Sentences with phrase «asked about his assumptions»

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

When asked about the assumption that more education actually makes people question authority, not follow it blindly, LeVine explains that modern institutions such as Western schooling make individuals more likely to question traditional authority — an older member of a family, for example.

Nobody has come up with a solution as to where that growth will come from,» Zell replied when asked about his assumptions for the next decade of real estate investment.

Not exact matches

Not long ago Gregersen asked Guy Wollaert, former chief innovation officer and chief technology officer at Coca - Cola, about the questions that made him challenge his assumptions — and subsequently led to big - picture insights.

Kendall asked how Krystal could claim to make an assumption about her and she didn't have an answer.

When assumptions about how a product should be developed prove to be invalid, openness helps team members admit to stakeholders they were wrong, to ask for help and change direction to improve and create a better product.

Over the next few weeks, each of them went around asking employees about their needs, researching past expenditures, testing the production scheduler's assumptions, checking with the various buyers, forcing Carrigan to defend his calculations.

Sometimes Trunk was asked by clients to leave meeting rooms because they didn't know she was a partner, and they made assumptions about the kind of relationship she had with her colleague.

Many veterans are asked questions that make assumptions about their service — rather than ones that invite them to share their stories, skills and experiences.

But this just underscores how important it is to move past simplistic assumptions, and propaganda, about the developmental nature of China's «global development finance» and ask if and how the Chinese government's provision of overseas finance, in both its concessional and commercial versions is, in fact, contributing to development outcomes both outside and inside of China.

Finally, if you want to narrow down the process and confirm your assumptions, asking a question like «So how does ABC Co. typically go about assessing and implementing a program / product / solution like this?»

They make assumptions, and ask me to represent all blacks by answering that age old question, «what are black people so mad about?»

Rather than make assumptions about what my personal understanding of this old testament story might be, why don't you ask what it is.

If we are to operate as a society on the assumption that any sincerely held view about what constitutes a marriage should be granted status in our laws and practices, I have asked, what would keep us from legalizing plural marriages, or even incestuous ones?

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family life are really true.

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family... More

These hidden assumptions come to light only when we begin to ask such questions as: What are those things that we never have to ask about?

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

They may go quite far in pointing out how those purposes are not well served by current practices, but as participants they have no leverage for asking about fundamental purposes and assumptions.

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

«But Jesus used very provocative images in the stories he would tell to incite people to ask hard questions about their own assumptions.»

But you don't know until you start talking and asking I ask my students about their relationships (my assumption is that people are sleeping together) because no one else will and our sexuality has a huge impact on how we live and interact with each other and God.

The honest answer is the same as if we are asking about the existence of unicorns: If we don't know if they do or do not exist, we assume they don't (until proven) as the assumption that they do exist doesn't help us anywhere or solve any problems..

Alaso, ArthurP seems to be engaging in a form of personal «transference» by ascribing his own feelings and then «transferring» them to other people who he doesn't know, and then making assumptions about the way things «should be» without asking them, or, in fact, assuming that they were somehow better off killed and then goes on to say things that to a human who is basically coherent, can appear fatalistic and perhaps even suicidal.

In the interest of following the recommendation that any such effort ought to be kept as concrete as possible, it would be important and fruitful to ask whether there is some one dominant assumption within the school as a community about (a) how the Christian thing is best construed and (b) how one best goes about «understanding» God.

You're making some very wrong assumptions, Mike, so I'll go through them quickly and you can ask me about any of them that you wish:

Are you quoting yourself, or are you asking me to substantiate your assumptions about my beliefs?

Fortunately everyone else ignores the statement and it's back to Xenophon who asks whether King as made an assumption that Coles is concerned about what the impact will be on the dairy industry.

What perhaps bothered me most is that I think we have stopped asking questions about our assumptions concerning the value of all this technology.

Machiavelli fully endorses Livy's assumption that the fundamental question to ask, when thinking about political liberty, is about the distinction between freedom and servitude, and he further agrees that the arbitrary power wielded by the early kings of Rome left the citizen body living as slaves.

So we should be asking ourselves the fundamental question: if [our basic assumptions about what type of individuals appear suspicious] lead us to be right only 5 % of the time, shouldn't the criteria we are using to apprehend individuals be revised?

New York State insurers selling plans on the individual market are asking the Cuomo administration to raise average premiums by more than 17 percent, a consequence of rising medical costs, decreasing federal funding and misplaced assumptions about the health of consumers.

Long - held assumptions about our place in the cosmos could be skewing our view of it — but is there a viable alternative, asks Chris Clarkson

With the theory's first failure, the time seemed ripe to ask Hubbell about his radical assumptions.

If you are taking her out, you could just ask her about what kind of places that she wants to go with you rather than making an assumption and deciding it by yourself.

The curious thing about Snowfall is how glaringly the ask it is making of its viewers is at odds with the tension rising between the various players in the complicated drug ring depicted onscreen: an assumption of patience, and blind trust that it will deliver.

And along with asking that question, you might consider revisiting some of your fundamental assumptions about our policy and politics, too.

If you notice yourself feeling judgemental of a parent's commentary about their child, ask more questions: be curious and dig in about how the caregiver may be feeling and what context might surround this, rather than making assumptions.

Self - reflection techniques include journal writing and other assignments that ask teachers to think about their own family backgrounds, their assumptions about other families, and their attitudes toward working with families.

Whether out on a field trip or on school grounds, students on a math trail are asked to solve or create problems about objects and landmarks they see; name shapes and composite solids; calculate areas and volumes; recognize properties, similarity, congruence, and symmetry; use number sense and estimation to evaluate large quantities and assess assumptions; and so on.

Karen Mapp of Harvard Graduate School of Education stated that it is vital to transform yourself before doing transformative family engagement work, asking the audience to consider «what assumptions or biases do we have about families as they sit across the table from us in our schools».

«Coaching heavy occurs when coaches ask thought - provoking questions, uncover assumptions, and engage teachers in dialogue about their beliefs and goals rather than focusing only on teacher knowledge and skills.

AF asked the firm to reconsider every basic assumption about the way kids learn, how their day is structured, and the role of the adults in the building.

I apologize if this is much more in depth than you asked for but I think painting a complete picture of our assumptions is important whenever we talk about numbers.

A number of investors have asked about the potential for bankruptcies to disrupt the long - term assumptions that we make about earnings and cash flows, especially for the S&P 500.

Investors need to ask their advisors about the assumptions being used in modelling their retirement projections.

In the first webcast of this two - part series, Dr. Kate Hurley, Director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, asked attendees to examine the assumptions on which most policies about cat sheltering are based.

In the Ellen Johnson Gallery, works created by him similarly ask visitors to think deeply about embedded assumptions.

«I wanted to create some other kind of dialogue between the viewer and myself, about what they are looking at, and why they ask certain kinds questions, or make certain kinds assumptions.»

Filmed individually, the participants reflect on their assumptions about each other, about Tolmie herself and about the tasks they were asked to fulfill.