Sentences with phrase «than the substance of»

A Being was taking form in the totality of space; a Being with the attractive power of a soul, palpable like a body, vast as the sky; a Being which mingled with things yet remained distinct from them; a Being of a higher order than the substance of things with which it was adorned, yet taking shape within them.

Speaking to BBC South's Political Editor Peter Henley, Mr Cameron defended her decision and criticised the BBC for covering the row, which he said was more about form than the substance of the campaign.

The hosts of MSNBC's «Morning Joe» echoed that charge, criticizing de Blasio earlier this month for making his decision based on personal feelings toward Moskowitz, rather than the substance of the issue.

Anyway, a grammar - nazi, within the meaning of my comment above, is someone who picks on the form of the expression rather than the substance of the discussion, and the problem of form does not have to lie strictly in the area of grammar.

They simply accept that the University of East Anglia's computers were hacked, on the word of people who are shown by what was hacked to be liars and charlatans and who have an interest in making the story be something other than the substance of the material.

The press response to their study has therefore been almost totally dominated by the error at the beginning of the report, rather than the substance of their work on the impacts.

Ineffective legal services delivery has more importance than the substance of the law involved.

In the case of technology, competence has more to do with the tools you use than the substance of your legal arguments and strategies.

Not exact matches

By its own admission, McKesson's monitoring program — which assigned customers monthly thresholds for controlled substances and involved three levels of review — was geared more towards reporting suspicious customers than isolated suspicious orders; the company believed this was the more practical approach to identifying and preventing diversion.

Modern homeopaths start by diluting a substance in water, then taking a hundredth of that solution and diluting it further, than taking a bit of that solution and diluting it in even more water until the original substance is exceedingly dilute.

During that period, the distribution center flagged for the DEA just 16 of the more than 1.6 million controlled substances orders it processed, according to the DOJ.

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Come on, there have to be some basic behavioral ground rules and a little more substance to the culture of the tech and entrepreneurial community than the celebration of cash, cars, and creepy, chauvinistic CEOs chugging Cristal.

It is a family of compounds comprised of more than 100 chemicals, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and many are released into the atmosphere by forest fires, volcano eruptions and automobile emissions.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

More damaging than turnover were mounting consumer complaints, which form the substance of the FTC's allegations.

Here's the thing: Research shows that we get more than enough of these substances from what we eat, so no need for a pill!

The dangers of addiction are numerous, no matter what the focal point of the addiction is — though of course, some substances are more dangerous than others.

But bewilderment about that initial verdict says more about public understanding of conflict of interest than it does about the substance of this case.

His cheers of vindication Friday appeared to be more show than substance: The administration still harbors deep worries about the direction of Mueller's nine - month probe, which has shown no signs of abating and has expanded to explore potential obstruction of justice on the part of the president and his top aides.

A mysterious, invisible, and so far undetected substance makes up more than a quarter of our universe.

But when a company rebrands after it's failed to launch successful new products, and that rebranding makes no sense whatsoever, it's a sign that it has run out of ideas and is now focusing on appearances rather than substance.

It is done much more for public appearance than having real substance and probability of success.

The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.

We are consuming more information than ever, but are somehow weaker than ever in our ability to understand each other and the substance of the issues.

Here's the thing: Research shows we get more than enough of these substances from what we eat, so no need for a pill!

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

The requested report would not, in substance, provide any more meaningful information than our existing disclosures, nor would it justify the competitive harm we may suffer as a result of the disclosed information.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

He has indefinitely delayed the issuance of regulations on the use of, among other lethal substances, trichloroethylene, which has been known for more than half a century to turn drinking water into poison.

More Spray Tan than Substance Start - Ups offers a handful of genuinely valuable moments — an insider's peek at when employee - turned - entrepreneur Kim Taylor decides to leave her job and start a business of her own, for instance; or when the unfocused upstart Ben Way mentions to an investor that he has over 40 companies, which comes off as amateurish bragging.

Justice Gascon considered that the appeal should have been resolved on the basis of the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity rather than on the basis of the pith and substance doctrine.

In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

It does nt explain his origins, substance, or much more, other than his character, motive and goal, asside from moral laws, codes of conduct, right from wrong, and how to manage life, all while believing in him.

I think the main point I was getting at was that your piece seems to be a critique more of Daniel's tone than its substance.

Many people believe that consciousness pervades matter, or that all is mental in substance or that other organizations of matter larger than humans may have something resembling consciousness.

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers You should more impressed by the fact you just expressed Jesus to be of form and substance more like God than scientifically provable organic matter that existed and is falsifiable.

I believe she's sincere, and in that regard she's no different than any other Republican who is full of hyperbole and empty on substance.

I told a preacher once that, in over thirty years, I probably couldn't repeat the substance of no more than maybe five sermons.

No less than three times in the opinion Nino insisted that the interpretation of the Attorney General in applying the laws on «controlled substance» — the interpretation guided by the Hippocratic Oath — was the «most natural interpretation.»

Naturally, all serious students of Whitehead know that societies rather than actual entities are the true counterparts to the Aristotelian notion of substance.

Process thought proposes that events are more basic than are the kinds of things that have given rise to the notion of substance.

I believe the proportion of true believers in Jesus, His life, death, and resurrection have always been far smaller than those living a form of Christianity without the substance, i.e., the Holy Spirit.

The logical model in terms of which the mind with its ideas, and substance with its attributes were conceived as unified wholes was that of the subject with predicates, which also had become something quite other than what it had been for Aristotle, since universals were no longer thought of as «forms.»

Later Jesus shows Jared's brother his whole body, which, it turns out, is a pre-mortal spirit body, comprised of a finer material substance than anything known on earth.

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

All of these motifs are united in Whitehead, and all but the clear rejection of substance as relevant to ethics and as implying the primacy of unit - events rather than unit - things or persons, were in Peirce.