Sentences with phrase «person in a given situation»

This suggests that goodness is not an unqualified property of an object, but is an aspect of the relation of that object to a specified person in a given situation.

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But the situation also gave Sonnen the chance to showcase the potential of renewable energy systems as a way to provide immediate power to people in need.

• To give some perspective on how difficult it is to publicly hold people accountable in these situations, I want to share Niniane Wang's response to Caldbeck's apology on Medium:

«He seemed much more interested in giving a valuable message than in going for cheap cheers, which is what most people do in these situations,» he says.

I didn't think too much about how other people were feeling in any given situation.

Wikipedia defines social proof, also known as informational social influence, as «a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior for a given situation.»

So they ask open - ended questions that give other people the freedom to be thoughtful and introspective: They ask what you do, how you do it, what you like about it, what you learned from it, and what they should do if they find themselves in a similar situation.

We can not as a central bank give support to situations» in which people wager their savings in such a way.

(On the flip side, this situation leads to a special type of investment operation that actually causes people to seek out ownership of bad businesses when they think the economy is likely to recover given that they experience bigger upswings as the operating leverage effect happens in reverse.)

I've heard of these scams that people do and people end up getting in trouble for this mistake that they made and I don't want to go through this type of druma for trying to earn extra for my education.So could you please give me some feed back on this situation so I can know what is what with these people.

In such situations, you can not give views about the direction of policy — you can not say more than you honestly believe — and that will often disappoint people looking for a clear guide to future action.

In this video I will give you some of the situations why a person might want to sell a home or investment unit.

This is just another example of a command that God gave to Israel people in that particular situation.

This is not god's moral, it's just commands he gave to Israel people in certain situations.

Just because people have failed in the past, it doesn't mean we should give up on them and stop trying to make situations better.

No person should ever trust, or give a previously established religion or group their support, especially in the current situation where our highers seem to be in a race for control.

I ask then given that faith is personal, biased, unreliable and subjective to situations in the persons life, how do you justify your statement that faith and trust are a valid method to determine that your faith is correct.

It is so easy to manipulate people and situations and give yourself standing in life when you can call on the reputation of the Holy Spirit.

«[Now] many students are given just one lens — power... Every situation is analysed in terms of the bad people acting to preserve their power and privilege over the good people.

It is important as far as possible to remove temptation by changes in the situation that surrounds us, to develop strength of will and clearness of moral judgment through any help other people can give us, to utilize whatever inner resources we have for doing right.

And nowhere do we see more clearly the terrible lack of real love than in the scarcity of people willing to give themselves in coping with dark, difficult and messy situations.

Half the things you mentioned on your post are irrelevant in our case as most people we have come across have needed the stuff that you mentioned not to give out but I guess it's a different situation everywhere.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

In situations where there does seem to be a place for deliverance, but the person also has mental health problems, do not give advice that goes out of your remit as a Christian — do not tell them to stop medication or change their treatment plan.

We are given a survey of a large variety of typical concrete situations in which people find themselves, and these situations are set in the light of what God has done for men in Christ.

It would have to be related to the actual situation of peoples lives in a given locality.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

Many outward expressions are suitable, the appropriate one in any given case depending on personality type and on the person's social and cultural situation.

Thousands of people were interviewed about their brushes with death in every kind of situation — being in a car accident, giving birth, attempting suicide, et cetera — and many described the same odd thing: love.

Their move to a Catholic church was taken as meaning only one thing: that despite the lip - service being paid by the diocese to the teaching that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», the diocese of Westminster was in fact giving its tacit approval and support to a situation in which that was precisely what was happening, in a setting in which the Pope and the teaching of the Church were regarded with hostility and held up to contempt.

to have a conviction that (a person or thing) is, has been, or will be engaged in a given action or involved in a given situation: The fugitive is believed to be headed for the Mexican border.

In this fashion we may readily grant that Socrates and Gautama and any number of saints or just plain good people have frequently achieved the maximum value possible in given situations without thereby claiming them to be Christs, on the grounds that the aims they so richly actualized were not specifically christologicaIn this fashion we may readily grant that Socrates and Gautama and any number of saints or just plain good people have frequently achieved the maximum value possible in given situations without thereby claiming them to be Christs, on the grounds that the aims they so richly actualized were not specifically christologicain given situations without thereby claiming them to be Christs, on the grounds that the aims they so richly actualized were not specifically christological.

What emerges in a given situation as «operant religion» will differ considerably from the «formal religion» of the historic creeds, and more concern with the former is essential to understanding how belief systems function in people's daily lives.»

One of the keynotes of every great religion is expressed in the desire that the sick should be made well, blind eyes opened, unfortunate economic situations set aright, that persons in positions which give them no opportunity to display their own real worth should be given that opportunity....

What appears to be happening is that multiple strategies are emerging out of the current trend and contemporary practices, taking into account the urgent need to find solutions given the dramatic situation in which hundreds of millions of people in the world find themselves and which risks ending up in collective suicide.

loc, B. Lohmeyer, Das Evangelium des Markus [1937], ad loc., seek in vain to avoid this conclusion, which is supported by the strong Greek expressions for «tremble and shrink», by giving explanations which do not fit the situation, in which Jesus already knows that He must suffer for the sins of His people [Last Supper].

The given situation of home and office and store and school, and the places where we live and work, the people whom we meet, the duties that are laid upon us in the course of our daily life, these are the occasions for our knowing God.

Such notions have little or nothing to do with love; they are a matter of human justice which may be a mode of love's expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because love is ultimately not concerned with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest of love is with persons, persons in society with their fellows, and the fulfillment of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.

If so, Christians and other religious people should view the situation realistically and give up on the cultural illusion that serious religion will just fit in with the common culture.

Given the present ecological realities of rising consumption and dwindling natural resources, can we be content with a situation in which 1 / 16th of the world's people use up at least 1/3 of the world's nonrenewable raw materials?

To be human is not only to «become» but also to «belong» — to belong with other people, sharing with them in the human situation, participating in their interests, receiving from them and giving to them.

Seriously, I am usually suspicious of people who put their religion «right out there» in situations that seem to be more of a sales opportunity or a situation like this — «You should give us your dog because we'll give it a good Christian home».

In a given situation, the rights of the people committing the immoral act are always superseded by the rights of the potential victims.

In my experience, if you can convey to people that you are really on their side, they will give you room to maneuver in deciding how to respond to their situations; they will even allow you to faiIn my experience, if you can convey to people that you are really on their side, they will give you room to maneuver in deciding how to respond to their situations; they will even allow you to faiin deciding how to respond to their situations; they will even allow you to fail.

Given that situation, it will seem natural (though infinitely sad) that we should maul the holy liturgy so rudely, that our new churches should be built smart and heartless, that we should chatter so brightly and forget silence, that we should carry on in general as though the following of Christ crucified had been restyled into an exciting gay adventure for getaway people.

The patient explained that he knew the difference between «giving up and letting go,» and that even people in his apparently hopeless situation could make that choice.

The likelihood of a given person's behaving in conformance with a given «act» is a function of three factors: «salience,» the degree to which the particular behavior exists psychologically for the person; «repertoire,» the summed salience of all possible acts for the person in his present situation (any single act is a fraction of repertoire); «arousal,» which is the extent to which the person is activated to perform any act in his present situation.

The research indicates, however, that the figures given particularly by the paid - time religious broadcasters in support of this claim are sweeping overstatements; they do not attempt accurately to assess the situation of the person involved in the decision making before claiming them as a conversion statistic, nor do they take into account the durability of the change which, it is claimed, is produced.

Moral reflection requires a certain level of competence and capacity to see the subtleties at work in a given situation (a competence, the survey tells us, our young people seem to lack).

Or, in a less moralistic and more psychological mode: To understand God is to act in such ways in this given situation involving another person that I may discern how God's grace is at work in the trans - actions between us to correct what is amiss and, where life is broken, empower for new life.