Sentences with phrase «appointed arbiters»

Nor does Edwards shy away from naming names: her list of real - world targets includes the artist Damien Hirst, gallery owner Charles Saatchi, Director of the Tate Gallery Sir Nicholas Serota, and all such self - appointed arbiters of artistic correctness.

My comment is actually more of a question: how can the GOP recover its national electoral footing when unelected, self - appointed arbiters of political correctness like Rush Limbaugh are so prominently in the limelight?

More troubling is the capriciousness with which the victimhood threshold is emplaced by self - appointed arbiters whose wisdom and impartiality are not obvious.

If another J. S. Bach should occur in my church and succeed, as the first one did, in giving a new deep piety a new and adequate voice, he would have to plead his case before elected or appointed arbiters whose authority ex - ceeds that of the consistory of Cöthen or Leipzig — and whose general cultivation is less.

What you, as self - appointed arbiter, are saying is that no «true» Christian would embrace ID and that anything less than a strict literal reading of the Genesis narrative is not «truly» biblical.

Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch.com, the self - appointed arbiter of correctness in the fields of medicine and nutrition, describes Weston Price as «a dentist who maintained that sugar causes not only tooth decay but physical, mental, moral, and social decay as well.»

Now resume your trolling as the delusional self - appointed arbiter of the rules of scientific discussion.

Not exact matches

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Petronius, oddly enough, was appointed to Nero's «arbiter of taste», from which position I assume he observed the court, and wrote Satyricon — a masterpiece depicting, among other curiosities, the orgy, or rather, the banquet, at the home of a nouveau riche joker called Trimalchio.

I'd be hesitant to appoint myself as final arbiter of what a group of people, culture or nation should do based on my judgement of what is important.

Because of the fact that climate elites have appointed themselves the final arbiters of not just science but policy, they tend to be worse.

As such, you should carefully consider any such clause in the agreement you sign, especially how arbiters and mediators are appointed.

And lets not appoint ouselves as arbiters of the need for apologies.