Sentences with phrase «viewed as an end in»

Moreover, even an evangelical consensus should not be viewed as an end in itself, but rather as a tool for the church to use in the strengthening of its faith and life.

Not exact matches

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

As a result of their previous relationship — one in which Cho says he had proved his intellect and work ethic — Open View ended up contributing to Spredfast's C - round of financing.

Sanders, an independent from Vermont who began the presidential race viewed by many in the Democratic establishment as a kooky outsider, is reaching the end of it with unmatched influence powered by a massive base of supporters, some of whom had never before identified with the party, either.

It's just another number, but the milestone is widely viewed as another sign that the secular bull market in bonds that's prevailed for decades has ended.

The increase in timeline views was driven by a 44 % increase in average MAUs, and a 24 % increase in the user engagement levels of MAUs, as measured by timeline views per MAU, in the six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to the same period in the prior year.

as an increase in demand from advertisers that drove an increase in advertising revenue per timeline view of 22 % in the six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to the same period in the prior year.

The Fed's official view remains more hawkish than the market's expectations as reflected in, for example, the Fed funds futures contract which is still pricing in only two rate hikes by end - 2017.

Inactive money managers, on the other end, are viewed as brain dead in an hyperactive and information overloaded world.

Smaller loans can end up costing you a lot less in interest because loan providers view you as reliable.

GoGold Resources (GGD: TSX.V) is well run, has been in a steady uptrend that shows no signs of ending and is viewed as attractive after its recent reaction between its August high and its low in mid-October at about CA$ 1.12.

As the European Central Bank's discussions on how to wind down its quantitative easing program continued — ahead of a formal announcement expected at the end of October — policymakers were careful to emphasize their view that it remained too early to contemplate any increase in interest rates.

In a bit of cunning, he argued that the open - ended nature of the commitment — which most economists view as highly stimulative — would allow the Fed to pull back if the economy takes off.

Mr. Trump's advisers said the president remains resolute and views the pugilistic approach as the only way to force China to end two decades of industrial policies that have hollowed out American manufacturing and resulted in a ballooning trade deficit.

In this view, every human being is to be considered as an end - in - itself, as Kant most famously put iIn this view, every human being is to be considered as an end - in - itself, as Kant most famously put iin - itself, as Kant most famously put it.

In this new move, the practice of preventing someone holding views regarded as unacceptable or offensive from contributing to a public debate or meeting, known as «no - platforming», will end.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Trust me, I can understand logically how Atheist view God or Gods as being the same as Santa Claus but in the end the statement of non-belief is just as wide of a gorge as belief.

The theological and ecclesial fault lines that had begun to surface within the conciliar majority (as opposed to a more conservative and Roman minority) toward the end of the council now appeared in full view.

A chiastic literary structure can be viewed as a sort of sandwich, with repetitive parallel elements at the beginning and end as the pieces of bread, similar repetitive elements within those, representing the condiments, and the meat — the main point of the passage — in the middle.

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

Unfortunately, as long as economic theory views the natural world only in terms of its contribution to the market, Christian repentance will do little to end policies that are systematically destructive.

An accommodation might be found, in the end might even become imperative, but not so long as demands for a share in the city must be viewed as attacks on Zion.

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old worlas we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old worlAs this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.

I see the point you're making — it's possible to view someone, or some organization, strictly as a means to an end in a way that overlooks their inherent beauty.

This would be a comfortable way out of the impasse if we could think so, for in view of the fact that the end of the world has not yet come, it is not easy to fit into the rest of his words such sayings as, «Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom» (Matt.

Further, all that can rationally be said about that absent requires it to be viewed as interacting with human purpose, as itself conforming in all respects to the purpose of order and law, and also as exhibiting telic adaptations serving the ends of life and beauty and sublimity.35

By the end of the third season — and particularly in the infamous Christmas Day 2012 episode, which featured leading man Dan Stevens» surprise departure — Downton had moved from being a programme loved by people who like period dramas to being viewed as a national treasure.

Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?

From this, appropriate activity should issue as a means to attain the valued end - in - view.

The purpose is pragmatic, and as a result these visions are adequate instruments for the end in view, but they contain nothing from the domain of truth or of spiritual revelation.

When we know that the ultimate end of man is in the very life of God, we can view the entire universe and all its laws, from the symmetry of the elements to the Incarnation of Christ, as part of one evolutionary Providence or Divine Wisdom.

For example, in criticising Dawkins, he points out that «If every step in the series [of evolution] occurs by chance... the end can not be ordered», apparently unaware that Dawkins does not view evolution as entirely random, but allows for a certain direction, provided by the mechanism of natural selection (p. 51).

(3) There are those values that determine one from among the presented possibilities as a goal to be realized, and transform an end into an end - in - view.

Therein lies concealed a revolution in man's view of the world: the undivided sway of thinking in terms of substance is ended; relation is discovered as an equally valid primordial mode of reality.»

Yeah, I know that's a pretty significant qualifier on the end, and we can bicker all day about what that would entail, but how you think about it will reveal to you whether you a cheerful giver or view worshiping the Savior with your wallet as a form of tax code in which you are glad to find a loophole.

All of these world views and the syncretistic Christian combination of them had long been peppered with pithy slogans, golden rules, words of wisdom, etc., which range from Socrates» Know thyself to Christ's If you lose the world, you gain it and on to Nothing in excess and Treat every human as an end in itself.

Sandel contrasts this «voluntarist» view with a «cognitive» one, in which «the ends of the self are given in advance... [and] the subject achieves self - command not by choosing that which is already given (this would be unintelligible) but by reflecting on itself and inquiring into its constituent nature, discerning its laws and imperatives, and acknowledging its purposes as its own.»

Just as there are no birth stories in Mark, so also the author could have ended his Gospel with the passion narrative if he had so wished, particularly in view of the theological emphasis which runs through the Gospel.

I am SO glad she mentioned views on physics, as in the end, it's what is correct.

Still the healthy functioning of the whole body is in a sense a goal that a physician will have in view as he pursues the proximate end of improving circulation.

The promise of the soul and the afterlife is designed to make us not fear the end by viewing it as a new beginning, which it is, in a way, as we rejoin our ancestors in the carbon from whence we came.

This grand vision in turn required not only that Whitehead's original line of thought, unredacted by Hartshorne, Christian, Leclerc and Cobb, be recovered (a task Lewis shared with Jorge Nobo), but also that the problems that Whitehead faced, as Whitehead envisioned them, and his various attempts at solution (ending presumably in the views published and taken by most of us as the last word on the subject) be likewise exposed and rethought.

In this view, nature, especially construed as raw, unfettered, unpredictable power, is there to be mastered, overcome, shaped, and directed to meet human needs and ends.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

He said: «The subtle shift from viewing transgender people as «depraved sinners» to «unfortunate victims of psychological pressures and mental illness» camouflages the fact that, in the end, as numbers of trans people have learned to their cost, the environment it creates is just as toxic for them.»

The fourteenth chapter contains a deliberate discussion of this new view of Christ's coming, put upon the lips of Jesus as though he were presenting in advance a Hellenistic reinterpretation of the Jewish hope as it would appear in Ephesus at the end of the first century.

From his point of view the rejection of the nineteenth - century biographies as modernizations need in no sense involve a rejection of the quest itself, for the simple reason that an initial prejudice once detected does not justify the permanent end of a scholarly project.