Sentences with phrase «so by virtue of»

So by virtue of having a niche all to itself, the Outlander PHEV is worth a look if you want a spacious, all - wheel drive SUV that has the ability to get you 20 - something miles on electric power only.

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The thin line between success and despair they walked is as shocking and relevant today as it was then, so by virtue of being a slave to the facts, I managed to be a slave to the drama simultaneously.

So by virtue of that, it can't be good for students.»

So by virtue of being online leads many to feel insecure, needy and vulnerable.

That some of those who would play a pivotal role in passing the laws of our land would do so by virtue of a title they inherited from their parents or from the patronage of another politician?

They are serially ordered and are so by virtue of the continuation of a common «subjective form,» with, of course, tolerable variations.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

The eternal Son of God has truly suffered and died, but he has done so by virtue of his human nature (suffering in both body and soul).

If there are no natural frames, if each individual accomplishment is so by virtue of the willful framing it has created in order to integrate the elements of its experience, then the shift from «I» to «us» requires that some sort of encompassing frame be fashioned.

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Meanwhile, AT&T will also have to sell the virtue of the merger to skeptical investors, who have so far reacted to the news by marking down the stocks of both companies, and to the business community.

So, for example, the police can ask to see your driver's license when they pull you over because, by virtue of having engaged in a regulated activity you have implicitly accepted a reduced expectation of privacy.

We believe that ultimately the large chain pharmacies will be compelled by virtue of consumer demand to enter the on - demand delivery space and likely will do so by acquiring existing players such as NowRx.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Others have observed that countries such as China and India were able to maintain parities by virtue of the application of capital controls, so an equally vigorous debate on the role of capital controls is intertwined with the debate on regimes.

So, while the value of the investments in a stable value fund can fluctuate on a daily basis, a participant is guaranteed to transact at «book value» by virtue of the fund's insurance purchase.

Yet, because of the paper of the book, that puts distance between him and her so any authority she may have on the topic is removed by virtue of that.

These are impressive virtues, reeking of Greece and Rome, and self - consciously invoked by the founding generation in the pseudonyms they chose when they published political pamphlets --- Publius, Pacificus, Helvetius, Agrippa, Cato, Brutus, and so on.

If i was Hawkins, i would be a bit more toughtful, and look deep into his own huiman condition and accept he «s a living miracle granted by virtue of God, or, in scientific terms, Anti Matter, so, as to try and figure out why is he still alive, and what is his real mission on earth.

And in doing so, we create canons of process by virtue of which the canons of accomplishment are continually renewed.

So, even strong atheists (those that believe there are no gods) have a far stronger case than any theist, by virtue of holding the default position.

So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the subjective truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only by virtue of the absurdity of its objective meaning or ground.

Over the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the aspirational / inspirational billboards sponsored by The Foundation for a Better Life, an organization that promotes common - ground character virtues while trying at the same time to avoid being a partisan in our contemporary....

But as conceived by Leibniz as a qualified substance, such perspectives are attributed to each monad internally, so that the interconnection between monads is only apparent; they are in actuality «windowless» and externally related, and in concord only by virtue of pre-established harmony.

The dissolution of this opposition takes place only when each form of the Godhead, by virtue of its inherent independence, dissolves itself in itself: «Therefore that element which has for its essence, not independent self - existence but simple being, is what empties and abandons itself, gives itself unto death, and so reconciles Absolute Being with its own self.»

Temperance, then, is the virtue by which we keep each of these passions in its proper place, so that it works for our overall human growth and leads to our fulfilment.

If theology is grounded in the supernatural innerrant revealed word of a sovreign G - d it stands a chance of being relevant by virtue of said canon being reliable in it's veracity, so we at least we begin with truth,....

But Hartshorne effectively replies that, even if finite beings depend for their existence on the creative activity of God, it still remains true that if God had created a different world then He would have been somewhat different from the way He actually is by virtue of the fact that His perfect knowledge would have been of that world rather than of this world; and so the point still holds that divine cognitive relations to the creatures are partially constitutive of God.7

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

I'm not sure what is meant by «global loyalty» - perhaps it would become a virtue in the event of invasion from other planets - but I am sure that such jargon contributes little to understanding why so many thoughtful Americans are coming to a jaundiced view of the UN and other institutions created in support of an internationalism that is now unsupported by clear doctrine, or any doctrine at all.

So the unhappy creatures in this text in Revelation are in the presence of the Lamb by virtue of the fact that he sustains them in existence, and they may even be aware of this fact.

By doing so, he avoids the suggestion that sin stems from a simple lack of personal virtue or mistaken idea left us by OckhaBy doing so, he avoids the suggestion that sin stems from a simple lack of personal virtue or mistaken idea left us by Ockhaby Ockham.

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.

So Niebuhr advised: «If it is not possible for modern man to hold by faith that there is a larger meaning in the intricate patterns of history than those which his own virtues or skills supply, he would do well to emphasize fortune and caprice in his calculations.»

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

I am not suggesting that we must all seek to live monastic lives, but the virtue of humility as explored by St Benedict has so much to teach us, especially if we are called to be Christ in our lives on earth and to see Christ in others.

So in the final chapter, Lanzetta questions post-Conciliar approaches to ecumenism where the «dogmatic» (to do with knowing the truth) is juxtaposed to the «pastoral» «which starts out from the historic and pragmatic fact, and on behalf of this aims at possible dialogue, without changing teaching, but de facto neither improving understanding of it, but even with the risk of altering its significance by virtue of the dialogue method chosen...».

; but it is the position in which he is wholly involved, so that he can not by virtue of a «better self» escape from it.

Just as secular art in one sense gives glory to God by virtue of its very existence as it contributes to the manifold wonder and glory of creation — even if the artist does not acknowledge the creator — so also Christian art which intentionally points to God contributes to the beauty of creation and can be perceived as beautiful even to unbelief.

It has long been held that sexual virtue requires chastity and marriage, that the reproductive flourishing of human beings is best accomplished by spouses committed to one another and to their children, and that actions which frustrate this flourishing — adultery, abandonment, and so on — are for that reason both irrational and immoral.

But he is a doubter, his doubt has annihilated reality for him; for so ideal is my Faust that he does not belong among these scientific doubters who doubt one hour every term - time in the professorial chair, but at other times are able to do everything else and to do it too without the support of spirit or by virtue of spirit.

If he could say this by virtue of human calculation, Iphigenia would surely understand him, but from that it would follow that Agamemnon had not made the infinite movement of resignation, and so he is not a hero, and so the utterance of the seer is a sea - captain's tale and the whole occurrence a vaudeville.

Inasmuch as he would speak, he can do so perfectly well, for he is able to make himself intelligible; inasmuch as he would keep silent, it is because by virtue of being the individual he would be higher than the universal, would delude himself with all sorts of fantastic notions about how she will soon forget the sorrow, etc..

Prehensions are also particulars (PR 338), so p (a, Gb) and p (a, Gc) stand for distinct components of a besides, and by virtue of, having distinct termini.

And so, by virtue of its having this character of prevenience, it is an indispensable notion for any theology that takes seriously the biblical theme of promise.

So the merman can not belong to Agnes unless, after having made the infinite movement of repentance, he makes still one more movement by virtue of the absurd.

The infinite resignation is the last stage prior to faith, so that one who has not made this movement has not faith; for only in the infinite resignation do I become clear to myself with respect to my eternal validity, and only then can there be any question of grasping existence by virtue of faith.

He was intrigued by the ways in which every vice is correlated with its virtue so that personal interaction becomes a constant interplay of these opposites, complements, and corollaries.

So the concept of an individual, from protons to people, involves the notion that each is what it is by virtue of its relationships with its environment.