Sentences with phrase «particular act»

It is possible that particular acts of scientific misconduct such as «hiding the decline» could yet be pursued.

Coconut butter in particular acts quite differently than coconut oil.

While in its superficial and exploitative moments it wanted to wipe away the category of sexual sin («If it feels good, do it»), in its better moments it helped us see that sexual sin is really something different from, and more than, particular acts which can be neatly defined.

Indulgences, where we do particular acts of devotion and charity as set by the Church, focus and personalise a little bit more these saving effects.

Prenatal Yoga in particular acts as the best reliever for pregnant women undergoing back, joints, muscles, and nerves aches.

It's always dangerous when preachers, (especially on national TV) make dubious connections between particular acts of particular groups of people, and calamities and natural disasters.

They often are ways that girls in particular act out hostilities.

A medical malpractice case typically concerns particular acts of negligence, such as a failed surgery or misdiagnosis.

Law uses rhetoric to establish its authority and to legitimate particular acts of political and legal power.

In managerial jargon the government in particular acts as a set of «customer facing departments», sounding out focus groups (market research), presenting new policies to consumers (marketing, PR) and acting as customer advocates, as Cardinal Blair used to do and as poor little Harriet Harman did just recently.

It has recently been disclosed that this particular act involved the use of a «nerve agent».

I mean, the experiment they imagine they've run isn't even logically possible, because there's no visible intentional content in any given electrical impulse that identifies it with any particular act.

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.

The particular act which may initiate the life of faith and obedience is only the first of a whole series, for the Christian life is one which is consciously lived in obedience.

By his faith he determines the meaning he will give to life as a whole, thus creating a framework of value and expectation (that is, of love and hope) in the spirit and power of which all particular acts of freedom are performed.

Forgiveness in human relations is something more than a series of particular acts of forgiveness.

But the metaphysical order of reality is just thereverse of the order of human knowledge: what first comes into it is a certain act of existing, which because it is this particular act of existing, circumscribes at once a certain essence and causes a certain substance to come into being.

In order to do this we do not need to postulate a God standing in judgment and threatening damnation in response to particular acts.

Oakes appears to think that the American Catholic populace - at - large (including, presumably, him and me) is relieved from having opinions or making judgments about the justness of a particular act of war contemplated by our country because the classical just war theory permits those judgments only to statesmen and generals.

They were those particular acts either prohibited by scriptural texts or contrary to natural law — acts done with the wrong person, in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose.

It connotes something beyond the morality of the particular act, namely fidelity or rejection of relationship with God.

The latter is a range of possibilities for action, not a particular act.60

We may not be able to focus a particular act of freedom vividly in our consciousness, but that is no different from the situation with respect to physical prehensions.

Does condom use in a particular act of sex outside marriage make the act worse or better?

Whilst in a particular act condom use makes the spread of STD's less likely (as many studies have shown, though the actual failure rate is accepted as 30 \ %), still, over time, amongst many individuals and the society as a whole it makes the basic problematic behaviour more frequent and more ingrained, inevitably, after a certain period of time, cancelling out the extra «safety» gained by the reckless promiscuous individual person starting to use condoms.

The position of any particular act on the spectrum would be determined by the degree to which the act seals off the possible futures of the violated person; that is, the degree to which the act resembles ultraviolence.

In a particular act there might be, in one sense, a positive effect of partially mitigating the risk of killing the other partner.

No longer is it possible to state dogmatically that any particular act — masturbation, adultery, premarital sex, homosexuality, etc. — is automatically and intrinsically immoral.

The burden of proof is on those who would oppose this, and they must demonstrate why or how a particular act impinges upon the liberty of others in some way, in order for the act to be opposed (Gaus & Courtland, 2011).

You just suggested that a particular act was irresponsible.