Sentences with phrase «of human failings»

(BTW what CRU did wasn't even that bad anyway, but this rebuttal just makes the point of the irrelevancy of human failings to the material point.

Dancing between the dark comedy of human failings and the breathtaking possibilities of human hope, The Poisonwood Bible possesses all that has distinguished Barbara Kingsolver's previous work, and extends this beloved writer's vision to an entirely new level.

«Crime writing of the highest order: powerful, relevant and all too full of human failings.»

By plumbing the depths of human failings in a literal - minded fashion, one after the other (obsession, then greed, and finally guilt), Anderson ignores the possibility that genre is sharpest when wielded as metaphor for the same.

Derek Cianfrance's 2010 breakthrough feature Blue Valentine gave him instant recognition as a mercilessly honest student of human failings, tracing the blossoming of love between a young couple intercut with the furious demise of their relationship some years later.

It is a game composed of human failings that let him fall seemingly hopelessly far behind and of superhuman resources that enable him to come fighting back as no golfer ever has before.

Hence we must go on to speak of prayer as the confession of our human failings, imperfections, distortions of the divine goodness, and unwillingness to let ourselves be used as channels for that goodness in the decisions we make and the acts we do.

Never mind that Uber's accident last weekend in Tempe, Ariz., was the result of a human failing to yield and smacking into the autonomous Volvo.

The mindless acceptance of AGW by the believers of the doom hype is a current manifestation of a human failing that has plagued humans throughout history.

Consider those errors part of my human failing and further «comic» relief that someone so imperfect can see the flaws of so many others.

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

It's just a part of the human condition that we learn best when we fail - pain and disappointment causes us to re-evaluate and search for the better way.

Business owners who don't believe in the critical importance of branding, he adds, fail to understand basic human behaviour.

The company believes that such cooperation will accelerate the development of the technology and ultimately lead to computers that can understand human speech without failing.

Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.

Drugs that worked in the microtumor worked 88 percent of the time on humans, and drugs that failed in the microtumor failed 100 percent of the time in the patient.

Yet instead of worrying about how it is structured, you first need to worry about the content, which is where most resumes fail to get you face to face with human resources and the hiring manager.

Despite nearly 10 years of developing and marketing Watson, IBM has so far failed to define a compelling «human» use for the technology.

Pharmaceutical scientists hope for a moment of chemical serendipity, despite often not fully understanding the complexity of the biological mechanisms they're targeting — or why something might fail in humans when it works so neatly in a mouse model.

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows...

It should limit Autopilot's operation only to those conditions, and have a far more effective system to sense, verify, and safely react when the human driver's level of engagement in the driving task is insufficient or when the driver fails to react to warnings.

«I believe that the efficient market hypothesis fails because it ignores human nature, particularly the nature of most individuals to be followers, not leaders.

More surprising to me, though, was the rare public white flag waved by Bezos, one of the richest humans alive, by looking to a brick - and - mortar retailer for help; after 10 years of trying and mostly failing at making grocery delivery a workable business, this was a «We can't do this on our own» moment.

Judgement, wrath, hate and human failings like this are not of God.

So when computer components fail, their purpose and data will be transferred to a newer component, same as generations of humans have done by passing down knowledge to their next generations.

This was premised on the notion that standards of morality are objective and unchanging (therefore, «hate the sin»), but that human beings are weak and often fail to live up to those standards (therefore, «love the sinner»).

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

Of course, the government has taken on this human responsibility because the churches — filled with the Christian Right — have failed abysmally in following Christ's exhortations regarding taking care of the needOf course, the government has taken on this human responsibility because the churches — filled with the Christian Right — have failed abysmally in following Christ's exhortations regarding taking care of the needof the needy.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations.»

Running through Christianity is a consistent ethic of respect for human life and dignity, and both parties fail in this regard.

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»

In the end, he inevitably reasserts that it is within the context of the family that we learn, or fail to learn, what it is to be human and what it is to be happy.

Though St. Augustine was sometimes a critic of Origen, he and many leading theologians through the Middle Ages failed to take seriously the particularity of the human being, Jesus of Nazareth.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

Applying the moral of the fable to the social and political sphere, one could say that without the personal discipline necessary to improve the quality of our «human material,» all social constructions will fail.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.

If one considers cloning, the storing of human fetuses for research purposes and organ harvesting, and the whole field of genetic manipulation, no one can fail to have noticed the slow erosion of human dignity that threatens us.

These «failed attempts to act on behalf of God» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 232) were done with evil in our hearts and the name of God on our lips, and thus reveal to us not so much of what is in the heart of God, but what is in the heart of men.

This text ascribes human failings to the supposed creator of the universe, but we are supposed to believe that it represents the word of God?

The main caveat is that the first resource fails to show the human spiritual soul, which our tradition has seen as so fundamental to a coherent presentation of the Catholic Faith (and the FAITH movement agrees!).

The metaphor of God's substitution is the only one of the familiar theories of atonement that provides for the full failed weight of human aspiration.

My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources.

The League of Nations, with President Wilson's 14 points, failed; and global blood in ceaseless flood and genocidal gore inflicting millions of human casualties awakened the peoples of the earth to the urgency of the United Nations as a global guardian and sentinel on the qui vive of peace and security and respect for human dignity, worth of the human person and inalienable human rights.

«Blessing» announces to us that, keenly aware of the frailty and failing of the human, John was not content to dwell upon the down and the dark, any more than he was keen to deny it.