Sentences with phrase «very modern world»

(In fact, she's divorced from Robb, the ex-boyfriend I just mentioned — isn't this a very modern world we live in?)

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«This is a case of pandering to the very basest of human curiosity,» he told Reuters, expecting a favorable verdict to demonstrate «there is still privacy in the modern world
Myanmar Metals CEO and Chairman, John Lamb, said: «Bawdwin is considered to be in a very unique position in that it may be the only «Tier 1» - scale VMS deposit in the world that has not had any modern exploration programs or modern drilling, either searching for extensions to the known deposits, or on the regional targets.»
George made very persuasive arguments for removing barriers to trade that still ring true in our modern world.
There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.
«He was simply asking the question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»
The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.
When so many syntheses of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing world of knowledge, when so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field of knowledge, the modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the existence of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration of such an Absolute.
It is difficult for modern Christians to pray precisely because we carry within ourselves the very questions about how God works in the world — or makes any difference in the world — that cause the so - called atheists among us to turn their backs on God in melancholy outrage.
The flip - side is that in our so - called modern world, very educated people believe in Tarot cards, horoscopes, etc..
I guess, before we reflect, whether a politician can behave according to Christ's commands at all, we should reflect, how we personally can live as faithful Christians in a modern (very secular) world.
Races not a very useful description or categorization in the modern world.
I shall do this under a few headings but very briefly — for further explanation the reader may wish to consult such books as my own Lure of Divine Love (Pilgrim Press and T. and T. Clark, 1981) or Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).
Modern philosophers of science are very aware of the impossibility of a God's eye view of the world.
Modern warfare is very civilised — compared to the ancient world, that is.
Telecommunication already plays a very important part in the modern world with its influence on the political, economic and social levels.
Historically, this does not actually occur until the full birth of the modern world, and then it subjectively or interiorly occurs in the realization that God is dead, a realization inaugurating a new universal self - consciousness, which is the very center and ground of an apocalyptic explosion and transformation of the world.
The revived Qur» an venture plays into a very modern debate: how to reconcile Islam with the modern world?
It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.
But if surgeons have just saved your child from cancer, it can be very hard to see the modern world as wounded or empty of meaning.
Knowing the very real difficulties that so many people experience simply trying to survive in the modern world and knowing also how easily weak faith can be crushed, we should strive to be flexible and kind when dealing with parents.
What we have in Paul is a further, and very distinctive, development of the primitive Christology, partly on the basis of pre-Christian Jewish and even syncretistic — that is, partly pagan — speculations (Paul's contact with the pagan world of his time is recognized in most modern studies; indeed, it is sometimes exaggerated.
Let them declare this guy Grand High Poobah if they want, won't make them any less culpable for the horrors they have inflicted, the prejudice against women and gays they continue to sprout to this very day and certainly won't make them any more useless to a modern world.
But this is very different from supposing that we must begin with modern epistemology and only raise questions about the reality of the world after we have explained epistemologically how those questions can be answered.
The social teachings of the Baha'i Faith are very different from Islam because the needs of the modern world are different from what they were during Muhammad's Revelation.
In Science and the Modern World, pp. 115 - 16, Whitehead wrote: «The concrete enduring entities are organisms, so that the plan of the whole influences the very characters of the various subordinate organisms which enter into it.
Indeed, as one can gather from Cobb's article «From Crisis Theology to the Post-Modern World,» to live in modern culture is to live the death of God in a very real, i.e., existential, sense.
It is, on the other hand, the cornerstone of the systematic approach; for this last approach holds that any in - depth interpretation of Process and Reality must be conducted under the illumination provided, at the very least, by correlative in - depth interpretations of Science and the Modern World, Adventures of Ideas, and Modes of Thought.
But instead he have to persuade Moslem newspaper all over the world not to print headlines of «Islam is under attack», instead it should print; I, Rauf has learn tolerance and freedom to change religions in America, it is very good, many (stupid) American has convert to Islam, also to print «the Muslim radical in the Muslim world» have to realize that the American troops are educating our barbarian manners into a modern democratic tolerant society such as me, Rauf has received here in America.
This I take to be the meaning of a sentence in Science and the Modern World in which Whitehead refers explicitly to the «that» of things: «We have to search whether nature does not in its very being show itself as self - explanatory.
The question whether there is an intrinsic incompatability of Christology with the world view of modern science must be taken very seriously.
And yet, so long as we fail to appreciate the full magnitude of this fact, we have understood very little about the nature of the modern secular world
Finally, two or three very recent books may be mentioned which are valuable as attempts to state Christian belief in terms of the conceptuality provided by process - thought: John B. Cobb's A Christian Natural Theology, Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World, and F. H. Peters» The Creative Advance.
It was part of life in a violent world not very different from the evils we face in modern society (the weaponry is simply different).
As modern medicine advances throughout the world the superstitions and mumbo jumbo of magic - medicine very naturally disappear.
As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.
The very fact that the modern Church finds «communication» such a desperately difficult problem is undeniable evidence of its lack of understanding of the world of unfaith.
In the words of the artist himself, «You don't have to delve very deeply into modern physics to realize that the scientific view holds that the world is really not as it appears.
I include Kolasinac, even though I do not regard wingbacks and modern day full backs as true defenders, since very few, world wide can TRULY defend as George Grahams lot did so brilliantly (Sead being an exception) I do highly regard Kolasinac and he is a throwback, fortunately.
Cech would be awesome hes 32 which is prime for modern day keepers Let southampton have the shower smoker Cech provides experience and his trophy cabinet shows how world class he is We need two very good keepers as you look at top teams with 2 keepers (Barcelona - Bravo and Ter Stegen, Madrid - Casillas and Navas) The competition will mean any mistakes and the keeper will be dropped In my opinion we should go all out for cech, a DM (Schneiderlin or Wanyama)
Ozil played out wide and made the most chances at the World Cup and 2 inside forwards are very modern.
I too also know that we look weak at the back but i also believe they have learnt from there mistakes last season and have a stronger unity this season going into the 3rd season with the team wenger has put together without losing key players and adding real Quality and world class that i havent seen before because none of our history says we bought our trophies we won them with all the unexpected beliefs and never bought into the society and modern game we seen before us not one of our legends were already labelled for they are today before they came to us The made a name for themselfs in our Jersey and build a foundation of what we represent today Before Arsene Wenger and with him We are a club that overachieve and under promise Everything we've done has be our very own unique way of doing it not the way other clubs are ahiceving i for one will not Follow the Man City's ambitions Chelseas Manchester united or anyone elses
This overhaul includes a truly world - class center back in Bonucci, who you have to admit is frankly one of the very best players at his position in the modern game.
Because jaundice is easy to test and to treat, kernicterus is very rare in the modern world.
This is a very common practice in traditional societies that are barely touched by modern world influences.
5) There is a growing feeling that military brute force is at best a very unreliability means of achieving strategic objectives in the modern world for example the invasion of Iraq was a strategic failure despite an overwhelming military advantage.
Modern Conservatives are very supportive of the Second Amendment and the US has the highest gun ownership in the world both in numbers and per capita (350 million guns compared to a population of 330 million citizens).
Those terms as I stated in the first paragraph however are too simplistic for a modern world where libertarians are often very progressive (left) on social issues such as gay marriage but are fiscally very conservative (right).
The stark and simple contrast between the agonising political imperatives of the 1960s and the seeming ease and openness of the modern world is shattered by the snivelling toad Nicholas, which leaves the audience dolefully wondering whether the political world has actually changed very much.
I was always fascinated by physics, especially modern physics as it moved away from the mechanistic world of classical physics into the quantum world, and I found mathematics, especially pure mathematics, a very demanding and challenging subject that requires considerable powers of abstract thought and reasoning.
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