Sentences with phrase «rests upon the idea»

So the plausibility of the claim rests upon the idea that we should be identified with Labour as a «progressive bloc».

The concept rests upon the idea that we all lead multidimensional lives.

They rest upon the idea that each individual family member has a unique role and identity from the family, and people are best understood in the context of their family.

Not exact matches

It was at such an occasion in 1995 — the 200th anniversary of a Spanish royal decree that made Cuervo the first legitimate producer of «mezcal wine» — that the company directors stumbled upon the idea to share their secret stash with the rest of us.

Allowing your brain to freely associate disparate ideas, many researchers believe, facilitates this «eureka» moment, which perhaps helps explain why Newton stumbled upon the rule of gravity while resting under an apple tree, and why, anecdotally, the modern - day shower seems particularly conducive for runaway breakthrough moments.

The idea of transformation rests upon what is called the hylomorphic theory, another stalwart principle of Aristotelian philosophy.

The distinction among the three kinds rests upon the nature of the objects valued — ideas in the first case, sense data in the second, and acts in the third.

Some people are disturbed by the idea that Christian faith may rest only upon the testimony of certain individuals to have experienced a vision of Jesus after his death.

When Irving Howe, the good democratic socialist critic of Dissent fame, was attacking in 1966 the whole idea of Counter-Cultural style — I guess Beatle boots, beads, long hair, turtlenecks, denims, etc. — , he said that it rested upon the ``... basic assumption... of the middle class: that values can be inferred from, or are resident in, the externals of dress, appearance, furnishings, and hair - dos.»

Since then the English language serves as a conveyor belt upon which ideas manufactured in Tübingen, Basel and Heidelberg — or in Lyon, São Paulo and Uppsala — are carried to the rest of the world, inspection of the machinery for possible faulty operation now and again might help to avert a breakdown along the way.

According to Judge Richard Posner, the very idea of natural law rests upon a premodern picture of nature that science has discredited.

Equally important is to avoid the appearance of resting the argument for the truth of particular doctrines upon such ideas.

«Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white...

The idea that God gave His Laws in the Bible is the premise upon which the rest of the problem is built.

The idea that faith might not be an instantaneous perception, that God's presence or absence rests upon more than a blunt apprehension, struck me as a dilating prospect.

The famous painting by Giotto which shows St. Francis upholding a basilica, no longer resting safely upon its own foundation, clearly suggests this idea.

This Marcan scheme obviously rests upon a theological idea; and it is not strange if later Gospels, resting upon quite other theological convictions, have done violence to Mark, often without realizing it.

It is the fusion of these three elements in his representation of Jesus» life and teaching that makes it a matter of the greatest difficulty to distinguish in any particular discourse between what rests upon a deep understanding of the true meaning of Jesus» actual words and what is read into them in the light both of experience and of preconceived ideas as what the Word of God should fittingly proclaim.

But all these ideas rest upon a misinterpretation of the proper sense of the word aesthesis in Greek and also in a good deal of careful contemporary study and discussion.

It's when you're resting, say you're semi-dozing, you're kind of lying in your chair, you're kind of relaxed or even sleeping, once upon a time we had this idea, or scientists had this idea that the brain is pretty much inactive then, that you've shut off in effect your conscious thinking, then also your brain was not doing much.

Now, Flying Mollusk and the rest of the Nevermind development team have taken it upon themselves, with the support of a Kickstarter campaign, to turn this unique idea into a full - fledged game.

Blaustein also touched upon Kojima's reliance on the rest of his team to formulate gameplay ideas — which echoes what was pointed out in making of documentaries for Sons of Liberty: Kojima handed each team member a notepad and demanded that every day they come up with a new idea, which eventually led to the bomb disposal sequence.

For the rest of his life Jackson expanded upon this personal and rigorous approach to abstraction, developing his ideas in the hundreds of 4» x 6» «drawing books» that he always carried with him.

The rest of the decision constitutes a meditation upon the ideas of «control» and «dependency», along with the development of the notion that being a partner is inconsistent with these two ideas.

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