Sentences with phrase «what point toward»

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By the midway point of the gala, more than $ 3 million had been raised to support the efforts in Haiti, though the fundraising continued throughout the night toward what will amount to a larger number in the millions.

The event was a breaking point in the community's resentment of L.A. police chief William Parker «and what they considered his double standard toward [African Americans] and whites,» according to LIFE magazine's editorial prefacing its Aug. 27, 1965, cover story on the riots.

The goal is to point listeners toward music they might enjoy based on an analysis of what they already like.

«We seem to be at a tipping point with [privacy] issues, with the great acceptance that the price of digital communications is some intrusion on privacy being replaced by a more cynical, or at least aware, attitude toward what is actually happening.

He debunks what far too many marketers consider social media «vanity metrics» and points readers toward what really matters on social channels.

I spent two years looking at the evidence, and in light of what I consider to be an avalanche of evidence that points so powerfully toward the truth of Christianity, I came to the conclusion that it would take more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian.

It took five years unraveling of what happened to us before I got to the point that I could name what went wrong, take responsibility for my part and identify the behaviors toward us that were clearly wrong and abusive.

Others claim that the decline of communism points toward the ultimate victory of the human spirit in what has been essentially a spiritual struggle.

All of this points to what I hope is a trend toward talking more openly about doubt and acknowledging the vital role it can play in shaping our faith.

Therefore, the fetus does not merely tend toward its own maturation, but rather, in order to achieve maturation, in the fullest sense of the term, it has to have an «other,» in this case, the parents, as point of convergence, as principle of unification and integration, as revealer to the child of what it is; and to the degree that the child learns to love with the aid of his parents, to that degree he is differentiated and thus revealed to himself for what he is.

By saying «God,» religion intends to point toward the divine reality, the chief causative agency in the world, the supreme responsive agency to the world's ongoing process, the ultimate recipient of what is accomplished in the world.

They hopefully move us toward real and genuine relationships with the important people around us and in our daily lives but to gain stratosperic or exopheric knowledge without those changes at the root and I often think «Whats the point?»

For what Davies seems to be doing in this book, and in all his fiction since Fifth Business, is catching the reader's attention through marvels of storytelling to bring him or her to the point of undertaking a similar journey toward individuation.

Involving God in our sexuality means holding on to what it means to be sexual in the first place, and what that sexuality points us toward.

Jesus is not «Plan B» but is The Plan from the very beginning, and what God did in Israel shows and points toward what God ultimately accomplished through Jesus.

R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»

If there is confusion in the conception of the ministry today, whether only among those who once held to the ideal of the preacher or also among those who have maintained the ideal of the priest, that confusion appears at both points — in inability to define what the most important activity of the ministry is and in uncertainty about the proximate end toward which all its activities are directed.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

When humans persist in sin despite God's frequent attempts to call them toward obedience and to warn them of what will happen if they continue down the path they are on, there comes a point where sometimes, God simply withdraws His hand of protection and allows people to suffer the consequences for their sin, for chaos to reign, and for Satan to bring death and destruction.

In brief, then, both what Whitehead meant by society and what Hegel meant by Spirit point toward an overall understanding of reality as inherently processive and communitarian.

What follows, therefore, will be an attempt to sketch out a few distinctions and to point out a few first steps that might be taken toward an eventual solution.

And the ferocity of the tenor of the responses points toward what these socially constructed understandings — the work of human hands and minds — have become: idols.

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.

He points out that the most recent model leans away from the concern for concrete mechanical effects characteristic of the transmission model and leans toward what is loosely termed the ritualistic model more akin to anthropology and other cultural studies.

Believe what you want, but don't take the dishonest path of saying that existence and complexity just point toward an intelligent designer, because it doesn't.

What I perceived as an exercise in spiritual freedom they could easily see as a path toward self - denial to the point of death.

The title of this discussion points toward the need to clarify what we mean by the common good.

Up until this point, it seems that Jesus has known full well what He would face on the cross, and went toward it willingly and resolutely.

The significant tense for human beings is thus the future — that is to say, the critical question is what I am pointing toward, becoming.

It thus points toward what mystical theology calls the coin - to be opposites.

What are the features of a homosexual pattern of relationships which point toward or bring to expression the lordship of Christ?

The more effective God is in luring us with an initial aim for actualizing ourselves — that is to say, the greater the extent of our enacting with minimal modification what God points us toward — then the greater the possibilities of God empowering us even more effectively in the next moment and beyond.

He can point out and name what is wrong toward the end that one «might at least have hope and in the end get well.»

Recap culture bends toward the same talking points, and a critique of this season will certainly be «fan service» — i.e., by delivering what viewers want (Jon resurrected, Ramsay Bolton and Walder Frey killed, etc.), George R.R. Martin and the showrunners have moved away from the ruthless plot turns that made Game of Thrones stand out in the first place.

What I do is open the club face slightly (right) and grip the club with the left hand turned even farther to the left than before, so that its V now points toward my left shoulder (below).

Since there is a basic theory behind most golf instruction that the novice has to be saved from the slice, the majority of weekend players have been taught what is known as the «strong» grip — which simply means the I ft thumb is on the right side of the club, as at right, and the V of the left hand is pointing toward the right shoulder.

Toward the end of the Game Team Horwitz was able to knock down a few shots and grab a 6 - 8 point lead in what was seemingly a one - possession Game for 40 minutes or so.

Unstructured play allows her to discover what she loves to do — build towers out of blocks, play hospital with her stuffed animals — which can point her toward interests she'll have for a lifetime.

As she gets older, play allows her to discover what she loves to do — build villages with blocks, make «potions» out of kitchen ingredients, paint elaborate watercolors — all of which may point her toward interests she'll have for a lifetime.

Look at it from his point of view: It's a big, scary world out there, and every step your toddler takes toward independence comes with an equal measure of fear about what he's stepping into.

Point it toward a child becoming whole, a child who has what he needs to integrate all the parts of his identity as he grows up.

Programs like FIND, which trains parent coaches to work with low - income, stressed parents, focus less on pointing out what parents do wrong and more on what parents do right, in order to nudge parents toward behaviors that help their kids.

Parents know what parents will love and most of the reviews point toward the K'tan being a wonderful investment.

The money raised by the taxes in part would go toward a potential boost in education spending, an apparent sticking point in the talks as lawmakers and Cuomo fight over what's known as foundation aid in the budget.

When composing your cover letter, think about what the reader is looking for and point them toward it.

«It was exactly what the field has been pointing toward, and as time goes on, we're finding lower and lower mass planets,» Laughlin says.

The slow rate of improvement in postdocs» attitudes toward their professional and career development point toward the need for a culture change more profound than what has so far occurred, Mellors - Bourne says.

It was the high point of a spike that interrupts what otherwise has been a steady progression toward a doubling of science and engineering degrees over the past 35 years (see graphs below).

And ultimately it could point the way toward what many planet hunters consider their holy grail: obtaining actual images of an Earth - like planet orbiting another star.

And the findings point toward a possible cure for what the co-leading scientists, Ronald Evans and Ye Zheng, are now calling a new kind of diabetes (type 4).