Sentences with phrase «very precondition»

And we aren't going to quit — this is a fight for the soul of public education, the very precondition of a functional democracy.

Those outside the covenant lack the very precondition for culpability for the sin of idolatry.

Not exact matches

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.

And though free thought is certainly a precondition for doing the good, and is thus presupposed of morality, it is only in the very doing of the good in freedom that the human person most fully manifests itself.

The very brief press release provided by the Danish Arts Foundation today stipulates no particular preconditions or expectations regarding Danh Vo's upcoming contribution to the Danish Pavilion.