Part of the challenge for Amazon in such an event is to find a way to distill dozens or even hundreds of product enhancements, feature roll - outs, and new or significantly expanded services into a single compelling story that Jeff Bezos can
present to the world from a single stage within, one hopes, a single hour.
Not exact matches
I have a fairly deep spiritual practice in general, but this year with all the craziness, with all the angst in the
world around us, with the challenges that are had, it really deepens the need
to be
present, and the joy that comes
from being more deeply
present.
Being professional involves everything
from how you dress and
present yourself in the business
world to the way you treat others.
The disconnection
from the real
world helped me
to stay rooted in the
present, which led
to a laser - like focus on my goals.
Although companies like Netscape and Google are almost always
presented as radically innovative start - ups, out
to change the
world from day one, the fact is, they began as incremental improvements, executed at opportune moments.
Like pretty much everyone else in the modern
world, I struggle
to stay focused,
to stay
present and
to detach
from technology.
And that has left Emotiv with a challenge every bit as big as conquering mind reading: figuring out how
to present its breakthrough device
to the
world in a way that will transform it
from a slightly scary gadget
to the next must - have consumer technology.
To depict the opportunities
presented in the Global Opportunity Reports as concretely as possible, we have matched each opportunity with a range of existing initiatives
from around the
world.
Now, Craig Lack and other leaders
from around the
world take those same principles and
present them in modern context
to help you learn
to achieve your greatest desires.
The current shift of the Baby Boomer bulge
from work
to retirement
presents a huge challenge
to the
world's policy markers and the
world needs
to build its own financial seawall - a retirement seawall —
to manage this issue.
Such conferences draw together artists, entrepreneurs, academics, politicians, adventurers, scientists, and thinkers
from all over the
world, who come
to present their newest ideas, passions, and projects.
Presented by Waves Blockchain is a revolution in technology, a grassroots phenomenon that's gone from being a curiosity for nerds and cryptoanarchists to something that is actually impacting the real world.
Each year, our investment professionals
from around the
world gather at two global roundtable meetings
to present and participate in discussions on investment topics and, also, just as importantly,
to develop relationships with colleagues.
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to sell items
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to supervise your employees, you just need
to look for businesses that have an active dropshipping program, partner with them, and sell your products online.
Quake's monthly University Investor Series (UIS) is a virtual pitchfest where student entrepreneurs
from around the
world present to a panel of top seed and early stage investors.
The editors divide the decades
from the close of
World War II
to the
present between the Consumer Era and the Global Era.
Hollyhock
presents the Leadership Institute, a conference series that attracts participants
from around the
world to develop skills, expand professional networks, deepen personal practice, and recharge in a setting of spectacular natural beauty.
There can be no doubt that Alexander Solzhenitsyn is one of the great moral figures on the
world stage, and the
present book neither adds
to nor detracts
from that judgment.
As Christians watching horror, we are reminded through our belief in «Our Father» that, in the real
world, God is
present in our lives
to «deliver us
from evil.»
Every religion in the
world, past and
present, stems
from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea
to be nice
to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.
Saying that Jesus came
to save us *
from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern
worlds, and how the New Testament
presents it.
When Senators Leverett Saltonstall and Edward Kennedy, both
from Massachusetts,
presented a bill in the Senate
to give public recognition
to God through requiring the post office department
to cancel all postage with the words «For God and Country,» Century editors replied: «If the nation really wants
to give public recognition
to God let it abandon its unjust crushing of the aspirations of little peoples in various parts of the
world» (April 6, 1966).
But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit
to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be
present at
World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary
to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable
to give the Church what she deserved
from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision
to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.
«Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval
from the Silurian age
to the
present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the
world swarmed with living creatures.
However, the realism indicated above means that, along with dreamers, we need doers who seek power in the real
world of the
present to free the oppressed
from the tyranny of the dominating idols of our society.
The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic
world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory
to be distinguished
from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the
present Spiritual Christ within his church.
How is it possible at a time like the
present, when the whole
world is at war,
to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel,
to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form,
to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition
from primitive Christian messianism
to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?
For the saving love of God
to be
present to human beings it would have
to be so in a way different
from how it is
present to other aspects of the body of the
world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able
to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
We do not need
to reject or twist defined doctrines in order
to present our faith credibly in this new age of discovery, neither do we need
to distance ourselves
from the scientific consensus about the natural
world.
The Christian does not depart
from the
world as it is, but he has a certain detachment in regard
to all
present things.
The method used in the writing of this book is the same as that used in the preparation of the two previous volumes — The Religion of the Hindus and The Path of the Buddha — which I have edited in an attempt
to present to Western readers the major religions of the
world from the point of view of the followers of those faiths.
If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe
present to an unknown future; it is not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in
present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call
to an ever - renewed, confident exodus
from the
present into the future, even in this
world.
One of the Yale ministers stated this point of view very well when he said: «Alcoholism is a sin only in the sense that it is a sin attributed
to society, especially a Christian society — that we have been unable
to bring about a
world free
from the tensions and conflicts of the
present day.
Otto's great study of the eschatological proclamation of Jesus discovers the fundamental and distinctive motif of Jesus» message
to lie in its announcement of the «dawning» of the Kingdom of God, a dawning that is itself a forward - moving process, a process whereby a future and transcendent Kingdom penetrates
from the future into the
present,
from its place in the Beyond into this
world, and is operative here as an inbreaking realm of salvation.
He discovered that St. Thomas» own philosophy was always
present in the context of theology and that its exposition followed theology's descending order
from God
to world.
They still look expectantly
to the bodily return of Jesus descending
from the heavens, the battle of Armageddon in the Middle East and the replacement of this
present world with a «new heaven and a new earth».
In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has
to be found
to explain time's origin in order
to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting
from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was
present from the beginning, instead of a
world of becoming and growth.
And offering the
present and future life as motivation must be used with care; it can be misused
to prevent poor people
from taking any action
to improve their situation in the real
world.
Regarding knowledge of possibility, we can, for
present purposes, avoid discussing the well - known difference between Whitehead and Hartshorne as
to whether God has a primordial vision of all eternal objects (possibility), as Whitehead asserts, or whether God derives eternal objects
from the
world, as Hartshorne does.
And that receding moment, once so vividly
present and still so apparently alive (in part because of radio), is just like this moment, this Saturday afternoon, with its new show, coming
to us live
from Minnesota, where people right now are watching the red light in the
World Theater in downtown St. Paul, waiting for the moment when it all begins again.
It is thus passing with a slowness, inconceivable in our measures of time,
to new creative conditions, amid which the physical
world, as we at
present know it, will be represented by a ripple barely
to be distinguished
from non-entity» (RM 160).
For Whitehead, as indeed for Sullivan, the
present always seeks
to maximize the greatest actualization of value which can be attained
from the data available in that actual
world.
Maybe if Islam does take over the
world there will be an uprising
from the oppressed bur seeing that it hasn't happened yet and that woman allow themselves
to be controlled in every way, including being raped beaten and covered
from head
to toe and not allowed
to socialize without male relatives
present the question is «Will women destroy Islam
from Within?»
This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever -
present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human
world as given over
to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «
From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this
world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates
to us.
It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle
from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups,
from all regions of the
world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women
present to draw energy and support
from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»
The
world is, of course, not
to be saved
from its
present discords and estrangements by the teaching of certain codes of conduct.
He called upon the Church
to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems
to overcome the evil in the
present world, not by withdrawing
from the
world, but by revolutionizing it.»
The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than
to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals,
from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually,
to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the
present world of the Jewish state and nation.
In that
world God was
present, direct and inexorable; his messages
to parents were everywhere:
from flour spilled on the floor (that child needs more discipline)
to the tragic death of an infant (confirmation that God had better things in store for them, in another
world).