Sentences with phrase «very end of its existence»

If there is nothing special about our perspective, we are unlikely to be observing any given thing at the very beginning or the very end of its existence.

Not exact matches

After all, this isn't the Protestantism that many of us grew up in, a Protestantism which answered to many of the harsh criticisms contained in Leithart's essay last fall, «The End of Protestantism»: either militantly convinced that Rome is nothing but a synagogue of Satan, or complacently ignoring her very existence, and also ignoring much of the robust theology of classical Protestantism.

Those who believe are simply denying the reality of our existence because they can not grasp what it took to happen and can not fathom that death is a very final end.

And in doing so, he finds in the end that faith is the very spice of human existence.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Furthermore, Ely's statement that «the very notion of «redemption through suffering» implies a divorce between suffering as a means and as an end» and his contention that the individuality of finite things does not count are both denied in Whitehead's system by the notion that the meaning of existence is «now — for God and man.

Competition was the very essence of existence, and since the prize of competition was no less than life itself, the competition was often to the bitter end.

Where YOU lie, is how you insist that I'm «misrepresenting evolution», and YET, at the end of the day... evolution STILL can't explain «something from nothing»... and if you insist on relying on evolution as the thesis for the existence of life... my dictionary analogy very much applies.

Transitions from group to group and from one social situation to the next are looked on as implicit in the very fact of existence, so that a man's life comes to he made up of a succession of stages with similar ends and beginnings: birth, social puberty, marriage, fatherhood, advancement to a higher class, occupational specialization, and death.

But then right at the very end of a really long journey you learn something like the Schwarzschild solution to the field equations of general relativity, which hinted at the existence of black holes, and suddenly you remember why you began the journey.

The black hole came into existence billions of years ago, perhaps as very massive stars collapsed at the end of their life cycles and coalesced into a single, supermassive object, Ghez said.

Like others arbovirus (YFV, DENV, CHIKV) in this Kedougou region, ZIKV were found frequently at the end of the rainy season between September and December [2, 35], characterized by the existence of a very diversified mosquito fauna and an old population of vectors that have taken several blood meals and thus are more likely to be infected by contact with viremic hosts.

There's very little rationale as to why Guy can spell pretty much anything thrown at him, or any explanation as to how he ended up learning the spelling of just about every word in existence.

It says a great deal for the skill of the British secret services (not a phrase one gets to use too often) that the very existence of one of the most important operations of the Second World War managed to be kept from the general public until the best part of 40 years after the conflict ended.

Another film about atonement, its very existence and execution betray the idea that the past must be dealt with, the better to face the future; you compare the whole of it to the five minutes Tommy Lee Jones commands the screen at the end of No Country For Old Men, or how no more than sketches animated in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis convey the painful humanity of time's labour's lost, and you realize there's no one authentic chord in The Kite Runner.

It's difficult to ascertain how much of Neruda «s metafictional daring is successful; by the end of the film where Peluchonneau's very existence is called into question as he pursues Neruda across the Andes Mountains one could argue that Larraín has fully lost the plot.

Responsibility is not an end to freedom of speech, but on the contrary, a free response of to the very challenge that existence confronts us with.

Caputo - Pearl sees this as a threat to UTLA's very existence, which makes it strange when his two national affiliates may both end up supporting Clinton, who once said, «I stand behind the charter school / public school movement, because parents do deserve greater choice within the public school system to meet the unique needs of their children.»

420,000 years of data has proven to us that we are not going to see a constant warming of the planet and that we are near the very end of a warming cycle - yet we seem stuck in the idea that we are about to cease our existence due to global warming.

As I near the end of my life, I am amazed at how much power, technology, wealth and consumption humanity has acquired, and that has transformed our lives while at the same time undermining the very life support systems on which our existence and well - being depend — air, water, soil and food, photosynthetic activity and biodiversity.

In the end, while some still argue over the potential impact (and even the very existence) of climate change, what is clear is that governments, investors and customers have become engaged and are taking action.

He went on to say: «What really matters is, companies that don't continue to experiment, companies that don't embrace failure, they eventually get in a desperate position where the only thing they can do is a Hail Mary bet at the very end of their corporate existence.»

But a new report shows that while Apple has continued to eat the lion's share of the high - end profits, it's also starting to scoop up an increasingly large portion of the low - end phone market, which could challenge the very existence of smaller Android brands.