Sentences with phrase «only the difficulty of»

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Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

Only 22 percent of companies surveyed reported they had no difficulty in retaining employees, meaning the other 78 percent struggle to keep their people around.

«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»

The difficulty is that only one of these potential investors will even read your epic novel of a business plan, and it's the least likely to actually give you a loan — the bank.

Of those who had, only 32 % had difficulty securing it.

You said you rank liquidity by «difficulty level of withdrawing your money without a massive penalty», and for Lending Club notes, it's not only difficult and extremely time consuming to sell all of your notes in their super illiquid market, but you would have to sell your notes at large losses to hope to get others interested in buying your notes.

«Until now, we've only heard anecdotally about difficulties for regional small businesses in obtaining credit without any numbers to confirm this,» said Kausar Hamdani, senior vice president and Community Affairs officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Chinese businesses have expressed difficulties with adjusting to the specificities of business culture in Russia — likely referring to its slow pace and complex bureaucracy — compared to the business cultures in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.61 Even though Russian attitudes toward the Chinese may be improving, this change is only recent, and long - standing perceptions that Russians harbor anti-Chinese sentiment may still fuel Chinese doubts about the feasibility of pursuing business endeavors in Russia.

I would argue that the mechanism that forced up the savings rates in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact economies seems to have been the scarcity of consumer goods: income levels among workers were generally not too bad, but these workers could only convert income into consumption with great difficulty, if they got in the right line at the right store early enough.

The dust will settle only when one of them will get a significant difference in price and mining difficulty, and you can guess which is most likely to go up and which down.

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Without access to digital currency in the form of credit or debit cards, they live in a cash - only economy and have difficulty participating in the 21st - century economy.

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

In fact, Lincoln had difficulty with the aristocratic Jefferson on many accounts, and in private he not only scorned Jefferson's views of the ideal yeoman farmer but also condemned Jefferson's hypocrisy regarding slaves, a hypocrisy that implied Jefferson's use of the word equality in the Declaration need not be taken literally as applying to all men.

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Although, according to Grant, what characterizes the God of the gospels is «all - inclusive love,» the theme of love was one that philosophical theologians treated «only with difficulty»; after the New Testament, we encounter «relatively few references to God's love» in the early Christian literature.4 The subject of God's power, however, is an altogether different matter.

In Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith, I deal extensively with the history of polling and the current difficulties polling firms face, including not only plummeting response rates but also the public's declining confidence in polling.

The faithful Christian or Jew has difficulties with that, if it means that only one kind of regime is compatible with the will of God.

It was not even taught by Jesus himself, and can only with difficulty be read back into the writings of Paul.

I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.

On the one hand, persons who have tried to pray without getting very far with it are apt to feel that if only someone would teach them — give them a book of instructions, or a course, or at least a lecture or two — the difficulties would all be cleared away.

One of the difficulties we pastors have in finding a job outside the church is that all of our education and experience is frequently only with church.

«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.

The clergyman on the staff of a mental health center must not only define his role in relationship to the person having difficulty, but he must also define his role in relationship to the center's staff members, who are also interested in helping this person overcome his difficulties.

Moreover, if all the formal possibilities are not controlled, we not only run the risk of fallaciously inferring the truth of one view from the difficulties of some only of its possible rivals, hut also we run the risk of trying to answer a perhaps meaningless question, namely, Which of two falsehoods (or absurdities) is more false?

«Catholic families are disproportionately affected by the difficulties of the housing market, particularly those families with only one working parent»

Even as it is sometimes suggested that the idea of Lutheran ethics is oxymoronic, so it is only with great difficulty that one can even imagine a Dionysian Lutheran.

If what we are trying to understand here were only a peculiar intellectual difficulty in conceiving how time and eternity can be related, the problem would be an abstract one hardly worthy of special attention so far as the meaning of love is concerned.

you are but one, we are many,,,, my friends will never return and it is a disgrace in their memory... on our own soil... where they died needlessly under the hatred of those people for our way of life... don't insult us... as we have been through much over these years and this will only lead to more distrust and anguish... how can you sleep at nite as we have great difficulty... please do not support this project is does not merit consideration... at this time...

The real difficulty, to my mind, is that they separate Jesus from God, giving a picture of an unforgiving God whose pardon could only be bought by a bloody sacrifice.

Not only have they faced the difficulties of language, but they have all been required to cover in a few pages material which could scarcely be covered adequately in a whole book, and to fit that material into a common outline.

Part of the difficulties of Cartesian philosophy, and of any philosophy which accepts [presentational immediacy] as a complete account of perception, is to explain how we know more than this meager fact about the world although our only avenue of direct knowledge limits us to this barren residuum.

Thus, J. R. Lucas points out that such a criterion for time involves not only technical tense - logical difficulties, 7 but also involves a denial of the basic intuition that time is a concomitant of consciousness — we are aware of time even in the most tranquil of environments (TTS 13).

But any classical theists who admit that their belief is only the most plausible conclusion based on the evidence available must regard this difficulty as another bit of evidence against their idea.

Although this is only a footnote to the main line of this address, we may properly note in passing that some of Protestantism's subsequent difficulties with prayer and the devotional life, and with religious symbolism, come from neglect of those aspects of the medieval image of ministry that ought not to have been set aside.

The issues of chief difficulty arise at the point of questions as to whether Jesus expected the Kingdom to come on earth or only in some realm beyond earthly history, and in the latter event, whether he expected earthly history to end very soon by a catastrophic divine intervention when he himself would return in glory to reign over a transfigured world.

«But the principal difficulty for me is the sheer immensity of the problem: all of the homes are in need of so much help, and what we are actually able to do is only a small part of what is needed.

One of the difficulties encountered by many young Filipinos who had been trained in Western classical philosophy (which until recently was practically the only kind of philosophical training that was available in the Philippines) was the inadequacy of such a mode of thinking to articulate fully our experience as an Asian people.

As previously noted, such difficulties constitute a problem for faith only if one assumes a literalistic, mechanical view of inspiration.

As a matter of fact, the temporal character of process only heightens the difficulty.

While it is important to recognize the religious component in the contemporary pluralistic situation, we must not at the same time imagine that the difficulties of this situation could be resolved if only religious people came to a better understanding of each other.

Maimonides, then, is in agreement with Nahmanides that meaningful prayer arises only when one is in a state of difficulty.

The philosophy of absolute idealism, so vigorously represented both in Scotland and America to - day, has to struggle with this difficulty quite as much as scholastic theism struggled in its time; and although it would be premature to say that there is no speculative issue whatever from the puzzle, it is perfectly fair to say that there is no clear or easy - issue, and that the only obvious escape from paradox here is to cut loose from the monistic assumption altogether, and to allow the world to have existed from its origin in pluralistic form, as an aggregate or collection of higher and lower things and principles, rather than an absolutely unitary fact.

They only increase the difficulties of the marital adjustment.

In man the process of symbolization so transforms the whole that this prior and primordial experience recedes to the fringes of awareness and is only rarely and with difficulty brought to attention.

These difficulties facing the classical atomic theory are well known: secondary qualities remain inexplicable; no meaning can be given to the notion of an external world outside of the sense organs of the observer; organic time must be reversible — which it is not; we can never choose among hypotheses, since all of our mental states follow «from necessity,» so we don't have theories, but can only report autobiographies, and so on.

It is characteristic of the difficulties prevailing that though the number of manuals of the history of religions is legion, the main American standardwork, G. F. Moore's treatise, is over 25 years old and has been reprinted only recently.

The project requires that the scientific establishment commit itself to a strategy of indoctrination, in which the teachers first tell students what they are supposed to believe and then inform them about any difficulties only later, when it is deemed safe to do so.

I'm not saying that it solves every difficulty, but only that it is pretty much impossible to make heads or tails of the Declaration without a close look at Pius XII's address.

Nevertheless, there are difficulties inherent in the solution.5 It enlarges the scope of what is nontemporally valued to include not only all pure possibilities but also all real possibilities.