Sentences with phrase «through narrowing the definition»

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

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Especially if a person loses Christian identity because of a narrow and rigid definition of what is involved in being Christian, a thinking church may be able to help her or him through such a crisis and achieve a deeper Christian identity.

As a result, ethical conduct in the secular world replaces narrow definitions of salvation, and a larger number of people pursue their salvation through specialized, short - term commitments outside of the church entirely.

Writing in The Telegraph in November 2011, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, declared that the previous Labour government «set a narrow definition of coasting schools, which allowed many to slip through the net undetected», and that his government was «going to widen it so that more average schools are pressed to do better».

Too often these opportunities are missed through overemphasis on enforcement as a tool to achieve compliance and narrow definitions of «public safety.»

The target was narrowed through the definition of climate change that came from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).