Sentences with phrase «well as the motives»

In effect, the Court makes it impossible to have anything other than a procedural common good as a motive or purpose for political activity.

All involved do an incredible job of establishing Thanos» plan as well as the motives behind his attempt at mass genocide.

A series of flashbacks designed to explain Uncle Charlie's presence, as well as his motives, are more confounding than clarifying; while the reveal isn't completely obvious, it still feels too convenient.

Featuring 28 works by 19 artists — both black and white — the exhibition explores how visual perspectives of blackness «have been influenced at particular historical moments by specific political, cultural, and aesthetic interests, as well as the motives and beliefs of the artists.»

As well as motives, peoples» expectancies of what alcohol can do for them can influence their drinking in both a positive («drinking allows me to relax») and negative way («when I drink, I often say things that I regret later»).

Once you take a step back to evaluate both the veracity as well as motives of a supposed expert or authority, much of our natural authority bias evaporates.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Stark's motives made «Captain America: Civil War» a better movie: choosing sides was a huge conflict for fans, and added a lot more depth to the MCU and the Avengers as individuals.

In top - down power structures, employees are viewed as worker bees and considered to be objects or expenses rather than assets; there is little concern for their happiness or well - being, since the motive for hiring them was purely productivity and profit.

He has, for instance, publicly disavowed profit as a primary motive, saying, «We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.»

In «The Better Angels of Our Nature,» Pinker categorized «five inner demons» as psychological systems that can be triggered to release aggression, along with «four better angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altBetter Angels of Our Nature,» Pinker categorized «five inner demons» as psychological systems that can be triggered to release aggression, along with «four better angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altbetter angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altruism.

Use accruals to make sure that management isn't manipulating earnings through the numerator, which could indicate their motives for the denominator as well.

At the same time, from various motives some Christians, even bishops and clergymen, described themselves as deists as well as Christians.

This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public.

It makes sense that, as we do outward good works, others be allowed to behold something of our inner motives for doing them, and of the positive effect of our hidden good motives — though the good deed is not to be done primarily in order to be outwardly observed by others.

Thus, what Geevarghese Mar Osthatios calls «rescue the perishing» [5] motive served as the spiritual springboard as well as the main goal of the modern missionary movement.

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

God, then, in Dr. Cumming's conception, is a being who has no pleasure in the exercise of love and truthfulness and justice, considered as effecting the well - being of His creatures; He has satisfaction in us only in so far as we exhaust our motives and dispositions of all relation to our fellow - beings, and replace sympathy with men by anxiety for the «glory of God.»

While we must still admit that nature reveals to us only the answers to questions selectively focused by our interpretive structures, we may reaffirm that we are still in her leading strings, to reverse Kant's point, because reality is the first motive for the natural process of thinking as well as the final measure of its results.

The fact that Christians actually engage in completely selfish motives, even to the idea of being saved in order to avoid their god's eternal wrath, and grow perverse as masochists at best.

Sooner or later a colonial power would have moved in, from moral motives as well as from hope of commercial and political gain.

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

For the Pharisees, the commands of God included the demand for purity of motive and purpose as well as righteousness of action.

Our motives always being questioned and never acknowledged as good.

I will celebrate your own beauty, my tall girls, but I will do my best to praise your mind, your heart, your motives as much as I praise your beauty.

Even in those structures of justice aiming to be completely impartial — the apprehension of lawbreakers and the affixing of penalties for crime — the best jurisprudence takes into account the maturity and the motive of the offender and the possibilities of remedial as well as of punitive treatment.

The third scenario would seem to be where the two tendencies continue, each on its own path, in a dynamic but notnecessarily destructive tension, with secular rationalists seeking to discredit the motives and actions of the Church leadership in the post-Vatican II era, while those who affirm a hermeneutic of continuity urge that the Good News be understood as primarily concerned with eternal life rather than secular interests.

And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

Strict rules complete with diagrams and assumptions of motives, what started as likely a well - meaning experience to encourage modesty turned into a witch hunt and a theological confusion about responsibility.

One other person is always more than enough, when you believe that that person will listen to you until you run out of things to say, when you trust that that person will wait for as long as it takes for you to understand why you are the way you are, when you realize that that person will always impute the best of motives to your actions, however clumsy you feel inside.

Societyvs... I'm intrigued by those differences and what they suggest concerning the author's intentions and underlying motives, as well as the needs of the 1st / 2nd century church.

If one of the motives of the nineteenth - century historical - critical scholars was to free the Bible from dogmatic ecclesiastical interpretations, Ricoeur in turn seeks to free the Bible from culture - bound, subjectivizing interpretations as well as from fundamentalist, objectivizing interpretations by asking us to listen carefully to what biblical discourse testifies.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

Daly and Cobb say there is plenty of room to complain about monopoly profits, but that is a complaint against monopoly, not against profits per se: «If one dislikes bureaucratic decision making then one must accept the market and the profit motive, if not as a positive good then as the lesser of two evils... We have no hesitation in opting for the market as the basic institution of resource allocation» (p. 48).

I think as I / we better understand our duality and the underlying motives of how we use / choose religion in our lives, can we access the spiritual and become compassionate and forgiving of ourselves first and then others.

In the new community the profit motive and the quest for security will have been forgotten, as the Marxist and Teilhardian individual strides toward fuller being rather than well - being.

So the bakery event had nothing to do with why I posted this comic strip, and for people to accuse me of some sort of ulterior motive which is in their own head but not in mine sort of shocked me as well.

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He actually makes some decent points here and there, but his hatred for our legendary manager is what turns me completely off, and makes me question his motives, as well as his support for our club.

The values embedded in these resources include fair play and cooperation, as well as concepts that fit sponsors» and Olympic boosters» agendas, including Olympic brand loyalty and the profit motive, with some of the content resembling a mini-lesson in capitalism.

This can be good preparation for adult life, when they may frequently need to do chores or work which are not innately appealing — such as laundry — in order to gain something for which they are motived, such as clean clothes!

And just as Emily, the woman mentioned in the blog post, experienced, rather than getting good guidance from the experts, parents end up insecure about their own capabilities, simply forgetting about the importance of their own judgment or even feeling guilty for having ideas and feelings that don't seem to match their noble motives.

The Turkish intrusion into Iraq comes shortly after Ankara's motives in the war on Islamic State have been questioned by Moscow, Tehran, as well as by Baghdad.

In fact, there have been gossips on the motives behind recent fasting by some Christians in the South as well as speculations on massive prayers by some Muslims in the North over the ill - health of the president.

The politician as author is a well - established public figure, but motives for baring all are not always lofty.

In an all - caps statement released Tuesday night (the sight of which we will spare you), Lopez wrote: «In the last 10 days, there have been a series of allegations that are politically motivated, as well as unethical leaks about confidential agreements, and statements with the principle motive of destroying my credibility and election options.»

As such, he has to expect that people will speculate about his motives and strategies, for better or worse.