Sentences with phrase «understood as a period»

The Dark Night of the Soul is universally understood as a period of spiritual desolation and utter despair.

It has come to be understood as a period of painting that worked for an «absolute» reduction towards pure autonomy.

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For instance, a depressed economy with muted growth can certainly factor into employee expectations as it's likely that most will understand when little to no raises are provided during that period.

Businesses providing coverage must comply with the 90 - day waiting period limit that goes into effect next year, and to taxes associated with the ACA, among other regulations, according to Marathas, who suggests businesses get professionals to help them with the law, such as a «solid broker» and a lawyer who understand and take seriously the ACA.

The tricky thing to understand about student loans is that interest accrues on your principal balance as soon as your accruement period begins.

He possesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, «blitzscale» growth.

We intend the discussion of our financial condition and results of operations that follows to provide information that will assist in understanding our Combined and Condensed Combined Financial Statements, the changes in certain key items in those financial statements from period to period, and the primary factors that accounted for those changes, as well as how certain accounting principles, policies and estimates affect our Combined and Condensed Combined Financial Statements.

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

In the period since the collapse of Asian currencies — roughly since the floating of the Thai baht on 2 July 1997 — I have spent a fair amount of time, as have many others, trying to understand the reasons for that collapse.

But first of all, please understand that as you are on hormonal birth control, you are not actually having real periods.

i wonder why «god» conveyed a «day» as we see it from this planet, which is now written as a 24 hour period of time; unless what was written was written by people that lacked understanding of there being various methods to measure time.

No one can understand the period without reading the speeches of Hannah's seven sons, who were acclaimed as heros in the VERY same way Paul later thought Jebus was «annointed» and «exalted») mistranslated as «raised up», (or resurrected).

I have dealt with the prophetic period in some detail, because it supplies the clue to the understanding of the Old Testament as a whole.

«Every week is unique, and pastors are faced with the need to get insight from the Spirit of God to understand the mood and emotional state of the congregants,» said Ríos, citing a rise in depression and marital issues among hurricane victims, as well as concerns over suicide rates and violent criminal activity in the long recovery period.

It serves now as a transitional period for a future cosmic fullness of the sacred, Altizer states: «We can not understand the «Unhappy Consciousness» unless we realize that it too, like the «Dark Night of the Soul,» is a transitional state between an individual and particular realization of the truth and the reality of Spirit, a realization whose very particularity demands a chasm between itself and Spirit, and a universal and total epiphany of Spirit which obliterates this chasm.

Nevertheless, his work of that period left many readers with the impression that nature and its structures are ontologically autonomous and also that the knower may be understood as a part of nature.

Of course, much could be said for a study of literature as a basis for the understanding of any particular period of history.

At the same time, however, one must insist that this later definition of the Word is possible only as the result of an extended period during which the Word was essentially, if increasingly, so understood.

He sees Whitehead as a scientific realist striving after some sort of correspondence between the world as understood by modern physics and the world of direct experience (PW 214/236) Whitehead represents the opposite of Bertrand Russell in his phenomenalist period.

Mission as expansion of Christendom through conversion and church growth, a dominant view during the Western colonial period, as we said, is still one of the most influential positions as well as understanding especially at the grass - root level of the churches in India.

As it happened, the texts reflect a relatively brief period of the dominance of a variation of Enlightenment thought — although, to be sure, those texts must be understood, as the framers certainly did understand them, against the background assumptions of what in fact was a Christian society and culturAs it happened, the texts reflect a relatively brief period of the dominance of a variation of Enlightenment thought — although, to be sure, those texts must be understood, as the framers certainly did understand them, against the background assumptions of what in fact was a Christian society and culturas the framers certainly did understand them, against the background assumptions of what in fact was a Christian society and culture.

Nevertheless, there are good reasons to understand our period and our needs as more postmodern than modem.

The enduring objects that have given rise to our thinking of substances can be understood as complex societies of such events that maintain a constant pattern over a long period of time.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

To sum up, I have suggested a few ideas — aspiration (understood as an «outflowing» of the spirit), openness, future - directed revelation, value experiments, objective worth, the mosaic of truth — that I think will be needed to revision Christianity and religious faith in a new axial period and perhaps may also help us find a way between secular drift and fundamentalist retrenchment.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

The Anatomy of Antiliberalismby stephen holmes harvard university press, 330 pages, $ 29.95 As the 1990s bring us the recrudescence of many unfulfilled progressive enthusiasms from the 1970s, we may begin to understand that the intervening Reagan decade was indeed an exceptional period of....

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

And as a matter of fact, the history of the Church's use of Scriptures in her preaching and teaching has tended to move in an either / or pattern, there being periods of strong emphasis upon the Scripture as the body of authoritative tradition, provoking a reaction in favor of an understanding of Scripture as address to the hearers.

Being a Muslim, I know they were misguided and Islam clearly does not condone such wanton cause of terror in its name, but the non-Muslim does not owe it to any one, Muslim or not, to understand and accept that concept, as far as the families of the affected individuals are concerned the individuals who committed that dastardly act were «Muslims», period!

The distinguished Cardinal Schönborn is frank in the Foreword of this book: «the period following the Second Vatican Council was one of confusion in... the Church,... not least in the educational sphere... teachers, professors, and administrators lacked an adequate understanding of their role as evangelists, charged with transmitting the faith to the next generation.

And yet, as I've said, this has become the dominant understanding of faith in the modern period.

No one questions that the period between 1936 and 1939 was crucial for an understanding of Borges» s development as a writer; however, little attention has been paid to Borges's other literary activities during these years — especially the various essays, reviews, biographical sketches and literary gossip that appeared in El Hogar.

As Israel could not reach hegemony in its understanding, so we in the postmodern period can not.

Man created stories about gods because he did not understand the world around him, even the christians believed that the world was the center of the universe 400 years ago, but as man gained knowledge religions had to rethink their dogma to jive with the facts, in order to hold onto the wealth and power they covet more than anything else, period.

Most women don't understand that the incidence of endocrine disruptive disorders such as endometriosis, fibroids, polycystic ovarian syndrome, infertility, early onset puberty, early onset menopause, heavy, painful and prolonged periods and breast cancer are mainly caused by the endocrine disruptive chemicals found in skin, hair, beauty and personal products.

I understand your point around the egg whites, just be careful as cooking egg whites at elevated temperatures (required for frying, roasting, and baking) for extended or multiple periods of time can cause it to turn rubbery; and from what I understand half the point of folding them whipped into the mixture wasn't just for binding but also to make the texture more light and airy, thus my point about avoiding as much extra exposure to heat after they have «firmed» up.

«Today we live in a period where people are very demanding and I can understand that but I know as well that I have guided this club through very difficult periods with very, very, very limited resources.

I can completely understand why this period of not winning anything might be seen as failure, but if you look at the bigger picture, Arsene Wenger was actually successful.

This period is purely to get match fitness and to use proper matches rather than training ground for new players to understand the system as well as giving Arsene a chance to see which of the youngatefs might be able to cut it and also to see which of the 1st team squad might be able to cover other positions (or not as the case seems to be with Elneny!)

Each coinciding with the rebuilding of a new team of players and as such was able to continually adapt to the changes in football through help of fresh ideas from younger assistants who understood the modern game as it was being played during that time period.

This period if not well managed could have easily transformed Arsenal into another Leeds United, however this did not happen, courtesy of Wenger's capabilities as a manager on the field, and profound understanding of the club's vision for the future.

Klopp I can understand as he did well for a much longer period of time, but these other managers were flashes in the pan.

For children old enough to understand, you can request they clean it themselves and you can even include a logical consequence such as taking the paints away for a period of time.

As business minded women with a passion for birth, Northeast Doulas owners, Randy Patterson & Debbie Aglietti have a deep understanding of all things associated with pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.

This uncertainty in identifying the susceptible periods for each area of development complicates our understanding of the interrelation between breastfeeding as an exposure pathway and the benefits of breastfeeding itself.

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As care providers during this vulnerable period, it's important that we have a clear understanding of the potential impact of our practices.

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