Sentences with phrase «point of principle which»

It was an important point of principle which Unite was committed to getting resolved.

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He said it will become clear by the first week of May whether an agreement in principle is possible this spring, after which point the talks could languish until 2019, while Mexico elects a new president and the U.S. elects a new Congress.

«If this was a straightforward guide to business success and personal growth,» Harford writes late in the book, «this would be the point at which the author would urge you to use the principles of adapting to gain wealth and success.

In any event, the point isn't whether the requirement to complete the long - form census form violates the charter, I don't think it does because it's probably either a violation «in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice» (under section 7) or a violation which is «reasonable and demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society» (the test under section 1), but that it does nevertheless violate the right to privacy which is one of our fundamental rights.

The EC has a specific lever to press the US on this point — in the form of the Privacy Shield arrangement which simplifies the process of authorizing personal data flows between the EU and the US by allowing companies to self - certify their adherence to a set of privacy principles.

My only issue is that sometimes he gets a little too aggressive which I think detracts from some of the points he tries to make because it's dripping with so much bias it's hard not to disagree on principle.

This brings us to Bonhoeffer's second point, which is that truth is always concrete and is never a principle: «The truthfulness of our words that we owe to God must take on concrete form in the world.

For it endues us with super-vitality; and therefore introduces into our spiritual life a higher principle of unity, the specific effect of which can be seen — according to one's point of view — as either to make human endeavour holy or to make the Christian life fully human.

The same point appears in The Logic of Sense as follows: «disjunction posed as a synthesis exchanges its theological principle for a diabolic principle,» ensuring that «instead of certain number of predicates being excluded from a thing in virtue of the identity of its concept, each «thing» opens itself up to the infinity of predicates through which it passes, as it loses its center, that is, its identity as concept or as self» (LS 176 and 174).

Whatever may be the chosen point of view of an artist, one principle remains common to all creators: stylization which supposes the simultaneity of all reality and the mind that gives reality its form.

The final point at which the identity of all individuals will be both constituted and revealed is at present only a posit or regulative principle of reason, which we treat as if (in hopes that?)

Arkes agrees, but that's precisely the point of his book, which Prof. Smolin simply does not get: when racists appeal to natural law to justify slavery and white supremacy they employ principles that undercut their own rights.

19) of the Posterior Analytics, where Aristotle describes how the mind ascends to the first principles on which all science is grounded, he points out that the immediate point of departure of the inductive movement is not mere sense perception, but «experience»: «So from perception there comes memory, as we call it, and from memory (when it occurs often in connection with the same thing), experience; for memories that are many in number form a single experience.

Finally, the principle of process is again the reason why Whitehead, in still another place, says: «The point to be noticed is that the actual entity, in a state of process during which it is not fully definite, determines its own ultimate definiteness» (PR 390).

The point modernist rationalism has to establish, or assume, is that a common secular rationality exists which is capable in principle of resolving the issues that actually divide people.

My understanding is that Jesus spoke to the spirit / soul of Lazarus which would be the animating principle of his life, which re-entered his corpse — at this point «he» came to life.

But there is a further point: the maxim «Like father, like child» holds good here, and it is in the application of this principle that we can recognize an emphasis which is characteristic of the teaching of Jesus.

The stepping back is not at the point of conviction and principle, but at that of direct effort to bring about the starting base from which reconciling processes might proceed.

On the other hand, there is capitalism which, in its practical aspect, at the level of its basic principles, would be acceptable from the point of view of the Church's social teaching, since in various ways it is in conformity with the natural law....

With the value - laden concept of organism as our starting point, there is a hope of having a single set of principles which encompass all forms of experience, physiology and psychology, including morals, politics and aesthetics.

I find this article completely missing the point — It asks us to pick a set of beliefs and principles as a group which is the opposite of what this groups wants and needs.

Conformity to the status quo is the principle which frames the point of view and selection of these materials.4.

For Revelation in the ultimate resort and in principle claims the whole of reality as the possible subject - matter of its affirmations, even if only sub respectu salutis (in relation to salvation), and from this point of view even events and realities which are accessible to secular experience fall within its material scope.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

The third point is that the ontological principle (the reasons for things are always to be found in the composite nature of definite actual entities) requires that there must be an actual entity which correlates the many partial experiences of many actual entities into a determinate whole.

In the religious consciousness, that is just the position in which the fiend, the negative or tragic principle, is found; and for that very reason the religious consciousness is so rich from the emotional point of view.

And whence can it arise, this accumulation of evidence that the extreme point of each of us (our ultra-ego, it might be termed) coincides with some common fulfillment of the evolutionary process, a common super-ego, except out of the principle of attraction which we have postulated as being necessary to bring together the rebellious seeds of our individualities, uniting them from within and unanimising them at the heart?

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

I did make the point that life begins at conception, and that there is no ground of principle on which the embryo or fetus could be regarded as anything less than human at any stage of its existence.

William Ernest Hocking points out in his Man and the State that the humanizing process requires the search for the principles which men can honour in their mutual relations.12 The «I - Thou relationship» which neglects this function of principles will degenerate into sentimentality or ruthlessness.

Pointing needs supplementing with a third relatum, some comparison or noting of resemblance, which itself introduces a third principle or quality linking more than one item.

Thus it follows from the principle which equates immediacy of experience with certainty of knowledge that there can be no legitimate perspective on the world by an individual subject from a point of view outside that subject, a point of view which places the subject within a larger — «objective» — context.

This point is affirmed not only by panexperientialism's insistence on the «ontological principle,» according to which only actualities can act (PR 19, 24, 43), but also by its rejection of both dualism and supernaturalism.

Therefore we have to respect those principles which point beyond present decision to an order of life which we can specify only in general and revisable terms.

Perhaps sufficient will have been said if I point out that process thought is based upon wide generalizations made from those experiences of fact, and those facts of experience, which demonstrate to us the dynamic, active, on - going «creative advance» of the world; and which, in recognizing and accepting the patent reality of such a world, sees man as part of it sharing in that movement, and a principle of ordering and direction, which may properly be called God, explaining why and how the advance goes on as it does.

He has pointed out that a theology which is strictly confined to the world of «here and now can not take account of the ultimate questions which men must ask, whereas every sound Christian theology is required indeed to speak of that «here and now», but to relate it to God as a creative principle and to see God at work in the immediacies of human existence in the whole range of what we style «secular existence».

Teilhard makes it clear in his epilogue to The Phenomenon of Men, entitled «The Christian Phenomenon,» that he sees the church as the prototype of that movement which is the universal movement of the world, toward and by means of that ultimate point of attraction and unifying principle, the immanent - transcendent Christ.

The attempt is to explain the way in which God is related to actual occasions, eternal objects, and creativity, in such a way that at no point do we attribute to him a mode of being or relation inexplicable in terms of the principles operative elsewhere in the system.

The extension of the hammer principle leads to a future in which knowledge has increased to the point that better ways to do almost everything can be found.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

This view was given a great deal of support through the use of the lens, which provides in principle (as shown in Fig. 2) a point - to - point correspondence between object, O, and Image, I. By creating such a correspondence, the

But I am not inclined to pursue this point any further, for I think that there is a related point in Whitehead's view of God which clearly does violate this principle.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

DE: If you are talking about sense - awareness, as he does far more in The Concept of Nature than in The Principles of Natural Knowledge, which is more abstract, then you are talking in terms of durations, where you have points from which you are aware.

The frst human is THE point in material evolution at which the infusion of the soul becomes necessary and suitable, precisely the principle required for Man to exist in harmony with the material environment.

Consider the pro-abortion slogan «if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament», which takes for granted that Catholic teaching on abortion is simply areflection of male social dominance rather than a point of principle.

He introduces the principle of disinterestedness at still another point which is important for our analysis of ethics.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

Here is an important point, of which Hartshorne is perhaps fully aware: however we develop the theory of tense, some timeless forms must be admitted anyhow, if only to handle mathematical principles, sentences containing only quantified time - parameters, and the like.

Please point to the section of the bible that explains the * MECHANISM * by which the universe was created, such that we can build a computer model based on scientific principles derived from the bible that will model the creation of the universe.