Sentences with phrase «arguments about justification»

I couldn't connect to the kind of devotional, emotional spirituality so many of my friends seemed to enjoy; and most of the time I'd rather study the details of Paul's arguments about justification than meditate on a Psalm.

To a far greater extent than the judgments disclose, counsel for the school had rested his argument about justification squarely and almost exclusively on Sahin, where both chambers of the Strasbourg Court had deferred, with little sign of strain, to the rulings of the Turkish courts and other authorities.

Not exact matches

«There are some older justifications that it's about preventing underage sales but since the ultimate sale is done by a retailer, that's a bogus argument,» Gavil said.

It's an argument about what should happen, given a certain assumption about the justification for excess returns.

Additional concerns about the fourth premise were also raised (i.e. «is the federal government really more efficient at managing such efforts»), but arguments about the effectiveness of the department are really ancillary to the justification for its existence in the first place.

Yet the most powerful justification for cutting hard and fast has always been premised on a long - term argument about intergenerational justice.

Surprisingly, I found in the character Corbin O'Brian argument for the justification of data gathering and surveillance programs as well as arguments about the dangers of such awesome powers in the hands of the wrong people or in service for the wrong cause / purpose.

Arguments about Serbian atrocities would have cut no ice: Milosovic's crimes, though serious, were not in the same league as those of Saddam Hussein, and the removal of Saddam Hussein is no longer seen as a justification for Operation Telic.

In New Brunswick, tired old arguments about «safety» were raised as justification for infringing hunting rights.