Sentences with phrase «only under the influence»

Can we say that what we learned to see only under the influence of revelation is in fact the one natural way of seeing things?

It was only under the influence of nineteenth century Western androcentricity, one of the more dubious «blessings» of British colonial rule, that many educated Indians would become uneasy with this accentuation of femininity in a culture hero.

Only under the influence of the gospels was the term «pupil» used for a while in the later literature, crystallizing the ecclesiastical use of «disciple,» restricting it to the twelve, as is usual today.

Not exact matches

It's only the third time a major effort has been mounted to fight a patent troll under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act, a report from Ars Technica says.

Many investors believe that China is currently under - represented in global equity indices relative to its economic influence (for example, China represents roughly 17 % of global GDP, 11 % of global trade, and 9 % of global consumption but today comprises only a 3.5 % weight in the MSCI ACWI Index).1, 2 Given the size of the China A-shares market, inclusion in global indices is regarded as key to bringing China's overall representation more closely in line.

FARA is one of the only ways the public can see firsthand how foreign powers wield influence in the US; documents filed under the law provide unprecedented insight into foreign lobbying methods.

A placebo was formerly thought to effect healing only if the illness was «merely psychosomatic» or «not organic» It is now more fully recognized that actual chemical or organic changes can occur under the influence of a sugar pill.

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

Going further back, it was only the culture of western Europe under the influence of Christianity and it's notions of a single rational God that science as we know it was birthed.

My only real concern with the «religious» beliefs of politicians is the level of influence they are under from their «group» (read cult).

For this reason I consider it rather a misnomer to call Thomas» Fifth Way the «teleological» argument, if only because so many people, including Prof. Koons and Ms. Pearcey, conflate teleology with design, no doubt under Paley's malign influence.

This is a sad fact of which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence of some form of affective energy which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.

Still very much christian in many ways culturally — only because most of my life was spent under that influence.

By interiorizing itself under the influence of the Sense of Evolution, planetization (as the theory of complexity would lead us to expect) can physically have but one effect: it can only personalize us more and more, and eventually (as can be demonstrated by following to their conclusion all the successive stages of its twofold demand for wholeness and irreversibility) «divinize us through access to some Supreme Center of universal convergence.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

Only once have I ever been under the influence of anything and that was anastesia (totally spelled that wrong I know) from a surgery I had, and believe me I was petrified and trying to find anyway around it so I won't have to have a surgery specifically for that reason.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

Reared under ecclesiastical influence, he not only dreamed of restoring the Roman Empire to its pristine glory but was as well deeply concerned for the purity and welfare of the Church.

Under the combined influence of Science and History, and of social developments, the twofold sense of duration and collectivity has pervaded and re-ordered the entire field of our experience; with the twofold result that the future, hitherto a vague succession of monotonous years awaiting an unimportant number of scattered individual lives, is now seen to be a period of positive becoming and maturing — but one in which we can advance and shape ourselves only in solidarity.

Troeltsch's The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches only came to have great influence in the United States after its English publication in 193l.7 Both of the Niebuhr brothers had come under its influence using it much earlier from its German editions.

Only among the Anabaptists did Christian awakenings and revivals occur under the influence of Biblical preaching, Bible readings, and hymn singing.

The term «pastor» came into general use only during the eighteenth century under the influence of Pietism, especially in Lutheranism.

DC has lost to one man and has only lost to that man under the influence of performance enhancing drugs.

He was only on the pitch for an hour but his impact and influence on the team can't be brushed under a rug.

It has become apparent that the world has shrunk dramatically under the influence of the Internet; new moms have access to more information and advice than ever before if they'll only reach out and grab it.

This is rather easy to explain as the movement formed around Năstase and Sandu is the only one that is not, directly or indirectly, under his influence.

Media are still under influence of some of these people who really don't believe in Humanism, and has only target for «Profit and Power».

Sadly, our people do not realise that when we march out periodically to vote under the influence of money, we are only validating the criminal appropriation of our rights to determine our future.

The charge against him read in part, «That you, Robert Obuoha, on or about the 12th day of February, 2016 in Port Harcourt at the Port Harcourt Judicial Division did corruptly give N150, 000 only to Mr. Ishaq Salihu, a public officer and Zonal Head of Operations, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, South - South Zone, for the purpose of recharge cards and with a view to influencing his decision in a case wherein you are being investigated and thereby committed an offence, official corruption, contrary to Section 13 (1)(a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003 and punishable under section 13 (1) of the same Act.»

Currently in New York, a driver under the influence of alcohol or drugs may only face a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident, rather than felony charges of intoxicated driving.

However, under the new proposal, prosecutors would have to only prove the person paying the bribe intended to influence the public official or that the person receiving it intended to be influenced.

Holdren also noted that «the natural changes that are under way would, if they were the only influences, actually be cooling the planet.

The current climate is influenced by processes that go far back into the history of Earth: the Greenland lithosphere is 2.8 to 1.7 billion years old and is only about 70 to 80 kilometers thick under Central Greenland.

In present - day estimates of the universe's makeup, ordinary atoms (such as those we detect as the visible universe) contribute only about 5 percent; the bulk of the cosmos takes the form of so - called dark energy, under whose influence the universe is expanding at an increasing clip.

An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence.

They were able to erase a memory by recalling it while the rats were under the influence of a drug call U0126, which induces limited memory loss (humans can't get it — it's only approved for use in other animals).

«Not only does alcohol contain a lot of calories, but people also make poor food choices when they re under the influence,» says Delinsky.

But the lumbering simplicity is deceptive: Mark is tortured, uncomfortable in his own skin, and steeped in a self - loathing that abates only under Dave's influence.

Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.

Impaired: Movies Under the Influence is an adults - only program of shorts about booze, drugs, and sex, spanning seventy years.

Because annual state testing is still obligatory under ESSA, and the vast majority of states are still using the Common Core, the only news story worth emphasizing related to this issue is that congressional «spending committees have generally ignored the Trump blueprint»: the president's lack of influence at present means that non-rich Americans have no practical means of avoiding sticking with the status quo of the two previous administrations, a test - based accountability strategy that has here been no more effective in promoting social mobility than it has in its original setting, Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

For example, Boston Public Schools Teaching Fellowship Program only considers candidates who «display excellence in their previous endeavors, and who are dedicated to reaching and influencing students — especially those in under - resourced areas — on a daily basis.»

It has been urged that the influence of these complicating factors can be materially reduced by measuring only the change in pupil achievement which takes place under the guidance of a single teacher.

Their simultaneous arrival meant that Schreyer was able to influence only the smallest details of the car's design, but the new model has been created entirely under his watchful gaze by a team led by European design chief Gregory Guillaume.

He was the only politician who ever made Dean want to become one himself — an idea that ended the week he was busted for smoking pot on the steps of a campus building and arrested a few days later for driving under the influence.

Seems I'm not the only one who fell under this spell — just take a look here: «Influences on Popular Culture».

Legend had it that they produced the jingles under the influence of the product, which of course only helped their myth grow.

National kennel clubs wield enormous influence on canine activities within their respective countries, impacting not only those breeds which they register, but often the practices of groups or organizations of breeders and dog enthusiasts that operate out from under the kennel club umbrella.

After an hour of homemade Irish drinking songs impressive only to people under the influence, everyone but me was ready to call it a night.