Sentences with phrase «through persuasion»

«excellent written and verbal communication skills; interacts with and works well with others in various fast changing, environments / situations including strong networking and listening skills; effective problem solving skills; able to motivate others through persuasion and leadership; able to prioritize, manage time and orchestrate multiple tasks simultaneously; able to maintain self - confidence and high self esteem in tasks such as cold calling and prospecting;

Its expertise was in «psychological operations» — or psyops — changing people's minds not through persuasion but through «informational dominance», a set of techniques that includes rumour, disinformation and fake news.

This course was a chance to figure out how to be a great leader, a better people - person, and lead through persuasion and setting a common, achievable, believable, and exciting vision.

Again, if fiction is to be believed, crime investigators only get access to this third - party evidence through persuasion.

Attorneys earn a living through persuasion.

New Science is pure politics, and the worst sort of politics at that: victory not through persuasion or proof, but the suppression of dissent.

In its better periods, it was able to quell public unrest through persuasion by public officials able to explain why the public policy that had been chosen was the best available among the possibilities.

Through persuasion and advocacy the Literary Agents» Organization works to protect and enhance the best interests of its clients.

The idea that power operates through force while authority operates through persuasion is not a new one, and was perhaps most famously articulated by social theorist Max Weber.

Authority operates through persuasion and stakeholder participation and buy - in.

He seeks to lead not through persuasion and inspiration but through coercion and control, and that's a shame.

But in fact the Brazilian state is already eight years into the campaign, and has achieved far more through persuasion and popular support than it could ever hope to via the statute book.

Jesus» exercise of his presidency through persuasion and open argument can be a plumbline for judging all presidents, and God's republic can be the ideal for our efforts at participation and public debate.

Politics, he suggests, must be seen as a major instrument which, through persuasion (justice and love), fosters learning and innovation.

One person's self - constitution can not affect the spontaneity of another's except through persuasion; furthermore, limiting attempts to influence to mere persuasion is one way of showing basic human respect.

The model of the world as God's body encourages responsibility and care for the vulnerable and oppressed; it is a nonhierarchical image that acts through persuasion and attraction; it has a great deal to say about the body and nature.

God has taken that risk upon himself in creating us with freedom through persuasion.

In «Deity, Monarchy and Metaphysics» Williams explains Whitehead's moral and metaphysical objections to the coercive God of classical theology.102 In its place Whitehead proposes an idea of God consistent with the biblical insight that «the highest goods are realized only through persuasion.»

Gladden felt that this was still to be done primarily through the persuasion of individuals to the Christian point of view, but the results would mean a change in the structure of society — an overcoming of ruthless competition by enlightened self - love, co-operation, and sharing.

In other cases moral action will be promoted through persuasion, as in the way clauses are frequently added to laws and injunctions in order to motivate the people to conduct themselves in a certain manner (as in «Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land,» Exod.

The model of the world as God's body encourages holistic attitudes of responsibility for and care of the vulnerable and oppressed; it is nonhierarchical and acts through persuasion and attraction; it has a great deal to say about the body and nature.

In synagogue and church and home, most citizens have used the Bible both for salvation and for the ordering of life — voluntarily, through persuasion, not by legal establishment.

The purpose of the IRF report is «to highlight the importance of religious freedom not by lecturing but through advocacy and through persuasion,» said Kerry during the report's release.

«Natural leaders tried todominate the situation, but without the power that comes from position, they had to exert influence through persuasion.

It emphasizes preparation, creating a safe environment to speak, and «transforming unpleasant emotions into powerful dialog» through persuasion rather than demands.

Not exact matches

Research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published in April concluded that social influence can encourage a particular behavior through direct or indirect persuasion.

According to anthropologists of the South Pacific islands, a Big Man wasn't a king or chieftain who seized power by force; rather, he led his fellow villagers through a combination of persuasion, wealth and moral standing.

Through their magnetism and quiet persuasion, leaders enlist others in their dreams.

Had his peers refuted the premise of his question with a reasoned defense of the freedom of consensual adults to engage in physiologically dangerous sex - acts, then they would have been engaging in informative social influence through positive rational or rhetorical persuasion.

The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

But the process theist would insist that God must always work with an already existing creaturely order and that changes in this order can therefore come about only gradually through the agency of divine persuasion.

For preaching this means that communication is not solely interested in the way a preacher affects persuasion, attitude change, behavior modification, socialization through the transmission of information, influence, or conditioning.

We invite Americans everywhere, whatever their political persuasion, to pray for the President, for his administration and the new Congress as they lead us through difficult and turbulent times.

who have to make their way through the theology and politics of persuasion more than coercion.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Divine persuasion is highly opportunistic, seeking to maximize possibilities for increasing complexity which are consistent with the actual conditions imposed by the past through efficient causation.

In general the basic way in which God acts on the human level is through ethical persuasion; it is by the worthiness, the attractiveness, the importance of specific ethical ends envisioned that God lures us on to actualize a world better than what we have known.

And good Lutheranism needs to be shepherded by the local pastor through the minefields of institutional democracy, anti-elitism, and American individualism by personal persuasion and force of argument.

Duns Scotus in particular affirmed that he accepted the doctrine not through logical persuasion but on the authority of the fourth Lateran Council.

But such persuasion and such revelation are available only through the event called Jesus Christ.

Two things: he infallibly preserves each successive cosmic and subcosmic event in his perpetual memory, thereby rendering it immortal; and he gives order and guidance through inspiration to the creatures in the next phase of the creative Process.57 Hartshorne adopts the Whiteheadian view that God may really rule the world but that he does so chiefly by persuasion.

It is to see in history a process in which term - making achieves significant results through the struggle of men of different persuasions with the stubborn facts of human life guided by a developing «sense of injustice».

Erwin C. Hargrove in The President as Leader highlights the importance of Athenian leadership — that is, leading through teaching and persuasion.

In this third set of meanings coercion refers to the inducement of behavior through the application of extrinsic motivation, and persuasion refers to the communication of information about the natural consequences which will occur with various alternative behaviors.

But it may just as well see God as the primary force among many other forces in the universe, working through cooperation and persuasion.

As long as God is conceived as operating by persuasion, he must effect his purposes indirectly, through the agency of historical forces.

At a macrocosmic level the same point could be expressed this way: love (persuasion) confirms the value of the objective world, which is a community, created through the interrelationships of component entities and necessary for the continued existence of these relationships and entities.

In spite of the common understanding that process theists limit God to persuasive action and evangelicals affirm that God acts coercively both sides agree that God ordinarily works in human experience through mutual interaction, or persuasion (Hasker, «Response» 41).

Recruiting through subtle persuasion.