Sentences with phrase «so much an explanation»

Indeed, the major function of religion, in the experience of its great exemplars, has been not so much the explanation of life, as life's conquest — the winning of spiritual triumph in the midst of mysterious adversity.

This isn't so much an explanation as a man backing himself into a corner and giving up.

Not so much explanation of the individual poses will be given, not to distract you from practice, as we are assuming you know your basic alignments and fundamentals of asana from the foundation training.

So much explanation is required that a folksy, offscreen narrator is required.

I rather assumed that since all the pension administrators were providing so much information about the # 1 million allowance, with no information about any other allowance, and also providing so much explanation of how the LTA worked, that they thought they knew what they were talking about... and I didn't realise there was going to be, or expected to be, an LTA change in the budget in March...

Not exact matches

Seems everyone has an opinion about what it is that makes Silicon Valley generate so much value and so many crazy start - ups, but I think a lot of those easy explanations are full of hubris and miss the real magic of what is happening here.

She also offers an explanation for what you need to think about around each question, so check out the post in full for much more detail.

As I wrote last week, one possible explanation for why Boehner and the rest of the Republican establishment have given the Tea Party so much free rein is that they fear primary challengers to the right.

There are many explanations for the acceleration, but the most important seems to be that no one expected many different inducements, incentives, and trade - offs to converge on each of us so quickly, specifically, simultaneously and, frankly, pretty much inescapably.

There is so much information for evolution that you have to purposely avoid any actual explanation of it and the evidence behind it to make any claim like you've done.

Some think that the bible tells them that the earth has to be less than 10,000 years old rather than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.

and Dr. James White is a member of your cult so I trust his magical fairy tale explanations about as much as I trust Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard or crazy Ken Ham!

Unable to deal with that you need some kind of explanation, so you've decided there is an all - powerful, all - knowing sentient being you call God who is responsible for, well, pretty much anything you can't explain with more verifiable causes.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

Jeshua, if that were the case then religious authorities wouldn't spend so much time trying to control information, trying to pass off their beliefs as scientific, or attempting to misinform the public on genuine scientific explanations that happen to contradict those beliefs.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

If then such a zealous learner, though not carrying things so far as to become a disciple, were to discourse loudly and volubly of how much he owed the Teacher, so that his eulogy was almost endless and its gilding priceless; if he were to resent our explanation that the Teacher had been merely an occasion, neither his eulogy nor his resentment could further our inquiry, since both had the same ground, namely, that though lacking in the courage to understand he had nevertheless not lacked the audacity to go beyond.

But to return to Whitehead's explicit position, we should observe that he believed that the great virtue of Christianity has been that it is not so much a metaphysic seeking some historical grounding as it is an historical fact and focus (found in Jesus) seeking for metaphysical explanation.

But your explanation was so much enlightening.

So while the we are not told here (or anywhere) much about these spiritual beings — we don't have an explanation of their powers or of what kind of effects they can have on the believers — Paul's point is that we don't need to worry, because Christ is far above them.

I've never heard so much double talk, and beating around the bush, and saying two divergent things at the same time, and making one explanation, then changing it 180 when someone else makes a comment that is grounded in reality.

At the end of a film which has been so much «loose talk» that mistook itself for reasonable explanations, they find some relief in silence.

Please provide your explanation as to why the disciples truly believed that Jesus had risen from the dead, so much so that some were killed for their faith.

The true explanation is much more beautiful: the angle of refraction and reflection depend on wavelength; so waterdrops act like little prisms and spread the colors out for us.

For instance, Job is not interested in the problem of suffering as such but in answering the mystery of his experience; he does not ask so much for an explanation of evil as for an opportunity to take his case directly to God (Job 12:122, 23:1 - 17, 30:19 - 23).

Jeremy, your brave posts are certainly doing much to rattle people's theology of indifference, the theology so many of us grew up with — in one Lisa Robinson's explanation, a theology that simply accepted what one's congregational preachers and other favourite «anointed» televangelists, etc would state the Bible stated.

Most times I do so I find the explanations not much more than a cover story.

Does Cobb's diagnosis and prognosis so privilege historical and theological modes of explanation that something much closer at hand is missed, namely religious insti tutional dynamics?

And even if it were the case that in the past we spent less time defending and discussing specific dogmas, there seems to me to be a much more plausible explanation than «no one really used to care about dogma», which is this: it's not that we didn't care about dogma, but rather that the truths of faith have come under unprecedented scrutiny and attack in the modern period, not least fromdissenters within the Church, so it has become essential that we do talk about what we actually believe.

Thank you so much for your kind words and explanation of Classic Galactosemia.

So yeah... I fell like this granola requires no further explanation — here is the recipe, but please use it wisely because if you make too much you may find yourself in a similar situation as I, where I consumed a little to much of it for my own good.....

This is a long - winded way to explain a few minor changes, but I felt like you all deserved a bit of an explanation as to why you've been seeing so much of the v - e-g-a-n word lately.

Instead, head coach Dave Damewood's postgame team huddle gave a much clearer explanation for why this season has been so special.

Hafiz, sometimes i just think youre actually admin and trying to provoke positive responses or negative ones towards you but positive for Arsenal as you never give much explanation or reveal why it is you think the way you do also never really putting your thoughts a certain way so to get gooners coming round to your way of thinking.

At least that is the only explanation I can find for Simone having so much playing time.

Thank you so much for the very awesome and real explanation about attachment, we especially enjoyed your comical presentation style.»

Some have somewhat reasonable explanations, others not so much.

I learned so much and more importantly had explanation for the things I knew instinctively and saw in my practice but could not quite explain.

I feel Talking to kids and explaining why those actions were wrong works so much better than just yelling and punishing without a full explanation...

Cross out «low income families» and substitute «school nutrition directors» and you have a pretty cogent explanation of why we have so much crappy food in school cafeterias.

Baez has always had an explanation for her attendance... what you fail to realize is that even with the attendence record she has brought so much resources to her district... do your your homework... cabrera knows the system cause he worked in it... ha what a joke what about maria understand her district cause she was one of us... a single mom struggling to raise her daughter... 1199... working families... Bronx Democratic County Committee... all those organization & company based their decision on political moves not on her track record... cabrera is an outsider... Mujers For Baez!

By these reports, Vineyard 48 isn't so much a winery where people taste samples and hear explanations of the word «terroir» as it is a full - blown, fall to the floor saloon.

Coded message or not, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the aye - aye has a middle finger that is so much longer, thinner and gnarlier than any of the others: It's a percussive forager.

So we did not expect to find abrupt changes in physical properties beneath this region, and the likely explanation points to a much more dynamic regime underneath this old, geologically quiet area.»

Taken together, they also provide a potential explanation for the so - called memory effect — the fact that «aqueous solutions in contact with methane form solid methane hydrate at a much faster rate if they have already undergone a methane hydrate formation - decomposition cycle,» said Alavi, almost as if the hydrate «remembers» its previous state.

Delgenio is confident that both observations are correct, but he has no explanation for why conditions changed so much over the last 20 or so years.

One possible explanation is that our visual system receives so much information at any given moment that we can not process it all, so we remain unaware of it.

It could not have spread so fast and so far by chance, yet natural selection made a poor explanation: The full sequence of the Y chromosome has been determined, but it doesn't seem to do much except make the bearer male.

I didn't know much about agricultural policy — I still don't — so I didn't catch all the nuances of his explanation.

Teachers often feel that the expertise they have gained from their experience is ignored and that they instead get a new, supposedly evidence - based curriculum every few years without much explanation of why the new one is so much better than the old.