Sentences with phrase «see decisive»

When life - threatening events occur, workers want to see decisive action take place that will prevent these events from reoccurring.

In a match between two opponents, it is common to see decisive moments where one of the players seems to crack while the other gets a second wind.

Unless we see a decisive inflection point in the numbers, the shares will keep grinding lower as disappointed shareholders bail.

Should those problems be solved, I believe readers would love to try e-books and we would then see decisive progress in the digital market.

But General Jones expressed hope that «certainly before the winter, we will see this decisive moment in the region turn favourably to the forces that represent the [Afghan] government and the efforts we are trying to achieve».

As the prime minister weighs up an undoubted personal loss after forcing a close friend to resign over pornography claims, MPs said she should take comfort in winning over a section of her party who want to see decisive leadership.

He saw a decisive battle between good and evil.

Ogden sees the decisive flaw in most Protestant christologies in their failure to grasp the thoroughgoing consequences of the principles sola gratia — sola fide.

NO CANDIDATE LEFT BEHIND: Donald Trump saw a decisive victory in the Nevada caucuses Tuesday night — his third consecutive victory in early - state contests.

The U.S. has seen a decisive resurgence in urban living, driving people in their 20s and 30s to pick cool, walkable areas over remote cul - de-sacs.

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However, if Beijing toughs this storm out, many would see this as a decisive victory in which the CCP finally establishes its unquestioned authority in the rebellious former British colony.

After delivering prepared remarks, he said: «We don't see any strong evidence yet of a decisive move up in wages.

Despite definitive action on the part of Congress and regulators to encourage this company to become smaller and simpler by splitting up, you have shown no sign of urgency and have chosen a «wait and see... for years» strategy void of decisive leadership.

During a blockbuster interview with the American Prospect on Wednesday, Bannon said the US should take decisive action to halt in China's rapid rise, which he sees as a direct, almost existential threat to the US.

Powell is the most intelligent, forthright and decisive Fed Chair we've seen in many years — and he is not an economist.

The scholars who see something decisive happening to Luther's thought in 1518 seem to me to have the best of it.

It is the Christian belief that we have already seen «the end,» that the world has come to a decisive crisis in the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth.

I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's heart, he no longer looks upon unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority; he does not look upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

If engagements had prevented him from going to see the Teacher, so that he was brought into touch with him only at the last moment, when he was about to yield his spirit — would this historical ignorance prevent him from becoming the disciple, provided the Moment became for him decisive for eternity?

She sees Jesus as having given a decisive formulation which has had profound historical influence.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

The contrast between Darwinian evolution and the creative or emergent evolution of recent years may be sharpened if we look more closely at the decisive notions which are seen to be formative in each case.

To say that «what happened in Jesus was of the Spirit» is not a factual claim dependent upon a biological miracle, but a way of seeing Jesus that immediately involves seeing him as the decisive disclosure of God.

Moreover, since God is infinitely good to all who truly seek him, I do not see how anyone's experience of grace or formation by grace can settle the truth of one confessional position as against another, and I doet want to look as if I think that the quality of my Christian experience or the strength of my Christian convictions should be decisive in persuading others to accept my views.

Further, as the astute Jeremy Kessler notes, Justice Kennedy's dissent can be seen as a decisive rejection of his image as the Court's careful moderate.

The cross is certainly a many - sided event and symbol, and contexts alter meanings; but in our context at least, I believe, it should be seen primarily, not as a divinely managed human sacrifice to a righteously wrathful God but as God's own solidarity with the creature and the decisive statement of One who would be «with us» unreservedly.

As he sees it, Madison's activities, especially during the decisive years of constitutional reform, have been widely misunderstood — resulting in accounts of the founder's political thought that would have «pained and puzzled» him.

Trying to see life steadily and see it whole, we have to select those facts that seem to us decisive, and interpret the whole in the light of them.

It has been necessary to see what may be made of the «resurrection» about which the New Testament speaks, both in respect to Jesus Christ as the decisive event in the story of that divine - human relationship and also in respect to the human side of the matter, where you and I may fit in and have our part and place.

Grace that is seen and felt in relationships makes a decisive difference in the lives of persons.

They must be brought to see that here is the clue or key to the divine activity on all occasions, not just in this signal and decisive one.

Here again Jesus sees his own death not only as part of his story, but primarily as the decisive part of a story about God and what He is doing for men.

I see in the great prophets — and especially in Jeremiah — the decisive breakthrough into a new structure of existence.

We have seen that what was decisive in the appearance of the Buddha as against the teaching of the Upanisads was the reintroduction of personal power into the worldview of the Indians; the thought of help, of merciful help, was thoroughly impressed upon them.

(See W. Jaeger's statement in his Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, p. 177: «The concept of auctoritas which is later to be of such decisive importance for the attitude of the Church in questions of faith, is entirely missing in Greek thought»).

It was closely connected with a sense of relatedness to God such that he saw the response of men to his message and himself as decisive for their response to God or even identical with it.

In what has been called the Classic Idea of the atonement, 12 the cross is seen as the last, decisive battle - ground between God and all the spiritual powers of evil, a conflict in which God, through his Son Jesus Christ, won a final and eternal victory against all the evil that threatens and plagues men.

The decisive issue is not to have seen something, but to hear a word which is utterly clear, distinct, and explicit, and contains a revelation, a promise, and a mission altogether.

These are seen as decisive because either they are predetermined, or those who do not observe them will experience the damning consequences.

When war's violence was forced upon Israel, war became a sacral, not a sacred, matter — meaning that the decisive power and guidance was seen as divine.

There may indeed be one great decisive step which changes the orientation of one's life and, in looking backward, we see it standing out, luminous and clear above all others.

Although they are quite willing to agree that all people are always touched by the mystery that surrounds our existence, they see no need to posit a special and decisive historical revelation of this mystery.

The decisive difference between living and lifeless matter, as Whitehead saw, is the difference between novel and habitual response.

He saw the conflict in contemporary socialism and its immobility in the face of the crises that confronted it — e.g., its inability to make decisive use of the means of power for its own protection and that of Weimar democracy as such — as due to its overdependence on bourgeois presuppositions.

Man is seen in his essential being, in his life, which is lived in specific decisive moments in the present, which can not be understood through a general description of humanity.

Because this is so, I have come to see an important, if rather obvious, parallel to Rudolf Bultmann's solution to the contemporary theological problem, which has long been decisive for my thinking.

If the reader has penetrated the Bible to the point where he sees both what the text says and its rationale in saying it, then he stands at a decisive juncture.

Thus the Protestant Reformation is a decisive moment in the history of the understanding of love, whether one accepts this position or not, for it raises in the sharpest possible way the question of the meaning of the human loves when seen in the light of the love of God as known to faith through Jesus.

I see a network of interconnected, important questions, with no one singled out for all Christians and for all times as wholly decisive.

But Amos knows Yahweh's love and patience (see 4:6 - 11, with the essentially tender refrain, «Yet you did not return to me»; but especially 7:2,5); and when he speaks the apparently immutable sentence of death upon Israel (4:12; 7:9; 9: l - 8a) it is surely motivated (as the articulation of despair is of necessity always motivated) by hope, indomitable hope, that the pronouncement of judgment will effect decisive change in the conditions which invoked the judgment.