Sentences with phrase «supposed purpose of»

Where I do take some issue with the Court's reasoning is in its reliance on the supposed purpose of the amendment.

The supposed purpose of doing so is to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, thus causing «less» harm to the environment and the climate.

This has NOTHING whatever to your supposed purpose of providing a tutorial on heat transfer.

This Juke is a tad more relevant to the model's supposed purpose of being a crossover between an SUV

One can only suppose the purpose of the movie is to put off the audience, much in the same way the intrusive movie theater seat that Jeff Goldblum (referred to as «Chef») introduces at the very start of the movie within the movie.

Not exact matches

For what it's worth, I think the strategy would also likely be ineffective: Suppose, notwithstanding our legal mandate, the Federal Reserve were to raise interest rates for the purpose of making it more expensive for the government to borrow.

Kogan created an app, «thisisyourdigitallife,» that was legitimately downloaded some 270,000 times, but the paper wrote Kogan actually managed to provide the «raw profiles» of approximately 50 million users whose data was supposed to be used only for the purposes of improving the app's user experience.

Using a personal loan defeats the purpose of the down payment contribution, since the payment is supposed to show that you're investing some of your money.

Robert Louis Stevenson said once that there are two kinds of people, one kind «inclining to think all things rather wrong,» the other inclining to suppose all sorts of conduct «right enough for practical purposes.»

We should look to him because he knew that his inclination towards writing, and natural talent therein, were proof to him that he was supposed to write, that he was created to write, all for the sole purpose of pointing back to the Creator.

Isn't a room designated for creativity supposed to be messy???! I hope some day you get your dream studio, with lots of shelves, a big window with an inspirational view... each corner serving it's own purpose.

For «spin» purposes, it helps to have several different statements, each supposed to please somebody or send some message, with none of them binding and no call for consistency among them.

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

Even if one might suppose such a purpose for the Chronicles, does that explanation fit some of Lewis other stories, such as The Dark Tower and That Hideous Strength?

Suppose a group of rabbis from Israel were to make a highly publicized visit to Rome for the purpose of furthering peace, harmony, and fraternal dialogue.

We suppose he invented them and their names merely to suit the purposes of his stories.

The purpose of the lectureship, according to Lord Adam Gifford's will, is to treat theology «as a strictly natural science,» that of «Infinite Being, without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so - called miraculous revelation.»

The purpose was, of course, to sharpen the church's thinking about the social issues now perceived to be far more complex than previously supposed.

At the moment when new insight as to the context and purpose of the supposed «chauvinist» passages in Paul is surfacing, Jewett has surprisingly abandoned his efforts to find consistency in Paul's writing.

This is nonsense since the whole purpose of introducing God into the equation is because the universe (or the supposed «singularity» that existed before the big bang) could not have always been there.

The kind of symmetry that theology was once supposed to imply may not be a viable option among theologians in our day, but it still must be true that any portion of the Gospel belongs within an implicative network of the whole of God's plan and purpose.

But on the other, the lack of consensus regarding the content of this «good news» we're supposed to be sharing with the world makes me wonder if we're missing something important about the original meaning and purpose of the word «gospel.»

If a second - rate science fiction script editor can dream up something like that, then I think we have to suppose that Almighty God could have made a better job of it, had it suited His purposes.

Those who practiced the earlier nature religions saw the natural world operating with some meaning and purpose because they unconsciously projected their own thoughts and feelings into the supposed gods of nature, including Mother Earth and the Sky Father.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate:

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

The primary characteristics of any self - creative beings — and we must suppose that this holds pre-eminently for human beings — are freedom, transience, and novel purpose... The denial of rationality as the primary character of experience involves the denial of principles as external sources of order and thus entails the consequence that each aesthetic event will constitute its own source of order and novelty.

If these organizations are receiving aid specifically for purposes that have nothing to do with their religion but more to do with secular issues, which is what the standard is, why are we even entertaining the idea that they can discriminate on the basis of religion which, if they receive funding, should have nothing to do with what their organization is supposed to be doing?

Or, to take a much better illustration for our purposes, one may accept as true the story of man's creation and fall, as found in Gen. 1 - 3, without supposing for a moment that those chapters give us an accurate account of an actual happening.

The final cause of a thing or event meant the purpose which it was supposed to serve in the universe, its cosmic purpose.

Of course, we do not suppose that the Yahwist in the tenth century B.C. would or could thus have analyzed his purposes in the composition and unification of these taleOf course, we do not suppose that the Yahwist in the tenth century B.C. would or could thus have analyzed his purposes in the composition and unification of these taleof these tales.

First, Divine Omnipotence: God creates and shapes us through the process of evolution: how can we suppose, or fear, that He will arbitrarily interfere with the very means whereby He fulfills His purpose?

On the one side, Christians were to exercise undiscourageable goodwill toward evil men, even praying for those who slew them when no other manner of expressing goodwill remained; but, on the other side, the new faith retained the hopeless torture chamber of Gehenna, where punishment was supposed to go on in endless agony long after moral purpose in the torture had been lost.

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate: 1) Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species that depends for its propagation and socialization on the complementary....

However, most of the nebulous nature of what the church is supposed to be doing and how is a result of not having a clearly defined purpose, mission, values, vision, and strategy.

Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them» Quran (8:39)-- «And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah» Quran (8:59 - 60)-- «And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose).

The purpose of the Instant Pot water test is to make sure that your Instant Pot seals, comes to pressure, counts down, and depressurizes like it's supposed to without the threat of wasting some perfectly good food.

Besides, I had some leftover root beer pulled pork begging for a purpose and used it instead of what I assume was supposed to be dry pulled pork in the ingredient list.

but in my thinking, that is EXACTLY what homebirth is supposed to provide: the environment and support to do what can normally and naturally be done at home, with the wisdom and assessment of a care provider who knows when the risk is to great, thus utilizing home and hospital for their exact right purposes.

What I try to convey to all of my mamas... I want to name it but that would be defeating the purpose, I suppose....

If you wish to travel to another part of the country, you are supposed to have a specific purpose and obtain permission from your work unit.

Although the reason behind the creation of the Brong Ahafo Region was supposed to be purely for administrative purposes, Nkrumah, as shrewd as he was, had other ideas that would be discussed another time.

The entities were originally supposed to be for social welfare purposes, and do not have to disclose donors or amounts of money they spend on electioneering.

«I suppose, above all, the moment that my heart sank at the start of the campaign was when we were told to repeat the mantra that we will cut less than the Conservatives and borrow less than Labour, because it defines ourselves in relation to others and it says nothing about our purpose as liberals.»

One hundred and fifty years ago in Scientific American, the March 1860 issue, we wrote»... gas for interior illumination, it is supposed is a powerful disinfectant, and hence there is no contagion within the circle of its influence» — actually we were then quoting, and then we wrote: «We copy the above sentence for the purpose of disputing the inference that gas will protect people from the smallpox.

Supposing that the concept of guilt is made obsolete by hard - wired brain functions, Bill Foster proposes that the purpose of...

The primary purpose of this is to give yourself a mental break from trying so hard to constrain your cravings for the food you're not supposed to be eating — simply put, it's a way to reward yourself for your hard dieting efforts.

The purpose of this exercise is not to suppose that all of our children's «questionable» behavior is our fault.

That's how beneath your mask got its name — releasing her fear - based habits, letting go of who and what she felt like she was supposed to be, and embracing true purpose allowed Jackson to reveal what was beneath her mask.