Sentences with phrase «profound questions of»

Socially, climate change raises profound questions of justice and equity: between generations, between the developing and developed worlds; between rich and poor within each country.

The cases also implicated more profound questions of policy and ethics at stake in international conflicts over the protection and the exploitation of marine mammals.»

Her project tackles profound questions of ritual, purpose, and the assumed agency of photography.

Haldane has rescued the discipline from its narrow logic chopping and esoteric disputes to show how analytic methodology can be deployed to illuminate the most profound questions of human (and divine) existence.

And Broadchurch's Paul Coates doesn't present a Christian faith with neat, fluffy answers to profound questions of suffering.

Such is the profound question of our times.

Rather, it is the more profound question of whether we can even use such categories as «good» or «evil,» «virtuous» or «vicious.»

Not exact matches

So then getting back to the question of how do we pay for this system, this is really quite a profound — I won't call it breakthrough, but realization that if we can build a system that cannibalizes our own products, makes our own products redundant, then all of the resources, which are quite enormous, that are used for Falcon 9, Heavy, and Dragon, can be applied to one system.

Mostly it poses the question of what do you do with a country where we simply just can't get along — where we are at a political impasse so profound that we can't agree on simple questions, much less passing a budget?

Whether that growth will be through something like Microsoft's new Office365 service (now in beta) or something more profound remains an open question, although one possibility is the evolution of hybrid cloud models that combine the scalability and low - cost benefits of cloud computing with the uptime and security benefits of dedicated hosting.

«While his contributions to deep questions in physics were profound, he also contributed to a wide array of extremely important contemporary debates and issues — things such as artificial intelligence, the building of a fair society, pitfalls and problems thrown up by disruptive technologies of tomorrow.

Griffin might well have had (and still have) profound questions about the impact on his company of losing yet more of its assets.

This debate raises profound questions — probably not for the last time — about the effectiveness of the Fed's easy - money policy.

Zuckerberg quickly articulated that he would be in favor of regulation, using much the same language he would return to later in his response to Senator Sullivan, but the implication of Graham's line of questioning was more profound than that: perhaps the real problem is the monopolistic nature of the company, because the normal checks that come from competition were missing.

The first step to doing so is to take a hard look in your boardroom mirror and ask perhaps one of the most profound question you can ask: are we still selling like it's 1999?

he question of abiogenesis is a profound one to which we haven't yet discovered any solid answers.

That this has had the most profound impact on our politics is obvious: The American culture war, which is one of the preeminent issues - beneath - the - issues, shapes the public discourse on both domestic and foreign - policy questions every day.

Here Bonhoeffer wrestles with a profound existential question that plagued his conscience: «The truthfulness of our words that we owe to God must take on concrete form in the world.

These are some of the biggest, most important questions ever — with profound implications about how we should lead our lives.

More than I realized, the experience of the last four years had raised profound questions about the human condition.

How much the CES actually cares about «the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality» within any recognisably Catholic perspective is, however, to put it as mildly as possible, perhaps in some doubt.

At a more profound level, the description ofeconomic man is too simple to answer the fundamental questions of what residents of industrial economies do and should want to get out of their abundant consumption and their generally quite specialised work.

«In RE pupils have the opportunity to engage not only with the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality, but also with the most pressing ethical problems of our day.

Home from the War raises profound questions about the meaning of mental health and psychotherapy in our time.

They touch people's lives, address profound questions with insight and wisdom, and offer places where the ingredients of a flourishing life can be discovered and nurtured in relationship to the God of Jesus Christ.

Rather, I argue that the profound and seemingly unmanageable pressures which marriage faces are a spiritual and not a psychosocial matter, one having to do with questions of human destiny: are we to live for ourselves, or for others, or for both in some yet undiscovered dialectic of being?

The occasion for a dispute to arise was a superficial one, a matter of whether Jewish and Gentile Christians could eat together without the Jews incurring defilement (Gal.2: 11 - 16), but Paul at once raised the real and profound question whether the Law had not been superseded by the new and universal gospel that men can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

For myself, I agree with what Whitehead remarked in the quotation at the end of this chapter: the question is reduced to a state of irrelevancy when we come to understand that the greater glory of God (which is God's continuing activity in love, not proud assertion of the divine self) is the goal giving its profound significance to what goes on in the world.

It has happened to me so many times and proven itself to me over and over again that when a deep question of profound importance troubles my intellect, I will just let it stay there and do its work.

It is beside the point to argue that Sankara's treatment of these questions is irrational, since from Sankara's standpoint the very putting of the questions reflects an even more profound expression of irrationality.

The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.

This is the hiatus which makes of the new creation a creatio ex nihilo — a hiatus so profound that the identity of the risen Christ with Jesus crucified is the great question of the New Testament.

It was a profound insight; for man's most poignant question throughout all ages has been «What is my place in a world of immense and seemingly callous might?»

And hopefully, for the elderly prof's sake, as his own movement turns on him he may start to question the foundations of what he began and rediscover his profound childhood faith.

The research of scientists like José Delgado into the ways in which mental and emotional processes can be produced, controlled, or modified by electrical and chemical means raises profound practical questions about the possible use and misuse of such powers.

In practical terms we are asking the question that is posed by Alvin Toffler when he speaks of the «future shock» which results when people are faced with changes so rapid and so profound that they can not cope with them.

But possibly the more profound religious films are those that deal with basic human dilemmas and questions of meaning and purpose, but do not specifically announce themselves as religious films.

Historically and theologically we are dealing here with devout yet aberrant forms of faith that are unable to illuminate the more profound problems of human existence, suffering, guilt and destiny or to answer questions about human history in its wholeness.

The pope also asks the provocative question: «Is not this same attachment at the heart of what I have called a «dialogue of conversions Is it not precisely this dialogue which clearly shows the need for an ever more profound experience of the truth if full communion is to be attained?»

Instead of giving a pious or even profound answer, he seems to brush aside the question.

Secondly, the opposite danger exists, that of cultural leveling... In this way one loses sight of the profound significance of the culture of different nations, of the traditions of the various peoples, by which the individual defines himself in relation to life's fundamental questions.

Where used at all, the cross functions not as an answer to atrocity, but as a question, protest and critique of the assumptions we may have made about profound suffering.

And he should learn to do this not only to defend the Christian position, but to understand and stand with his people as they take their place in the world, even though standing with them will sometimes have to be out of his weakness and lack of answers for the profound questions they are raising.

Despite many questions in detail, however, such contributions as we have ascribed to him — selective attention in dealing with his religious heritage, profound insight into the moral meanings of monotheism, and contagious reality in his experience of God as a towering and penetrating fact — seem assured.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

Far earlier than in the West, many of the major possible answers to this question were formulated with profound sophistication and insight.

A sense of being embattled: a reliance perhaps on rules rather than answers to profound questions raised in a rapidly - changing world, a sense of the Church as a fortress rather than a Mother and teacher, a bleak landscape for Biblical studies.

Since school prayer is clearly a matter of profound disagreement, it seems to follow that government should redeposit the question with local school boards, where it rested before the Supreme Court entered the fray in 1962.

The experience of tragic circumstances, of pain and loneliness can not help but turn our questioning from the trivial to the profound.

Last Sunday morning, after a long walk through the streets of Beverly Hills, one of my friends asked me a profound question.