Sentences with phrase «about his motive in»

And despite what the plaintiffs in this case say about their motive in suing the city, the city of Philadelphia has deeper pockets than the officer involved.

Not exact matches

That rings true, especially in an era in which just about everyone is cynical about corporate motives.

U.S. courts have historically been careful about probing the motives behind laws, in part out of respect for the separation of powers between branches of government.

In a statement he said: «There can be no doubt what was used and there remains no alternative explanation about who was responsible — only Russia has the means, motive and record.»

Most people think Russia is responsible, but one cyber-security figure points in a different direction: According to James Bamfield, who has written extensively about U.S. intelligence agencies, the latest leaks suggest someone inside the NSA — a second Edward Snowden in other words, albeit one with different motives.

Not properly accounting for differences between business owners and non business owners in studies of household wealth can lead to erroneous conclusions about the significance of different saving motives.

Speculation about the company's motives intensified during 2016 when it opened two more bookstores, in San Diego and Portland, Oregon, and divulged plans for more in Chicago and suburban Boston.

In our view, investors need to be clear about their motives before deciding where to put their savings.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

I resent them because I believe them to be less about what is stated to be accountability's purpose — my spiritual growth — and more about an unScriptural motive underlying the questions — playing God in someone else's life.

In seconding the sagacity of Long's opinion, if not its motive, Arendt wrote to Karl Jaspers that «all of it would be brought about without violence and only through pressure.»

I interpret Jesus in Matthew 7 talking about judging as really talking about judging people's motives (not simply their actions.)

«I don't like liars and I don't like those that would try to steer people in the wrong course about God and the Bible purely for selfish and distorted motives that run deeper than what all the gloss and glitz says.»

This month alone, four bombs have exploded in Austin, Texas, leaving the police and the community with questions about the perpetrators and the motives.

«I don't believe in God, and Susan is Jewish, so to hear these ministers talk about Jesus and even have some of them who personally question our motives, it's just not appropriate.»

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

He said when he asked Obama about how he became a Christian, the president said he joined a church in Chicago after becoming a community organizer, leaving Graham to speculate whether he became a Christian for the right motives.

While I'm not inclined to ascribe motive in this case and prefer to give Ham the benefit of the doubt that he holds his position because his conscience demands it, I think these folks bring up a good point about how we can become so heavily invested in a certain ideology that change comes at enormous cost.

But he has much to say about the attitudes and motives of men in their corporate life.

I would readily agree that theologizing is not merely reflective meditation about immediate functions or events, apart from the context in which these are seen, the motives with which they are approached, and the perspective that one brings.

Readers are thus made to feel like witnesses to what actually happened, with access to the thoughts and motives both of the characters in the drama and of those who wrote about them, the authors of the sources used to build an uncluttered reality.

We deliberate about complexity in a moral situation, for instance, by imaginatively varying the things to be taken into account, adding or leaving out actors, motives, interests, domains of consequences, and the like.

In addition to anxiety about the overwhelming influence of the profit motive, editors also worried about whether the power of labor organizations could develop rapidly enough to counter the autonomous industrial associations created by the NRA (January 3, 1934).

As for the comically but unfunny remark about praying for gas to come down under a buck and you'll be in Church Sunday with us... God does not need you in Church if that is your motive.

Still, some seemed to assume the worst about the commenter's motives and attitude, making it hard to keep the conversation going in a productive direction.

In the light of that then, I think you are wrong to have written the rebuke you had to me about peoples motives as you intrpert my comments to adress.

There sure is a lot of discussion here about the motives of certain individuals in the past century.

Dave, as I pondered your thoughts over the last few days about promoting spirituality in the workplace, I have been thinking about the verse the Philippians...» I really don't care about their motives».

And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

The point I am making about pointing the finger at ourselves (or myself at least) is that it seems out of place that we, who are all sinners, would so quickly judge others, whose motives and hearts we can not see, when we have complete access to our own hearts, and all too often know first - hand that we are in the wrong.

«In Paris [see this column Nov 2008], I talked about the search for God as the fundamental motive from which Western monasticism was born, and with it, Western culture.

you claim to know nothing about politics then in the very next comments begin stating someone did something for political motives, how do you jump from ignorance to judging political motives?

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

So let us look at each side of this paradox of Jesus in order to discover what it has to say about our inner attitudes and motives.

The dominant motive which led to it was neither curiosity about the creation of the world nor philosophic interest, as in Greece, about the divine immateriality and interior unity, but faith that the social justice for which Yahweh stood would conquer.

Daly and Cobb say there is plenty of room to complain about monopoly profits, but that is a complaint against monopoly, not against profits per se: «If one dislikes bureaucratic decision making then one must accept the market and the profit motive, if not as a positive good then as the lesser of two evils... We have no hesitation in opting for the market as the basic institution of resource allocation» (p. 48).

I may have been too nuanced in this, and I must say that I am still unsure about the motives of those who opposed Joe.

Concerns about food safety & quality appear to be the main motive for consumer purchases in Asia.

Maybe I am just being cynical here, but when I hear people that have previously taken great delight in tormenting Arsenal and our manager change their tune and start to say nice things about Arsene Wenger and the club I can not help but question their motives.

And about Sanchez, he definitely has motives to stay at the club having in mind that he didn't settle in another club already.

Some neighbors of the longtime teacher found stabbed to death in his Orland Park home remained uneasy today as police provided few details about a motive or suspects in the homicide.

In talking with others about their childhood and thinking back to my own, there are many recollections of the injustice and indignation felt when negative intent was ascribed to the child's motives.

What I love about this book is that it not only covers a wide range of situations that most parents find themsleves in and provides several possible solutions for each situation, but it gives us a greater understanding of a child's behavior, motives, and development in the context of the situation.

Because I feel like a lot of things we do as parents, you know we go to a play place and enter in a play place and their ulterior motive is they are trying to make money, you know and its providing nice things for kids, but what's the library stuff all about?

And just as Emily, the woman mentioned in the blog post, experienced, rather than getting good guidance from the experts, parents end up insecure about their own capabilities, simply forgetting about the importance of their own judgment or even feeling guilty for having ideas and feelings that don't seem to match their noble motives.

But when we're talking about rolling back a requirement that kids take fruit / veg with their meal, and instead go back to the «beige old days,» or when we're talking about reinstating the ability of schools to easily sell a la carte items like pizza every single day (instead of tying such sales to the menu on the reimbursable line), that is a per se «weakening» of nutrition standards — regardless of how pure SNA's motives may be in asking for those changes.

To be clear, I'm not asking about Morocco's motives in rejoining (someone else can ask that if they wish)

In Facebook posts, which police are studying to determine a motive, Bonds speaks passionately about abuses he suffered in prison and appears to express anti-police sentiments, and delving into his yearslong battle with mental health issueIn Facebook posts, which police are studying to determine a motive, Bonds speaks passionately about abuses he suffered in prison and appears to express anti-police sentiments, and delving into his yearslong battle with mental health issuein prison and appears to express anti-police sentiments, and delving into his yearslong battle with mental health issues.

Non-ideal theorists often draw on Rawls's own work to distinguish between ideal questions and cases where we can not make idealising assumptions about the motives of those engaged in the search for principles of justice.

More questions are being raised about the motives behind the attempt by former NPP National Chairman Peter Mac Manu and Director General of the National Communications Authority to travel to «observe» the elections in Kenya.