Sentences with phrase «against the conclusions of»

The four complainants announced that they would appeal against the conclusion of the inquiry.

But in any case, the full body of evidence is firmly against the conclusions of the report.

Not exact matches

Thomas P. Miller, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of «Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America» (HarperCollins, 2011), cautioned against «reaching broad conclusions» because the subject is so complex.

While the lack of independent economic cycles argues against too strong of a conclusion, stock - bond correlations have tended to co-move with inflation and monetary conditions.

The post suggests he would not run against Trump if he decides to pursue re-election, instead, he may opt to run in eight years, perhaps as the country nears the conclusion of what could possibly be Trump's second term as president.

We came to this conclusion because the company determined that it was more likely than not that the majority of its valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets would be utilized.

This will help avoid claims of a conclusion being trumped up against an employee because of hostility by the investigator toward the accused.

The dollar has begun to pare its early gains against its major rivals Wednesday afternoon, following the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting.

He also warned against drawing conclusions too soon — things may look different at the end of the week.

I've come to the conclusion that the story of Jesus speaks directly against the things embodied in American Christianity (at least, its most prominent forms).

No one with a shred of self respect would willingly return to a dogmatic belief that requires, at its core, the negation of thoughtful questioning, the denigration of thinking, a prohibition against careful evaluation of beliefs and assumptions, and relegates those who honestly disagree with the doctrine and its conclusions to the status of a despised, damaged, and damned «other».

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

15 With all these caveats against unqualified omnipotence being laid down like stepping stones to a new horizon of view, Origen finally arrived at a provocative conclusion: «we must maintain that even the power of God is finite, and we must not, under pretext of praising him, lose sight of his limitations.»

A defensive posture against those who would steal or harm my family for instance is not going to lead me to become a Rambo type warrior on a rampage so last man standing does not represent the logical conclusion by my way of thinking.

So the Church working through the churches faced the question of revolution and came to the conclusion that there was a point where people might and should rebel against their Government.

But any classical theists who admit that their belief is only the most plausible conclusion based on the evidence available must regard this difficulty as another bit of evidence against their idea.

So, in conclusion, us born again followers of Jesus Christ should not argue against each other but rather try and listen to our fellow siblings in Christ.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

There is at least one: since being is power, every being has some power just by virtue of being; but then it is metaphysically impossible that God should have all the power.20 Or to make this an internal argument against the classical doctrine, the conclusion could be softened to read: «If there is anything other than God, God does not have all the power there is.»

Matthew Pratt Guterl expounds this aspect of Baker in his new study, leading him to conclusions that run squarely against the progressivist wishes of race - class - gender critics in academia today.

On the other side are «creationists,» who argue — against not only science but also those faiths that accept the compatibility of evolutionary biology and Sacred Writ — that the earth was created on or around Sunday, October 23, 4004 b.c., a conclusion based on a sincere but discredited calculation by James Ussher in the seventeenth century.

Circumstantial evidence against the accused man must not only lead consistently, step by step, to a conclusion of his guilt; it must also «exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis.»

Monsignor McElroy thinks it is the latter, supporting his conclusion «that a presumption against war lies at the very center of Catholic thinking on war and peace.»

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

But if this is «what actually happens», it's hard to resist drawing the conclusion that in the outcry against Dawkins this summer we saw an extraordinary moment when society expressed moral outrage about itself; when we were provoked by one of our own common practices.

What has happened in Niebuhr's theology, and in the whole movement of neo-orthodoxy is this: It has taken two truths which it has asserted against liberalism and has drawn a false conclusion from them.

They may tell us that in dealing with such phenomena as «religiosity» or «humanism» it is irrelevant and out of order to inquire about the «something» that lies behind them, and thereby protest against the conclusion that the only answer to all ultimate questions is the Nihil.

Place beside that small drama a sermon that gives its conclusion, breaks it into points and applications and one senses the immensity of the preacher's crime against the normal currents of life.

The Merchant of Venice sets a concept of justice tempered with mercy over against unbending legalism and self - righteousness, but it reminds us» in the troubling figure of Shylock as well as in the failure of the Christian characters to integrate him into the comic conclusion» that even expressions of mercy can be tainted with self - righteousness.

His genuine grievance against Olivia's other servants, however, dampens the gaiety of the play's conclusion.

Against that conclusion we can be grateful for Kant's subordination of the individual to the human species or to Mind as such, and we can be grateful for the linguistic turn that locates reality in shared language.

So there is some hope, and surely currents of academic vitality, but candor requires the conclusion that the ecumenists in Tübingen are going against the stream.

To this conclusion other traces in the gospel tradition point, sayings which stress now the agreement between Jesus and the Baptist, now the superiority of Jesus over John; sayings which show now the solidarity of the two sects as against orthodox Judaism, now the rivalry between them.

But Sartre's analysis leads to the conclusion that each individual is enclosed within himself and going out of oneself to the other, which is the meaning of love, is really impossible.4 If, against Sartre, we say that love is possible, what would be the conditions of being which it would require?

Various faith leaders in recent weeks have expressed concerns about hate crimes against American Muslims in the run - up to this weekend's anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, which coincide with the holiday of Eid - al - Fitr, marking the conclusion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Since the authorities (and there are many definitions of «authorities,» but they all lead to the same conclusion in the end) in power are ordained by God, every revolt is a revolt against God himself.

But each time I read books, blogs or articles about the topic (granted that I am more inclined to read stuff written by people who are really serious about their relationship with God rather than people complaining merely because they can — and thereâ $ ™ s plenty of them), I come to one conclusion: The complaints are mostly about what the church has become (or how people perceive the church to be) than against the church itself.

God says in His Word, your either for Him or against Him, their is no middle ground, and to say that the Bible is not Gods Word, or to say that God's Word is not ultimate truth or is with error is to say God is with error, and that my friend is not the spirit of God in you that leading you to that conclusion.

Skepticism can not, therefore, be ruled out by any set of thinkers as a possibility against which their conclusions are secure; and no empiricist ought to claim exemption from this universal liability.

One conclusion Whitehead draws from this is that criticism of current language requires testing the adequacy of those judgments against direct experience (S 60f).

Perhaps we may say that behind all the objections raised against demythologizing there lurks a fear that if it were carried to its logical conclusion it would make it impossible for us to speak of an act of God, or if we did it would only be the symbolical description of a subjective experience.

The relatively brief section in 20:18 - 21:1 is apparently transitional, like a bridge: it serves as a conclusion to the scene of chapter 19 and as a religious addition to the Decalogue (it restates the prohibition against images and sets certain limitations with respect to the building of an altar); at the same time it serves as an introduction to the Covenant Code.

Two very important factors in his thought militate against drawing such a conclusion: first, the degree of correspondence he admits between the intellect and materiality; and secondly, the fact that it is only materiality that the intellect has reference to.

It leaves me with some existential anxiety and doesn't provide answers about life after death, but it provides real certainty where it offers it and safeguards against the insanity of the mystical and the dangers of basing conclusions on things that can never be proven or tested.

The entire account of the Fall of the angels points to that conclusion: that the decision for or against God starts with an interpretation of God and then all the evidence of the outside world is marshaled to support that conclusion.

Their conclusion is stark: «Current law and policy is a form of legalised cruelty against adult kangaroos and joeys.»

I guess that conclusion is drawn after a win against the impotent threat of West brom.

Yes we did but against easy teams, but his inability to consistently overcome hurdles like Manchester United and Chelsea (just look at our head to head record for the last 3 seasons, its deplorable) leads me to the conclusion that the only silverware under him we could muster is a novelty competition famed for its giant killings as opposed to a title that establishes your credentials as one of Europe's elite...

Spent an Hour this morning working out Home and Away games and averages against the remaining fixtures for Arsenal, Spurs, Southampton, Man Utd and Liverpool and came up with the conclusion of:

Being out of the top 4 as things stand isn't (let's not mention that we aren't even in the title conversation) and the FA cup like many seem to be thinking isn't a foregone conclusion, finally we still have quite a few games to play against top 6 and let's just say that we don't strive for greatness there either...