Sentences with phrase «provided by the existence»

Indeed, necessary political conditions for a deflation, for a brutal deregulation, for the climbing of the unemployment and for privatisations have been provided by the existence of executives concentrating on enormous power.
Perhaps no greater contribution to peace, justice and the environment is possible than that provided by the existence of intercontinental and interconfessional communal networks such as the churches already are to some extent, and can become more fully, if God wills.

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Questrade's whole existence is predicated on providing a low - cost alternative to services offered by the country's dominant banks, instilling the company with an underdog, gatecrashing mentality.
Please help eliminate my ignorance by providing a few facts, or even just one, for the existence of any god.
They bring students into «the company of great souls» (TRL 11), confront them with «the questions that are central to human existence» (TRL 29), and so by the universality of that encounter provide them with a common heritage that serves as «the glue that binds together our pluralistic nation» (TRL 30).
While Tillich provides a system to overcome the subject - object dilemma of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process, and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle of man's existence.
Thus the statement «God exists» would be unavoidably believed even by God, or would necessarily apply though any of his experiences; and I should think the same would be true of «The world exists,» provided it is understood as asserting the existence not of an individual but of a class, some of whose members must exist, but none of whose members can exist except contingently.
One insight provided by Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument is that the concept of the existence of God is something akin to a regulative idea for the rational thought about reality which is attempted in Hartshorne's metaphysics.
But it does indicate a spirit in which we should accept inwardly the necessary uncertainties of existence, and it provides an incentive by which we can change society in the direction of greater security for all men.
The affectivity of the individual complements its emergent subjectivity; and while it seems to indicate primarily the passive aspect of organic existence, it yet provides, in a subtly achieved balance of freedom and necessity, the very means by which the individual forges its solitude in the midst of its community.
Awe by itself does not tell the scriptural story — as Pascal added, «It is a remarkable thing that no canonical author ever used nature to prove the existence of God» 6 — but it provides a compass that orients us toward God as creator.
However the case for the existence of the conjectured «outline» really requires for its proof some such objective indication of its existence as would be provided by Mark following it in his narrative.
The German - American thinker Paul Tillich, who died only a few years ago, believed that the Christian faith could only be rightly understood when it was recognized as providing the «answer» — not of course in words or propositions but in the reality which is behind such statements — to the «problems» which are posed by human existence as such.
One of the «four factors which decisively govern the fate of social groups» according to his analysis, is «the iron compulsion of nature that the bodily necessities of food, clothing and shelter be provided».20 Whitehead continues: «The rigid limits which are thereby set to modes of social existence can only be mitigated by the growth of an understanding by which the interplay between man and the rest of nature can be adjusted.»
The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.
Hope for the future of theology, he argued, lies in seeing that the new metaphysics, most profoundly enunciated by Whitehead, provides a fresh basis for raising the old question of the existence or non-existence of God.
Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.
For a genuine metaphysics, the credentials of which are shown precisely by the correct kind of «proof of God's existence» which it provides (fundamentally a single one) God is for every being equally the immediate condition of its possibility.
The answer to John's questions is provided by McGuire when he writes, «Our very existence is constituted by truth,» and in explicating that» Schelling develops this insight in his identity philosophy by arguing for the Absolute as the unity that must necessarily precede the subject - object dichotomy of the finite world.»
Now if interpretation is, as Gadamer says, the attempt to hear again the question which occasioned the answer provided by the text, then forgetfulness of the perennial questions of existence is a major block to interpretation.
In place of the human being who immediately knows himself or herself as a subject and who provides the starting point for Whitehead's analysis, there is suddenly substituted a multiplicity of entities whose existence is hypothetically assumed by reason of an altogether different starting point.
God treats us as sons and daughters, providing attractions from his or her circumambient love and usually under creaturely incognitos (including above all our fellow humans), which can save us from ourselves and set us on the path toward fuller shared existence here and now, with the promise that our achievements, when they are for good, will be received by God.
The same is the case with manifestations of freedom, provided we do not let ourselves be deceived by the manifestations of freedom but reflect upon the coming into existence.
The order of the environment is determined by the organisms it sustains, and the organisms could not remain in (that state of) existence without the order provided by that environment.
Whether we ask what came before the Big Bang, or what created God, the value provided by an answer, is about the same for purposes of every day existence — nil.
Yes, we posit the existence of causal agents for which the physics and mathematics provide plausible ideas that can be tested (to a degree) by those same physics and maths.
Guadalupe provides the spark which will allow the people to rise out of the realm of death like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the past — not just a return to the past but the emergence of a spectacular newness.10 In sharp contrast to the total rupture with the past which was initiated by the conquest - evangelization enterprise, Guadalupe provided the necessary sense of continuity which is basic to human existence.
Atheists lack faith because they choose to reject the «proof» provided by various religions supporting the existence of a «God.»
Each item of food and drink appropriately blessed, according to the formula recalling the unique means through which God provided that item, the host concluded, «For all came into existence by God's word.
In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary context.
«The draft orders and supporting submissions filed by the TWU and [National Union of Workers] fail to provide any substantive evidence or analysis to support the existence of such cogent links between claims and safety outcomes.»
With regard to notice, a copy of the final USADA - Mayweather - Pacquiao contract provides: «Mayweather and Pacquiao agree that USADA shall notify both athletes within 24 hours of any of the following occurrences: (1) the approval by USADA of a TUE application submitted by either athlete; and / or (2) the existence of and / or any modification to an existing approved TUE..
there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark
In its 125 years in existence, Arsenal has touched the hearts of its fans by providing them with a distinct opportunity to feel a part of the club.
It has nurtured my healing process and provided incredible supports, given great meaning to my son's existence by allowing others to learn from his legacy, and fostered a love beyond all time and space.
Under the Vienna Convention, for example, a «fundamental change of circumstances» is grounds for withdrawing from an international agreement, provided «the existence of those circumstances constituted an essential basis of the consent of the parties to be bound by the treaty».
As the search for a hypothetical, unseen planet far, far beyond Neptune's orbit continues, research by a team of the University of Arizona provides additional support for the possible existence of such a world and narrows the range of its parameters and location.
Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.
Cosmologist Hiranya Peiris of University College London and colleagues decided to test for a multiverse by examining the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, a remnant of the big bang that provides a map of what the universe looked like some 380,000 years into its existence.
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After 2 years, the judge in that case denied a stay requested by Wakefield and wrote an opinion telling Wakefield's team they had to provide more evidence, suggesting that Wakefield «wishes to use the existence of the libel proceedings for public relations purposes.»
The way our bodies — including voice, mood, posture, and so on — are influenced by surrounding bodies is one of the mysteries of human existence, but one that provides the glue that holds entire societies together.
The dwarf galaxy also is of interest because it provides clues to how the early simple universe became re-ionized by early star formation, moving it from the so - called cosmic Dark Ages of neutral gases to the development of the complexly structured universe now in existence, where the gas between galaxies is ionized.
New physics On July 4, 2012, following days of Internet rumours and speculation, Gianotti took the stage in CERN's auditorium and detailed the proton collisions detected by ATLAS that provided evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson.
Similar compelling evidence supporting the existence of bonafide intraneuronal Aβ peptides has been provided by ELISA analysis on laser microdissected pyramidal neurons from sporadic AD cases [63].
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This movie gave a voice to an underserved audience at a time when their existence was continually devalued by people in power, and the rich metaphors of this film provide multiple layers to dig into beyond its surface appeal.
As the couple's CG train zips between districts, we see how Snow's stormtroopers buckle down on what little freedom remains, offset by the empty frivolity of life in the capital — a nonstop binge - and - purge banquet where wild hairstyles and lavish costume changes provide distraction from an idle existence.
First, the existence of substantial spillovers caused by family problems such as domestic violence would provide an additional compelling reason for policymakers to find ways to help troubled families.
The Jumoke Academy, by comparison, has never had a single bi-lingual student during its many years of existence and has consistently failed to provide educational services to its fair share of special education students.»
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