Sentences with phrase «present activity which»

And in terms of the temporal modes, temporal passage can be regarded as that dynamic present activity which gnaws at the edge of the (indeterminate) future and transforms possibilities into facts that are subsequently cast off as determinate past events.

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Segment operating income excludes unrealized gains and losses on hedging activities (which are a component of cost of sales), general corporate expenses (which are a component of selling, general and administrative expenses), amortization of intangibles, gains and losses on divestitures and acquisition - related costs, in all periods presented.
Life Time Achievement Award This Award may be presented to an individual that led significant deal activity which has shaped the Canadian business landscape.
L'Université du Québec à Montréal, which came in seventh overall, was the only faculty presenting a multifaceted approach — offering a specialization in cooperatives and social organizations, emphasizing cooperatives management during orientation activities and maintaining an endowed faculty chair on the subject.
The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
Similarly, another of those present related that he has been pressed — to his benefit — by his seminary community and the parish he works in to account for the relations among the various activities in which he is engaged.
All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.
Also like James, Bergson believes it is the activity of memory which accounts for the durational present.
The past, by contrast, is fully determinate but inactive and nonactual, while the present is that actual process or activity by which the indeterminate future is made determinate in being realized.
Wherever the Spirit of Christ, which as the eschatological gift anticipates God's new creation in history, is present in its ecclesially constitutive activity, there is the church.
Unlike the brain cells themselves, which are there through thick and thin as supporting environment, those brain wave activities which can be correlated with consciousness are present only when the latter is present and absent when the latter is absent.
To this imbalance we shall need to address ourselves in other connections For the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this direction.
It does require an evaluation of the extent to which present activities contribute to positive spiritual formation for all age groups in the church.
We need to work out a set of social expectations and conventions in which the proper regulation of sexual activity will be assisted rather than made more difficult by being thrust largely on the individual, as it is at present.
Of particular interest for our present discussion of social class are the ways in which the activity of classifying applies to people.
This emphasis upon the present and the past among the poor may be born of a lack of hope; but in some cases it may be a product of an honest cultural difference indicating a more self - accepting and less acquisitive style of life, a style which should be respected and not automatically deemed inferior to the more ambitious future - oriented activities of the middle classes.
His activity is not an item in our experience, but is present as the ground, implicitly and simultaneously affirmed, of every reality met with and affirmed, and as being, which is the ground of what is, but always present as mediated by finite things.
If a man must say that he can not find God in the reality of his own present life, and if he would compensate for this by the thought that God is nevertheless the final cause of all that happens, then his belief in God will be a theoretical speculation or a dogma; and however great the force with which he clings to this belief, it will not be true faith, for faith can be only the recognition of the activity of God in his own life.
He seems to indicate not only that it presents a vague sense of activities and dynamic relations in nature, but that it also discloses in considerable detail the causal mechanism by which the perceptions in the mode of presentational immediacy were produced.
Instead of actualizing a determinate past, which is the basic activity of present entities, I propose we conceive God to be a future activity creating the conditions of the present.
Such a reduction is in fact attempted by what is known today as «creationism,» or especially «scientific creationism,» which presents the biblical accounts of cosmic origins and God's activity as though they were alternative scientific and objectively historical accounts rivaling those of secular science and history.
Munich professor of theology Wolthart Pannenberg, sounding strikingly like a social scientist, has observed that «it is only by symbols and symbolic language that the larger community to which we belong is present in our experiences and activities.
But, if one focuses on the society as a structured field of activity for its constituent actual occasions, then the continuity in the divine being, which is such an important feature of Whitehead's approach to the reality of God as an ever - concrescing actual entity, is likewise present in Hartshorne's scheme.
It seems much simpler to me to say that the structural possibilities for the self - constitution of currently concrescing actual entities are present in the society or field of activity to which the entities belong, but that only God in virtue of the divine primordial nature has an infallible understanding which possibilities will be genuinely fruitful and to what extent they will be fruitful and which possibilities will ultimately be fruitless, at least in terms of the achievement of higher goals and values.
The locus of productive activity thereby shifts from the past causes to the present event, which is active in virtue of its own power.
Like many other activities of ministry — rendering a theological judgment, structuring a sermon, being present to persons in acute crisis, discerning the plan of action and strategy to which a congregation is called at a particular moment in its life — choosing a myth requires the complex interworking of rational judgment, adequate information, emotional openness and self - awareness, intuition, sensitivity, prayerful reflection, and more.
A year 7 teacher presenting LGBTQI etc. to 12 year olds may be deemed to be «grooming» students, which is an illegal activity in various Australian States.
The reference in the present complexity variable is rather to those «secular» activities that, if religious considerations can be ignored or overcome, may proceed unimpeded but into which religious considerations are likely to intrude unless special efforts are made.
It is a surprise to most people to learn that there was a large and widespread Christian community throughout the whole of Central Asia in the first centuries of the present era and that such countries as Afghanistan and Tibet which are spoken of today as lands still closed to the Gospel message, were centres of Christian activity long before Muhammad was born.
Sexuality has been for him a mode of human activity through which to explore society's present sterility and its future hope.
Rather than let his future destination dictate his day - to - day activities, the kind - hearted four - star recruit has opted to focus on the present, which includes the Cougars» nine - game regular season schedule beginning Aug. 30.
Feeding, while an important activity is only one of many ways in which a father can be present in his baby's life.
Knowledge is presented through activities which capture and enliven their imagination and channel their abundant energy in a disciplined and artistic way.
Ambassador Tony Aidoo had occasion to descend on this same Okudzeto Ablakwa for his disrespect for elders and his activities of undermining his senior colleagues in government in a discussion at which Okudzeto Ablakwa himself was present and which is reported on Modern Ghana of 23rd July 2012.
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«The substance of our activities is the petition we have to present which we could not present.
The Times, which frequently breaks news regarding the activities of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, reported that federal prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury related to Skelos and his 32 - year - old son, Adam, centering on a contract awarded to AbTech Industries by Nassau County.
Presenting the business statement for the week, the majority leader said the commission of inquiry on the creation of new regions would brief members from the Brong Ahafo, Northern, Volta and Western regions on May 18, regarding their activities which had been brought to an end.
The real trouble with present procedures is that the activities of the House are all too often largely ritualistic combat in which the merits of fundamental issues are rarely entertained with the seriousness they deserve.
These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.
But this changed around 220,000 years ago into fissure type activity which built a north - south chain of eruptive centres along the present coastline.
Geha's lab also plans to look for factors in the skin that drive RORα activity, which could present other targets for intervention.
After five years of notable research which included publishing, presenting, and mentoring combined with connecting with colleagues and lecturing activities in Greece, Cournia landed a job as an investigator (lecturer) in pharmacology and pharmacotechnology at the Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Greece.
The lagoon is at an altitude of 3,020 m. and has recently registered the evolution of atmospheric pollution from Neolithic times up to the present day and which, therefore, offer trails of the activities carried out by each of the peoples that have inhabited southern Spain: Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems, etc..
The article, «Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.
In addition to those activities, this year's activities include hosting a journal club — in which cross-disciplinary teams present a company and its technology from both the science and business perspectives — a bioterrorism information event, developing a series of primers to introduce scientists to basic concepts in business and business students to basic concepts in science, and consulting projects to provide that elusive on - the - job experience.
Laureys had observed a signature of coordinated neural activity, present in the resting patient, which seems to appear in the brain of anyone who is conscious.
This underground activity requires energy and, therefore, a high respiration rate in the roots, which uses the oxygen present in soil pores.
The study indicates that the pig was a domestic pig, given that the sequence presents a series of markers typical of domestic pigs and which are very rare or absent in wild boars (the precursor animals to the domestic pig); moreover, this coincides with the historical registers of the castle, which clearly indicates that pig breeding was an important castle activity.
This central principle indicates the necessity that the AAAS re-examine those of its activities which relate primarily to the internal affairs of science in this country, improve these activities, and extend them when and where that seems desirable in view of present circumstances.
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