Sentences with phrase «simply as a phenomenon»

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In 1982, Steven Spielberg was already the star director of such blockbuster fare as «Jaws» and «Raiders of the Lost Ark.» But when «E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial» was unleashed upon the masses that summer, he became a bona fide cultural phenomenon, the rare director who can get mainstream movie fans into theaters simply because his name is on the poster.

It is possible that the increased correlation is simply a short - term phenomenon, as experienced on several occasions in the past, rather than the start of a new pattern.

Why is it god, as opposed to simply a biochemical / hormonal phenomenon that bestows an evolutionary advantage in living beings, since it ensures protection of one's own genes?

It simply does not follow that a singularity or the expansion requires casual agency as both could very well be the result of purely natural phenomena.

-- but simply that the group phenomenon happens not to be his origin, as charged by Amaziah.

If faith, simply as a human phenomenon, can do these things, then why is there any need to be concerned with some additional special kind of faith known as the Christian faith?

The orthodox answer, as we know, is that these phenomena simply give further evidence of the fundamentally racist character of the American polity.

As I said all science simply mirrors natural phenomenon.

We must look at it not simply as a set of historical events, but even more fundamentally as a cosmic phenomenon.

The Songbook insists that the Rock Phenomenon, part of the larger Pop Music Phenomenon, can not be understood simply as a musical one.

Now, most of the journalists who have assigned themselves the task of trying to describe or explain — or simply give vent to their hostility toward — this new development called neoconservatism have identified it as being primarily a Jewish phenomenon.

To the extent that this is simply a reaction against a static and abstract rationalism, it is wholly salutary; but it becomes pernicious if it goes so far as to cause us to overlook what is truly exceptional and essential in the phenomenon of Thought — the power of Consciousness to centrate so perfectly upon itself as to be able to situate itself (itself and the Universe at the same time) in the explicit framework of a present, a past and a future — that is to say, in a Space - Time continuum.

Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.

, but simply and exclusively that neither the group phenomenon nor any other official connection happens to be his origin, as charged by Amaziah.

As with our view of gravity and similar phenomena, denial has simply not been an option for us.

Dr Luther, however, was not as yet seen by his colleagues as any kind of unique phenomenon, but simply as part of the avant garde, one of the followers of Erasmus, Reuchlin and others who, throughout the European universities, were demanding new syllabuses in line with the «new learning.»

The proof is that certain democrats are going to think I must be anti-democratic to speak thus, but I am simply speaking, here, as a European who has seen firsthand certain bizarre phenomena of democratic disintegration and of conversion to fascism.

First, it distinguishes theology from the attempt to study religion objectively — from the point of view of some philosophy, some branch of science such as psychology or sociology, or simply as a historical phenomenon.

«The storm surge models do a great job for what they were designed for, but they simply can not account for the phenomena such as what we have seen in Hernani,» says Bricker.

Whenever two surfaces come in contact, there is friction, except in very special cases where friction essentially vanishes — a phenomenon, known as «superlubricity,» in which surfaces simply slide over each other without resistance.

But because nutrition is a wholistic phenomenon, it simply doesn't make any sense to study it as if it were a single variable.

In this instance, solutions are fairly simple — simply keep sources of «smoke ‑ like» phenomena away from detectors or consider changing the detector to a different type, such as a heat detector rather than a smoke detector in kitchen and lab areas.

It is our view that this phenomena provides a new innovation imperative in education, which can be expressed simply: as humans live and work alongside increasingly smart machines, our education systems will need to achieve at levels that none have managed to date.»

Benz didn't say much with the photo's release, simply tagging it «The Original Perfected,» presumably referring to the CLS's status as the car that pioneered the whole four - door coupe phenomenon.

I don't want Italy to be labeled as gender specific, I simply felt that this phenomenon of women being so attracted to this country should be explored — and what a joy it has been!

There the possibility is presented of forming a new relationship with the subject at hand: to see, for example, whooping cough or pneumonia not simply as scourges in human history, but as phenomena to be appreciated on their own terms.

«Working in the public sphere can allow projects to escape the bracket of art and often they can simply exist as unexplained phenomena in the world.

While these motifs suggest balloons, gun shots, fireworks and comets as well as force - fields, graphs and atmospheric phenomena, they may also simply be results of the properties of paint as a material.

As I wrote recently, «Given that methane, molecule for molecule, has at least 20 times the heat - trapping properties of carbon dioxide, it's important to get a handle on whether these are new releases, the first foretaste of some great outburst from thawing sea - bed stores of the gas, or simply a longstanding phenomenon newly observed.»

I think this «sides taking» phenomenon, especially by ideologues as described by Nick Darby above, is simply part of human nature that is extremely robust to change.

Nobody is ignoring it, it is simply that there are a number of phenomena to consider, anthropogenic forcing is obviously not one of them given the uneven nature and lack of a credible AO mechanism, the IPCC haven't got as far as verifying their «expected» mechanism with observations at the surface so it's inane to attribute deep ocean heating to aGHGs.

Your citing of a bunch of natural phenomena as proof of unending warming simply doesn't cut it.

But the phenomenon is the same: researchers, standing by their black boxes, as though the boxes themselves had spontaneously produced the imperatives, without any more effort from the programmer than simply typing into it «what is two plus 2?».

From what I see the proponents of the Greenhouse theory simply keep stating it as fact without explaining the observed phenomena that seemingly falsify it such as.

What appears as a reduction in cost of renewables may be simply an artefact of relocating production in the East — a phenomenon which is exacerbated by high energy costs in the UK / EU.

My purpose with Phil and some of the others was simply to point out that when certain phenomena are measured in isolation, such as using his FTIR to measure absorption, the results can easily mislead the unwary when they try to apply the results to the «whole», the real world.

It would be easy to dismiss the phenomenon of the vanishing trial as simply the self - interested lamentations of trial lawyers looking to preserve their way of life.

It was said on Mr Abramovich's behalf that no inferences as to residence should be drawn from his ownership of Chelsea which was simply part of a growing phenomenon of wealthy foreigners acquiring English football clubs.

From the perspective of mindfulness practice, a person can begin to see thoughts (including upsetting, sad or disturbing thoughts) as simply mental phenomena that come and go and do not necessarily have any inherent meaning or value.