When we say that a mythological mode of thought must be completely abandoned, we mean it must be abandoned as the sole or proper means for presenting the Christian understanding of existence.

In his own words, " his statues were the sole proofs of his civil existence.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The Prussian army was unique in Europe for having the only General Staff in existence, whose sole purpose was to direct operational movement, organise logistics and communications and develop the overall war strategy.

Even when Lear and Cordelia are captured together, this madness persists as Lear envisions a nursery in prison, where Cordelia ’ s sole existence is for him.

With a variety of items on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, including an inert Titan II missile, Site 571-7 is now known as the Titan Missile Museum and is the sole remaining example of a Titan II missile site in existence.

Destruction then explains that the sole reason for his existence, in his opinion, is to define the opposite of what the realm they rule over thereby giving meaning to the Universe.

The definite article when used as part of the title ( in languages that use definite articles ) emphasizes the existence of a sole " true " leader.

Noam Chomsky ’ s concept of innate language addresses the existence of universal grammar, which suggests a special kind of “ device ” all humans are born with whose sole purpose is language.

Led by outfielders Boo Moore and Ray Moon and pitchers Jeff Gregg, Brian Heil, David Holland and Eric Lovedahl, the team finished in second place in the league's sole season of existence.

When teased or misused excessively, brownies become boggarts — creatures whose sole existence is to play tricks and cause trouble for people.

While some of the newly created academies did improve the relatively rigid structure, the prestige and meaning of the title has been substantially undermined, as the title Academician could be awarded by associations of pseudoscientists or organizations that see their sole purpose of the existence of selling the title for money.

The British Idealists did not, however, reify the State in the manner that Hegel apparently did ; Green in particular spoke of the individual as the sole locus of value and contended that the State's existence was justified only insofar as it contributed to the realization of value in the lives of individual persons.

The Communists declared the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) as the successor state of the Republic of China ( ROC ), while the Nationalists championed the continued existence of the Republic of China as the sole legitimate Chinese government.

God is the sole being whose existence is the same as His essence: " what subsists in God is His existence.

Hermes himself was very largely under the influence of the Kantian and Fichtean ideas, and though in the philosophical portion of his Einleitung he criticizes both these thinkers severely, rejects their doctrine of the moral law as the sole guarantee for the existence of God, and condemns their restricted view of the possibility and nature of revelation, enough remained of purely speculative material to render his system obnoxious to his church.

An example where this requirement is almost the sole purpose for a handle's existence is the handle that consists of two pieces: a hollow wooden cylinder about the diameter of a finger and a bit longer than one hand-width, and a stiff wire that passes through the center of the cylinder, has two right angles, and is shaped into a hook at each end.

From the scattered references in the ancient philosophical literature which were completely hostile to the ancient materialist schools, Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya reconstructed the philosophy of Lokayata, which consistently denied the existence of brahman and viewed pratyaksa ( perception ) as the sole means of knowledge.

There was even a group put together called the Waterworks Park Improvement Association, which happened to be run by real estate agents from Detroit and nearby cities, whose sole reason of existence was to create controversy against the idea of allowing blacks to move to white neighborhoods.

British comedian Tony Hancock was the sole person in " The Bedsitter " ( Hancock 1961 ) by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the BBC, a classic depiction of the boredom of bedsit existence.

Rather, Judaism in that case would call upon its adherents to give even greater reverence than ever before to the one, sole God Who, in His boundless creative wisdom and eternal omnipotence, needed to bring into existence no more than one single, amorphous nucleus and one single law of " adaptation and heredity " in order to bring forth, from what seemed chaos but was in fact a very definite order, the infinite variety of species we know today, each with its unique characteristics that sets it apart from all other creatures.

A Dormant Partnership ( Stille Gesellschaft ) comes into existence when a person makes a contribution to an existing enterprise ( company, partnership, sole proprietorship ) and shares in the latter's profits.

With the enactment of the National Banking Act of 1863, during the American Civil War and its later versions that taxed states ' bonds and currency out of existence, the dollar became the sole currency of the United States and remains so today.

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Robert Lamm was also unavailable for the majority of the album's production due to personal issues, and the once-prolific writer only shared a sole partial writing credit on the release.

As of 2006, 1, 449, 695 Canadians residents stated they had Italian ancestry, in which 741, 045 had sole Italian origins while the other 704, 285 were of partial Italian origin along with other ethnic origins, chiefly with other European ethnic groups e. g. Italian-Irish, Italian-English, Italian-French, etc.

The song did so well commercially that when Price wrote the song " You Belong to Me " the next year, she felt she could do better by ceding partial credit for authorship to King and Stewart than trying to publicize the song herself, so that song as well was credited to King, Stewart, and Price, though Price was the sole author.

" Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi has condemned the proposition which asserts that it is not a sin to eat or to drink from the sole motive of satisfying the palate.

In these examples the syntactic subject position ( to the left of the verb ) is manned by the meaningless expletive (" it " or " there "), whose sole purpose is satisfying the Extended Projection Principle, and is nevertheless unnecessary.

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

* 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.

In Adrianople ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was regarded as the sole comforter of his family – in particular to his mother.

* Cleopatra II of Egypt ( c. 185 – 116 BC ), queen ( and briefly sole ruler ) of Ptolemaic Egypt

* 771 – Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.

* 361 – Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.

Rome herself ( including her environs, as defined by a-radius perimeter around the City itself ) was not under the authority of the praetorian prefect, as she was to be administered by a City Prefect of senatorial rank – the sole prestigious post with actual power reserved exclusively for senators, except for some governors in Italy with the titles of corrector and the proconsuls of Asia and Africa.

The Red Wings have not used any alternate logos or uniforms since the trend became popular in the 1990s, the sole exceptions were select games of the 1991 – 92 season commemorating the league's 75th Anniversary, and for a commemorative game in 1994 at Chicago Stadium.

His sole reign is dated by Albright as 715 – 687 BC, and by Thiele as 716 – 687 BC ( the last ten years being a co-regency with his son Manasseh ).

* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

* 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4, 500 men and 12, 000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

William F. Albright has dated his reign to 786 BC – 746 BC, while E. R. Thiele says he was coregent with Jehoash 793 BC to 782 BC and sole ruler 782 BC to 753 BC.

* Hook kick ( heel kick ) – Extending the leg out to the side of the body, and hooking the leg back to strike the head with either the heel or sole

As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833 – 34, during which he was deposed.

Gérard Houllier was appointed co-manager in the 1998 – 99 season and became the sole manager in November 1998 after Evans resigned.

The post-read control is designed so that applications need not issue a search request after an update – it is bad form to retrieve an entry for the sole purpose of checking that an update worked because of the replication eventual consistency model.

* 180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.

In Sri Lanka's humiliating drubbing at the hands of India in 1993 – 94, where all three Tests were innings defeats, Muralitharan was the sole success, with 12 wickets in the rubber.

After the Sino – Soviet split, communist parties of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China each claimed to be the sole intellectual heir to Marxism – Leninism.

* 312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor.

() William F. Albright has dated his reign to 876 – 869 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates of 888 BC to 880 BC for his rivalry with Tibni and 880 – 874 BC for his sole reign.