Sentences with phrase «upon a relationship as»

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«Solutions» include pre-emptive activities such as building long - term relationships with future founders or mentoring at incubators to meet teams pre-seed, plus getting really good at reference diligence, but we still rely upon accelerating the «would we work well together» discussion during fast - moving investments.

The trip was seen as an opportunity for the president to reaffirm the country's leadership role in the world, along with conveying a message of solidarity to allies and to build upon vital relationships — highlighted at events including the G - 7 summit.

Upon closer inspection of the Mob Wars» message boards, they realized that the game was enabling people to initiate long - distance friendships as well as romantic relationships.

As previously disclosed, on February 22, 2016, based on the work of an ad hoc committee of the Board (the «Ad Hoc Committee») established to review allegations regarding the company's relationship with Philidor and related matters, as well as additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to PhilidoAs previously disclosed, on February 22, 2016, based on the work of an ad hoc committee of the Board (the «Ad Hoc Committee») established to review allegations regarding the company's relationship with Philidor and related matters, as well as additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to Philidoas well as additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to Philidoas additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to Philidor.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

Based upon recent interviews with buyers, a trending towards an emphasis on reputation as part of the buyer's mindset in valuing relationships with sellers is becoming more pronounced.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

Among other things, it is premised upon an individualistic notion of salvation that neglects what St. Paul describes as the «mystery» of the continuing relationship between Israel and the Church (see Romans 9 - 11).

It should be said that while Holloway did not, as far as I can discover, reflect upon the relationship between the ordained priesthood and the priesthood of the faithful, he had a high view of the lay apostolate of the baptised.

This is the kind of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

People have varying kinds of experience with human fathers and, as soon as one speaks of God as father, some are sure to project upon God the dependency, fear, hostility or resentment that has marked their relationship with their earthly father.

Existential psychotherapy has as one of its special emphases the counselor's active role in venturing upon a real personal relationship where feelings must be disclosed on both sides.

Their relationships and experiences with people and their reflections upon these are not consciously explored and used as resources.

Also, he did not force himself upon them, but was probably in some sort of mentoring relationship, as you indicate.

He is «grasped» by an imagined ideal with such force that it becomes an important motivating principle in his life, particularly in his relationships with other people in whom he seeks to produce a similar reaction, as he may or may not do in varying degrees depending upon their preparation for the message.

(18) Emphasis can now be placed upon information - exchange relationships, rather than individuals as the unit of research analysis.

The emphasis of witness among the more mature will likely lie on the beauty of the relationship with the Godhead themselves rather than, as in discipleship, upon meeting felt needs.

It is that, while Laszlo centers upon patterns of structure and relationship which are reiterated throughout the hierarchy of entities of the world, Whitehead focuses on a primordial type of entity, the actual occasion, whose basic processes are found only in its kind and not reiterated in larger arrangements such as nexus and societies.

The whole point of these lessons we're supposed to learn is the idea that one day we become fathers, that we will grow up and have the same knowledge and experience of our fathers, sometimes more than but in terms of our relationship with god, we're supposed to accept that we're eternally children, that as much as we learn, grow and generally build upon past knowledge, we'll never attain the level of understanding or power that god has, this being is on a completely different level.

However, I suspect that in many cases church relationships have become predominantly horizontal; that is, we no longer see our connection to the local church as based in Christ, but rather upon any number of extrinsic elements. The invisible, universal Church is one thing; the local church is quite another.

Though innocent of all violence attributed to Him, God allowed the violence committed by others to be laid upon His head so that He might take the blame and thereby rescue and deliver mankind from most of the self - destructive consequences of their sin, and reveal Himself to mankind as a loving Father who takes our sin upon Himself for our deliverance from the consequences of sin and for the sake of our relationship with Him.

A corollary of client - centred therapy is the recognition that good interpersonal relationships depend upon the understanding and acceptance of the other as a separate person, «operating in terms of his own meanings, based on his own perceptual field.»

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

When there is this complete unity, singleness, fullness of experiencing in the relationship, then it acquires the «out - of - this - world» quality which therapists have remarked upon, a sort of trance - like feeling in the relationship from which both client and therapist emerge at the end of the hour, as if from a deep well or tunnel.

I have to look upon such as I can not know what the relationship another of God's children has with him.

Precisely that kind of man, «transported by his passion» — in this case his being caught up into a relationship with God in Christ, although it may very well be true in other ways as well, since to be «transported» by passion is to enter upon the most profound experience possible to human beings — precisely such a man does feel and know what is nothing other than «the secret of the universe».

God acts upon the human spirit as its connatural environment and prompts an ever greater knowledge and love of himself, thus confirming the bonds of personal relationships between God and man and between man and his neighbour.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal view of the world, perhaps more than any specific philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

The unilateral agreement is a relationship between two persons but its fulfillment depends upon the words of one person, as in a divorce, confession, and taking an oath.

If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the body and mind are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship between one's body and mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between human minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and other kinds of «matter.»

Yet I have known many same - sex marriages which they share the same bond as you, yet once upon a time, such relationships where without legal protection whatsoever.

The heavenly Trinitarian view of cosmologic relationships will outlast us all and in vestiges commons, Life will ever be as celled cosmologies based upon atomic chasms of cosmologic wonders held within celestial cosmologies forever the more.

Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy as to make the pious attempt of others to serve as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married love: «No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»

There is, to be sure, a technical difference, as he had pointed out: The epiphenomenalist says that every mental state is caused by a corresponding physical state, whereas in Kim's account the mental state is supervenient upon the physical state, the difference being that in the latter relationship the two levels are understood to be simultaneous whereas the epiphenomenalist's causal relation allows for a time lapse between the physical state and its mental effect (SM 359).

For by these facts the great conviction is forced upon us that just as we men and women have personality within that mass of chemical and physical activity which we call our bodies, so in the infinite universe of activity is there immanent an infinite Person whose existence and character account for its relationships, its tendencies and its achievements.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3

No philosophical description of human beings, resting as it does on what can be seen and measured, can reach the profundity of biblical anthropology, which rests upon invisible relationships.

Phases depend upon the completed occasion in the sense that they can not come into being apart from the whole, but this does not mean that the phases are constituted as to their nature by their relationship to the satisfaction.

One corollary of this view is that creativity in human relationship can never be the sheer imposition of one will upon another, It must be the kind of action, with whatever coercion is involved, which so far as possible leaves the other more free to respond.

I would attempt to show that what members identify as their doubt about Christian claims can also be viewed as reliance upon a genre of interpretation that has a reciprocal relationship with other, quite different genres of Christian belief.

By this, process - thought (as expounded by Whitehead) means that there is given to us, in our experience at all levels (including our «bodily» as well as our intellectual awareness), the sense of a variety of relationships which have played upon us and brought our experience to us in the particular way in which in fact it has been brought.

Such passages as these have been quoted by Christians to justify an ascetic view of family life, and by those not Christians to disparage the wholesomeness of Jesus» outlook upon this most intimate of human relationships.

For me, the relationship that Jesus exhibits with His Father and in reliance upon the Holy Spirit speaks of an eternal love and fellowship that they shared, and which Jesus invites us to share as well.

It is a compact, five - member definition of the being and character of God himself, as he comes into relationship with, and lays responsibility upon, the Israelite.

You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything... you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the Iniquity of the fathers upon the children... but showing steadfast love [devotion quite beyond the obligation of the relationship as such] to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments» (20:3 - 6).

Holloway attempts to found metaphysics and induction upon the necessary relationship between unified matter and organising mind, seen as intrinsic to a posterioriintelligible experience.

In its memory of Jesus the Church has the foundation of its existence in the memory of the deed of Jesus who acted in absolute loyalty to the community in the midst of its disloyalty.19 Royce's analysis, however, needs to be deepened by an understanding of suffering, which Williams understands not so much in terms of undergoing pain as «being acted upon or being conformed to another in a relationship.