Sentences with phrase «regards as alien»

After a meal containing grains, all sorts of peptides circulate around the body, which our immune system regards as alien intruders and tries to fight with inflammatory reactions.

If you feel your culture is under threat, however, or is going to be swamped by what you regard as alien influences, or if you want to have some control over the degree to which another culture influences yours — then you may develop a mentality of resistance.

The temple was no longer theirs; they were denied the sacrifices; they were outlawed from both cult and legal system; they were expelled from the synagogue and regarded as aliens by the Jewish community.

On the other hand, we regard it as alien, with either romantic nostalgia or revulsion.

In India, for example, Hindutva, is not just a political ideology against what is called «pseudo-secularism», but also a cultural movement against what are regarded as alien values of globalization.

It sickens me that my daughter's future offspring will be regarded as aliens unless they happen to be born on Canadian soil.

Not exact matches

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

Gnosticism is here understood as that movement of the later Hellenistic world which sought salvation from the whole cosmos regarded as, in principle, an alien and evil power.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

This much, however, is clear: while modern man may be wrong in identifying his ego with his subjectivity, he is undoubtedly right in regarding it in its subjective aspect as a unity, and in refusing to allow any room for alien powers to interfere in his subjective life.

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

56 So in the final analysis she came to regard God not «as an alien superior power but as that which occurs between people» in their living through, and not only enduring, but sometimes even triumphing over, a suffering that can only be fully shared.57

(C) An alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States shall not be regarded as seeking an admission into the United States for purposes of the immigration laws unless the alien --(i) has abandoned or relinquished that status, (ii) has been absent from the United States for a continuous period in excess of 180 days, (iii) has engaged in illegal activity after having departed the United States, (iv) has departed from the United States while under legal process seeking removal of the alien from the United States, including removal proceedings under this chapter and extradition proceedings, (v) has committed an offense identified in section 1182 (a)(2) of this title, unless since such offense the alien has been granted relief under section 1182 (h) or 1229b (a) of this title, or (vi) is attempting to enter at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers or has not been admitted to the United States after inspection and authorization by an immigration officer.

Despite the varied and often nuanced behaviors they can exhibit, invertebrates are sometimes regarded as life's second string, a mindless and unfeeling band of alien critters.

Let me add, with reference to the original post, by Hazel Muir, that I regard the sneering reference to a green, pointy - headed alien as totally out of keeping with a genuinely scientific and, may I add, skeptical mind - set.

Meanwhile, inside the boundaries of District 9 itself, a cadre of Nigerian gangsters exploit the prawns by charging them exorbitant prices for black - market goods (including the canned cat food the aliens regard as a culinary delicacy).

As you can see, there is much to be examined and explored within the world of Prometheus in and of itself, let alone in regards to its place within the Alien universe.

Alien and Blade Runner are rightly regarded as two of the best but his revisit to the Alien world with Prometheus didn't hit the high benchmark he had set for himself.

-- although there are of course exceptions to my own rule (Eliot Goldenthal's astonishingly creepy music for Alien 3, which I firmly regard as the most thrillingly scary music ever written.)

Woerner brings the scuttlebutt regarding Sigourney Weaver supposedly being game for a fifth «Alien» installment in to fuel the fire even more, adding that Newt (from «Aliens») and Winona Ryder's Annalee Call («Alien: Resurrection») didn't exactly pan out as they should have for badass, woah - man E.T. brawler Ellen Ripley in the past.

LMD: Regarding Julie as Hammer Girl, I think she's going straight into the pantheon of excellent female action movie icons like Sigourney Weaver in Aliens or the Kill Bill ladies.

Increasingly, refugees are inextricably tied to socio - economic exclusion due to the misconception of regarding them as «alien,» «not belonging,» «others» or ``

You play as Commander Shepherd — male or female — who becomes the first human Spectre, a select group of people and aliens who are held in highest regard across the galaxy.

Though many still regard Contra III: The Alien Wars as an SNES classic, it feels more like a «pretty good» NES title that just happens to be 16 - bits.

Regarding this philosophical dilemma, Abbas writes, ``... [I] t is as if the image is all that has ever been, and that the object has always already been displaced, ungraspable; not a distant object, but that object as distancing — in short, alien.»

Nothing in Articles 10, 11, and 14 shall be regarded as preventing the High Contracting Parties from imposing restrictions on the political activity of aliens.

No wonder the criminal justice system is regarded by many as the moral equivalent of an alien power in our midst.