Sentences with phrase «regarded as a phenomenon»

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«Clearly, I consider the Trump administration a danger to the world, but I regard it as a purely temporary phenomenon that will disappear in 2020 or even sooner,» Soros said.

Critics don't like listicles — they regard them as a new phenomenon that's dumbing down the way we read and write.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

America's intermixing of religion and politics, she continued, could only be regarded as a historically neurotic phenomenon, a stubborn holdover from less enlightened times.

From the church's point of view, atheism has always been regarded as a negative phenomenon.

A coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena:

Theory - a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena.

No doubt many of the phenomena of nature, once regarded as miraculous interventions, are now understood as regular parts of the cosmic order.

But these are regarded as epiphenomena, as the rattling of the train is to the motion of the train, or else phenomena equated with chemical and electrical activities in the brain.

The assumption of interactionism has the advantage that it explains why increasingly complicated psychic phenomena evolved and why they must not be regarded as epiphenomena.

They scrupulously avoid introspective data and they treat what have traditionally been regarded as directly intuited psychic phenomena, such as perception, memory, will, and emotion, solely as theoretical inferences from observed behavior.

Any unusual natural phenomenon may be regarded as evidence of the activity of a spirit.

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

And if fetishism and magic be regarded as stages of religion, one may say that personal religion in the inward sense and the genuinely spiritual ecclesiasticisms which it founds are phenomena of secondary or even tertiary order.

After all, it is not to be doubted that the Old Testament, as also the popular view in the New Testament, regards the Spirit as a supernatural power, a kind of mysterious fluid, a «mana», to which it attributes all abnormal phenomena, including those of art and warfare.

To dismiss these cultural phenomena as mere insanity is to miss out on some very important truths regarding what it means to be human.

In reality, Greek thought always regards God in the last analysis as a part of the world or as identical with the world, even when, or rather especially when, He is held to be the origin and formative cosmic principle which lies beyond the world of phenomena For here, too, God and the world form a unity within the grasp of thought; the meaning of the world becomes clear in the idea of God.

In the historical sciences, we can not, as in the natural sciences, achieve the clarity of observation that will enable all observers to describe the same phenomenon in the same way, but we can enter into debate with one another with regard to our findings and so strive for a consensus that will take us all further forward.

As regards the psychopathic origin of so many religious phenomena, that would not be in the least surprising or disconcerting, even were such phenomena certified from on high to be the most precious of human experiences.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

The literary phenomenon of «deconstruction» is regarded by many as an irresponsible fad that has now become passé.

Given these radically different ways in which they are «observed,» it is not self - evident, to say the least, that «mental phenomena» should be regarded as analogous to observable physical phenomena such as the wetness of water and the hardness of ice.

«a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.

But as the sciences began to develop, they gradually brought to light quite natural explanations for some aspects of observable phenomena which had previously been regarded as of supernatural origin.

(«The apostles who proclaim the word may be regarded merely as figures of past history, and the Church as a sociological phenomenon, whose history forms part of the history of religion.

The claim (implied by the book's subtitle «At the Heart of Tractarianism») that ethos can be regarded as central to the phenomenon of the Oxford Movement may also be doubted.

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.

It would also help us to regard death, imperfection and dissolution as normal phenomena in the continuum of life.

A Dutch historian of religion, C. P. Tiele, also regarded the science of religions as the philosophic part of the investigation of religious phenomena.

Taking creeds and faith - state together, as forming «religions,» and treating these as purely subjective phenomena, without regard to the question of their «truth,» we are obliged, on account of their extraordinary influence upon action and endurance, to class them amongst the most important biological functions of mankind.

At the academic level form criticism is the single most important development in the history of the discussion of our problem, for it provides what must be regarded as the only satisfactory understanding of the nature of the synoptic gospel material — satisfactory, that is, from the viewpoint of being able to explain the phenomena demonstrably present in the texts themselves.

As regards the general phenomenon of mental cure itself, Dr. Goddard writes: «In spite of the severe criticism we have made of reports of cure, there still remains a vast amount of material, showing a powerful influence of the mind in disease.

This article must be a joke, darn he did it again (Wenger) another year of sorrow, hope the last one, but came to the conclusion after watching the Euros that is not the players, Ramsey a phenomenon, Giroud not that awful as a striker, is da man, Le Prof the problem, bringing the Asian superstar just proves that his plight is to increase the owners profit with no regards in building a contending team filling up the gaps....

But she acknowledges that others regard the problem as a phenomenon rooted in more profound anxieties, especially for migrants from mainland China.

It demanded the re-examination of all phenomena, including those regarded as «paranormal».

The scientists in the auditorium regarded her as they would any other rare phenomenon, with a mixture of awe and skepticism.

But the Autistic Self - Advocacy Network is one of a number of groups that argue there is no evidence that wandering should be regarded as a medical rather than a behavioural phenomenon.

«Coral breaching, in which symbiotic photosynthetic algae of corals are killed by high temperatures and coral reefs are severely damaged, is regarded as a serious environmental issue, but plausibly, similar phenomena may be ubiquitously found in the ecosystem,» said Dr. Fukatsu.

But it's important to regard the series as a whole, and with the eighth installment («The Fate of the Furious «-RRB- opening this weekend, now is the perfect time to chart its bizarre evolution from action film knockoff to genuine pop culture phenomenon.

The beauties this time are Beyonce, Emily Mortimer and Kristin Chenoweth, and their task is essentially to regard Clouseau as if they have never seen such a phenomenon before in their lives.

J.J Abrams fielded some more questions from the media regarding Star Wars (while also promoting his upcoming Stephen King project entitled 11.22.63 and Cameron Crowe's Roadies), but as you would expect, the majority of the inquiries were about Star Wars: The Force Awakens and his knowledge of the cultural phenomenon's eighth installment.

Another phenomenon mentioned in the story are books that are nothing more than compilations of Wikipedia articles and blogs on some important topic, slapped together without regard to narrative arc or even coherence, and sold as authoritative works.

While not a surprise, there was a discussion following this article that included folk who immediately interpreted my comments as being derogatory to ALL self publishers, or those specific individuals, despite disclaimers and careful multiple instances of phrasing to totally avoid absolute statements — just on that phenomenon, I rest my case regarding The Grand Illusion.

The transition from macroalgal (i.e. kelp forest) to denuded landscapes dominated by sea urchins (or «urchin barrens») is a widespread phenomenon, [6][33][34][35] often resulting from trophic cascades like those described above; the two phases are regarded as alternative stable states of the ecosystem.

Criterion (vii): The Geomunoreum lava tube system, which is regarded as the finest such cave system in the world, has an outstanding visual impact even for those experienced with such phenomena.

Pop art is usually regarded as an especially American phenomenon, but a British critic, Lawrence Alloway, coined the term, and several British artists of the»50s (e.g., Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi) antedate the US efflorescence.

Addressing inanities, profanities and vanities in the contemporary world of art, the first section is an «open letter to the art world»; the second a meditation on the art fair phenomenon; the third is about «naming things in the face of no names»; the final section addresses what the artist regards as «a paucity of poetics.

Today, Bess is regarded as a unique phenomenon, an artist who can not be grouped with any one school, but who answered solely and completely to his own vivid, personal vision.

«One of the rarest phenomena in regards to creative artists in the twentieth century is to sustain, over more than fifty years, a level of accomplishments that is as strong at the end as it was at the beginning and the middle.

His lecture may be regarded as a search for the cultural DNA that these artistic and socio - economic phenomena possibly share.