Sentences with phrase «own privileged position»

So when it comes to corporate funding, «You have to be in a really privileged position to say «I don't need it,»» she says.

Our posturings, our imagined self - importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

After warning the City of Stockton that its pension obligations did not enjoy a privileged position in federal bankruptcy court, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein proceeded to confirm the city's plan of adjustment.

«I'm in such a privileged position to work with someone who has the experience at scale that she has,» he said.

I have this very privileged position here where I work with the art incredibly closely, almost closer than the artist in some ways because I'm breaking it down into minute little sections.

Having enough money to save for retirement puts you in a privileged position relative to many Americans.

If God gave up his Godhead, considering it as something not to be grasped, but humbled himself and emptied himself and became a man, why are we so unwilling to give up our rights, our privileged positions, our thrones of intellectual certainty and polemical assertiveness?

When you say «Copernicanism», are you referring to the heliocentric model of the solar system — which David's post discussed — or are you referring more broadly to the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe?

Since the post you're replying to distinguished between «Copernicus» heliocentric model of the solar system» and «the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe» — i.e. the «Copernican principle» — I'm not really sure why you ask that.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

Those in less privileged positions.

Finally, they make no distinctions among revolutions; communist, nationalist, justificatory, tribal, Francoist revolutions — they approve them all, though they accord Marxism a privileged position.

Speaking to some of my mates from Africa, they are disappointed with the lack of enjoyment some people in the west get from their privileged position, more so than the lack of help coming out of the west.

The same point is affirmed in Scripture regarding the privileged position of the poor, and it has been reaffirmed forcefully in recent liberation theology.

But you can't extrapolate from your * profoundly * privileged position (all things being equal) something that wouldn't have been accepted just 100 years ago (largely speaking), and something that CERTAINLY wouldn't be accepted in the vast majority of the world.

What a privileged position!

When we place ourselves up as the bringers of peace, as God's spokesman in the world, as the ones who will restore humanity to the garden, and then God seems to favor someone else who is «doing it all wrong,» we get jealous and envious, and we set out to kill and destroy them so that we ourselves do not lose our privileged position.

However, Eliade hesitates to assign a privileged position to the Judeo - Christian tradition as he argues that there are images and symbols in Christianity, which are common properties of the entire religious history of humanity.

Since you mentioned it, I'm glad to point that the Big Bang is just a way to dodge the facts and logic conclusions made by Edwin Hubble in his Observational Approach to Cosmology, pointing that Earth was in a privileged position, in the center of universe, which obviously has to be done for a purpose, by whoever is responsible for the Creation.

Christians do nothing to protect the victims because we are too busy protecting our privileged position.

Election by this holy God brings no special status, no privileged position.

Why does symbolic logic hold such a privileged position for Whitehead?

Among its other roles, religion may be in an especially privileged position to raise questions about fundamental collective values.

There will be no privileged position for the Jews as children of Abraham, for God does not need them.

The book has largely been ignored in the mainstream of the Church where the therapeutic mentality of secular psychology continues to hold a privileged position.

«I'm in a really privileged position as a woman filmmaker, as a black filmmaker because at the current moment there's not a shortage of opportunity to tell the stories and that's not something that I was able to say even two years ago, three years ago,» she says.

White, affluent liberals should prioritize the interests of poorer, less secular Democrats, instead of maintaining their privileged position.

So when Paul writes what he does in Romans 3:9 - 20, he is writing a warning to believers in Rome about becoming proud of their privileged position before God.

None should be given a privileged position, since the proper outcome depends only on the best argument, and an argument's worth does not depend on where it comes from.

-- I have lived in the West my entire life, but never in the US, which seems to be a special case in some ways, and fail to see my privileged position.

One solution would be for them not to maintain their privileged position, but instead to prioritize the interests of the poorer, less secular, and more moderate parts of their coalition.

To ask middle - class Americans to see American culture as Jesus would see it is to ask them to vote against their own privileged position in society.1

Plantinga does not play defense because he believes that his brand of theism holds some privileged position or because he is not interested in learning from others or because he is not involved in a common quest for truth with his critics.

It deprives Jesuits of any privileged position in the academic world.

I may, for example, privately suspect that papal insistence on divine infusion of the soul represents a sop to our fears, a device for maintaining a belief in human superiority within an evolutionary world offering no privileged position to any creature.

It includes the growth of professionalism and what has been called a «new class» of knowledge workers and information specialists — growth that has, to say the least, occurred at the expense of the privileged position that clergy in past centuries occupied within the professions.5

Whitehead explodes the boundaries of philosophy and denies it a privileged position over artistic and imaginative enterprises.

Like Derrida, he recognizes the privileged position accorded to certain types of philosophical assertions by virtue of the language system they presuppose.

We do not have some privileged position in the universe and it's very unlikely that a god had anything to do with it.

His remained a privileged position.

The Church in India is in a privileged position, because of its situation in the midst of other religious traditions, to work out new ecclesial structures which translate the vision of the Kingdom.

In light of humanity's privileged position, it is perfectly legitimate to understand that humans have authority over creation and animals.

Legally also the minister occupies a privileged position.

Historically, the Christianized West believed that humanity held a privileged position in the world.

There is no privileged position before God, not special status as God's chosen people.

In either case, Paul is saying that Jewish people have traditionally thought that as God's elect, they existed in a privileged position before God.

He now reclaims the privileged position of mathematics in this ensemble simply by appealing to the success of the modern development of technology and natural science.

With this jibe at their privileged position, he made it clear that he was determined to make them sing for their suppers.

When people are in desperate need and you tell them from your privileged position that helping them will hurt your bank balance, you suck.

Clergy are in a privileged position of trust in their congregations and communities.