Sentences with phrase «what acts upon it»

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Pret managers review suggestions for improving food and service with staff before opening every day, and then they act upon what they learn.

Marketers have a responsibility to observe and act upon what people react to, but it's important not to conflate «everybody can't stop talking about this» with «we should do something similar.»

Based upon on his recent public comments, Dimon seems to be interested: ««And you know at one point we all have to get our act together [so that] we will do what we're supposed to do [for] the average Americans.»

I would tell someone just starting their career here at Franklin Templeton that they should not be afraid to contribute ideas, challenge the way that things are done, or speak up as I have found that colleagues and leaders are always open to hearing what you have to say and will act upon ideas if they feel as though it would be beneficial.

This would certainly seem to be effective to confer an immunity on the listed parties for losses that are incurred in the province; but what if a party outside the province suffers losses (see Reference re Upper Churchill Water Rights Reversion Act, [1984] 1 SCR 297, 1984 CanLII 17 (SCC)-RRB-, or what if the exercise of authority under the Act rests upon a reckless understanding as to the constitutional underpinnings of a particular provision?

And when this expanse occured what was the net force that acted upon certain areas of this expansion that caused those areas to congeal so to speak and create nebulas that would become stars?

If it were the case that the Jews acted wrongly by taking land from the Palistinians by force... it would be of course, one of the most understandable acts of aggression in History... after what was bestowed upon them in WWII what people wouldn't suffer a temporary loss of sanity?

All of this transaction is part of the total act of preaching and has an important bearing upon our understanding of what a sermon is.

What a question i was so pondering upon this i burnt the potatoes for tea but i managed to rescue them from the brink of distruction any way where was i. To me love is not the act in itself because that is a response to love or to be loved.Nor is it a feeling because sometimes we choose to love others despite our feelings we lay aside our own desires for the sake of others.Nor is love confined to reason because it isnt always logical or reasonable and can be totally illogical.

As we read the Word of God, and believe what it says, and act upon it, we are living by faith.

About a century later another king - to - be, this time Jehu, is confronted by the Word (II Kings 9:6) Elisha and his young man, the prophet» act upon and pronounce what is represented as the Word with, again, radically effective results.

That's why it's crucial we keep our eyes upon the truth, read and meditate upon the Bible, pray with humility and ask God for forgiveness and insight into our hearts and His, and act in ways that He leads us no matter what other people do or say.

Your point seems more directed at practicing and acting upon what one believes as opposed to the belief itself.

Your notion of the «given'to God seems close to what I think of as the dependence of God upon the past as the sum of acts of more or less free beings, to whose activity God is passive, since otherwise it would not be real activity.

Why he thinks that a bad think and to continually deny it from time to time is going to be the death of his church some day — because he will start to believe what he so vigoriously denies, and then start to act upon it.

In another interview, marking Zevon's death, she expanded upon that, noting that many of his best friends were «solid, grounded people with families, and that's what Warren always craved, even if he didn't always act like that.»

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Instead, the Church's demand must be for freedom to act upon what religious people have judged to be true.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

i don't care what your desires are, and with whom, if you act upon them then your behavior is considered sinful and unacceptable to god.

What matters is how man causes his attitude of soul to grow to real life that acts upon the world.

Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.

The creation at large is not simply a stage upon which the one significant drama, namely human life, is acted out; on the contrary, it is all significant so that the very «stars in their courses» are important and have their place in what God is doing in the creation.

And proclamation leads to mission, since those who have genuinely heard the preaching are impelled to act upon it in such a way that in what they say, think, and do there is a witness to which testimony is given and a task to which they are called.

It is ironic, really, because in the church calendar, the seasons of Advent and Christmas call us to reflect upon and celebrate what Christians believe was the most radical act of humility of all time - the incarnation.

Craftsmanship is an ability to bring about a desired outcome; the craftsman knows upon what he must act and how, in order to make that outcome inevitable; and that upon which he acts must be already there.

That is, they are under both ethical and epistemic obligations to argue for the truth of what they take themselves to believe when they are faced with religious others who appear to believe something different and to act differently based upon such difference in belief.

I'm a muslim and i respect and love moses and jesus (peace be upon them) and as a muslim respect and recognize all the prophets that came before islam, what i want to say is, Islam has come to stay and it will stay, and all the others will embrace islam finally, its better for them to stop criticizing Islam, better criticisize muslims, because some have gone fanatic, but majority is acting the real role.and i can predict that after embracing islam these critical jews and christians would act more precisely on the rules of Islam.God doesn't depend on arab muslims or indian or Pakistani or african muslims to worship Him all the human beings and creatures are His property and He may chose some others to worship Him more well.So we muslims should not be in any illusion.

The humble act of self - examination; the opening of the closed self to the cleansing and healing work of God; the sealing of moral resolve in dependence upon the power of God; all this is what real prayer can mean in the moral life.

No matter what I said, Mark was going to keep going to groups like this one and telling thousands upon thousands of Christians that being gay was caused by faulty parenting, that it only led to misery, and that anyone who wanted to become straight could... And they would pass those beliefs on to their children and other Christians, who would act upon that misinformation whenever they encountered gay people.»

Simply put, I get that Republicans want to win elections and that often motivates much of what they decide to act upon.

God is not arbitrary power acting immediately upon the world, as it were, without any mediation, controlling everything in it and, hence, directly responsible for what takes place.

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»

But more powerful are the film's visual embodiments of the idea that «the Spirit acts upon the body» to irradiate it, making it «more beautiful than it is»; for, Mary asks, «what is flesh alone?»

«However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»

Now, then, we come to the «information environment» which is at once the chief danger to conserving what is necessary for a humane survival and consequently that upon which the thermostatic activity of education is to act.

There is some point in the view that Augustine had much to do with fastening a negative and morbid attitude toward sexuality upon the Christian church, but we want to find what it is in his view of love which led to this.12 We have to go deeper than the familiar point that Augustine thought of the stain of original sin as transmitted through the act of procreation.

The WCC, if it does what its constitution says it should do, is crucial to maintaining a sense of what members» actions mean for all Christians — and the instruments for acting upon the conclusions.

What was their first act upon meeting people after Moses was left behind?

The prophetic act is divinely motivated, if not impelled (12: 1) The prophet speaks not his own but the given word — «thus says the Lord...» (12:7) The prophetic condemnation is based not alone on the violation of a man - to - man relationship, but, since all life is judged by the righteousness of God, upon the violation of the divine - human relationship — «Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight?»

Obligation to obedience depended no longer upon content but upon formal authority; not what was commanded determined the will of the person acting, but the fact that such and such was commanded.

The foundational question (and Holben's first) is, «What is the ultimate authority upon which any moral judgment regarding homosexuals and / or homosexual acts is to be based?»

Behind the argument lies the uncomfortable feeling that there is an authoritative teaching which dares to confront what Newman termed the «wild, living intellect of man» as well as acting against «that universal solvent which is so successfully acting upon religious establishments.»

People are free to believe what they want and personally act upon that by, for example, not using those birth controls but when you run a for profit business you should be required to abide by the law in this case insurance coverage of these birth controls.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

Elisha and his «young man, the prophet» act upon and pronounce what they represent to be the Word of Yahweh (9:3,6) with radically effective and appallingly violent results (II Kings 9:21 - 40:27).

Much pressure is put upon this by what the document calls the «problematic features» that «The Act unfortunately retains a feature of recent English Law... acceptance of certain decisions to bring about death», namely intentional killing by «omission», even and especially «of food and water» (p. 19).

They are certainly not what is to be trusted and acted upon.

Impress upon him that it's essential to think before he acts and make healthy decisions for himself, regardless of what others around him choose to do.