Sentences with phrase «scheme of things as»

Players expecting a tried - and - true Hitman experience may be disappointed in the lack of options when playing a level with a target to assassinate, but it's a minor beef in the grand scheme of things as the game's excellent design shines through.

It did not matter in the grand scheme of things as the Gunners ended up on the wrong end of a hefty 4 - 0 scoreline but our keeper Petr Cech was the only Arsenal player to come away from the game having played well and the3 score could have been much worse without him.

My parent's beach house was destroyed, but in the grand scheme of things as long as they're safe that's all that matters.

Presumably Hare and Madden are in reality advocating a kind of quasi-coercive power which would not so much frustrate the desires of finite entities that already are in the scheme of things as prevent new desires and aims from coming into being if they do not stand a very strung chance of gaining satisfaction or if they greatly disrupt the harmony and rhythm by which desires are guaranteed a better chance of satisfaction.

And then, go home with the thought that because this love is a chemical construct of some sort (as thoughts involve chemistry) that this bond between you and your loved ones is as meaningless and hollow in the whole scheme of things as is the statement of a chemical equation.

«I do feel like my debt sets me back in the grand scheme of things as far as buying a home or whatever the case may be,» he said.

Not exact matches

But in the scheme of things, if you look back at my track record as a CEO, I think you'll find that while I look at a lot of things, I actually pass on most.»

In the grander scheme of things, and as a red flag, this is another asset class that has enormously benefited from asset price inflation, stirred up by the Fed's well - targeted monetary policies since the Financial Crisis.

Don't be fooled into thinking this automatically gives the agency legitimacy; certification requires passing a few fairly easy exams, as well as maintaining a minimum monthly AdWords spend of $ 10,000 — which is a fairly low bar in the scheme of things.

Not everything is critical at this very moment; not all things are urgent or important in the scheme of our lives; and in a lot of cases if we're offered a reasonable choice and some (financial) incentives, we're perfectly willing to wait for stuff as long as (a) the choice is ours and (b) the choice isn't irrevocable.

Try taking care of some basics that, although they may seem unimportant in the grand scheme of things, can increase how happy you are — as well as your employees and your customers.

One interesting thing to note from such a scheme is that the street price of marijuana stays exactly the same, so the quantity demanded should remain the same as the price is unchanged.

And, in the grand scheme of things, it is mostly true today that cryptocurrencies don't have meaningful «industrial [or] consumer use except as a medium of exchange.»

The truth is, in the grand scheme of things, most of the problems you face do not really matter as much as you think they do.

They may look horrible but they are justified in the grand scheme of things, as I already showed for some of them.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

Tarwater's first and despised duty as a fledgling prophet is to baptize the idiot boy: this counts in her scheme of things.

He asks whether we are to regard the Cross as an opus operatum whose agent achieved something new, radically affected the scheme of things in time, and established in respect of the relations of men and women to God a new foundation: or whether we are compelled, partly by the demands of a theology that would emphasize divine acceptance above divine judgement, to say that all we find here is the most sublime presentation in time of the eternal readiness of God to receive to himself the truly penitent.

In what sense do we regard the Cross as an act creative in itself, as an opus operatum whose agent in the loneliness of his total rejection achieved something new, radically affected the scheme of things entire, established in respect of the relations of men and women to God a new foundation?

The final stage of satisfaction, in life as well as in learning, stems from the fact that we bring value into the world, that each of us has a unique contribution to make to the overall scheme of things.

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

in the greater scheme of things, as time was created for us as a means of seperating the day from the night but god, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years old.

Sure, as Shifu points out in the video clip above, there are a few things we can control, but in the grand scheme of our life, these few things are so insignificant, they amount to having hardly any control at all.

But a man may simply experience art: see it as qualities, analyse how it is made, and place it in the scheme of things.

By characterizing nature as the other of spirit Hegel does manage to assign nature a significant role in the general scheme of things, one which manages to leave nature and all its particularity fully intact.

In framing the relationship between nature and mind in this way we can, claims Hegel, arrive at an understanding of the place of nature in the general scheme of things, which at the same time leaves nature as it is.

Thus whereas in the first case there is a general failing to give nature, as the realm of finitude, contingency, chance and decay, its due place as a condition of mind as well as a constitutive element in the general scheme of things, in the second case there is an equally important failure to account for the origins of the unity of rational mind in nature.

But Meilaender reminded me that Christianity does not think of death as natural, at least not in the ultimate scheme of things.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

The Bible, as a unified collection of God's setting the world to rights over time through a specific covenant people, primarily located in one geo - political area, records only a thin slice of human experience in the grand scheme of things.

In a number of essential ways then, a civilized society is metaphysically equivalent to a Society per se, and thus its status as an existent thing is explicable in terms of Whitehead's organic cosmological scheme.

Thus, according to the cosmological scheme as laid out by Whitehead in the Philosophy of Organism, a civilized society is metaphysically equivalent to a Society per se in the most basic and essential respects, and therein its generic status as an existent thing is secured.

They have confused «immortality of the soul» with whatever may be intended by the biblical phrase «resurrection of the body»; while theologians have attempted, as we have already observed, when I described the older scheme which comprised the last things, to bring the two conceptions together in a fashion which will retain each of them and yet relate them so that a consistent pattern may be provided.

I don't see this as an issue in the scheme of things.

This is not to be understood as a guarantee of perfection, but only as a promise of a new personal orientation in which the self is no longer dominated by the ceaseless but ultimately hopeless struggle to secure his own position in the scheme of things.

Seems like a fairly trivial difference in the scheme of things — just seems like they do some extra stuff that you don't think is necessary, but the basics are the same so I don't see how that would disqualify them as Christians.

In any event, as we shall see when we discuss the meaning of the heavenly promise, as part of the scheme of the last things, it is not genuinely Christian to think that anybody can want God and something else.

Appraisal means that each man is responsible for his life and for the decisions which he has made in the course of it; and it means also that each man must be prepared to give what traditional thinking describes as «an account of his life» — in the face of whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the whole scheme of things.

Young as the human species is, it displays remarkable capacities: to think and reason and imagine; to ask questions and seek answers; to use language, metaphors and symbols; to ponder the mystery of origins; to locate oneself on maps of meaning; to project ideals and seek their realization; to ask how one fits into the most inclusive scheme of things.

But once seminarians become pastors, that one - half of a parishioner's weekday waking hours which is given to a job is almost totally ignored as a part of the Christian scheme of things.

«Process» is a sequentially structured sequence of successive stages or phases whereas «process philosophy» sees processes as central in the ontological scheme of things.

Lest it seem as though I would subordinate religious to metaphysical language, thereby reinforcing the Western rationalistic critique of religion, I hasten to point out that in Hinduism, philosophy never developed in opposition to religion; the philosophical critique of energy that never ceases to preoccupy Western culture could not arise in a culture like Hinduism, where the language about the gods — what we call mythology — was never denied its rightful place in the scheme of things.

Within this very broad scheme centering on the notion of beauty it is still possible to entertain more specific proposals as to the ultimate meaning of things.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

The question may, of course, be raised as to whether the world is really inexhaustibly rich in possibilities or whether its appearance as such may be due merely to the relatively minor place man has in the whole scheme of things and to the magnitude and complexity of the world in comparison with man and his works.

I wrote a post for Living Litehouse about how, as Americans, we are blessed to live in a country with easy access to high - quality, fresh foods that are reasonably affordable in the scheme of things.

I hate all these international friendlies, as important as they are in the scheme of things.....

the problem is the complacency that has gotten hold of Wenger's brain due to lack of pressure from the top has infected the whole club... Wenger knows his job is as safe and forth knoxx so LOSING IS AN OPTION in the scheme of things, there is always another game to make things right, always another season to try again and this, whether consciously or otherwise is a malaise that has infected the player» a pysche... I have said this so many times, Fergie won the league with a squad that less than half the quality our present squad possess and in a tougher more competitive seaaon

Here's my thing about University of Missouri defensive end Shane Ray right off the top: I don't think he will be a good fit as an outside linebacker in a 3 - 4 scheme if that scheme calls for him to play out in space.