Sentences with phrase «world is some distance»

Despite the extent of the changes that have occurred to date, the world is some distance from a fully open or integrated economic and financial system.

Not exact matches

You could focus on transporting seniors to medical appointments locally, or, if you live in an area that's some distance from a city, you could focus on driving people long distances to specialist appointments at world - class hospitals.

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Nick Symmonds, an American middle - distance runner who won a silver medal at World Championships in Russia in 2013, was booted from Team USA for the 2015 games in Beijing because he refused to wear Nike at team functions.

Another good example is Johnson & Johnson, a global organization with employees all over the world, who realized that they needed culturally relevant and appropriate content for distance learning and training that would make sense to each specific region of the world in which they do business in order for their employees to truly feel connected.

While Vianne and Isabelle are separated by distance and age, Hannah highlights their resilience and shows World War II from a touching perspective.

Like meditation, one of the main reasons walking is so powerful is it melts the world away so your thoughts fade into the distance.

With Amazon's stock price brushing $ 1,000, Jeff Bezos is within striking distance of becoming the world's richest man.

But as she proved at last year's world championships when she became the first swimmer to win all four freestyle distances — 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m — distance isn't her only specialty.

Amazon has had a good year, but Alibaba has had an even better one — and it's now within striking distance of surpassing Amazon as the world's biggest e-commerce company by market cap.

The rest of the world continues to be some distance behind.

From here you're within walking distance (or a short, inexpensive taxi ride) of Panama's world - class shopping, gourmet restaurants, and exotic nightlife.

«The distance between public mood and public movement is the same as that between reason and rage» - Winston Churchill Every major nation in the world has jailed corrupt banking executives.

Because they are trusted and established brands and no matter where you are in the developed world you are probably in walking distance of being able to purchase one of these products.

Ease of access is another key area of consideration, with the distance to a major airport and especially one that allows for direct flights to the principal cities around the world.

When you spread your arms and say «look how beautiful everything is, it MUST be the work of GOD», just remember that your outspread arms are also including all the people who are being victimized (including little children) that very second in the world, some within a very close distance of you probably.

In our time, with a little distance from it all, a book like God and Man at Yale and a life like William F. Buckley's seem to call us to a different way of being Catholic in the world.

Anyone who has even just perused the book of mormon can see the people followingthis cult, as nice as they may seem, are making a point to distance themselves from the real world.

Quite apart from that crisis, however, responsible theology ought to be done in the context of contemporary science and were it to take that context seriously, models underscoring the closeness, not the distance, of God and the world would emerge.

Many of the major models for the relationship between God and the world in the Judeo - Christian tradition are ones that emphasize the transcendence of God and the distance between God and the world: God as king with the world as his realm, God as potter who creates the cosmos by molding it, God as speaker who with a word brings the world to be out of nothing.

«I do not believe that multiplication of wants and machinery contrived to supply them is taking the world a single step nearer its goal... I whole - heartedly detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time, to increase animal appetites and go to the ends of the earth in search of their satisfaction.

It is only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»

A Christian theologian, Frei explained, will therefore «do ethics to indicate that this narrated, narratable world is at the same time the ordinary world of our experience, and he will do ad hoc apologetics, in order to throw into relief particular features of this world by distancing them from or approximating them to other descriptions....

This process is no longer even within hailing distance of the Enlightenment quest for both universalism and individualism in one rationally coherent world, and for a nonprovincial theology and morality.

In Eastern depictions of space, the area most distant from the viewer is spread out as the world expands in the distance, while the area close at hand is narrow and confined.

well, my take on this whole discussion is that this cartoon was meant to expose the distance between what an scripture says (the whole world being reconciled) and what we actually think (but obviously not those who's lifestyle we disagree with).

The argument for globalization is that the productivity of the world increases, marvelous technological advances are available for all, including long distance instantaneous Communication, the resources are used more efficiently, humankind's needs can thus be satisfied.

Only man can perform this act of setting at a distance because only man has a «world» — an unbroken continuum which includes not only all that he and other men know and experience but all that is knowable now and in the future.

The feral child brought up by the wolves has a human body and originally a human brain, but it is not human: it does not have that distance from the world and other selves which is a necessary presupposition for its entering into relation with a Thou and becoming an I.

Proust's world was preponderantly made up of subjective emotions and objective observations, whereas Dostoievsky and Blake first participated fully in what they experienced and only later attained the distance which enabled them to enter into an artistic relationship with it and give it symbolic and artistic expression.

This sense of distance and marginality had to be lived in creative tension with the real world.

That the Greeks interpreted man in terms of categories derived from the distancing of the world, and that this entailed certain limitations in the apprehension of personal responsibility, should not be difficult to understand in our day.

Greek existence came into being through an act of aesthetic distancing of nature and the gods, which freed the Greek to become aware of the formal properties of the world.

For example, studying advanced geometry is important because it makes students consider worlds quite different from the world they assume to be «true» — worlds where parallel lines meet, where the shortest distance between two points is a curved line.

The preacher has the opportunity to step into the distance between the listener and the world view that was created by the question.

That such world was primarily the region of the group's habitat means little for our purpose, except as the limitation added to its mystery when distance beckoned in all directions into the unknown.

I would encourage you not to distance yourself from the things about Jesus that you have a hard time with but to instead hold all of these things in tension because nothing less than this is required if we are to be the church in the midst of a watching world.

Only where the world was aesthetically distanced could the gods be aesthetically projected, and only where the mythical power of the gods was broken by such a projection could man be really free to enjoy his aesthetically distanced environment.

And I didn't just move into residence, I went all the way from my home in Calgary, Alberta to Tulsa, Oklahoma in the days before texting and FaceTime or reasonable rates for long distance phone calls from our plugged - into - the - wall phones (in fact, my first email address was assigned to me from the Freshman Orientation team and I remember saying to my parents, «Why in the world would I need THIS?»).

Yet, it is also radically different from the type of projection characteristic of mythical existence, because it aesthetically orders the products of unconscious processes into an aesthetically distanced world.

«The best view is by no means the closest view... we consciously stand back and create distance in order to look at the world, i.e., at objects as parts of the world: and also to be unembarrassed by the closeness of that which we wish only to see; to have the full liberty of our scanning attention.»

The incarnation says in the words of history, not only with the words of longing: The infinite mystery which silently surrounds you does not rush towards you so that you will flee from it into your own familiar little life until it overtakes and destroys you in death; it is not only the judgment which orders your small world from the distance and judges Its guilty finiteness.

The essence of the Christian ethic is to be in the world but not of it — to recognize the vitality and goodness in the world while at the same time maintaining sufficient critical distance to seek its transformation or, in theological terms, its redemption from sin.

This is our blessed hope, the hope that's not like the hope world has, but the Hope that's only a time - distance away from becoming reality.

Because of the so called revolution in communication, brought about by the newest technological discoveries, distances relatively become closer, borders become more porous, interrelations become more dynamic, isolationism is replaced by openness, nations seek new ways to develop more positive and meaningful co-existence, and thus the awareness of the plurality of the world becomes more apparent.

But that is but an indication of why it is necessary that this narrative be carried by a body of people who have the skills to give them critical distance on the world.

I believe that it is insofar as we remain bound to the dominant Western symbol of the eternal and unchanging distance between God and the world.

The really important distance is that you gradually made your way into a world of which your parents could have little experience or understanding.

Our «science» is simply a way for us to explain the world around us... nobody has ever seen a graviton but we know it warps space / time and that it interacts across vast distances but in a much smaller way than the strong nuclear force for example (which again is a made up force on our part to just understand our universe)

Now I recognize that process theology is far more sophisticated than Boston Personalism, and more sophisticated precisely because it is genuinely philosophical, but I fail to detect any substantial or real theological distance between Boston Personalism and Chicago Process Theology, just as I can not fail to observe that both are so clearly related to the social world of modern American liberal Protestantism.