Sentences with phrase «world by virtue of»

A Burmester high - end 3D surround sound audio system expands on the standard 10 - speaker system and offers the best in - car sound experience in the world by virtue of 24 high - performance speakers and 24 separate amplifier channels with a total output of 1540 watts.

The launch follows several years of the country priding itself as the centre of the world by virtue of its geographical location.

Women have developed a passive dissociation from the world by virtue of the fact that the world and its politics are man - made, homo - relational.

But it is looking increasingly like Apple is leading the technology world by virtue of its sheer size, rather than by its great ideas.

Not exact matches

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

(the way someone thinks about the world) Do you no view people of the world with Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause?

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

You will be entertained by Spenser's surreal, imaginary world, yes, but beneath, above, and within the medieval fancy are extraordinary insights into virtue of temperance.

I use «public world» to mean the world that is constituted by human communication, i.e., the world shared by virtue of the relation (s) of one or more human individuals to one or more other human individuals.

Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities physical feelings as well.

Without such symbolic abstractions the rational organization of behavior would be impossible; by virtue of them a cognitive relation to the world is established.

In the new humanity which is begotten today the Word prolongs the unending act of his own birth; and by virtue of his immersion in the world's womb the great waters of the kingdom of matter have, without even a ripple, been endued with life.

Thus the world which «has some real existence of its own, an infinity in it own degree, by virtue of its participation in Gods actus purus» «can achieve in [God] an eternal existence» (pp23 ‑ 4).

By virtue of this felt quality, we know ourselves as actualities within a world of other actualities.

The world is a web of relationality, and that relational web exists by virtue of all of the interaction among all actual occasions at any given moment.

This suggests that, at the ground of my experience, there is a kind of spontaneity or creativity by virtue of which I respond to the world.

Many Muslims around the world are unimpressed by presidential speeches extolling our virtues as freedom - loving, peaceful people who cherish democracy and our way of life.

By virtue of its conditional features it does occupy positions with respect to other things and thereby makes a difference to the world.

By virtue of this privilege... spirit can penetrate and transform the world of It.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

But Hartshorne effectively replies that, even if finite beings depend for their existence on the creative activity of God, it still remains true that if God had created a different world then He would have been somewhat different from the way He actually is by virtue of the fact that His perfect knowledge would have been of that world rather than of this world; and so the point still holds that divine cognitive relations to the creatures are partially constitutive of God.7

In such a conception the natural world is an organismic one where the occasions that make it up are bound together in mutual, internal relatedness by virtue of their capacity for experiencing (prehending) one another.

By virtue of this great privilege of pure relation there exists the unbroken world of Thou which binds up the isolated moments of relation in a life of world solidarity.

In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a near - universal pursuit of immediate gratification: Culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past toward the end of cultivating virtues of self - restraint and civility, instead becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting a culture of consumption, appetite, and detachment.

It becomes a privilege by virtue of the opportunity it affords to engage in the uniquely human activity of world - making.

Despite the fact that, by virtue of being a woman she would have been considered an unreliable witness whose testimony wouldn't hold up in court, Mary Magdalene is charged with telling the world that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

God's self - interest and his altruism coincide by virtue of the dependence of God on the world as his internal parts.

Augustine was formed in this same world, and he begins his response by appealing to the Roman understanding of civic virtue as presented by Cicero in his treatise De Re Publica, a work both he and Volusian knew well.

It was only by virtue of their skeptical mood that the Hebrew thinkers were able to attain a view of the world that still shapes our outlook.

Max Weber et al. to the contrary, human beings, by virtue of being human, live in an enchanted world.

This mysterious pre-existent personification is nothing but an aspect of the character of God; by virtue of his being this sort of a God he made the world.

Thus when we ascribe mass to an entity, we are asserting a kind of limit on its dynamics.12 Bringing this back to the preprojective, we are saying that insofar as a high - grade society objectifies a given nexus by virtue of the Category of Transmutation in the flattened form that is mass, the dynamics of that nexus are bounded, at least with regard to its extensive relations with the world.

It was, to be sure, written by persons, but it can no longer be treated as an immediate Thou, since it has passed into the world of objects by virtue of the act of writing.

I will only recall that, by virtue of its convergent nature, hominization is scarcely conceivable (seen from the point at which we find ourselves) except as terminating, whatever road it follows, in a point of collective reflection where Mankind, having achieved within and around itself, technically and intellectually, the greatest possible coherence, will find itself raised to a higher critical point — one of instability, tension, inter-penetration and metamorphosis — coinciding, it would seem, with what for us are the phenomenal limits of the world.

According to the Shi`as, they have had virtues and attributes which have been superior to those of anyone in their time; they were endowed with greatness and the ability to perform miracles; they were infallible and innocent; each one was introduced by the previous Imam as his immediate successor; the Prophet referred to them by name and designated them by number; they gave the best and clearest statements concerning the origin of man and the Day of Resurrection; and after the Prophet they were the best authority to speak about religious affairs and conduct in the affairs of this world.

For the same reason, Griffin is misguided when he believes he has offered a serious challenge to free - will theism by pointing out that «much of the suffering in the world produces not virtue but its opposite» (ER 16).

There are lots of «good» things that I fight for in this world, but the two that could be considered driven by my atheistic views are: 1) No childhood brain washing by religious people, which leads to adults who think it's a virtue to ignore facts (ie, faith).

By virtue of God's eternal will and foreknowledge, however, the contingent union of his two natures is present in the person of the Son (proleptically) «from before the foundation of the world.»

at 484:»... any given fact, by virtue of its internal relations to all other facts, reflects in itself the eternally objective structure of the concrete world which includes it.

The important personalistic thesis is that the (temporal) person, whenever he begins to be, is the kind of being who is never a sequence or a succession of units but a unity who can succeed himself by virtue of his ability to relate his world to himself on his own terms (within limits).

Richard King's point is relevant: «Western Orientalist discourses, by virtue of their privileged political status within «British India», have contributed greatly to the modern construction of «Hinduism» as a single world religion.»

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

Wang's contribution here was to point out that the humanity by virtue of which the great man is one body with the world can be regarded both as substance and as function.13 As substance, the person's own personal being apart from expressions, humanity is the manifestation of the clear character by which the world is regarded as one body.

Another way to escape from history is to follow the gnostic path of dreaming up some radically other world, to which we «essentially» belong by virtue of an esoteric knowledge or «gnosis,» membership in which therefore keeps us from having to dwell fully within the messiness of historical existence.

While the power of the IMP (and the World Bank) to impose economic liberalization programmes is limited to only those impecunious states which seek financial relief from it, all the WTO members are committed, by virtue of their membership of the organization, to its goal of a world free of tariff barrWorld Bank) to impose economic liberalization programmes is limited to only those impecunious states which seek financial relief from it, all the WTO members are committed, by virtue of their membership of the organization, to its goal of a world free of tariff barrworld free of tariff barriers.

Whether we like it or not, we are separated from our fellow - Christians of the sixteenth century and earlier by virtue of a world view which causes us to think quite differently about some aspects of life on this planet.

We cultivate the virtue of freedom, the critical spirit of liberalism, by employing it over and over again, not with the goal of personal autonomy, but with the goal of creating a world in which we might live more humane lives together.

«It is by virtue of this dot that the awful power of God, which at any moment could utterly devastate and annihilate the world, brings about the world's redemption instead....

Perhaps, indeed, patience could be a virtue only within a world such as that depicted by the Christian story: «the disclosure of God's nature in his mighty acts, the obedience of Christ, and the reciprocity and responsiveness that life in community involves.»