Sentences with phrase «only by human efforts»

If the church were supported only by human efforts, it would have disappeared long ago.

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Love of the neighbor is shown not only by the way a disciple lives, which we shall consider first, but also, as we shall see in the second section of the chapter, by the combined efforts of the followers of Jesus to meet human need and, third, by attempts to change the structures of society.

By our own human efforts, or only by the act of God in sending his Son to be the propitiation, to be sin on our behalfBy our own human efforts, or only by the act of God in sending his Son to be the propitiation, to be sin on our behalfby the act of God in sending his Son to be the propitiation, to be sin on our behalf?)

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

As for whether the world's recent extreme weather was made worse by human influence, that answer likely won't be available for years — and only if a research effort similar to the one that analyzed the 2000 U.K. floods is undertaken.

The characters involved are making a good faith effort — but good faith efforts by humans can only go so far.

Highly influenced by phenomenological philosopher, Maurice Merleau - Ponty; Nesbit harnesses philosophical investigations of human perception to address issues within image making in an effort to not only exist as an object, or momentous glance, but as an invitation for a suspended visceral exchange.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

As a geologist, I am highly frustrated by the asymmetry of research effort concentrated not only on the rather abstract notion of global average temperature almost to the exclusion of the other important climatic variables, but further obsessive and myopic self - flagellation over the human influence on trace CO2 levels.

In «fact» the only evidence that emissions produced by human industry have any measurable effect on the «Temperature of the Earth» is that it is proclaimed loudly and often that it is an unchallenged and unchallengeable fact and every effort is made do demonize and / or ridicule and / or prosecute as a criminal anyone who dares to question, no matter how mildly, that it is in fact a «fact».

Guided by such knowledge, with enough resources and efforts, and only if done in time, human ingenuity can harness advances in science, technology, engineering, and policy to develop effective solutions for addressing the challenges of environment and climate, population, and development.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

This is a sport which was once referred to by U.S. Senator John McCain as «human cockfighting»; while he later softened that stance it was only after some years and a concerted effort on the part of the sport to round off its harder edges.