Sentences with phrase «taken as an absolute»

The trouble with such rules, however, is that they may be taken as absolute, without regard for the changes needed in adapting them to a new age.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

We do know how far off the moon and the sun are, we do know that determinism, taken as absolute, could not be verified and can reasonably be taken as falsified.

Ok, I did mention it by way of comparison to Society (which, you are right, I forgot about, sorry — I was just trying to point out that legal recognition isn't taken as an absolute).

In other words, Christian martyrdom is based on opposition to the power which takes itself as an absolute point of reference.

The recommendation is not intended to be taken as an absolute directive that you must offer your baby water.

Decisions by parliaments or referendums are taken as absolute and more important than the constitution, international treaties, or other fundamental laws.

This chart should not be taken as an absolute, and remember if you have been doing high rep sets for the past 3 months, you are not going to be able to handle the 1 rep max that the math says you should, due to lack of tendon strength and raw power neccesary to lift low rep weights.

The way Stone and his star convey each revelation and subsequent step forward in his investigation, you take as absolute fact.

At the start of 2016, I felt there was a good chance of breaking $ 800 before the year's end, but I didn't take it as an absolute certainty.

I now know to beware of these purebred myths so many uninformed people take as absolute truth.

However, this should not be taken as an absolute confirmation, as Robert Bowling may simply be hiding its existence until Activision are ready to announce it, though it does seem odd that, if it does exist, they have not yet announced it.

In fact all the scary hypothetical scenarios seem to be taken as absolute truths by The Greens Party here in Australia and many environmental activists groups around the world and the silence from the climate science community correcting this misinterpretation is deafening.

You may be able to totally trust a piece of equipment at temperatures over -10 C, but have to throw out all data for temperatures below -60 C. Just handing out the raw data to anyone will result in some fool taking it as absolute truth.

The report from Professor Howarth that you have mentioned should not be taken as absolute proof.

Not exact matches

This will not only take you to a place where you can make the absolute best decisions for your company but where you can also present yourself as a person who wants to learn more and be better for it.

Now, if market participants were to shift to a passive approach in the practice of asset allocation more broadly — that is, if they were to resolve to hold cash, fixed income, and equity from around the globe in relative proportion to the total supplies outstanding — then we would expect to see a similarly positive impact on the market's absolute pricing mechanism, particularly as unskilled participants choose to take passive approaches with respect to those asset classes in lieu of attempts to «time» them.

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I offer a few simple questions: — How can we possibly believe the words written in a book 2000 years ago; or 200 hundred years ago; should be taken with so absolute faith as to be blind to the inconsistencies.

The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of sins against the law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.

We must also acknowledge that the biblical affirmations of the absolute faithfulness of God, his changeless love, his sovereignty as Creator and Lord, could be taken to reinforce this metaphysical absolutism.

In the first place it can be taken as axiomatic in the Catholic view of faith that where the Church's magisterium has once unambiguously required at any time an absolute, ultimate and unconditional assent of faith to a definite doctrine as revealed by God, the doctrine in question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocable.

«Theoretical faith can not simply deduce how the Christian is to realize this hope despite such ever renewed exodus, and to what he clings (as is also possible) because his hope takes away the semblance of the absolute also from the temporal future.

Taking one's stand with absolute commitment in one tradition and one only the disagreements would then be understood as marking the boundary between truth and error.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

The newness which was so prominent an attribute of what was called the «new» world was taken not just as newness to its European discoverers and explorers but as newness in some pristine and absolute sense: newness from the hands of God.

«Just as impossible as it is for you to take back all the hurt and the pain that your malicious rumor and absolute lie has done to me.

In the pluralist dialogue where myths are critiqued, love will emerge as that absolute, and I will find «that I can not love [my neighbor] as myself unless I take my place on the one bit of higher ground that will hold us both — unless I love God.

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

Einstein's seeming overthrow of absolute space and time is often taken as justifying «relativism,» the idea that nothing is absolute.

Good lord, truth absolute God, created no one to be gentile, slave to no one, but equal to every one as human, take hindu Jew's, filthy secular gentile ism, slavery and shove it in his hind.

Would they not do better to take a fresh start (as indeed many have done) and admit that we have no good religious reason for positing the notion of providence as an absolute contriving of all events according to a completely detailed plan embracing all time?

They also take a particular myth or symbol as true in the absolute sense.

Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth,... and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

The agent's rising beyond and above itself in action and becoming takes place because the absolute Being is the cause and ground of this self - movement, in such a way that the latter has this fundamental ground immanent within it as a factor intrinsically related to the movement.

However, scientific truth which keeps on changing can obviously not be taken either by faith (that's not what science is) nor as an absolute truth, since it is subject to change.

It seems to me that his absolute identification of the revelation with the church is not accurate: I would say that the revelation took place within the church and is inconceivable apart from it, but I find it impossible to say, as he frequently does, that the revelation is the church.

The third mandala, the Dharma Mandala, is the same circle as the Mahamandala and the Samaya Mandala, but «viewed» as the sphere where «revelation» of absolute truth — the Dharma — takes place.

I find this entertaining, especially for those who decide what IS N'T to be taken as other than the absolute WORD OF GOD — which just happens to agree with the particular thing they happen to want...

No, you have to end up like your hindu sanatan filthy man god Jew's, secular, for disobeying truth absolute GOD and taking a human as your god.

Thus, the motion of the pendulum is taken as the standard, as a more suitable «approximation» to the uniform time flow of absolute time, and some physical explanation is then sought to account for the seasonal variation of the solar day relative to this standard.18 Were standards other than the pendulum chosen as operating «more uniformly,» then the pendulum would be abandoned in favor of a «more uniform approximation» to absolute time.

The judgment that one particle of matter is spatially separated from another may be true in a sense but false when taken as implying an absolute separation in reality.

It was then that he began to take his Christian faith seriously, experiencing an inner conviction which allowed him, as he put it at the beginning of his Apologia, «to rest in the thought of two and two only absolute and luminously self - evident beings, myself and my Creator.»

10:7 - 9) He took a body in order that He might suffer; He became man, that He might suffer as man; and when His hour was come, that hour of Satan and of darkness, the hour when sin was to pour its full malignity upon Him, it followed that He offered Himself wholly, a holocaust, a whole burnt - offering; - as the whole of His body, stretched out upon the Cross, so the whole of His soul, His whole advertence, His whole consciousness, a mind awake, a senseacute, a living co-operation, a present, absolute intention, not a virtual permission, not a heartless submission... His passion was an action.»

The second question, about the nature of papal authority itself and the relation of the Papacy to Scripture was again taken as decided: the Pope had an absolute and final interpretative right.

This porridge recipe is an absolute saviour for those of you that have busy mornings as it only takes 3 minutes to make — how amazing is that!

The 2012 Canadian Grand Prix was an absolute thriller as the front runners took on different tyre strategies.

The only thing we can say as an absolute about Brissett is the kid can take a hit, he has proved that.

If Arsenal do make a good start to the campaign though, as we all expect them to, then there is going to be an absolute dead cert, although whether you can find a bookie to take your bet is another matter, and that is for Wenger and Jose Mourinho to have a public spat with each other.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all