Sentences with phrase «rather than an appropriate»

What makes any religious tradition a tradition is that it has an essential meaning or motif which can be criticized as inessential only by abandoning rather than appropriating the tradition itself.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

Rather than appropriate specific amounts for each of these, the Legislature writes formulas into state law — sending each district so many dollars for each elementary - school pupil, each hospital so much for a day of care for each patient, and so on.

If so, why would you use such an expensive form of insurance rather than an appropriate term policy?

His practice of diagrammatically breaking down and redeploying a poem across a network of illuminated supports add to, rather than appropriate from, the poetry that inspires them.

Not exact matches

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

It's important not to obsess about each possible move, but rather to work with your mentor to ensure that, more often than not, you're making the most appropriate moves for the given situation.

Rather than cull through all the salads on the menu, customers placing their orders digitally will now have the option of selecting a diet type, which will filter the appropriate foods: 30 vegan or vegetarian plant - based items, 28 nutrient options, and 27 protein - rich selections.

He's asking the judge whether he can pay an «appropriate fine» rather than go to jail, according to the document.

Case in point: The concept of building a float to re-create the Ferris Bueller «Danke Schoen» scene (with Branson as Bueller) came from an ideation session trying to tie together Chicago - related and Virgin - appropriate themes; when the team presented the idea to Branson, he immediately agreed to participate, rather than micro-questioning and overworking the concept after it was presented to him.

Others allege that some companies abuse the system, hiring overseas labor and paying them a lower salary, rather than paying the appropriate salary to an American worker.

Based on the convexity analysis that I discussed late last year, my impression is that it is more appropriate to weight investment positions rather than expected returns from the two possible data sets.

Since the markets in other jurisdictions should and will grow, one could argue that it is better to implement appropriate reforms sooner rather than later.

Congress appropriated a $ 4.9 billion recovery loan rather than a grant for Puerto Rico in October, but FEMA and the Treasury Department said in January that the territory may not even get that money because the local government still has cash in its coffers.

More control over gain and loss tax exposure through ownership of individual securities, rather than mutual funds or strategies managed by third parties, except when appropriate.

For investors who take a full - cycle approach rather than a passive one, a more defensive stance is appropriate.

China's Foreign Minister has warned China would take «appropriate and necessary responses», noting that no one wins a trade war and adding that China and the US should strive to be partners rather than rivals.

Further, their portfolio building interface allows investors to take more appropriate risk, rather than just buy a handful of securities.

The appropriate strategy is simple - we align ourselves with the prevailing Market Climate, rather than trying to forecast specific market outcomes.

I also used very conservative assumptions where appropriate since I'd much rather be wrong on the low side than wrong on the high side when estimating net worth.

iv) a requirement for reliable and appropriate economic assessment methodology rather than the bogus approach to economic analysis the Board has adopted at recent hearings; and

«A more appropriate way to express a short view on the retail sector is to go directly to the source,» the duo wrote, where the bet is on credit quality rather than, say, earnings (or stock prices).

Rather than exclude an entire vertical from participating in crowdfunding markets, we propose that the OSC consider creating an appropriate level of disclosure and reporting requirements for these transactions to address any issues they have concern with in this asset class.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

If it had ended, then it would seem appropriate to ask what policies are now needed if our concern is to improve economic welfare of people rather than increase production for its own sake.

Dr. Polk reconceives the basic question of the relation of power and goodness by asking what kind of power is appropriate to a loving God, rather than the traditional way of framing the issue as how can a powerful God also be a loving God.

Rather than use Warren since I don't think it is appropriate right now, I'm going to use a post I wrote yesterday as an example.

It is of great importance that profits from land ownership belong to the community rather than being appropriated by private citizens.

And I might also quote here St. Francis de Sales» appropriate comment: «We are to seek the God of consolations rather than the consolations given by God.»

Such an approach empowers believing theologians, rather than pressures generated by secular thought, to set the theological agenda, and naturally inclines to maintaining the coherence of the Faith, with its hierarchy of truths and its four pillars (as evident in the four parts of the Catechism), as well as according appropriate status to pluralist or relativistconcerns and emphases.

When images are used to move us without convincing us that they are appropriate to reality, they are felt as manipulative rather than liberating and energizing.

Rather than leaving this as an uninvestigated discovery, as scientific reductionism and materialism would have us leave it, the Holy Father invites us to remit the question to those areas of study which have the appropriate competence, which comprise human subjectivity and creativity within their appropriate object: namely philosophy and theology.

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

Those of us who believe, for instance, that surgical intervention might not be an appropriate remedy in the case of those experiencing confusion about their sex are ridiculed as intolerant or bigoted, rather than offered the opportunity to debate.

Rather than the huge wall of sound that often accompanies many modern, church - based albums, here there is light and shade, sensitive arrangements and — where appropriate — explosive power.

Rather than narrowing the focus of inquiry and polarizing discussion, a more appropriate and helpful function would be bringing to bear on a situation the sum total of perspectives, disciplines and facilities in order to form an adequate understanding of the options which can lead to solutions.

To put one's spiritual faith in God rather than in another human being (or group of human beings) is not lazy; it's appropriate.

National self - deceit is no less hazardous than cancer symptoms in a person who decides to ignore the troubling symptoms rather than to receive appropriate treatment.

Third World nations should be allowed to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

Rather than commit itself to any particular worldview, Christian theology should use or appropriate as many worldviews and forms of language as are necessary to explicate the truth of God's Word.

Three guiding ethical principals are suggested, including allowing Third World nations to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

Rather than merely working out someone else's puzzle, we appropriate the story as our own.

Rather than thinking about sin as the thing we do that makes God angry, I believe it's more appropriate to think about sin as something we think / say / do that is outside of God's ideal.

Perhaps though, with Edward Schillebeeckx, it is more appropriate for us to speak of the «defenselessness» or vulnerability of God rather than of weakness or powerlessness.

It might be more appropriate to explain «total depravity» as a way of describing the fact that every part of our lives is touched by sin, rather than implying that «total depravity» means we are totally evil people.

I do think personal being must be more broadly defined in appropriate mentalistic, telic terms, rather than conscious - self - conscious terms alone, but I see no good account of continuity across intermittency of consciousness by shifting the problem to a bodily society that does not enjoy my consciousness.

It's not appropriate for men to use the Bible to make their female «friends» (that's in quotes because true friends don't treat each other this way) shut up every time they feel envious of their insight, and prefer to ignore the wisdom of certain women, rather than praying to God to give them some of their own.

Also for this purpose the act of washing or sprinkling is peculiarly appropriate rather than some other use of the water, such as drinking it.

When resonances or evocations are appropriated as plot predictions, analysis will have the effect of flattening the story (reducing it to the «right» answer) rather than enriching it.