Sentences with phrase «upon the idea for»

Like so many of us, Justin came upon the idea for his current thriving business while he was already in the game, trying things out.

«When I'm out of ideas, forget about a trip to Copenhagen; I go to Kalustyan's,» Ramirez - Ruiz says of the NYC spice shop, where he came upon the idea for the turmeric - fermented bok choy in this kinda - Thai dish.

It is why he does not understand that simply saying «Okay, I will just put it in the script that all the characters in this are obsessed with aspects of the original trilogy and feel a compulsive need to try to draw upon their ideas for inspiration» is not really a good excuse for having a character walk around wearing a knock - off of Darth Vader's breathing helmet even though he breaths just fine.

Sibling founders Murat and Pinar Badur hit upon the idea for a firm selling luxury organic Turkish - made towels and bathrobes after they both made their way to California; she to study marketing and work in the textile industry, he working as a software developer.

Not exact matches

Upon booking the tour, you will fill out my style questionnaire so I can get an idea of what you are looking for.

When someone searches for «green duffle bag,» you'll have a pretty good idea that that someone will likely buy upon locating the right one.

And yet, when you've seen thousands upon thousands of start - up pitches, when you've been sold every idea a dozen times -; Kickstarter for small business!

«One of the ideas that struck me is that many companies tend to design products that keep customers relying upon them for pleasant or positive emotions that the customer experiences.

The idea had its genesis just three years ago, upon Tetrick's return to the United States after spending seven years working for nonprofits and international organizations on education and food supply in sub-Saharan Africa.

Allowing your brain to freely associate disparate ideas, many researchers believe, facilitates this «eureka» moment, which perhaps helps explain why Newton stumbled upon the rule of gravity while resting under an apple tree, and why, anecdotally, the modern - day shower seems particularly conducive for runaway breakthrough moments.

What do you tell people in South Carolina that, given all the things we discovered here, it's a good idea for us to rely upon you to regulate your own business practices?

«At Misty, we are focused on creating the personal robot of the future that developers and makers can build upon as well as share skills and ideas for what a robot can be.

What would you tell people in South Carolina, that given all the things we've just discovered here, it's a good idea for us to rely upon you to regulate your own business practices?

In the end, it is critical for the continued stability of our societies that disruptive companies not only provide good ideas that make economies more efficient, but contribute more to the social infrastructure upon which their business models depend.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

If something so important for each individual is dependent upon accepting / rejecting a supposed scriptural «truth» (as you define it) then make the case for how it makes any sense at all that humans would be judged negatively for rejecting something they have no idea exists!!

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

All five arguments depend for their force upon the idea of causality.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

From time to time crises such as strike action remind people that they are dependent upon one another, but for the most part they live and work within the confines of their own occupation, and there is extraordinarily little communication of ideas of any significance.

Causality as treated in these arguments is a purely metaphysical idea that is not dependent for its validity upon its relevance in the special sciences.

Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.8

For the purpose of this experiment, an opinion is defined as rendering judgment upon a person or idea with the intention of advancing my own perspective over all others.

In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughts.

Since then the English language serves as a conveyor belt upon which ideas manufactured in Tübingen, Basel and Heidelberg — or in Lyon, São Paulo and Uppsala — are carried to the rest of the world, inspection of the machinery for possible faulty operation now and again might help to avert a breakdown along the way.

Equally important is to avoid the appearance of resting the argument for the truth of particular doctrines upon such ideas.

Some of the ideas that religion imparts upon politics are good, such as helping your fellow man, but religion is not necessary for those ideas to exist and indeed can confound those ideas when mixed with other messages from the same religion.

Usually it will pay the student to look up such passages in their Old Testament context, for they will be found often to throw unexpected light upon the meaning of New Testament ideas.

Today host upon host of men have everywhere sunk into the slavery of collectives, and each collective is the supreme authority for its own slaves; there is no longer, superior to the collectives, any universal sovereignty in idea, faith or spirit.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

For Mark's «theological idea» was not so much the present reality of the divine person, the exalted Lord of his community, nor yet was it the glorious and unique historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, but the mysterious, half - divine, apocalyptic «Son of Man» who had lived incognito upon earth, died, and risen again.

We may not quarrel with the fact; but the whole development, beginning with a concentration upon the idea of Jesus» own person as of central importance for religious faith, certainly represents a shift in emphasis from Jesus» own teaching.

But I want to thank Dave for the blog — it has been a great way for many of us to learn and discuss scriptural ideas — without «casting stones and crowns upon others».

Theology herself has largely based this doctrine upon revelation; and, in discussing it, has tended more and more to substitute conventional ideas of criminal law for a priori principles of reason.

Their ideas possess them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age.

Also, I think that they are also a good way of saying thanks to those upon whom the author depended for ideas.

But more powerful are the film's visual embodiments of the idea that «the Spirit acts upon the body» to irradiate it, making it «more beautiful than it is»; for, Mary asks, «what is flesh alone?»

This would have been irreconcilable with his idea of God, for the doubt presupposes that man in himself has a claim upon God and possesses a criterion by which to judge what is fitting for God and what is not.

For example, the whole idea of atheism is founded upon a believe that God does not exist.

So in case what has been expounded here is correct, in case there is no incommensurability in a human life, and what there is of the incommensurable is only such by an accident from which no consequences can be drawn, in so far as existence is regarded in terms of the idea, Hegel is right; but he is not right in talking about faith or in allowing Abraham to be regarded as the father of it; for by the latter he has pronounced judgment both upon Abraham and upon faith.

No big deal» — to which I wanted to plead, «Please remember, if just for a moment, the horror you felt upon learning this for the first time, before all the scholarly articles dulled the blade and blurred the faces of actual human beings into flat, emotionless ideas.

Peoples and nations differ as to the energy of thought they bring to bear upon the vocal material at their disposal for the expression of ideas.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

Dare we discern anything so outrageous as the idea that here God is making an atonement toward man for all that his desired creation costs man in the making: that he was making love's amends to all those who feel, and have felt, that they can not forgive God for all the pains which life has foisted, unwanted, upon them?

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

Ideas must be distinct for reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity.

His definition of firstness is one of the most precise definitions in the literature of the idea of external or nonconstitutive relation, and the definition of secondness is equally precise as definitive of internal or constitutive relations, except for the arbitrary limitation to dependence upon just one other entity.

Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.

When Joshua invited me I knew immediately what I wanted to talk about, and it's something I talk a lot about at leadership conferences — the idea that people with power are called upon to leverage their power for people who don't have power.

With the help of prayer and debates I learnt that while sexual activity arouses and exchanges feelings, it's only focussing upon the twin ideas of Creator and procreation which frees us for loving union and communion.