Sentences with phrase «prompted by the desires»

Much of the religious switching going on, it appears, is prompted by the desire to find the moral ethos into which one fits, to take sides in the Kulturkampf of our time.

William A. Johnson believes that the search for transcendence is prompted by the desire for a «deeper and more profound meaning of life and for a sensitizing and intensification of human experience» (The Search for Transcendence [Harper - Colophon, «974]» p. 1).

Simone Weil, late in life, confessed that one of her youthful demonstrations of solidarity with the poor (I think in this case the refusal to wear stockings) was really prompted by a desire to plague her mother.

The refusal of Christians to render military service, then, was prompted by their desire to go beyond the simple local community and extend it to embrace all men.

Her move to Fort Worth in my childhood was prompted by her desire to help her daughter, son - in - law, and grandson adjust to life in a new place after the death of her granddaughter from leukemia.

Many of those laws were prompted by a desire to win competitive federal grants, notably the 2009 Race to the Top program, intended to induce states to mandate changes in the way districts assess both teachers and principals.

The school structure changes almost every year, prompted by the desires of teachers and the recognized needs of students.

Guy and Howey are trying to determine a lot of what's missing, and their introduction two years ago of the digitally devised Author Earnings series of reports was prompted by their desire to demonstrate that self - publishing could offer as good or better financial prospects to authors as being traditionally published.

Description: In The Little Acre you'll fill the shoes of Aidan, and his daughter Lily, who set off on two wild adventures prompted by a desire to find their missing fathers.

Prompted by a desire to explore people and beliefs in conflict, these works form a metaphor for the fragility of human existence.

In most cases, this is prompted by a desire to tell the world about the latest client win or promote a new office opening in region X. Although this type of external communication is important to demonstrate business momentum and growth, PR and marketing disciplines can now be far more strategic when applied skilfully by an experienced practitioner.

``... the court must ask itself whether the assignment can fairly be seen as prompted by a desire to advance the cause of justice rather than as intermeddling for some collateral reason... «(para. 23)

Executives contemplating a career transition — whether prompted by a desire to seek «greener pastures» or exiting a challenge industry impacted by the economic downturn — may shorten the search by targeting those industries expected to enjoy faster than average growth in 2010.

Not exact matches

In tandem, the era of high oil prices prompted an increase in saving among oil producers... Using the increase in emerging markets» current account surplus as a guide suggests the desired saving schedule has shifted to the right by 1pp as a result of the EM saving glut, which lowers the global real rate by round 25bps.

On the other hand, our concern for equality will prompt us to check very carefully whether the tax breaks are producing their desired effect, or whether they are being used by the rich to purchase yachts and by giant corporations to gobble up smaller companies.

Even if it could be shown that economic or general social conditions in a given society have prompted a desire for deliverance, the ideas of redemption that may be included in a religious message are not invalidated by an inquiry into their social «background,» provided we do not conceive of the relation in deterministic terms but consider conditions as a framework which may include a variety of contents.

Gregory of Nyssa makes the point more forcefully by asserting that the «disposition of desire» in human nature, prompting humans to reach out toward the other, is itself evidence of incompleteness.

So says Matt Blakenship over at Ricochet, prompted in part by the removal of a Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer requirement at UCLA by idiotically ideologue English faculty raving on about «Empire» and such.My rule of thumb for many years has been: a desire for undergraduate major in....

This desire is prompted by a more wholistic understanding of the person and of the ways in which sexuality is present in all of human experience.

Prompted by the Holy Spirit, Paul might desire to live a holy life and to serve others and God.

Sports fans fervently tracked the career records of the most skilled gladiators and laid wagers on their survival, while well - to - do female admirers stole into gladiator barracks by night, prompting one combatant, Celadus, to boast in an inscription that he was «the girls» desire.»

In love with Loeb, Leopold is willing to do anything for him, and when Leob uses the withholding of sex as a prompt, Leopold is even willing to commit murder to have his sexual desires satisfied by Loeb.

For example, multiple exams are sometimes given in the same subjects and grades to the same students because not all results yield data by item, grade, subject, student, or school — thereby prompting districts to give another exam in order to get data at the desired level of granularity.

Provided the reward is sufficiently appealing, the puppy can be prompted to give the desired response by showing the puppy the reward, giving a command, and moving the reward to get the desired response.

When teaching new and additional commands, the sequence is always the same — we follow the new (unknown) command (the one we are trying to teach) by the old (known) command, which serves as a verbal lure to prompt the desired response.

The move has been prompted by calls or queries on Pagasa's Twitter account about a weather scenario specific to a destination, and by the bureau's desire to boost tourism in the country.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

Stretching Painting presents two of Moffett's newest pipe paintings, canvases covered in thickets of brushstrokes and attached to the wall by industrial pipes, prompted by the artist's self - professed desire «to get painting off the wall.»

In his desire to counterbalance personal feelings of alienation and displacement prompted by an unfamiliar terrain, the artist chose to create these photographs, which attempt to translate what a child might do and feel in this type of situation.

Whether this shift is prompted more by an art - historical interest in enriching the archive or a market - driven desire for a new source of product is a discussion for another time — either way, the result is a new appreciation for semi-forgotten greats that pushes them back into the contemporary discussion, a boon for engaged art viewers on the search for buried treasure.

It is humanity's intelligence that sets the species apart from the other animals and gives us the power to change the environment; yet many of humanity's actions are prompted by short - term desires, selfishness, superstition or emotion rather than clear - thinking and intelligence; sadly, this is greatly to the detriment of the planet.

PFA refers to a neurologic disorder characterized by fear of a hotter, more intimidating world than it actually is prompting a desire for more protection than is warranted by any actual threat.

Roche has always been motivated by an interest in business, he explains, and it was a desire to get closer to the deals, which prompted his move in - house.

The rare move was prompted by the firm's desire to go public but not raise any additional capital as it doesn't have to, founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek said Monday as part of a blog post announcing the beginning of a new era for the Stockholm, Sweden - based music streaming service that will celebrate its twelveth anniversary later this year.

The aptly named Sengled Voice bulb, due out by the end of 2016, will be able to listen to your voice prompts, and then either perform a function itself, or relay your desire to other smart home devices.

By asking open - ended questions, like the examples mentioned above, you may establish the rational for their desire to move — examples are many, but here are a few of my favourites: «What prompted you to call my office and ask for me?»

Users can prerecord a message prompting callers to select the desired party by pressing the appropriate button on their phone.