Sentences with phrase «assertion than a matter»

Unfortunately, an implied power is more a matter of assertion than a matter...

Unfortunately, an implied power is more a matter of assertion than a matter of certainty, and registration committees often lack many of the express powers of inquiry and discipline committees.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, the realism Whitehead is affirming is far richer than the assertion of modern realists that matter in motion occurs regardless of human knowledge of it.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Either Lord Boateng really believes that AV departs from the principle of One Man One Vote and that under AV some votes are counted more often than others — in which case he hasn't given the matter sufficient attention: or he knows perfectly well that both assertions are nonsense, but he makes them anyway, in which case... well, you can finish the sentence.

The Committee added that «we therefore resist the temptation into looking into the remits and the complaints and assertions made by the First Deputy Speaker about the matter any further than what has been done above and subject to our recommendations.»

Bud Ward not only independently corroborates (full text here) Gelbspan's assertion about his own involvement on the matter, he puts a date on it: 1992, three years earlier than when Gelbspan supposedly first reported about it.

Despite delusions of grandeur [«Steven Mosher is to Climategate what Woodward and Bernstein were to Watergate»] and ridiculous assertions [«He was just the right person, with just the right influence, and just the right expertise to be at the heart of the promulgation of the files»] Mr. Mosher was nothing more than a temporary go - between that he used to inflate his importance in the matter.

As for the narrower matter, I'd be happier with the Nichcolson - Swan concern if I could get some hard evidence of it, rather than a string of alarmed assertions and some almost Aristotelian reasoning from Nicholson prefaced by «economics teaches that...,» which ought to give anyone pause.