Sentences with phrase «only by implication»

It's a technique I used to admonish my composition students to use whenever possible: work from the specific outward and upward to the universal — and sometimes get there only by implication.

- Booklist «Diaz's restrained prose reveals their hopes only by implication.

One suspects that Gogarten would more clearly see the problem of the particularity of his subject if he admitted that he takes a metaphysical position if only by implication.

It can also reveal the author's attempt, present in most studies if only by implication, to correct what the writer feels is an overemphasis in the corpus of previous studies on another perspective.

And so, in our use of the term «revelation» in this book, we shall be referring primarily to special revelation, and only by implication to original or universal revelation.

At the same time it must be said that these links are not certain and if the resurrection symbol is present there, it is only by implication.

Some of them state this directly in such words as «The kingdom of heaven is like...» In others the relation is only by implication.

My point being that taking a member of the set of all things Jesus never explicitly taught on and positing, if only by implication, that his silence is an endorsement of that thing is not a valid foundation for making a sound argument.

Not exact matches

The real implications of the new survey are only now being played out with the release of the the numbers — I can't bring myself to use the word «data» — collected by the NHS.

A new paper by Alessio Paces puts a new and potentially very helpful spin on hedge fund activism (I say potentially only because I'm still thinking through the implications):

AAP believes that only practitioners who are regulated by the IAA should use the term adviser with an «e» because of its legal implications.

It was very specifically aimed at him and by implication was also aimed at any other gay Christian as that is the only thing you know of Trey to make such a harsh judgment based on.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

What a child needs, rather, is «a moral education which subtly, and by implication only, conveys to him the advantages of moral behavior...» (p 10).

But again, and even with the possible implication of divine judgment in the death of Rachel, we see the repeated motif of the Jacob cycle: the tension between sin and divine grace, the expression of faith that Jacob - Israel is saved and redeemed only by the will and purpose of God (35:5), and finally the repetition of the promise and the blessing, and the second account of the changing of Jacob's name to Israel.

The implication is that the return of captured territory won't bring peace; that can be achieved only by ending Israel's existence.

Where I would previously have been inclined to agree with Whitehead's characterization of Bergson that the intellect cart only grasp by spatializing, I now think (and have argued above) that I had failed to recognize fully the implications of the claim I had argued for in 1993 — that if there can be no intuition without intellect, and if intuition can grasp intelligible things without spatializing, then there is a sense in which the intellect, insofar as it is manifest in intuitive operations of consciousness, can grasp experience without spatializing it.

However, such implications are drawn by most thinkers only very selectively.

Consider, as an example, the controversies surrounding the recent work of Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on the ethical and jurisprudential implications of pornography: their conclusion is that pornography, by its very existence, makes the exercise of full citizenship an impossibility for women, and that therefore making such literature illegal is not only consistent with, but is properly implied by, the Constitution of the United States.

It was identified that the Shroud of Turin's image was created by an extremely powerful flash of light, so powerful that Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at Pavia University, described it as unearthly, «The implications are... that the image was formed by a burst of UV energy so intense it could only have been supernatural.»

Christians seem unruffled not only by the terrors of our time but by the darker implications of their own Scriptures.

The practical ecclesial implications of this critical insight are many, and it seems to me that they have only been superficially recognized by 20th century ecumenism, which has concentrated too exclusively on inter-denominational dialogue and the mutual recognition of the most established churches.

The implications of the constitutive relationality affirmed in CiV are stunning: no relations taken up by human beings in the course of their lives are purely contractual, -LSB-...] freedom is an act of choice only as already embedded in an order of naturally given relations (cf. 68) to God, family, others, and nature.

I can only stand by and watch as a church theologian intensely interested in the implications the quest has for faith.

He not only recognized, but was driven by, the ontological implications of this assertion: If the continuum hypothesis turned out to be true, Spinoza would be vindicated because God's infinity could be packaged into a neat series of numbers.

(Science and the Modern World, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 174 & 178) He comments, «This position can be substantiated only by the discussion of the general implication of the course of actual occasions — that is to say, of the process of realisation.»

This classic theological insight has been obscured or rejected by many current developments in theology, but the costs may be extremely high, for its implications may well be true not only of personal moral and spiritual life, but of the entire biophysical cosmos as well.

The key implication is an obvious one, discerned by many: The only valid object of God's love... is God!

Closer to home we have only just witnessed how widespread calls to end the live export of animals to be slaughtered overseas are easily ignored by the Australian Government when the financial implications to the industry become evident.

(Paternity leave is so rare, still, that I can only include it by implication.)

The implication of the new subatomic physics was that certainty was replaced by probability, or the notion of tendencies rather than absolutes: «we can never predict an atomic event with certainty; we can only predict the likelihood of its happening»... This directly contradicts the mechanistic model we explored above, and it implies that a subject such as normal birth needs to be looked at as a whole rather than its parts...»

I am no by any means suggesting my parenting style is perfect or the only way but forcing independence on an infant before it is ready (and yes the cues are fairly clear when they need more space) is not only unnatural but is being found to be damaging to the brain and has implications for their mental health further down the track (do some googling).

When a decision, that needs to be made, has broad implications on large parts of a society, the overall priorities of a society can only be reflected in a vote (even if some of those priorities are not identified by experts).

Article 108 of the Constitution provides that once a bill has financial implications, it can only be introduced by the Executive.

«And even a view that the government's choice of leaders on the economy gave the implication that «now there's a real job to be done sorting out the mess, it can only be done by men».»

«If the authors only suggested meditation or therapy and didn't address the issues they believe to be at the root of the morale problems — funding, bureaucracy and fighting with administrators — then I think faculty would be justified in feeling a little insulted» by the implication that their problems could be solved by meditation or therapy alone, he wrote in an email to Science Careers.

In a linked editorial, Kenneth Johnson, Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa outlines the major public health implications of these results, and says «only complete cessation is protective and should be emphasised by all prevention measures and policies.»

«If Drs. Han and Zhang's hypothesis is right, then additional insights into the KLF15 pathway may not only help prevent diseases affected by bile acid amounts, but it could have major implications for drug metabolism,» Jain said.

Easterbrook's implication that global temperatures have varied by more the 20 times the medieval temperature anomaly over the Holocene is simply laughable (only if you include the deglaciation might that be true, but since that was before the onset even of settled human communities it seems less than relevant).

I was also diagnosed in 2009 with a significant imbalance between levels of zinc and copper but I didn't understand the implications of that, nor that I'd need to monitor it for life, so I took the supplements prescribed by a GP (general practitioner — the Australian equivalent of an MD) for only three months and gave up.

The displacement of more nutrient - dense foods (eg, fruit, vegetables, lean meats, and seafood) by less - dense foods (refined sugars, grains, vegetable oils, and dairy products) and the subsequent decline in dietary vitamin and mineral density has far reaching health implications — consequences that not only promote the development of vitamin - deficiency diseases but also numerous infectious and chronic diseases (7).

Get dream augur about any kind of proposal in your dreams with related suggestions of interpretation and implications to life only by dream dictionary.

The plot tracks Maud's gradual association with and then involvement in the suffrage cause, but it fails to acknowledge well - known class tensions within the movement, for example: Maud being cautioned by Gleeson's policeman character seems to be the only acknowledgement of her position as a working - class woman within the movement, and the potential implications.

This happens when students read the stellar works of authors and try to understand not only what was written, but also the implications from what messages are being portrayed by the words choices, style, tone and organization of the text.

Instead, the panel was meant to help students see the value of a interdisciplinary perspective on the complex issues surrounding «knowledge» — not only what is meant by the term, but how those understandings can be enacted and what implications they have moving forward.

By implication, this will only be achieved if all teachers — including subject specialists in secondary schools — ensure that their students are able not only to read and understand new vocabulary and terminology in their subject, but can also spell those words.

However, the collective implication of their dismissal of the need for evidence is a Tower of Babel, in which leaders pursue their own visions, only to be followed by a successor with their own vision of reform.