Sentences with phrase «assertions like»

People who score strongly as conscientious, meanwhile, tend to agree strongly with assertions like «I'm always highly organized and thorough,» and those who score highly on neuroticism typically agree with statements like «I'm frequently anxious or tense.»

Similar to some of the single words listed above like «why» and «this,» readers enjoy discovering, learning, and challenging the details behind blanket assertions like this.

It's truer to say that assertions like yours («the supposed 20th century warming») appear only in comments from self - described climate - change skeptics.

Take a couple of classes, before throwing around... assertions like ``... the experience has badly bruised the credibility of so - called cap - and - trade systems as an effective and reliable means of regulating emissions of CO2.»

Most others are fooled by common assertions like «Independent tests show this product to be effective up to 80 % of the time.»

Without bullshit assertions like «heat won't flow up a wire vertically»?

Baseless assertions like that are your stock in trade, as is psychological «projection» — which you employ again here.

No, you don't get to make assertions like «OHC started to rise 150 years ago» etc..

This morning, Korman repeatedly slammed his hand down on the table for emphasis, interrupting the government counsel's every other sentence with assertions like, «You're just playing games here,» «You're making an intellectually dishonest argument,» «You're basically lying,» «This whole thing is a charade,» «I'm entitled to say this is a lot of nonsense, am I not?»

Be VERY careful of assertions like «you can receive up to $ 48,900 in dividends and pay NO federal tax».

The book lost me when it made ridiculous assertions like the current administration was more interested in talking to our enemies then punishing them.

Actually I hate to generalize about this because there are so many factors that come into play, and assertions like this have a lot of «other things being equal» caveats, but basically, if you intentionally try to gain weight by over-eating, it will be hard to force the undesired food down but your body will allow some weight gain without making you miserable; whereas if you intentionally try to lose weight by starvation, you'll be miserable and hungry.

I know you absolutely mean no offense, but I feel as if my personal experience is diminished when general assertions like this are made.

However, making an assumption about his purpose for making such assertions like the one you just did is completely unfounded in reality and based on no real evidence.

But as soon as you start making assertions like «Jesus was born of a virgin and was raised from the dead,» or «when we die, we are reincarnated over and over until we reach enlightenment» you find yourself having to force yourself to believe things that are unproven and unprovable and often patently absurd.

There is no one conviction to settle on, and atheism is one among all the other convictions because it makes a metaphysical assertion like the rest.

how many K's of years would it take to present any evidence of current disturbance of pH balance to verify an assertion like this?

Jimmy is so wrong all the time — and can not cite any real science at all — but will keep arguing by assertion like an energizer bunny on steroids.

One often sees an assertion like «The earth has been recovering from the cold of the Little Ice Age.»

Not exact matches

I think your assertions around the key variables that impact workforce productivity are spot on.One of the other variables I would like to contribute is in relation to the employees themselves, as you also talk about employee engagement when referring to staff morale.

Now, it looks like there is actually some data to back up that assertion.

Giuliani's assertion that «things like this» are a routine matter for an attorney to handle is preposterous on its face.

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

That said, he and many others were less on board with Carney's assertions that the likes of Bitcoin provide a poor store of value and exchange.

Although I would like to take you to task over your assertions over school funding and the your contention that you have had children, I'll restrain myself.

As I've noted in recent weeks (see in particular the March 27 comment, my assertion that stocks are about double their normal historical valuations also applies to earnings - based measures like P / E ratios.

On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Bernard Williams are leading the attack against such debilitating philosophical notions as Hume's notorious «Is / Ought» distinction and Kant's simplistic fusion of morality with mere duty.

While that may sound like a bold assertion in and of itself, it really isn't when you consider that every major religious movement considers Jesus to be an important religious figure.

While that may sound like a bold assertion in and of...

Seems like he's just tossing out random idiotic assertions at this point.

Contrary to the assertion thrown at those of us who reject biblical inerrancy and / or infallibility, we don't just go around throwing out the parts we don't like.

It takes a lot more than assertions one way or another to libel the likes of us.

Like theology as construction, theology as heuristics supports the assertion that our concept of God is precisely that — our concept of God — and not God.

Like the congregation itself in Hopewell's portrayal of it, the book is unified by its assertions about the power of narrative.

(Cf. Isaiah 2: 1 - 3; 59: 19) This is not an assertion that the Gentiles will come instead of the Jews, nor even that the Gentiles will come like the Jews; rather it is said that many Gentiles will come to shame the Jews.

It is true that the tradition contains the assertion that the Resurrection, like Christ's death, took place «according to the scriptures».

IOW, your point is really, like our atheist friends, that much of the above is about not being able to prove the assertions religion makes.

Left alone like this, these passages would seem to give the lie to my assertion of balance in Newman's sermons on sin, as if all he had to say was that the world was riding a toboggan downhill to hell without help from God, and this despite our infirmities bequeathed to us by our first parents.

(CNN)-- Erin Burnett tackles Glenn Beck's assertion that «The Bible's» Satan looks like Obama.

Tietjen cites Preus's assertion that the Missouri Synod is made up of Germans and that Germans like to be told what to do.

So don't just generally like you have some sort of research on what is simply an opinionated assertion.

The type of atheists, like most on this post, that continue with the ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some religious text contains some apparent condemnation of their lifestyle.

That is what I'm reading unless you would like to nuance your unfounded assertion.

Fringe elements (like the never - credible Trump) of the Republican Party have spent four years making baseless and offensive assertions that President Obama is somehow «not an American».

As long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statements.

Granted — thinking, inquiry, assertion, and the like are all intellectual processes carried on by humans which, as such, must inevitably have an historical setting by way of place and time, of culture and era.

So one finds — along with assertions about the authors» dietary credentials — Weight Graphs, Habit Charts, Calorie Worksheets, Menu Planners and Food Journals in the back of books like The Joy of Eating Right (1993) and Thoroughly Fit (1993).

I'd like to amend my earlier assertion about female superiority.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

As will be seen, my own view is closer to Ogden's, but like him I am sure that back of, in, and behind the traditional position enormously important assertions are being made, and that these may be stated «in other words» (as a friend of mine puts it) which will yet be compelling and loyal to the intention of the Christian faith.