Sentences with phrase «rather than presences»

Ruff turned monumental twenty - five years ago, with faces too cropped to count as portraits rather than presences.

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

The link between cardiovascular health and the development of other major diseases such as diabetes, poor thyroid function and probably also dementia, too, makes sense since many of these also point to a lack of nutrients rather than the presence of one single substance as a likely explanation of such epidemics.

Still, the absence of prosocial behaviour, rather than the presence of aggression, may promote peer rejection.

However, our main focus as clinicians, as well as the focus of academic research in the past years, has been on the absence of these emotions, rather than their presence: Is this «shameless» or «remorseless» person a psychopath?

Not exact matches

He also thinks it won't be too long until the presence of AI in electronics is an assumption rather than a surprise.

«For these companies, maintaining a presence in key growth markets abroad is a priority, and so they are adapting to trends such as rising labor and shipping costs in China, rather than shying away from opportunities in global markets,» says Esch.

States like Alabama have built a presence in the global supply chain in direct competition with the country's Midwestern industrial heartland, and even if Trump coaxes jobs back to the United States they may well head south rather than north.

However, cartel territorial control is likely defined much more loosely in the US than in Mexico, based on presence alone rather than on deeper operational ties and control.

Link building has become more about them (users) rather than you (online presence).

Having the option to like something signals the presence of a real person on the other side, rather than just a virtual figure.

A leaked audio recording of Theresa May speaking at Goldman Sachs in May — before the referendum and before she became prime minister — features the then - home secretary saying: «If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say, do they need to develop a mainland Europe presence rather than a UK presence?»

Indeed in the presence of chronic excess supply structural reform has the risk of spurring disinflation rather than the contributing to a necessary increase in inflation.

He noted that the firm operated with a higher tax rate than some peers — it had got more US - centric over time rather than less, largely because of its presence in wealth management, which he reckoned was now about 98 % US - focused after the firm sold its European business in 2013.

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

Rather than sell through third - party distributors or open a Chinese - language shopping site, Costco elected to establish its China presence on Tmall's Tmall Global platform, a cross-border shopping solution that provides Western merchants with a simplified channel for selling online in the PRC.

Lisa Goodwin, vice president for Liberty Property Trust's Maryland office, said her firm wants to expand its presence in the market but is focused on development, rather than buying.

We believe that flexible and responsive independent companies with a local presence allow realtors to brand themselves in the marketplace, and that this enables them to offer a personalized service that is directly tied to their own reputation — rather than to a company name.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

In the presence of a holy people they could learn of God rather than continue in the ways of the world (symbolized by Egypt and the heathens)

Fellowship, rather than being an imposition on my preferred surroundings, serves a vital role in experiencing not only God's presence in our lives, but also in experiencing all of who God has made me to be.

No one even noticed that the church, by its decision, was saying that it would rather be a presence in this neighborhood than a success elsewhere.

For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least insofar as they function as compound individuals rather than as simple aggregates of occasions.

While carrying a sleeping toddler, while questioning Him in and outside of the church gates, and from inside my privilege of safety, God's presence insisted that I engage, rather than pull away.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Rather than ignore them completely, we must acknowledge their presence but at the same time acknowledge that they have already been defeated and pray in the Spirit against their schemes against us, our friends, our church and this world and most importantly to love everyone like God does, especially if we think they are either demonically oppressed or possessed.

Rather than interacting with a single male father - figure, Mackenzie interacts with 1) Papa (a big black woman who represents God the Father), 2) Jesus (an ordinary - looking Jewish man who obviously represents Christ), and 3) Sarayu (an ethereal female presence who represents the Holy Spirit).

With the exception of predatory behaviors that take advantage of the vulnerable among us, we should concentrate on cleaning up our own act, rather than remaking others into our own image so that their presence is not challenge our narcissistic psychological comfort zones.

After watching the clip it was clear that there is lack of Gvt presence and proper republic in that country to take care of it's people and that locals are taking matters into their hands to fill the wide gap of Gvt presence that they are left with... No wonder now why many are taking into immigration out of that caveman country who went into developing it's weapons rather than developing it's people....

In other words, the presence of multiple accounts of some incredible flood in ancient times would argue in favor of such an occurrence, rather than assume they all borrow upon each other.

By redirecting our thinking about God to his absence rather than to his presence, we not only portray the true God of the Scriptures but make him more credible.

Getting involved as volunteers in an established community group (rather than inventing a new charity) would be a great way any Christian — or group of Christians — could take the presence of Christ into their city.

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

That requires meaningful worship, worship in which people sense God's presence and grace - filled activity Similarly, rather than just supplying good food in the fellowship hall, one must provide meaningful opportunities for building and practicing Christian fellowship.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

Yet, as the cross of Jesus can suggest, the presence of God is, and always has been, invitational rather than coercive, a pull from ahead to which creatures may or may not respond, rather than a push from behind by which they are inevitably compelled.

We appropriately celebrate rather than deny the presence of potentially helpful ideas in other religions, whether those ideas are confirmations of truths already contained in Christianity, or whether they offer something new and heretofore unrecognized by Christianity.

These qualities are the outcome, rather than the presupposition, of a spiritual journey, sometimes prolonged and always painful, though a void, past an enemy, and into the presence of a companion.

The most basic conscious experience is emotional rather than cognitive, an affective response (expansion or retreat) to some vague presence dimly felt (AI 225f, PR 246 - 48).

After all, Christians believe that we are imprisoned by sin and that, rather than trying to escape our condition, we need to undergo a personal transformation before we can enter into the full presence of God.

The Spirit - blessed congregation, rather than the priest or bishop, represents the presence of Christ for Volf.

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

In any case, we can see that his metaphors for God's active presence enlarged upon and enriched the biblical tradition, rather than being simply derivative.

On the other hand, we have seen that a person with whom we can interact and whose concrete presence we enjoy is able to be genuinely other, and in a positive way, rather than just as a victim or as suffering.

In Al 277, the segment of line is in the brain rather than in the percipient occasion, but I assume that the theory depends upon the line's presence in that region in which the percipient occasion (hence the soul) is present.

Frankly, I would rather spend eternity in hell with Lennon than even a minute in the presence of filth like the pastor in NC.

Revelation, we shall see, is the symbol - laden unfolding of the encompassing presence of mystery rather than a magical response to specific sets of problems.

Second, he urges us to live in the present moment: to practise God's presence on a daily basis rather than wasting time daydreaming or wallowing in regret.

Since His love - in - operation is His essential nature — He is love, which is His «root - attribute», not aseity, as the older theology claimed — the other things said about Him (transcendence, immanence, omnipotence, omniscience, omni - presence, righteousness, etc.) are to be understood, as I have already argued earlier, as adverbially descriptive of His mode of being love rather than set up as separate or even as distinct attributions.

For them, as well, «the presence of the Logos... share [s] in constituting self - hood» and God's purposes are experienced as their own purposes rather than as a threat to their purposes (cf. Cobb).