Sentences with phrase «accepting anything of»
A provision of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. § 7353, prohibits federal employees, including members of Congress and staff, from soliciting or accepting anything of value from anyone who seeks official action from the employee's agency, does business with that agency, or has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties.105 House Rule 23, clause 3, similarly provides:
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Conversely, the statue goes on to prohibit licensed vendors from accepting anything of value from industry members.
But while it's illegal for anybody working for the U.S. government to accept anything of value from a «foreign state,» that doesn't make it illegal, unethical, or even particularly noteworthy for a «learned intermediary» to accept things of value from prescription medical product manufacturers — provided, of course, that doing so doesn't adversely affect patient care.
Not exact matches
Anne said: «If we are going to be better at producing food of the right value then we have to accept that genetic technology, whether you call it modification or anything, is going to be part of that.»
«That allusion was something Kevin Feige really wanted to put into this script, because it sort of embodies the internal struggle that Peter Parker is facing throughout, where he is his own greatest enemy in some ways, to have to accept himself before he can do anything helpful for the world.
«Woods has not done anything illegal — the list is endless of public figures, especially males, who do this, but Americans accept this stuff.
But like anything worth having, getting your start - up accepted by the best accelerators is a matter of winning a competition.
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by accounting minutiae, you won't want to miss this tape's wonderfully accurate discussion of why generally accepted accounting principles are anything but user friendly.
«Our goal here is to get a complete ban on assault weapons in the state of Florida, and we will not accept anything else,» student Spencer Blum said.
Nowadays economists use the term «money» to refer to anything that's a generally - accepted medium of exchange.
In light of this refusal to respond seriously to the substantiated and well - researched concerns of civil society, the members of the Trade Justice Network can not accept this empty and meaningless Declaration as anything more than public relations.
And so I think what we're going to try to do in our program is to be skeptical of the whole Cryptocurrency movement and be open to the potential benefits that it offers, but not like we're not going to accept anything just uncritically.
If your top priority is the security of your bitcoins and you accept a temporary inability to transact with them, you don't need to do anything.
You on the other hand take the hard line of absolutely not accepting anything at face value and draw a conclusion immediately.
What dismays me about Miley Cyrus is the same thing that dismays me about the current trend of instantly going to the allowable limit (and a bit over) in dress and act: I get the feeling she feels like she's proving something; that this is not an artistic statement of anything but rather, that she feels like she needs to do this to be accepted as a female singer and entertainer.
The whole point is you don't accept anything without proof, if tomorrow someone comes up with a better model of universal gravitation then we move to that model.
As for the one god being more valid than any of the other thousands, that things you attribute to him (technically to Jesus), still haven't been proven in anything outside of the bible, which no one of a scientific mind can accept as convincing proof.
I can't simply tolerate anything that will honestly tell me to not accept things that a book that have a strong evidence of plagiarism from the book of Gilgamesh and the Egyptian book of that dead said, that something is bad and must be hated and purge, or that because their ambiguous faith is better than mine.
Mark is one of the uneducated who assume I want him to accept anything at all.
But just as no one here would accept my testimony of how much the Great Pumpkin loves me and cares for me (Peanuts 3:16), I will not be able to accept such platitudes as anything other than empty emotional outbursts.
Personally, I feel that if there is a god, and he wants me to believe he exists, he can come over here and tell me himself, I don't accept the Bible as «proof» of anything, because it is self - contradictory and appears to be heavily influenced by the governing culture of the time.
Yup that the excuses you have to tell yourself so you can accept where you are at in this world, but the reality is if you could choose to do anything in the world regardless of money or any other limitations you would not be living the life you have now.
Most likely it was one or both of your parents, and it happened at an age when you pretty much accepted anything they told you without question, but that's not essential for what I'm about to describe.
Because you do not accept an Abrahamic or even an anthropomorphic God, people will object to anything you say, regardless of the words you use.
You wouldn't accept in allah we trust or anything else so don't make the rest of us deal with your crap.
In general they seem to accept it as far more cousinly to their own doctrines than anything else Protestantism has produced since the days of the Reformation.
In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»
Redemption, sin, Jesus dying on the cross for our sins, no mention of anything that makes us want to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior.
Once I came to realize and accept that my love for Christine was real and pure, not born out of lustful desires or anything even remotely evil, my brain would not allow me to go on believing that it was detestable to God and therefore something that I should flee from.
I don't expect everyone should be accepting of everything or anything I do.
In order for any of your comment to have meaning to me, I would first have to accept that ANYTHING is capable of removing the Divine from that which it has created.
If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.
But it's telling that the first comment from, you, Steve, when David suggests not even cracking down on, but simply not being apethetic to abuse of people in churches, is that there is no utopia, so just accept it and don't bother trying to change anything.
Maybe a paragraph about accepting the gift of Sabbath, avoiding anything that starts with the internal monologue of «should» or «ought to» or «must.»
The Christian who, having accepted the communist regime in the U.S.S.R., protests the violence of that regime, should be «all things to all men» — not to show that a Christian will acquiesce in anything whatever, but to lead some of his compatriots to Christ; that is, in this connection, lead them to renounce violence.
'' Once you remove man's dogmas and get back to the teachings of Jesus Christ» Which is one of man's dogmas... Men wrote the bible.You haven't removed anything, you have accepted one of man's dogmas as if it were truth.
«If an atheist has belief or faith in anything, it's that believers of religion accept propositions as evidence, and possibility as fact.»
He or she might agree with some of the Bible's teachings if those things line up with his view of life, but he or she doesn't accept anything just because «it's in the Bible.»
In the end, if the Bible teaches us anything, it is that each one of us is loved by God not because of how right we are but because God graciously and mercifully accepts us, sometimes despite the positions we adopt.
These difficulties are laid on us by God, they have not been artificially produced by the malice of crazy theologians who will no longer accept anything.
I've come to accept the fact that I will never recover from my anger at the church, at fundamentalism, at anything even remotely spiritual... it's taken on overtones of PTSD.
But if it were accepted, would there be anything left of the classical idea of God as omnipotent besides the term?
You said, «p.s. I will not accept anything you pull out of Harry Potter stories.»
p.s. I will not accept anything you pull out of Harry Potter stories.
I certainly did not get the idea from those verses of anything like total depravity or that fallen man had to experience any kind of supernatural transformation of the will / heart in order to be able to accept God's convicting / convincing / persuading / call / drawing, instructions, teachings, commands, promises and gifts.
All of mankind has benefited from Science, but Dogmatic Folks weaned on Religion refuse to accept anything that threatens beliefs.
It is a LIVING word, never intended to be accepted as a stagnant definition of anything.
Creationism is more or less a set of mental gymnastics, necessitated by a dogged refusal to accept or admit that anything in the Bible might be inaccurate, untrue, or mythological.
They will say anything to defend you (i.e. Bill's remarks after yours)(By the way I would accept his definition of Christianity for us to rally around for purposes of these discussions.)
Trouble is, creationists likely wouldn't accept anything less than the creation of a modern cell as evidence of abiogenesis.