Katrina can't begin to approach the long
term significance of a temporarily abandoned metropolis of 5 + million, for example.
Do you think that climatologists need to do a better job of conveying the greater long
term significance of total climate energy content (as opposed to surface temp fluctuations) to the MSM, so that the MSM might focus more on the significance of total climate energy?
The discussion also went beyond these details to interrogate the long -
term significance of these decisions.
The larger, longer -
term significance of last night's deal, though, is that Bill de Blasio has tied himself even tighter, both practically and politically, to Bill Bratton succeeding in this progressive policing experiment.
That's not because we don't understand the long -
term significance of Asia's rise.
We have discussed in general
terms the significance of the messianic life - style for providing direction and content for our mission.
Not exact matches
In
terms of getting you where you're going, what's going on inside the car takes on increasing importance and
significance compared with what's under the hood.
He told the Winnipeg Free Press that his stake in the team is «beyond any measure in
terms of its meaning and its
significance.»
This paper investigates the
significance of the mix
of monetary and fiscal policies for financial stability through counterfactual simulations
of three key historical episodes, using the Bank's main policy model, ToTEM (
Terms -
of - Trade Economic Model).
SEO is a ubiquitous
term in online world because
of its
significance in online businesses.
These distractions from the underlying economics promise quick, short -
term gains that most investors find too appealing to ignore despite the lack
of long -
term significance or potential illegality.
These things are happening and they are
of good long -
term significance for the country.
In
terms of strategy, the TPP at the moment is the only plurilateral trade process in Asia where Canada has a seat, giving it immense strategic
significance.
Yet we believe another milestone is
of far greater
significance to investors: Yields on short -
term U.S. investment grade (IG) corporate bonds also hit 3 % — an eight - year high.
Imagine a world in which all countries
of significance had been following a medium -
term, flexible target for CPI inflation, coupled with appropriate exchange rate settings.
Though the US yield curve remained some way from inversion — which historically is often cited as signaling an impending recession — investors were relatively sanguine about the
significance of its flattening, with many arguing that low long -
term yields were more reflective
of central - bank policies and the weak inflationary environment than dimmer economic prospects.
As per the logarithmic charts, we're not quite there yet in
terms of hitting these rising tops lines
of significance.
In this situation, where the shorter -
term chart
of SLV is showing more strength than GLD, but the longer -
term chart is showing the opposite, the longer -
term chart interval bears the most weight, and therefore holds the most
significance in ultimately determining the direction
of the trend.
Nevertheless, at least in
terms of their support for Asia training and education, they have avoided equating recognition
of a country's strategic
significance with liking everything that it does.
The philosophical
significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature
of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in
terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.
A pilgrimage is a
term primarily used in religion and spirituality
of a long journey or search
of great moral
significance.
The contrast between real possibilities and actuality in the final decision
of the event is the source
of its historical
significance, in
terms of its relations with its antecedents and with its relevant future.
Sam Yaza, if he considers himself to be an atheist, clearly does not understand the meaning or
significance of the
term.
In examining the
significance of this changed understanding
of the
term mission, it is important to remember that evangelicals define themselves in
terms of evangelism.
Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible
term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm
of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance
of Christology was
of endless
significance for the later development
of Christian doctrine, and it was
of paramount importance for the Gospel
of Mark.
And yet, while all this is true and must be emphasized unfailingly in the Church, we can not, on the other hand, make Jesus simply a figure with Jewish
significance and interpret him only in
terms of biblical patterns
of thought.
Finally, aware
of the religious dimensions
of the texts, they are able to appreciate how claims to ultimate
significance are inevitably forged in
terms that are anthropologically rooted, historically conditioned and literarily defined; on the other hand, for the first time, many
of them come to perceive Christianity as in fact making a number
of extremely interesting religious claims.
As far as the value the
term holds, I think it's valuable because
of its historic
significance.
Building on the Platonic understanding
of hell as the place where unpunished violations
of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence
of our free will («the other side
of human dignity») and
of the
significance of human action, opening up trains
of thought in the direction
of the immortality
of the soul and the resurrection
of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in
terms of logic and reason.
And by speaking
of the Cross as a cosmic happening its
significance as a historical happening is made clear in accordance with the remarkable way
of thinking in which historical events and connections are presented in cosmic
terms, and so its full
significance is brought into sharper relief.
It confirms how completely Christ in his coming shares our condition, for it is obvious that we are required, by the
terms of our existence, to get only glimpses into those larger questions which give our lives their greatest
significance.
But in fact Newman's
significance sweeps wider than that, for he throws much light on that burning issue which now goes under the umbrella label
of «relativism,» an often vaguely used
term that I tried to define here.
Though it is probable that the positive indications will have the greater long -
term significance for American life, the negative side
of the report is so disturbing that it's not easy to see through the immediate ethical dislocations to the longer view.
There is no greater calling in
terms of consequences, urgency, and
significance.
Even the modern Unitarian, insofar as he or she would make claim to the Christian name whatever may be thought about theological definitions
of Jesus Christ's
significance, will say that his or her religion is toward God as God is defined by Jesus Christ — which is to say that the specifically Christian understanding
of God must be in
terms of what Whitehead styled «the Galilean vision.
In sum, Wyschogrod believes that the problem
of supersessionism turns on the church's capacity to understand its own identity in
terms of the abiding religious
significance of the distinction between Jew and gentile.
In this first book he inquires into the
significance of the
terms (or, as Ross suggests, «linguistic facts» [AR 26]-RRB-, in which propositions are couched.
But if the abstractive nature
of speech formation is recognized, then it must be seen also that the abstract
term always implies more than itself; it always brings with it the presupposition
of the total context from which it is drawn (12:84).6 All speech, in other words, implies a metaphysical background against which it must be interpreted for its
significance to be grasped (PR 16 - 20; 12:46).
What is most significant about Marsh's project is that he demonstrates quite persuasively that these two themes are in fact one, that the philosophical
significance of Bonhoeffer's theology lies in its redefinition
of human identity within wholly communal and relational
terms.
Instead
of investing theological
significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects
of sense data, or about the reality
of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role
of imagination, a
term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.
The «central
significance of repression and sublimation in Freud's system,» derives from the pathological condition
of modern man and is valid in
terms of it.
, but in
terms of being a museum, I can not deny that this piece does have some historical and cultural
significance to this event.
In other words, one
of the primary purposes
of John is to impregnate the
terms «Christ» and «Son
of God» with new meaning and
significance that can not be used
of any other human throughout history.
He does not... destroy my faith, but he forces me to re-examine my faith and to re-discover its power in the contemporary scene which he seems to understand in clearer
terms than I do... The real
significance of the sermon lies in the fact that Bishop Pike is aiming to revive the new generation's lagging interest in religion and to have religion speak in
terms modern man can understand.»
However, it is a work
of great
significance,
termed by some as his most significant.1 The book has been arranged in its present order by Eberhard Bethge.
If the constitutive assertion
of this witness, however expressed or implied, is specifically christological, in that it is the assertion, in some
terms or other,
of the decisive
significance of Jesus for human existence, the metaphysical implications
of this assertion are specifically theological in that they all either are or clearly imply assertions about the strictly ultimate reality that in theistic religious traditions is
termed «God.»
As this statement occurs in the exordium
of the epistle, where Paul may be supposed, according to his practice, to be recalling ideas familiar to his readers, we may take it that it was in some such
terms that he spoke
of the
significance of the death
of Christ when he preached in Galatia.
By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls
of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the
significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine
of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in
terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.
I do not have time today to get into it, so a good study for you this week would be to go through Ephesians and discover on your own the
significance of the
term «in Christ Jesus.»
Some theologians, for instance, who have become interested in «story» as a source for theology have used the
term so broadly that it means everything and hence very little
of significance.