Growing up in the Mormon Church, we were taught to "liken the scriptures unto us," meaning, take all the words of the scripture and make them pertinent in our own lives.
"Why aren't we buying groceries," she asks, and I tell her that the lesson of today is delayed gratification, and that putting off our tasks until they're pertinent makes them all the more satisfying, and anyway the produce will be fresher if it waits in the store and not in the car.
Suárez deals with categories in some detail in Disputation 39 of the Metaphysical Disputations (henceforth DM), although he also makes pertinent comments about them elsewhere (for example, in DE q. 75, a. 1, d. 47, s. 1, n. 4; 1861 vol. 21, p. 45a).
Adam Gopnik makes many pertinent observations in his essay on the relationship between college athletics and higher education (Comment, May 12th).
What makes this pertinent is that "Snakeoil" sounds unmistakably like a well-financed studio product, without thwarting the restive or abrasive qualities of Mr. Berne's music.
The increasing involvement of these forest types in carbon trading makes a pertinent issue.
The transitivity-induced parameter dependence makes the pertinent parameter space a complex manifold.
This makes it pertinent to discuss how feasible it will be to implement the 2013 WHO guidelines to initiate all HIV-positive pregnant women on ART for life (Option B+).
Icíar Bollaín's bluntly political film "Even the Rain" makes pertinent, if heavy-handed, comparisons between European imperialism five centuries ago and modern globalization.
However cerebral, linguistic or enigmatic Mr. Nauman's work can be, he is profoundly involved with form as a vehicle for complex, nonverbal experiences, which makes him more pertinent than ever.
