Sentences with phrase «people as agents»

Think of theology as an activity, the activity constituted by a type of inquiry, which engages the whole person as an agent, a doer.

Worship in the full sense — worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economic power.

Power of attorney is a document that appoints one or more persons as agents (or «attorney in fact») to act on behalf of the «maker» or «principal».

Not exact matches

This summer, Gilbert and James met in person to hash out their differences; Gilbert apologized for the letter, the two men embraced, and days later James signed a two - year agreement to return to the Cavaliers as a free agent.

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Like most people, they're also hoping to not overspend, «getting the best bang for their buck,» as noted by Calgary luxury real estate agent Daren Gull.

Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, who was one of the first professionals to use the word, defines it as «the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.»

As such, no warranty of accuracy or reliability is given and no responsibility arising in any other way for errors and omissions (including responsibility to any person by reason of negligence) is accepted by BlackRock, its officers, employees or agents.

Instead, it requires coming to terms with the fact that masculinity trains men to have great difficulty recognizing women — or, indeed, anyone that presents as feminine — as persons, as agents, as authoritative and worthy of respect, and then making an effort to see and treat them that way.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

None of the security guards named in the lawsuit were charged, although FBI special agents told BuzzFeed News that two of them were questioned as «persons of interest.»

Agents raided space Mr. Cohen uses in the Rockefeller Center office of the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, as well as a room Mr. Cohen is staying in at the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue while his apartment is under renovation, the person said.

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Despite the fact that these virtual humans were not representations of actual people, they found that participants» performance of the novel task was impaired when they were led to believe that the virtual audience consisted of avatars, but not when they were framed as agents.

«The IRS offers no explanation as to how the IRS can legitimately use most of these millions of records on hundreds of thousands of users; instead, it claims that as long as it has submitted a declaration from an IRS agent that the IRS «is conducting an investigation to determine the identity and correct federal income tax liabilities of United States persons who conducted transactions in a virtual currency during 2013 - 2015» the Court must find that the Summons does not involve an abuse of process.

Certainly the public is legally able to sell their property without the aid of an agent, just as most people are able to change the oil in their cars without a service station.

Real Estate Agent: As a real estate agent, you only have to help people find the right homes in exchange for commission.

As evidence, SolarWorld cites a 2014 Grand Jury indictment of five agents of the People's Liberation Army for acts of economic espionage including breaking into SolarWorld's computers.

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer on Monday were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump as well as information related to the role of the publisher of The National Enquirer in silencing one of the women, according to several people briefed on the investigation.

In Jesus death and resurrection as first born of New Creation, we have each been given a new identity as Resurrection people who are to live as agents of reconciliation.

As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust, threatening to unravel the security of both nations.

It was used as a primer, here in America, to teach communist agents how to brainwash people, and, in fact, how to subvert entire populations.

But even the people who downplay his significance as an agent of historical change acknowledge the pathbreaking character of his writings, and just about everyone grants that he was the founder of modern Jewish philosophy.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

And as other people have observed, the way the Satan acts in Job is almost in cahoots with God, as God's agent of testing.

These attacks are the act of people following Satan not God and those claiming responsibility for the attacks need to be recognized as agents of Satan — God did not cause these attacks — he judges each according to his merits — anyone that ridicules God or his prophets will be dealt with by him not humans — these attacks are the works of the followers of Satan.

In other cases individuals such as Daniel and Mordecai are God's agents in bringing a just death upon guilty persons.

It is a history, and it has functioned — as history tends to function — as a binding agent, melding disparate individuals together into a single people by giving them a common past.

So far as any person is concerned, «so perfectly free is the power of moral causation which is bestowed upon him through the redemption wrought by Christ, that notwithstanding all this prevenient and assisting grace he is himself emphatically a causal agent in his own salvation» (FG 60f).

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

Christ must be incarnate in that world, indigenous to those people, or he will be, as he has been before, another agent of colonial oppression.

They are made to act — and should want to act — as agents of the public fisc who can not rightfully use the tax funds paid under duress of law by all the people — of many faiths and no faith — for the imposition of the religious beliefs or for the institutional advantage or aggrandizement of the sponsoring church.

In these descriptions, the person (e.g., the cremated sister) acts as the primary agent, finally shaping her whole life project and emerging as a whole into an immortal, afterlife state.

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It is an agent of impotence, as Illich has argued, and as power of person is lost, relationships of all kinds become trivialized.

The disciples are recruiting agents for the new people of God, but their function as such is simply to confront men with the reality of God coming in his kingdom, and leave it to them.

This acts as a deterrent to a person realizing that something is wrong and that they need to get psychological help as these experiences make them feel that they are God's agent, they are chosen and need to continue and reach the world with their message.

«People may use religious agents as a moral compass, forming impressions and making decisions based on what they presume God as the ultimate moral authority would believe or want,» the team write.

From these considerations it becomes clear that mathematics, which superficially appears to have no relevance to the knowledge of human nature, actually affords important insights about human beings, not only as rational agents, but as persons with freedom yet also bound by necessities in the spatiotemporal order.

One of the most unpalatable lessons of history is that evil is often perpetrated by people who think they are doing good as midwives of progress, agents of natural selection, saviors of Christendom — whatever.

This requirement is an extension of the principle that the airwaves belong to the people and that stations are acting as the agents of the people.

One can also watch the genesis and development of her work as she related its progress to her friends, who included not only her literary agent and editors, but also people whom she never met face - to - face.

I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.

The people as participating agents in the political process succumb to the syndrome of apathy, hopelessness, and de-capacitation, and the national democratic states are weakened.

16 - 21) even views it as a blasphemous denial of Christ, making Christ an agent of sin — the sin being the breaking down of the barriers between Jew and gentile which had preserved the Jewish people from assimilation.

Israel's religious leaders had been moving towards monotheism, and the prophetic idea that Yahweh was using Israel's enemies as his agents in bringing judgment on his sinful people was a long step towards recognition of his universal sway.

This surely would be the case if God is construed as an agent like a person, only separate and bigger and overwhelming.

God's relation to the world is successively viewed as analogous to the relation between (1) a king and his kingdom, (2) a clockmaker and a clock, (3) one person and another person, and (4) an agent and his actions (or, in one version, a self and his body).

If, on the other hand, he sees himself as the directing agent of an exchange between the meanings his people bring out of their lives and the meanings of the gospel, exciting meetings of meaning will occur that will profoundly affect both the people and the world in which they live.