Sentences with phrase «perceived as acting»

However, as the remarks of Barack Obama, who would later win a seat in the United States Senate, suggest, it is the fact that reading a book or getting good grades might be perceived as acting white that makes the topic a matter of national concern.

«They perceived themselves as acting virtuously and doing good things.»

Another former home secretary, John Reid, echoed his concerns, telling GMTV: «The problem is that if we take that decision which most people will regard as not bringing stability then it may be perceived as acting in our own self - interest.

There have been a number of episodes where the police were perceived as acting as government tools and within a political context.

For example, when one account executive at Synergy was perceived as acting a little too hostile toward her support staff, Gordon sat down with her and her graph.

Perceived as an act of insubordination, the brunette student was suspended.

The bombs, the rough treatment of German citizens as enemies, American reactions to her claims regarding her father, all were perceived as acts of monsters (or at least unfriendly enemies).

When Australia comes to the international table asking for other countries to cut emissions how do you say no without that effectively being perceived as an act of war (we'll keep doing what harms you)?

Not exact matches

Act and speak like a leader if you want others to perceive you as one.

Well aware voters punished the Democrats for their perceived inability to govern, Abe's team is taking pains to act quickly when crises erupt, such as this month's North Korean nuclear test.

The law met with the provisional cause opposition from several American organizations, who perceived too late don't a fair trial and the contents of the act as a «virus» for the Fourth Repair.

Our individual and communal wellbeing requires us to make use of nature prudentially, to understand nature well, and to tinker with nature cautiously, just as our too - often - too - dimly - perceived vocation as stewards also challenges us to act upon nature generously.

But as long as acting on perceived economic interest constantly impoverishes the future, society as a whole must do what it can to protect itself against market forces.

If the cost of addressing these kind of issues is to be wrongly perceived as having misunderstood, as acting in a way that is consistent with a hindrance to women (as in this instance by you) rather than what is actually happening — a combination of life experience and informed opinion acting in a way that is conducive to equality, dignity and empowerment for women then this is a price I am willing to pay for the sake of women's well being.

How many were devout Christians acting on what they perceived as a true threat to Christianity?

A formal cause responds to the question why a being is such as it is; a final cause explains why or for what purpose something acts or exists; an efficient cause seeks the why, or reason, for a perceived motion from without.

The prohibition in the Bible applies only so long as male homosexual acts are perceived to be offensive.

Denomination staffers suggest a variety of reasons for the neglect: a tendency to perceive environmental problems as primarily health issues; limited resources; a disinclination to act in an unfamiliar arena («We understand someone who is hungry,» says one official.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

If you perceive it as a tiger, you're going to act to protect yourself.

I attend to my perceiving, feeling, imaging, thinking and deciding, rather than to myself as acting in the world or as a social object.

Citing a perceived wrong as justification» rather than recognizing the intrinsically wicked nature of such acts» is exactly what the Islamic Jihadists do.

This freedom of God to act withput any constraint certainly explained what believers perceived as miracles.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

I shall refer to this as perception at a distance, meaning not the psychic otherness of anything perceived in the matrix of externally related events in relation to the act of perceiving, but the spatial distance between any attended event and the percipient, which itself is part of the matrix (CN 3; II 132f).

He means that we should perceive the natural world as having its own being and value so that we are sensitive to the loss when it is disturbed and are moved to act for the health of the biotic community.

At the heart of all temptations, as we see here, is the act of pushing God aside because we perceive him as secondary, if not actually superfluous and annoying, in comparison with all the apparently far more urgent matters that fill our lives.

If I'm wrong, and being perceived as Christian is important to Barack, he needs to start acting like a Christian.

He perceives both religion and poetry as sacramental, incarnational acts.

This movement, a reaction to the perceived sterility of earlier, purely analytic studies, emphasized the unifying themes of scripture and stressed the revelatory acts of God in history as described in the Bible.

In order to be taken seriously, I thought it absolutely imperative that I act like a man and be perceived as being exactly the same as a man.

The reality of a perceived act on television derives mainly from the viewer's perspective, with a good deal of variation in the degree to which different viewers perceive a portrayal as realistic.

According to Judith P. Swazey and Stephen R. Scher, «The whistle - blower may be — and within his group usually is — perceived and treated as a Judas Iscariot who has committed a disloyal, indeed treasonable act» (Whistleblowing in Biomedical Research [1982], p. 179) The problem is frequently compounded by a sort of double - agent masquerade: some nay sayers, looking for credentials, claim to be whistleblowers.

But the people have past memories and future imagination as well as immediate experiences of perceiving, knowing and acting out the present reality.

The oldest accounts do not tell of a miracle worker, who performs as many miracles as possible, but of the proclaimer and guarantor of the coming Kingdom of God; God himself is drawing near to the world, and his nearness is perceived in the fact that through Jesus he speaks, through him he acts, through him he heals.

Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer consequences from the wrongful act.

Thus, the act of adoption, while seemingly happy for the adoptive parents, can be perceived by the adoptee as a re-play of her initial abandonment or of being kidnapped.

These acts of service like vacuuming, shoveling the snow, hanging a bird feeder, planting a garden, etc., need to be done with joy in order to be perceived as a gift of love.

The more your community is educated about breastfeeding, the more it will be perceived as a normal (rather than controversial) act.

At the time I felt like these tweeple were acting like «know it alls» who perceived formula as poison.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, youth renaissance group has lashed out at Peter and Paul Okoye of P - square group in what it described as a perceived «insult» from the music act on the Federal government of Nigeria.

The message of empowerment in both films is the same: White people are empowered through the perceived act of «saving black people» (note: I would not argue that Invisible Children are consciously constructing this message; they are trying to humanise the heroes of their story and the heroes of their story, as constructed by them, are white).

While seen by some as overly alarmist, this perceived threat increase is in part symptomatic of a broader development: the rise of the internet in assisting potential perpetrators in implementing elaborate acts of violence.

In particular, it is clear that the German military perceived itself largely as an autonomous actor and acted accordingly.

But in a 2016 ruling in a Virginia case, the high court said «official acts» by an elected official had to include specific use of government power, rather than acts that could be perceived as «constituent services.»

Fayose said it was strange for serving military generals to be interrogated by junior police officers, adding that «The president should not act in a way that he will be perceived as ridiculing the armed forces.»

«Obviously, the EFCC is presently behaving as a pet dog on allegations of corruption against allies of the President (Muhammadu Buhari) while acting as a lion when it involves perceived political enemies of the President.»

The questions people have continued to ask back home in Biu is, what may have necessitated what was perceived as a betrayal of former Acting Director...

Those who promoted the Parliament Act 1911 at least perceived this point, as is evident from the preamble to the Act, which states that it was, in effect, intended to be a holding measure pending full - scale reform of the second chamber.

He warned his audience that the Conservatives were perceived as uncaring and they must act to change the perception.