Sentences with phrase «of much substance»

The middle 80 % probably won't give you any answers of much substance, but just asking the question will ingratiate you to them.

Not exact matches

Much of my research was about developing materials that record physical properties of substances they come into contact with as visual patterns someone could read by eye.

But was it Russia's fault that so many leading media outlets paid so much attention to leaked Clinton emails that contained little of substance?

Not all hotels have the cancer warnings — much of the danger the state is worried about in hotels comes from toxins in substances like secondhand smoke or alcohol.

I believe that the re-orientation of British politics under Corbyn and in particular of the Labour Party is highly beneficial, not only to the large strata within British society that have been discarded in the last 20 to 30 years, but interestingly also for British business that produces real stuff as opposed to the City of London and various other service sectors that produce precarious jobs and nothing much of substance.

It is done much more for public appearance than having real substance and probability of success.

But from the vantage point of Thiel's philosopher - capitalist persona, there isn't much of substance in Trumpism to praise: His political agenda is mostly a posture, an attitude of defiance.

But while we publish much more detailed analysis, the substance of the core issues has not changed substantially.

Nonetheless, we would not read too much more into the Fed tightening, and, while awaiting more substance on policy initiatives, we remain cautious about predictions that the US economy will soon break out of the pattern of modest growth seen in recent years.

Combine that compulsion with the rising number of restaurant meals Americans eat and the substance of those meals, and you start to understand why we've put on so much weight.

They meant his creativity in sourcing pre-crisis loans and then selling them based on unconventional appraisal methodologies; the loans went bad, the investors are suing Credit Suisse, and I don't really know or care that much about the substance but it is always harder to argue about the good faith of your loans when you have e-mails from your own bankers calling them naughty words.

The other candidates either tried to co-opt the tone though not the substance of Paul's Fed bashing (Gingrich and Perry did this) or just stayed out of Paul's way as much as possible on the issue without affirming Paul's critique (Romney.)

Back to the main point, call yourselves whatever you FlNG want to, Christian, Mormon, Kaka - Pooka Looki Loo for all I care, NONE of it matters because a name has no substance, much like most Christians themselves...

It does nt explain his origins, substance, or much more, other than his character, motive and goal, asside from moral laws, codes of conduct, right from wrong, and how to manage life, all while believing in him.

But I don't think there's much hope for a change of substance — too much of it comes from the Bible — the greatest atheist conversion tool ever created is reading the whole Bible.

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

Here's the deal, first and foremost, mary jane is so much better than any of the legal substances, the sheer hypocrisy of allowing something more lethal to be on the market while the lesser substance can result in a felony and jailtime is just madness.

But I am not so sure he changes much of substance.

There is much truth in the saying, at least if we think of the self as a self - enclosed substance isolated within the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin.

Anyway, your point leads to the speculation that the difference between the physical body and the spiritual body is not so much of substance as of degree.

People spend way too much effort throwing around labels and pretending to be offended by them, and not nearly enough time discussing substance, like whether the poor people of the world would be better off or worse off under a collectivist system.

There can be no doubt that in the case of sensation for Aristotle one substance is in another just as much and virtually in the same way as it is for Whitehead, despite the latter's claim to the contrary (cf., e.g., PR 79).1

But Calvin emphasized the immutability of God as much as the earlier substance - oriented theologians had done.

Much official theology seems to have gone wrong, first, in confining the incarnating action of God to Jesus alone, so that he appears to enter the world as a catastrophic intrusion, as someone has put it, unrelated to the rest of the God - world and God - humankind relationship; and second, in speaking of Jesus in «substance» idiom, thus suggesting a static deity who in some fashion is implanted in, takes the place of, or is incomprehensibly united with another static «substance» called human.

Rahner's work, for example, could be studied from this viewpoint as a rich resource ready for the mining of much of the best of the «Catholic substance.»

The feminist literature (and much of post-modernism) has been driven by an animosity against Descartes and his substance dualism.

11:24 - 25), or only that they continued Jesus» practice of a fellowship - meal with his disciples, is much disputed, but the testimony of Paul (I Cor.11: 23) taken in conjunction with the firm tradition that Jesus had given to bread and wine a new significance at the Last Supper, support the view that from the very earliest days Christians repeated the substance of that rite.

The two cultures, she proposes, are best understood in terms of an «ethics gap,» and here she draws upon and reinforces the important work of sociologist James Davison Hunter, whose writings have done so much to give empirical substance to the culture war metaphor.

The models often used to describe this have been unsatisfactory, to be sure: talk of «substance» has led to much confusion and misunderstanding, as has talk of the union of wills or the association of divine / human consciousnesses.

So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.159

Surely what's not at stake is the enjoyment and delight in the «light and ephemeral» joys that form so much of the substance of human relationships.

To recall, my criticisms were based not so much on the substance of Dr. Podles» psychological or anthropological research but on the use of that research for the rest of his argument.

Again, according to his theory of causality that establishes that a substance has at least as much reality as its effect, his idea of God can not be more perfect than God, who, as the cause, must surely exist.

Why wrestle with the substance of their argument when it's so much easier to just sigh about «kids these days» and be done with it?

Though he and I have had some significant wars of words in the past, when I have had a real beef with him it has had much more to do with style than substance.

They loved Christ so much, they served Him and His followers out of their substance.

Beginning with Aristotle much of western philosophy may be understood as various attempts to understand reality utilizing the basic concept of substance.

IIn this context, those Northern Yogic seals of Indus civilization adds much meaning and substance!

In this new form, and having lost nothing of its physical reality (indeed, as much superior to its first state as the Noosphere is superior to the simple, isolated phylum) it acquires, by becoming exterior to the individual, an incomparable substance and capacity.

He is as much God as Father and Son, and He too is «of the same substance» («unius substantiae, unius quoque esse naturae» Toledo XI 675 AD - DS 527).

It rightly allows a place for intelligence and reason within faith, but it simultaneously suppresses much of the very substance of the faith it seeks to defend.

In doing so, it has merged in substance with much non-Catholic theology of revelation as well.

It is too much to ask, even of the most enlightened readers of theology, that they become acquainted with two thousand years of terminological and doctrinal controversy as a condition for being introduced to the substance of their faith.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

The analysis of the subatomic entities leads to quanta of energy that are much better described as energy - events than as substances.

But he would deny it, and his ideas tend to be very incarnational, very much immersed in the substance of human existence, which he understands sociologically.

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

The peyote case, Employment Division v. Smith, is much more than a simple example of the state's power to regulate controlled substances.

I mean his scientific books and papers that has brought him so much recognition means nothing to the villager because he does not have the substance to relate the the wonderful works of Hawkins.In the same token, the wonderful works and word of God will remain a myth to all those who lack the substance of faith.