Sentences with phrase «arbiter rather»

Look at what happened at Apple when it decided to play cultural arbiter rather than producer of quality products.

Not exact matches

Washington used it regularly during the Reagan years, which meant that the US was unilaterally making decisions on global trade rather than consulting with the international community or working through a neutral arbiter.

In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is.

I wanted to perceive the heart of the law as the creator of wholeness rather than as the moralistic arbiter of goodness.

But if endowments are conceived solely as instruments, rather than equal partners with the state in pursuit of the public good, then the classic principle of private association in liberal democracies has been lost, for instrumentality implies that government alone is the public good's ultimate arbiter.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

If anyone is not satisfied, they should write to the courts as an independent arbiter for an interpretation of «maintaining status quo»: rather than spread misinformation in the court of public opinion,»

But the real arbiter of whether it works or doesn't isn't me, but rather whether your body exhibits no signs and symptoms of carb intolerance while eating it (bloating, sleepiness after meals, etc.).

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.

Thomson, whose movement once counted celebrated Brit artist Tracey Emin among its ranks, argues that wealthy arbiters of taste, whose priorities of fashion or finance rather than talent, are driving the contemporary art scene.

That's not so different from traditional chemistry where the physical theory might all be known but the test - tube rather than mathematics is both the first resource and the ultimate arbiter.

Could it be that the CIC wants the SAB to continue to be an echo chamber for its views rather than a serious arbiter of science?

Even something as basic Wikithing states this quite clearly, saying «In science, Occam's razor is used as an heuristic guide in the development of theoretical models, rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models.»

Rather than keeping a neutral ledger that lacks discrimination, he's becoming the arbiter of smart contracts and a benevolent dictator for Ethereum.