It is made efficacious by virtue of its divine institution by Christ in order to establish a bond of union between God and man.
The question of the relationship between a person's act of nembutsu and Amida Buddha's Other Power or between trust in Amida's vow, which infuses each human act of nembutsu with Other Power, and the practice of the nembutsu, which has been devised and made efficacious for beings by the Buddha raises profound questions concerning the sources and significance of human subjectivity and agency.
However, the participants do not view it as a novelty, but as part of a continuum designed to make medicine more scientific, efficacious and efficient.
"Once we find new targets, we can use animal models to provide proof-of-principle results and test causality between a specific target and a disease feature, and then go back and forth between animal and human samples to make this process more efficacious" Which is the biggest challenge in kidney research at the moment?
In any one sacrificial rite a number of intentions may be expressed, and the ultimate goal of all sacrifice is to establish a beneficial relationship with the sacred order, to make the sacred power present and efficacious.
The priestly movement was centred in the temple of Ugarit, and the religious texts discovered there (Ras Shamra) were essentially liturgical documents devised to make the sacred drama enacted there efficacious.
Not only do the more complicated regimens cost more but additional expensive laboratory tests, such as genotypes and phenotypes, are required to assess the degree and type of HIV drug resistance to make appropriate prescribing decisions about alternate efficacious ARV regimens.
For Gen-Xers, the squeeze may be the push that we need to make ourselves that much more qualified and efficacious in leading 21st century change.
So while the temptation may be to continue with the discourse to date – Europe as a series of headaches, Mr Cameron as the man dispensing the aspirin – it could be more efficacious, as well as braver, to make a more principled stand.
