Sentences with phrase «very human situation»

Here we have no piece of theocratic history or myth, but a straightforward, and so far as we can judge, faithful account of a very human situation on which so much hung for the future of Israel.

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When such rationalistic and scientific claims dominate not only in their proper domain, but in the other domains of social and human life, the situation is very serious, and yet this is the present situation.

Sometimes the words of the sacred text are thought to be the very words of God himself, ipsissima verba, the human element in the situation being merely instrumental.

Any honest survey of the situation makes clear that there are very considerable differences in the movement of God in and through nature, history, and human life.

One can very well agree that Christian existence has always been an ontological possibility for man, in the sense that it does not entail «changing human nature into a supernature, «54 and yet say that it is an antic possibility only for those in a certain historical situation.

The second point is that it has been of the very essence of the Christian faith to have brought to light the role of faith in the human situation.

The largest hole in this wholistic interpretation of the human situation is the absence of any attention to the moral and religious traditions that have emerged, died away or persisted within the very evolutionary process that the series purports to describe.

The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to concrete self - criticism.

As many a TV situation comedy has demonstrated, human finitude can be very funny, and Auden heightens the humor by suggesting that the humdrum is caught up in salvation history.

There are others who understand the human situation more in terms akin to those prevailing in certain areas in New Testament days, when it seemed to many men that they were in the control of forces indifferent to their fate and that God, however potentially powerful, was very far off.

And it is for that very reason that a man must accept the blood and sweat and tears of the human situation.

The girl in this situation was very brave and I commend that, while the boy was being a NORMAL gentleman whose parents taught him the most basic principles of human decency when it comes to treating women.

Such notions have little or nothing to do with love; they are a matter of human justice which may be a mode of love's expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because love is ultimately not concerned with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest of love is with persons, persons in society with their fellows, and the fulfillment of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.

When most of the interviewees admit that it is indeed a baby, they are asked to finish the following sentence: «It's okay to kill a baby in the womb when...» Various responses follow: «That's very hard to say...»; «It should never be done lightly...»; «If the mothercannot provide for the baby...»; «If the mother was raped...» The questioner presses the issue: «When asked about the Holocaust, you said that you valued human life, so why is this situation any different?»

Those who speak for the church have, very commonly, a fine sense of what is morally unacceptable in particular human situations.

My own writing about religion grew out of the fundamental question raised by the new situation: Is religion something that may or may not be very important to humans, or must it in some way integrate all other aspects of existence?

There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of this strident rhetoric have only led to very ominous situations in the history of humanity.

From the beginning Vanier presents a very human Jesus who understands our human condition, the Logos who becomes a fragile human being, enabling each one of us to realise that we are all beautiful children of God no matter what our human condition or situation.

Now if, as I have suggested, Jesus Christ came to inaugurate a new way of constructive living, it is obvious from what we know of human nature and of the human situation generally that there will be a very considerable pull back to easier, safer, and more comfortable ways of living.

i really hope that arsene wenger has other plans on our striking situation and i hope he is not seriously considering benzema... if he is then i think he has to sell giroud first because it is very hard to see the guy who benches you on the national team still bench you at club level... my God how will ollie take that??? itl be devastating for him and to be fair to him, as human it is hard to bear..

As Michela Wrong pointed out in an article written at the time of the first DRC elections in 2006 — and which still proves potentially timely for today's situation — «If all hell breaks loose in the DRC [after the elections]... it will be tragic evidence of the damage a very human inclination to hope for the best can do» (Wrong, 2006).

Councilman Brad Lander said «that close working relationship makes it simply structurally impossible — based on natural human sympathies and the structural demands of the justice system for that very same district attorney to be the objective and fair prosecutor of those exact police officers, when the situation demands one.»

Mr. Cuomo, who said he worked with Beau Biden when both were attorneys general, called him a «beautiful human being» and said Mr. Biden must work through a «very difficult, personal situation.»

«Humans are very social, and coming down from the trees to live on the African plains could have triggered a situation where higher cognitive abilities were highly favored,» Lahn says.

In the situation of sort of reassurance, one of the reasons for watching this very closely is because of the potential for passing the virus back from pigs to humans.

«It's a very complicated picture and the laboratory model of just taking one isolated chemical and giving it to a genetically pure strain of rats in clean cages, clean air and clean water and seeing what it does just doesn't come close to mimicking the human situation,» she said.

«This turns out to be very similar to the situation in humans.

There are not five ways that people behave based on their life situations, or wounding, there are five very distinct spiritual species of human beings, or «soul» qualities in individuals that react in five general ways to the challenges of living a human life!

It's not a horror movie, not in the slightest, it's more a narrative on human nature and how some people, I won't say most, in this same situation would resort to the very same tactics employed by these sailors.

It is hard in the 21st century to imagine how station could be more important than the person, but the actress puts a very human face on the situation.

century to imagine how station could be more important than the person, but the actress puts a very human face on the situation.

With strong performances by a very intriguing cast, particularly by Kate Winslet, Little Children manages to overcome the obstacles of the artificiality of the characters and situations to deliver ultimate truths about the human condition, particularly in the lives of people who normally wouldn't make for interesting study.

EducaMoMo does not rule that one day may open its target to the adult level, because it is very important that all human beings develop this abilities and skills to cope with different life situations and because it is essential in the education of the children due to the fact that parents are the first examples of emotional intelligence to their children.

I suppose that feeding a dog or cat a very inappropriate, no - meat or low - meat, high carb, high sugar diet could account for a high urine pH (that is the case, at least, in humans and the normal situation in all vegetarian livestock).

While there is a great temptation on the part of dog owners to see their dogs as almost human, in reality dogs and humans have very different motivations, and very different reactions to similar situations.

As dog owners who see our pets as part of the family, it's very easy for us to assume they react to certain situations in the way a human might.

Remember that dogs and humans are very different species, and we should no more try to act like a dog than we should treat dogs like humans (a situation that happens all too frequently and leads to all kinds of problems).

He is polite to humans, other dogs, and is very well behaved in every situation!

Looking from a perspective of a human, this is surely strange, but for dogs, this is a very important source of information that they use to resolve the new, puzzling situation they're in.

The American Welfare Institute's Safe Havens Mapping Project addresses a critical situation that many don't think about, but is a very real topic affecting humans and their pets alike.

Cats can use their eyes to see very well at night, much better than humans can in dark situations.

Not only was this situation abusive, the dog became very fearful of humans.

One idea I remember him having is for the player to control an average Japanese husband, coming home from work and dealing with everyday human situations... obviously this is a very «out there» idea, and of course it would be innovative, but would it be fun?

More to the present point, and were such a situation to exist, it wouldn't matter very much whether or not humans added more carbon dioxide to his atmosphere.

On the off chance that timberlands all around were to end up plainly a net wellspring of carbon to the air later on — a very conceivable situation under environmental change — the EF would approach unendingness, since extra backwoods would expand human carbon discharges as opposed to balance them.

As can be seen from the ever - growing collection of examples, the collision of technology and human behaviour can create very difficult workplace situations.

It is important to understand that the ratification of the Convention will have little impact on present - day legislation and the current situation in Canada, since the rights to associate and bargain freely are already very clearly protected in Canada, under both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the human rights legislation of every province, as well as by certain provisions of the Canada Labour Code and the statutes of the different provinces dealing with labour relations.

This sometimes leads to very emotional situations in which human understanding is often as important as legal skills.

Also - in conflict zones dedicated robotic devices (small, autonomous and numerous) could be used to specifically deactivate all weapons without further human intervention - this would be a very good thing given the passions that are unleashed and at play in these situations.

I think that it is very difficult for the human mind to go against one's initial emotional assessment of a situation from a visceral perspective, and thereafter to look for ways to prove one's self wrong.