Sentences with phrase «valid ways of»

In the absence of basic assets, «the streets» in impoverished African - American communities become the major lifestyle contender and developmental niche for many young people.3,5,12 - 14 Social relations on the street are characterized by an individualistic, competitive, and predatory ethos, where «hustling» and «getting over» are valid ways of securing scarce resources.

Both are equally valid ways of experiencing a movie, but distinctly different.

«These are not valid ways of rating our programs.»

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

Those who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.

He says instead that our perpetuation through procreation is a valid way of satisfying our yearning for something more than sheer mortality.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

Simple logic shows that «Love» is always firstly dependent on «Hope» because although you may choose to «Love» another (person or thing), there is no valid way of guaranteeing that «Love» will be returned / reciprocal; therefore it is a «blindtrust» /» Hope.»

By that I mean that we are dealing with Christians who think there must be a Christian «solution,» a valid way of organizing society or the world.

Studies have shown that a valid way of measuring the vitality of a given family is to evaluate the strength of its relationships with the circle of friends immediately outside the family.

Examining religious ideas or practices in terms of their effects on personality is one valid way of evaluating such phenomena.

Probably everyone can admit that this is a valid way of reading a text like Arrested, which is the work of a coherent group of writers who plan together the network of associations.

This new method was demonstrated by NASA's Jack Lissauer in 2012, and after significant analysis and peer review, NASA decided that it was a valid way of discovering new stars.

If studies don't show low cortisol levels in the majority of people with chronic fatigue, and most people with chronic fatigue don't identify with the symptoms of low cortisol levels, it simply does not make sense to keep focusing on cortisol as a valid way of explaining fatigue.

There is scope for questioning the students about reliability of results and whether this is a valid way of collecting data.

«We felt like a responsible approach was to take the additional time to establish a valid way of incorporating student growth into our statewide requirements for teacher and principal evaluation before committing to the feds.

I do think this is a valid way of thinking, and a great way of thinking when it comes to social games and party games, and I want to make some of those myself.

For years we've not had an issue with loot boxes in free to play games and though I personally hate the random aspect of them, it's only fair that a company be compensated for their work and selling microtransactions or loot boxes or whatever they want to call them is a valid way of keeping the lights on and their people employed.

Since Gerhard Richter, artists are starting to see this as a valid way of working.

They believe that if you fictionalize the input power of the Sun to -18 oC, on average, on a flat Earth, and then create a greenhouse effect to explain why it is so much warmer than this on the ground, that this is a more valid way of thinking about the planet Earth than its reality of actually being spherical with +49 oC of heating input.

What gets my goat is that this is a perfectly valid way of reducing the uncertainty in outcomes, which I thought was the purpose of this blog!

Growth for Growth's Sake is No Longer a Valid Way of Thinking For those not familiar with Silva's views, the quote from last year sums it up:

The extent of damage to P's cranium is such that there is no valid way of determining which bullet hit P first.

However, despite the frequency of this practice, there is currently no standard way of measuring gambling participation across research projects, and very little known about the most reliable and valid way of assessing gambling participation.

Not exact matches

We feel emotions of rejection and inadequacy, which can be totally valid if the feedback is given in harsh way.

They understand they there are multiple ways of seeing problems; that admitting their limitations and tapping into others» knowledge is essential; that the way their teams see them is valid and important.

We should also not lose track of finding a historically valid inflation target (not 2 %) What about ways to combat inflation without throttling growth?

All of these setups were valid examples of my price action trading edge, two of them happened to be winners and one happened to be a loser, but there was NO WAY we could have known for sure WHICH ONE would lose and which one would win before they came off.

The best way of doing this is to use one of AMEC's valid metrics frameworks.

@Christine, Points well - made; your criticisms are indeed valid in some respects, arguably way off in others, but I get the gist of what you're saying.

Also, I would expect to see him backtracking on things like his belief that there's more than one way to The Father and his endorsement of Islam as being just as valid as Christianity.

He likely wouldn't have been given 30 minutes to find a way to locate a driver's license number and relay it orally in the place of a valid ID.

Admitting that other cultures and religions have their own perfectly valid set of ethics in no way diminishes your own.

But in 1974 at the second national workshop of Evangelicals for Social Action, one proposal that was endorsed as a valid way to implement the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direct action.

And, understand, I'm not trying to attack or defend any certain viewpoint, I'm criticizing the logical delivery of the viewpoint and exploring other ways of formulating the viewpoint that might be logically valid.

At the real heart of the issue there is no way to assertain which theology is correct because it is all a matter of opinion and they are all equally valid with no empirical basis for any of them.

In this way, one builds up the scheme of concepts that are proposed as universally valid.

Please note that this is the Christian way is not a valid argument due to this country being secular and composed of people of all faiths, creeds and even of those that choose not to believe in deities.

A unified, universally valid statement of this kind could be accompanied by quite a number of theologies juxtaposed in a pluralist way, not contradicting each other of course, but not susceptible of being positively incorporated into a higher synthesis.

You have no way of verifying outside of the bible anything that you have spewed and until you have that evidence, your book is just as valid for evidence of jesus / god / heaven / hell as Harry Potter is for witches.

Valid a priori arguments, indeed, may be held only to «impoverish» experience in the sense that they show the intrinsic unsatisfactoriness of certain ways of understanding reality and bring to light the structures involved in any understanding of it which presupposes and is consistent with the principle of rationality.

Both ways of speaking are valid, just as the different ways in which the meteorologist and the person in the street speak about the weather are valid.

Religions make guesses based on human invented concepts like the soul and spirits and any guess is as valid as the next guess because there is no way to prove any of those guesses.

He also criticizes the view that the methodology of science is the only valid way to knowledge, a view he somewhat eccentrically calls «metho dological naturalism.»

Continuing to refer to it as magic action is simply your way of downplaying a valid observation.

So, a perfectly valid human vow of dedication can be used in an irresponsible way which breaks a far more basic commandment of God.

Faith is the way we live our lives, doctrine is the intellectual explanation of this, so one may have a valid Christian belief that is not factually accurate, if this belief leads one into right relationship.

One purpose of dialogue is to get people on the same wave - length, to establish the way words are being used, to agree o which language - game is valid for the particular purpose.

The author of Hebrews ignored the idiom almost completely and the Fourth Evangelist developed his own way of using it.4 If, in the present, or in the future, Christians wish to confess Jesus Christ as Lord, without resorting to the idiom of resurrection, then we must acknowledge that there may be valid reasons for doing so.5