Sentences with phrase «upon those problems which»

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In addition, the banks themselves became more cautious and less willing to lend to each other, both because of the uncertainty surrounding the exposure of each institution to these problems, which is only now being slowly revealed, and because each institution was unsure the extent to which the lines of credit they had provided were going to be called upon.

Blacks think we must cling to victim status because it provides the only secure basis upon which to press for attention from the rest of the polity to the problems of our most disadvantaged fellows.

What you would find would surprise you and compel you to forget our problems and look upon your side closer which is contagious and becoming to invade my society from your HollyWood in some series and movies?!

The problem with religion is that it serves as a platform from which people can look down upon others.

But the extent to which human existence depends upon a natural order of «societies, harmoniously requiring each other» has recently become all the more apparent as the accumulated effects of industry, technology, and population growth have presented major «environmental» problems (see CC).

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

The main problem is the perversion of the human heart, which is turned in upon itself, as Augustine said, rather than being open to the other beings as well as to the Source of all being.

V) to get the actual work under way by laying hold of the central problem in terms of which the detailed research upon individual problems will gain its relevance.

Mark Greaves has written an article for this week's Catholic Herald («Bishops insist on uniformity for Masses on Holy Days») in which he quotes «an official» from Ecclesia Deiwho dutifully says of traditionalists «They're obliged to keep to the Holy Days that have been agreed upon» but then goes on to say that there is «no problem» with them also celebrating them during the week.»

The specific purpose of the church Eddy founded is to be an effective agency for the spiritual awakening upon which, as Christian Scientists see it, the solution of humanity's manifold problems ultimately rests.

The problem, Leopold writes, is that «there is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to animals and plants which grow upon it.

I find it odd that aetheists feel so directly personally offended by Christian symbols... they are not offered as an «attack», unless you see the sharing of beliefs as an attack upon your own beliefs, in which case I think there is a deeper problem... This billboard IS a direct attack, and as many others have pointed out there is a better way to share your belief as an aetheist.

The quite fundamental issue and that which specially concerns us here — for it is that which Professor Buchler's discussion has brought to the fore — is the problem of the basis upon which a distinction into «kinds» or «types» of «entities» or «existence» is made at all.

As it says «the economists» most basic problem is anthropological», in other words the subject is based upon a narrow and restrictive concept of rationality which ignores the richness of human relations in favour of an obsolete utilitarianism.

This will depend upon the way in which an individual, or a particular generation, has come to formulate its chief problem in life.

We got the poorly designed, budget - busting act because the sensible ideas he and others put forward were never acted upon by the Republican Party, which has approached the problem of universal health care coverage and financing with its head, well, let's say, in the sand.

The problem is that so many educated people take the supposed success of Darwinian science as a proof of the materialist metaphysics upon which the theory is based.

Yet it can not be our only task, for the problem of organizing the technical civilization of the western world upon a new basis of economic and international justice, so that the anarchy and decay that have characterized our life in the past three decades will be arrested and our technical capacities will be made fruitful rather than suicidal, is one which must engage our best resources.

On top of it all, I definitely relied upon the Creator for deliverance from the host of problems, including the liquor problem, all of which AAs rightly call the «wreckage» of the past.

Alcoholism was portrayed there [in the previous chapter] as a complex, psychophysiological dependence upon alcohol which ends up being its own obsessive - compulsive dynamism (Alcohol Problems and Alcoholism: A Comprehensive Survey [NY: The Free Press, 1981], p. 159).

However, the problem of human freedom which has thus intruded itself upon our attention demands further examination.

The varieties of interpretation placed upon these parables epitomize the entire problem of the kingdom of God with which this book is concerned.

The extent to which problems of method are mentioned will necessarily depend upon the objectives of the course.

The idea that God gave His Laws in the Bible is the premise upon which the rest of the problem is built.

Once more we touch upon a problem with which theology in our time is deeply concerned, and which makes evident how much the reconstruction of theological education depends on the reconstruction of theology.

One problem with this passage is that although Cobb clearly asserts that persons who respond to Jesus are able to share in the «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» which he opens up for them, nowhere does he expand upon what might constitute the criteria for a response sufficiently satisfactory to assure participation for these persons within the structure of existence introduced by Jesus.

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

The problem lay rather in the whole subject - object diagram upon which Bible study took place.

Thus every attempt to situate Man and the Earth in the framework of the Universe comes inevitably upon the heavy problem of death, not of the individual but on the planetary scale — a death which, if we seriously contemplate it, must paralyze all the vital forces of the Earth.

While the external forms and structures of these relationships vary with each center, all are being made possible by the «new» concepts which centers are bringing to bear upon «old» problems.

When he embarks upon the difficult problem of life after death in the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, he expressly groups what he has to say upon certain historical facts about Jesus Christ which he says «were communicated to him by persons who were in a position to know.»

But if we are to come to the roots of the problem, we have to go deeper into the mythic, theological, and scientific ways of thinking upon which our anthropocentrism is erected.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

We may now ask whether we can learn, from the way the Church actually functions, anything which bears upon our present problem — how the individual is to appropriate as personal experience that which is given to us in the Scriptures.

The more we ponder these matters the more must we realize that, scientifically speaking, the real difficulty presented by Man is not the problem of whether he is a center of constant progress: it is far more the question of how long this progress can continue, at the speed at which it is going, without Life blowing up upon itself or causing the earth on which it was horn to explode.

The problems as to the legitimacy of moral education in the pubic schools disappear, however, if the proper content of moral education is recognized to be the values of justice which themselves prohibit the imposition of beliefs of one group upon another... [This] does not mean that the schools are not to be «value - oriented.»

It has also been observed that some disciplines are developing comprehensive outlooks, from their own perspectives, which often touch upon the problems that have been in the past dealt with in the systematic dimension of Religionswissenschaft.

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

[PM] No, Actually the Bible has many, many passages on concepts upon which Christian therapy is based: truth, love, compassion, confession and even the use of medications — balm in the Old Testament, medicinal wine for Timothy's stomach problems in the New Testament.

Not only do the individualities influence the change of the images; it would be an important problem of the philosophy of history in the study of the history of religions to search out the influences, the categories, through which a precise «relative a priori» — to use Simmel's expression — acts upon the shaping of the «images»: national, tribal, race, class, sexmembership.

My object here, however, is not to expound or criticize the Toynbeian philosophy of history, but to secure a point of view from which to approach the theme of this chapter: the bearing of the Bible upon the historical problem of our time.

Bertram, in the chapter significantly called «Socrates» of his beautiful book on Nietzsche, also explores this problem with reference to his hero; he discusses the final silence which is laid upon the existence of the master; indeed he goes further and speaks of the deception involved.

Say what you like admin.Even Diaby upon doing nothing for several seasons was able to secure a move to Marseille which to me is a top team.Was it not last season that before he went to Bournemouth teams like Juventus and AS Roma were interested in him?He just needs a league which is not physical for the mean time.I mean any time he gets a run of games he begins to hit top forn and just when things are looking up things go down again.This injury thing is a menace in our club.Look at the number of games Gnabry has played.But I will urge him to leave Arsenal because all he needs to do is to remain injury free.It's not rocket science.If Wilshere remains injury free for just one season he'll be great.It's just like the Van Persie case.A lot of people were frustrated with him and cllled him man of glass but I knew he just needed to be injury free for one season.To me he's a better player than Ramsey though Ramsey is on form.He also has the ability to surpass Cazorla and be Arsenal's number one.He's also Arsenall thrugh and through.Arsenal has to solve his injury problems because he's shown that when he gets a run of games he can do it.

The problem it created was that Liverpool invited pressure upon themselves, something which we all know is the defence's Achilles heel.

We have encountered countless problems in getting our stroller back at the gate upon landing, as is often promised ahead of time, as there will suddenly be «no ground staff available» to bring your stoller to the gate, which in my opinion is when you most need it, to get sleeping baby / toddler through the airport along with your other belongings and / or children.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

But in the absence of parliamentary confidence these cabinets lack democratic legitimacy, which can pose significant problems when they are called upon to make controversial and consequential decisions.

President Buhari who was in the United Kingdom for the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London, British capital was speaking of the problems bedevilling the oil and gas sector of the economy which he said were part of the challenges he inherited upon an assumption of office.

In the fall of 2013, Prof. Lawrence Lessig and I taught a seminar together at the Harvard Law School on the practical and theoretical problems that would be presented by a so - called «Article V convention,» which according to the text must be called by Congress upon the petition of two thirds of the fifty states (34).