Sentences with phrase «as arbiters in»

Lawyers within the firm also have been retained as arbiters in various matters to determine the outcome of litigation.

So much for the separation of church and state when state institutions set themselves up as arbiters in theological and moral disputes.

The Enlightenment confidence in our ability to appeal to universal «reason» as an arbiter in debate has crumbled.

Not exact matches

«It's possible we'll see «Alice» for a girl, as Alice was Prince Phillip's mother and I think they would like to pay tribute to Prince Phillip in some way, so Alice is definitely a possibility for a girl,» said Arbiter.»

Even in cases with hundreds of thousands of claimants, he has been regarded as a fair, trustworthy arbiter who is adept at working with people living through their worst nightmare.

A trade war triggered by safeguard tariffs would open a new wound in the global trading system, because it would unravel almost a quarter of a century of discipline and dethrone the WTO as the arbiter of global trade and a check on protectionism.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

He was a relentless advocate for the proposition that truth can be known and binding, that faith and reason are compatible, that the Magisterium is arbiter of Catholic moral and dogmatic truths, and that Magisterial teaching should be taught in a Catholic university as integral to its mission.

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 iIn 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 iin 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 iin 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.

This emphasis on a basic form of experience to serve as ground and source of evidence as well as final arbiter for the metaphysical venture is one of the most, perhaps the most, distinctive features of Whitehead's philosophy — and, at least in my opinion, one of the most attractive.

Above all, faculty members, no matter how competent and distinguished, need to guard against the ever present temptation to set themselves up as ultimate arbiters in their special fields, thus stifling any efforts by their students to become truly critical and original.

The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «in the latter days» as one in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result in a new kind of world in which «the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9

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.

Russia has annexed part of Crimea, has usurped America's role as arbiter of winners and losers in the Middle East, and makes trouble in Ukraine.

In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destinIn many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destinin Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destinin terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.

If you are correct in chastising me for my statements about CNN, surely you should chastise Mrs. Robinson for holding up Fox News and Bill O'Reilly as the apparent surpreme arbiters of truth?

In promoting the will to arbiter of gender reality, progressives empower transgendered persons to change genders spontaneously and endlessly, oscillating as the mood seizes them.

smh What really cracks me up is that you have set yourself up as the arbiter of what is or is not necessary for salvation according to your interpretation, and those doctrines with which you disagree 1) are in error, and 2) not from God.

Marx's profound interest in Feuerbach can be found in a short note that he wrote in 1842 entitled, «Luther as Arbiter between Strauss and Feuerbach».

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.»

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.

Miracles provide instances of God's action in the world, and Ward discusses the ways to recognise them, but without mentioning the authority of the Church as the final arbiter.

«After Allied Domecq was sold, I moved on to private consultancy projects with five star hotels and bars, prior to setting up my own business — the Arbiter Pub, which was rated in The Times as one of the top five Gastro Pubs in the South East.

Aja Teehan was found to not be the final arbiter in choosing where she would birth and with whom as her carer.

Nick Clegg «s aides believe the Conservatives have placed too much emphasis on teachers as arbiters of authority over children in the wake of last month's riots.

As the City's chief financial officer and final arbiter on accounting matters, the Comptroller's Office requested the change in the accounting treatment that was mutually agreed - to today.

Despite the current government's efforts to circumvent its role in relation to the current referendum, the Electoral Commission has both reasserted itself and been backed by parliament as the key arbiter — most obviously in the matter of the phrasing of the question.

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,»

Washburn's quite legitimate concern, which I share, is that the university's roles as a disinterested arbiter of knowledge and society's thoughtful critic could be lost in an environment that is increasingly dominated by the university's unrestrained search for increased resources.

This proposal sparked lively debate among neuroscientists and psychiatrists, but arbiters for the DSM - 5 ultimately dropped the idea, largely to avoid labeling obese people, in essence, as mentally ill.

They were approved by the IAU, which is an international body founded in 1919 and is generally recognized as the official arbiter of astronomical names.

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.»

Though she clearly values the approval of old - fashioned arbiters, she won't dull her rough edges, as many have before her, to get it; the vivid result gives the impression that she's still in communion with her core audience.

And yet, probably because he came of age in a video store and has never quite lost the autodidact's air of bullish authority, some high - minded critics and cultural arbiters can't bring themselves to take him seriously as an intellectual.

By this point winning more notice for her off - screen role as an arbiter of fashion and old - school Hollywood glamour than for her on - screen acting work, Stone next lent her voice to the animated Antz in 1998.

So, it appears there's something of a disconnect at Sundance, between the idea of a perfectly neutral, non-partisan arbiter of artistic merit, the festival that focuses on the stories while politically, as Redford put it elsewhere in the press conference, «the pendulum swings,» and the reality of a filmmaking body that is deeply, sometimes radically, political.

The CTC, mandated under state law to serve as the arbiter of professional integrity and quality for California's teachers, was the subject of a critical audit released in early 2011 that found a backlog of thousands of unprocessed teacher misconduct complaints that state officials said may have exposed some students to unsafe classroom conditions.

Hence, this study was not about using «value - added» as the arbiter of all that is good and objective in measuring teacher effects, it was about selecting teachers who were distinctly different than the teachers to whom they were compared and attributing the predictable results back to the «value - added» selections that were made.

In effect, we have the standardized testing companies now as the arbiters of our meritocracy...

But once the evaluation rubrics are in place, county offices of education stand as the first arbiter of a district's LCAP status.

So it was only natural that he should be one of the founders of the Ferrari Club of America, and in an era before published registries and detailed chassis histories, he emerged as one of the arbiters of what Ferraris ought to be.

As well as believing (wrongly) that the market — in the form of tradtitional publishers — is the infallible arbiter of quality, Sue Grafton buys into the self - agrandisement of the successful; the «Universe» picked me because I deserved iAs well as believing (wrongly) that the market — in the form of tradtitional publishers — is the infallible arbiter of quality, Sue Grafton buys into the self - agrandisement of the successful; the «Universe» picked me because I deserved ias believing (wrongly) that the market — in the form of tradtitional publishers — is the infallible arbiter of quality, Sue Grafton buys into the self - agrandisement of the successful; the «Universe» picked me because I deserved it.

In addition to being managing editor of Harper's Magazine, he is also remembered as an art historian, photographer and arbiter of taste.

But as the publisher, you are the final arbiter on what is acceptable for your book and, as you say, $ 6.30 per book is quite good in any case.

Amazon is trying to set up itself as the ultimate arbiter of who is allowed to promote in the big (or at least bigger) leagues and who is not.

Celebrating its 3rd year, the iBA's has firmly established itself as the premier arbiter of creative excellence and honours the best of the best in iBooks Author, voted on by iBooks Author users.

In my opinion, the problem lies in coronating PETA as the sole arbiter of what constitutes humane treatmenIn my opinion, the problem lies in coronating PETA as the sole arbiter of what constitutes humane treatmenin coronating PETA as the sole arbiter of what constitutes humane treatment.

Aside from the already known 50 Cent, we have Keith David whose voice many should be familiar with as he did the voiceover work of the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3 as well as Captain Anderson in Mass Effect.

While the second character has no actual images of their in - game model to show, their name is visible on the character select screen, which reveals that Gears of War anatagonist General Raam (pictured at the top of this post) will be joining the likes of Halo's Arbiter and Battletoads» as guest characters in Killer Instinct.

And, for those who noted the unusual space before the colon in the title, I make a point of calling games in the title of my reviews by what they're called on the Xbox web site, considering it the final arbiter of what's correct, but I may have to re-evaluate that as even I have to admit that the space before the colon simply can't be right.