Sentences with phrase «thing as a degree»

To paraphrase: If faith is confidence and there is no such thing as degrees of faith then faith is not work.

It should be clear that the standards NCATE uses to evaluate teacher - training programs are primarily input - driven: the main measures of a program's quality are such things as the degrees held by faculty, program resources, and curricular content.

There's no such thing as a degree in extroversion.

Not exact matches

The sentiment expressed by the Russian delegate is as clear a sign as any of the significance that some governments are assigning to the blockchain — a technology that is now being applied to things as varied as financial trading and voting — and the degree to which it is becoming a subject of geopolitical battles.

As a lifelong resident of Las Vegas, Green thinks that the idea of walking down the block for a latte in 120 - degree heat is slightly ridiculous; but he also knows that in Las Vegas, ridiculous things can happen.

She had a communications degree, didn't know a thing about programming when she was hired, had never even considered it as a career.

«Private hackers are a source of talent, for one thing, as well as a degree of separation and deniability between state organs and end users.»

«As things shift downwards, the degree to which the government will be tested is the degree to which the government has prepared for the inevitable downturn and built upon the natural and human assets of the province, in order to provide some protection from that downturn.»

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

If you are a parent or careers advisor, do also remember that there is no such thing as a pointless degree.

During this period, the key thing I was taught did not involve the biochemistry and molecular biology of my degree, but how to think critically and NEVER accpet anything as truth just becuase some PERSON told me it was true.

Jennifer C What I find sad is the degree to which some Christians will go to protect their claimed monopoly to things like «love», as if non-Christians do not any experience with it at all.

She was actually named after yeast FUNGUS and a plant; Again, I need to do more research, but in order to take a article seriously, you need to address the source first This woman, as educated as she MAY be, (having a degree, and knowing how to use it are two different things) spent her earliest, most developmentally crucial years under the direction of at least one parent who thought NOTHING of saddling their kid with this name.

If we define faith as «confidence» or «conviction» based on the evidence presented, and once we recognize that there is no such thing as «degrees of faith,» then this leads to the truth that faith is not a work.

«Even if other faiths prohibit those things, they may not interpret them the same way or give them the same degree of emphasis as Judaism does.

When Jesus speaks of having life more abundantly, this, I think, is the life he means: a life that is not reducible by division, category or degree, but is one thing, heavenly and earthly, spiritual and material, divided only insofar as it is embodied in distinct creatures.

«Notions are but aspects of things,» and as such vary in their degree of truth, from mere otiose assertions («Tomorrow will be fair») to the steady, deliberate assertion of propositions as true («Every triangle has two right angles»).

It is a fact beyond question that deep within ourselves we can discern, as though through a rent, an «interior» at the heart of things; and this glimpse is sufficient to force upon us the conviction that in one degree or another this «interior» exists and has always existed everywhere in nature.

Hence, the presence of degrees of excellence in things demands as its cause that which is perfect in itself, namely, God.

Gays were killed for being gay — and they still were — there's no such thing as a law draconian enough to keep people from being themselves, to force that degree of conformance.

Likewise, to varying degrees, for things like, psychics, homeopathic «medicine», creationism / ID in science classes, reproductive choice, anti-vaccination, religious conflict in general, the US being or founded as a Christian nation, blue laws, UFOs (in the visiting aliens sense), etc..

For as Nisbet points out the really important thing about class is that group membership was by itself a sufficient condition of a certain degree of influence.

Just as the water can be found in degrees of heat and cold as [again simplified] hot stream, scalding hot liquid, warm liquid and temperate, cold, freezing cold and solid ice, things, people, events and actions are likely to be found in a variety of states and valence.

Such acts will tend gradually to spread as far as the bounds of love itself, which is a «many splendid thing» with many types and degrees.

She talks to me at times as if, between the two of us, she is the one in charge of things and simply asks me for a small degree of logical cooperation.

Many readers will be familiar with some of the traditional «arguments for the existence of God», such as that everything has a prior cause, but that the causal chain can not be continued back indefinitely, so that there must somewhere be a First Cause; or that since there are various degrees of perfection there must be a Perfect One by whom all lesser degrees are measured; or that all change in a thing is caused by something else which leads eventually to some Prime Mover.

So things in the universe, as they move from indefinite possibilities to definite actuality, have the power to determine (to some degree) that definiteness.

The level of being, the density of being, the degree of reality, still remains the same, and the very alteration as such constitutes the stable nature of the thing in question.

It at once becomes clear, when we adopt this altered standpoint, that the purpose of a new Declaration of the Rights of Man can not be, as formerly, to ensure the highest possible degree of independence for the individual in society, but to define the conditions under which the inevitable totalization of Mankind may be effected, not only without impairing but so as to enhance, I will not say the autonomy of each of us but (a quite different thing) the incommunicable singularity of being which each of us possesses.

Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The human race is passing from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.

Before finally leaving the subject of double - mindedness for a similar examination of purity, the talk should at least touch upon that versatile form of double - mindedness: the double - mindedness of weakness as it appears in the common things of real life; upon the fact that the person who only wills the Good up to a certain degree is double - minded.

These and other trends have made me sensible of how different our circumstances are from those in which Neuhaus learned to speak as both a Christian and an intellectual, circumstances that were still to some degree in force when First Things was founded in 1990.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

The problem our society has is that we think there is such thing as «normal» and we try to place everyone into these groups of varying degrees.

A number of examples of logical order come to mind: Plato's realm of Ideas, for instance, constitutes a preassigned pattern that charts particular things and events as real or good only to the degree they conform to these preexistent ideas.

Does not this suggest that, by using the degree of complexity as a guide, we may advance very much more surely than by following any other lead as we seek to penetrate to the truth of the world and to assess, in terms of absolute values, the relative importance, the place, of all things?

=========== @Geno / 2:49 ================== The thing they say about a recoverd alcoholic is that once they've quit, if the ever even take a sip, they have to start all over, but it's the same with a smoker, but not as bad and to a degree with overweight people, but not as much.

Every decision is a response to a lure or solicitation; that is how God effectively «acts» in a creative process from which he is nowhere absent, by permitting things to «make themselves» as decisions are undertaken that «decide» the degree and kind of actualization that will occur.

We speak of the universe as a cosmos, not a chaos; we believe that we are in touch with how things go in the world, so that we can to some degree understand them; we count on regularity, predictability, orderliness, as present and real — and what are all these but a mute testimony to meaning?

Seeing them therefore so Amiable, I wondered not a little, that nothing was Spoken of them in former Ages: but as I read the Bible I was here & there Surprised with such Thoughts, & found by Degrees that these Things had been written of before, not only in the Scriptures but in many of the Fathers & that this was the Way of Communion with God in all Saints, as I saw clearly in the Person of David.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

@NII YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE GUILTY AND TALKED ABOUT OTHER FALSEHOOD RELIGION YOU DID NOT LIKE OR UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU WAS LITTLE CHILD OR YOUNGER ADULT OR MID LIFE PERSON.THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF GLOBAL FALSEHOOD RELIGIONS.BUT THIS ONE THING DOES NOT LIE (DNA) Y CHROMOSOME EVEN TOP SUPER SMART BLOND HEAD BLUE EYE PALE SKIN SUPER DNA RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS WITH MULTIPLE PHD DEGREES FROM NORWAY SWEDEN AND FINLAND DENMARK ETC KNOW THAT THE Y CHROMOSOME ALSO KNOWN AS THE ADAM Y CHROMOSOME CAMED OUT OF EAST AFRICA.falsehood religion did not make.the human race WISDOM DID WISDOM WALKED AND TALKED WITH MAN IT WAS WISDOM THAT MADE ADAM AND EVE.THINK ABOUT IT @NII NOW THE MOST DOMINANT DNA BELONGS TOO BLACK PEOPLE NOT EUROPEANS.LOOK AT ALL YOUR MIXED RACE BLACK PEOPLE»S TIGER WOOD»S HALLEY BERRY LENNY KRAVITZ LISA BONET ETC DNA DO NT LIE man made falsehood religion do lie

Which is basically the same thing as a $ 75,000 Associates Degree.

1Peter 4:12 - 17 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelations of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

This of course allows things to have properties that are nonphysical, perhaps, certain physical aggregates with a high degree of systemic unity and organizational complexity, such as biological organisms and computing machines, may exhibit nonphysical properties.

I did a similar thing as Amanda — roasting the veggies at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, then did the fish separately per recipe.

I keep reading comments that say we have plenty of quality in the squad and we should have won things BUT, clearly we do nt have that degree of quality as we loose more important games than we win, and noone seems to be able to rally the troops when needed.

The school will be on probation for the next 12 months, and if the board doesn't think UNC has progressed toward cleaning things up, it could lose its status as a degree - granting institution.

I think to a degree it has been put to bed, so long as Arsenal can create chances you'd have to say that both of them on the pitch together is a very handy thing to have.

I don't think it was the only thing that had an impact in that game as everyone's attention seemed to be fractured to some degree.