Sentences with phrase «point attempts as»

However, Ingram's first NBA points would come in the second quarter on a three - point attempt as he knocked it down in the face of Rockets forward Luc Mbah a Moute.

Not exact matches

Asking more questions in your attempt to understand their point of view will also help diffuse the situation as you are showing a genuine desire to hear what the other person has to say.

Critics point to The Stat as a willful misrepresentation and an attempt to sucker people into buying franchises.

Or better yet, as Kevin Fleming pointed out «Starting a business is like attempting to climb up a mountain during a hurricane,» which tempts me to ask what he does to relax.

This, Klosterman argues, is how it has always been (for a while we were certain the Earth was flat until that was proven incorrect), and from that starting point, he attempts to explore which ideas or truths we believe today may be seen as woefully incorrect 100 years in the future.

As a starting point, I will attempt to recreate the NDP's results, by using the same study on federally regulated workers.

The relatively fixed exchange rate remained a weak point in the monetary control process, as attempts by the Reserve Bank to change monetary conditions were significantly offset by private capital flows.

While he took great pains to point out that it's still months away from his July start date and by that time «the UK economy might be in an entirely different place,» he did attempt to clarify his position on specific points such as inflation (he supports a continued course of «flexible regulation») and further stimulus (he's for it, should the British economy need it).

«Mr. Speaker, as I said, on the subject of credibility which was raised by the NDP, my point is this,» Mr. Moore offered, attempting to segue from a question about the shuttering of the Health Council of Canada.

When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point.

Ironicus, you can consider me a friend up to the point when you start infringing on MY rights to perform my duties, and begin attempting to express your opinion about a subject on which you are not well - educated in such a way as to pretend you have authority in that arena.

FAIL» = > my claim was that hundreds of people believed that had witnessed a resurrected Christ, again, I accept you concede that point as you did nt attempt to refute it.

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

I say that because if someone is attempting to prove a point by using a math equation that doesn't align with observable reality, then I think that qualifies as a retreat into mysticism.

An attempt to point to the multifunctional meanings of the term «God» is often taken as a dodge.

I say that simply to point out that so far, as I attempt to adjust my thinking regarding the authority of Scripture, I have not found a universal command for all people everywhere throughout time.

@tru — Yes, you got the gist of what I was wanting to say, except that I attempted to explain as best I could what you summarized in the first two points, but as for the «don't ask» part, I still think this is a very important question.

Although our feeble attempts at theology might be fairly amusing to God, the one sign we can all point to as we seek to know God is Jesus Christ.

Your discomfort stems from the fact you don't feel this forum is controllable enough, and as has been pointed out, silence or threatened silence is another way to attempt to control the narrative.

Have you ever had someone quote a bunch of Bible verses as you in an attempt to prove their theological point?

To counteract this, as I blog through my notes, I will attempt to point out the traps as best I can.

Keep in mind that as I reply, I can't possibly say everything I need on the subject, but here goes my attempt at a couple of key points:

Rather it attempts only to point out the logical and cosmological congruity of these unobtrusive formative factors with nature as understood by science.

While concordism leaves the reader scratching her head as she attempts to figure out how there could have been waters above the sky (Genesis 1:7), Walton's approach «maintains that this terminology is simply describing cosmic geography in Israelite terms to make a totally different point.»

But that is done only in order to come later to the point of a clearer pastoral attempt to nurture attitudes of mercy and justice as opposed to pride and inordinate trust in riches.35

The method used in the writing of this book is the same as that used in the preparation of the two previous volumes — The Religion of the Hindus and The Path of the Buddha — which I have edited in an attempt to present to Western readers the major religions of the world from the point of view of the followers of those faiths.

Every attempt to reduce the ways of God to a syllogism will fail at some point, as it does here.

The response to those such as Rushkoff and others has been a well - intentioned though historically inaccurate and socially misguided attempt at reasserting the old twentieth - century idea of peoplehood as a starting point for Jewish identity.

As we pointed out in chapter I, above, it is here that the modern attempt to reconstruct his teaching has been most successful and, today, the best - known feature of that teaching is its incomparable use of simile and analogy.

My dear, read for your self and before you throw such statements, attempt to tackle the points I made throughout this form on merit basis, not whims and desires (or ignorance as is the case in your comment).

The main point is that the inclusivist can read the second part of this paper as an attempt to understand cohesive nexus in terms of the logic of relations.

If you can't understand my explanation above and see that as an attempt at discrediting, without pointing out where exactly it's wrong, then there isn't much more I can do, other than hope one day you'll learn something.

It will not be possible to elaborate these liberative hermeneutical trends in Islam in this paper, but I shall attempt to present the idea of sainthood as an aspect of the notion of al - insan al - kamil (the Perfect Man) and point to some broad Christological reflections.

In a moment I shall defend my account from this charge, but let me first point out that Cobb's theory of regional inclusion leads to a position that is equally as absurd as the conclusions with which he attempts to saddle my presentation.

I guess I don't mind all these things so much except when, as you point out, it seems to be an attempt to get the world to like us.

As C. S. Lewis pointed out in his reflections on the Hegelian versus the Christian approach to history, history does have an ultimate telos, but that is known to God alone and therefore any human attempt to explain it fully is doomed to failure.

But, as Rubin points out, this attempt to create a post-human hunter - gatherer who lives in mystic harmony with the whole remains deeply reliant upon the blessings of civilization, especially the peace secured by the Enlightenment.

The following pages represent one attempt to do this, and, as indicated earlier, they are written from the point of view of a supporter of process thought as the most adequate conceptuality available for us today.

Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»

Again and again, Wright asserts that there is no fossil evidence of intermediate forms between earlier primates and human beings; and, again and again, Dawkins attempts to disabuse her of this vacuous «mantra» (as he calls it) by pointing out that there certainly is such evidence and by directing her to it, but all to no avail.

The point is that, even today when we attempt to develop a conceptual scheme for the understanding of man, we ordinarily bring to our task an understanding of concepts and a set of concepts which arise in our dealings with the external world as mediated by sense experience.

But as we attempt to understand the character of Christian existence in the primitive community, the decisive point is that the personal God was known as inwardly present without loss of the sense of responsible personhood.

To attempt to «classify» Merton in any of these categories — as poet, theologian, critic or monastic commentator — is to miss the point.

Again we would want to note that in Faith movement we do affirm the need to develop the traditional presentation of this point, as we briefly attempted, for instance, in our May editorial.

Sayer's biography has more detail than Wilson's, disagrees with Wilson on some points, is not as readable or as witty and does not attempt to probe Lewis's psyche in the way Wilson does.

It is useful, then, precisely because it points to Christ as the only one who can restore order to our attempts to know God.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

One might argue (as does Vischer) that the more specific intent of the text is to point out how the original fall or original sin gives rise to a primal murder, though it is impossible to ascertain what is genuinely historical in this saga, nor should this even be attempted if we are to remain true to the central thrust of this passage.

The myth of the Last Judgment attempts, by using the end - time as the reference point, to proclaim a truth about human responsibility which is not confined to any point in time, but which pervades all time.

The attempt might even be made positively to recommend this fixing of a terminological starting - point, by recalling that for Christian scholastic philosophy, too, in contrast to Platonic and Idealist philosophy, what first meets man's cognition and what he therefore rightly takes as the starting - point and model case of possible objects of his knowledge, is what is experienced by the senses and to that extent material.