Sentences with phrase «which lesser men»

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Burn says many men are surrounded by a culture that reduces women to sexualized objects, which normalizes female colleague in a less than professional manner.

Also, there has been previous academic research showing that fast - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. tend to be men, which is partly because women are less involved in science and engineering in general, says Kelly.

Fitzgerald's less famous debut novel follows a privileged young man as he begins college at Princeton, which makes it the perfect book for the back - to - school season, claim Wang and Wolfson.

In fact, raising the thermostat will make men more productive, too, it will encourage them to ditch the business suits, which science shows make men less intelligent.

«Only 18 months ago, Senator Cruz was one of the less popular candidates,» explains the blonde man in a cut - glass British accent, which puts Americans on edge the same way that a standard German accent can unsettle Swiss people.

Indeed, the word «facilitate» means to make something easy or less difficult, which could be read to describe serving as a middle man for such payments.

British households now conserve significantly less than # 1 in every # 20 of cash flow — half the rate at which they put money away forty many years in the past British households now conserve just four.8 pc of their income — significantly less than half the fee at which men...

[2] Quotes out of context, which is a ploy used by the less able [3] Shows a marked desire to escape moral accountability and [4] Relegates man to animal status

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

«Rain forests deserve indeed to be protected, but no less so does man, as a creature having an innate «message» which does not contradict our freedom, but is instead its very premise.»

(Luke's version is less impressive: «You are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it.»)

They both regard woman as less than men, instead of looking at history and effect of these habits which has more harm to others.

... [It is] invaluable to catechists and an inspiration to all Christians living in our age, which is no less exciting or exacting than the times experienced by these outstanding men».

It is not that there is a work of God in which the actions of man are inserted (and even less mechanically produced).

But it is there, none the less, as integral to his selfhood and as that which constitutes him distinctively as man.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

None the less, he is prepared to allow the legitimacy of the language which speaks of Jesus as «in some sense» divine, provided we «remember that in some sense or degree every man» may also be said to be divine.

For almost the last 3 millennia, man has been shackled to an outdated, antique, donkey - and - cart theology, worshiping a God that could care less about religion, and even less about which denomination you belong to.

Therefore when I encounter the very few verses of Scripture text (approximately less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures) that on the surface possibly could be interpreted to contradict that majority precedence (man's inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts), I interpret them in light of this majority precedence (which can be easily done).

Which of those among us hath negligently exercised such a grievous lack of judgment as to let in the above mentioned less interesting version of rain man?

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

This answer is not implied in the statement of the question, as it might seem to be, for God's relation to man as the eternal Thou which never becomes an It does not make any the less real the «silence» or «eclipse» of God when He appears to hide Himself and we cut ourselves off from relation with Him.

If this does not occur, then the more knowledge increases, the more it becomes a kind of inhuman knowing for the production of which man's self is squandered, pretty much as men were squandered for the building of the Pyramids, or as men were squandered in the Russian horn - bands to produce one note, neither more nor less.

Indeed, its enduring importance may lie less in its empirical accuracy than in the summum malum it was taken to describe, the horror of conformism — the silent justification for that diamond - stud piercing or subtle tattoo or pony - tail by which today's businessman or professor tries to reassure himself that he is still a man born to be wild.

I have already given a sketch of the general world view which I believe is more or less assumed by thoughtful men and women today.

Just a few short years later, the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union catalysed a debate in which patriotism showed its less attractive face, reaching its nadir on 16th June 2016, when Labour MP Jo Cox, a campaigner for continued EU membership, was repeatedly stabbed and shot by a man shouting «Britain first».

In which of our churches or colleges does the voice of the rich man not carry more weight than that of his less - affluent neighbor?

«In this crisis of belief and disbelief, the antagonism between faith and antifaith is less important than their common challenge: the construction of a. world in which man chooses between God or himself — and chooses freely,» he writes in The Accidental Century.

Ok, yes we believe in Islam that man was taller than specified here and that man is becoming less in tall from generation to another... but which I doubt most is that from Adam time to present time is only 6000 years???

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)

To that extent the formula more or less fits physics and biology, though to different degrees, but more than it does philosophy and other branches of inquiry which directly concern man as a whole, in his totality.

Clearly the «traditional» marriage in which it is automatically assumed that the man will earn the money and be more or less dominant and the woman will raise the children and be more or less submissive — which has been and still is the commonest pattern in Western society — is changing.

You wrote (in part): This foundation also provides clear legitimate examples of what it means to be a man or a woman, which, as of late, is becoming less clear.

Beyond all such questions, he also inquires about the constant structure of reality, of himself and the world and of their ultimate ground, of which he is always more or less clearly aware insofar as he exists as a man at all.

To give one specific example, it is surely impossible for us to conceive of what an electron's experience would be like, but we must conceive of it as some kind of experience or not conceive of it at all.1 Therefore, it is probably less misleading to state that human experience is the one keyhole through which man may catch a fleeting glimpse of the vast panorama of the universe instead of the clue that solves the riddles of the cosmos.

But it was not simply an intellectual exercise, far less a form of entertainment, for ancient man knew himself to be involved in the processes of life and divine encounter which he saw all around him.

This speaking of God may ultimately only point to the question which is man himself and thus hint at God's mystery in silence, the result may be less adequate than any statement on another subject, the answer, aimed at God's bright «heaven», may ever again fall back into the dark sphere of man or may consist in inexorably upholding the question that transcends any definition, formula or phenomenon.

According to Jewish law, a man could not be sold into slavery because of a sum less than the sum for which he would be sold, (Mekilta Ex.

For what this truly and blessedly means is that God can not be less than man, endowed with personality, freedom und love, and that the mystery itself is free protective love, not an «objective order» which one can, after all, possess (at least in principle), and against which one could ensure oneself.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

Without this man is less than human, and without this no ethic can light the way which the spirit of love should take.

Jesus is afraid, though not as a coward would be of the men who will kill Him, still less of the pain and grief which precede death.

Is it not a pitiable prudence, shrewdness, faintheartedness, it has found, which sits in high places and cravenly makes men believe they have accomplished the greatest things and insidiously withholds them from attempting to do even the lesser things?

It is possible for a man to be born with less testosterone and more estrogen in his body, which in a sense, would make him feel like a man trapped in a woman's body, and make him feel like he was born to be gay.

Called Plain, it is edited (and its type hand - set) by «conservative» Quakers, which is to say a group of men and women who live more or less in the fashion of Old Order Amish.