Sentences with phrase «of alternative actions»

But religious faith can increase a person's sensitivity to the ethical dimensions of alternative actions and the implications of his work.

The Old Testament prophet Daniel, rather than violate God's law, was granted permission not to partake of the king's food» though, we must acknowledge, he took the minimum resistance necessary, even seeking a pagan official's approval of an alternative action.

Not exact matches

Spotify was hit in late December by another lawsuit seeking a class - action suit filed by David Lowery, the leader of alternative rock bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven who is also an academic.

The author of «The Bitcoin Big Bang — How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World» breaks down the basics of how digital currencies work and explains how investors can get in on the action.

When applied to strategizing, the rule prescribes boiling a world of infinite possibilities down to three alternative courses of action.

Discussion of global alternative investments market action and what it may mean for investors.

«Failure to do so,» Mr. Harder added, «will leave my client with no alternative but to institute immediate legal proceedings against you and, should that occur, she would pursue all available causes of action and seek all available legal remedies to the maximum extent permitted by law.»

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«The BlackBerry Board conducted a thorough review of strategic alternatives and pursued the course of action that it concluded is in the best interests of BlackBerry and its constituents, including its shareholders.

In our third report this year, we explore how increasing numbers of investors are using alternative assets to help manage risk and take action in the face of market uncertainty.

The arrival of bitcoin futures later this year could signal a profound shift in the alternative currency market as institutional cash has a greater say in price action.

It is usually more constructive to help a person explore alternatives than it is to suggest one course of action.

We might call that the «external program» of the Counter-Culture, circa 1965 - 1968, posed as an alternative to the way the New Left activists of the day were staking so much upon political action, with an intensity that ran into ever more radical stances.

A putative moral prescription is meta - ethically senseless if the alternatives of an agent to whom it is said to apply do not include the required action.

Such action might be in keeping with President Lincoln's view of what the political branches can do — an alternative interpretation of the Constitution.

As God prehends the universe at the instant the piano teeters, he sees the various possible ways this little drama could be played out, sees all the ramifications of the possible scenarios, and realizes that some ways the action might unfold are better than others, that is, some outcomes would produce a future which when he, God, prehended it would make his experience more rich, more harmonious, more beautiful than his experience would be were alternative outcomes to produce quite different futures.

One wonders what alternative courses of action to the Civil War might have brought southern leaders to see that, although their people did not create slavery as an economic system or raw cotton as the principal product in the regional economy, the regional modus operandi was antithetical to the spirit of the American Constitution and the democratarian trend of Western civilization.

The counter power and strategies of action have to include alternative goals and means of realizing the vision both locally and at the world level.

A priori (by «dichotomic» analysis of the various outlets theoretically offered to our freedom of action) as well as a posteriori (by classification of the various human attitudes in fact observable around us), three alternatives, together forming a logically connected sequence, seem to express and exhaust all the possibilities open to our assessment and choice as we contemplate the future of Mankind: a) pessimism or optimism; b) the optimism of withdrawal or the optimism of evolution; c) evolution in terms of the many or of the unit.

Persons whose symbolic universes emphasized the role of supernatural forces tended not to believe that society could be reformed through human action and refrained from experimenting personally with alternative lifestyles.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

A second alternative is to envision the gentle pull towards love as not merely an action of God, but as a part of God, an aspect of God's being.

The principle of last resort rigorously requires pursuing all possible nonmilitary alternatives before undertaking military action.

In addition, it must be able to deliver to consciousness those previous states which can serve to enrich present perception, indicate alternative courses of action, and enlighten the decision process.

Violence against women or children paralyzes thought and so threatens capacity to deliberate on a course of action or to imagine alternative futures.

With the emergence of conscious alternatives of action, ethics becomes possible, for now some options may be experienced as better and others as worse.

The alternative to a processive world - view of waiting till all evidence is in is bad philosophy — if it is philosophy at all — for it paralyzes action; it lets time pass by and allows opportunities to be lost.

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

Social movements, networks of associations and analysts are given a voice to show the evolution of the economic system, the potential for action and the strategies of social forces and to formulate proposals and alternatives to the dominant system, supported by these movements.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

The chaplain seeks to be the client's friend helping him to clarify the causes of his problem, to focus on some constructive alternatives of action, and to be aware of the helping resources available.

But they will mainly use a combination of action strategies to stop plant closures and / or to propose community - worker plant buyouts, to push legislation protecting the worker, to propose alternative economic development plans and to hold conferences and publish educational materials.

What we have in these chapters, in turn, is an almost gentle presentation of natural theology, a Christian theological proposal that is argued vigorously against alternative views, and a straightforward apologetic for a certain physics - based conception of God's action in the world.

An alternative proposed is for CD members to look, rather, to a closer alliance with Poles, Czechs, and others in Central Europe who, it is hoped, will offer a more promising model of religiously inspired political action.

As she began to think more clearly, with the support of the minister's understanding, she was able to examine the alternative courses of action, as she saw them.

And today the linguistic approach would encourage us to treat the language of divine action as an alternative to scientific language, not a competitor with it.

Yet there was a contrast between those mainly oriented to political action (still, in a way, oriented to means rather than ends, though it was the means to overthrow the existing system) and those mainly concerned with the actual creation of alternative patterns of living.

The danger of resorting to the imitation model because of its aptness in an individual situation, is that when the complexities of the situation become apparent, and because no adequate alternative model for policy formulation has been developed, purposeful action is not possible.

True, this anti-Christian faith is coming into action under different names in different parts of the world; but the more these alternative versions of the postwar paganism insist upon their points of difference — the more they abuse and attack one another — the more clearly they betray their kinship with one another to the eyes of the Christian observer.

However, the former misconstrues the relation between theology and action, as though theology were theory systematized in the academy to be applied in practical cases later on; and the latter misconstrues the relevant pluralisms, as though they were alternative outward and public manifestations of a single mode of inwardness.

The implications of expressing the thesis as such an equation are (1) if the viewed action is not at all salient for the person (i.e., = 0) the action will not affect the viewer's behavior («act»); (2) the chance that a particular viewed action will affect a person's behavior will decrease to the extent that they have other alternatives in their «repertoire»; and (3) if the individual is not aroused to act he will not exhibit the viewed behavior, no matter how salient it is.

Therefore, one function of a university, whether in teaching or research, in classrooms or dormitories, is to assist all of its members, and indeed all of its constituencies, toward that achievement of moral clarity — toward the clarification of the moral issues and alternatives which are resident in the university itself and in the disciplines it practices — which surely is an essential ingredient in all responsible action.

As you might recall, White's Lazaretto is basically a circus tent of goodies, with secret songs, a hologram of a dancing angel and alternative versions, so it's no surprise White's legion of fans want in on the action.

In the absence of any possible alternative action, many may have moved behind Falwell on the basis of agreement with only one of his issues.

«Many, like me, have seen no alternative but to take the course of action I must now also take with a heavy heart.»

His form of taking action at Elysian Fields Sheep Farm is called the «Safe Alternative» method.

After the presentations, contributions were made by Samir Amin, explaining why this alternative Davos was taking place, Susan George, with a presentation of the organisers and the movements involved, and Riccardo Petrella who spoke about the action and its future.

«I'm hoping, though, that they and others will see this as part of a deliberate course of action to get out of the penalty box that's the «alternative» section in the supermarket and get into a mainstream discussion with the consumer,» Mr. Brown told the Times.

On another health front, recommendations to tighten the regulation of «alternative», often ineffective, medicines have been either put on hold or delayed, despite a decade of expert calls for action.