Sentences with phrase «past acts of»

Multivariate analyses revealed significant positive associations between premarital sexual aggression and past acts of sexual aggression for women only, between premarital sexual aggression and accepting rape myths for men only, and between premarital sexual aggression and relationship conflict for both men and women.

Thirdly, and particularly in relation to the NTA's response to past acts of dispossession, it maintains that the Committee failed to allow the government a margin of appreciation in meeting its obligations under the Act.

The obligation to «return» lands and territories, means that the domestic legality of past acts of confiscation of traditional Indigenous lands and territories will not be sufficient to prevent a breach of international law.

His campaign responded to Toback's hit with a positive piece that highlighted the assemblyman's roots in the community and past acts of heroism.

Those who converted to Christianity while in military service were instructed to refrain from killing, to pray for forgiveness for past acts of violence, and to seek release from their military obligations.

He holds together the present act of a body - subject as spontaneous and the past acts of the body - subject as sedimented in the present act.

There is no possibility of now altering those past acts of being.

As one who is profoundly constituted by the past acts of being that have made up the Christian movement, I share in responsibility for all this evil.

The given beings, that is, the completed past acts of being, act in their way.

But if a person now is an act of being inclusive of past acts of being, those past acts of being are not limited to those that constitute that person's personal past.

Persons are successions of acts of being, each of which is inclusive of many past acts of being.

Once we have understood that, in the fullest sense, being refers to present and past acts of being, we can allow a freer use to refer to conferences and automobiles, wars and solar systems, all those things that are ultimately composed of acts of being.

I am partly constituted by many past acts of becoming that involved extreme exploitation, as well as sanctimonious justification of that exploitation.

Not exact matches

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.

How you acted in the past is a great indicator of how you'll act in the future — and that's what your credit score bets on.

In interviews over the past week, President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether his administration will fund a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that helps offset costs for insurers.

A summary of the forthcoming orders, seen by Reuters, say past administrations «overused» the Antiquities Act, putting more federal areas under protection than necessary.

So the balancing act of mastering your own emotional response to past achievements, so that you can take an objective look at the professional value of each of those achievements and its worth to future employers, is the sole «trick» to resume writing.

However, the landscape has changed as sections of The JOBS ACT — legislation intended to free up small business capital — rolled out to the public over the past year.

This is the second DOJ suit against the company in the past several weeks, and both cases center of whistleblower suits lobbed at UnitedHealth under the False Claims Act.

Past attempts at similar net - neutrality laws were shot down in court in part because ISPs were considered «information service providers» at the time under Title I of the Communications Act.

«This may indicate that during the period of the 1970s and early 1980s too little weight may have been placed on inflation misses but in the more recent past we may have placed too little weight on unemployment misses — and if anything, we should have acted more aggressively to reduce the unemployment rate,» he said.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

The dreaded act of parallel parking could soon become a thing of the past with Chinese inventors backing their new parking robot to take away the stress for anxious drivers.

If anyone doubted that he was serious about imposing this new level of federal oversight on top of the already crowded provincial regulatory scene, signals coming from Flaherty's top officials this past summer suggested, not just a readiness to act alone, but a growing enthusiasm for that option.

The past few months, with a series of disasters seemingly one on top of another, have felt apocalyptic to many, but the bright side to these dark times has been the outpouring of donations and acts of generosity that followed.

If ABX acts the same as Homestake did during the market crashes of the past, it's value should go up by a bit or even sky rocket.

Refreshing popular content from the past acts as an additional prompt to Google that a website is being regularly updated with new information of use to searchers, which can continue to solidify your rankings.

While the quarterly chart gives us a view of the big picture of how gold has acted in the past, the daily chart shows you how to use the Trade Triangles.

As a member of CFSA, Check Into Cash abides by the spirit of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) as applicable to collect past due accounts.

This has some market participants worried that the Fed may see a need to act more quickly this year than in the past in order to stay comfortably ahead of inflation.

The remaining 106 pages consist of detailed amendments to the NEB's draft conditions, a book of authorities containing past board decisions, a consolidated version of the National Energy Board Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (in English and French) and excerpts from Enbridge's Northern Gateway evidence.

And stocks were positive 6 out of the past 9 times in the year leading up to the start of a recession, dispelling the myth that the stock market always acts as a leading indicator of economic activity.

Eduction Minister Jeff Johnson could introduce an Education Act, which would mark the third time the Tories have attempted to introduce a consolidated piece of education legislation in the past few years.

I've recounted over the past year the many allegations that Ferro — in rejecting Gannett, in making business deals with those formerly associated with his Wrapports company (that ownership now held in trust, he says), and in doing private placements of shares or now selectively buying back shares, as he's done with Oaktree — has not acted in the best interests of all shareholders.

We have 24 now, and we have hired 6 more directors over the past 8 months, so that we now have 8 of our 9 director roles filled (and our SciTech director will be serving as acting innovation director until that role is filled).

In contrast to strong domestic demand, net exports have acted as a substantial drag on GDP growth over the past couple of years, although this drag has begun to diminish.

From past few years, Facebook has been trying to cut off the organic reach of Facebook pages.The introduction of Facebook Zero acted as the final blow.

Upon taking office, one of the president's first acts was to slash the previous administration's energy subsidies, which cost the government more than $ 51 billion over the past 13 years.

Christianity deserves the dark stain of its shame over its evil acts of the past.

It's a very unfortunate reality that many are nervous now because of past events... and I believe that in some terrorist cases the name of Allah was shouted or spoken before the act, which provides that connection of Islam (and possibly an Islamic prayer).

It is the understanding of the past, accurate or not, that is guiding how Christians act and react today.

In the past, conservatives have complained that the NCCB has claimed an authority that it does not rightly possess, that it has spoken and acted in ways that weaken the effectiveness of both local bishops and Rome.

What people used to attribute in the past to acts of God and then science explained are actually physical phenomena, and in reality they don't conflict with the concept of God.

For the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs / early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential pain.

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

«We call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression.»

Martyrdom, Dan concludes, is an act of remembrance, like the Eucharist, in which «we make the past present», and is an act we should perform often, and with gratitude.

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.