Sentences with phrase «accepted premise»

Courts have accepted the premise, but also create a corresponding expectation, that regulatory boards or committees have expertise in how to reconcile Charter values with competing considerations relating to their professions.

Even strong Common Core supporters realize the name is toxic and have accepted the premise that the federal government should not be dictating curriculum.

Differentiation among parties is an accepted premise of climate diplomacy.

And as I pointed out earlier, the first game is also a lot shorter and smaller, so even if I accepted your premise that it has less bosses (which I do not), there would still be less downtime in actually getting to those bosses in the first place.

I accepted the premise that is was not really necessary to include meat, fish or poultry in the diet to be healthy.

But when the Regents [and] the state Legislature accepted the premise that we were somewhat rushed in the transition to Common Core and therefore had to make adjustments for students, these are the corresponding adjustments for teachers.»

Even in denying that you belonged to one or other camp, you accepted the premise of the divide.

But unlike this third approach, he never accepted the premise that what authenticated, say, Hinduism or Buddhism is simply Hindu or Buddhist religious experience.

The Universal Declaration answers these challenges with a simple, broadly accepted premise: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights» (art. 1).

Even if I accepted the premise that the Christian bible (in its present form no less) somehow represents the final word on God's will... it still does not reveal any such edict.

Your belief is flawed because you've accepted the premise of an idea which can not possibly be falsified.

If you accept this premise that there can be a meaningful difference based on method of origination of a token based on work vs. based on payment of money, then it raises more questions such as how would the above examples all be treated by the SEC on a facts and circumstances basis, and on down the rap sheet.

Point number one — you are sadly mistaken by the idea that generally all accept your premise.

And if Adam did not exist, then how are we to accept the premise of inherited sin and the need for a savior?

First, I don't accept the premise that millennials are leaving the church.

BTW VPN — If my lack of belief in absolute inerrancy is the reason you choose to ignore my comments... you will soon find yourself talking in a vacuum in this forum as there are very few who accept that premise here.

If we accept this premise, the beginning of the modern era marked a watershed, a radical change, for the two Europes in both the essence of the continent and its geographic outlines.

The interesting thing about accepting the premise of supernatural being (s), is that you can apply perfect logic to a false premise and the conclusions will almost always be false.

Then they can suspend that critical thinking and accept the premise of supernatural being (s) with no objective evidence.

Well, you may have to just accept the premise you will never reach that understanding.

---- The reality is that the fool is the one who accepts any premise that hasn't been demonstrated to him.

To the extent that we Christians simply accept the premises of suburban culture, we compromise both the substance of our faith and the effectiveness of our evangelical efforts.

The reality is that the fool is the one who accepts any premise that hasn't been demonstrated to him.

We can all agree that being moral and ethical is a good thing — everyone can accept that premise — religious or otherwise.

To the extent that we Christians simply accept the premises of suburban culture, we compromise both the substance of our faith and the effectiveness of our evangelical effort.

To accept your premise, I must accept the existinence of much more than an abstract concept of «god».

Both Marxism and Whitehead accept the premise of relativism, the prophetic premise, with regard to all established social order.

Narrative theology accepts the premises of post-modernism at many points but draws a radically different conclusion.

Collingwood's method in arguing his case against Ayer is to accept his premises while denying his conclusions.

There is a compelling logic to Fuller's argument, if one accepts his premise about what constitutes human dignity.

Collins says that «any position can be argued for, so long as the arguments are based on commonly accepted premises.»

One may not accept the premises of Anglican polity, but in this case the polity has done its work with integrity according to its own self - understanding.

The «commonly accepted premises» of the academy, at least with respect to the Bible, are agnostic or atheistic.

The agnostic accepts the premise of the wager, but says

If one accepts the premise that polygamy is adultery, who was the worst «adulterer» ever?

But if we accept the premise that heresy is profoundly injurious to the person and has a devastating effect on the Church, then means should be taken to deal with it.

Another factor entering into the discussion at this point is the increasing willingness of critical scholars to accept the premise that Jesus did, in fact, «cast out demons» in a way considered remarkable by his contemporaries.

If we accept your premise «you can do nothing if not allowed by God» then how can one rebel.

And when enough people start to accept the premises of the contraceptive culture which Planned Parenthood happily preaches to children and adults, unintended pregnancies abound.

- seems to me to engender paranoia in those who accept the premise of the question.

Now one can disagree with their premise ¯ I certainly do ¯ but if we accept their premise ¯ a premise that is central to any principled argument for abolishing the requirement of sexual complementarity in defining the marriage ¯ their conclusion becomes difficult to resist.

Sorry, I don't accept your premise.

If you accept the premise of free will, which you must or we would all be believers, then you have to allow for the possibility of evil, sin, bad choices whatever you want to call them.

I'm willing to accept that premise.

So for arguments» sake lets accept the premise that without Wenger we would be like Man United.

I just don't accept your premise that an affair can be had in secret with no ramifications.

While it is crucial to accept the premise that biting is an age - appropriate behavior for toddlers, it is just as important to accept that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Although one might first have to accept your premise that «the optimal society is one wherein there are neither rich nor poor,» which I'm not prepared to do.

Accepting the premise of the above, the truly urgent goal of digital campaigning becomes clear: political infrastructures that are able to scale to the point that they can build and manage an infinite number of genuine, one - to - one relationships can become infinitely more powerful than those who continue to maintain just a couple hundred relationships with rich and powerful people and try to persuade the rest.

If we accept the premise that people are in the political game to enrich themselves, then there are several reasons.