Sentences with phrase «persuasion do»

It can be frustrating when your «fantastic» abilities in legal persuasion don't appear to be winning the day.

Straight canvassers attempting the same persuasion don't get such great results.

This self - regulation of donations is not because monetary persuasion does not work.

This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you.

Even this coercive, persuasion does not cut off the expression of past responsible freedom carried by determined efficient cause.

Persuasion doesn't work.

Not exact matches

The word «influencer» gets thrown around a lot in business, but how does the power of the persuasion really work?

Putin's appeal to nuclear might as a tool of persuasion and national power in 2018 represents a bygone era of Cold War competition, and doesn't really change anything.

There are roughly a million books that claim to help you do just that, from classics of productivity and persuasion, to a whole industry of «get more done» type manuals.

They don't look for inspiration or devise new persuasion points on their own.

And that's because what you have done with the above approach is displayed an empathy towards the other party, which, according to Kevin Du, author of Split - Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art & New Science of Changing Minds, is key to properly managing differences.

(Eco-groups will supplement with what tools of persuasion they have as well; just don't rely on them for wisdom on bond yields.)

«We just moved the Vietnamese Communist Party to recognize labor rights in a way that we could never do by bullying them or scaring them,» Obama told me, calling this a key victory in his campaign to replace stick - waving with diplomatic persuasion.

«Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.»

Persuasion is the art of getting others to see things the way we do.

Our God does not look at your religious persuasion either ways.

The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.

To establish modern republican democracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruder ones.

To answer your second question, I do believe that most Calvinists are true followers of Jesus, because I consider myself to have been a true follower of Jesus, even with Calvinist persuasions.

Can a politics detached from moral reason give reasons why toleration, civility, and persuasion are superior to coercion in doing the public business?

I do not use it as much as the Times does, and I think it should not be used in a way that precludes the conversation and persuasion that should be, but is not, the ordinary mode of public discourse.

Christians of a more intellectual persuasion often believe that the bible was inspired by God, but that God didn't literally instruct the scribes who wrote its various books on exactly what to write.

We do not aim in preaching at mere information transfer or persuasion of doctrinal truths.

Many do so by honest democratic persuasion, but others seek to coerce those who disagree with them.

You don't have to identify with certain political persuasions or ideology on sexuality or science or socio - economics or foreign policy.

I do recognize that there are varying perspectives along the atheistic continuum, I had in mind those of a militant persuasion that are in no short supply on this blog.

I am personally not religious in the slightest, and do not let anyone's religious persuasion influence my vote, unless they attend a church of hate.

Like effective and respectful therapy, persuasion brings about new wants and aims, but it does so, not by coercion or by frustrating desires, but by opening new possibilities, which is the result of divine «creativity.»

For instance, E. P. Sanders says it is «almost indisputable» that «Jesus was a Galilean who preached and healed,» while the cheerful apostate and self - described «happy agnostic» Bart Ehrman believes scholars of any persuasion can affirm that Jesus performed healings and exorcisms without evaluating the claim that Jesus did so with supernatural power.

Some of the writers in Homosexuality seem to believe that persuasion and «openness» can transform church and society, while others indicate that homophobia is so entrenched in the present order that nothing short of revolutionary apocalypse will do.

God does not work by persuasion alone only because of a divine decision to do so, as in a voluntary self - limitation, which could in principle be revoked from time to time.

It's the same difference between two types of trial testimony: The character reference given by the accused mother being akin to religious persuasion and CSI type hard evidence that places him at the scene, with the victim's blood on his hands and a video of him doing it.

In sum, authority, lying as it does between domination and persuasion, is a form of social control that implies both the right to command and the liberty of those to whom commands may be issued.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Gladden felt that this was still to be done primarily through the persuasion of individuals to the Christian point of view, but the results would mean a change in the structure of society — an overcoming of ruthless competition by enlightened self - love, co-operation, and sharing.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

Religious missionary conversion can only be done by persuasion not by force.

I don't think that's what religious believers of any persuasion should seek: one's faith - based observances shouldn't need a «stamp of approval» from New York, D.C, or any other city for that matter.

I experienced all this at the increasingly famous (and, to some, infamous) Bethel Church, and I did so as an evangelical Christian of Reformed persuasion.

If we assume, as we presently do, that the primary goal of both God and concerned humans is to maximize freedom (creativity) for the greatest number, it is the following query with which we must be concerned: Do continuous divine persuasion and occasional human coercion, in conjunction, better maximize freedom than would continuous divine persuasion alondo, that the primary goal of both God and concerned humans is to maximize freedom (creativity) for the greatest number, it is the following query with which we must be concerned: Do continuous divine persuasion and occasional human coercion, in conjunction, better maximize freedom than would continuous divine persuasion alonDo continuous divine persuasion and occasional human coercion, in conjunction, better maximize freedom than would continuous divine persuasion alone?

On the other hand, if the answer is yes — that is, if divine persuasion alone does not maximize human freedom to the extent that such persuasion and divinely approved human coercion does — then it is difficult to see why the process God would not use coercive power if this were an option.

As the feminine emerges, so does a much richer and more healing global society, one characterized by interrelatedness, interdependency, synergistic mutual enhancement, persuasion, and so forth.

The task of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which in this instance means using the arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics of disruption to do the work of justice.

The question was not about her religious persuasion, her intelligence, or your pride in her... The question was how can you pontificate and pass judgments on these blogs when you didn't have the cojones to help your daughter with the facts of life?

Yet, in doing so, the presupposition underlying divine persuasion is destroyed.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt early on, even though every single person I have encountered, who is of the Reformed persuasion, has proven to be extremely capable of pointing out to everyone else where everyone else is wrong, and can do it in such a way as to give you the impression that, not only do they want to correct your erroneous beliefs, but also want to make sure you feel very, very bad about being completely wrong.

While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of the religious socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?

As I said in my own piece, people of my persuasion would do handstands if we could enact Wilson's policy today and have the law restrict abortions beyond eight to ten weeks.

Two things: he infallibly preserves each successive cosmic and subcosmic event in his perpetual memory, thereby rendering it immortal; and he gives order and guidance through inspiration to the creatures in the next phase of the creative Process.57 Hartshorne adopts the Whiteheadian view that God may really rule the world but that he does so chiefly by persuasion.

For what it's worth, many, many Christians do not reject evolution and do not spend vast amounts of effort fighting science, certain political persuasions, and the like.