Sentences with phrase «without grasp»

You can not understand modern education policy without a grasp of the achievement gap.

For this reason one can not be truly Catholic without respecting and seeking to understand the record of the tradition, and one can not have a genuinely Catholic contemporary understanding of just war without a grasp of the Church's normative tradition on just war and its place in the theory of statecraft and international order.

The answer is, that without a grasp of the history of the Christian church, no thoughtful person can hope to understand the spiritual, moral» even the geopolitical» world in which he lives.

Following a religious dogma without grasping the essence of spirituality is the core cause for the turmoil we have witnessed in our history, and are witnessing today.

Otherwise, I fear that serious readers will simply write you off without grasping the true significance of your main work.

There are rational reasons to think that murder is wrong in general without grasping at at supernatural beliefs.

No one can possibly understand the American Revolution — more properly described as the American secession from the British Empire — without grasping its theoretical dimensions, beginning with the claims of the Declaration of Independence endorsing popular sovereignty and the ability of the people to «alter and abolish» existing systems of government whenever that would be thought conducive to public happiness.

Without grasping and applying legal principles, a technical specialist or patent agent can inappropriately limit a client's invention, or ruin their chances of winning patent protection.

It is, after all, a tale of an entrepreneur who rises to fortune and fame through media manipulation, develops an enormous ego, enters politics as a populist celebrity before falling into disgrace, spends much of his life bullying others until they desert him, and dies without grasping the meaning of his life.

EL James» source novels evinced an understanding of how sex works without grasping the emotional currents that make it worth having in the first place.

Students will become confused if they attempt to master a skill without grasping a necessary previous step.

Students who venture into the world without grasping some basic financial concepts may be setting themselves up for disaster.

Not exact matches

Canada's federal and provincial governments are racing ahead with drastic changes to housing regulations — without having a good grasp of current reality

Without a firm grasp of where your company stands financially, it is difficult to make changes when necessary, Herjavec said.

On what the average citizen without military service probably doesn't grasp about Gen. Petraeus:

You can flick through settings without feeling the knob slip from your grasp.

Americans fluent in the language, on the other hand, tend to take on higher - paying, communication - intensive jobs that are out of reach of those without a strong grasp of English.

If you are hiring an expert, such as a computer programmer or a lawyer, ask them to explain a particularly complex concept using everyday language that a non-expert can grasp without using jargon.

What bothers Bruce Heyman most is that the president of his country keeps threatening to stifle trade with Canada, and then shows up at meetings without having a grasp of the most basic details.

Using policy loans without a solid grasp of how their interest is calculated can result in losing most — or all — of your death benefit.

«I am following Nature without being able to grasp her.»

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.

You don't have to deal with ignorant people who can't understand how and why you're not out raping, murdering and robbing since they can't grasp that a person can have the ability to do good without some belief in a creator god.

Instead of argument open to mistake there would be direct grasp without intervening source of error.

There is no way to think about the future realistically without thinking with faith in the fact of God's loving grasp on the future.

Barr's essay addresses at some length the question of design in biology, but does not clearly affirm that reason can grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith.

Show us, Lord, how to contemplate the Sphinx: without being beguiled into error; how to grasp the mystery hidden here on earth in the womb of death, not by refinements of human learning but in the simple concrete act of your redemptive immersion in matter.

Here is a fisherman's wife of the first century, in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire, grasping at the possibility that her two sons — without education, breeding, or financial backing — might sit as princes in Messiah's kingdom.

Proclaiming to the world this Gospel, that the world is received, is finally that without which we are not the Church and that without which we fail to grasp the meaning of the confession that Jesus the Christ is Lord.

As Christian Myth, without affronting our common sense, it can signify and help us to grasp these important truths.

I can't imagine how you reached adulthood without achieving even the most tenuous grasp of the science that has long since explained away the need for - if not the very existence - of gods.

Christian realism demands seeing the facts as they are and grasping them thoroughly, without evasion or illusion, without recoiling in fear or horror as it becomes evident what the result of some trend is likely to be.

By trusting in God (as hard as that has been for me), I have come to see that grasping a single simple truth as God allows me works best for me — namely that God is complete love and complete mercy and forgiveness without limitation.

By realism I mean two things: first, seeing the facts as they are and grasping them thoroughly, without evasion or illusion, without recoiling in fear or horror as it becomes evident what the result of some trend is likely to be.

Where before in the unconscious level, time was gathered without being consciously grasped, now there is a conscious gathering of time, so that the past is able to coexist with the present reduplicatively.

Strange that a believer will believe in a god without evidence but can not grasp the concept of a hypothetical question.

But these were largely asides, and were clearly distinguished from the discussions about what really grasped Wieman's own soul — the urgent demand that men and women commit themselves without reservation to the process of creative interchange which creates human good through the increase of qualitative meaning.

As the initial effort, the newly converted people grasp the message as it is without wider understanding of the text and its context.

Unfortunately, to comfort ourselves, we grasp rididly to our own beliefs without admitting that they would be different if we had been taught differently.

Indeed, Hays doubts that one could grasp the transforming and challenging message of the NT without membership in a community of disciples struggling to be faithful.

One could not even grasp the meaning of surrender without reworking it.

Suppose that we have been understanding; that, without probing or pressing, we have grasped the subtle and specific nature of the interior and conflicted viewpoint of the person, and have begun to help him sort out and clarify all these inner feelings.

Just as there are scientific instruments to establish a «more» in the sphere of the material world, so too without instruments, but not without the higher development of spirit, there are experiences which grasp... eternity.

thank your parents and grand parents for instilling whatever loony religion u grasp onto without allowing u to grow with an open mind and figure it out yourself

Where I would previously have been inclined to agree with Whitehead's characterization of Bergson that the intellect cart only grasp by spatializing, I now think (and have argued above) that I had failed to recognize fully the implications of the claim I had argued for in 1993 — that if there can be no intuition without intellect, and if intuition can grasp intelligible things without spatializing, then there is a sense in which the intellect, insofar as it is manifest in intuitive operations of consciousness, can grasp experience without spatializing it.

Reggie Williams, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick Seminary, stated that empathy is the ability to share in the experience of others — to enter their context and reflect on their concrete needs for justice without losing grasp on one's own separate identity.

For in that case I can grasp it only from without, estrangedly or with hatred and contempt, in which case it really does not enter my vision; or else, I overcome it with my love and in that case I have no vision of it either.

For without the feeling of excitement which belonging to a community of shared hope provides, it may be difficult for us to be grasped deeply by the reality of the mystery revealed in Jesus.

There is no way to experience God on earth in separation with the question of the power; and there is no other way to grasp the reality of the power without Minjung experiences of the power.

What we have not yet fully grasped is that this very fact — our own participation in the anguished quest for moral authenticity — constitutes the apologetic necessity without which we could not begin to reach out to others.