Sentences with phrase «substance to it at»

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 federaSubstances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federasubstances 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.
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