Sentences with phrase «understand in terms of»

Millington renters insurance is much easier to understand in terms of how it works if you ask questions.

What becomes reasonable is to doubt the credentials regardless of how much you or I may understand in terms of the science.

Absorbtion cross-section is easy to understand in terms of proportion of incoming radiation absorbed.

Art, at least how we perceive and understand it in terms of modern and contemporary art history, is political.

Though I don't have an interest in investing in technology companies that fall outside my circle of competence, Apple's core product lineup is fairly simple to understand in terms of what they offer, how they make money, and why that ability to make money will likely persist.

With what we've recently come to understand in terms of the autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes, to what degree do you think this knowledge will be more generally applicable to other autoimmune diseases such as Crohn's and lupus?

After seven minutes of stonewalling, he finally said, «I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you're more familiar with because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with.»

So when we think of the notion of revelation today, it is important that we continue to understand it in terms of the divine promise of a way out of dilemmas that seem resistant to any possible solution we can imagine.

Once again, I would urge that the Whiteheadian notion of a society, properly understood, illuminates what is otherwise difficult to understand in terms of Hegel's notion of Spirit.

I understand this in terms of participation.

We can not understand it in terms of the material world around us, because matter is not free.

The Great Compression - the substantial reduction in inequality during the New Deal and the Second World War - also seems hard to understand in terms of the usual theories.

Since you're looking for an answer as simple as «God did it» it won't happen, it takes the intelligent ability for abstract thought to understand in terms of the time frames required.

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.

One reading of Tocqueville is... that much of the Middle East remains in the aristocratic age: the individual not yet having emerged into the light of day, men and women understand themselves in terms of their affiliations.

Binary options are classed as exotic options, yet binaries are extremely simple to use and understand in terms of functionality.

A theological reformulation was clearly involved; mission came to be understood in terms of the church's total involvement with the world.

What Whitehead means by physical or causal prehension is not a species of perception in this sense, and it is not to he understood in terms of the Neoplatonic doctrine.

But as long as one is committed to substantialist thinking, one assumes that in the ultimate analysis the event can be understood in terms of matter in motion — atoms moving around in the void.

Mention was made earlier of Amos Wilder's comment that all biblical stories might be understood in terms of the «lost - found» motif.

In Antioch that was understood in terms of the divine indwelling in Jesus.

The whole doctrine of the future is to be understood in terms of the account of the process of self - completion of each individual actual occasion» (AI 247).

Pope John Paul II points out that «if the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another... society becomes a mass of individuals placed side by side, but without any mutual bonds» (Evangelium Vitae, 20).

And the human mind includes life and matter, but it can not be fully understood in terms of chemistry and biology.

Nevertheless, many contemporary critics (including Jewett) insist that everything in the letter must be directed by Paul to the historical circumstances of his first readers: everything in chapters 1 - 13 should be understood in terms of the community differences described briefly in chapter 14: the strong are contemptuous of the weak because of their observance of dietary and Sabbath rules, while the weak are judgmental of the strong for their failure to observe the same.

Complete certainty exists among essentially all biochemists that the other characteristics of living organisms (for example, selective permeability across all membranes, muscle contraction, and the hearing and memory process) will all be completely understood in terms of the coordinative interactions of large and small molecules.2

Much that is happening can be understood in terms of the Protestant conversion / covenant pattern — even when it does not use that language.

Likewise, intent understood in terms of complete justice provides space for consideration of «exit strategies» and how the victor deals with the defeated after the shooting stops.

The answer is to point out that both activity and passivity, like God's love, knowledge, and reality, are attributes of God and so to be understood in terms of the formal dipolar distinction.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Second, I believe the early Protestants should have had no objection to priest and people kneeling before some kind of table, provided the table or even «altar» is understood in terms of commemoration and communion and thanksgiving and not as a symbol of pretentious repetition.

The meaning of «and so forth» is to be understood in terms of the concept of ancestral.22

This definition of durations can be understood in terms of the logic of relations.

This claim should be understood in terms of Whitehead's conception of «simple physical feeling.»

The mode of togetherness of the actual entities in a nexus is to be understood in terms of the conception of «eternal object.»

It argues that schooling, medicine and even baseball are debased when they are understood in terms of profit - making.

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

It is precisely at this point that the church demonstrates in an ultimate way whether it understands itself in terms of God's covenant with the Jewish people.

Thus each actual thing is only to be understood in terms of its becoming and perishing» (AI 274).

For most of them, evil is understood in terms of karma (each individual receives the consequences of past deeds in this or another lifetime).

The initial aim is recognized as the initiation of subjectivity, and concrescence is understood in terms of an enlargement of subjective aim: «The subject completes itself during the process of concrescence by a self - criticism of its own incomplete phases» (PR 244G).

It must be noted, however, that this aspect also of the actual entity is entirely to be understood in terms of subject and objects.

Instead of resorting to the somewhat opaque notion of a «subject» which can somehow «aim» these feelings, Whitehead devises a new «feeling» to be understood in terms of the principle he has proposed for feelings.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

For Aphrahat, Grace is understood in terms of the indwelling of Christ's Spirit in the believer.

No intelligent man, however, accepts the latter description as adequate, for music has a right to be understood in terms of its noblest utterance.

If light was to be understood in terms of waves, then there must be an ether whose substance could wave.

Obviously sex needs to be understood in terms of its broader functions.

Stephen Crites gives a strikingly similar analysis of divine creation as something to be understood in terms of creative possibilities.

The two cultures, she proposes, are best understood in terms of an «ethics gap,» and here she draws upon and reinforces the important work of sociologist James Davison Hunter, whose writings have done so much to give empirical substance to the culture war metaphor.