Sentences with phrase «on scale»

What about the flipside — what about the person who is struggling with depression on some scale?

Everyone hurt each other and it was always eye opening to see dysfunctional believers on that scale.

Dull submission is left far behind, and a mood of welcome, which may fill any place on the scale between cheerful serenity and enthusiastic gladness, has taken its place.

Regardless of where you fall on the scale of interest, the most important question is how Christians should conduct themselves during this election season.

On a scale of 1 - 10, with 10 as high, I would rate the brutality a 9.

This evaluation of the Gospel records has become clearer and more widely held during the last century or more, a period which has witnessed the development of biblical study on a scale more intensive than ever before, and using the valuable tools of historical and literary criticism.

I know I am not alone — a study of 600 adults showed that Facebook has produced a basis for comparison and envy on a scale never before seen.

Concluded Managing Editor Hutchinson in a three - part series on the TVA: «The projectors of this many - sided venture have a real chance to produce, on a scale to command imitation, a new order of life for this country» (April 25, 1934).

Under any conception of power, to refer to a person or group as powerless is to reduce that individual or group on the scale of value.

All started off as Religious people, who grew to hate religion, tried to ban it, and ultimately became mass murderers on the scale of millions — in Pol Pot and Hitlers case, killing especially those who opposed their brand of Atheist and in Hitler's case slightly mystic pagan «beliefs».

We have some different viewpoints to be sure, different canons of scripture even, but I've always given you the benefit of the doubt that you actually believed the positions you espoused, but this is over top demonization on a scale that I've never seen from someone claiming to be a christian before, not even from the most holier - than - thou fundamentalist.

The experience of sin can be artificially thinned out when put on the scale of the whole creative process.

Jaroslav Pelikan, the late professor of history at Yale University, wrote of the Christian tradition on a scale that no one else attempted in the 20th century.

There is little to suggest any further activity in Galilee, at any rate on the scale or in the manner of earlier days.

If the verdict was «guilty,»» we would meet again to recommend punishment on a scale of five to 99 years.

On this scale humans would have a richness of experience and a degree of self - determination vastly different in degree, though not in kind, from the proton.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

The firm establishment of Augustus as the emperor brought peace and prosperity and the fashionable Roman world began to demand oriental luxuries, on a scale unknown before, which increased the trade.

This contract logically led to a moral corruption and disintegration of values on a scale previously unknown.

He was careful not to personally score Jesus on this scale, but it's pretty obvious that he would score very high on it indeed.

The awards, viewing figures and critical acclaim have all been overwhelming, and while ITV expected the show to be a hit, few people predicted success on this scale.

Evolution is a natural process of nature... even on the scale of planets and stars..

But we still place Peter pretty high on our scale, right?

Sharing his views about Mappiness on Radio 4 recently, former archbishop Rowan Williams described the concept of logging how happy you are on a scale of 1 - 10 as a «joke».

If we act like family, and who doesn't face difficulties with that on some scale, we might see through the fog we have generated.

But if sin is sin, why do we view pride as just a little lower on the scale of bad to worse?

Note, I'm not talking about any of Mao's other dubious personal behaviors, but mass murder on the scale you're claiming was not one of them.

Even Richard Dawkins, so famously atheist, puts himself on a scale of 1 - 7, puts himself at a 6 — with 7 representing absolute disbelief.

not on a scale as large as in other countries.

Now on our scale of concerns, what to do about meat sacrificed to idols ranks somewhere below decisions about whether to sod or seed the yard, but in Paul's day eating meat was a question about the limits of Christian participation in pagan culture.

Peoples Temple on its scale, and Synanon and Scientology on theirs — and let us make discriminations in this part of the spectrum, too — are coming to be stamped on the cultural mind as code words, like Watergate and Vietnam.

If the price of virginity is the repression and distortion of that which is good and wondrous; if virginity is achieved by surrounding sex with guilt and fear; if the quest for virginity drives them to an unhealthy dependency on some form of autoeroticism as a preferred means to release their sexual energy; then for those reasons I would say the price of virginity is too high on my scale of values.

No one really follows any of it on the scale where it could be useful.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

The concept that one faith, or one God is the only God, is ignorance on a scale therefore ever seen.

The fine was over twice the amount many expected, and some accused the EU of putting their thumb on the scale of the free market.

In 1917, Europe was at war on a scale unknown in previous history.

When you step on your scale and see that you weigh less, thank the Lord.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

The belief basically goes as there is a ritual in the afterlife where the deceased would have their hearts weighed on a scale against a feather.

This could be a referance to that belief and God could be simply saying «I know all and therefore I know that Pharaoh will not let my people go unless I do these things, but because he is against me I will (in a sense) harden his heart on my scale and he will not be in my afterlife.

The US is actually ranked VERY low on the scale of the standard of living compared to other nations.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Jones predicts that process theology will tally 6 points of compatibility with liberation theology's gospel and mission of economic, social, and political liberation for the wretched of the earth.

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On the scale of top ten things that God himself could have over to Mankind... it didn't even rank... but most people don't acknowledge is Christ within his teachings according to the Gospel of Matthew recapitulates 5 of the 10 commandments!!!

The German nation began as a metaphor of Schiller's ode to the spirit of human freedom and concluded with Hitler's spirit of life taking on a scale of unparalleled horror.

Quite the contrary, what is more general is lower on that scale of value, a point that Jews who affirm the divine election of Israel and Christians who affirm the Incarnation can readily understand.

The next stage of our progression, beyond this life, will bring joy and happiness on a scale that we can not imagine.

Seriously, though, it is inappropriate and ludicrous to claim as you are doing that a mass murderer who has purportedly acted on a scale of brutally killing most of the creatures on a planet is «loving».

Nevertheless, what is more general and lower on that scale of value is not therefore without any value at all.