Sentences with phrase «to a considerable degree»

«There is a quite considerable degree of activity which is at least questionable and in some cases unethical,» Thurso says.

Given a choice between the refuse and overpopulation of today or the violence, disease and death of the 10th century, I would point out that we still have those last three problems in considerable degree today.

Like the Hunger Games series, it's got at least 2 female protagonists (who have considerable degrees of agency, unlike Katniss), and it's targeted at an older audience than a lot of Nix's series.

«Every once in a while, one encounters someone who is actually very similar to their brother,» Dr. Carveth explains, «but usually the transference involves a considerable degree of distortion.»

Moreover, the policies that have played an important role in this pattern of global capital flows are already in the process of evolution, thus adding still further to the considerable degree of uncertainty we face about the longer - term outlook for the economy.

To a considerable degree it overlaps with the economic problems I'll discuss today.

The legal ethos that is emerging is bound to be very different from a world in which most lawyers, most of the time, were at least oriented toward visions of lawyering that demanded a considerable degree of self - subordination — whether of the raider or trader variety.

Disturbances in our feelings, perceptions, and action arise, to a considerable degree, from irrational and invalid thoughts and beliefs such as these: (21)

According to Pamuk, Islamic societies recognize that they have fallen far behind the West and that this state of affairs is, «to some considerable degree,» their own fault.

His way of proclaiming the «given» gospel will to a considerable degree be determined by his theological presuppositions, by his way of approaching the needs that are felt in our time, and by his understanding of the questions which are raised today and must be faced by Christian thinkers.

In the foregoing discussion of Christian natural theology I expressed my own acquiescence in this relativistic understanding to a considerable degree.

It often helps them implement this desire to see how their children's esteem is deeply influenced by the evaluations they as parents communicate continually to them and how their children's values are determined, to a considerable degree, by the real values of themselves as parents.

While the qualifications of a clergyman functioning in a mental health setting may be determined by his peers, professionals from various disciplines, or other persons, his ability to rise to these standards will be influenced to a considerable degree by his motivation.

But behind each group, and providing a considerable degree of moral support, is a much larger body of nationalists.

Moreover, in the reproductive process the various genes are to a considerable degree independently assorted.

Such aims are to a considerable degree dependent upon the accomplished past; they are also suggested possibilities as to ways in which fulfillment or satisfaction may be obtained in a further advance.

Whatever responsibility the Gnostic may in fact have felt for the state of his «spirit,» his self - understanding allowed no explication in such terms, and to a considerable degree the implications of this lack of responsibility for what one's self was was consistently developed in theory and practice.

But the response to this situation should be primarily to try to change it, and there are local contexts in which this change has occurred to a considerable degree.

Now «revelation» is to a considerable degree a «weasel - word,» to use a term employed nowadays by some of the semanticists; that is, it is a word which is susceptible of many meanings and which therefore must be defined if we are to grasp the significance which it possesses for Christians.

For the past four decades pastoral theology's toehold in seminaries has depended to a considerable degree on its use of clinical psychology.

I would suspect that the majority of alcoholics, at the point of their first contact with clergymen, are still resisting to a considerable degree.

Hence a considerable degree of autonomy is possible for theory at each level without referring to other levels.

While we have indicated that Luke regarded himself as a historian, we should bear in mind that his conception of history was to a considerable degree «rhetorical».

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

In terms of what the churches have been legitimating, there has been a considerable degree of moral slip - page.

The continuing health of a family organism depends, to a considerable degree, on whether it can make the necessary adaptive changes as it moves from stage to stage.

Conversely, to a considerable degree an individual's personality strength and health is an expression of the vitality of his original family organism.

One of the chief reasons is because he lives in a culture that traditionally has regarded inebriety largely as a matter of morals and willpower, and still does to a considerable degree.

Moral interest seems to determine to a considerable degree the selection of material included in the book.

During the process of manufacture, the seeds possessing a considerable degree of pungency are cast out.

Artists and writers of this sort are still with us, but to a considerable degree they have been superseded as arbiters of nature fashion by photographers.

Prescott has thrown 914 more NFL passes than Mahomes with a considerable degree of success (22 - 10 record).