Sentences with phrase «way of diminishing»

Time has a way of diminishing your memory.

As a way of diminishing the importance of her role in the generation of the papers now that she's decided to the project's «tarnished».

(Priority lists are another good way of diminishing identity issues, which is why the Dem / Lib numbers crash from their isolated «belief in dangerous AGW» responses).

This is just another way of diminishing the interests and accomplishment of women writers.

Definitely wasn't trying to use this as a way of diminishing the team concept.

Not exact matches

To smear Daum in this way is totally diminish the meaning of the word racism into nonbeing, and to do a disservice to those victims of real — not imagined — racism.

Economic disparity has been diminished in a meaningful way for a handful of people, and that's a welcome change.

The S corp long reigned as the way to avoid the C corp's double taxation, but the arrival of the more flexible LLC has diminished the S corp's star.

I don't feel like I'm getting a diminished version of the Nintendo Switch when it's in portable mode — in some ways, the game performs even better, and it feels like a more intimate experience.

If you believe we are heading into the decade of gamification then listen up, because you'll need to be watchful of leveraging this tactic in a useful way rather than one that diminishes long - term benefits.

Soros describes one of the ways to tell when a trend is exhausted as «short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.

Karen and George missed several massive drops along the way, no longer fearful that their years of savings would diminish before their eyes.

The way to diminish the chance of war is by weakening Iran — which means leaving the Iran deal and standing with the Iranian people.

The capped supply of 21 million is known to all, and the rate of supply diminishes over time in a predictable way.

Several other CFIA programs and procedures have been eliminated or diminished as a way of reducing spending, including the pre-market approval of meat labels, the verification of nutrition claims on food labels and the monitoring of meat imports.

So our choosing this way or that way of living is still our free choice and thus is not diminishing His power in the least.

Admitting that other cultures and religions have their own perfectly valid set of ethics in no way diminishes your own.

Sadly, Hitchens's treatment of addiction fails to recognize the various ways in which addiction impacts the will, and rather than empowering addicts, his position runs the risk of encouraging people to abandon them to their own diminished willpower.

White predicted with chilling accuracy the way the proliferation of information via television can diminish our lives rather than enrich them.

What I do know, in any case, is that, even if they were, that would not in any way diminish the power and efficacy of the sacraments of God.

And now that I have discovered the joy of turning every increase into a way of making — or allowing — your presence to grow within me, I beg of you: bring me to a serene acceptance of that final phase of communion with you in which I shall attain to possession of you by diminishing within you.

Mainly, other Atheistic trees around this young atheistic sapling of a tree might be in the way and thusly the older trees diminishes the light needed for this Atheistic sapling's nourishment, The Atheistically young sapling of a tree tends to be needful of Light so this Atheistic sapling extends its» reach higher committing its» trunk to weaken.

If we say that we suppose the sense of that work to reside in the end in a definitive declaration of the ways of God with men, made in man for men, we will, I suspect, incline towards a view that diminishes the element of uniqueness we attribute to Christ's Resurrection.

Certainly it is true that the more a mechanical force acts on a thing in a purely mechanical way, the more the autonomy of the thing is diminished.

Arius agreed to all of the biblical titles and expressions used of Christ's divinity because each one could be interpreted in such a way as to ascribe to him a diminished divinity (which, in biblical terms, could not be a divinity at all).

Constantine, way back when, saw his coffers diminish due to the Disciples preaching the simple word of Jesus.

The second way in which the cause of Reformed orthodoxy was diminished has to do with what happened to the conservatives themselves after they left the mainline denomination.

It is also the only way to avert the execution of persons who did commit the crime in question, but did so under circumstances of mitigation or diminished capacity such that capital punishment would not normally have been imposed had the circumstances been more fully understood.

«While this case did not meet the criteria for the «First Responders» section of the Memorial, that in no way diminishes the courage and bravery Mr. Hamdani and hundreds of others showed on 9/11,» said the spokesman, Michael Frazier.

In this way, the authority of the Confessions in these churches has been diminished.

And, in the same way that I have to respect your right not to believe without diminishing your value, I feel that I, as a person of faith, deserve the same right.

Biblical scholar Paul Hanson writes, «Perhaps the best way to begin to understand shalom is to recognize that it describes the realm where chaos is not allowed to enter, and where life can be fostered free from the fear of all which diminishes and destroys» («War and Peace in the Hebrew Bible,» Interpretation, vol.

Unfortunately, the disciplinary effect of natural consequences is diminished in at least two ways.

My favorite proffered solution to that puzzle comes in a passage from the fourteenth - century French nun and mystic, Marguerite of Oingt, who wrote that «the saints will be completely within their Creator as the fish within the sea: they will drink to satiety, without getting tired and without in any way diminishing the water... [They] will drink and eat the great sweetness of God.

In a world where every actuality incarnates God, even if in a very diminished way, the christological problem must be put quite differently: what is the special characteristic of general human significance defining a Christ - event, enabling Christians to confess that they find it decisively realized in Jesus of Nazareth?

We call out the economic injustices, the educational inequalities, the maternal mortality, patriarchy, movements designed to baptize inequality in sacred language, the forced prostitution, the sex trafficking, all of the countless ways that the image of God in women is abused and mistreated and broken or diminished.

The former are needed to remind us that with our present population even our most basic needs can not be met unless we find technologically advanced ways of intensive production from a diminishing base.

When some of those encompassed by the collective choice of death choose life, in active ways, then the realm of life is a little enlarged and the realm of death a little diminished.

My account renders empirical theology and its method unsatisfying in several important ways: (1) metaphysically, it undercuts foundations; (2) religiously, It omits the universality and eternity of theological truths; (3) historically, in emphasizing the speculative and diminishing the evidentiary, it deviates somewhat from the precedent of empirical theology itself.

The Communists doubtless see this as a way to give Cuba an aura of «tolerance» it does not deserve, but it is equally true that even bad Communist motives can not diminish the objective power of God in the public square.

We must consider how we approach the humanity of Jesus without in some way diminishing the dignity of the identity of Jesus as Son of the Father.

The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.

where i feel as if my hope diminishes, the way of suffering in the way of the cross of Christ is actually invigorating me.

To believe so is to diminish one of the ways Christ feeds his people, as Hans Urs von Balthasar warns in his book, Prayer:

This metaphysical agnosticism diminishes as we develop larger - scale interpretative arguments, all of which draw on often unspoken, even unconscious, assumptions about the way human history and culture unfold.

By his way of thinking, nationalism leads to an insular mentality, diminished prosperity, and war.

Even in small things, Inherit the Wind goes out of its way to diminish Bryan.

The first way the particular is diminished in dialogue is through the loss of the personal voice.

Either CNN has no editor to monitor the content of its site or somebody there really believes this nonsense — either way it seriously diminishes CNN.

And the fastest and surest way to diminish the ability of humans to exercise agency, to — to lead is through poverty or oppression.