Sentences with phrase «very nature of matter»

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In «My Own Life,» a short autobiography composed shortly before he died, he wrote: «I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early.»

They would have to shift their minds from believing that their team winning is something to pray for, to just praying for an exciting game no matter who wins, but that runs against the very nature of being a fanatic of either sports, or religion now doesn't it?

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Looked at that way, the essential content of revelation, or perhaps the very nature of God (whatever is the ultimate «subject matter» or «object» of the inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry as «theology.»

It lies in the very nature of intelligence that it effects the transit from the episodically causal (the thinking) to the abstractly rational (the thought)-- and in matters of discourse also from the concrete declaring to the generic declaration.

Ture says that no matter how overwhelming the might of the oppressor, it is in the very nature of the people that they will struggle and struggle and struggle for as long as they are oppressed until at last they achieve their liberation.6 Vincent Harding's history — There is a River — emphasizes the inevitability of the African - American struggle for liberation.

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

The relationship of the finite creature with the supremely worshipful and unsurpassable deity is being affirmed; and along with it there is also affirmed the possibility of its becoming on occasion a matter of conscious knowledge on the part of the human, as it is always a present reality in the very nature of God himself.

To exalt him as a great thinker, as though he could take delight in being praised for having honed his mental tools very sharp, no matter what they cut; to speak admiringly of him as an excellent orator, as though adeptness in the use of images were an enviable thing, no matter what they imaged; to do him reverence as a great student who learned from Newton and Locke and the Platonists, from nature itself, no matter what he learned — to honor him thus is to do him no honor that he could accept — or which, accepting, he would not thereafter bitterly rue.

Spirituality and religiosity for us Asians are not just matters of personal option but inbuilt in the very essence of our nature: rich or poor, educatedor not.

Moreover up to a point its progress becomes measurable: for, as observation shows, it is the nature of Matter, when raised corpuscularly to a very high degree of complexity, to become centrated and interiorized — that is to say, to endow itself with Consciousness.

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

We have come to see, as a matter of fact, that religious assertion by its very nature is inevitably couched in such metaphorical, symbolical, if you will poetical, language; and that all deep faith must express itself in this way if it is to express itself at all.

These annihilations can produce gamma rays with a very unique energy spectrum which, if observed, will be the «smoking gun» of dark - matter particle interactions and will teach us a lot about the nature and properties of the dark - matter particle.»

In fact, a whopping 96 per cent of it is made of something whose very nature we are at a loss to describe — something utterly unlike the ordinary matter that makes up stars and galaxies, planets and moons, birds and bees.

The results may reveal something profound about how galaxies form — or even about the very nature of the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Black holes might even house gateways to other universes called wormholes and violent fountains of energy and matter called white holes, though it seems very unlikely that nature would allow these structures to exist.

The nature of the interaction between neutrons and xenon atoms is thought to be very similar to the interaction between dark matter and xenon.

«We're very much looking forward to the results from proton collisions, and later this year from lead - ion collisions, to give us new insights into the nature of the strong interaction and the evolution of matter in the early Universe.»

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

If the vast majority of workers remained in one pension plan for the life of their career, the back - loaded nature of defined benefits would create some perverse incentives around the normal retirement age (where pension wealth comes to a steep spike), but it wouldn't matter that the employee was accumulating very little early in their career.

The recent advent of lightweight portable power and waterproof / shock - resistant cases (both discussed later) now makes this bug out survival resource very durable and practical, no matter what Mother Nature throws your way.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

Sure, the very nature of e-books means that the size of the e-reader does not really matter (as text will simply reflow to fit the device used), but there is such a thing as a convention, right?

Dog behavior can be very unpredictable, no matter the breed or nature of the animal.

Many of you might, like me, not know very much about the Minerva Museum and Private Nature Reserve or for that matter have even heard of them.

Linked by a common subject matter, the work gathered here examines the state of race and social class in America while using the very nature of sight and the medium of photography as metaphors for inequality, invisibility, and the ways photographs inflect our perceptions of the world.

And that demonstrates how dangerous it potentially is for us to do something that's never happened in the history of the planet... to very dramatically change the CO2 concentration, in a matter of mere decades as compared to the usual centuries or millenia involved in an ice age feedback scenario, through a mechanism never found in nature — uncovering plant matter that's been buried for hundreds of millions of years, and burning it for energy.

comparing the 42 ‐ rural station data used in the 1990 GRL and Nature papers with those adjusted for homogeneity of a 728 ‐ station network yield very much the same results, implying that the station moves, if any, really did not matter when a representative set of stations (here 42 ‐ stations) was used.

Spinal lawsuits are very delicate matters because of the severe nature of the injuries experienced by the victims filing the claims.

And because in truth it's a matter of Quebec's sensibilities, it comes down to the wish to have the word «immovable» appear in the English version of the Code, which, unless I have missed something here (as well I might), is very fine indeed and illustrates the tricky nature of Canada's bijural situation.

For example, in one recent media report, a commentator stated matter of factly that «there isn't very much of it» («it» being price fixing among firms in Canada), that «at any one time, at any one year, there are 10, 12, 15 cases going on» and that «for every case that gets detected, there are probably several cases that aren't» [http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/price-fixing-explainer-1.4489213] Given that price fixing and other conspiracies among competitors are by their nature conducted in secret and there are no statistics or sources of information on active cartels, such speculation on the level that Canadian markets may or may not be cartelized is simply impossible to state with any certainty.

It is submitted that the said order was a prima facie view of the matter, by very nature, being passed in the interim or interlocutory proceeding in aid of arbitration.

Every real estate council takes their responsibility very seriously and this is why in Ontario, for example, for every complaint the Registrar may receive from a member of the public, a file is opened and the matter is dealt with according to the nature of the complaint.

A: Yes Q: Relevance to your business: A: Very Important Q: Knowledge of subject matter, etc.: A: Excellent Q: Testimonials (if any) and / or nature of any deals you may have done.