Sentences with phrase «taking on the assertion»

Health Habits takes on the assertion that grains are a great source of these nutrients:

Not exact matches

That could lead to future data scandals that may make people take Zuckerberg up on his assertion that if Facebook can't keep people's data safe, they shouldn't use it.

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

Now, if you want to take your favourite sin and insert it into the meaning, go ahead, but don't expect anybody to be fooled by your assertions and don't expect anybody to be convinced of your doctrine that you build on such a shaky foundation.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

On the other hand, some of the empiricists have qualified their assertions to take Kuhn's viewpoint into account.

And I find it reprehensable when there are people who claim to know better and take advantage of others based on that assertion.

On the contrary, they are as clearly differentiated from science as we take them to be, precisely because they spring from an interest or concern that is more than merely empirical and because the assertions they typically make or imply are not subject to any strictly empirical mode of verification.

Taken in isolation they only serve to muddy the waters.6 Even in Process and Reality the transformation of God into an actual entity is not wholly complete, and to that extent there is some truth in the assertion that «what little influence Whitehead's God has on the actual world... he has as a principle, not as a being or person, and insofar as God is a personal being, he is without any effect on the actual world.

I would challenge the assertion he has made on his blog «That person, even after I corrected them, still took that to mean that I said, «God both exists and does not exist» — yeah, right!»

Another argument against the banning of junk food advertising to children claims that assertions about causal influences of food advertising on children's diets and weight are flawed because they do not take into consideration other risk factors.

I beg to take exception on some commentator's assertions as follows: I strongly doubt that Wenger condones his players» poor performances.

If you ignore the subtle shaking, it really looks as though the two guys on the left (Jeremy Brisiel and Mike Siano) are taking terrible offense to Cory Schwartz's assertion that Thome doesn't hit lefties well.

I practice many of the tennants of AP, however I take issue with the use of the researtch on attachment classifications and the assertion that not practicing AP can result in the development of Reactive Attachment Disorder.

There was no vote taken on HR 195, so assertion that the republicans «had 51 (affirmative) votes» is incorrect.

This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region, went on an inspection tour on Wednesday to emphasize its assertion that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), is taking its stronghold, the Volta Region, for granted.

• As an activist who knocked on doors in Barnet for the Labour party, I must take issue with Adam Langleben's assertion that «every Jewish Labour household we visited, people said, «Not this time»» (Labour antisemitism scandal is blamed for Tory victory in «easyCouncil» Barnet, 5 May).

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

But growing knowledge about extremophiles on Earth and the environment on Mars has given Levin, who just turned 86, hope that his assertion will finally be taken seriously.

... I'd be really curious to read your take on Vogue's assertion that long and lean (especially with regard to somewhat high - waisted and flowing pants) is the new silhouette.

Leaders of AL teams at CPAHS have drawn from Lingard and Renshaw's assertion that teachers must take on a «researcherly disposition'to improve their practice and that this is further strengthened when «research - informed» teachers collaborate with researchers (Lingard, & Renshaw, 2009).

Before speaking about education when he took the podium in the school's cafeteria, Trump took sharp aim at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on foreign policy and defended his repeated assertion that he was opponent of the Iraq War from the start, a claim that has been debunked by fact checkers.

In his cross-examination, Marcellus McRae, took aim at Seymour's assertion that the district didn't use test scores to make employment decisions on teachers and that despite the district's innovative policies, achievement gaps between ethnic groups persisted.

Consider Datnow and Park's assertion that one reason many school aren't using their reams of data on student achievement powerfully is that leaders dread bringing up the sensitive questions about what specific actions to take in response to what data shows.

-- I'd agree with management's assertion that «much of the capital expenditure in recent years focused on larger infrastructure projects which take a longer time to reach maturity in their returns», so I think underlying ROCE is a few % higher (though that may still remain offset by continued investment) & management's 20 % + ROCE target continues to make sense.

Funny thing though, he would actually take what you said in your first two paragraphs as an attack on him... might even claim you're obsessed simply because you acknowledged his existence (he feels threatened by people smarter than him), and follow it up with goofy assertions about your character... be ready for it!

I have seen discussion time and again about how the subscription model has to focus on keeping you subscribed, so I would say that your assertion is a fallacy itself, a straw man to argue against, rather than something that one might take seriously.

Beckwith and Roelstraete's show has made it difficult to read mainstream 1960s modernism — with its assertions of the moral weight of formal problems — in quite the same way, knowing that artists such as these, working in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, were taking on big questions with a breathtaking blend of tradition and originality.

Likened to an epic journey or an ongoing narrative, these images, which were taken on Eggleston's travels during the 1980s, are loosely organized into thematic groupings that collectively expound on the photographer's assertion that no subject matter is more or less important.

They also prey on the fact that the majority of us are most likely going to take things at face value and will not do the necessary research to verify and vet any of the «facts» or assertions in the reports.

One longstanding assertion of proponents is that the bill would finally inspire China and India to act by proving that the United States is serious about stepping forward on climate; but to satisfy Americans worried about jobs pushed abroad by the domestic emissions cap, the bill includes an eventual border tariff on imports from countries that have not taken action to limit emissions.

There have certainly been incorrect assertions and headlines implying that 20 ft of sea level by 2100 was expected, but they are mostly based on a confusion of a transient rise with the eventual sea level rise which might take hundreds to thousands of years.

The second most frequent argument made by opponents of climate change policies are assertions that governments should not take action on climate change because adverse impacts have not been sufficiently scientifically proven.

Michaels» entire self - defense is based on Hansen's «business as usual» comment, and his own assertion that no significant steps were taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 1988 and 1998.

I don't know, I'm not part of that conspiracy, and I see a lot of assertions on here and elsewhere by people who imply they are smart, or at least smart enough to know more on this issue than the climate scientists who actually professionally study it, who throw around large highfalutin science terms, but that repeatedly misconstrue the basic climate change issue itself, conflate the process of science with Climate Change refutation, seem to have an extensively poor understanding of the issue, and take small select bits of data as part of the ongoing total picture of increasing overall corroboration, to falsely equate that with a flaw in Climate Change theory itself, or as a referendum on it.

OK, what is my take on this kind of interaction with my erstwhile colleagues, given that a flatlining trend of some kind — important, unimportant, significant, insignificant, however you want to characterize it — now seems to be in progress, regardless of the various assertions being offered about it from various quarters?

However, the Court of Appeal — dismissing the suggestion that the fact that the claimant had been able to comment cogently on the model was to be taken as demonstrating that the information provided had been adequate — rejected that assertion (at [45]-RRB-: «Whether the model has weaknesses is a matter on which consultees may properly have something to say... and attention is properly paid to their representations.»

«[T] he Crown takes the position that unless and until there is an actual assertion from Mr. Shah that there are solicitor and client communications on his phone, the principles in Lavallee do not arise.

However, if any of the foregoing communications took place in an unsecure physical environment, like a Go Train or a Starbucks, then the lawyer's conduct was inappropriate (I doubt that amounts to a waiver of privilege if intercepted by a law enforcement regime, though (see http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=loss+of+privilege&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=/en/bc/bcsc/doc/1998/1998canlii6613/1998canlii6613.html on inadvertent disclosure), and I don't agree with Prof. Dodek's assertions on that point).

This was identical to the approach taken by the majority in Scott on the question of where summary judgment is appropriate, despite an assertion of a factual dispute.

That could lead to future data scandals that may make people take Zuckerberg up on his assertion that if Facebook can't keep people's data safe, they shouldn't use it.

However, such scenarios are mostly dubious and artificial, and often rest on fatuous assertions, such as the claim that robots can make use of sensors not available to humans (as if humans can not make use of radar or infrared imagery, etc.) or that robots can take more risks (as if remotely operated robots can't do the same).

OnePlus billed its flagship phone to be a «2016 Flagship Killer,» and now that we're in that year and the big names are announcing their latest phones it's time to take it up on its assertion and compare the OnePlus 2 to the Galaxy S7 edge.

OnePlus billed its flagship phone to be a «2016 Flagship Killer,» and now that we're in that year and the big names are announcing their latest phones it's time to take it up on its assertion.