Sentences with phrase «ordinary acts of»

Kim explains,» Sometimes ordinary acts of everyday life can acquire a different meaning through a new perception or relationship.

Most ordinary acts of theft or shoplifting are deliberate, but some people who steal may have kleptomania.

When more emphasis was given by preachers to the gaining of indulgences — for instance, by the good work of making a cash contribution to the building of a church — than to the sacraments, the liturgy and ordinary acts of charity, then it was made to appear as though the values of the Gospel were being abandoned.

And Ford cites a passage in which Hartshorne calls God's selection of the laws of nature which characterize the universe «a «lure,» an irresistable datum, for all ordinary acts of synthesis» (TPP 77, citing WEP 21).12

«37 Thus, whether the specialness of an event is due only to an interpreter of the event, or whether it is due to both a person who is speaking and acting and to someone receiving this as a special act, it is man who turns an ordinary act of God into a special one.

Thus, 9/11 was an ordinary act of Islamic life of faith.

Through various references to literature and narration, Fly Paper also probes the ways in which the literary imagination parallels that of film and how the ordinary act of storytelling shapes larger histories and enduring myths.

Of course, they could abolish the federal death penalty with an ordinary act of legislation, and the President could pardon or commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row.

Not exact matches

Before a bell rung 42 times to commemorate the dead, Giordano and other officials praised the ordinary and extraordinary acts of heroism by first responders and community members as the firefight raged on for more than a week.

Rule 14a - 8 of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act allows companies to omit proposals from their proxy statements if they fall into certain categories such as dealing with «ordinary business» issues.

A board acting in this capacity and with the knowledge of the company's business and the implications for a particular proposal on that company's business is well situated to analyze, determine and explain whether a particular issue is sufficiently significant because the matter transcends ordinary business and would be appropriate for a shareholder vote.

Consists of 1,250,000 ordinary shares held by Marlborough Special Situations Fund and 1,620,000 ordinary shares held by Marlborough UK Micro Cap Growth Fund, for which Hargreave Hale acts as manager.

Accordingly, this prospectus and any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of the ADSs or ordinary shares may not be circulated or distributed, nor may the securities be offered or sold, or be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor pursuant to Section 274 of the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore, or SFA, (ii) to a relevant person (as defined in Section 275 (2) of the SFA), or any person pursuant to Section 275 (1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA, or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA.

So almost by definition, low - tier asset purchases by the ECB and Bank of Japan act as publicly - funded subsidies for bondholders, rather than ordinary citizens.

However, in May 2016, Title III of JOBS Act was enacted, allowing ordinary folks to invest in startups via crowdfunding.

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

This isn't the fault of the Ordinary or Cardinal Levada; as usual, the blame lies with the slow - acting Bishops of the Benzodiazepine Rite based in Eccleston Square.

In ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualize.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

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Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

He is the God of history in just this way, as the one who intrudes his strange finger into history with this act that is hardly an ordinary historical event, hardly an event that we can handle with historical tools.

By the Great Death: the great death of his own ordinary selfhood in all its dimensions; by a complete reversal of his hitherto - followed, conventional, ordinary subject - object modes of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Many ordinary people sense in this thinking, in the case of criminal acts, a callously intellectualized disregard for the victim of crime.

«The unification must be accomplished before a man undertakes some unusual work,» but any ordinary work that a man does with a united soul acts in the direction of new and greater unification and leads him, even if by many detours, to a steadier unity than he had before.

Political activists of all stripes have difficulty getting ordinary citizens to care about their issues, and if they do care, to act on them.

«If we don't act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can't be treated by antibiotics.

Chris Dierkes at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen has a thoughtful post up contesting Sir Edward Downes» son's description of his parents» decision to undergo voluntary euthanization as «a very civilized act».

But in Jewish thought an event which is contrary to nature, which occurs outside of the known and ordinary chain of cause and effect, is called a miracle and ascribed to a supernatural cause, to the act of either God or demons; for Satan as well as God can work miracles.

With the sole exception of a single allusion to Jesus» last supper with his companions, nothing which could in the ordinary sense be called an act of Jesus or an incident in his career is so much as referred to, and in only a few highly dubious passages are his words quoted.

The analogy uses ordinary physical interactions to illustrate the interplay between a slowly acting, overarching individual and the myriad of quickly acting individuals which make up its body.

Our ordinary, pre-revelational images of God are often little more than expressions and legitimations of those powers before whom we act out our heroic performances in an effort to gain the significance for which we crave.

It is unclear to me, however, why an entity that has the influence that God has at the level of creativity - characterization could never be said to have the capacity to coerce another entity Sureh; through granting and withholding novel forms, through organizing the network of inclusion and exclusion of past characteristics in the provision of the new entity» with its actual world, and through shaping the very purposes of the new entity; God can sometimes act in ways that in ordinary language we would consider to be coercive.36 But these considerations do not stem from any of my revisions.

So transferring the existential valence of existing to «actuality»» has the logical effect of reducing our ordinary sense of «existing» to that of «self identity» and so picture the act of creation as one of adding existence to already constituted individuals.

Baudelaire writes in Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works, 1852), «I am told that he did not drink like an ordinary toper, but like a savage, with an altogether American energy and fear of wasting a minute, as though he were accomplishing an act of murder, as though there was something inside him that he had to kill, «a worm that would not die.

The ritual act withdraws us from the ordinary world of mortality and limitation into a special space, time and action in which the mundane and finite is transformed into something of eternal quality.

Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.

It would never be by any ordinary men but it would rather be by those on the tiptop of (Finance & Power) to pull such act either towards making immediate financial or political gains or for hiding their crimes by making another crime...

Now it's celebrated as a sacred right that demands veneration from the whole culture, including the millions of ordinary people who see this kind of officially blessed homicide as a gravely evil act.

Jacob and Moses both act in a way quite out of the ordinary, and by such action win the offer of hospitality which ultimately leads to marriage in each case.

As for the uncritical adoption of «secular» styles, there is no denying that the act of giving ordinary, secular - sounding expression to extraordinary reality can transform the ordinary and secular into something sacred.

«The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.»

Yet in ordinary substantialist ways of thinking, the more fully an act is caused by one agent, the less can be the contribution of another.

A community is true when, in the ordinary circumstances of daily life, its institutions and practices enable persons to multiply the frequency of their acts of knowing and loving.

With this event, we'd like to give you a more intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in Syria with a screening of «I Want to Live», a beautiful and moving documentary, and offer you a chance to savour the flavours of the region, to celebrate the vibrant and resilient food culture, where the act of sharing food and communal eating is the act of living!

Richard A Miller, David K Round, «Price - fixing, price leadership or ordinary commercial considerations: Guilt under section 45 of the Trade Practices Act» (1982) 10 Australian Business Law Review 251

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If you notice any symptoms that your baby is acting out of the ordinary — or you just feel as if something isn't right — seek immediate medical attention.

For example, the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doing something quite ordinary, signing a document but, because they did so in an extraordinary setting, with a revolution begun but not yet won, their act was extraordinary.