Sentences with phrase «presented as a force»

Thus «the economy» is presented as a force working on its own, beyond comprehension by the average person or action by the average citizen.

Whole life insurance is often presented as a forced savings vehicle: people are bad at saving, so if you roll it up into something they're buying anyway (life insurance) they don't have a choice.

Not exact matches

Or as the APS puts it, «If one starts at the end goal, the assumption is that efforts were successful to get there, while moving from the present to the future doesn't necessarily assume success, and forces the goal setter to think through obstacles that might prevent it from happening.»

But, as things stand, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of monetary policy alone in heading off the disinflationary forces imported from China and its ability to push growth in any meaningful way beyond the present trajectory.

We believe the positive economic forces currently present in the global economy will remain strong enough to overcome the potentially negative impact tighter policy will have, but we could see some short - term volatility as markets adjust.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.

Preaching to the zealous choir, Ms. Streisand presented herself as the last liberal: a woman on the side of the angels and George McGovern against the dark forces of Hitler, Stalin, and Newt Gingrich.

Remember, Christianity is the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Nevertheless, this book is being presented to you not only as fact, but as inerrant words dictated by the one supreme supernatural force in the universe (the Christian God), and someone is attempting to convince you to reorient your entire life according to it.

If Christianity is to remain a positive force and influence in American public life, all Christians need to be present within that life, as salt and light.

Part One is entitled The Crumbling of the City of God, and the primary disintegrative force is science as presented by Locke and other more recent representatives of Polanyi's critical philosophy movement.

This moral discipline informs Fredriksen's effort to present her subjects as persons who loved, aspired, and suffered, rather than as mere ciphers moved by abstract historical or cultural forces.

What a farce is all this unctuous adulation of Marx, or of Lenin... They are men like any other men, and they have not attained to their present position as apostles of the communist State by the sheer force of their mild, pacific, self - abnegating temperaments.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

Faith as memory is thus a powerful force in the present.

In many ways this point calls to mind Descartes» criterion of clarity and distinctness of ideas as the measure of their certainty, as well as Hume's «force and vivacity» of simple impressions which enables us to distinguish present perception from memory.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

The United States, the 4th largest country in the world is considered our present day superpower with the largest economy and most advanced military force as well as being a democracy.

The theme of moral renewal of the nation was there as well, as Farsky spoke in words of an almost messianic sweep and force «of the importance of the God - enlightened human being in reshaping the present social order into a more perfect one.»

The Anglican Church in Rwanda, which wishes to present itself as a conciliatory force as well — especially since many churches (itself included) failed to protect their people during the genocide — is closely allied to the government.

That is, what the commentator marks as «coercive» is presented as a canonical claim, so that the imaginative force of the interpreter remains hidden.

Someone else's excellent post: Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Since the apostolic witness presents him as the Messiah who preaches the imminent consummation of God's Kingdom, they were forced to invent an almost wholly different person.

Certainly nobody could deny that when they are presented in this fashion they have the capacity to force all of us to regard human existence, human decisions, and human actions as matters of very great importance.

The past operates on the present with the force of necessity as efficient cause.

In an effort to defend your scripturally flawed and biased view of Jesus you are actually maintaining that Jesus» twice cleansing of the temple (with no one having the courage to try and stop him even though there were Temple guards present), as well as His use of a «leather whip», and «knocking over» the money changer's tables, is not a use of «violent» force — ludicrous.

Such a phrase would lack precise meaning, as each entity would comprise its own time - frame of reference and exist in a forced «solipsism of the present moment,» in Santayana's famous phrase.

Further, it considers such past forces and individuals as praiseworthy on whose work our present existence and relative welfare are based.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... Makes much more sense than Mormonism.

As a christian I have the obligation to say I believe in God and present it to someone if they are willing to listen; but not force it on someone.

And the Incentive as well as the technical capacity will be present for private commercial «pirate» operations (analogous to sea - borne pirate broadcast stations off European shores which currently are forcing commercial radio onto the United Kingdom) to be undertaken anywhere in the world.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

By this is meant that the framework of understanding must be as embracing as possible in order to include all relevant factors properly weighted in relationship to the whole system of forces that are present.

Not only is present - day culture not serving as a binding force between nations, but it is being used to accentuate their mutual dissimilarities and animosities.

Alves seems conflicted on just what sense it makes to speak of God's love as a powerful force moving the present toward its intended future.

This concreteness does not deliver its force in a simple melody; it requires, rather, a kind of counterpoint — voices in such contrapuntal relevancy as shall fuse together the passion from above incarnately become present in order to redeem the pathos from below.

LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is historical fact of the creation of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat of his flesh, drink of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!

Others eliminate the force of the difference, but not the difference itself, by making various distinctions, for example, between the historical «accidents» and the eternal «essence» (as in Harnack), or between the familiar present worldview, which is normative, and the strange, alien past one, which is not (as in J. Weiss and Schweitzer), or between what a text «says» and what it «means» (as in Bultmann, whose approach attempts to resolve the tensions involved in the former two enterprises).

Stone's sympathies going into the film were perhaps with that expedition, rooting for it, trying to pinpoint where things went wrong so as to pick up the gauntlet; but whether he knew it initially or not, he found that the subject matter forced him to present the myth's failure.

Israeli forces will be present in territories that are defined partly as «enemy territory» and partly as «hostile territory,» which serve as a base for hostile actions and terrorism.

The awareness of intuitive realization of the subjective immediacy of concrescence then is the awareness of the energetic force present in all existents and as such serves the same ontological function as consciousness in Aurobindo.

For Aurobindo, then, Consciousness is the fundamental reality for the manifested universe and is understood as the energetic force present in all physical existence.

The force of Luther's protest against the claims to authority of the established Church is to be found partly in the appeal to scripture, but also in this doctrine of man's condition and of the love of God as present only through God's grace.

Christians believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

The initial data are the «material forces,» as it were, needing regulation by «principle» — the categoreal obligations of creativity — in order to be existent or present.

The concept of force led to the conception of the interaction of bodies and the attempt to conceive force as derivative from bodies, an attempt to which the notion of gravitational force presented grave difficulties, as Newton had long before clearly seen.

The developed Western world is more and more captive of a fatalistic ideology that we can call «possibilism» (usually defended as realism») according to which the future can not be anything but the result of the operation of the forces and tendencies already visible in our present reality.