Sentence examples for positive cause from inspiring English sources

Ockham appears to have adopted the main elements of Auriol's stance, while Walter Chatton at Oxford and Gerard Odonis and Thomas of Strasbourg at Paris went further and posited a positive cause of predestination in the elect, which would appear to approach the condemned Pelagian doctrine.

"It's a very positive cause," he said.

"You made millions of dollars making fun of others and now that you have money you want to change … If you really want people to take you [seriously] you will donate all the money you have made in all the years you made fun of others to a positive cause".

Thus Auriol thought he could avoid charges of Pelagianism by simply denying a positive cause of predestination in the elect.

Gregory reacted by charging that both the theory of the privative cause and the notion of the positive cause of predestination in those who are predestined are Pelagian.

For Auriol, while someone's obstacle to grace is indeed a positive cause of reprobation, the absence of such an obstacle, however, is merely a negative or privative cause of predestination.

— LYNN ZINSER Delpopolo statement via USOC, positive "caused by my inadvertent consumption of food that I did not realize had been baked with marijuana".

The results of numerous empirical studies show the existence of a positive cause-effect relationship between production processes and perceived effects on the environment.

The losses were attributed to mostly positive causes by Tesla, however, if there can be said to be a positive reason for coming up short millions of dollars.

Dupré's proposed usage will count as (positive) causes many things that will be mixed causes in Eells' proposed usage.

Nash's father said his son wants to use his platform to "communicate positive messages and to support positive causes" — and not, presumably, to spread misinformation, as in the HIV vine.