Sentences with phrase «appears contrary»

Again the Smith conclusion appears contrary to Gunton and Geys.

This appears contrary to Dr. Greger's stance of an extremely low fat intake, especially of processed oils.

For instance, faith appears incompatible with infant baptism, and the national church appears contrary to personal commitment and choice.

«Indeed, the transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits, laws which are meant to prevent «corruption and the appearance of corruption» in the campaign finance process.»

«Indeed, the transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws... which are meant to prevent «corruption and the appearance of corruption.»»

Similarly, Vance's office said that the de Blasio team's effort to funnel money to upstate Democratic Party county committees — which do not face the same donation ceilings as individual candidates --» appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws.»

The DA did, however, chastise de Blasio and his team for their actions that «appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws.»

Vance said, however, that the decision against pursuing charges wasn't an «endorsement» of the actions, which he said, «appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits.»

«This conclusion is not an endorsement of the conduct at issue; indeed, the transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits,» Vance said.

This finding initially appeared contrary to what would have been expected based on existing literature; however, follow - up experiments validated that the computational predictions were actually correct.

There are many believers out there (I suspect they will be last to change their views), there are also many people who dislike appearing contrary (this group are there to be swayed) persuading people that it is alright to assess for themselves the evidence is fundamental to changing the direction of the political & scientific consensus.

Not exact matches

«Contrary to Wal - Mart's public statements, the documents appear to show that you were personally advised of the allegations in October 2005,» they wrote in a letter to Duke.

Sekulow appeared on several political talk shows on Sunday to argue that contrary to the president's tweet, the Trump team did not know whether Mueller was investigating the president.

Despite grumblings to the contrary, NDP caucus appears publicly united that Tom Mulcair should remain leader until new leader is chosen

your dislike of atheists, because they do not believe the same as you is contrary to what you appear to talk about.

On the contrary, this passage appears to be designed as a repudiation of identity between Jeremiah and any prophesying madmen, whether occasional ecstatic orators in the temple area or attached personnel.

On the contrary it appears that not only are the New Breed a very small minority among parish ministers, but their numbers may now actually be declining.

Propositions — which are not Entities in the primary sense — appear also to satisfy the characteristic, supposedly peculiar to Entities, of admitting contrary qualities, since the proposition that someone is sitting passes from true to false when the person stands up.

On the contrary, most counterfactual of all now appears the «secular» confidence, common not so long ago, that as a scientific and democratic culture unfolded, religion would gradually dissipate as an effective force in personal and social life alike.

Owing to the expansion of the universe, the mean density of matter would appear to be diminishing all the time, contrary to the assumption that the system is unchanging.

The fact that many of the greatest Christian theologians appear to agree with this evaluation» Aquinas, for example, argues that «the object of anger is good» (Summa Theologiae, 2.1.46.2)» has led some to conclude that they were insufficiently attuned to the obvious and contrary message of Scripture.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

But I would maintain that the removal of the idea that God will judge those outside of salvation when they appear before Him after death is contrary to the Scriptures.

The evidence appears to be to the contrary.

Hartshorne replies that the preferred contraries only appear more worthy of God to those suffering from an overdose of the Greek metaphysics of permanence and immutability, whereas neoclassical metaphysics enables one to realize that the rejected contraries may be even more deserving of attribution to God than their favored partners.

= > natural law appears to be contrary your self awareness otherwise you would not buy into a belief dependent upon scientific method that is incapable of falsifying evidence and processes not dependent upon particulate matter or energy.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

Despite all that appears to the contrary, there is at the depths of reality a compassionate Wisdom and a wise Compassion that seeks our wellbeing.

Strange, was it not, that as groups such as Oneida and Hopedale sought to follow God's will more completely they often appeared to go contrary to it in their zeal.

It appears that they are only helping to fulfill a prophesy, if that is the case the Evang elical Christians have an ultreia motive and the safety and longevity of Israel is the contrary of their ultimate plan.

6 While some variation of the «vitalist» hypothesis appears necessary in historical perspective, the recent findings of Nobel - laureate chemist Ilya Prigogine regarding the tendency toward self - organization and greater complexity in dissipative chemical structures shows that the evolution of complexity is itself compatible with, rather than contrary to the general physical principles of thermodynamics.

It may thus appear that arguments to the contrary are essentially rhetorical, because existentially solipsistic.

On the contrary, says Sam Gill, what the Hopi child discovers is that things are much more than what they appear.

The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.

Historical occurrences do not appear like the acting out of a drama on the neutral stage of nature, whatever certain recent biblical theologians may have seemed to suggest to the contrary.

Contrary to their expectations, however, the 1980s became the decade of democratic revolutions around the world, and by 1985 at least a dozen new democracies had appeared in Latin America.

Some positions in Amoris Laetitia that are not ambiguous appear to imply the validity of positions that are contrary to the Church's perennial teaching.

Not one word in it begins tosuggest that this is a problem which exists in society at large: on the contrary, child abuse appears to be considered as a specifically Catholic problem.

But I still really struggle with parts of the Bible — particularly the genocidal conquests of the Old Testament (which seem so contrary to Christ's instructions to love our enemies) and what appears to be blatant misogyny in the letters of Paul.

We are told, as unbelievers, that we will go to hell, be punished, god will get us and so on.And you wonder why we come on here and ask questions, and then point out the fallacies in your logic, and you appear to not offer any evidence to the contrary.

Thus, we thought, the earth must be young and evolution must be false, and any evidence that appears to the contrary can not really be contrary, but misinterpreted.

In the Hebrew prophets, on the contrary, in Mohammed, in some of the Alexandrians, in many minor Catholic saints, in Fox, in Joseph Smith, something like it appears to have been frequent, sometimes habitual.

Charlie — always read your posts, more intelligent and articulate than many, but you appear to always be on the cusp of finding any contrary opinion a personal slight.

She is also featured in Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Janet Poppendieck (California Studies in Food & Culture, 2010) and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes (HarperCollins, 2006), has been a guest on PBS's To The Contrary, and appears in the documentary film Two Angry Moms.

In the fall of 2013, I wrote a series of posts (starting with this one) explaining to readers that — despite U.S. Department of Agriculture assurances to the contrary — chicken slaughtered in America but processed in China could eventually appear on school lunch trays.

Contrary to the first few weeks where all he / she did was cry, feed and sleep, your baby slowly begins to quiet down and appear more alert when awake.

When I shared my fear that breastfeeding was unlikely a possibility for me, I soon learned that, on the contrary, there was every chance that I could have a successful nursing relationship, even though my nipples did appear to be considerably inverted.

Worse still, as revealed in an exclusive Lunch Tray report last year, Chinese - processed chicken can easily appear on school lunch trays, despite the USDA's initial statement to the contrary.

Despite the mayor's claims to the contrary, City & State found some details of his nonprofit groups and their interactions with City Hall remain private or virtually inaccessible to the public, and oversight of them appears muddled with largely voluntary compliance.

As the Democrats appear to be slowly losing their grip on the majority (despite their claims to the contrary), Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching across the aisle to his GOP counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, and proposing a post-election spirit of cooperation for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.