Sentences with phrase «than appropriate as»

You have to be as comfortable as possible and yet protect yourself just in case the person turns out to be somewhat less than appropriate as a potential life partner.

Not exact matches

Therefore, congruent color - product combinations will be processed more fluently and thus will be liked more, and rated as more appropriate than incongruent combinations.

It seems equally appropriate to describe Jim Flaherty, whose unexpected death today came less than a month after he resigned as federal Finance Minister.

Case in point: The concept of building a float to re-create the Ferris Bueller «Danke Schoen» scene (with Branson as Bueller) came from an ideation session trying to tie together Chicago - related and Virgin - appropriate themes; when the team presented the idea to Branson, he immediately agreed to participate, rather than micro-questioning and overworking the concept after it was presented to him.

In addition, as departments are not permitted to exceed their Parliamentary appropriations, they usually spend less than what they are appropriated.

We're in the process of securing a credit facility which we expect to be larger than the buyback authorization, to have the flexibility to pursue potential acquisition opportunities as well as buy back stock when appropriate.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

Fourth, as departments are not permitted to exceed their Parliamentary appropriations, they usually spend less than what they are appropriated.

As a result, they typically spend less than the total amount appropriated.

Third, you should think hard whether risk - free benchmarks are more appropriate rates for your financial contracts than credit - based benchmarks such as LIBOR and BBSW.

In addition, there are other factors which could result in them spending less than appropriated, such as delays in implementing new programs, less than expected take up of new programs, etc..

As a result, departments and agencies always spend less than what they were appropriated, thereby resulting in a lapse.

We can argue about what an appropriate index is to benchmark returns here, but in Q1 it really didn't matter as a mixture of hype and hope pushed company share prices higher than either index.

So I think such confrontation, within our own rank and file, is far more appropriate than confronting the unsaved sinner with his sin as we would a Christian.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

This is not quite the same as answer number 2, because it suggests that for a given person, one religion might be better than the others; but for different people with different histories and different needs, different religions might be more appropriate.

The discussion will be somewhat more extensive than otherwise appropriate to this context because this doctrine is crucial to other theological positions as well as to that of Thomism.

Dr. Polk reconceives the basic question of the relation of power and goodness by asking what kind of power is appropriate to a loving God, rather than the traditional way of framing the issue as how can a powerful God also be a loving God.

I hope that when my earth - body dies and my eternal soul is uploaded into the heavens via God's Galactic Internet that my file folder is judged as appropriate for download into a mansion that is more heavenly than this one, but that does not change that life in this mansion is what it is.

Nevertheless, if we take the term «progressive» to mean only that God disclosed himself to men in relation to their world as fast but no faster than they were able to grasp his purposes and their meanings, the term is appropriate enough.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

In these cases it may be appropriate for, say, a teenage girl who made a mistake one night and was not fully informed by either her parents (due to their beliefs or whatever), or, as happens more often than people would like to admit, was coerced into it, to have the option of abortion available.

Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

Rather than use Warren since I don't think it is appropriate right now, I'm going to use a post I wrote yesterday as an example.

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

To recognize that gender had played a role throughout, just as race had, was difficult, but more an extension of an already appropriated insight than a radically new idea.

By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixioAs Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixioas «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.

Such an approach empowers believing theologians, rather than pressures generated by secular thought, to set the theological agenda, and naturally inclines to maintaining the coherence of the Faith, with its hierarchy of truths and its four pillars (as evident in the four parts of the Catechism), as well as according appropriate status to pluralist or relativistconcerns and emphases.

When images are used to move us without convincing us that they are appropriate to reality, they are felt as manipulative rather than liberating and energizing.

Rather than leaving this as an uninvestigated discovery, as scientific reductionism and materialism would have us leave it, the Holy Father invites us to remit the question to those areas of study which have the appropriate competence, which comprise human subjectivity and creativity within their appropriate object: namely philosophy and theology.

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

Those of us who believe, for instance, that surgical intervention might not be an appropriate remedy in the case of those experiencing confusion about their sex are ridiculed as intolerant or bigoted, rather than offered the opportunity to debate.

What makes any religious tradition a tradition is that it has an essential meaning or motif which can be criticized as inessential only by abandoning rather than appropriating the tradition itself.

Rather than commit itself to any particular worldview, Christian theology should use or appropriate as many worldviews and forms of language as are necessary to explicate the truth of God's Word.

I really think that looking at the entire Bible as a single Cohesive story and coming at it from the idea of seeing how God is revealing a little more of His plan over time is much more appropriate than most traditional views.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

Rather than merely working out someone else's puzzle, we appropriate the story as our own.

Discussions of institutional organization are important: some forms of organization are more effective and more appropriate than other forms, just as some dogmas are truer than other dogmas and some ritual acts are truer than other ritual acts.

Rather than thinking about sin as the thing we do that makes God angry, I believe it's more appropriate to think about sin as something we think / say / do that is outside of God's ideal.

It might be more appropriate to explain «total depravity» as a way of describing the fact that every part of our lives is touched by sin, rather than implying that «total depravity» means we are totally evil people.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

Thus, as I see it, the options which remain are in fact two: either an existentialist approach or a «process thought» approach, since the «secular» theology in itself does nothing more than deny a particular kind of metaphysic and leaves us open to the possibility of interpreting the secular world, and everything else in human experience, in some appropriate manner.

After an appropriate introduction relating all laws to God, the Book of the Covenant proceeds to state its laws and regulations for the most part without further reference to the deity, and omitting any clause as to why the law shall be observed or what will result from its infraction (other than the legal penalty) or its observance.

Also for this purpose the act of washing or sprinkling is peculiarly appropriate rather than some other use of the water, such as drinking it.

When resonances or evocations are appropriated as plot predictions, analysis will have the effect of flattening the story (reducing it to the «right» answer) rather than enriching it.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Too often, alas, this faith has been obscured if not denied by the introduction into our thought about God of notions that, as we have seen, are more appropriate to imperial Caesar or a despotic tyrant than to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

The core of the festival - no doubt known by some other name - may well have been much older than the thirteenth century B.C., originating among pastoral people as a spring celebration of the birth of the lambs, with appropriate attendant rites for the consecration and protection of the flocks, and probably a communion meal shared by the shepherd group and its deity.