Sentences with phrase «representation is a thing»

In the intervening books he has developed the theory of the Forms (the ideal heavenly realities of which our material world offers mere copies), and so is now able to point out that poetry is not true, since its objects of representation are the things of this world.

Not exact matches

I'd been invited by the Quebec government to join a special committee looking into representation on boards, and I was listening to everyone talk one day, and I realized that we all were talking as if someone else would take care of things.

«These items were selected as iconic representations of the respective brands, as a hint of things to come, and, most importantly, because customers love them,» Kevin Groh, vice-president of corporate affairs at Loblaw, told Canadian Grocer.

In particular, you need 25 percent of the shares to call for a special meeting; all the shareholders involved need to be «stockholders of record» at the time of the request; and every shareholder involved needs to provide, among other things, «a representation that such Proposing Person intends to hold the shares of the Corporation... through the date of the Stockholder Requested Special Meeting.»

Any opinions of outside counsel or other external tax advisors and any IRS private letter ruling will be based, among other things, on various facts and assumptions, as well as certain representations, statements and undertakings of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (including those relating to the past and future conduct of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

Any opinions of outside counsel or any other external tax advisor and any IRS private letter ruling will be based, among other things, on various facts and assumptions, as well as certain representations, statements and undertakings of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (including those relating to the past and future conduct of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

The first thing which must be set aside is the method of representation which has passed in this country under the name of representative government.

«And His Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.

You are making the analogy, the representation for illustrative purposes only, more important than the thing it is meant to represent.

This is not a very good representation of Christian Thought, Not all nor close to a percentage of Christians think or say these things.

If you want to understand Mormons, this article gives one of the truest representations of things as they are.

If you actually hoped to change things you'd be working for ranked balloting and non-spatial representation (even on the state level).

Not only is there no «accurate» visual representation of Jesus, but it is a heresy to insist that such a thing might exist.

But when you think about something — such as your wife — you are definitively thinking about only that thing, not about a representation of that thing or a representation of a representation of that thing.

The consequence of this is that any material representation of a thing can not possibly be what we mean by a concept because it will be, by definition, particular and not (like a concept) universal.

But if our conceptualising depends on a material representation of a thing (say a neuron - firing sequence in the brain) it simply can not be universal knowledge.

No representation of Jesus which does not say both things can be historically convincing.

It's one thing to say it, but it's another thing to actually show mental health as being a regular, ongoing part of people's lives, and that's why on - screen representation matters so much.

In contrast to the main drift of the modern Western tradition, which asks how we can reconstruct or represent things within us and concludes that the activity of reconstruction or representation is almost wholly a matter of our own creation and projection, the theory of value and valuation suggests a different question.

There are a lot of things that the Church is in our culture: The physical representation of God in the world, a place where Christians can gather to encourage one...

Civil unions are contractual representations of a business relationship and governments should work hard to keep things on a business basis.

The sad thing is that so many countries (and religious and political groups) want that cartoon's header to be a representation of how many non - heterosexual / non - heteroromantic / non-cisgender people there are in their «civilized and superior» society.

It certainly isn't a fair representation of available choices, nor is ND in anyway theologically neutral which is one route that could be legitimately taken if you have a solid theological stance but truly want to build bridges and open spaces for people who see things differently rather than feeling the need to sell your particular take on things.

Every Pope claims to be the infallible representation of Gods hand on earth, so it is pretty funny that nearly every single one has changed things from his predecessor implying that the last Pope may not have had it exactly right... If science and education can't prove evolution to you, Christianity should at least be a good example of it socially.

The answer is, that when things are separately and specifically noticed in acts which, though distinct, are unified and ordered by a characteristic enumerative interest or purpose, the primary contents (sensa) corresponding to the things are caught up in the overarching act to form a whole representation (in the sense of an intentional object) on the basis of which an objective, real, multiplicity intuitively appears.

The philosophical naturalist's view of reality is not one that merely fails to find some particular object within the world that the theist imagines can be descried there; it is a very particular representation of the nature of things, entailing a vast range of purely metaphysical commitments.

The justices said, «A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest, i.e., a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters.»

The rest of the letter concerned Luther's further representations to Trutvetter whom he was still trying to convert — the University reforms were still the things that really mattered.

Undoubtedly there were tendencies in artistic representation that would be considered by most today as saccharinely sentimental: perhaps it was no bad thing that these have disappeared.

As Thomas Haskell once wrote: «If there is no such thing as truth but only a variety of incommensurable perspectives in criterionless competition with one another, then force and persuasion become indistinguishable, cutting the ground out from under any politics based on consent and representation.»

I am always interested in representations that can make things happen.

It will take years to implement an academy set - up that will see a strong representation in our first team but if it proves one thing then it's that the owner is serious about adhering to the FFP regulations.

But in an otherwise pointless demonstration, I think the only thing that could be brought to the table is representation for typically unseen groups.

What children see or interact with on the screen is only a representation of things in the real world.

It seems like a good test for partisan gerrymanders that are unfair, but there would be a lot of other factors or dimensions (as discussed in the other answers - things like common economic interests) that might also make a district's representation unfair even within the efficiency threshold.

A wide representation of views is a good thing but I do wonder how this can produce cohesion as an end result.

If the goal is to maintain some form of local representation or connection between a member of parliament and a district (personally, I am not convinced it's a good thing) with a more proportional representation, Germany has another (rather complex) way to achieve that, called «personalized proportional vote» but even that only gives voters control over some of the seats.

By the same token, the evidence of a national will to bring in proportional representation is one thing — but it will be more willingly accepted, especially by a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolution.

«We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.

He said, «Corruption is not an ethnic thing, there is an equal representation in the stealing as no one operates with his or her ethnic group alone, the culprits are in every case seen so far, united by greed to steal and not by ethnic or religious interest.»

Larry was a lawyer known among other things for his willingness to represent deserving folks who could not otherwise afford decent representation and was also a -LSB-...]

Cuomo aides insisted that trying to offload the bulk of CUNY costs onto the city is an eminently reasonable thing to do, given the city's one - third representation on the university system's board of trustees.

I know that proportional representation fans think the AV is a poor substitute for the real thing, but it might be that Clegg knew that the Tories simply would not stomach full PR, and AV could be seen as a step in the right direction.

«One of the things I'm proudest of is that we've made the public policy of this state that people in need who are fighting for the necessities of their life... get legal representation, or effective legal assistance,» he said.

Current communications director Paul Rivera is staying on, but he's likely moving into a more limited chief of staff - type role, although there are two people with that title at the moment in Sampson's camp: Michelle Trotman, whose name appeared in a recent Times story on the leader's representation of a shady Queens real estate broker, Edul Ahmad; and Michael Cohen, who I'm told runs things in the senator's Brooklyn district.

He must leave office, and we need representation that is willing to offer the necessary reforms to really shake things up,» said Legislator Ted Morton (R - Cheektowaga).

«AV is a little short of proportional representation» Interviewed on Channel 4 News, Nick Clegg told Jon Snow the government was bringing two things together: giving people a say on whether they want a different electoral system, and secondly, making sure that your vote is worth the same value, wherever you live.

«You know, part of how we do things in the state is we end up creating more costs and less effective representation.»

So you've got things that look very different but they're representations of same reality.

The example given is simply a representation of what types of things have been done to address the chronic problem of the underutilization of the talents of women and minorities in science.