Sentences with phrase «of ordinary speech»

This is true not because the church will necessarily feel itself bound by these terms (we are not to feel bound by any terms: God has not called us to bondage, but to freedom), but because what these terms stand for can not be translated into the language either of ordinary speech or of scientific and philosophical discourse.

It is a shattered universe, like the word itself, which brings about the breaking up of ordinary speech and refers to (or announces) what is not a visual image: the Kingdom of God.

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

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Instead, he would essentially sanction the complete turnover of the shareowner's proxy to managers to facilitate their own entrenchment, with the possible exception that some rights to submit proxy proposals might still be maintained by hedge funds, the only shareowners recognized in Gallagher's speech as representing the rights of «ordinary» investors.»

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

In the ordinary language of educated people logos might mean speech, narrative, pronouncement, report, teaching, call, sense.

For Whitehead, religious language is a legitimate mode of discourse precisely because it points to the metaphysical background implicit in ordinary speech and experience.

Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.

On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.

And Santorum's speech wasn't great, although it contained a promising theme about Obama's schoolmarmish snobbery that's full of contempt for even the conscience of the ordinary believer.

111 While it may not be a «speech decoration» as Ricoeur stresses, it helps in the process of making comprehensible that which is beyond ordinary perception.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page of text would stretch into hundreds of pages and assertion would be forever deferred.

The theological work which will be most useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes of speech common to all educated persons.

There is some evidence in our ordinary speech in favor of this view.

Albee mobilizes our attention to the terror of this environment by inviting us to sit in their home for twelve hours and listen to ordinary speech composed of banalities and trivialities — the ultimate reduction of speech to the most primitive needs of consciousness: survival, taunts, grunts, mimicry, and hate.

Ordinary speech and technological speech are measured by the necessary shapes of one's furniture.

Let's look briefly at Northrup's types: Ordinary speech is the language of the level of consciousness.

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

But ordinary speech, though wise, is without a doctrine of wisdom, and in spite of Wittgenstein I see a role for doctrinal wisdom.

Aristocratic gentlemen and gentlewomen are also trained in arts of speech and behavior that serve to mark them as superior to ordinary people.

They are not the elements of a new language, distinct from our ordinary language, but simply represent a shorthand for our everyday speech, as pertaining to mathematics.

In his latest speech, Smith also risked the wrath of centrist Labour members as he took a swipe at Tony Blair, saying that under his leadership the party had lost touch with ordinary members.

In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama's community organizer background at her speech at the RNC, the Obama campaign has already sent out a mass fundraising email using her remarks as a hook: «Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?

In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks».

Shareholders themselves must also become more accountable to the ordinary savers whose capital they invest,» Mr Cruddas said ahead of the speech.

Once everyday ordinary New Yorkers start hearing and learning about her malicious attacks on religious free speech, religious business owners and her treatment of constituencies that are represented by council members that she wants to punish they will be inclined to be turned off by her.

In a speech to SNP activists, she said a party that «frightens the life out of the Westminster establishment» was «good news for ordinary people in Scotland and right across these islands».

Testing the limits of vocal ingenuity, throat - singers can create sounds unlike anything in ordinary speech and song — carrying two musical lines simultaneously, say, or harmonizing with a waterfall

Dignam's screenplay doesn't illuminate anything else about these people, despite the movie's big, closing speech being on the subject of seeing refugees as ordinary people, who happen to find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

Responding to the Education Secretary's speech on «ordinary working families», Brett Wigdortz OBE — Founder and Chief Executive of education charity Teach First, said:

He was the first in that day, so the echoing room, where even ordinary speech was magnified to a shout, was quiet except for the sound of filling baths.

Over more than 45 years of practice, Sirkin has consistently defended the free speech and constitutional rights of countless individuals and businesses, including adult entertainment establishments, museums, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens in all types of cases.

The artist — a Chicago native who today divides his time between New York City and Marfa, Texas — is perhaps best known for his paintings of large stenciled letters, which he uses to form words or phrases, often abbreviated or arranged in run - on configurations that disrupt ordinary patterns of perception and speech.

The Coalition's Legal Hotline service provides free one - on - one legal consultations to journalists, bloggers, ethnic media, community activists and ordinary citizens experiencing frustration and government resistance in the exercise of their free speech and open - government rights.

«At a time of life when many people are content to enjoy the benefits of retirement, Fred has continued his work; travelling, talking, delivering speeches and above all else listening to the concerns of ordinary Australians, black and white, and fighting to ensure that their voices are heard in the corridors of power.»

With positive signs against corruption and inefficiency emerging in the early days of Ramaphosa's presidency, his SONA speech might sum it up best: «We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard - earned savings of ordinary people.»