Sentences with phrase «observing the practices of»

Observing the practice of a cultic group, the outsider may be inclined to compare the «control» exercised by a religious leader to that in political or economic organizations without realizing that obedience may in each case be very differently motivated, and that it hence may not be really the same thing.

They passed that tradition down each year by observing the practices of Passover, which included baking matzo, which we still eat to this day.

She shared a number of valuable insights gained from visiting high - performing American Charter Schools and observing the practice of their best maths teachers.

Ongoing efforts are being made to recover information on the past observing practices of the various national weather services and to apply adjustments as appropriate.

The trial judge thus refused to recognise traditional laws and customs unless they replicated the observed practices of the original inhabitants.

Not exact matches

A review of the farm's pest control records flagged an ongoing rodent infestation, with rodents, dead carcasses and baby mice observed, along with workers who weren't following proper sanitary practices.

To spark new levels of creativity in your work, you need to observe things around you, practice mindfulness, and step outside your comfort zone.

«The window has closed to a certain degree,» observes John Canepa, a partner in the high - tech practice of Arthur Andersen in Boston.

Meanwhile Steve Jobs practiced a type of meditation that involves sitting quietly and observing.

We try to ensure that all providers of outsourced services are observing proper internal control practices, such as redundant processing facilities; however, there are no guarantees that failures will not occur.

For example, in 1921, Duncan Campbell Scott, the official responsible for the system, sent a letter urging a crackdown: «It is observed with alarm that the holding of dances by the Indians on their reserves is on the increase, and that these practices tend to disorganize the efforts which the Department is putting forth to make them self - supporting.»

Learn how to clean various commercial locations, observe best practices for cleaning up tough stains, see demonstrations of cleaning equipment and solution pouring, and so much more.

Bill's vast experience has been gained through years of observing shareholders and proxy advisory firms, assessing compensation practices and governance policies, and analyzing voting results and solicitation strategies.

A great way to practice this motivational sales speaker tip is to suggest a few common challenges you've observed in the marketplace, and then ask, «Do any of these ring true to you?»

Science Even Mass (missa) as practiced by Catholics has baryonic matter that can be observed and measured but that part where transformation of the matter occurs is not subject to mans scientific capacity to record or measure.

Larry, a widely experience overseer of a denominational region, for example, has frequently observed the tendency of leaders to allow their practice of ministry to become their identity over time, meaning that their call to ministry becomes so intertwined with doing ministry in a certain mode that they lost the ability to see the difference.

It is Kate, practiced in observing Binx at his own detached observation, who most nearly draws him into the world, by recognizing the nature of the «game» Binx is playing in his Kierkegaardian exercises of repetition and rotation.

For example, the practice, still observed in many churches, of wearing a red flower in honor of living mothers and a white flower in memory of deceased mothers originated in a florist jingle, promoted tirelessly by the industry in hopes of widening the variety of flowers associated with the day and thus enlarging Jarvis's own emphasis on white carnations.

On the one hand, it observes the Jewish Sabbath, as well as the Lord's Day, and retains a number of other Judaic practices, such as circumcision and the distinction between «clean» and «unclean» food.

In it, Bion, who practiced group therapy, observed how his patients would unconsciously coordinate their actions to defeat the purpose of therapy.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

«The practice is observed by all of regarding as an adulteress a woman who marries a second time while her husband yet lives, and permission to do penance is not granted her until one of them is dead.»

Religious beliefs and practices are observed and discussed, but treated as states of mind and social customs, mere human constructions unsupported by any transcendent reality.

We observe that evil has no boundaries — the very existence of torture, and the fact that human rights organisations believe that over 80 % of the world's governments practice some form of it, shows that humans are not just content to be a little bit evil, but are most willing to be CREATIVELY evil, concocting new ways to inflict pain and suffering onto others.

Alyssa Lyra Pitstick Hans Urs von Balthasar once keenly observed what makes someone an ecclesial theologian: «It is quite clear that anyone who practices theology as a member of the Church must profess the Church's Creed (and the theology implicit in it), both formally and materially.

And the best way to cure ignorance and lack of skill is to listen, observe, and practice.

Remember, Jesus practiced and observed the religion of Judaism, and so it can not be evil and corrupt, but was a holy, righteous, and good way to live.

The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).

Second, the extraordinary passion of Jefferson and Madison on this point was bitterly resisted by many in Virginia, as well as in other states, and in practice it proved nearly impossible to observe completely.

Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

And of course things are not so comfortably arranged that the theoretician can find the higher speculations and more sophisticated practice existing exclusively in the circles of the highest spirituality — among scholars, for example — and then observe the masses abiding in the simple spirit worship of their fathers.

A friend of mine, speaking of the Catholic move to prune excessive Marian doctrine and practice after Vatican II by moving her statue to the side, observed that Protestants moved her out the door altogether.

While many Pagans have certain prayers they say or practices they observe on a regular basis, there is no hierarchy of priests and pastors who tell everybody else «This is the right way.

Comparing Theissen's reconstruction of the early church's social teachings and practices with the situations faced by modern American Christianity suggests that some of the varieties and conflicts we observe today are natural and perhaps inevitable outgrowths of the early church.

The practice caught on, and Sunday eventually became known as the «Christian» Sabbath — even though Jesus Himself observed Sabbath on the last day of the week... Saturday.

In the beginning the Chinese Muslims were very serious about practicing the five daily prayers, but in recent years, due to the influence of materialism, unsettled conditions, difficulties of obtaining a livelihood, and the distance from mosques, only the Ahunds and country people of strong faith observe the five daily prayers.

John Charlot observes in Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture that sacred chants were traditionally practiced on the beach so as to reproduce the modulations of wind and waves.

In observed practice, a % that appears very high is Christians who are fearful of death: The % for atheists seems rather low.

They observed that practice every year thereafter and told their children, and their children's children, etc. every year about how G - d took them out of Egypt and gave them the Torah.

I have regularly attended a couple of very conservative, fundamental (baptistic in doctrin and practice) churches aver tha last 33 years, and have observed some of what nakedpastor refers to here — the apparent judging and expecting of some behavior.

One can observe the priority of practice, as a hermeneutical principle, in his sermons, essays, and books.

This way of speaking about scripture is rooted in the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches, Childs observes, not «the way the Bible actually functions within the church» — apparently meaning, in this case, the nonliturgical churches.

It is as easy, and perhaps as perversely entertaining, to chronicle the eccentricities and extremes of the Jim Crow South as it is to observe certain eccentricities and extremes of Catholic practice.

11 and 12) In chapter 15, he violates the explicit commandment of Samuel, which is tantamount to the commandment of Yahweh: he fails to observe the ancient practice known among the Hebrews as the herem, by which the defeated enemy is totally destroyed on the spot as an act of devotion to the deity.

In other words, if you took an outsider and asked them to observe the communion practices of a Baptist church and those of a Lutheran church, they would be hard pressed to discern any real outward difference.

When practicing scientists think about science, they generally have in mind this understanding of science: theories that predict and explain observed phenomena by appeal to lawlike generalizations.

Before change in sexual behavior and family structure challenged the moral commitments of «the family pew,» anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner had observed that beliefs and practices in the church and in the family were so intertwined that, «Should the present form of the family disappear, the Christian church would necessarily undergo revolutionary changes.

It is also interesting to note that where customary law — adat — deviates from religious law and can not be reconciled to it even in a formal way, it is often customary law which is observed, and such observation is not derogatory to religious sentiment nor to the conscientious observance of the religious obligations and practices of Islam.

There are two points in that brief sentence, and the failure of the medieval Church to observe them or to reform its practice in conformity with them, is highly typical of the general failure to reform itself, with which Luther was so radically concerned.

More formally, it is recorded of George Home, who became Bishop of Norwich in 1790, that he was accustomed to read over the solemn words of the service for the Ordering of Priests on the first Sunday of every month, on which practice his biographer observes that «the imitation of this example may be practiced with ease, and will be attended with advantage.