Sentences with phrase «upon the occasion of»

So let us, then, upon the occasion of a time of Confession speak about this sentence: PURITY OF HEART IS TO WILL ONE THING as we base our meditation on the Apostle James» words in his Epistle, Chapter 4, verse 8:

Ring Lardner, upon the occasion of his first visit to the Grand Canyon, remarked, «What a marvelous place to throw old razor blades.»

Now we have come to a clear understanding about this, and the demand will only be repeated in order that the speaker may focus his mind actively upon the occasion of the address.

All this represents the physical impact of the world upon the occasion of experience.

But he's also a real and caring dad, as he showed with what many thought was a quite swoon - worthy Facebook post for his daughter, Willow, upon the occasion of her 15th trip around the sun.

Let me add my voice to the chorus of others praising Ralph Wilson upon the occasion of his passing.

With a framing story set upon the occasion of legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) receiving a commendation in 1958 (an opportunity Murrow used to berate his colleagues for letting the standards of television journalism slip), Good Night, and Good Luck.

It, too, «rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.»

Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist, the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.

AS is pleased to announce a new monographic publication of German artist Rainer Fetting upon the occasion of his solo exhibition «Rainer Fetting: Taxis, Monsters and the Good Old Sea» at Albertz Benda, New York (2017)

Gift of Jennifer McCracken New and Jason G. New, in honor of Sarah Schroth upon the occasion of our New York City visit, March 2017, 2017.3.1

Not exact matches

It was at such an occasion in 1995 — the 200th anniversary of a Spanish royal decree that made Cuervo the first legitimate producer of «mezcal wine» — that the company directors stumbled upon the idea to share their secret stash with the rest of us.

Provocative competence means to do it, like Miles Davis did in Kind of Blue, is you sort of throw people in over their head upon occasion.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

No doubt, some of my class» engagement with Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is attributable to our professor.

First of all, upon completion of its process of concrescence, an occasion becomes a superject; that is, it objectifies itself so that it can be prehended by later occasions (PR 219f / 335f).

All the decisions of the consequent nature flow from the primordial nature, and though the former does not fit the present actual occasions into a ready - made pattern of the temporal past (as Ford carefully points out: IPQ 13:356), yet «the weaving of Cod's physical feelings upon his primordial concepts (PR 524) amounts to the emergence into time, as predicates of God's propositional feelings, of the very valuations of his nontemporal decision.

The value of an occasion depends in part upon what it does with the world presented to it.

This composition can be greater or less only insofar as what it includes is greater or less, so that the value for the whole depends upon the unity - in - diversity realized in the fragmentary occasions of the world.

The aesthetic character of reality also means that the importance which an occasion can have for itself and the future depends upon the importance that the past has for it.

The measure of freedom that an occasion may exercise depends upon its inheritance.

The occasions themselves, after all, are discrete energy - events which would have no community or solidarity with one another without the implicit presupposition of a field or medium within which they first arise and then take their «place» relative to each other upon completion of their process of concrescence.

There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

While the occasions are indeed individual «creatures,» their distinct individuality depends upon eternal objects as forms of definiteness.

The ultimate percipient draws upon these unconscious cogitations which have their own partial independence from the occasions of the brain and body.

Some limitation is imposed upon the selection of aim by actual occasions.

The «movement» of the dominant occasion is its fixing of attention upon particular threads of occasions which are enjoying some satisfactions successively.

Also important for the character of the occasion are those objects not included in its choice of pattern, and this question of negative «prehensions» bears interestingly upon Hegelian determinate negation.

We can now deal with the question, earlier deferred, of how it is possible to insist upon internal relations between occasions while at the same time recognizing that from a logical point of view the members of a class of particulars defined by a function would have to be externally related.

Our interpretation of the statement that «Life is a passage from physical order to pure mental originality» (PR 164) is that the initiatives within the dominant nexus of occasions are canalized in the supportive nexus by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal mentality may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.

If for example the Christian Gospels are considered by themselves without any background of definite belief, or any authoritative norm of interpretation, all sorts of meanings can be put upon the bare words, the more so if the critic is ready and willing to make the early disciples of Christ neurotics, hysterics, or downright liars as the occasion may demand.

Indeed, process thought maintains that the very reality of God's concrete nature is completely dependent upon what each actual occasion of experience contributes to it.

He answers with exact fidelity to these inward drawings, either by an elevation of his heart toward God, or by a meek and loving regard to Him; or by such words as love forms upon these occasions, as for instance, My God, behold me, wholly Thine: Lord, make me according to Thy heart.

51 In his discussion of how both God and world operate upon a becoming occasion, God always is working with the «given,» that is, the actuality of past decisions for good or for ill and all qualities inbetween.

(2) This is not to say that it has been my intention only to comfort you, but rather that if and when I may have spoken in such a way as to appear to be without doubt and frustration and anguish, it has to do again with the stance that the occasion of lecturing / writing thrusts upon me.

A crucial judgment that the church must make is whether to reject their offerings because of their ambiguous character and radical demands or to seize upon them as an occasion for repentance for that in our history which now appears evil to so many sensitive critics.

«3 Whereas John Cobb recalled Whitehead's identification of molecules as «historic routes of actual occasions,» Donald Sherburne prefers the designation as «structured societies» — which leaves open the question of whether both a molecule and its constituent can be «enduring objects» (like a personal society).4 Enthused by Leclerc's reliance upon the Aristotelian distinction between actual and potential, Ford offered an option which might preserve the choice, in Whiteheadian terms.

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.

His personal character and thread of personal order is dependent upon our capacity to provide the environment for the occasions of the living nonsocial nexus out of which he constructs his personal life.

The teaching of Jesus is epitomized in the Sermon on the Mount, although it is found throughout the Gospels in his parables and in sayings upon particular occasions which, in their main outlines, have been preserved for us.

• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.

The late Howard Thurman once described the necessary aspect of the struggle for liberation by using an analogy from nature.7 Thurman recalled that on one occasion during his childhood in Daytona Beach, he happened upon a tiny green snake crawling along a dirt path.

Southern - ness stayed alive not because of events or leaders or wars or symbolic ceremonial occasions or adulation conferred upon it by outsiders.

But his answer diverges in two ways: (i) In speaking of «lateral tensions» as having some influence on what each natural moment passes on to later moments, Santayana is in conflict with Whitehead's view that in its process of becoming an actual occasion is causally quite detached from its contemporaries, and operates privately upon the past occasions which have entered into it in order to produce that over-all character which it will pass on to later occasions.

Therefore, this society, the extensive continuum, lays down, through the massive social inheritance of its myriad generations, the first, most general limitation upon general potentiality: the limitation that each generation of actual occasions, no matter what its more special characteristics of order, shall at least exhibit the general properties

Whitehead's method, in part, is to analyze these occasions of subjective experience in order to find factors capable of being generalized into principles applicable to all actual entities: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have... tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 172).

These occasions are such as to lay necessities upon whatever follows them, and this character of occasions, insofar as it determines that the future will be characterized by extensiveness, is the potentiality that is the extensive continuum.

The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual individual with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the body).

Evidently in trying to understand natural moments and how they stand to each other Santayana is concerned with just those issues with which Whitehead is coping in his discussion of the constitution of actual occasions and their influence upon one another.

The justification for any relevance extending beyond actuality would have to depend upon the internal relatedness of the eternal objects ordered as a realm, The occasion incorporates these new elements in forming its «ideal of itself by reference to eternal principles of valuation.»