As a congregation's best trained interpreter of the message, the minister has a responsibility to test and retest his presentation of that message
against criteria of healing and growth (see Chap.
Though members are allowed to register anonymously, each profile is thoroughly checked and verified
against the criteria of the company before it gets activated.
The Tiga document states that games would need to also pass cultural tests to take advantage of tax breaks, scoring
against a criteria of European European heritage and game locations, innovation and location of development staff.
The Glasgow Coma Scale involves measuring a person
against the criteria of the scale.
Lord Carter and the LSC envisaged a bidding process
against the criteria of quality, capacity and price.
Not exact matches
Weingarten cautions
against equating R&D spending too closely with innovation, noting that many oil and gas companies fare poorly under such measurements because
of Statistics Canada's
criteria for research spending, but still frequently develop new methods and ideas.
Qualification as a Green Giant: A line
of products ranging from diesel locomotives to electric vehicle charging stations that are certified
against a set
of criteria and verified by a third party as delivering superior environmental and financial performance to customers.
Instead
of measuring employees» performance
against a static list
of criteria, they are graded on a curve — i.e. individual performance is evaluated on how it stacks up
against everyone else's.
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT, which measures computers
against a list
of 27 sustainability
criteria — including the use
of mercury - free materials — gives this model its highest mark, a gold rating.
With so much
of the CRTC's
criteria for mandatory carriage focusing on making an «exceptional» contribution to the promotion
of Canadian values, the event would appear to be a strike
against the network.
Sit down for 15 minutes and measure one
of your goals
against each
of the S.M.A.R.T.
criteria until you have a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time - bound goal.
We don't have any policy
against holding techs and financials - we're simply avoiding them here because they fail to satisfy the requirements
of our stock selection
criteria.
«The exact timing
of the final investment decision is up to the joint venture participants to make, and they will weigh their decision
against a number
of criteria, including project competitiveness, how the LNG Canada project fits within their existing portfolio
of projects and investments, and available capital, amongst others,» LNG Canada spokesperson Susannah Pierce said in a press release.
Without a measurement framework, you will not be able to evaluate
against transparent
criteria and provide the appropriate level
of -LSB-...]
«Our Steering Committee members had a challenging job
of reviewing the hundreds
of nominations
against our Award
criteria to arrive at the ballot
of 166 Finalists, an unprecedented number in our 28 year history.»
Still, Lars» portfolio is really designed for accumulators whereas Michael has gone a step further by taking a range
of lazy portfolios and testing them
against his
criteria for retirement.
The purpose
of The Long View is to measure family firms
against criteria that are specifically tailored to their governance realities, and to provide a framework to compare them
against each other, rather than
against the norms
of widely - held issuers.
An algorithm learning the wrong lessons or formulating responses based on an incomplete picture, and the lack
of transparency into what
criteria are reflected in a decision model, are especially problematic when identified correlations function as inadvertent proxies for excluding or discriminating
against protected classes
of people.
No right or wrong, «unless» a specific set
of criteria is agreed upon, to which the observers can base their assesments
against said
criteria specifics to be compared or judged
against.
Oh no, the
criteria I use to reject the existence
of god I have used very successfully
against any number
of nonexistent things like vampires, unicorns, big foot and UFOs.
Your own beliefs suffer if measured
against those
criteria — show how a god created the universe and show how you know it is your god as opposed to the thousands
of others.
Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books
of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just
criteria for one nation to retaliate
against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?
In fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent
of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression
against some
of us based on subjective
criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselves.
My proposal is that what unifies this set
of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing
criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service
of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing on study about,
against, and for Christian congregations.
By these
criteria, the decision
of the United States to wage war
against terrorism is amply justified.
It should serve as a standard, a mark
of distinction, or
criterion against which to measure our attempts to articulate metaphysical assumptions adequate to understanding this success.
The description
of Catholic just war teaching as beginning with a presumption
against war and ending with
criteria whose function is to say when, if ever, that presumption can be overridden is faithful to neither
of these Catholic traditions, that
of the religious life or that
of just war.
The Challenge
of Peace, without reference to the logic
of prima facie duties, replicates the structure
of Childress» argument exactly: just war theory begins with a presumption
against war, and the just war
criteria function to override this presumption (or to show that it should not be overridden) in particular cases.
(Happiness, by itself, is not an adequate
criterion for measuring mental health because some people defend themselves
against unconscious feeling
of despair by a facade
of «happiness.»
The alleged subordination
of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds
of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom
of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting
of the reality
of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay
of action and reflection) as the only
criterion of faith, so that the notion
of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church»
against the hierarchy.
Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror
of war; a strong presumption
against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use
of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern
of trusting the efficacy
of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives
of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application
of just war
criteria; and a claim
of common ground with Christian pacifists.
Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption
against injustice and disorder rather than
against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task
of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims
of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy
of international treaties and to downplay the value
of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application
of some just war
criteria; and no sense
of common ground with Christian pacifists.
To highlight this usage is not deny some
of uses
of power are oppressive, but rather to suggest that exercise
of power, especially state power, needs to be evaluated by some
criterion other than whether the person who is on the receiving end
of a powerful action has less power than the persons acting
against them.
In response to Hasker's fourth proposition, however, I argued
against his contention that the notion
of gratuitous evil does not provide the needed
criterion.
Considerations that are connected with recent progress in understanding self - organizing chemical and physical systems lead me to propose a
criterion for application
of the category
of actual entity that retains many
of the distinctive features
of the philosophy
of organism while dealing with some
of the objections raised
against that system, and including aspects
of the Buchler - Wallack approach.
The crisis
of the socialist world and the attacks
against this theology have given to the theologians the opportunity to make an evaluation, to asses their own principles and
criteria and to open themselves to the new challenges coming from the changing situation.
His argument seems to be directed
against a certain kind
of historical «paleoconservative» who sees a Golden Age in the social institutions or social spirit
of some past time; yet his refutation
of such a perspective invokes progress in dentistry, rhetorically shifting the evaluative
criteria from sociology to technology.
These various statements
of the limiting
criteria differ from one another, and Ignatieff's readers must figure out for themselves where they come from, why these
criteria and not others should be employed, and what it might mean in practice to design defenses
against terror that involve evil actions whose punishment may be mitigated by the extreme circumstances.
Hundreds
of products have been shortlisted in over 85 categories, which have been judged by an expert panel
against a wide range
of criteria; from taste and texture, to packaging and price point.
In the Food category some 36 out
of 64 entries were selected as winners
against multi disciplinary and functional
criteria.
Staff from the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will then assess the merit
of your proposal
against the five
criteria and provide a recommendation to the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, who will make the decision about the use
of the water.
The comment said that inclusion
of multiple «gluten - free» symbols on the same food or any restriction
against continued use
of third - party «gluten - free» certification program symbols / logos could make it more confusing or difficult for consumers to identify foods that met the
criteria of those third - party «gluten - free» certification programs.
Rainforest Alliance Certified farms are audited annually
against rigorous environmental, social, and economic
criteria that protect biodiversity and foster a culture
of respect for workers and local communities.
When you drop that public betting percentage to 30 % — which is typically a key number for betting
against the public — the number
of games which fit the
criteria drops sharply, as do the units earned.
Teams receiving less than 30 %
of moneyline bets represent the optimal threshold for betting
against the public during the regular season, but teams rarely fit that
criterion during the playoffs.
The Canadiens are currently receiving just 18 %
of moneyline bets as a road underdog, which means they fit the
criteria for our 2014 NHL Playoffs: Betting
Against the Public article.
Based on this
criterion — in addition to a handful
of other filters — both teams fit our 2014 MLB Betting
Against the Public betting system.
Note: If the Giants finish with less than 25 %
of spread bets they would fit the
criteria for our 2014 NFL Betting
Against the Public Report.
Against Bayern we had only Ox, Carzola and Kos capable
of meeting those
criteria, not good enough at this level if we choose to play possession football.
The comprehensive technical evaluation has been undertaken by a team
of World Rugby and third - party experts, independently scrutinised by The Sports Consultancy
against agreed scoring
criteria.