This is finally compounded by our all-too-human insistence to base our news stories and response plans on the pattern we expect, instead of the situations we actually see.
Many non-Catholics appreciate the church's insistence on human dignity against dehumanizing and uprooting trends of the modern world.
The one sign of human frailty was his insistence that the hordes of visiting photographers favor his "good" side, the left.
Their scenarios were remarkable for an uncompromising insistence on human cruelty and the oppressiveness and exploitativeness of capitalist class and social structures.
Although insistence on human biology has been used conservatively, to limit rather than liberate women, Kingsolver's view of nature is no endorsement of the nuclear family.
He echoed Bachelet's insistence that human rights were sacrosanct and that flouting them was incompatible with the duty of a Chilean officer.
The service reminded me of the movement's philosophical origins, in the forties and fifties, in a Catholic sense of alarm at the relativism that was rampant in American life, and an insistence on human frailty.
Despite its retention of Athenian Neoplatonism's hairsplitting logic and theosophical fantasy, Damascius' work opens the way to genuine mysticism by his insistence that human speculation can never attain to the ineffable first principle.
The replacement of pre-Christian ideas of fate and genuine ignorance – the basic ingredients of classical tragedy – with an uncompromising insistence on human freedom has, of course, made its way into philosophies that are not explicitly religious.
The closest the Pope usually comes to discussing secular politics is his embrace of religious freedom and other human rights and his insistence on policies that help the poor.
