Sentences with phrase «of human reference»

In «Two Bathers,» Park's figuration - which spurred a phalanx of imitators in the Bay Area - asserts equal claims to picture space on behalf of pure painting and of human reference.

Careful manual annotation of the human reference sequence provides a solid basis for the identification of disease - associated genes.

Incompatibility between the two software packages used caused some variants that the Ethiopian man shared with Europeans (whose DNA forms a large chunk of the human reference sequence) to be removed from the analysis.

Not exact matches

Sorrell then referenced a speech given by WPP's third biggest client — and the biggest ad spender in the world — P&G's marketing boss Marc Pritchard, who said Google and Facebook were not doing enough to meet advertiser demands around measurement, brand safety, and viewability (the measure of whether an online ad had the ability to be seen by a human).

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent the first years of his mandate shunning China on human - rights grounds, but as the global economy has shifted he has become «Mr. Panda Man» — a reference to the PM's fawning over two cuddly Chinese ambassadors.

(The name appears to reference the 1970s cult film Soylent Green, in which humans ate a strange food that turned out to be other humans, but Rhinehart says that in the book version, soylent was made of soya and lentils.)

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

But neither can politics, particularly liberal democratic politics, function for long without reference to sustaining roots, and especially to assumptions about the inviolable sources of human dignity that can rightly be called religious in character.

Washington archdiocese spokeswoman Susan Gibbs told CNN afterwards that the reference to «innocent human life» was meant «broadly,» referring to «all life that is at risk, not just simply the unborn, but the fragility of all human life.»

In truth, the factors that motivated the successes of these horror - subgenre entries into the marketplace could be applied to another dominant form of visual entertainment focused on suspense, moodiness, thinly veiled sexual references, and the darkest side of human nature; I'm speaking, of course, of the soap opera.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

Pope Gelasius I (492 - 496) expressed his vision of the West in a famous letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, and, even more clearly in his fourth treatise, where, with reference to the Byzantine model of Melchizedek, he affirmed that the unity of powers lies exclusively in Christ: «Because of human weakness (pride!)

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

Through its authoritative teaching of beliefs and values, it also provides established points of reference amid the conflicts and ambiguities of human opinions and points of view.»

There is no further reference to her; even her name is not recorded, and the rest of her human adventure is without importance.

This happened with reference to the abolition of human slavery, and it is happening now in regard to race discrimination and war.

We have now for two chapters been discussing the primary sources of human unhappiness, with only a brief preliminary reference to sin.

Hittinger correctly points out that this new Thomism finds its point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

We are seeking to define a religion which will be universal in character, which will have reference to the concerns of every human being.

Relying on prophetic passages, particularly from Jeremiah, McCabe demonstrated the frequency with which God is shown to speak in the conditional form of address with reference to future events.8 These conditional prophecies, McCabe argued, imply that God did not absolutely foreknow free human decisions.

This human point of view calls for further elaboration, for one often sees reference to the cultural and historical conditionedness of Scripture as though it were a cause for concern.

Braun argues that because a common anthropology is shared by Jesus, Paul, and John, while the various christological formulations of the New Testament differ widely, it is actually a particular human self - understanding that is the final reference of the text (4: passim).

«That is about what your «proof» amounts too.The old, humanistic slight of hand.Men use human reference to try to explain the unexplained to one another.That is as close as we can get to describing God accurately.Point of fact, your bogus «proof «is no proof at all.

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

Learning that it was a human who said, «these are the four,» (in reference to the Gospels), and shutting out many of the other Gospels, most of which did not have as strong of a focus on the death and resurrection of Christ, was the turning point for me.

I tried to make this clear both in the reference to being in the expression «ontic power» and by using the expression «fundamental entity» in the latter part of the book to refer to human beings and other kinds of entities as well.

«We die daily»: so it is often said, not only with reference to the death of our bodily cells and their replacement by other cells every few years, but also in respect to our possible human growth.

God is bigger than the human frame of reference which tries to talk about him.

These terms, Collingwood wrote after 1934, have a different meaning in relation to their reference to the level below or of human consciousness.7

In those answers there has always been indirect reference to the ultimate power that lies behind all human authority, but the defined source of authority has been some mediate principle.

Whitehead distinguishes human beings from animals on the basis of different capacities for the inhibition of symbolic reference.

However, the term «sustainability» is used especially in reference to how human actions affect the health of the natural environment.

Eutopia Sep - Oct 1998 available online at http://eutopia.cua.edu/article.cfm?ID=88 (Accessed 23/5/07)[10] For online references, see http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/ 2006/05 / england-stats-on-stis.html [11] Pontifical Council for the Family, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.

As Livio Melina explains in his article «Christ and the Dynamism of Action: an Outlook and Overview of Christocentrism in Moral Theology», Communio: International Catholic Review 28 (Spring 2001), «the spectrum ranges from an affirmation of the primacy of Christ as exemplary model to an acknowledgement of a Christie ontology of the moral subject, from a reference to the critical mediation of anthropology up to an affirmation of his concrete human existence as the categorical norm».

I think that the references to hell are talking about the practice that was once used of sacrificing humans by burning them, and if we were evil we might suffer the same fate as those human sacrifices

Henceforth human language has an eternal reference from which it can not escape without destroying itself or without stripping itself of all meaning.

Rather, it is in the very manner in which he develops and emphasizes the distinctiveness of the Christian story — focusing on its own internal criteria for truth without reference to publicly accessible criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry — and the relation between the church and the world.

The myth of the Last Judgment attempts, by using the end - time as the reference point, to proclaim a truth about human responsibility which is not confined to any point in time, but which pervades all time.

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

’31 In these examples there is no reference to a resurrection, for it has become irrelevant when the human soul or personality is thought in some way to survive the death of the body.

Yet there is also through the Old Testament frequent reference to organs or parts of the body to which are ascribed special functions, or, in some cases, near - independence, in human consciousness and action.

Even though such a way of faith may exist principally as a vision, and be as yet largely beyond our grasp as a whole way of life, nonetheless it is the only framework of reference for human meaning to the man of contemporary Christian faith.

First, with reference to the topic of the last section, it seems that Whitehead is doubtful that so sharp a line can be drawn between animals and humans that there is real warrant for affirming total extinction of all animals and survival of all humans.

Because, implicitly or explicitly, it is always by reference to some conception of the overall and final human good that other goods are ordered, the life of every individual, household or community by its orderings gives expression, wittingly or unwittingly, to some conception of the human good.

Just as the counselor enters the frame of reference of a troubled person and, without being neurotic, significantly participates in that person's neurosis, so God, according to Christian witness, participates concretely in our human estrangement without himself being estranged.

Our human rights and dignity can not be asserted intellectually without reference to our personhood and this demands some description of what personhood involves, our unique intellect and free will, our non-material, spiritual nature.

What we shall do is to speak first in this chapter of what I call «personal human relationships,» while in the two following chapters our interest will be centered on «familial relationships» and broader «social relationships» (including neighborhood and the like, with reference also to the significance of the «city»).

Incarnation means that God assumes our frame of reference, entering into our human situation of finitude and estrangement, sharing our human condition even unto death.

But the root cause of the opinion that God is a threat to human creativity is due not to a defect in logic but to the false assumptions derived from a static frame of reference that pictures God as a metaphysical and Transcendent Other, and this world as an autonomous natural order.