Sentences with phrase «if taken at face value»

A fight about cabinets, which can seem unreasonable if taken at face value, is thus often a fight about much deeper emotions and relationship concerns.

If taken at face value based on media reports (at this point, I've yet to find a full copy of the report) this appears to be no exception.

For Hume advanced a philosophy that, if taken at face value, would not only undermine the claims to truth of religion but those of morality and of science also.

«I love this one: http://theresurgence.com/2012/… The author, if you take him at face value, admits that 1 % of the Bible has errors.

I love this one: http://theresurgence.com/2012/05/28/what-to-say-when-someone-says-the-bible-has-errors The author, if you take him at face value, admits that 1 % of the Bible has errors.

I do not think it is a case of being «unwilling» to wait, I think if we take it at face value, they're trying to be pro-active.

If you take at face value the argument that his claims were «bluster», the implications are still worrying.

Sometimes it's better if they take them at face value and find out more about them along with the rest of us.

I have some methodological concerns about that study, but in any case, even if you take it at face value, what it tells you is that higher value - added teachers» students earn more on average.»

The more substantive problem with the argument, if we take it at face value, is it's own inability to understand the terms of the climate debate.

7) It left «unresolved mysteries» yes, but they were quickly forgettable if you take it at face value which, frankly, when making a film... you're encouraged to firmly believe your audience is made up entirely by idiots who will do just that.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it wasn't that the polls were wrong about the UK election; results were close, if you took people's voting intentions at face value.

And if your description is to be taken at face value, what it has engendered is compromise in order to gain comfort in numbers.

There are many methods of communication found throughout the New Testament that screw us up if we take the text at face value.

In short — if you take everything in the Bible at face value — you'll end up shovelling snow in July...

I don't think I could take his opinions at face value, if he really thinks most people are fools.

If you undermine their authority (to take at face value and not resort to «they were deluded and scapegoating»), aren't you undermining perhaps the most significant apologetic we have to know that the resurrection really happened?

I'd say he got it right even if his wit is lost on some who would take his comments at face value.

If it is not devine there is no way you should take it at face value.

What I mean is that, if you take 1 Timothy 2:12 in it's most plain sense, at face value, then women are not allowed to teach period; somehow you have inferred that men can learn from women when done «PRIVATELY» but not «IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.»

If the Bible taken at face value can not be trusted, then Christianity is only for the elites who can nuance it just so.

If we take the bible at face value the god which got her pregnant was at least a few thousand years old.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

If you don't take the Bible at face value, then look to men like Polycarp, Clement, and Ignatius who were taught by the Apostles, and read as much as you can about these men as well as what they themselves wrote.

There are tons of words within James 1 and 2 which evidence that James is speaking to folks as if to take their faith at face value and is simply urging them to get to work.

The contestants were told that hostages will drown if they fail, and he takes that threat at face value; we are left to wonder how the good Dumbledore came to consent to such an emotionally abusive contest.

People are explaining to you that your are misinterpreting scripture and explaining that if you do not study scripture and just take things at their superficial face value you are probably going to draw an erroneous conclusion.

If you tell your wife you love her, she may take you at face value, or perhaps she may ask you to buy her a ring and some roses now and again as «proof».

Unless Gazidis and Wenger have this kind of a pattern in mind... we are in for some super thrashing this season if he and Wenger's words are to be taken at face value...

If anyone is silly enough to take anything that Wenger says at face value then you have been in a coma for the better part of 10 years or simply a season ticket holder that gladly renews each year in May when the talking heads from corporate Arsenal start their usual blather about the transfer market and the inevitable success that lies ahead... stop talking Wenger and start doing the very things you and the rest of the suits keep spewing each and every year... just imagine how amazing this squad would be if we even did half the things that Gazidis claimed we would or if Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» clIf anyone is silly enough to take anything that Wenger says at face value then you have been in a coma for the better part of 10 years or simply a season ticket holder that gladly renews each year in May when the talking heads from corporate Arsenal start their usual blather about the transfer market and the inevitable success that lies ahead... stop talking Wenger and start doing the very things you and the rest of the suits keep spewing each and every year... just imagine how amazing this squad would be if we even did half the things that Gazidis claimed we would or if Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» clif we even did half the things that Gazidis claimed we would or if Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» clif Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» club

OK, if we just take his comments at face value we can come up with at least one big reason why he might want to return to Boca Juniors: He wants to ensure he's on the World Cup squad.

I am taking the word at face value... if there is some specialized definition that is more applicable, maybe somebody here who is qualified to comment can do so.

Would I be willing to share my struggles if my still - growing communication skills were taken at face value instead of my heart being heard?

Even if we take this study's findings at face value, 15 additional babies out of every 100,000 will die of SIDS because of bedsharing.

even if I take the numbers you provide at face value... ok, so say a midwife «goes to university» for 4 - 8 years to become a midwife.

I'm asking whether it's proven, and if it's taken at face value, what sort of risk are you're talking about?»

«If we take David Nicholson's almost unbelievable claim that he knew nothing about these major reports at face value, he has directed our attention to others to find out who buried these potent reports, putting Labour's political health above patient safety.»

If you were to take the excellent Jim Pickard's report at face value, you would conclude that innumerable shifty recruitment consultants are queuing up around the back of Labour Party HQ, signing up unsuspecting politicos for the public affairs industry.

My question, if this was taken at face - value, and the President really wanted to force a private company to help him apply a blanket Upvote to everybody on Reddit, why could / can't he, and what would he have to do to accomplish this?

(Don't take any support from the City Council at face value: In budget season, members fear Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will penalize their districts if they don't side with her in honoring OLR, her idol.)

If you take any information from this website or any website at face value and go try it without medical or professional supervision, you can and very well might get what is coming to you, including death, injury, disability, loss of your birthday, or being sent out to sea.

If you want to know how to lose weight or improve your health, look up the original research papers instead of taking second hand information at face value.

Taking your blowdryer at face value is a big mistake if you're a curly girl.

Even if we take the - married and 5 kids in an 8 - year span (or less) immediately after stopping online dating - at face value, one is left wondering how many happily married woman with children (5, no less) would be devoting this much of their time to online «hubs.»

That's if you choose to take it at face value.

Taken at face value, the logline appears to resemble any number of American comedies: A loving, if slightly unbearable, parent wants to teach his loved ones a lesson about letting go and living in the moment.

So if we take the ending at face value, what does it mean for the future of the franchise?

I never knew if I should take him at face value or if he knew more than what he was leading on.

Here's the funny thing: Even if you take the union officials» numbers at face value, the result actually confirms the thrust of Dropout Nation's analysis.