Sentences with phrase «of systematic attempt»

On the much cited phrases in the leaked e-mails — «trick» and «hiding the decline» — the Committee considers that they were colloquial terms used in private e-mails and the balance of evidence is that they were not part of a systematic attempt to mislead.

On the much cited phrases in the leaked e-mails $» «trick» and «hiding the decline» $» the Committee considers that they were colloquial terms used in private e-mails and the balance of evidence is that they were not part of a systematic attempt to mislead.

Really, the surprising thing is that this kind of systematic attempt at replication is not more common.»

PrivateProperty sent jitters throughout the South African Property industry and a number of systematic attempts were made by real estate heavyweights to shut the company down.

Not exact matches

For instance, an attempt to root out modern elements in the church ought to be viewed with the same suspicion we should have for any systematic program of destruction.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

There is, therefore, a certain irony, and perhaps even infidelity, in the attempt to pen a systematic, comprehensive presentation of Soloveitchik's thought, as Reuven Ziegler, director of research for the Toras HoRav Foundation, which holds Soloveitchik's manuscripts, does in Majesty and Humility.

Here was the first pioneering attempt to treat alcoholism with a combination of individual and group therapy, the first attempt to combine the resources of depth psychology and religion in a systematic therapeutic endeavor.

It is true, one must concede, that Hamann eschewed systematic expositions of theory to the end; he never abandoned pseudonymy or indirection, never attempted to bring the passion of faith within the securer enclosure of any sort of psychological science or speculative regimen, and never condescended to the soberer disciplines of «direct communication.»

My first attempt to write a systematic theology, using black liberation as the central motif, was published as A Black Theology of Liberation (1970).

I attempted, therefore, to develop public criteria for the truth of art and religion as distinct but related disclosures of truth (for systematic theology).

In these brief comments we are by no means attempting a full or systematic answer to the question, but are only trying to dispel some of the incredibility surrounding the metaphor.

A full defense of this intuition as true (i.e., as «public») demands the kind of argument and modes of reflections which I have attempted in my recently completed work on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination).

But there has not yet been anything like a satisfactory attempt to relate this newly discovered eschatology in a systematic way with a theology of the Eucharist.

In The Descent into Hell (Lippincott, 1970) Altizer has attempted a systematic theological exploration of the radical and apocalyptic faith of Jesus and Paul, and has done so with the conviction that this has not yet been attempted by Christian theology and that a decisive key to this endeavor lies ready to hand in the world of Mahayana Buddhism.

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

In what still remains the most extended systematic presentation of his position, Man's Vision of God, Hartshorne develops his conception as an attempt to remedy the defects he finds in the Thomistic view.

The second set — the questions of a systematic theology — may then attempt to determine exactly how the vast and diverse material of past and present Christian experience may be ordered to form a coherent theological whole.

The pastoral psychology movement is a consequence of the relatively self - conscious and systematic attempt to strengthen the ministry of the church by making use of the insights and expertise of the social and psychological sciences.

For it seems that whenever we attempt to make sense of the whole in a rational, systematic way, we end up emphasizing the universal at the expense of the particular, the eternal at the expense of the temporal, or the necessary at the expense of the contingent.

If on the other hand we attempt to redress the balance by adopting a less systematic, more critical stance, then the very reverse seems to result: we end up emphasizing the particular at the expense of the universal, the temporal at the expense of the eternal, or the contingent at the expense of the necessary.

My purpose, therefore, is not to provide a systematic critique of the book, but rather to comment on two of its more interesting aspects, namely: (1) its argument that the Federalists, in writing the Constitution, were actually defending the principle of the «neutral» state, and (2) its attempt to apply «neutral state» principles to the issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.

The appalling rule of the Romanovs, the grotesque privileges of the aristocrats, the obscurantism of the church, the harshness of the courts, the systematic attempts to wipe out other languages and cultures — none of that seems very encouraging.

It was not until the third century after the Hegira that anything like a systematic attempt was made to bring together a general body of Traditions, and of those that were attempted at this time there were two kinds.

The preacher who is doing his reading these days has been encouraged by the fact that there are a number of recent attempts «to find a new way through from exegesis to the sermon».1 That these efforts among biblical scholars, systematic theologians, and practical theologians are taking place has several clear implications.

Indeed, on accepting this view of the tradition, one's first impulse is simply to give up the ghost and content oneself with selecting from the earlier strata of the tradition such teaching as is in keeping with one's overall view of the historical Jesus, making no systematic attempt to defend the authenticity of each saying used.

He wrote without the rigor of academic theology and never attempted to organize his work into systematic shape.

During his second phase, Wach attempted to develop the systematic dimension of the history of religions by following the model of sociology.

Philosophy is the attempt to arrive at one intellectual world as defined by the systematic relationship of the categories of its system.

1 Whitehead produced no extended or systematic treatment of ethical theory, and his remarks on ethical topics are scattered throughout his later writings, especially RM, AI, and MT. Commentary on Whitehead's moral philosophy has been largely limited to attempts at description, clarification, and systematization: see, e.g., Paul A. Schilpp, «Whitehead's Moral Philosophy» in The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed.

When Whitehead first introduced God as a systematic element into his philosophy, he made no attempt to assimilate this principle to any other category.4 God was to be viewed as a unique attribute of the substantial activity alongside of eternal objects and actual occasions.

But we all have our ideologies, explicit or hidden, and whether we call reason «critical reflection on praxis» or systematic thinking about ongoing experience, reason remains one's attempt to make sense out of all dimensions of life's experiences, including those of the oppressed and oppressor, the poor and rich, white and black, female, and male, and so on.

There are four things I do, at least in a brief way, at the end of nearly every session, and in a more systematic manner as a group's termination nears: (1) Attempt to deal with unfinished feelings and relating.

Nestlé sponsoring exercise is no less ironic than it attempting to hijack breastfeeding initiatives to divert attention from its ongoing, systematic violations of baby milk marketing requirements.

This has led to systematic attempts to dismantle collective bargaining rights, seniority, pensions, health insurance and civil service rights under the guise of «the fiscal emergency.»»

«As New York Democrats rally in Charlotte and attempt to distract attention from jobs and the economy with talk of a phony «war on women,» they turn their back on systematic and government - sanctioned sexual harassment back here in New York.

King had accused «special interests» of interfering with the Poughkeepsie meeting, claiming to have knowledge of a «systematic» attempt to dominate the microphone and circumvent productive dialogue.

But it is also the fruit of the first systematic attempt since the late Seventies to construct a coherent and comprehensive Conservative theory of the state, society and the citizen.

There have been many studies looking at the number of people affected by anxiety disorders and the groups that are at highest risk, and in an attempt to synthesise the various studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge's Institute of Public Health carried out a global review of systematic reviews.

This paper used systematic methods to search for and appraise all case reports of deaths and attempted suicides associated with mefloquine.

It is «the most systematic attempt to convert all the journals in a given field to open access», says Peter Suber, a philosopher at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and a proponent of open access.

Dr Kosuke Yusa, joint project leader from the Sanger Institute, said: «Previous studies showed proof of principle, but this is one of the first systematic attempts to identify the genetic vulnerabilities of AML.

A study published in the BMJ and a review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews have reported that e-cig use was associated with successful attempts at quitting smoking.

Individuals have made and reported observation of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto and these can be found in the pages of the BAA Journal but there was no attempt at systematic group observation of these planets in the United Kingdom prior to 1985.

Wajda is a survivor of genocide and systematic killing whereas Spielberg is, first and foremost, a historian attempting to recreate passed time.

Ed Myths was a response to that type of policy argument and an attempt to demonstrate how systematic evidence could be used to inform policy - making.

The document suggests that, while much has been learned about this phenomenon, particularly during the past 20 years, few systematic attempts have been made to integrate the various aspects or components of college readiness that have been investigated in some depth during this period of time.

The gains at the high school level were «particularly noteworthy, as there is little systematic evidence that any of the many high school reforms attempted to date have had a positive effect on student achievement.»

Even so, many portfolio managers are electing to forego hedging in a feeble attempt to add «alpha,» ignoring the possibility of systematic market declines.

The systematic field of colours compels the viewer to deconstruct the perceived logic of the configuration, attempting to seek meaning in the orderly formation.