Sentences with phrase «'s official position»

«The official position of so many jurisdictions now is that they want less solitary,» said Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a co-author of the report.

The AIA's bylaws don't allow the organization to endorse candidates or take official positions on political controversies, including prison design.

They go beyond his answers to senators» questions, providing Facebook's latest official positions on big topics like succession and corporate restructuring.

However, one service's official position does not prevent others from disagreeing and putting forth other arguments regarding the stock.

Customers with Mt. Gox accounts will not be receiving their bitcoins or possibly even other currencies in what is effectively an insolvency, though no - one in an official position is using that word.

And the South Korean official position is that most initial coin offerings have a greater probability to be a scam rather than a financial instrument.

It wasn't until the 1980's that the various synods of Lutherans took official positions against the antisemitic writings of Martin Luther.

Although Obama could, theoretically, dodge either of these votes, he is largely expected to weigh in with his official position.

The official position of all local churches is that the Holy and Great Council is desirable.

It is not without interest that such dissenters are frequently most enthusiastic about the Church taking official positions on innumerable issues in political dispute.

Otherwise, we would have assumed every tweet they posted was the official position of whatever church / ministry / Christian college / business they work for.

But as the years pass and memories fade, it becomes ever more valuable to reflect on how such a young man (he was 39 when he was killed) without official position gained so much power.

If we take a look at our Catholic brothers and sisters, we can see how Pope Francis has quickly shifted the public perception of the Catholic Church, even though many of his official positions related to contentious issues remain the same.

While other scholars» have noted that women had been» active in ministry since the founding of the church, Blumhofer's analysis reveals that the official position was at best ambiguous.

North Korea's official position is that the country is atheist.

It is the official position of the Roman Catholic Church that Catholics do not pray TO saints or Mary, but rather that Catholics can ask saints or Mary to pray FOR them.

Park was accused of allowing a non-governmental friend to weigh in and influence topics from her wardrobe to who would be placed in official positions; she is also accused of extorting millions from South Korean companies with the help of this friend.

Since the church teaching office appears determined to maintain its present positions, and even to discipline some of the theologians who propose other views, those interested in changing the church's official positions must first deal with the ecclesiological question.

1) «The Catholic Church» has no official position on whether «brothers» of Jesus were cousins or half - brothers.

Not to mention, the church had no official position on evolution, and hadn't taken Genesis literally for quite some time.

But this is definitely not the official position of the Orthodox Church.

Authority it was, with no backing of official position or traditional prestige, to say nothing of legal sanctions or the ultimate sanction of force.

Formal dialogue, in which authorized representatives of faith communities present their official positions, has never attracted me.

Caucuses are ways in which groups who find the official positions of the church wrong or inadequate can organize to give voice and influence to their views.

The ACSM's 16 - member board was so incensed by this false inference that it unanimously passed a resolution asking that this misuse of its name be retracted, since the ACSM has taken no official position on the projection.

7) The official position of the Roman Church on political orders is that the Church can adapt itself to various types of government, whether monarchic or republican, aristocratic or democratic.

- There was one question that Mark felt he did not have enough knowledge of the official position to answer — but you will see that question tomorrow.

I believe that the Catholic Church's official position concerning homosexuality tends to promote sickness manifested In denial or rationalization,..

This is the official position of the Church.

However, in addition to his official position regarding the deficiency of Premise X (that it is meaningless), Griffin's arguments and remarks suggest at least two other ways of understanding the vagueries of this proposition.

Heck, no comments... they published what you wrote, so I guess that's an official position of CNN?

The study also included an effort to determine how much agreement exists between individual members» views and the official theological positions of the church, first by interviewing theologians to determine what the official positions were, then by surveying pastors to see if these positions were taught, and finally by surveying members about their own beliefs.

Protestants should therefore be careful not to caricature the official position of the church with regard to authority.

Apparently this remained the official position until the fourth century.

Apart from the pressures on my time, which have been quite heavy as we prepared for the various events in the life of CCA, one of the reasons for this is the fact that there has been a tendency, perhaps even the assumption, that by virtue of my position in the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), what I say on any given topic indicates official position.

That what I say on this subject does not represent official position or even any sense of consensus in the CCA or m the ecumenical movement.

So to understand how I read your question, replace «the Pope or the official positions of the Church» with «Jesus Christ.»

From Jessica K.: Do you feel free to disagree with the Pope or the official positions of the church?

Maryland Bill is correct — the official position is theistic evolution, but it raises an interesting problem: if humans evolved, Adam and Eve is impossible, and the Bible is wrong.

For example, they occur in the Dialogues of Pope Gregory, 2 the Great, a man whose high official position is surpassed only by the magnitude of his services to humanity.

In 1992 he campaigned for a Colorado anti-gay-rights amendment, calling homosexuality «an abomination against almighty God» (Promise Keepers» official position is that homosexuality is a sin which «violates God's design».).

I think the most powerful arguments against unrestricted legal abortion are made by Feminists for Life, which organized in 1972 when the National Organization for Women would not reconsider its official position on abortion.

This addition sharply curtails the range of dissent from the official positions of the Vatican, because it blurs the distinction between fallible and infallible.

This is the official position of traditional Calvinists.

Moreover, it has a lasting tradition in the history of the church, whose official position has always been to shield homosexuals from the application of civil authority.

Some years before Harold Lindsell triggered The Battle for the Bible in 1976 (9) by arguing that inerrancy is the hallmark of evangelicalism, the AG published in 1970 an official position paper bearing the title «the Inerrancy of the Scriptures.»

«Concerning biological evolution, the Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time.

The Fellowship does not issue official positions on homosexuality or other social issues.

To most Catholics it is less acceptable to censure those who defend the right to dissent than it is to censure those who appear to reject the official position on abortion.

But will this film cause the Turkish government to change their official position (which has remained consistent since 1914) to deny the facts and to reframe the narrative of the genocide?