Chomsky often states his criticism as an a priori argument against animal language: : "if an animal had a capacity as biologically sophisticated as language but somehow hadn't used it until now, it would be an evolutionary miracle, like finding an island of humans who could be taught to fly" (cited in Lloyd 2004, 585).
They married and were sent to Auschwitz and survived through the grace of multiple miracles — including finding each other again after the war.
If Obama wins (he is now the odds-on favorite), she can say she supported the party nominee when she panders for the GOP nomination in 2016 (that, too, will be a scam); if Romney were to pull off a miracle (and it would be a bigger miracle than Joseph Smith finding those golden plates in upstate New York nearly two centuries ago), Palin could claim that her last-minute endorsement played a roll.
"I figure she can give us the miracle of Cathy finding a job".
Not hope in the sense of getting better or finding miracle cures but in meaning-making; making the present count and finding the sacred in the ordinary.
Many of the thousands of churches in South Africa are small informal houses of worship run by pastors who engineer what they or their believers refer to as miracles — healing illnesses, finding jobs or exorcising demons, authorities say.
My father was always dieting and eating processed, freeze-dried, saccharin-loaded diet products in the hopes of losing weight and finding the miracle solution to his struggles.
The first is that we have plenty of ways to find new medicines, which don't involve trekking through thousands of miles of dangerous jungle in the faint hope of finding a miracle plant.
Governor Jay Inslee, who toured the disaster zone by helicopter on Sunday, said relatives had not given up all hope of finding a "miracle" survivor, and neither had authorities.
Really, 'Big Miracle' is all about finding the common ground". For The Record Los Angeles Times Friday, February 03 , 2012Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 29 words Type of Material: Correction "Big Miracle": An article about the film "Big Miracle" in the Feb. 2 Calendar section identified Adam Fogelson as co-chairman of Universal Pictures.
