Sentences with phrase «often rest upon»

The future of students - and many head teachers - often rest upon them.

Not exact matches

Elmer John Thiessen, who teaches philosophy at a public university in Canada, deals with each of the accusations and shows how they all rest upon either an ignorance of the facts or a misunderstanding of the issues, and often upon both.

These value assumptions rest upon an implicit and often unconscious attitude toward good and evil.

The discovery of this fact about the Gospels is often popularly attributed to a contemporary school of scholars known as «Form critics,» but the fact was well established long before this particular school emerged and rests upon grounds considerably wider and firmer than those which support this school's particular claims.

This Marcan scheme obviously rests upon a theological idea; and it is not strange if later Gospels, resting upon quite other theological convictions, have done violence to Mark, often without realizing it.

In retrospect our enjoyment of the whole novel depends upon our having dwelled within the particular episodes which, felt in isolation from the rest of the narrative, are often absurd, unintelligible.

He stated, «I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and courts.

But in this late - day light, as the Bonaventure woods radiate avenues of possibility, I often pine instead for the salmon's linearity and focus, theevident purpose upon which its most strenuous movements rest.