Sentences with phrase «viewed as a phenomenon»

The precipitous decline of liberal Protestantism is frequently viewed as a phenomenon of the last few decades, but the stereotype of religious liberalism as desiccated and dying goes back much further in time.

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«The psychiatrist sees symptoms of diagnosable conditions in everyone from the grocery checkout cashier to his spouse; the economist views the simple buying of a cup of coffee as an example of a macroeconomic phenomenon.»

Amplify was formally unveiled last May as a way for Twitter, broadcasters and advertisers to capitalize on people's use of social media while they watch TV — a phenomenon called «second screen» viewing.

But he views the phenomenon as a positive.

As long as you do your due diligence, looking out for phenomenon such as value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicAs long as you do your due diligence, looking out for phenomenon such as value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicas you do your due diligence, looking out for phenomenon such as value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicas value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicas a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panics.

It is impossible not to view the Stormy Daniels moment as a post - #MeToo phenomenon, even though she stressed that sex with Trump — though unwanted — was consensual, and that she did not consider herself to be a victim (in a tweet, she further emphasized that she was not playing the «#MeToo card»).

This corporate trust deficit is not singularly a U.S. phenomenon, as the Volkswagen emission - rigging scandal confirmed the cynical view that in the pursuit of growth there is no triple bottom line.

Given the diversity of views about the definition of scalability, perhaps it is best thought of as a phenomena where «you know it when you see it.»

But in our view, market phenomena such as HFT are unlikely to contribute to or detract meaningfully from our success.

«I view it as the Amazon phenomenon,» he said.

We view the recent slowdown in Macau as a temporary phenomenon that has given us the opportunity to own one of the best - positioned global gaming companies at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic value.

In elaborating this view, Amato offers perceptive treatments of such contemporary phenomena as the counterculture, affirmative action, the escalating reactions to the chauvinisms of race, class, and sex, and the continuing threat of the Nietzschean denigration of the past.

I have no choice but to view this fact as a phenomena.

For most of his career, Starr viewed the California experiment benevolently, as a phenomenon balanced between utopia and reason.

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

And as we noted earlier, some «materialist» thinkers are prepared to include spiritual phenomena within their definition of matter in order to maintain their materialist stanceand exclude transcendence from their world view.

1 If it can be demonstrated that world affirmation is implicit within the way of identity, the Eastern approach need no longer place a negative value on change but can learn from the West that there is no necessary conflict between change and the divine, nor is there any need to view the dimension of the sacred as antagonistic to the phenomenon of change.

From the church's point of view, atheism has always been regarded as a negative phenomenon.

Your view is also one that science can not establish as correct, since science can not speak to the absence of divine action in an observed phenomenon.

In contrast to people in biblical times «modern man acknowledges as reality only such phenomena or events as are comprehensible within the framework of the rational order of the universe... the thinking of modem men is really shaped by the scientific world - view, and.

Gary: The reason I'm hesitant about your definition of «religious» is because, as you say, your definition has everything to do with your personal views and beliefs, and not as much to do with how people who call themselves religious perceive themselves, nor with the 150 or so years of academic research into religious phenomena.

Bonhoeffer also accepted the view that religion as historical phenomenon was the fruit of human speculation.

«The scientific view of the Universe is such as to admit only those phenomena that can, in one way or another, be observed in a fashion accessible to all, and to admit those generalizations (which we call laws of nature) that can be induced from those observations.»

After all, it is not to be doubted that the Old Testament, as also the popular view in the New Testament, regards the Spirit as a supernatural power, a kind of mysterious fluid, a «mana», to which it attributes all abnormal phenomena, including those of art and warfare.

As a result, the scope of physics today is phenomena which is quantifiable, or measurable, and no longer focuses on material bodies from the point of view of being.

A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.

What I set out to show, and hope to have shown, is that, viewed from a certain angle, the internal stir of the Cosmos no longer appears disorderly: it takes a given direction following a major axis of movement at the completion of which the human phenomenon becomes detached as the most advanced form of the largest and most characteristic of cosmic processes, that of in - folding.

Scientific materialism is the view that «matter» alone is real and that all phenomena in the universe can be adequately understood as special applications of the laws of chemistry and physics.

That is the view taken by many people as they gaze with melancholy disquiet at the turbulent swell of humanity; and by it the whole edifice of human relationships and social structures is reduced to the level of a regulated epi - phenomenon, having no value or substance of its own, and therefore no future in its own right.

Quantum physics forces us to view mind and matter as single aspects of one phenomenon.

That is, phenomenology in his view was an attempt to describe the phenomena as they appear to us in order to understand their essential meanings.

But when we place the concept of globalization in a broader context, we are then able to view it as a part of a wider phenomenon that is epistemically and culturally shaping us in which we may find the depth of the changing around us — this wider phenomenon is postmodernism.

The Hebrew people, a people who had been born in slavery, were not likely to tolerate a practice which led to any new enslavement, but as kidnapping became a rarer and rarer phenomenon, this Commandment more and more came to be viewed exclusively in terms of the sacredness of property and possessions, and the right to privacy.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

What scoffers viewed as a weird babble of tongues became a world phenomenon after his Los Angeles revival.

As with our view of gravity and similar phenomena, denial has simply not been an option for us.

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

Thus, cultural evolution, while in the first instance arises from and is dependent on genetic or biological factors, must now be viewed principally as an «epigenetic» or emergent phenomena.

First, it distinguishes theology from the attempt to study religion objectively — from the point of view of some philosophy, some branch of science such as psychology or sociology, or simply as a historical phenomenon.

This has been driven by a number of factors, the first being the increased consumer awareness of food miles and sustainability; secondly the return to a patriotic view of supporting British trade, manufacturing and produce (which in part drove the desire to leave the EU as well); and thirdly the resurgence of the craft phenomenon which has seen a number of small producers and brands gain popularity.

Many women have a positive view of this phenomenon and end up looking at it as part of the whole labor and birth experience.

By many accounts, Republican candidate Ron Paul has become an online political phenomenon: despite polling in the low single digits nationally, as of today he has more Facebook supporters than McCain, more MySpace friends than Romney, more YouTube views than Hillary Clinton and more Meetups planned than any other candidate.

By many accounts, Republican candidate Ron Paul has become an online political phenomenon: despite polling in the low single digits nationally, as of today he has more Facebook supporters than McCain, more MySpace friends than Romney, more YouTube views than Hillary...

In a display which is supposed to educate the public about science, it is unacceptable to suggest that creationism can be viewed as an alternative explanation of natural phenomena.

The «magnificent view» from the peak also allowed the meteorologists to observe phenomena such as the aurora, Roy says.

The Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research's VOEventNet project, which created a virtual observatory by linking a number of telescopes, introduced a software program this week that works with Sky, allowing users to post and view images and video of transient phenomena such as exploding and colliding stars, gamma - ray bursts, and supernovae within minutes of their detection.

«Unlike many scholars of his generation who considered emotion to emanate from the soul and expression a gift from God, Darwin viewed expressions as evolutionary phenomena,» Prodger writes.

As a contemporary cultural phenomenon, selfies are of interest to psychologists, in terms of how people think and feel when taking, posting and viewing both their own selfies and those posted by others.

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«More importantly though, from a societal point of view, our methods and findings might help us understand how to approach phenomena such as racism, religious hatred, and gender inequality discrimination, since the methods offer the opportunity for people to experience the world from the perspective of someone different from themselves.»