Sentences with phrase «points of emphasis of»

VanLuven made the issue of growth one of the three major points of emphasis of his speech, which lasted 15 minutes and was held at town hall amid a crowd that included several other local elected officials and members of his family.

It is also foundational to the points of emphasis of McLaren and others about the nature of the Kingdom and the core message and ethos of Jesus.

Not exact matches

While its emphasis on fostering «intimacy» between bosses and underlings can at times read like the world's most awkward relationship guide, that's kind of the point.

Keeping tip number five in mind, color is one of the best ways to add emphasis to particular data points.

Because customer experience is such a huge point of emphasis, the old saying «the customer is always right» is truer than ever.

Elsewhere in the MMI video, Jason Carroll, a managing director at Hudson River Trading, pointed out that the market was ripe for this kind of a technological advancement (emphasis ours):

It is reasonably common for people to make the kind of mistake that Ross and Navarro are making here, which is why professors generally make it a point of emphasis when introducing the GDP concept to students.

These include the dual mandate specified in the goals, the emphasis on a (thick) point target rather than a band, and the specification of a horizon for the target.

Below are some of the points from their analysis (emphasis mine).

«The plans seems to place substantial emphasis on the set top box as the primary device and focal point of the next generation US network.

In conclusion, the point is that promotion from within has a clear role to play in the growth and proliferation of a business, but that over the past 30 years, businesses have been placing perhaps too much emphasis on external hiring.

With this as their point of departure, the bishops further suggest a process of negotiations to achieve three objectives: «First, it should formalize Israel's existence as a sovereign state in the eyes of the Arab states and the Palestinians; second, it should establish an independent Palestinian homeland with its sovereign status recognized by Israel; third, there must he negotiated limits to the exercise of Palestinian sovereignty so that it is clear that Israel's security is protected» (my emphasis).

Recall the earlier point that parents of rescuers laid far less emphasis on obedience as an end in itself than those of non-rescuers.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

Aside from its emphasis on bodily forms of worship and physical healing, Pentecostalism is, as Smith points out, rooted in an «affective mode of knowing.»

The picture of the Church that emerged was distorted by this apologetic context — too much emphasis was being given to points that were disputed (the authority of the pope, for example) and not enough given to other important points (such as the nature of the local churches).

At many points Wesley sounds like a son of the Reformation in his emphasis on the finality of biblical authority and in his desire to be, in the much quoted phrase, a homo unius libri (a «man of one book»).

We also know that anytime something is repeated twice or more times in a given passage of scripture, it is usually the emphasis or main point of the teaching.

(PK, 385 emphasis original) Fr Holloway makes the same point as follows: «Environment may favour or may destroy the life mechanism... but an intrinsic modification of pattern - of - being from the invisible cell to the primates is something quite beyond that.»

Apparently, then, this specialized group of nerves is the material locus for a «critical node,» as Whitehead puts it, at which point bodily feelings are transmuted so that «there is an increasing development of special emphasis» (PR 477).

Some justify turning a deaf ear to the Conciliar teaching of Gaudium et Spes by pointing to the word «pastoral» in its title, to its unusual aversion for definitive canons, and its apparent emphasis upon the sixties concept of «progress».

As Robert Chiles pointed out, during the nineteenth century, American Methodism as a whole shifted from Wesley's teaching of free grace to an emphasis on the freedom of the will.

Whether Ryken correctly limns the subtleties of the last point — how one may repudiate dominant trends and emphases in an institution and yet maintain allegiance to the institution itself and not simply to its «ideal» — is a question readers are left to ponder.

In view of the emphasis I am placing on this point, one passage which might seem to belie this interpretation of Ogden's position should be examined.

At these points it is reasonable to suppose that we have emphases deriving from the teaching of Jesus.

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

And this is a point of emphasis in Israel by no means confined to Jacob.

Converts are sometimes eager to point out that Orthodoxy, because of its emphasis on continuity, can not be «liberal.»

But on occasion he uses much stronger language: the property he is describing «requires a divine foundation» (emphasis added); it «provides new strength for the arguments that point to a Creator»; it «clearly suggests the existence of a divine source of power and perfection.»

The high point of this uniting of God and God's love comes in the first epistle attributed to John, specifically in the pronouncement in the fourth chapter that «God is love» (1 Jn 4:8, 16, emphasis mine).

The word Messiah, which means literally «anointed one,» points strictly, of course, to an individual; but in the psychology of Israel with its facile and often unconscious transitions from individual to corporate personality, we are hardly wrong in allowing a broader definition to the term Messianism, in which emphasis is placed upon the redemptive function of the human entity, whether group or individual.

Jesus of the Gospel accounts was compatible with the classic confession of the true humanity o There my point was that the book's emphasis on the concrete historical - political humanity of the f Christ (i.e., the core meaning of «incarnation»), whereas those who deny that humanity (or its normative exemplarity) in favor of «some more spiritual» message are implicitly Docetic.

Religions which consider the mystic experience as the ultimate point of spiritual self - realization, consider history with its plurality as of no ultimate significance, and consider the many religions in history with their emphasis on nama and rupa as ultimately so relative and insignificant, that they are tolerated as equally true or untrue.

His point that the Pure Land emphasis on the compassion of Amida can be grounded in Sakyamuni's life and practice is well taken, and I am interested in the response of other Pure Land Buddhists to his proposal.

It leads broadly to an emphasis on what is always true at every historical point, and therefore to a depreciation of the importance of historical analysis.

The subjective emphasis on reality construction and personal meaning has pointed toward inner moods and motivations — phenomena that elude the usual methods of documentation and verification in the social sciences.

The antithesis of either God objective and apart from us or else God subjective and a part of us needs to be overcome in the higher and deeper synthesis towards which Professor Buber points with his emphasis on the I - Thou relationship of meeting.

In Theravada Buddhist countries where Buddhism has supplied the public philosophy the points of contact are more apparent and the emphasis easier to ground.

And I ended up rejecting it, because I think that the emphasis on the law completely misses the point of the law and misrepresents the good news message of Jesus that anyone and everyone can have eternal life simply and only by believing in Jesus for it.

These rightly point out how intimate relationships can be destructive, but they fail to give equal emphasis to the extreme importance of such relationships and to their positive potentiality.

At another point, he writes that the «openness of the contract» between two homosexual males means that such a union will in fact be more durable than a heterosexual marriage because the contract contains an «understanding of the need for extramarital outlets» (emphasis added).

The point for emphasis is that these values may be realized only when the party system is predicated upon the objective reality of the good and loyalty to it, and not when parties are committed to a struggle for their own members» advantage.

They found in the existentialist emphasis on human freedom a point of contact with the message of the Gospels.

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.

At minimum, it points back toward the importance of the ancient and medieval emphases on spiritual formation, which is where evangelical scholarship about education has been pointing.

The point upon which the emphasis rests is before God, or the fact that the conception of God is involved; the factor which dialectically, ethically, religiously, makes «qualified» despair (to use a juridical term) synonymous with sin is the conception of God.

Hugh Anderson has pointed out that James Denney, the well - known Scottish scholar of the beginning of the century, saw clearly that «what Easter revealed was the Cross standing at the heart of everything» and because of this may be said to have pre-figured «certain emphases that have appeared in Bultmann».

From a Christian point of view the author deserves praise for his repeated emphasis that economics is about living, breathing, people, not the disembodied rational ego of classical economics, and therefore that it must have a spiritual dimension.

He may be justified in removing sole emphasis from the genetic view of humanity and pointing up the problems inherent in dealing with potentiality, but they should not be dismissed from the deliberation.

The emphasis on the destructive effects of guilt feelings and anxiety seems to point the church away from stressing negative criticism.