Sentences with phrase «of an act of»

After news broke in November 2006 that Siemens had been involved in a global corruption scandal, involving thousands of acts of bribery in several different countries by hundreds of employees, the company had its work cut out for it in complying with securities investigations, and paying hefty fines (about $ 2.5 billion in total).

Some scientists say this could illuminate a potential factor behind a recent spate of acts of mass violence, almost all of which have been perpetrated by men between the ages of 20 and 30.

Keep a record of all acts of bullying so you have a case, should human resources look at disciplinary action against that employee.

It is Sir John A. Macdonald Day across Canada as a result of an Act of Parliament.

As Thay remarked, «The monk who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope... he believes in the fruition of his act of self - sacrifice for the sake of others.

The section calls for the undersecretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, along with «appropriate Federal partners,» to «develop and disseminate a threat assessment regarding the actual and potential threat posed by individuals using virtual currency to carry out activities in furtherance of an act of terrorism.»

Amid the destruction, stories are beginning to rise up out of Houston of acts of people coming together to help each other.

The book of acts is a book of the acts of the Apostles.

Hashem does not accept any of those acts of evil to begin with, so your point is irrelevant.

The Bible is ALL about love and family, how we were created out of an act of love by God and are called to love Him and love each other as part of God's family.

Water does not save but it is a part of the act of obedience in regards to salvation and we know that the thief on the cross was saved unless you regard that as a different part of salvation.

In the end one is forced to fall back on the distinction we used to make between the primary and the accompanying ends of marriage and of the act of sexual communion.

The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old....

It is out of this act of utmost humility that Epiphany comes.

The Desert Fathers reject earthly goods and pleasures for a variety of reasons, not least out of an act of humility.

It was out of the very soil of these acts of service that there arose questions as to His identity.

Thus we have daily before our eyes an example of an act of creation which is absolutely imperceptible to, and beyond the reach of, science as such.

The attacker, known only as Juhanda, was found guilty of an act of terrorism committed last November when he threw a petrol bomb at Oikumene Church on Borneo island on a Sunday morning.

Against the background of forms as possibilities Whitehead achieves a new concept of facticity as that of the act of a «decision» among possibilities.

The New Testament speaks and faith knows of an act of God through which man becomes capable of self - commitment, capable of faith and love, of his authentic life.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

It assumes that the «essential» realm of «horizontal causation» is founded in the «vertical causation» of the act of existence.

It reminds us that the reception of Bonhoeffer in his native land has by no means been positive, not least because of his act of civil disobedience in participating in the abortive conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.

Even Kamlah thinks it philosophically justifiable to use «the mythological language of an act of God» (p. 353).

They speak often of the act of being whereby apparently static objects remain in being.

In my metaphysical discussion of being I proposed that all things are composed of acts of being, each of which begins as a for - itself and becomes an in - itself.

And just some of acts of terror and horror carried by the brainwashed students / followers of Islam:

We can go to the opposite extreme and define the «person» in terms of the act of being through which present experience is being constituted.

Once we have understood that, in the fullest sense, being refers to present and past acts of being, we can allow a freer use to refer to conferences and automobiles, wars and solar systems, all those things that are ultimately composed of acts of being.

The term «special act» is synonymous with the notion of an act of a person which is «peculiarly his.»

As a product of those acts of being, my responsibility here is continuous with my responsibility for my past personal acts.

They are the roots of violence and mutual rejection between people; they are both challenged and transformed in encounter with the crucified Jesus, and the «peace» that we may hope for as a result of the act of God in the death of Jesus is something that stands against each of them alike.

We saw in relation to the inclusion of the body, that it was not necessary to think of the person as a vast multiplicity of acts of being in order to do justice to the bodily character of personal being.

Many others, who did grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories of the empty tomb as the basis of my interpretation of that act of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding of the Easter message.

Persons are successions of acts of being, each of which is inclusive of many past acts of being.

Previous major commentators and even interpreters had failed to grasp the essential role of the act of existence in St. Thomas» own philosophy of man.

I propose greatly to simplify the nature of the body by thinking of it as a society of cells, and greatly to simplify the cells by thinking of them as successions of acts of being.

The entire universe is constituted of acts of being, present and past.

The temptation, when we speak of an act of being, is to look for an actor outside the act.

The only thing that is clear (Leviticus, Romans, I Corinthians, etc.) is that when the Bible speaks of any acts of same sex sexual behavior it is described in negative (sinful) terms.

Similarly, Griffin (David R. Griffin, A Process Christology [Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1973]-RRB- seems to assume without question that the faith of the New Testament is inextricably bound to the assertion of an act of God qualitatively different from his general activity.

Your notion of the «given'to God seems close to what I think of as the dependence of God upon the past as the sum of acts of more or less free beings, to whose activity God is passive, since otherwise it would not be real activity.

It was given in the very gesture of his act of vulnerability.

We know from Jewish culture, that at the wedding celebration for the whole town, one of the acts of entertainment was to have ten virgins perform a wedding dance around the bride and groom.

Just as the temporal order of actual occasions is the order of their acts of becoming, so the temporal order of prehensions in the process of concrescence is the order of their becoming.13

Concern with the deepest reaches of relational physical feelings combined with the widest range of conceptual generality in the unity of an act of experience is characteristic of Whitehead's value theory as a whole.

That is biological fact, but we make of it an act of love when we understand and accept that, in Kass's words, «If they are truly to flower, we must go to seed; we must wither and give ground» in which they can take root.

Thus, the real box score of the act of ministry symbolized by the preaching image is not back there at all, but is rather in the appraisal of the remote and mundane hydrolysis the next week.

By that logic, you must be a supporter of every act of the Federal government to be living in this country.

Contained within the living immediacy of the act of synthesizing past objectifications is the qualitative sense of the «more,» the context, the background, the totality of the past which transcends the conditions of limitation involved in concrescence.