Sentences with phrase «which more presence»

The decrease in the number of days spent in suspension might have shifted past some «tipping point» beyond which more presence in the classroom leads to higher grades, while leaving the white students less affected.

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To stay alive, Snap will slowly edge towards Instagram, enhancing user profiles, providing a few more «pervasive» / permanent tools and content so that there's a real social media presence vs. something which disappears in 24 hours.

Bøe said the increasing presence was linked to increasing Russian submarine activity, which in recent years includes more frequent trips between the Barents, Baltic, and Mediterranean seas.

The first phase, which is ongoing, is continuing to establish a presence in more hospitals in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

«It's more than just a feel - good kind of agreement,» says Manley, now president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, which has lobbied for a greater Canadian corporate presence in Asia.

While the leverage ratio and other Dodd - Frank Act requirements likely are encouraging broker - dealers to be more rigorous about risk management in allocating balance sheet capacity to certain trading activities, the growing presence of proprietary firms using algorithmic trading in many of these markets, which predated the crisis, is also influencing trading dynamics in important ways.

The job search has become almost entirely digital, which means your online presence is more important than ever.

With sales of desktop computers stagnating, it's essential for the company to expand its presence and become more competitive in the burgeoning field of internet of things, which will affect as many as 500 billion devices, including vehicles, in the next 10 to 15 years, according to Chambers.

He noted that the firm operated with a higher tax rate than some peers — it had got more US - centric over time rather than less, largely because of its presence in wealth management, which he reckoned was now about 98 % US - focused after the firm sold its European business in 2013.

Becoming a professional speaker can also help you to build a larger Instagram following, which can in turn create a cycle of more speaking gigs thanks to a large online presence.

On the other hand, BookMyShow and Myntra show a continuous improvement in their follower share which is indicative of getting better at managing their social - media presence and attracting more followers.

«Standard Chartered, which has had a presence in the region for more than 90 years, is more local than most international banks and more international than local banks,» asserts Siddiqi.

It is the DEFINITION of «faith in something despite the presence of all evidence to the contrary» Indeed, it takes FAR more faith to be an atheist, than a Christian for you are believing that which is impossible to demonstrate..

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

And then he begins to measure more exactly the joys, and the pressing demands, of that mysterious presence to which he has surrendered himself.

In Matthew (whose account is much more formalized) the disciples in Galilee were aware of a presence which some of them recognized at once, «but some were doubtful»; then he spoke, and they knew perfectly well who it was.

I find that much more believable than the presence of some preexisting sky fairy (which came from where?)

Think you are wisely right to have your concerns but let me Guide you to ask which branches of Islam handles each mosque you know of and find out more about their mentality and they call for since not all branches of Islam are of danger, but you mentioned some thing which make me feel that there is a possibility that you got the most redial branch of all Islam branches... This branch is taking advantage of the presence of non harming Muslims to expand it's redical teachings by offerings or force turning Islamic communities from normal to most redical of all... do not favor to give the name of that branch but sure you will find it if you look for it...

After analyzing each aspect, lvarez stresses that the widespread presence of different Pentecostalisms in today's Latin American and Caribbean religious scene is a pressing missiological and ecumenical challenge which requires more understanding and more openness on the part of all Christian confessions.

Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will more perfectly.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

In another sense the future event (which the synoptics emphasized more than John does) is merely a completion of the movement from sin to forgiveness, unbelief to belief, that is going on here and now, in the person and presence of the Son of man (5:27), Jesus himself.

If you are consuming more media and popular culture than you are God's Word and presence, you will reflect that which you most consume.

«Those who worked with him and especially his students will remember him as a person of extraordinary personal power which was expressed through his physical presence as well as through thought and word, but in so far as their personal relations with him are concerned, they will even more remember his tenderness.»

The royals» numerous visits to the community since the fire formed a thread which has led to their presence at the service, he said, adding: «That is wonderful that there is recognition at that level, and as I said it was one of the only unifying forces and at these times I guess we are more thankful we have a royal family and its place within our society.»

Either they had this psychological illusion, which would be very natural, or, what is more likely, when they tried to tell of their experience the only way they could tell it was in words that led others to think they were speaking of the bodily presence.

They have accepted the fact that vast numbers of members of the human race have spoken or written about some such awareness, however it may have been conceived, of a presence which is believed to be more than human, and they have told us that they have experienced a power that seems to come from beyond, above, and below the level of human enabling.

While he indicates that his is an attempt to resolve the classical problem for theology of how to account for God's unique presence in Jesus without displacing any aspect of Jesus» humanity, in the course of that attempt he generates so many additional problems that he appears to have succeeded at little more than compounding and thus falling prey to the very problem which he seeks to resolve.

If we are to evaluate the adequacy of Cobb's concept of the differences accounting for God's varying and unique presence in individual persons generally and his unparalleled presence in Jesus more specifically, however, we must examine more carefully his understanding of the manner in which persons are able to minimize and / or maximize God's influence upon them and determine how this applies to Jesus as a special case.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

Prayer is the elevating, the lifting up, of our personalities — which is for me a more satisfactory word than soul — so that in the presence of God they may become that which in God's intention they are meant to be, related to Him in healthy, wholesome, invigorating, and altogether good intercourse.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

He did not expect that God would give him with no effort on his part the words which would be right; but he was sure that by «thinking prayerfully», in the attentive presence of God», about those words which seemed to him to be best he would be able to come closer to preaching with a sense that these were right for him to use — and what is more, he could commit them, along with his own admittedly inadequate and deficient effort, to God so that they might be used in a way pleasing to God and more likely to find acceptance from God's people.

Since we live «in, with and under» the divine presence, It behooves us to do everything within our power to make the world around us reflect more clearly the divine source and presence to which it owes its very existence.

But the whole array of our instances leads to a conclusion something like this: It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call «something there,» more deep and more general than any of the special and particular «senses» by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

By understanding presence as something more than «mere appearances,» Dillenberger has come to consider abstraction the pictorial procedure by which artists penetrate beneath the visible surfaces of nature in search of a subject's «essence» or deeper truth.

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

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Our theology and religious traditions, then, should not be treated as ways in which we somehow render God more understandable, but as loving and imperfect responses to the presence we have encountered.

This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive» experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case — experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..

Yet, no less important is this essentially plainer but more difficult to understand aspect: Even the occasion which most lacks complexity contributes to the unity and «solidarity» of the world through its polycontextually transmitted presence.

Before the «disenchantment of the world,» something for which Protestants generally and Calvinists most especially can be credited or blamed, the presence of the divine in human affairs was everywhere acknowledged, however much some might deplore the more «superstitious» responses to it.

The words came up to me on every side jostling one another and smiling in agreement so that, where before there was hardly any word in the whole of Scripture more bitter tome than penitentia (which I sought to feign in the presence of God — coram Deo — and tried to express with a fictitious and forced love), now nothing sounds sweeter or more gracious to me than penitentia.

Advent Conspiracy is about giving presence, which is often more costly and more meaningful than material presents.

In the presence of such forces, which seem to be more evident at some periods of history than others, it is easy to give up believing in either the goodness of life or the goodness of God.

He knew himself to be part of the majority and was comfortable in all he had «absorbed» from his various communities — none of which included more than the token presence of

It is not so easy a matter to perform this task aright; to stand in the presence of God and to speak in his name, with that plainness and simplicity, that seriousness and gravity, that zeal and concern, which the business requires; to accommodate ourselves to the capacity of the common people without disgusting our more knowing hearers by the insipid flatness of our discourse; to excite and awaken drowsy souls, without terrifying and disturbing more tender consciences; to bear home the convictions of sin, without the appearance of some personal reflection; in a word, to approve ourselves unto God as workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.21

a. distance contract means a contract concluded between a trader and a consumer under an organised distance sales or service - provision scheme without the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer, with the exclusive use of one or more means of distance communication up to and including the time at which the contract is concluded;

«We're excited by this opportunity, which gives Australian beverages more room to move in building our category presence while retaining our share in areas of existing market strength.

The company, which has a direct presence in 8 countries across Asia Pacific, employs more than 500 employees in Bandung and Makassar, Indonesia, where it operates two cocoa grinding factories.