Most of us enjoy, or at least accept, a well presented argument that brings light and
substance to at least one side of the controversial issue.
And then the reviews came in and the game released and a train wreck was to be witnessed by all as The Order: 1886 completely failed to deliver anything other than another admittedly gorgeous looking title but with no real
substance to it at all.
Not exact matches
Galea, a physician and epidemiologist by training, is quick -
to - the - point and unflinching — even brutal,
at times, in his directness, particularly in the chapterettes on firearms,
substance abuse, and incarceration.
Earlier this month, Nike suspended its sponsorship of Sharapova, the highest - paid woman in sports, after she said she had failed a drug test
at the Australian Open due
to a
substance she was taking for health issues.
Electron - microscope analysis of sediment samples revealed a strange - looking
substance, streaked in a pattern that called
to mind zebras, according
to Michael Hochella, a distinguished professor
at Virginia Tech concentrating in nanogeoscience.
His claim about a clean comeback «is a direct attack on the credibility of the USADA [U.S. Anti-Doping Agency] report, which maintains that blood samples from those years indeed suggest he continued
to use banned
substances,» note Red and O'Keeffe
at the Daily News.
Sheldon Richardson: DT, New York Jets (4 games;
substance abuse): The 2013 defensive Rookie of the Year was already set
to miss four games of the season for violating the
substance abuse policy but could now be facing an increased suspension after being arrested for allegedly resisting arrest and speeding
at up
to 143 miles per hour in St. Louis before the start of training camp.
Although these
substances can give you boost of energy during the day, the effects wear off quickly, leaving you groggy and tired during the day and unable
to sleep
at night.
The IARC evaluates
substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives
at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts
to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.
At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I
substance under the Controlled
Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federa
Substances Act, where Schedule I
substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federa
substances are considered
to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.
All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests
at the start of the study and were injected with a
substance that allows scientists
to track changes in their brain structures.
As such, Clean Harbors assumes full chain - of - custody ownership of Schedule I - V controlled
substances from the pickup
at the customer's site
to transportation and complete destruction.
We need as a society
to ensure people can overcome
substance abuse, but
at the same time, we must protect the quality of life and safety of our neighborhoods.
Nicole Smith, who oversees certifications and wavers
to dispense methadone
at the national
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, told me over the phone that all methadone programs are required
to have emergency contact services in place
to reach patients, like the text message I received during the Colorado flood.
Standing in front of business and government leaders from around the world
at what is being coined the «Asian Davos,» President Xi Jinping delivered China
to the world stage but left little
substance last night.
As the token right - wing commenter here can I
at least suggest that maybe we can all agree it is time for Trudeau
to start providing some
substance and seriousness, and cut back on the selfies and tweets and photo - ops.
At the same time, notes a «History of the Postal Monopoly in the United States» from the Journal of Law and Economics, the governors of the new U.S. Postal Service established a regulation allowing them
to surrender bits and pieces of their exclusive grant
to preserve the
substance of the monopoly.
More Spray Tan than
Substance Start - Ups offers a handful of genuinely valuable moments — an insider's peek
at when employee - turned - entrepreneur Kim Taylor decides
to leave her job and start a business of her own, for instance; or when the unfocused upstart Ben Way mentions
to an investor that he has over 40 companies, which comes off as amateurish bragging.
In the name of «a flexible approach tailored
to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (
at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach
to the assessment of pith and
substance than did the majority.
I think the main point I was getting
at was that your piece seems
to be a critique more of Daniel's tone than its
substance.
They say then that it is more simple
to believe
at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than
to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form
substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us
to delineate or comprehend.
Without pretending
to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined
to be a vast collection of existences — things and
substances of various compositions and kinds — each of which is what it is, and moves, changes, grows, or decays as it does by reason of its relation
to other things: things existing in various ways by, and in some cases,
at the expense of, or on, other things.
I have yet
to see you post «anything» of
substance at any time....
I have wrestled with doubts and problems that have emerged since 2001 and very few churches address such issues or give the
substance needed
to a generation that knows the world is changing
at a rapid rate with or without the church alongside it.
Lacombe explains, «if it is true that the
substance produces
at the interior of itself its own attributes, it does so because of necessities of its essence, which want
to be expressed in a plurality of images of itself» (10:290).
When he thinks of the matter
at all he is likely
to try
to imagine a nebulous
substance like a wisp of invisible smoke that is said
to be present in churches and
to hover over good people when they are dying.»
Every created agent is limited
to bringing about a change in form only (a sheep can transform grass into its own body matter by digestion), but God — as the ultimate cause of all being — can surely bring about changes
at the level of being: converting one entire
substance into another.
Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were
to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming
to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public
at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the consti.tution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its
substance.
When the erosions of age begin
to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end
to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment
at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all
at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me:
at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord,
to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as
to penetrate
to the very marrow of my
substance and draw me into yourself
If Jesus is a divine person, since no two
substances can occupy the same space
at the same time, then the human Jesus must be removed
to let the divine Jesus in!
This leads us
to distinguish the stone as a
substance, that is,
at that which figuratively «stands under» the changing qualities, properties, or attributes.
Such a notion moreover does no justice
at all
to the complexity and historical variability of the fundamental concept of
substance.
Accompanying such developments as we have noted in the
substance of Biblical prayers, an even more profound change was in process: praying, employed
at first as a means of persuading a god
to do man's will, grew
to be used as a means of releasing through man whatever was God's will.
v, 8 (1017b12 - 13), Aristotle acknowledges that a part of something can be
substance: a part of something (such as a hand) is not «in» a body in the way white is but in away that allows it
to be found
at the bottom of a stack of accidental and / or essential predications, as when we say that a hand is a limb or an instrument or whatever.
It usually refers
to the real
substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting
at faith as providing
substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality
to affect their actions.
Intellectual
substance sells, and it is one of the things we mainline Protestants ought
to be good
at.
Rather, the embryo is human merely by virtue of this physical and spiritual
substance created by the union of sperm and egg (or
at least by virtue of its purported ability
to survive physically outside the womb)
But the participants in this debate do draw our attention
to the level
at which the compounding of
substances is confronted the most directly.
Yet since the account of
substance offered is of a route of occasions or a personally ordered society of selves rather than of, say, a changing continuant, the objection may be raised that this atomization of
substance involves an enormous multiplication of entities which in the case of selves
at least goes well beyond necessity — though this would have
to be shown.
I know a lot of people who were addicted
to substances that ended up finding solace in religion — it's another addiction but
at least it's not killing them.
Whitehead's clearly Lockean concept of «
substance» in Aristotle, besides supposing the mutual isolation of Entities one from another, seems
to include
at least the following characteristics:
Preliminary word - problem — Before taking a closer look
at the evidence for Aristotle's own conception of «
substance», it is necessary
to ask whether that is even the most appropriate English word.
3Eslick points out that
at the crucial passage in Process and Reality in which Whitehead says Descartes» concept of
substance is a true derivative from Aristotle's, Whitehead refers the reader not
to Aristotle's Categories but
to W. D. Ross's book about Aristotle (SCCW 504).
Natural and revealed theology need not stand as contradictory opposites or be homogenized as a delicate synthetic
substance susceptible
to breaking down
at the least challenge.
For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems
to hold even
at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem
to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears
to be no place
to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature
to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring
substances).
The question that is put
to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our thought and the ethical consequences of our thought concerning Jesus the Christ
to the ontological matrix in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one
at the center of our confession as the bearer of «
substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.
Perhaps in the dawning of Southern Christianity the West might begin
to glimpse, if not the
substance of things hoped for,
at least a ray or two
to dispel what Sanneh calls the «lengthening shadows» over Western Christianity.
Yet when we look
at his analysis of purely physical or nonconscious natural activity, we find the transmission of form under the agency of actually existing individual
substances with the consequent conforming and assimilating of
substance to substance.
He saw it more as the undefined energies of the universe, than any ent!ty, so I have no idea where you are getting you assertions, but since there is nothing of
substance to refute, well just leave it
at this.
The resurrection was attested, in
substance at least, in the Q community, in that his word was again
to be heard, not as a melancholy recollection of the failed dream of a noble, but terribly naive, person, but rather as the still valid, and constantly renewed, trust in the heavenly Father, who, as in heaven, will rule also on earth.