Sentences with phrase «quite different world»

It would be hyperbolic to say that the water is now boiling [vi], but we are in quite a different world so far as protection of information in the legal system is concerned.

It would be quite a different world if we all knew how to be angry with one another in a productive and safe way.

The role of chance and indeterminacy, the specific choices of the natural selection process, and even possible alternative sets of physical laws would have caused a quite different world to evolve.

In this conversation between Ivan and Alyosha, we are in quite a different world from that suggested by Ivan's hypothesis as it is reported in the novel from time to time: «if God does not exist, then everything is permitted.»

When we turn from the myths of the Ancient Near East to the literature of Israel preserved in the Old Testament, we find ourselves moving in quite a different world of thought.

The modern environment of the mass media, however, presents a quite different world.

Nevertheless, there is a special need today, perhaps more than ever before, that we imagine, and live from, a quite different world order.

Not exact matches

Ludwin: They'll converge in the following way — we have different payment networks and financial markets all around the world quite fragmented; there's very little mesh or interoperability between networks.

There is no doubt that both provide value in today's modern world, but while many think these terms are one and the same, they are quite different.

To hear Republicans babbling on about «Exceptionalism» in the face of a America & a world which is quite different than it was 50 or 100 years ago is embarrassing.

But we are fortunate if we are not encouraged to confuse the two quite different experiences of the world.

The real world is quite different from your idealistic lala - land.

Legal ethicists Thomas and Mary Shaffer, however, have convincingly demonstrated that two quite different ethical systems were operating side - by - side in the profession: an «old WASP» or «gentlemen's» ethic among small - town and establishment lawyers, and an «old world» ethic among lawyers from communities formed by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Eastern Europe.

To follow Jesus means to hope and pray for a world structured on principles that would turn present society upside down, create countercultural communities, nonviolently, and to do this while remaining open to ideas and ways of being of quite different sorts.

Many students of humanity are willing for reductionism to have its way in the rest of the world, but most are determined to adopt a quite different approach in the study of human beings.

She spoke of the future: «You are young, and maybe when you reach my age the world will be quite different.»

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.

Believers in the living God shape their expectations of the world in relation to this belief so that the question of credibility looks quite different.

He notes, for example, that the «festival or sacred period often serves quite consciously to generate distance from the oppressive monotony of the workaday world, and through special presentations and rites to create the energy to experience a «different» world, and possibly even to effect a thorough transformation of the burdensome circumstances of life.»

This is quite different from the hypothesis that the most basic principles exemplified in our world are in fact metaphysical in character, meaning that they would necessarily be exemplified in any world.

The religious scene in America is quite different from everywhere else, if for no other reason than that we are by far the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

We haven't quite made it through this period, especially as different areas of the world have encountered and responded to these ideas.

Although his way of working this out may not appeal to us, with our quite different scientific knowledge, and our own philosophical idiom, the point here is that Aquinas, like the other theologians of the great Christian tradition, was no «spiritualist», denying or minimizing the material world and the physical body and their ways of working.

Wallington's World, by historian Paul Seaver, represents a contribution to the Weberian legacy of a quite different sort.3 Nehemiah Wallington was a Puritan artisan who lived in London from 1598 until his death in 1658.

For example, studying advanced geometry is important because it makes students consider worlds quite different from the world they assume to be «true» — worlds where parallel lines meet, where the shortest distance between two points is a curved line.

Christ is no longer an object of religion, but something quite different, really the Lord of the world.

In Paul's day accepting baptism truly separated one from much of the world in which one had lived and initiated one into another, quite different, context.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

What if «the laws» of science and physics are quite different outside our tiny part of the world?

I do not propose to embark upon any analysis or defense of the very particular kind of optimism which does not for a moment claim that we are living in the best of all possible worlds, but only (a quite different matter!)

Suddenly they find themselves surrounded by people with quite different priorities, who view the world through much different lenses, and who care about different things.

It is the proper time now for Korean churches to deliberate their role in the world church, in managing God's abundant blessings and entrusted financial resources, to help other members of the familia Dei to implement God's given tasks in their respective contexts, which are sometimes quite different from the Korean context.

When we study the history of Europe and America we can assume at least a minimal knowledge about the influence of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religious thought and practices, but for the study of the history of Asia we must prepare ourselves by gaining a sympathetic understanding of the quite different religious ideas and practices of that part of the world.

And this means that our universe is quite different from the congeries of mindless abstractions that inhabit the world of scientific materialism.

They also suppose that the world they see and touch is for the most part of a quite different order.

Given different dynamics in the larger world economy, quite different patterns of sectarianism might be expected.

Lowe actually traces the primordial nature as far back as in Science and the Modern World.3 Ford, quite to the opposite, claims that, in Process and Reality alone, Whitehead successively held three different concepts of God.4

I had claimed that, on his process assumptions, «it is quite unlikely that the world of nature is radically different than God intended it to be.»

I do not mean to say that this sort of interaction is limited to Buddhism, it can be found in every major religion in the world, but it must be said that few are quite as open to adapting radically different ideologies as these monks appear to be.

(Thus, we are moving in quite a different direction from the rather vague remark by Martin Heidegger: «the phrase «God is dead» means that the supersensible world is without effective force.»

Elsewhere in the world the situation is quite different.

Obviously the economic system that would fit in with arcologies and the primacy of farming would be quite different from the one that has dominated most of the world in recent times.

Columbus» relation to the world was that of a discoverer, an adventurer, but his specific discovery was quite different than the one he originally intended.

Faith expands the capacity of the believer to embrace the concerns of all along life's journey towards a horizon quite different from the illusive enticements the idols of this world appear to offer.

The world of Jesus was quite different from what we take it to mean in our times.

Two new and quite different books offer a glimpse into the thought world of those who believe in the rapture.

It was quite different in Latin America where the religion of the old European world clashed with those of the world they were conquering and in their efforts to uproot the native religions, found themselves totally assimilated into them.

To make such a distinction requires a carefully circumscribed definition of health, one quite different from the famous definition once given by the World Health Organization: «a state of complete physical, mental, and social well - being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.»

The basis for inclusion of world religions and church history in theological schooling would have to be quite different.

And both, though in quite different ways, extend the links well beyond the living to the inanimate world.