Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

Among them, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, are: ( 1 ) shorter work weeks, ( 2 ) higher pay, ( 3 ) longer paid vacations, ( 4 ) better transportation, ( 5 ) earlier retirement, and ( 6 ) more education.

Further, the management path does not open the door to higher opportunities than are offered by the more technical path.

The recent federal government's student-loan program is another step in the direction of making higher education more available to lower-status youth.

These minimum costs may come to $1 per month, more or less, for residential and small commercial customers, although they are substantially higher for large industrial users, who require more costly connections and metering devices.

Closed molding generally resulted in parts weighing more ( because of higher density ) than parts fabricated from free-blown foams.

In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

The revenue from O'Banion's Cicero territory went up still higher, until the yield was more than the Torrio-Capone takings from the far bigger trade area of Chicago's South and West Sides.

City Finance Director Richard J. McConnell indorsed the higher fees, which, he said, had been under study for more than a year.

`` In August our dealers sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September retail sales were 14% higher than last year '', says Mark V. Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester Co..

: Hunters widely sharing the meat has been seen as a costly signal of ability and research has found that good hunters have higher reproductive success and more adulterous relations even if they themselves receive no more of the hunted meat than anyone else.

Eastern Anatolia, where the Pontus and Taurus mountain ranges converge, is rugged country with higher elevations, a more severe climate, and greater precipitation than are found on the Anatolian Plateau.

The Compact also includes a $ 146 million project to increase the productivity of approximately 250, 000 farm households through improved water supply, higher yields, higher-value crops, and a more competitive agricultural sector.

Black sign language speakers are also more likely to sign higher on the body.

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Alberta's per capita GDP in 2007 was 61 % higher than the Canadian average of C $ 46, 441 and more than twice that of all the Maritime provinces.

The dimmer an object ( at a distance of 10 parsecs ) would appear, the higher ( more positive ) its absolute magnitude becomes.

The lower ( more negative ) an object's absolute magnitude, the higher its luminosity.

This work is stored in the bow as elastic potential energy, and when the bowstring is released, this stored energy is imparted to the arrow much more quickly than can be delivered by the muscles, resulting in much higher velocity and, hence, greater distance.

The SCC cost about $ 5 more than a UART, but offered much higher speeds up to 250 kbit / s ( or higher with additional hardware ) and internally supported a number of basic networking-like protocols like IBM's Bisync.

APCs are fundamentally different from the previously used armoured half-tracks in that they offer a higher level of protection from artillery burst fragments, and greater mobility in more terrain types.

This unique type of singing involves the production of two distinctively audible pitches at the same time, including a low pedal note, or drone, derived from the fundamental frequency of the vocal cord vibrations, and higher melodic notes that result when the singer's mouth acts as a filter, selecting one note at a time from among the drone's natural overtone series pitches.

It has a distinctively different, slightly less dry flavour than the much more commonly available London Dry Gin, as it contains a higher than usual proportion of root ingredients, which bring a more ' earthy ' feel to the gin, as well as a smoother juniper hit.

These core beliefs are shared by the Anabaptists who belong to the conservative Mennonite streams ( including the Old Order, horse-and-buggy-driving groups ) – who tend to dress distinctively and to live separately from mainstream society, thus avoiding higher education – as well as those modern Anabaptists who attend EMU and who go on to become physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, lawyers, business people, teachers and other highly educated citizens fully functioning in the larger world.

Researcher Michael Shoemaker, while noting some similarities to spider monkeys, argues that the creature has a few pronounced differences: its chest and hands are different ; its face is much more oval than the spider monkey's distinctively triangular visage ; it lacks the spider monkey ’ s pronounced underbite ; and has a much higher forehead than spider monkeys.

`` From its beginning '', the trustees' statement said Friday, `` Emory University has assumed as its primary commitment a dedication to excellence in Christian higher learning.

`` When and if it can do so without jeopardizing constitutional and statutory tax-exemption privileges essential to the maintenance of its educational program and facilities, Emory University will consider applications of persons desiring to study or work at the University without regard to race, color or creed, continuing university policy that all applications shall be considered on the basis of intellectual and moral standards and other criteria designed to assure the orderly and effective conduct of the university and the fulfillment of its mission as an institution of Christian higher education ''.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

Traditional Christian scholarship has dated the composition of the gospel to the early 60s, while higher criticism dates it to the later decades of the 1st century.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Western scholars of Islam started to critically engage with the Islamic texts, subjecting them to the same agnostic, searching scrutiny that had previously been applied to Christian texts ( see higher criticism ).

The Christian population of the empire, owing to their higher educational levels, started to pull ahead of the Muslim majority, leading to much resentment on the part of the latter.

* Thomas Aquinas: In synthesizing Christian theology and Peripatetic ( Aristotelian ) teaching, Aquinas contends that God's gift of higher reason — manifest in human law by way of the divine virtues — gives way to the assembly of righteous government.

Other private schools can also be religious, such as Christian schools, hawzas, yeshivas, and others ; or schools that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements.

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

In some contexts, theology has been held to belong in institutions of higher education primarily as a form of professional training for Christian ministry.

Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.

Conrad Celtes was more of a free-thinking humanist and placed a higher value on the ancient pagan, rather than the Christian ideal.

Admiral Gottfried Hanson, head of the Verband deutscher Soldaten veterans ' group in a letter in support of Raeder sent to the three western high commissioners ' for Germany declared: " As a friend of many years ' standing, and certain that all ex-members of the Navy will agree with me, I venture to say that no military leader could had educated and influenced his subordinates from a higher moral and Christian level than did Raeder ... both as a man and a Christian ... How can genuine peace and real understanding among the nations of the occident be brought about ... if true right and justice is not applied to the Germans that are still be kept prisoners?

This lineal succession of Sufi guides is the nearest approach within Islam to the concept of Christian ordination and apostolic succession, but the similarity is superficial and a murshid is not a priest but merely a teacher of Sufi philosophy ; they do not have any special or higher position than any other Muslim.

The Richmond area has many major institutions of higher education, including Virginia Commonwealth University ( public ), University of Richmond ( private ), Virginia Union University ( private ), Virginia College ( private ), Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education ( private ), and the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond ( BTSR — private ).

* Columbia International University, formerly Columbia Bible College, formerly a Christian institution of higher education located in Columbia, South Carolina

In 1852, Tufts College was founded by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a non-sectarian institution of higher learning.

These universities evolved from much older Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools, and it is difficult to define the date at which they became true universities, although the lists of studia generalia for higher education in Europe held by the Vatican are a useful guide.

Prior to the establishment of universities, European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools ( Scholae monasticae ), in which monks and nuns taught classes ; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century AD.

* University of the Southwest: is a small Christian institution of higher education.

These higher ' Chivalric and Historic ' orders met in ' encampments ' rather than lodges and were predominately Christian in their outlook and composition.

The city is also home to several higher education units, including three religiously affiliated private universities: Abilene Christian University ( ACU ), Hardin-Simmons University ( HSU ), and McMurry University ( McM ), as well as the Abilene campus of Cisco College ( CC ), a West Texas campus of Texas State Technical College ( TSTC ), and American Commercial College ( ACC ).

In the Passio, Christian faith motivates the martyrs to reject family loyalties and acknowledge a higher authority.

Manhattan Christian College ( MCC ) is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, USA.