Sentences with phrase «of potency as»

The Volkswagen Golf R is a more polished and introverted hot hatch, but don't mistake those dowdy looks for a lack of potency as it now produces some 305bhp in facelifted form.

Throughout all of human history until a decade or so ago, senior men looked at the loss of potency as the end of their sexual existence.

Blake's vision is more consistently kenotic, for it fully identifies God with the dark abyss or evil potency of the Godhead even while unveiling the goal of this potency as being wholly redemptive.

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Yet its potency has been greatly reduced, particularly as a weapon against officers and directors of public companies.

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Last year, a handful of former Trump aides and Republican consultants dismissed the potency of Cambridge Analytica's so - called secret sauce as «exaggerated» in a profile by the New York Times.

Monetary policy was seen as an adjunct to fiscal policy, but doubts remained about its potency; in «liquidity traps», for example, easing monetary policy could be like «pushing on a piece of string».

In place of accepting a basic ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.

As Andrew explains, it is the most insidious development yet in the opioid crisis: «It — because of its potency — is killing so many more people so much more rapidly than the prescription drugs or even the heroin did.»

Now I must say at once that I have mountainous doubts in my own mind as to whether or not the Christian enterprise has the imaginative potency and creative vitality to contribute effectively to the transformation of values that is required in the next few years.

11 Note also that, as in the usage of later classical prophetism, the Word here conveys the sense of a formula, a known formula, the content, nature, and potency of which are widely familiar now.

(Exodus 24:4 - 8) And always in the hinterland of animal sacrifice lurked age - old ideas of the magical potency of blood as a powerful agency of deliverance if rightly used (E.g., Exodus 12:12 - 13) and a supernatural peril if wrongly handled.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

(I Samuel 6:19 - 21) Whatever was holy was thus full of a mysterious and perilous potency with which the prudent would have as little as possible to do.

But insofar as in this boundary - concept becoming is thought of as lacking all determination (although in the concrete there exists only a determinate becoming), it is, in its relation to form, just as radically to be thought of as potency, as Aristotelian «primary matter.»

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

«Christianity,» says Sanneh, «came into Africa equally as fulfillment and challenge, but in either case as reinforcement of the religious worldview of Africans concerning spiritual and divine agency, the sacramental sense of community, the ties between the living and the dead, the potency of dreams, prayers and invocations.»

The cell produced by ANT - OAR would have all of the positive properties of a pluripotent stem cell» as well as all of the restrictions in developmental potency such cells normally exhibit.

But precisely the thing of not being conscious of oneself as spirit is despair, which is spiritlessness — whether the condition be that of complete deadness, a merely vegetative life, or a life of higher potency the secret of which is nevertheless despair.

In these he proposes a highly convincing readjustment of the old ideas of «matter» and «form», overcoming some of the difficulties inherent in the scholastic theory of a real distinction between the principles of «act» and «potency» as dual constituents of reality, especially in the light of modern scientific knowledge.

In that case it is hard to see why such a created entity, communicated to the faculty of the finite being, could not lastingly belong to it, and why, therefore, we may not consider as conceivable the very thing that defenders of physical premotion attack as metaphysically meaningless, namely, that a faculty or power, understood to be an active power, could bring itself from potency to act, of itself, of course on the basis of conservatio and concursus, which latter, however, would not create some intermediary between potency and act but simply posit potency and act.

This was seen to some extent by the scholastic theory which in order to explain the transition from potency to act, postulated God's praemotio physica and saw the real nature of the concursus therein, that is, as praevius and not merely as simultaneus.

In my view there is at least today a distinct experience and teaching in Catholic theology according to which God must be understood as the all - efficient Giver who gives himself both the potency of freedom and its good act according to his grace that is neither derived nor compelled, and which nothing in man precedes.

What is actually accomplished by this determination to admit as personal only what is authenticated as individual and inwardly certified is a radical reduction of the potencies for self - knowledge.

Physics is sufficiently advanced today to define many substances very perfectly, in their very essence, in terms of those causes which constitute them, and in this we see that the active relationship by which, let us say, oxygen and hydrogen are defined as causes of water in a given relativity, is an active potency in those causes of dynamic finality with respect to the composite substance which is water.

It is especially well equipped to do this as A Natural Theology for Our Time (Hartshorne); 15 it will take much longer as A Christian Natural Theology (Cobb).16 Our hope lies in the general cosmic process Hartshorne described when he wrote, «God is the cosmic «adventure» (Whitehead) integrating all real adventures as they occur, without ever failing in readiness to realize new states out of the divine potency.

The Word of God did not lose its potency as it developed beyond the Old Testament.

Hence the determinable element in a composite substance is the pure potency of matter which is ordered to form as that which substantially completes it.

The act of A on B is already more than just A or B; it is rooted in them, so to speak, but is not a real accident or feature of either individually, for it is a «going out from A and a landing in B.» At the same time, according to Leclerc, that A acts on B, B will act on A, for to be really acted on or affected by another thing is in some way to also act on and affect it; there is thus no such thing as absolute potency (NPE 295).

In refusing to make action a full accident, Suarez asserted the affinity of action with potency; action is the act of potency so far as it is in potency.

«Act» here must not be equated with «action»; rather, «act» refers to the intrinsic quality, as it were, that determines the potency of matter to be such and such, in the way that the shape of a piece of clay determines its potentiality to be a certain shape.

«Consequently, since existence is nothing else than an essence constituted in act, just as an actual essence is formally limited by itself, or by its intrinsic principles, so, too, created existence has limitation from its very essence, not as it is a potency in which it is received, but because, in reality, it is nothing else than the very actual essence itself» (On the Essence of Finite Being as Such.

Animal life, for example, appears as a decisive advance in a cosmic process of actualisation of the real potencies inherent in matter at lower levels: an advance, however, which is not simply reducible to the tendencies (ultimately thermodynamic: form is like fire, which «tends towards the limit», says Aristotle) that gave rise to it.

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«Chile is used as an amulet, probably because of its well - known protective pharmacological properties, and in religious ceremonies, witchcraft, and conjuring; its fiery potency is considered a powerful means to any end,» observed Beatrice Roeder, author of Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California.

Fernandez explains that high - potency sweeteners such as sucralose, stevia and monk fruit extract, enable formulators to «drastically lower sugar content of products without compromising taste.

The pairing of allulose and certain high - potency sweeteners, such as stevia or monk fruit extract, offers baked goods manufacturers an appealing sweetness profile.

My assumption has always been that it's safer to use canned leavening as you never know how long your bag of self - rising flour has been on the shelf (after several months the baking powder starts to lose its potency).

It certainly confirms that the honeys were not of the potency that they were labeled as having.

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I see flashes of offensive potency, as well as intermittent series of engaged defensive execution.

Let's face it the full back position is one that rarely grabs the headlines and never gets the plaudits it deserves but when you think about it the wide defensive position can be key both to the success of the back line as well as the potency of the club's attacking play.

I have said it here time and time again that Theo Walcott has everything needed to play as a striker except for strength and aggression.Theo Walcott will always lose the physical battle when his back is to goal.That is a huge concern because its reduces the potency of the attack.I would really hope he stays on the wing and Wenger should sign a Centre forward.You cant just be rotating week in week out just like that you need your players to play so they can find form.Theo should stay on the wing.

Whilst I am not offering these as absolute rules, it appears that generally teams with more goalscoring potency in wide areas «make do» with more modest totals for their centre forwards (think Barcelona or Real Madrid for the obvious examples — and before you say anything, the likes of Benzema, Villa and Suarez have all had goal returns less than 20 in La Liga winning teams in the last 5 years).

I mean we are going to see that with Sanchez that instead of building up the strength and potency of the team, as always, it is being weakened.

That potency for tackling holds the 22 - year old in good stead, given Liverpool's lack of fieriness (or «bite», as it's colloquially known) as a team in recent memory.

The plan would likely be to force a draw or get a slight edge — as they would have to be defensive considering Bayern's potency upfront — ahead of the rematch.

However, bettors should be wary of backing Real at those odds, as the match is a home game for Juventus and these odds underrate their potency in Turin.

Use bleach from a newly opened or unopened bottle as the potency of bleach diminishes over time.

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