Sentences with phrase «of the largest bodies as»

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Fitza's research builds on (and subverts) a large body of academic work connecting CEO performance to company performance — using return on assets as the metric of the latter.

As president and chief executive officer of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Robin Silvester oversees the federal body responsible for facilitating Canada's trade through the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port.

Schumer broadly called these firms «body shops,» correcting a characterization he made last week describing firms that use large numbers of H - 1B visas as «chop shops.»

It seems unlikely that the work was ever meant to have been taken seriously by Christians; instead, its purpose was to offer further conjectural details about the life of Christ as a pious entertainment, part of a larger body of Pilate literature.

In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deities.

We have a classic large water tower no longer used that a brilliant developer turned into a high end restaurant that you go up in an elevator to get into as it is inside the main body of the water tower.

Newton's laws do not have capacity or pretense to apply geometrical or inverse relationships to the power of God in effecting the natural, specifically any large body such as sun and moon (The Principia deals primarily with massive bodies in motion).

We view ourselves as embodied spirits in the larger body of the world which influences us and which we influence.

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

the Greek word for body here is strong's # 4983 meaning large group of men in this instance, not substance as some translations have it.

For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor in the global evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.

While it has traditionally taken the form of a religion, and has appeared eternally committed to a large body of doctrine, Christianity has been most accurately described as «the faith».

The entities directly below the level of a person, the immediate constituents of a person, are the organs such as the brain and heart, and other large scale body parts, such as the arms and hands.

Much of what we do as a church body is out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty tomb.

The 1974 annual convention of the Christian Holiness Association became the largest body to adopt the «Chicago Declaration» as a resolution — despite some concern that such action would admit too much complicity in recent evangelical failures in this area.

This has been such an eye opener as we both have been challenged to reconsider what it means to be in the body of Christ, both locally and in the larger context.

We still need to do theology as well in those ways, but the Bible will help to remind us to keep those operations both subordinate to the larger imperatives of the life of the body and relativized by their greater subservience to the demands of one's respective host culture.

While there are no guarantees that any scientific proposal will work as predicted, this proposal is exceptionally well supported by a large body of established scientific evidence.

Further, in the consumerist market, while the bodies of the women are converted as commodities, they are also co-opted into the mechanism as the single largest consumers in commodity mass production.

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

Here's what we know: A large body of research suggests that the status of our marriages influences our well - being at least as much as the status of our finances.»

Imaginative reason in the form of a speculative philosophy such as Whitehead's can surmount the interminable conflicts between man and nature, mind and body, freedom and determinism, religion and science, by assigning each its rightful place within a larger systematic framework.

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»

Religious groups, expecially if they include signigicant cultural diversity within themselves, can be islands of civility, settings where, as Richard Mouw says, democratic interchange can be modelled, kept alive for the larger body politic.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

Because the state and other large institutions could reach individuals only through these mediating bodies, these thinkers provided them with defense against the state's overweening power, as well as the economic power of the large industrial enterprises.

In fact, the individual's consciousness of salvation occurs only in those moments where there is a sense of belonging to a larger body comprised of others and the entire universe as they are collectively being brought into unity by God.

This vast and complex body of legislation fills a large part of the first five books of the Bible, which are known to Jews as the Torah, or the Law.

The emergence of a large body of secular Jews who can only be classified religiously as theists raises anew a question that Jewish scholars have been debating for thousands of years.

There is a great difference, however, when (as at Union) the largest denominational student group (which happens to be Presbyterian) totals only 17 per cent of the student body.

Why does a large part of the body seem to feel that «come as you are» means the same as «eh... whatever you want to wear is fine.

«The Presbytery of Springfield, sitting at Cambridge, in the County of Bourbon, being through a gracious Providence in more than ordinary bodily health, growing in strength and size daily, and in perfect soundness and composure of mind; but knowing that it is appointed for all delegated bodies once to die, and considering that the life of every such body is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callbody is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callbody die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callBody of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callBody and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling.

Certainly the religious broadcaster has access to the much larger body of general communication research on associated topics such as audience patterns and viewing behavior, attitude and value change, and communication uses and effects.

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

That no similar limitation beset the Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary, established in 1979 by the Church of God in Christ (largest of the dominantly Black classical Pentecostal bodies), can be attributed to the circumstances of its origin as part of Atlanta's Interdenominational Theological Center - a cluster of schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.

We have seen that modern scholarship has reversed the order and makes Mark a major source of Matthew who, while generally using Mark's gospel as a framework, has incorporated large bodies of material not known to, or at any rate not contained in Mark.

Our assembly as the Body of Christ is primarily a spiritual gathering into Christ, and so whether we gather in large groups or small, we can still know that we are assembled with all other saints around the world and throughout time (For more on this understanding of church, see my book, Skeleton Church).

Acute diarrhea is usually followed by dehydration as one will lose a large quantity of body fluids while affected by it.

However, the most critical food safety objective is to identify and reject any foreign bodies such as stones, glass, metal and plastic which are often accidentally introduced into the supply chain during the harvesting and sun - drying, or during the logistics process that brings product to Anatolia's pack house from a large number of orchards and vineyards.

ABWI's membership body is made up of large and small producers of packaged water, as well as suppliers to the industry.

As the largest organ in the body, it serves as a first line barrier to prevent infection, protects from injury, regulates our body temperature, and is a phenomenal mirror reflecting the state of internal healtAs the largest organ in the body, it serves as a first line barrier to prevent infection, protects from injury, regulates our body temperature, and is a phenomenal mirror reflecting the state of internal healtas a first line barrier to prevent infection, protects from injury, regulates our body temperature, and is a phenomenal mirror reflecting the state of internal health.

De La Salle, for example, has an enrollment of just over 1,000 boys, but routinely punishes schools that can draw from male student bodies twice as large.

When large particles of food enter the body through the intestines, the immune system sees them as invaders and attacks.

Gross motor skills involve the large muscles of the body, such as the arms and legs.

The size of the cardigan can easily be adapted simply by making larger or smaller hexagons, allowing you to shape the cardi to your body as you craft.

This carrier can only be worn as a backpack comfortably as it is too large to be carried on the front of your baby's body.

Your baby's head is still very large (compared to the rest of his or her body), but it's growth is slowing, as the body is gradually catching up.

So I did it probably for ten, twelve sessions, and to me, the biggest benefit was just keeping me really balanced throughout the pregnancy, with the twin pregnancy I just felt really large and things got pretty uncomfortable towards the end, so I think for me the prenatal yoga helped me just stay balanced and also really aware of my body, and I think that helped with the birth experience, helping me be aware of my position and my posture, so I did an unmedicated labor with my twins as well, so I could just really think about if I am sitting up, opening my pelvis, and be aware of that.

Indeed, there is a large and growing body of evidence that Weissingerizing breastfeeding promotion efforts is harming mothers and thereby harming babies as well.

But funding for large projects is scarce because of property - tax caps that strictly limit the amount by which an Illinois taxing body such as a park district can increase its annual revenue, he said.