Sentences with phrase «powerful impetus»

This project drew powerful impetus from the radical Enlightenment's dream of a fully «rational» society purged of tradition, human spontaneity, and «monkish superstition.»
«Churches can be the most powerful impetus for justice in our culture on the issue of race if we will humble ourselves before God and one another, if we will repent and pray and work together for justice in a way that brings great glory to our God.»
However powerful its impetus in the early stages of the course of biological evolution into which it has thrust itself, the Marxist anthropogenesis, because it rules out the existence of an irreversible Center at its consummation, can neither justify nor sustain its momentum to the end.
Powerful impetus from other sectors is enough to keep oil demand on a rising trajectory to 105 mb / d by 2040: oil use to produce petrochemicals is the largest source of growth, closely followed by rising consumption for trucks (fuel - efficiency policies cover 80 % of global car sales today, but only 50 % of global truck sales), for aviation and for shipping.
It was a training ground for leaders and a powerful impetus to patriotism, national unity, and civic cooperation.
The naturalists on the other hand, with a powerful impetus from Aristotle, took the categories of physics and biology such as form and matter, time and space, cause and effect, and sought real being in that which man shares with all nature.
Society's materialist bias has been given a powerful impetus by the burgeoning success of the sciences and technology.
Whenever Christians seriously grapple with the question of who should be included as full and equal partners in the commonwealth of the God and Father of Jesus Christ, Paul's words about Christ having «broken down the dividing wall of hostility» ought to provide — and in moments of grace have provided — a powerful impetus toward the destruction of the various prejudicial barriers.
Hitting rock bottom is a powerful impetus for change.
His concerns with the uneven quality and often inequality of student educational outcomes in many parts of the world provide a powerful impetus to his research endeavours investigating the roles of families and schools in student learning.
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