Sentences with phrase «as the arbiter of»

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).

But lets not be so ignorant as to believe history is devoid of the forced imposition of atheism or the state as the arbiter of proper religious beliefs.

If the Supreme Court somehow obtained jurisdiction over this independent sovereign power, according to Coons it would not be acting «either as or for the state, but as the arbiter of legal sovereigns who need a way to live together by some rule more humane than naked power.»

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.

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.

Once someone on here sets him or herself up as the arbiter of what is true and what is false doctrine, and what is the correct method of interpreting the Bible, it's time to get on bus, Gus; make a new plan, Sam; just get oneself free.

Artists and writers of this sort are still with us, but to a considerable degree they have been superseded as arbiters of nature fashion by photographers.

It ain't for nothin'that newspaper and television reporters and pundits have steadily lost audience over the last decade to a new army of amateurs and outsiders — a world of information scarcity is being replaced by a world of information plenty, and political journalism's place as the arbiter of public discourse is eroding fast.

For the most part, party organizations don't see themselves as arbiters of primaries, but as supporting structures for winning the general election.

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.

Nine years later, his name appeared on a list of scientists proposed to the Environmental Protection Agency as arbiters of climate science for a national debate meant to provide Americans «true, legitimate, peer - reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO ₂.»

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.

Courts, at the state and federal level, were more and more frequently called upon as an arbiter of student or employee or citizen rights.

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.

However, the essence of their respective educational policies are alarmingly similar: marketization and privatization of public schools; pockets of «success» valued over educational justice; teaching discounted as a profession; compliance trumping professional responsibility; free market competition as the arbiter of all; and test - centric, data - driven regimens that crush student - centered quality teaching and learning.

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...

Somebody had to act as the arbiter of taste.

Sega solidifies themselves as arbiters of taste by choosing the best character.

If anything can turn into art, and all too often anything does, galleries can open anywhere, without losing their power as arbiters of the day's taste.

The argument may seem academic, but time is central to avant - gardism as an arbiter of quality.

I certainly don't know of any other group of European artists, or certainly any group of American artists, who would have accepted a poet as the arbiter of who was on the track, so to speak, and who was off.

He was not only at the forefront of establishing a market for this neglected art form; his reputation as an arbiter of artistic taste also provided an impetus for the collection and study of photography by museums and scholars.

When it failed to sell at a 1990 Sotheby's auction, the couple — and by default, Schnabel — were skewered in multiple articles, as well as in Anthony Haden - Guest's 1996 art - world tell - all True Colors, as arbiters of the eighties bubble.

To have found otherwise would have been to uphold a system where the decision maker also acts as arbiter of whether an individual could challenge their decision or not — a clear conflict of interest and an affront to justice.»

These criticisms can be grouped into two areas: (1) those aimed at the process itself and (2) those relating to the role of the Minister of Justice as the arbiter of conviction review.

Historically, Canada's political culture was a mix of «liberal» and «non-liberal» (partly «Tory» and partly «social - demoratic») ideas, which were bound together by a belief in Parliament and the legislatures as the arbiters of social conflict and makers of common rules for the common weal.

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

at the end of every speech he delivered in the Roman Senate, I think we must «disestablish» the McGill Guide as the arbiter either of legal writing style or of legal citation practice in Canada.

As arbiters of great talent, we identify, calibrate, and advocate for the candidates we place — that means behind closed doors we frequently go to bat for you.

He has become known as an arbiter of style and the premier purveyor of fine period antiques to prominent interior decorators and discriminating clients nationwide.

Not exact matches

As tensions rise, the arbiters of global finance are reluctant to even entertain the possibility that financial hostilities could escalate.

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.

And certainly not an «arbiter of truth,» as he put it.

«Just as these misguided arbiters of the mainstream view an adult entertainment star as an anathema to the political process,» she said, when she eventually decided against a bid, «so too do they view the dishwasher, the cashier or the bus driver.»

Any single variable is likely to contain too many random movements for it to be used as the sole arbiter of the timing of business cycles (some anomalous instances are illustrated below).

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.

I would like to point out to those here who think it is not possible for Jesuits (or anyone) to hold science and faith simultaneously, and who invoke «evidence» as the only arbiter of what is real, that human knowledge is always evolving.

How do you reconcile using Augustine as an arbiter on Christianity when you plainly abhor the teachings of the Catholic Church, which he helped write?

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 is.

Though I was largely unaware of it, I held myself up as the final arbiter of that faith; it was up to me to decide ultimately what I as an individual believed.

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.

This is, however, to set humanity over Scripture as the final arbiter of what is inspired and authoritative for Christian practice.

Any other way leads to Man as the Lord of history and the arbiter of truth.

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

(c) Science may claim that its knowledge of the universe is such as to entitle it to be the sole and final arbiter of existence and its problems.

However, that being said, our final arbiter of the meaning of Greek words should be God Himself, as voiced through His amanuenses, the writers of Scripture (where one is available.)

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.