Sentences with phrase «read as an attempt»

His subsequent tweet could be read as an attempt to ameliorate his earlier post; he appears more presidential in saying that he appreciates the democratic right to protest and disagree.

Almost all of Process and Reality can be read as an attempt to analyze perishing on the same level as Aristotle's analysis of becoming.

The very attempt to define or concretize the freedom born of the Spirit can be read as an attempt to achieve closure on God's truth.

The omission of the rest of NSF's portfolio could be read as an attempt by Culberson to align his spending bill with Smith's desires.

Parent company Match Group also owns Tinder, so the wider implementation of OKCupid Discovery could also be a read as an attempt to better differentiate the portfolio brands.

I've made my view on this site well - known that I think having Johnny and Sue as multiracial siblings is pretty damn cool, though I understand and sympathize with those to whom it reads as an attempt not to cast multiple actors of color.

While they might now feel a little overshadowed by the later fate of modernist design, they can also be read as an attempt to make the ideas powering Clark's artistic production relevant to a wider audience, and to integrate them with lived experience.

Her decadent clothing and voracious appetite can be seen as a commentary on how the trappings of civilization separate us from the natural world and encourage excessive consumption, while her ritualistic movements may be read as an attempt to reconnect with both the earthly and spiritual realms of the forest around her.

This reads as another attempt by «true believers» to define «true skepticism» (true skeptics, etc) as true belief pretending at doubt.

MacEwen, who never minces words, dives below the survey response in what I read as an attempt to communicate to BigLaw, bottom - line, why they should care that associates say working for these firms, well, stinks:

To some eyes, Protocol 30 to the Lisbon Treaty could be read as an attempt to prevent exactly the kind of Charter - based judicial review carried out in Benkharbouche.

A lack of dates will read as an attempt to hide something.

Not exact matches

Looking back to the early days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.

And it's not as if Williams doesn't have the money (he made a reported $ 50 million selling Blogger to Google) or the connections (Twitter's angel investors read like a who's who of Silicon Valley) to attempt something more ambitious.

It doesn't attempt to hold the reader's attention for an extended period of time, and this is important if you're presenting to a potential investor who will have other plans he or she will need to read as well.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

And you could read its generosity not just as generosity, but also as an attempt to discourage employee mobility by fostering employee loyalty.

Some traders, in an attempt to avoid false signals from the RSI, use more extreme RSI values as buy or sell signals, such as RSI readings above 80 to indicate overbought conditions and RSI readings below 20 to indicate oversold conditions.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

St. Anselm, for instance, puts in his Proslogion what a typically modern reading takes as the «ontological argument»: an attempt to prove, by examining the meaning of the word «God,» the existence of a useful transcendental guarantor of thought, whose existence is itself guaranteed by thought.

I've attempted to read the story as a God of Wrath, but it got complicated quick because I had to pick and choose verses and have a rather myopic view of who God is.

Could it be «said» that your review of this book is also an attempt to deceive those who are reading currently and that it is highly possible the guilt trip, or as I like to call it, conviction is all yours?

From the standpoint of postliberalism, they should not be read as the evangelical counterpart to what postliberalism was and is attempting to accomplish.

I have read all the attempts so far and am open to continue to study them but as of today they are all fail.

My dear, read for your self and before you throw such statements, attempt to tackle the points I made throughout this form on merit basis, not whims and desires (or ignorance as is the case in your comment).

As you read the verses, make an attempt to understand what they say without anger, emotion and / or prejudgment!

The main point is that the inclusivist can read the second part of this paper as an attempt to understand cohesive nexus in terms of the logic of relations.

I myself have read the bible cover to cover several times in my life and attempted to cross reference nearly every line in the 30 years I spent as a Christian with a decade as a pastor.

Likewise that type of reading tends to trivialize Auden's humor as an attempt to get laughs, to add to the merriment of the holiday season.

I am coming to learn that Jesus is the Word of God as you have said, and am attempting to let Him help me read not only Scripture, but read by own life as well.

Maybe the various Gospel accounts are best read as innocent attempts — decades after the first Easter — to provide some historical hook on which first - century believers could hang their experiential faith.

It is as though, quite apart from the man, there exists a figure called Alasdair MacIntyre whose position you know whether or not you have read him — and whose name has become a specter that haunts all attempts to provide constructive moral and political responses to the challenge of modernity.

In reference to Hegel's use of dialectic, one should perhaps add that there should be no attempt to read a dialectical movement onto the physical universe, or to install it as a special logic.

The what of Christian belief is an attempt to state all that is implied in the whom of Christian belief; and the history of the Christian Church may be read, at least in part, as the constant effort of succeeding generations of believers in Christ to think out and think through the full implications of the new relationship to God established in Christ and enjoyed in the fellowship of Christian believers in Him.

Although Derrida is commonly read as either overthrowing or at least attempting to evade the effect of history and tradition, he made it clear just how much we are embedded in Western ways of thinking.

As usual you attempt to read more into what is presented than what you have facts for.

Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»

As Dennett's title openly asserts, materialist accounts of consciousness continually run into snags» and reading his attempt to answer those objections had the paradoxical effect of making me see Newman's point.

After reading this article, she'll probably have to fear for her life as these groups attempt to hunt her down for openly admitting she's a Sunshine Jew.

As I read Hartshorne, «ontological» questions are merely more abstract versions of «cosmological» ones, and all attempts to give an ultimate explanation of reality's details in terms of the «formal possibility» (CG 60, 61) of concrete interactions is simply misguided.

In being faithful to the text we must move away from the naïve attempt to read it from some neutral, heavenly height and we must attempt to read it as one who has been born of God and thus born of love: for that is the prejudice of God.

Seen in another way, some participants can be read as adopting one of the models and attempting to incorporate the best features of the other, but on terms dictated by the privileged model; some try to do the reverse.

So it is our job now to read Scripture as a way of informing our future directions and goals as we attempt to be Jesus in the world.

However, I shall attempt to show that an aesthetic reading of cosmic purpose is more comprehensive than consciousness - oriented teleologies (such as that of Teilhard de Chardin).

Yet, as a Christian who attempts to read Scripture carefully, I notice this:

Too few and too late in the coming two decades, several did try to respond, particularly to Melancthon who had a continuous project of an Agreed Statement, his Loci Communes, an attempt at a summary of the central themes of Christianity as understood by the Wittenberg theologians, set out in such a way that papal theologians might be likely to read them sympathetically.

I found myself sympathetic to his Afro - centric themes, thinking the book best read as a heartfelt attempt to prevent black American culture from being assimilated into the mainstream.

But this could be read as a side - effect of St Thomas's vigorous Eucharistic realism rather than an attempt to attribute woundedness to the Real Presence.

Mr Camping used this as a way to stir up the people and if you fell for this attempt, just read your Bible more and go to church to get a real understanding of the Word of God.

Nutritional Yeast isn't really all that nutritional, unfortunately, as I learned in this article about B12 deficiency which I read after I went vegan in an attempt to regain my health.