Sentences with phrase «as much justification»

It doesn't say that it's anything but microcosmic, providing as much justification for massive reduction of CO2 emissions as the fact I just squatted a fly and that caused the local temperature to rise.

That's about as much justification as you can ask for from a kart racer, really.

As it was, plenty of Germans and Hitler himself took his survival as a sign of God's providence, and he had as much justification to do so as any Christian who survives a serious accident today has.

And I responded saying that the site has about as much justification as you do.

Not exact matches

One must also understand the Wesleyan movement as preaching a gospel of free grace that at times sounds very much like the Reformation theme of «justification by faith.»

It's hard to escape the suspicion that these new intellectual justifications for soaring executive pay were as much effect as cause.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

I even say that this is not so much violence itself as a justification of violence that is unacceptable to Christian faith.

Our literature and thought forms have been replete with moral justifications or excuses for arson, rape (on and off the plantation), and — as the advertisers would put it — much, much more.

We live in the USA where we are oppressed by much of the populous using the Bible and Christianity as justification for the oppression.

In this country we are oppressed by much of the populous using the Bible and Christianity as justification for the oppression.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

Duméry makes much of this, whether it be a question of descriptive analogies like those of Otto in The Idea of the Holy or of a justification of these analyses by a critique of knowledge such as is suggested by the works of Husserl, Scheler, or Gabriel Marcel.

The style is fairly conversational, almost anecdotal; this is not so much a tightly argued treatise as a personal justification of his faith.

That so much of what is in the Bible has, in the long experience of men and women, validated itself over and over again as true, constitutes the justification for speaking of it as the Word of God.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

Is there any justification for President Trump's allegations that the much of the mainstream media's coverage of his actions and positions are so stilted and biased as to warrant accusations of «fake news, and that they are thereby doing a disservice to the citizenry?

Or they use it as a justification for violence and power abuse, much like ISIS.

Senator Marc Panepinto offered much the same justification for his support as Kennedy, calling the bill a strong package for his Buffalo district.

I'm not a lawyer, but without pretty clear justification, this would appear to breach Articles 5, 11 and - arguably - 3 of the ECHR (as you said, it was degrading and we have a much broader definition of torture than our American cousins thank God).

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has lambasted Vice President Bawumia's justification of government's decision to borrow $ 15 billion from the Chinese government, labeling the move as «frightening, scary and reckless,» particularly when he, Dr. Bawumia, criticized the Mahama government for contracting a much lesser amount.

It suffers from the same basic problem as Sightseers, namely expecting us to like thoroughly unlikeable people without much by way of redemption or justification.

And, like those earlier films, it doesn't really question its protagonist's values or justifications, instead focusing on the toll — as much spiritual as psychological — that his decisions take on him.

Along the way, many women are killed (one torn apart like a stone crab), almost all of them naked at the moment of their destruction, and a lot of mumbo - jumbo about nothing much at all is spewed as the justification for it.

As a matter of public policy, however, the public's willingness to endorse online education very much depends on the justification given for it (see Figure 5).

Dropout Nation raised this question last month after New York and Ohio gained waivers despite the fact that much of the reforms both states offered up as justification for gaining them were either being contested by affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers or hadn't been approved and implemented.

We've reached this magical point where people either claim LCD is just as good for reading as eInk (the common justification being you can't read eInk in the dark — guess it's too much like a book) or they just don't mention the readability of the screen.

And its support for ragged - right text (as opposed to the Kindle app's unchangeable, awkward forced justification) is much appreciated.

However, I continue to say you need to look at more than just how much someone is paying per page for a book from Bestselling Author as opposed to your book and using that as justification to raise your prices.

The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self - justifications, and a million reasons why we can't / shouldn't / won't do what we know we need to do.

In pursuit of justification to charge a higher price for e-books than, say, $ 9.99 — perhaps even as much for an e-book as a hardcover — there has been much discussion of possibility of producing «enhanced» e-books.

You see, once a law like this goes on the books at the state or local level, it becomes much easier for lawmakers — and the activists who have their ears — to promote similar legislation in other places by using precedent as justification.

There doesn't appear to be any justification for these removals, as it seems not much was added in its place.

If you feel my rebutting of Killian's skyrocketry regarding Knoblauch et al (2018) is» exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument» so as to make it» much easier to present (my) own position as being reasonable» and that» this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate»; if you feel all that, you would have more sympathy from me if you were able to demonstrate this alleged» dishonesty», or even better begin by demonstrating some justification for the skyrocketry.

After all, being aware of the possibility of it (NVCD), or the near - justification of it, and the growing dialogue about it, is important context as people contemplate the urgent importance of making the conventional approaches much more effective, and fast.

As an example, if I set out to map the major underwater features of a particular lake by looking carefully from a particular point 50 feet above the surface level from one of the banks and performing naive calculations, I may very well end up with results that will be skewed; however, the data might still be very useful and can be transformed into something much more accurate by applying the proper mathematical transformations with physical justifications.

Indeed, in the work of those like Shue who embrace a «the rich must go first» approach (as opposed to an equal per capita allocations approach), the absence of any justification for an answer to «first, but by how much and for how long?»

Any act of terrorism is a painful hit to any society and its innocent members — it should always be strongly underlined that there is no justification for targeting any human's life due to any form of extremism, and one must bear in mind that often it is not about the death itself, but to intimidate the nations in order for them to become more vulnerable, and to limit widely understood human rights as this kind of society, namely the threatened society, is much is easier to be governed.

The ICC may not have much legal grounding to prosecute US officials, but there are some justifications as to why the ICC should make it known that it intends to prosecute US officials:

What this means is that when undertaking Judicial Review functions on a reasonableness standard, the concern is centred on ``... the existence of justification, transparency and intelligibility...», but where it can be shown that the decision, however much a party such as ATCO may not like it, still falls within a range of possible, acceptable outcomes, Courts of Appeal will be loathe to intervene.

As she acknowledges, Israel has still not articulated any legal justification for the Al - Kibar attack, much less claimed that it represented a legal act of pre-emptive self - defence:

The council had made much of the fact that the overall single status agreement had been approved by the two principal unions, and the tribunal had put much emphasis on this as showing justification.

Lord Millett referred back to Lord Denning's justification of the derivative action in Wallersteiner, which applies as much to a multiple derivative action as it does to a standard derivative action.

«Chief Justice Paul Crampton advising both sides that the two biggest questions for hearing panel concern substantiality — how much of an impact TREB's rules have on its members — and whether privacy, when used as a business justification, is a genuine concern or was thought of after the fact to justify TREB's position.»

Day five of the Competition Tribunal hearing between the Commissioner of Competition and the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) opened in Ottawa Monday with Chief Justice Paul Crampton advising both sides that the two biggest questions for hearing panel concern substantiality — how much of an impact TREB's rules have on its members — and whether privacy, when used as a business justification, is a genuine concern or was thought of after the fact to justify TREB's position.