Sentences with phrase «presented as absolute»

Mary Ann Glendon wrote nearly a quarter century ago that «a new form of rights talk has come into being» in contemporary America, in which rights are «presented as absolute, individual, and independent of any necessary relation to our responsibilities.

Ironically... I find I disagree with every single one of these statements of yours that are presented as absolute and concrete.

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This will not only take you to a place where you can make the absolute best decisions for your company but where you can also present yourself as a person who wants to learn more and be better for it.

In this particular example, however, the moaty firm's total economic value creation (area of blue curve), in absolute and in present value terms, is significantly less than that of the no - moat firm (area of red curve), as calculated.

It is almost impossible to know if Christians would change their thinking if absolute evidence was presented as only one responded, but I would venture to guess that he is probably fairly representative, and no amount of knowledge or evidence would change their opinions.

Values that are held in common are treated as moral absolutes; values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or wrong.

While the official course books treat topics like abortion and euthanasia as controversial issues for which there is no definitive judgement of right or wrong, they all have a range of topics which are presented as moral absolutes.

They did not, however, see a need to absolutize anything in the Bible as a final standard of judgement, even what Sölle calls the gospel's «nonderivable promise and the demand for peace, freedom, and justice for all people».5 The test of our present judgements is not their conformation to any Christian absolute but rather whether they have developed responsibly through Christian history.

Yet Christianity has now at least implicitly evolved to an absolute form wherein it can realize the final epiphany of Spirit as immediately present and actualized for us.

I no longer have to represent my going to God as a departure from time and history.42 In fact, to attain God as the Absolute Future who is also the Fullness of Time, I must perforce be occupied with the present and the tasks of the present, for it is only in and through the present that I can advance into the future.

In other words... I think the understanding you present (they had absolute knowledge) is hogwash as well.

In essence the reader becomes a part of the novel as experienced; the logos irrupts momentarily into reality where to some degree the reader's potential is actualized in the absolute present.

Regulations in family and classroom can be used as a basis for developing a high concept of law, when they are presented as approximations to right — not as arbitrary impositions, not as expressions of superior power, not as absolute rules which can never be questioned or modified.

And no a belief does not mean actual knowledge, so when one proclaims a belief, it something that by definition can not be proven, so no I don't have to present evidence in order to declare a belief, but if one is saying outright that angels do not exist as being the absolute truth, then one should present evidence.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

Altizer's position represents his attempt to grasp the inner logic of the Incarnation, though he is fully conscious of the fact that the profanity of contemporary culture plays an essential role in his formulation of a radically immanental interpretation of Christ.31 He presents a telling case against attempts in Christian theology to conceive God as an immutable Absolute wholly unaffected by the contingencies of history.

This is especially true in the realm of what is not mind and spirit, for there self - transcendence is always in the proper sense a going beyond an agent's own essence, because absolute Being is not present in the special sense as the ground of spirit and its operation.

Like Hartshornian metaphysics, Newtonian physics had an absolute present time, because Newton implicitly postulated God as the central cosmic observer of all natural events.

But I shall keep myself as far as possible at present to the more «scientific» view; and only as the plot thickens in subsequent lectures shall I consider the question of its absolute sufficiency as an explanation of all the facts.

A man's failure or mistake in the present has in the eyes of Jesus not the relative character of a stage of development, but the absolute character of sin; for Jesus sees man as before God.

Here, the disappearance of transcendence actualizes a new immanence, as a total Yes - saying to an immediate and actual present transforms transcendence into immanence, and absolute immanence dawns as the final kenotic metamorphosis of Spirit into flesh.

10:7 - 9) He took a body in order that He might suffer; He became man, that He might suffer as man; and when His hour was come, that hour of Satan and of darkness, the hour when sin was to pour its full malignity upon Him, it followed that He offered Himself wholly, a holocaust, a whole burnt - offering; - as the whole of His body, stretched out upon the Cross, so the whole of His soul, His whole advertence, His whole consciousness, a mind awake, a senseacute, a living co-operation, a present, absolute intention, not a virtual permission, not a heartless submission... His passion was an action.»

Faith is the memory of all of the ways in which God has acted to relativize the world and transform it — a memory which is illumined throughout by the narrative of Jesus, which warns us against establishing even our relation to that narrative as absolute and which opens us to transformation in the present by the new that now comes.14

These priestly directions for instituting the Covenant are presented as coming from Moses and Sinai, and detail the building of the Temple as modeled on the Tabernacle, with descriptions of the Ark, table, lampstand, altar, court, nightlamp, priestly apparel and other more minor items, and culminating in a priestly emphasis on the Sabbath law as absolute.

Nor do we see, behind what appears to be a kind - hearted philosophy, an utter denial of any dimension beyond this present observable life, of any such thing as absolute right or wrong and of any power which might be called God.

This is a world with which Blake, Hegel, and Nietzsche are in deep continuity, and a far deeper continuity than is present in all manifest or ecclesiastical modern Christianity, and if modernity has been wholly unable to envision resurrection, it has profoundly envisioned crucifixion, and even envisioned crucifixion as an absolute and total event.

For the Bergsonian, since every physical event, as durationally successive, is possessed of elementary memory, albeit «feeble and short - lived,» there is no absolute domination of the material past — if by such domination is meant the absolute exclusion of all qualitative novelty from the present.

This section of the report presents important metrics such as BPS analysis, year - on - year growth rates, absolute dollar opportunity and market attractiveness index.

It was the beginning of my kids absolute passion for play dough, and his sisters collected all kinds of green items (green was / is his favourite colour) and helped to make play dough and wrapped it all up as their birthday present to Morgan.

Though often presented as a long - standing element of the British constitution, absolute compliance with this convention is a relatively new development.

The wavelength of the light has stretched with it into the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the CMB has cooled to its present - day temperature, something the glorified thermometers known as radio telescopes register at about 2.73 degrees above absolute zero.

Just as all scientists must live with the ever - present possibility of experimental error, so too mathematicians, like our judicial system, may sometimes have to settle not for absolute proof but rather proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

«However, the present analysis suggests the exact opposite, with both absolute rates as well as racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes being greatest in southern states.»

Sitting in the present moment with absolute un-attachment and gratitude is as much a practice as it is a process.

Changes in muscle fiber type can be presented as either changes in the proportion of fibers of a given type, or as changes in the absolute or relative cross-sectional area of the fibers.

I do not present my suggestions as an «absolute truth», that would just be silly, don't you think?

I present to you: My absolute / ultimate / total relax outfit... Nothing better than loose - cut denim — preferably as a one - piece — an oversized shirt, and a pair of slippers.

Instead we are presented with an absolute turd of a film with shockingly bad «action» set pieces (despite not actually requiring major action set pieces for the plot), dreadful visuals that might as well be that «Gladiators» TV show complete with glitter and sparkles, a god awful thrash / heavy metal soundtrack just in case you forgot this film was suppose to be tough and your obligatory dire big name cast hot of the heels of other poor major blockbusters (yeah stick him / her in it, big name, can't go wrong, doesn't matter if they actually fit the role or not pfft!).

The absolute shithole that was daily life in the future wasn't even presented as a bad thing.

The Intellectual context (especially the dialogue) is an absolute triumph that is underpinned by an excellent ever present jazz soundtrack that plays as much a character as the cast itself.

Director Stephen Frears (Florence Foster Jenkins, The Program) mines a lot of good - natured humor out of the outrageousness of royal existence, such as the absolute frenzy Windsor Castle is thrown into in preparation for the Queen's arrival for the banquet at which Abdul's coin will be presented.

Establish standards for care that are no more stringent than United States Department of Agriculture specifications for the humane handling, care, and treatment of dogs and cats; (this means USDA rules are the maximum in standards, as opposed to the present Act where USDA rules are the minimum in standards) How many ways do we need to explain to you that means the Dept. of Ag will not be able to write rules in excess of USDA standards which by most reputable breeders are absolute minimum standards by which they exceed?

Variations in pressure between both eyes as well as absolute increases in pressure can reliably predict if Glaucoma is present.

He messes around with time by presenting superheroes who are pitted against figures of historical evil — it makes you think about the complexity of good and evil as he questions whether they're absolute.

Over one thousand people were present to experience this moving and transcendent work, which unfolds as an orchestra of musicians and singers holds a single continuous tone for a twenty - minute period, followed by twenty minutes of absolute silence.

2015 Mobile M +: Live Art, M +, Hong Kong, China The Malady of Death: Écrire and Lire, commissioned by M + for Mobile M +: Live Art, Hong Kong, China The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Office Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France J'adore, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany Future Light, MAK — Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the collection, MoMA, New York, USA As We Never Imagined: 50 Years of Art Making, STPI gallery, Singapore After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - present, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA Temporary Permanent, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany Feminismen, Nordsternturm Videoart Center, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Suppleness and Rigidity — The Art of the Fold, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Biennale 12, Sharjah, UAE Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium 360 °: Die Rückkehr der Sammlung, Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

As part of the Circulation (s) Festival, Maia Flore presents in this exhibition situations that relate her beautiful and endless pursuit of the absolute moment; the one moment when everything is balanced and you feel a thrill that lasts a few seconds to then quickly disappear.

His artistic experimentations and insatiable search for the absolute aesthetic expression that is ever present and never fading, marked the middle of the previous century, but as many artistic and industrial uses of IKB show, this influence continues to live even today.

As the artist through her breath marries the saffron and tea, the paper now bears witness to this moment of actual life as it is lived in the absolute present, and creates an intimate representation of her being - nesAs the artist through her breath marries the saffron and tea, the paper now bears witness to this moment of actual life as it is lived in the absolute present, and creates an intimate representation of her being - nesas it is lived in the absolute present, and creates an intimate representation of her being - ness.