Sentences with phrase «very human terms»

In fact, it is very anthropomorphic, that is, it describes ultimate reality in very human terms: father, son, weeping, rejoicing.
Since at times Jesus is spoken of in very human terms, and on occasion is spoken of as divine, the only solution was to conceive of him as somehow combining both the human and the divine.

Not exact matches

For business leaders, increasingly this means balancing two very different perspectives: shareholders who expect executives to deliver better short - term financial performance and stakeholders who want more attention paid to the longer - term human and environmental consequences of business.
Yet, there is a very reliable way that human behavior changes over the long - term.
Despite human rights concerns, Azerbaijan today is tolerant and secular and very much open for business — on its own terms.
In the broadest of human terms it is no unique indictment that the average American citizen finds it hard to care very much about what the CIA has done.
And the proof of this is that today, in order to remain human or to become more fully human, all the peoples from end to end of the earth are being inexorably led to formulate the world's hopes and problems in the very terms devised by the West.
The point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.
It has been proven very solidly that humans» short term memory can't even remember what color a person's shirt is 15 minutes later unless instructed specifically to do so.
Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»
Technological possibility will increasingly eclipse the very terms of our debate over abortion, and I suspect that «abortion politics» as we know it is on its way to being a relic of the past — a particularly brutal way we eliminated human life back when humans used to have children.
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.
An account of the transcendental conditions of human life looks very much like the «deliverances of unsituated reason» which Taylor elsewhere terms an «illusion.»
Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.
Elsewhere, Allen justifies human equality in terms of the drive to political speech and the natural powers of the human mind, but these rationales exclude the very young as well as the mentally handicapped.
In the simplest terms then, human social experience is a form of togetherness in which there is a sharing of feeling, a concordance of emotion, between two or more individuals who become immanently related one to another by the very character of their mutual experience.
It may be said, speaking in very general terms, that in asserting the zoological nature of the Noosphere we confirm the sociologists» view of human institutions as organic.
We must very cautiously translate God's terrible love into acts of human charity that have short - term benefits.
In the letters of Paul, who in fact has very little to say about the life of Jesus on earth and far more to say about the risen Christ, the focus is on the Savior as human, or anthropos — the Greek term inclusive of both genders.
The human being is like God, and so both the human individual and the Divine Individual can be identified by the very same term, person.
Distributists allege that their principles, when adopted and carried to their term, are ordered to the most noble of ends, which culminate in the very contemplation for which the human person is created.
As such when man is steeped in «magical thinking» (very concise and accurate term David) there is naturally much magic recorded in the attempt to explain what is beyond human comprehension.
Despite the price the human being had to pay for this in terms of body energy (the brain being very energy hungry), the mutation was retained as more of a help than a hindrance.
But if it results in a new sort of reality being apprehended, the effects of which are objective and demonstrable in terms of human living, then surely it is very valuable indeed.
If different religious practices and beliefs aim at and constitute distinct conditions of human fulfillment, then a very high proportion of what each tradition affirms may be true and valid in very much the terms that the tradition claims.
I believe Wenger is stubborn beyond the capabilities of most humans, naive where footballers and tactics are concerned and foolishly loyal to those who don't deserve it long term, like Walcott, a succession of rank bad CB's over the years, Senderos, Djourou, Merts, also duds like Almunia, Clichy and Denilson, among a very long list.
The premise behind this kind of character teaching is not that we should be teaching a whole different dimension of human existence, but that we've been leaving out some very important skills in terms of what makes kids happy and productive and fulfilled.
Studies comparing human milk from preterm mothers with that from term mothers suggest that these immunologic benefits may be even greater for preterm infants because secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), lysozyme, lactoferrin, and interferon are found in greater concentrations in preterm human milk compared with term milk.2 — 4 Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants do not benefit from the transplacental transfer of maternal immunoglobulins that occurs primarily after 34 weeks of gestation.5 These infants are exposed to abundant pathogenic organisms during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization and may benefit from the host defense factors present in preterm human milk.6 — 9
The authors reported that researchers and quality improvement executives tracking outcomes for very low birthweight infants (those born weighing less than 1,500 grams) have increasingly used the general term «human milk feeding» to refer to both MOM and DHM, seemingly ignoring the fundamental, scientific differences between the two.
When infrastructure plans are based on a set climate scenario, rather than a flexible one, it can be very costly in both human and economic terms, especially in the developing world, the paper argues.
«Because of this and a better understanding of how forcing terms add up, we are able to sum the radiative forcings and, for the first time, come up with the statement that we have very high confidence that humans have had a warming influence since preindustrial times.»
«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.
And that the costs of treating them, both in financial and human terms remain very high.»
The authors reported that researchers and quality improvement executives tracking outcomes for very low birthweight infants (those born weighing less than 1,500 grams) have increasingly used the general term «human milk feeding» to refer to both MOM and DHM, seemingly ignoring the fundamental, scientific differences between the two.
«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality», said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.
A new study from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg shows how what is termed chemical imaging can provide comprehensive information about the human skin with a very high level of precision.
«I interpret the term «designer nature» as more about envisaging a new nature that we like through personal preference where the objective is very human centred,» says Possingham.
However, in terms of extending the distance of wireless power, CMRS, for example, has revealed technical limitations to commercialization that are yet to be solved: a rather complicated coil structure (composed of four coils for input, transmission, reception, and load); bulky - size resonant coils; high frequency (in a range of 10 MHz) required to resonate the transmitter and receiver coils, which results in low transfer efficiency; and a high Q factor of 2,000 that makes the resonant coils very sensitive to surroundings such as temperature, humidity, and human proximity.
«Having one that seems to mimic the disorder so well, especially in terms of the time course of treatments that work in humans, is potentially very useful for researching novel therapeutics.»
«Dogs are very close to humans in terms of metabolic, physiological, and anatomical characteristics.»
The study explores very long - term shifts in Earth's baseline climate, not short - term or human - induced climate change.
I am not aware of any very long - term studies of human beings adopting a high fat, low carb diet.
I have a very low tolerance for that type of behaviour, and I responded in no uncertain terms to tell him what a vile human being he was.
Overall I love the show and how relatable it is in terms of the spectrum of human emotion, one thing I must say is that Paige is my favorite character by far because she has a very girl next door kind of thing to her but, is still a total bad ass.
Loach's film very much is of a piece with Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man; its French title, La Loi du marché means «The Law of the Market,» but the English title captures the way that the market forces governing «human resources» (another hideous cant term) function by quantifying humans, fitting them into predefined market categories.
We were in talks with a company and learned we aren't very far from the flexible, scrolling screen, in terms of technological development as a human race.
«They had a mechanical head underneath the fur that allowed us to get quite a lot of expression out of the dogs in terms of raising eyebrows, cheeks and snarling, and being able to show fear, excitement and sadness,» says Mark Waring, Isle of Dog's animation director, «The idea was to make the dogs very expressive characters, more so than maybe the humans actually were.»
Their cancers also look very similar to human cancers in terms of their clinical presentation and other features.
Wise beyond her years, and very needed at this time, Toyin spoke with Saint Heron on the mercuriality of humans becoming, the fluidity of the term identity and the perception of Blackness.
I agree with him on the basic issue that as a scientific question whether human influences on climate have become determinative is not closed (although we would probably disagree as to whether the answer is currently likely, very likely or a slam dunk in IPCC / CIA terms.
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