italy but nonetheless important.

There are important issues between Protestants and Catholic and I do not Want to obscure them.

The subject - predicate dogma, the scholastic dualism Descartes seemed unable to reject, only obscures some of the truly important aspects of the cogito which inspired Whitehead's ontological principle.

These «obscure Doctrines» are often dismissed with the statement, «The voice of the living prophet is more important to us than the voice of a dead prophet.»

That all this is true of religious institutions, though, should not obscure the fact that churches are more than voluntary associations and are important not merely for being private.

He hadn't mentioned this group but had said that the complementarity of male and female is important and is being undermined and obscured today in western culture.

This is particularly important in the frozen aisles where the products are obscured behind fogged up glass doors, and cold temperatures mean that consumers are likely to spend less time browsing.

The Danish scientists acknowledge that studies on breast milk flavor are obscure and rare, but some pediatricians and breast - feeding advocates insist that flavors in breast milk go beyond a simple enjoyment for the infant — it might be important for health too.