Sentences with phrase «whose very existence»

A baby boy whose very existence changed the entire world for me in one breath, one cry, one single moment.

The device seems to be aimed at not just any old privacy - concerned user, but those whose very existence depends on retaining their privacy and anonymity, for one reason or another.

Climate change is an amorphous, complex, overwhelmingly large problem whose very existence is the subject of fierce debate in the US.

They support the livelihood of many hundreds of thousands of people, whose very existence relies on the cheap, simple, versatility that so typifies the cargo bike the world over.

I'm all for well - meaning outsiders, but another irony, of course, is the group of New Yorkers themselves, whose very existence over the next few days rested somewhere uncomfortably between intellectual connoisseurs and cultural tourists.

Creative types create things whose very existence is enlightening.

But, then again, as Lyons proved way back when, there's something about a gambler whose very existence depends on success that increases the odds of succeeding.

Michael Dweck's «The Last Race» visits a blue - collar American racetrack that has been owned by a husband - wife team for years, but whose very existence is being threatened by urban development and the illness of the owners.

The being in question happens to be a robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander), a fibreglass creation with a beautiful female face whose very existence seems too good to be true.

12 Years a Slave is based on a book — published in 1853 — whose very existence is remarkable.

Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for a dystopian thriller called What Happened to Monday that features Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) playing seven identical twin sisters whose very existence is a crime: they've secretly grown to adulthood in a world in which every family is only allowed to have one child.

Hopkins» character is even helped along by a senile robot named Cogman, an unapologetic C - 3PO ripoff whose very existence proves that Bay thinks nothing is sacred in his plundering of cinematic traditions.

Astronomers have discovered three quasars — each a billion times the mass of the sun — whose very existence challenges our conventional understanding of how supermassive black holes form and evolve.

A few nights ago, he ventured across the street to celebrate his 66th birthday at Hostos Community College, whose very existence is due, in part, to him.

This sort of treatment was nothing new to British politics» third party, whose very existence has puzzled all other political activists and created a very thick skin among its own.

By «submerged state» Mettler means a set of indirect government subsidies and benefits whose size and beneficiaries, indeed whose very existence, is largely invisible to the public.

While I was incredibly curious to see him again — this person whose very existence I had invented now existed in the real world!

Our conviction that we belong to a history whose meaning is promise could hardly take shape outside the life of a community whose very existence is based on that promise.

There are in the world today some 12 million people whose very existence is one of the most remarkable facts of history.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

To be a person at all is to be one whose very existence is partly constituted by the presence of God.

Not regulators like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose very existence was questioned yet again when it didn't find out about the fraud until long after it began.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

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The Christian theological tradition has created in «God» a uniquely monstrous transcendence «whose very sacrality is absolutely opposed to the life and immediacy of man's existence in the world»... a feat unequaled even by Muslim or Jew!

They are what the Church is for; they characterize its very existence as the Church; and they are believed — here we come to the highly significant matter — to be the will and work of the God who was disclosed and whose power of love was released in what took place in Palestine two thousand years ago.

God's perfect love and goodness is perfectly compatible with those persons who refuse the gift of salvation and immortality, but whose ongoing existence is defined by an ongoing rejection of the very God of love in whom they continue to «live and move and have their being.»

Schubert Ogden has written an essay on «The Strange Witness of Unbelief» (included in his book The Reality of God, SCM Press, London, 1967), in which he demonstrates how often it is the very negators of meaning whose way of life, attitude toward others, and struggle for a «better world» exhibit a dim yet pervasive feeling of significance in the world and in their own existence, a sense of meaning that (as Ogden argues and as I believe) is a hidden working of divine Love in their hearts.

The burden of the preceding discussion is to suggest that technology, with all its problems, is not a monolithic entity whose very touch brings the death of creativity and aesthetic experience, but an integral aspect of human personal and social existence, with all the richness and ambiguity of human life itself.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

Natalie Portman carries the film with a cerebral steeliness as Lena, a biologist and former soldier who joins a covert government mission to explore The Shimmer, a mysterious phenomenon whose expansion threatens our very existence.

The Lost City of Z (Closing Night, previously announced) Directed by James Gray USA, 2016 World Premiere James Gray's emotionally and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett (a remarkable Charlie Hunnam), the British military - man - turned - explorer whose search for a lost city deep in the Amazon grows into an increasingly feverish, decades - long magnificent obsession that takes a toll on his reputation, his home life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and children, and his very existence.

Imagine the derision you would have faced if, say 25 years ago, you had dared predict that the fate, nay, the very existence, of the once - quintessential luxury sedan powertrain was in the hands of a South Korean automaker whose very raison d'etre is serving the proletariat?

As the balance of magic comes undone, lead your allies in the hunt for the arrogant god Balthazar, whose scorched earth campaign against the Elder Dragons threatens the very existence of Tyria

Combining key gameplay elements of tower - defense and first - person shooter genres, Sanctum 2 players take on the role of an elite soldier whose mission is to protect the oxygen - producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their very existence.

Set in a verdant meadow at magic hour, Honour Dance offers a contemporary re-interpretation of a traditional Indigenous ritual featuring the «Berdashe», a gender - bending figure whose behaviour and very existence astonished and appalled European explorers of North America.

It is as though what has always been our primary work method — encounter and dialogue — has now become the theme of the Exhibition, because this year's Biennale is dedicated to celebrating, and almost giving thanks for, the very existence of art and artists, whose worlds expand our perspective and the space of our existence.»

Hence, the very existence of the Climate Change Committee, whose report Monbiot didn't feel was sufficient.

These tribes are not portrayed as noble savages living in harmony with nature, whose livelihoods or very existence is under threat from encroaching western civilisation or climate change, but as fellow humans whom it might be interesting to get to know.

The very existence of the HTC U11 EYEs has been debated for months, especially since rumors surrounding the handset started circulating the industry shortly after the Taiwanese phone maker launched the HTC U11 Life, a mid-ranger whose specs are understood to be close to what the upcoming device will be offering.

Although the communities are diverse, the islands are often grouped by location [3], and together they form a strong region whose considerable influence is evidenced by the very existence of native title law today.