Sentences with phrase «of tv»

I hear a lot of tv pastors speaking and I think they have seen the truth in the word but they can't buck tradition or they'd be out of a job.

The average American watches 5 hours of TV every day.

That limitation has hampered political discourse long before the advent of TV.

Television is not something that will last for eternity, but far too many of us waste away our days and hours sitting in front of the TV.

That sounds like the name of a member of TV's Walton family, but actually JED is a family of its own, made up of members of the educational staffs of six denominations: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples), the Episcopal Church, and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., which last acts as a representative of five additional denominations.

Should this research methodology mirror studies of TV violence?

Following a storm of criticism about the lack of financial accountability on the part of many of the TV evangelists, the groups in the l970s established the Evangelical Council for Financial Acountability to develop financial accounting and reporting principles to which all members must adhere — a kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

Much research has been done trying to assess the impact of TV violence on viewers.

Hadden and Swann identify three themes of the TV evangelists.

-- let's see... he feeds off the symbiotic relationship — the attention, the worship, the admittance that «he is never wrong», the spot - light of TV and books....

For the week of February 4, l980 Time magazine devoted its «Religion» section to «Stars of the Cathode Church,» depicting «the continuing drama of TV - radio preaching, one of the most successful and controversial enterprises in American religion.»

It seems to be forgotten that neo-Darwinism is being championed by a dwindling number of atheists on both sides of the Atlantic, though they still control most of TV and the scientific media.

The author suggests public policy actions regarding the regulation of TV, cable, and videocassettes.

The other part is always knowing to never get to old to get a bowl of Lucky Charms and sit in front of the TV on a Saturday morning to watch cartoons.

He says on back, «You must battle against the devil's subtle temptations of TV viewing.

I often eat absently, in front of the TV or laptop.

But so many of these tv personalities and mega church builders have convinced people that this is the way it should be.

This feeling is compounded by books written by bionic mystical saints who, 300 years before the invention of TV, would pop off to the woods, crawl into the bowels of a log and spend six blissful weeks in fasting and prayer with apparently zero effort.

Will Smith is nearing the age of 50, and during his career, he has climbed to the top of the worlds of TV, movies and music.

The message of the TV evangelists: the end of the world; the Tribulation; the Millennium; and the last judgment.

As a fan of the TV show «Lost», I have a negative connotation to the term «the Others»... and most of these break down in one situation / relationship or another.

The technology of communications satellites, however, has developed so rapidly that Hughes Aircraft Corporation (prime contractor for the Comsat Corp satellites) now offers to deliver within two years similar satellites capable of TV and radio broadcast service, to work directly with home receivers equipped with inexpensive special antennas.

Many of his TV shows have been laced with scepticism towards religion.

A standard set of specifications given by major national advertisers to writers of TV and radio dramas:

For many years the experts have known that the Palace of Westminster, which looks so good in the background of TV news reports, is close to falling down.

4 / According to Mr. Edwin Newman of the National Broadcasting Company, on a nation - wide TV broadcast in the United States,»... the general level of TV behavior In news reflected the American society, and it was not reasonable to expect an organization that Is financed by advertisers to pioneer In fields that may offend people.

A slew of TV shows including Black Mirror, Humans, Westworld and Electric Dreams have imagined the ways in which such technology could change the near future of our world.

Failure in love and life is a requisite for success in teaching, and the problems of TV teachers are solved by leaving their profession — not by towns raising taxes, building schools, or giving higher salaries.

The Office remains one of TV's best repeat watches (especially in the seasons before Michael leaves).

Utilities and other corporate interests, in a parade of TV advertisements defending atomic power plants and off - shore oil wells, suggest that environmentalists are sincere...

Fully one - third of TV «s violent people, according to Gerbner, could be considered «professionals» in the business of violence.

This kind of communication — two - way, ambiguous, in - process — stands in marked contrast to the «hypodermic needle» model that characterizes the communication of TV and most other mass media.

For the next hour they will be in and out of the TV room (which used to be called «the living room»), leaving the set tuned to a game show such as «Wheel of Fortune» or «The Newlywed Game.»

I think that this cartoon is an accurate portrayal of TV evangelism and the sooner that the American Church returns to the concept of the local church ministering here and around the world, then we will more authenically be responding to the Great Commission.

Instead, broadcasters continued to insist that the research on behavioral effects of TV violence was «inconclusive.»

Oh, you don't feel like sitting in front of a TV for five hours eating pork rinds out of a paper sleeve?

Public self - consciousness arises in a situation in which by being looked at, about to give a speech, in front of a TV camera, etc., I take the objective, public standpoint concerning myself.

The show is essentially a primetime soap opera — plots revolve around affairs, politics, religion, murder and all of the other makings of a trashy, scandalous hour of TV.

What a difference there has been in the content of TV shows in the last 20 years.

This state of affairs can be only partially encouraging, however, for the increasing worldwide popularity of TV has been accompanied by a steady decrease in reading (and in nations where the literacy rate is low, television can have an instant impact on people who have never read a newspaper or magazine) At any rate, recent research has concluded that of all media, newspapers do the best job of presenting a satisfactory image of aging.

Atheists spend their time in front of the TV watching Jerry Springer dumbing down America.

Regarding the FCC «s many subsequent rulings on cable, Cass writes»... it is plain that each of them serves the interests of TV broadcasters — each of the regulations either raises the cost of providing cable services or reduces the attractiveness of cable programming.

You wrote «Atheists spend their time in front of the TV watching Jerry Springer dumbing down America.

Another vision of TV «s possibilities occurred when PBS began to telecast great movies, uninterrupted, and people began asking why movies on commercial TV have to be halted every 10 minutes by jarring commercials.

Once in a while one of the TV networks will broadcast a documentary on Latin America, especially if a revolution has taken place.

But for the most part Jews do own most of the TV, newspapers and radios.

But because there are still only a limited number of frequencies, and thus a limited number of TV and radio stations, each station has an obligation under the law to meet the needs and interests of the public — all the public.

Critics complain that modern mothers go to work and leave their kids with sitters or in nursery schools; and when they're home, parents plunk kids down in front of the TV.

The questions addressed the moral role of TV celebrity chefs in the food waste debate as well as body image, food poverty and the role of the Christian faith in the overall debate.

When they think a lot of the same things are funny, and when they like a lot of the TV shows you like, you'll have a harder time calling them (and people like them) Pharisees or Heretics or Nazis or whatever else you are tempted to call the people with whom you disagree.