Sentences with phrase «rests upon what»

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

The knowledge of the resurrection never rested upon such accounts only or as such; it rested upon what was recognized to be the presence of Jesus within the community.

Any reconstruction of the primitive church's ministry — as indeed of any other phase of its outward life — must rest upon what are regarded as the implications of a very few scattered passages in a very meager literature.

Not exact matches

What's forgotten as these companies seemingly gobble up the rest of the economy is they remain dependent upon customers who get value from their services.

This would certainly seem to be effective to confer an immunity on the listed parties for losses that are incurred in the province; but what if a party outside the province suffers losses (see Reference re Upper Churchill Water Rights Reversion Act, [1984] 1 SCR 297, 1984 CanLII 17 (SCC)-RRB-, or what if the exercise of authority under the Act rests upon a reckless understanding as to the constitutional underpinnings of a particular provision?

I have found it to be easlily understood by allowing what can not be explained to rest upon the incomprehensible.

@ Bruce: «allowing what can not be explained to rest upon the incomprehensible.»

Miracles... rest not so much on faces or voices or healing power coming to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is about us always.

He states: «Every form of therapy, whether it is carried on in churches, growth centers, consulting rooms or wisdom schools rests upon a vision of what man might become, a diagnosis of his present unhappiness and a prescription for how he may move toward fulfillment»

He turned his light on it, expecting to see a small mammal but instead, «couldn't quite understand what I was seeing,» That's because human eyes were never meant to rest upon the South American Goliath birdeater — a spider that measures one foot across, with a body the size of your fist and two - inch fangs.

In Brightman's view, that is always knowledge of the given; for Hartshorne only God can know the given with complete clarity, and the rest of us can not be certain (due to the vagueness of the given to our consciousness) what we know when we reflect upon, imagine, and infer things from the given.

And that there are such conditions is just what it means, logically speaking, for there to be a presumption against the action in question» and, further, for the burden of proof to rest upon those who would show that the conditions have been met.

Its logic rests upon supreme disproportion not only between virtually limitless power and any hope of protection but also between its goal (averting cataclysm) and its means (the threat of that very cataclysm) Such incongruity goes beyond the immoral; it approaches blasphemy — it idolatrously confuses what is relative with what is absolute.

What is therefore necessary, according to Cobb, is a Christian natural theology: a coherent statement about the nature of reality that recognizes its interpretation of the facts to be decisively conditioned by the Christian tradition, yet remains content to rest its case upon purely philosophical criteria of truth.124 Cobb offers such a statement in his important book, A Christian Natural Theology.

I see the restlessness within us human beings, the sense of discontent with what we are and who we are, to be no less than the grip of God's grace upon us, echoing St. Augustine's cry in his Confessions: «Thou, o God, hast made us for thyself alone, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.»

But the sacrament and story are as true as the faith, and the faith rests firmly upon what men had actually found in Jesus, and find there still.

Their value can only be ascertained by spiritual judgments directly passed upon them, judgments based on our own immediate feeling primarily; and secondarily on what we can ascertain of their experiential relations to our moral needs and to the rest of what we hold as true.

We are all the time retracing in the Universe what has happened and what does happen in a highly complex «going concern», and we can rest too complacently upon the discovery and mathematical expression of laws which are only the reduction of a general equation of relatives to its specific terms.

America, I don't plan to let you rest until you live it out that you believe what you have read in [people] to dwell upon the face of the earth.1

No philosophical description of human beings, resting as it does on what can be seen and measured, can reach the profundity of biblical anthropology, which rests upon invisible relationships.

As to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they are.

What these cases presumably show is that the analysis of «omnipotence» upon which Mackie's challenge to traditional theism rests is not adequate.

To say that God knows what is best for our lives is to have the assurance that our feeble, fretful minds can rest back upon God's infinite wisdom.

This faith, which sees Jesus as revelation of God in action in history, rests upon the commitment of men to the life which the story unfolds, or rather, to the person of Jesus himself — grasped in the depths of each man s existence as being what Whitehead said it was: «the revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world».

This objection rests upon a psychological misconception of what is meant by the existential life of man.

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.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

What we may have come to accept as «normal» are actually signs of imbalance: digestive issues (gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea), acne, mood swings, headaches, menstrual cycle issues (heavy or scanty bleeding, painful cramping, irregular periods, pain at ovulation, or bleeding between cycles), sleep issues (difficulty getting to sleep, staying asleep or not getting enough sleep or not feeling rested upon waking) just to name a few.

So what if I told you that a magic exercise exists and, upon completion, will allow you to burn more calories even while you are resting.

What if, rather than Hope Summers, he's the young mutant upon whose shoulders rests the future of mutankind?

Michael Angarano (Lords of Dogtown, Seabiscuit) stars as Will Stronghold, the only child of Steve (Russell, Miracle) and Josie (Preston, What a Girl Wants), the couple better known to the rest of the world as The Commander and Jetstream, the dynamic duo of superheroes that are frequently called upon to save the world.

One last time, they must brave the path before them to complete the most important tasks of helping a father lay his only son to rest and to reflect upon themselves and just what their service meant to them and how it shaped them into the men they are today.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

In exchange for an agreed - upon one - time payment — typically between 40 % and 80 % of what you owe — the creditor forgives the rest of your debt and will then report it to the credit bureaus as settled.

By the end of the trip when I lay down to rest, what flashed upon my inward eye were memories of encounters with manta rays, schools of eagles rays, a mighty whale shark up close, nurse sharks and stingrays buzzing around me, and getting lost in big schools of fish.

Before you even begin the game proper you're given the chance to run through what your character did during the conquest of the continent, making choices that will have effects upon the rest of the game while also learning quite a lot about the world, it's factions and your position within it.

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.

(On the other hand, it is this status quo upon which the museum's recent political tomfoolery rests: perhaps the folks at the Whitney know what they're doing after all.)

It was an immediate and critical success, lavished upon by art critic David Sylvester: «This artist has the gift synonymous with creativeness of being able to be surprised by what the rest of us take for granted.

I think the evidence is mounting that the countries of the European Union have hit upon a governance structure that is much better suited to environmental management than what the rest of the world wrestles with.

With the UN Climate Summit upon us, what can the rest of us do to address climate change in our own lives?

Also, some people believe science without question, because science has a solid foundation upon which it is built, the rest is idiot media sources perverting what science has to say to reach some end goals.

See Vonner, 516 F. 3d at 387 (explaining that a «lengthy explanation» of the sentence chosen may not be required in all cases «because «circumstances may well make clear that the judge rests his decision upon the Commission's own reasoning that the Guidelines sentence is a proper sentence»» (quoting Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 357 (2007)-RRB-; see also Rita, 551 U.S. at 356 («The appropriateness of brevity or length, conciseness or detail, when to write, what to say, depends upon circumstances.»).

To say that we should value aspects of governance that promote the clarity and determinacy of rules for the sake of individual freedom, but not the opportunities for argumentation that a free and self - possessed individual is likely to demand, is to slice in half, to truncate, what the Rule of Law rests upon: respect for the freedom and dignity of each person as an active intelligence.

But it finds, if I interpret correctly what is wanting in explicitness, that, instead of aiming at the protection of householders from intrusion upon needed hours of rest or from those plying evil trades, whether pretending the sale of pots and pans or the distribution of leaflets, the ordinance before us merely penalizes the distribution of «literature.»

«This Will is necessarily uncommon and capricious because I have no dependents or near relations and no duty rests upon me to leave any property at my death and what I

The new foundation will rest upon growth resulting from the painful journey of communicating about the affair and what happened to the marriage, with the therapist as a guide.

But, if I am correct, what comes from the Quebec legal system vis a vis any kind of decision in this case really has no bearing upon the rest of the country, wherein, as Carolyne said, provincial regulations and rules, even enacted under English Common Law, may fly in the face of one another.

The burden of proof that the transaction was a righteous one rests upon the agent, who is bound to produce clear affirmative proof that the parties were at arm's length, that the principal had the fullest information upon all material facts, and that having this information he agreed to adopt what was done.»