Sentences with phrase «old question as»

After getting over the age old question as to why on earth Sonic the Hedgehog requires a vehicle to get around?

I'm aware that many people are hesitant to close an older question as a duplicate of a newer, though; it may be a semantic issue with the word «duplicate».

Not exact matches

Core values for a company have become as canned as interview responses to the age - old questions.

As they used to say on the old «Laugh - In» TV show from the 1960s, here is a «pot - pourri» of e-mails from people wrestling with some really tough questions:

This question has sparked a huge amount of controversy, especially between the Millennial generation and older generations that, as a result, find Millennials to be any (but not limited to) the following: impatient, entitled, difficult to work with, etc..

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

But as Brazil seeks to keep its economic momentum going, and begins to define its ambitions on the global stage in measure with its new - found clout, some question whether the 62 - year - old Rousseff will be able to handle what's heading her way.

That simple question is often lost among the many controversies facing the ride - services company as it tries to hire a new chief executive and resolve a bitter dispute with the old one, Travis Kalanick.

«These findings raise serious questions about the policy needs for future pensionless cohorts, such as the adequacy of benefits from Old Age Security, the Guaranteed Income Supplement, and the Quebec and Canada pension plans,» the report states.

Please do have a play with the Search function in the top - right, as sadly we don't have time to fully answer questions to the level required on all these old posts.

The stony - faced daughter of a Korean billionaire, whose older sister was brought low by the «nut rage» scandal, apologised Tuesday as she reported to police for questioning over allegations she sprayed a business associate in the face with fruit juice.

He also used science fiction and children's stories as literary bridges to explore age - old questions about sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God.

The questions is whether or not people are willing to see God as an old man in a robe with who creates essence out of nothing, or if people are willing to see God as the «creative» event that occured, a so - called actual essence of energy that was the over-all reason why we are here now.

As a very old man, one who has worked at developing some kind of understanding of who we are, what we are, why we are here, and where we are going, I can tell you that no one has definitive answers, but without some underlying system of belief about these questions you will not grow old gracefully.

The questions might be easier to answer had not Amis also framed the book as a kind of challenge to his old friend Christopher Hitchens, whom he sees as exemplary of a class of intellectuals who forever pointed us to the horrors of the Nazis while demurely turning aside from the still greater horrors of Stalinism.

But had the same questions as early as five years old.

A devastating question if we think of God as an old man in the sky with a long white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»

Then it was the older woman, his mother's mother, who lost her temper at Fania, «and spat terrible words at her in Russian or Polish mixed with Yiddish,» while his mother «sat there like a scolded child, and as her mother shot one venomous question at her after another, all of them soaked and sizzling with sibilants, she said nothing in reply.»

Questioning and tossing out old, obsolete ideas is what led to desegregation, women's right to vote, gay marriage (albeit as slow as molasses), and even many simple everyday things.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world.

Thereby a theological chasm is once again arising between the Christian and the Jew that is perhaps as great or even greater than it has been in the past, a chasm leading the Christian to question his knowledge of Yahweh, and to recognize that the Scripture which he knows as Old Testament is not the Scripture which is known to the Jew.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

But because of this, Wesley strongly encourages other gay Christians to be honest about their experience and to find older, wiser Christians who can mentor them as they work through questions related to their sexuality.

Future generations will again pose the question of truth as an element of society, hence the old question of the ecclesiality of Christian truth is still a new question.

And it's also a great way to keep the age - old debate about God going, as it raises such interesting questions.

Enough trust must be developed between the generations to permit older adults, who have the essential skills and handles of power, to work with youth and young adults in finding workable answers to the crucial questions many youth and young adults are asking, questions such as «What will enable humanity to survive on a livable planet?»

The question is as old as the early church's concern over the use of pagan practices of oratory.

They might not be as obvious or open about it on social media but the entrance into old age brings questions of retirement, health, legacy and eternity.

The idea that it was respectable to read old books, listen to old music, and debate the old questions of philosophy came to me as a liberation.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

One might phrase the survivability question more poignantly as «Whatever Happened to the Old Main Line?»

You post a paragraph about a question asked by a 7 - year old and pass it off as news worthy.

As it happens, Clare's fund - raising efforts set wheels of violence and tragedy in motion, stirring up the dust on the graves of four long - dead children and reviving old questions about their father's sudden disappearance.

It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?

For now, would you be ok if we both simply left the Old Testament as one BIG HUGE question mark?

As I got older I responded to these questions out of a liberation faith informed by my own religious and social action experience and by the thought of various liberal, neo-orthodox and liberation theologians.

has been around for a long time as well, should we therefore change the answer to that question because it is old?

We've already discussed Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world, and Chapter 3 --- «The Old Testament and Theological Diversity» — which addresses some of the tension, ambiguity, and diversity found within the pages of Scripture.

Jacobsen packs a tremendous amount of theology and age - old questions in there, I particularly benefitted from the discussions about what really happened on the Cross, as it presents an alternative to the oft - memorized penal substituionary (Google doesn't think that is a word apparently...) atonement theories.

So perhaps Ms. Peeters» film can tell us some things about us as well — it does not hesitate, after all, to move its camera from the harassing men onto the various soft - porn advertisements that also haunt the streets of Brussels, and ask the old - fashioned feminist question, one which Ms. Brown's magazine actively mocked and undermined, «How can we be respected when images like this are displayed and circulated?»

I shudder when I read Lawrence E. Toombs's advice to preachers that they should see «the Old Testament related to the New as hope to fulfillment, as question to answer, as suggestion to reality» (The Old Testament in Christian Preaching [Westminster, 1961], p. 27).

As Afrikaner - English tensions disappear, people question other old prejudices.

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

As we made our way through the soul of the Old City to Jaffa Gate, my companion, a super-Sabra who studied mathematics and philosophy at Hebrew University, asked me the inevitable question.

We have new materials available, as well as some new approaches to old questions.

As they attempt to revitalize old programs or add new programs, questions should be asked about each one in turn.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

44 It is most certainly not a question of serially adding to the old techniques and tools new ones, such as sociology and psychology.

To take Mark's presentation of Jesus» teaching as normative, or final — as on the older «Marcan hypothesis» — is simply out of the question, and sets before the Christian religion, as we have seen, a problem which nineteen centuries have now demonstrated to be insoluble.

Finally, I had a four - year - old son who posed big questions to me such as «Daddy, where is God?»