Sentences with phrase «powerful currents of»

Untitled (2003), which was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2003, is a room made entirely of iron, through which powerful currents of air are blown.

To begin with, as mentioned above, nostalgia for the original union of praxis and theoria propels some of the most powerful currents of modern philosophy; it may even be said to be a kind of shibboleth of fashionably self «critical moderns.

In any event, of all the theories which we may evolve concerning the end of the Earth, it is the only one which affords a coherent prospect wherein, in the remote future, the deepest and most powerful currents of human consciousness may converge and culminate: intelligence and action, learning and religion.

Not until Lawrence H. White's 1984 book Free Banking in Britain and George Selgin's 1988 Theory of Free Banking did economists confront these two powerful currents of thought directly with each other.

It is incumbent upon us to make peace, to love all people, to discern the powerful current of all things moving back to God and participate in this reconciling force that the scriptures say is at work in the world.

It's a powerful current of water moving away from shore, and can sweep even the strongest of swimmers out to sea.

After the powerful current of the East River — which is actually a tidal channel — damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades, the company earlier this month whittled its test bed down to two turbines with new aluminum — magnesium blades 16 feet (five meters) in diameter.

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

The powders were then pressurized at 100 mega-Pascals, or 1000 atmospheres, and exposed to a powerful current of 10,000 Ampers at 1165 °F (630 °C) during a process called spark plasma sintering.

Not exact matches

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

Indeed, Intel and AMD's chips are less than half the size of the current CPU / GPU layout found in today's powerful laptops, according to vice president of Intel's Client Computing Group, Chris Walker.

With employees» assuming more and more of the responsibility to save for their retirement, offering a retirement benefit is a powerful incentive that will help you retain and attract current and prospective employees.

US President Donald Trump has named Jerome Powell, a current Federal Reserve governor and former finance executive, as his choice to replace Janet Yellen as chair of the world's most powerful central bank — ending months of speculation about who would take charge.

This rule had an enemy no less powerful than the current US secretary of state and recent CEO of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson.

This powerful calculator showed that I have a 78 % chance of meeting my goal of $ 40,000 per year in retirement based on my current savings, spending habits, and projects retirement contributions.

With Janet Yellen out the door, Jerome Powell, a current Fed governor and former investment banker, is set to take the helm of the powerful institution this month.

Gold stalled in the past waiting for a clear and powerful signal to break out of current the sideways action.

Mr. Luskin is not scared by the current lofty levels, relying on forward earnings and his expectations of powerful economic side - effects from the tax reform.

Generally speaking, stocks have been in a staircase - like uptrend for most of the more than 9 - year bull rally, so this general theory suggests that moving averages may be particularly powerful tools in the current market environment — if the market is indeed trending.

Flirting might initially seem like a harmless bit of playfulness to pass the day, but we should be aware that it is the shallow end of a powerful current.

Viewers witness how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a vast submarine «waterfall» off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents around the world; and how the sun's heating up of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a colossally powerful hurricane.

And I see how through this restless, wavering mass there pass powerful psychic currents made up of souls who are carried away by a passion for art, for love, for science and the mastery of the universe, for the autonomy of the individual, for the freedom of mankind.

This is not simply because its daunting length and complexity resist entry by ordinary readers, but because Jewett's relentless application of current preoccupations flattens one of the world's most powerful religious writings to the level of the banal and reveals how little theological passion and insight are to be found among contemporary New Testament interpreters.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

If we realize that recursive structures are extremely powerful contemporary techniques for solving problems in science and mathematics, and further realize that personal societies solve problems of their own — namely, their own enduring existence — then Prolog programs as prehensive structures can be an effective tool in analyzing and clarifying the relationship between a Whiteheadian ontology and current computer science.

But it also insists that we maintain a way of standing outside the current media system and its powerful mythology, simply because the media are so strong and entrenched that we are powerless if we allow ourselves to remain totally under their influence.

Francis pins much of the blame for our current situation on misunderstandings of this relationship: «A spirituality which forgets God as all - powerful and Creator is not acceptable.

The presentation comes in the guise of innocence and earnestness, but it has a powerful political meaning, one applying not only to the current campaign, but to the essence of human nature.A sweet voice begins,....

Is Prof. Delasanta not admitting that the papacy, especially the current Pope, has wielded amazing temporal power as a primary agent in bringing down one of the most powerful empires ever?

Many powerful currents within and beyond the academy are already pushing toward these revised understandings of theology and practice.

We were men of the twentieth century, carried along (unless we struggled heroically) by very powerful psychological currents: We tended, therefore, to follow the contingent trend of the moment as though it were an absolute; we over-dramatized the apparent novelty of our condition; we indulged a kind of collective Oedipus complex, resenting and rejecting whatever smacked of the past.

(14) This message of elevation of the socially despised is, of course, antithetical to current commercial advertising and the consumer society, though it is likely that should such genuine Christianity become a powerful expression again the industry would mold it into a new image as it did with the counter-culture movement in the 1960s.

To be sure, many of the current manifestations of this Eastern trend have been shallow and cultish, but they have had a powerful influence in calling into question the uniqueness of the Christian faith.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

The meat free appeal is a response to last year's call by Pope Francis to address the current «ecological crisis» facing the world, which he blamed on the indifference of the powerful and to which the meat and livestock industries contribute disproportionately.

That is because of the excellent performances that we have been seeing from Alexis Sanchez in his new central role, but according to a report in The Mirror the former Chelsea star and current pundit Pat Nevin thinks we may be missing a trick with the powerful Frenchman.

He is more powerful, pacier, clinical, is more intelligent and has a higher work rate than «any» of our current strikers... People only comment on his scoring record after reading the results.

Use the current «war chest» and bid for Carvalho (Or a player like him), someone who is big and powerful, has some pace, neat passing and capable of getting past a player on occasions.

It is only a matter of time before we start getting lots of Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with a summer transfer bid for Romelu Lukaku, after it was revealed by Sky Sports and other sporting websites that the Belgium international star has rejected the new contract that is being offered to him by his current club Everton, so I thought I would get in early and ask whether you Arsenal fans out there would like the Gunners to go for this powerful, prolific and Premier League proven striker?

He's also the current chairman of the GPDA and has said he'd like to see cars have even more downforce and more powerful engines so that the cars can go up to 450kph.

The total cost of a ready - to - race car (which will be 25 per cent more powerful than the current cars) will be no more than $ 817,300, which breaks down like this:

if you look at the current premier teams who have won the league or are genuine title contenders then they all have powerful & skillfull players in the centre of the park Man Utd — Paul Pogba Tottenham — Wanyama — Dembele Man City — Yaya Toure Chelsea — Kante, Matic

Bryan could theoretically defeat his current nemesis and the most powerful man in the industry, Triple H, as well as take home the WWE World Heavyweight Championship that has eluded him for the better part of a year.

Company records of Midway Games Inc., which is in line to receive city assistance to expand its North Side headquarters, show that one of its board members is William C. Bartholomay, former president of the Chicago Park District board and current president of Near North National Group, a Chicago - based insurance brokerage with close ties to powerful Democrats.

The current situation in Syria is strong evidence of a more ancient and enduring norm from imperial and Cold War days: when a strong repressive state has one or two very powerful allies it can easily resist the wider will of international society and public morality.

This gets execerbated in the era of a few powerful mass media outlets who control the information, and somewhat improved in the current Internet world - but not by much.

A reader forwarded a rather stunning story in today's Smithtown News, a Long Island weekly, that alleges the powerful boss of Suffolk County's Conservative party, Ed Walsh, lied about his criminal record when he applied for his current job as a corrections officer.

However, if you see Cold War merely as a specific manifestation of a generic geopolitical conflict between Russian interest to create a defensible empire, and US interest to prevent a creation of a powerful Eurasian empire combining Russia's natural resources and European resources, then you will see why current events show a marked resemblance to Cold War.

Principal Vincent Pitta is the son of Vito Pitta, former Hotel Trades Council president, and the brother - in - law of the powerful labor union's current leader, Peter Ward.

In the wake of video surfacing of NFL player Ray Rice beating his fiance and current wife Janay Rice unconscious, the hashtags #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft are garnering powerful stories of women dealing with domestic abuse, reports Alex Abad - Santos for Vox.