Sentences with phrase «which point they attempt»

I'd offer that it seemed Jesus learned this lesson for himself when preaching in the synagogues and winning favour with people until he got to Nazareth and talked of a prophet being without honour among his own people at which point an attempt was made to throw him off a cliff.

Not exact matches

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by sticking to a strict, bullet - pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.

Or better yet, as Kevin Fleming pointed out «Starting a business is like attempting to climb up a mountain during a hurricane,» which tempts me to ask what he does to relax.

This, Klosterman argues, is how it has always been (for a while we were certain the Earth was flat until that was proven incorrect), and from that starting point, he attempts to explore which ideas or truths we believe today may be seen as woefully incorrect 100 years in the future.

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

On the show's opening night, with thousands of attendees and reporters in the audience and video cameras rolling, an Emotiv team member named Zachary Drake attempted to move a cube and more, which by this point was something anyone at Emotiv could do in his or her sleep.

I won't attempt to predict where the market will go from here, which even economists have a hard time doing, but I can point to three reasons for optimism.

Shin says when the negative balance grew to a point at which the bank stopped paying out, the lender attempted dozens more debits over a short period of time — each of which incurred a new $ 34 overdraft fee.

The company, which at one point owned more than 60 percent of Activision, was attempting to squeeze cash out of the company any way it could.

«Mr. Speaker, as I said, on the subject of credibility which was raised by the NDP, my point is this,» Mr. Moore offered, attempting to segue from a question about the shuttering of the Health Council of Canada.

Understandably, with huge sums having been lost (and in some cases gained) in the blink of an eye, pointed questions are being asked about the sell which first triggered the process and whether it was an attempt at market manipulation.

Mark Whitmore: This is Mark Whitmore, I keep forgetting we have two Mark's on the line here, and Chris you absolutely interpreted what I was trying to say correctly, and kind of to follow up a little bit, I think one of the things that the other Mark pointed out is the issue of timing, and whereas the two prevailing investing paradigms out there seem to be this notion of efficient market theory which attempts to just buy and hold the market no matter what, completely price indifferent.

2) you then attempt an end run through ethnocentrism — which I point out is self - defeating for you.

Ironicus, you can consider me a friend up to the point when you start infringing on MY rights to perform my duties, and begin attempting to express your opinion about a subject on which you are not well - educated in such a way as to pretend you have authority in that arena.

Like I said, it's simply a thought experiment I used to attempt to make a very specific point, which I think was made for the person I was making it to.

Your position really attempts to dismiss my point by a standard which essentially dismisses all discussion.

Some of it is more valuable than others and the Bible even attempts to point out the most important parts which are sometimes broad concepts.

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

The post was not ad hominem, which you would know if you had attempted to prove your point with valid reasoning.

The method used in the writing of this book is the same as that used in the preparation of the two previous volumes — The Religion of the Hindus and The Path of the Buddha — which I have edited in an attempt to present to Western readers the major religions of the world from the point of view of the followers of those faiths.

Of course, people have generally concentrated upon the attempt to describe things in detail, but that is just the point at which it doesn't work very well — when you try to understand the quantum mechanics and relativity together.

You are simply attempting to make my point something which you know it is not.

In a moment I shall defend my account from this charge, but let me first point out that Cobb's theory of regional inclusion leads to a position that is equally as absurd as the conclusions with which he attempts to saddle my presentation.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

The pressure to succeed was illustrated by one couple who devised a ten - point scale on which they each attempted to rate the intensity of their orgasms.

Conclusion To sum up, the key point at which Kierkegaard's thought advances Girard's is to be found in his description of the relationship between the individual and God the Creator, when the individual is attempting to avoid the process of spiritual growth.

Case in point: The attempted assassination against Pope John Paul II a few decades ago, which is what prompted the Popemobile in the first place.

The point I am attempting to make is that a necessary condition for evolution at all is an increase in complexity which can not be accounted for on a materialistic view.

The point is that, even today when we attempt to develop a conceptual scheme for the understanding of man, we ordinarily bring to our task an understanding of concepts and a set of concepts which arise in our dealings with the external world as mediated by sense experience.

Because ancient man did not draw such a clear line of distinction between myth and history, it was possible for the myth of the end - time to hold a particular kind of reality for him which it can not hold for us, and there is no point in attempting to disguise this difference.

The myth of the Last Judgment attempts, by using the end - time as the reference point, to proclaim a truth about human responsibility which is not confined to any point in time, but which pervades all time.

Such is the extreme point to which one can push a hermeneutics which attempts to reduce the distance between the two foci of the ellipse, between the reflexive act of divestment (depouillement) and the act attested by testimony.

I will not attempt to detail all of Willitts's points, but she adds great force to her approach by relying on Bible verses which are relevant to the subject, well - known, and widely mentioned.

By attempting to pin the resurrection down to something which it, in fact, was not, we are prevented from appreciating the full scope of what the Easter faith is pointing to when it affirms that Jesus is risen.

But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own form of idolatry — an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor of the causes we support.

No attempt is made to take sides in the controversy, except on one particular point — viz., in the essays which have been selected for inclusion.

My point was that such ecclesial life can not be the sole reality in which we live or out of which we attempt to renew society.

I think this is a crucial point to note for any attempt to understand creativity, for to ignore it is to fall back into a quasi-deterministic way of thinking, according to which the denial of ex nihilo creativity means «there is nothing new under the sun.»

At one point, Athanasius attempted to limit the books of the Bible which could be used in the debate.

I do not wish to father on Bishop Dun what I am trying to suggest in these pages, but I think that the point which he made at that time is highly relevant to what we are attempting to do here.

I am particularly indebted to William A. Beardslee for the way in which he has presented my own theological quest, and especially so for his point that I have attempted to invert the Gnostic vision of a transcendent totality in my quest for a totally immanent Christ.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

The attempt is to explain the way in which God is related to actual occasions, eternal objects, and creativity, in such a way that at no point do we attribute to him a mode of being or relation inexplicable in terms of the principles operative elsewhere in the system.

They believe we are in the process of entering a post-theistic age, in which the word «God» by reason of all its past associations is becoming increasingly irrelevant and there is no possibility of, nor even any point in attempting to salvage it.

@ME II: Also, if this discussion is silly, it is because your logic is faulty, which is all I was attempting to point out

How again does your point engender itself to the attempt at a faith based argument which is the whole point of this post?

Neither attempts to identify the exact point at which such experiences emerged in evolution.

And so, a few years ago, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center was condemned for suggesting that public policy should set a point, say age eighty - five, above which no more medical interventions aimed at curing should be attempted.

(A point which I have attempted to argue in The Gospel of the Kingdom [1940]-RRB- Their interests are very largely centered upon the apostles, but at the same time the surviving tradition within them makes it clear that Jesus» influence upon the populace of Galilee resulted in «multitudes» following him about and hanging upon his words.