Sentences with phrase «privileged position of»

I am in the hugely privileged position of being paid to do something I love, which is (I hope) useful, and allows some of the most disadvantaged people to «live lives they would choose to live» — through trying to limit the effects of ill health on them, and through empowering them to be able to make decisions about them, their family and their community.

Since I never subscribed to the mystique of motherhood or to the cult of routine domesticity, I found myself by my middle thirties in the privileged position of being able to do largely as I pleased.

The privileged position of this eco-lodge will allow you to observe over 400 species of birds (such as the Scarlet Macaw) and poison dart frogs, deer, jaguars, wild pigs, bats, raccoons, anteaters, lizards and several types of monkeys (spider and howler monkeys) and other jungle creatures.

• «El Cabo»: Located in the most privileged position of Cap Rocat, the Suite «El Cabo» offers a large, independent living room furnished with unique pieces of art, and spacious gardens with private terraces and private pool.

«The privileged position of industry to craft language in the trade agreement without public input, and the unlimited potential of TTIP to affect the ability of countries to regulate on toxic chemicals, energy and climate change, food and agriculture and other critical issues.»

That provoked a letter on the privileged position of researchers working in the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the Australian National University.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

This puts Innis & Gunn in the privileged position of being able to amplify the flavour in our beer using both traditional and modern innovative techniques.

Clergy are in a privileged position of trust in their congregations and communities.

He now reclaims the privileged position of mathematics in this ensemble simply by appealing to the success of the modern development of technology and natural science.

The same point is affirmed in Scripture regarding the privileged position of the poor, and it has been reaffirmed forcefully in recent liberation theology.

Not exact matches

Our posturings, our imagined self - importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Both of the other members of the Sulzberger extended family have also held positions of increasing responsibility at the paper over the past several years as a way of testing their mettle, like a drawn - out, highly - privileged NYT version of the Hunger Games.

After warning the City of Stockton that its pension obligations did not enjoy a privileged position in federal bankruptcy court, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein proceeded to confirm the city's plan of adjustment.

If God gave up his Godhead, considering it as something not to be grasped, but humbled himself and emptied himself and became a man, why are we so unwilling to give up our rights, our privileged positions, our thrones of intellectual certainty and polemical assertiveness?

When you say «Copernicanism», are you referring to the heliocentric model of the solar system — which David's post discussed — or are you referring more broadly to the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe?

Since the post you're replying to distinguished between «Copernicus» heliocentric model of the solar system» and «the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe» — i.e. the «Copernican principle» — I'm not really sure why you ask that.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.

Speaking to some of my mates from Africa, they are disappointed with the lack of enjoyment some people in the west get from their privileged position, more so than the lack of help coming out of the west.

But you can't extrapolate from your * profoundly * privileged position (all things being equal) something that wouldn't have been accepted just 100 years ago (largely speaking), and something that CERTAINLY wouldn't be accepted in the vast majority of the world.

Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged... [T] here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice.

When we place ourselves up as the bringers of peace, as God's spokesman in the world, as the ones who will restore humanity to the garden, and then God seems to favor someone else who is «doing it all wrong,» we get jealous and envious, and we set out to kill and destroy them so that we ourselves do not lose our privileged position.

However, Eliade hesitates to assign a privileged position to the Judeo - Christian tradition as he argues that there are images and symbols in Christianity, which are common properties of the entire religious history of humanity.

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

Since you mentioned it, I'm glad to point that the Big Bang is just a way to dodge the facts and logic conclusions made by Edwin Hubble in his Observational Approach to Cosmology, pointing that Earth was in a privileged position, in the center of universe, which obviously has to be done for a purpose, by whoever is responsible for the Creation.

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

There will be no privileged position for the Jews as children of Abraham, for God does not need them.

The book has largely been ignored in the mainstream of the Church where the therapeutic mentality of secular psychology continues to hold a privileged position.

«I'm in a really privileged position as a woman filmmaker, as a black filmmaker because at the current moment there's not a shortage of opportunity to tell the stories and that's not something that I was able to say even two years ago, three years ago,» she says.

White, affluent liberals should prioritize the interests of poorer, less secular Democrats, instead of maintaining their privileged position.

So when Paul writes what he does in Romans 3:9 - 20, he is writing a warning to believers in Rome about becoming proud of their privileged position before God.

Is not precisely the essential difference between natural and secular history on the one hand and the really personal, sacred history of redemption on the other, blurred, if God's action even outside the history of redemption receives a definite predicamental position within space and time, because a definite, precise individual reality in distinction to others and in a different way from others receives a privileged direct relation to God?

One solution would be for them not to maintain their privileged position, but instead to prioritize the interests of the poorer, less secular, and more moderate parts of their coalition.

It is not, as Griffin contends, because Plantinga views his traditional concept of God «as holding a privileged, virtually invulnerable position in the minds of believers,» and thus has no interest in «asking what we might learn from... others» (ER 48 - 49).

Plantinga does not play defense because he believes that his brand of theism holds some privileged position or because he is not interested in learning from others or because he is not involved in a common quest for truth with his critics.

It deprives Jesuits of any privileged position in the academic world.

I may, for example, privately suspect that papal insistence on divine infusion of the soul represents a sop to our fears, a device for maintaining a belief in human superiority within an evolutionary world offering no privileged position to any creature.

It includes the growth of professionalism and what has been called a «new class» of knowledge workers and information specialists — growth that has, to say the least, occurred at the expense of the privileged position that clergy in past centuries occupied within the professions.5

Whitehead explodes the boundaries of philosophy and denies it a privileged position over artistic and imaginative enterprises.

Like Derrida, he recognizes the privileged position accorded to certain types of philosophical assertions by virtue of the language system they presuppose.

The Church in India is in a privileged position, because of its situation in the midst of other religious traditions, to work out new ecclesial structures which translate the vision of the Kingdom.

In light of humanity's privileged position, it is perfectly legitimate to understand that humans have authority over creation and animals.

This is extremely important in understanding Bergson's position, because the knowledge of the self by the self, is, he insists, the «privileged case» (CM 236) of his philosophy.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

Settled first by the Dutch and then captured by the English, the Churches of these two people, the Dutch Reformed and the Anglican, held a privileged position in the colony.

We have a very privileged industry position, over the years we have unfortunately been privy to a number of technical / quality challenges (none more so than bottled wine but different in their occurrence).

In this privileged position he should find it easier not harder to achieve standards of enthusiasm, thoroughness and fair play.

First of all, the privileged kids that I wrote about first are, you know, sort of likely to go to schools like yours, to be in positions of authority as they grow up, policy, policy decisions.

If you are participating as an academic you are participating in a privileged position and you should be aware of that.