Sentences with phrase «surrounding context»

The agent of the destruction is left unclear, though the immediately surrounding context indicates that the waters of the flood were responsible for taking the breath from every living thing.

The one slight disappointment is the shortage of jokes surrounding the context.

So often, teachers tell students to figure out what a word means based on its word parts or on surrounding context clues, but I rarely know how to...

Michael describes how he relationally understands problems and locates them within surrounding contexts, culture, discourses and normative practices.

For those reasons, we are carefully reviewing each report and surrounding context relating to this content on a case by case basis.»

In the new study in mice, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found that nerve cells dedicated to hearing also rely on surrounding context to properly interpret and react to familiar sounds.

For example, just read Psalm 90:2, Isaiah 43:10, 44:6 - 8, I John 4:1, Deuteronomy 13:1 - 5 including the surrounding context.

I believe she was trying to say that politicians, law makers, are taking verses out of context, and in reality, a person can not take one verse and run with it, but they have to consider the surrounding context.

People should not take bible verses out of context, however it still validates the author's point that the bible is interpretation based on the surrounding context, not just the words surrounding the passage, but society at the time.

Though this is the most common view of these chapters, there are numerous clues left by the text itself, by the surrounding context, and by other passages in Scripture which indicate that something else is going on in the flood account.

The surrounding context of this passage sheds light on how Jesus felt about what was going on in the temple that day.

This section will look at the surrounding context of Genesis 6 - 8, and subsequent sections will consider other biblical passages that deal with the flood.

But if you go back and look at the surrounding contexts of these passages which Paul quotes, it is nearly laughable at how Paul completely rips them from their context and quotes them as saying something almost exactly opposite of what they actually say in their context!

In the surrounding context (Rom 3:23; 6:23) Paul is explaining to his readers that the reason death reigns over all people is because all people have sinned.

And there are various indications in John 10, as well as in the surrounding context of John 8 — 11 that Jesus identified Himself with the lights of Hanukkah and especially the central light of the Hanukkah Menorah, the Shamash, or «Servant» light.

Several scholars believe that due to the surrounding context of these verses, and what is going on in the passage, a better translation of these Hebrew words would be, «Blah blah blah, yada yada yada, same old same old» or some similar form or repetitive gibberish.

First, it is important to note that in the surrounding context, there is nothing anywhere about some sovereign decree of God regarding whom He has chosen from eternity past to redeem and reconcile to Himself in eternity future.

The surrounding context of Genesis 18:18 - 19 reveals what it means for God to have «known» Abraham.

The strength of this view is that it does not simply look at what is said and done in the text of Matthew 12:31 - 32, but looks at the surrounding context of Matthew 12 and the Gospel of Matthew as a whole, and sees that Jesus is trying to show the people of Israel that He is their promised and prophesied Messiah, but no matter what He says or what miracles He performs, they keep rejecting the truth and denying the clear evidence in the signs that He performs.

But in the surrounding context, and in the Gospel of John as a whole, Jesus is identified as «the Word» from heaven which has come into the world, the Word from God which has revealed God's truth.

First, as with all the other passages which Calvinists quote, it is critical to understand the surrounding context.

I came up with a theory which seems to make good sense of the word, and which helps bring significance to the surrounding context.

The location of a church and the character of its surrounding context have a major impact on the kind of ministry that can be done.

If you have read my blog for a while, you may know that I always invite people to try to define the word «saved» in the Bible within the surrounding context of where it is used.

This explanation makes much more sense of the surrounding context of Matthew 20:16 and 22:14 than does the contrived theological distinction between a general call and an effectual call.

The surrounding context of Mark 12:41 - 44 indicates that she should keep her money, and the temple should be supporting her instead.

But the surrounding context contains some examples and further argumentation.

Yes, seeing the layers of Scripture is important, as well as the surrounding context.

This translation more closely resembles the surrounding context.

Jeremy, Having done a word study on «repentance» and having studied the surrounding contexts of the use of the word, I agree with you.

If you look in the surrounding context, you will quickly discover that the deliverance in view has nothing to do with gaining eternal life or going to heaven when you die.

If you look at the surrounding context, it appears that after the tree is cut down, it is carved into a shape and then gold and silver is hammered onto it.

So let me just summarize for you what I believe 1 John 1:9 and the surrounding context teaches.

In an op - ed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Monday, Myer wrote that the RAL was selected «based on the superiority of its financial offer, the overall quality and qualifications of the respondent team, a design that demonstrates excellence and creativity in architecture and recognition of the surrounding context, all while generating hundreds of prevailing wage jobs.»

Froemke says his team's latest findings reveal that while mammals recognize sounds in the auditory cortex of their brains, the signaling levels of nerve cells in this brain region are simultaneously being strengthened or weakened in response to surrounding context.

Which is not to say that the surrounding context isn't one of complexity.

For instance, word meanings could be explained so that understanding them is not reliant on being able to make inferences from the surrounding context.

While at USC, Oscar is completing his dissertation, which investigates the resilience processes that queer Latino collegians undergo in relation to their social identities and surrounding contexts.

Most of this is conveyed not simply by obvious trends, but in more subtle ways — particularly how various elements of market action diverge from how they would be expected to behave, given the surrounding context.

Specifically, market action carries information when it diverges in an important way from what would be expected, given a large amount of surrounding context and allowance for a reasonable amount of «random» fluctuation.

Only through deep connection with the subject and its surrounding context can a travel photographer add his / her unique perspective to a place and cast it in an original light.

All of this surrounding context can overwhelm discussion of the on - the - field play, which, even at this nascent stage, offers a classic interpretation of Street Fighter.

While their work mines the political potential of collage across a variety of media, the surrounding context of the fair raises important questions about the political labor that African American artists and curators perform in the global contemporary art market.