Sentences with phrase «assertions over»

Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»

But simply repeating your false assertions over and over does not transform them into being true at some particular point.

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.

The restrictions fly in the face of Pentagon assertions over the past year that it was striving to be more transparent about the US war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

He feels that if he repeats his assertion over and over with increasing intensity, then he will win.

I have heard this assertion over and over but isn't this based on some untested economic reasoning or some complicated unvalidated economic model?

You did not answer my questions, you've merely doggedly repeated your assertion over and over and over again that TMax and TMin are converging.

It found that Mr. Budge's evidence that the parties verbally agreed to a three (3) month probationary period and a review of his compensation structure at the end of six (6) months was not contradicted, and accepted his assertion over DMR's.

The ruling is a landmark as this is the first time that a court upheld the CFTC's jurisdictional assertion over cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Not exact matches

Another sticking point for the business community is Obama's assertion that his plan is «revenue - neutral over the long - term.»

And in June 2016, the US told Russia that it was planning on continuing its military patrols in the Black Sea over Russian assertions that such a move was harming regional security.

Many of these assertions appear to elevate form over substance.

This assertion had three components: (1) The commenter estimated the cost over 60 days to be $ 250 million based on the on - going cost from the final 2016 RIA of $ 1.5 billion per year, (2) that cost savings over a 10 - year period were not provided to allow comparison to the negative effects on investors that would occur over the ten year period, (3) that industry cost savings were not projected out over 10 years using returns on capital in a similar manner to investors» lost earnings.

The state lotteries and MUSL (the organization that runs Powerball) are all very firm in their assertion that playing the lottery in any manner over the Internet is illegal.

The basis of my assertion that equity market returns over the next 10 years will likely be in the low single digits, if not negative, is my belief in the irresistible force of mean reversion.

But at this point, economic data have consistently contradicted Achuthan's «rolling over» assertion and claim that we're now in a recession, a position that is rapidly becoming an embarrassment.

The assertion that the gold price has been successfully manipulated downward over a great many years via the relentless selling of «paper gold» contains more than a few logical and factual holes.

My own research in several inner cities over the past two years confirms Olasky's assertions.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

Thomas Paine's assertion in Common Sense that «we have it in our power to begin the world over again» represents secularized apocalyptic thought in the form of a revolutionary overthrow of monarchy, which was demonized as anti-Christ.

He bases this assertion on the work of the Italian patristic scholar Giovanni Cereti, whose research is now over 30 years old.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

The assertions are true to the extent they carry over the achieved values of their subject matter into the interpretations as qualified by the selective elements iii the limited respects of interpretation, by the context and will - determined purposes guiding interpretation, and by the signs actually used to represent or objectify the subject matter.

In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife» (1 Corinthians 7:3 - 4) This flat - out contradicts Wilson's assertion that authority belongs only to the man.

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.

This is the assertion of the freedom of the Gospel over against the bondage of the law.

Suppose an attempt were made to exegete Gregory of Nazianzus's bold assertion on which the title draws: «The scope of our art is to provide the soul with wings, to rescue it from the world and give it to God, and to watch over that which is in His image.»

Finally, while we agree wholeheartedly that Revelation takes precedence over human reasoning, we can not agree with the assertion that metaphysics can never be modified in the light of advances in physics.

All three bear out Shi's assertion that «the people who have succeeded in maintaining a commitment to simplicity over time are disproportionately people with a powerful spiritual foundation — that is, some sort of transcendent element in their outlook that gives them the fortitude and the tenacity to maintain this mode of living in the face of all of the conflicting tendencies and temptations around us.»

This was the first massive assertion of the human will over natural systems.

We may argue over that assertion, but still accept the point that students, teachers, and administrators at religious institutions respect the humanities much more than those at elite colleges and research universities do.

All judgments based on the theory of discontinuity in the tradition and on the assertion of an evolutionary priority of the «simple» over the «complex» can thus be immediately called into question as lacking foundation.

Such an assertion of human specialness may well contribute to a policy demeaning the environmental context over against which our «specialness» shows up by contrast.

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In fact the invasion served a variety of U.S. purposes including the assertion of U.S. control over the Panama Canal, the diversion of attention away from El Salvador, the economic destabilization of Nicaragua and the intimidation of Nicaraguan voters prior to the election.

It is easily possible to over - or underestimate the real impact of the Religious Right, but certain assertions seem reasonably safe.

I've thought long and hard over that one, and followed her assertion down the long road of its implications.

Sorry fred, but those assertions are merely one of many interpretations of the bible over the many years since it has been written.

I will have to read this article over and over again to fully get the logic you are saying, however I concur with Janis on disagreeing with your assertion that son is not a big deal to God.

Over the past month, Hawkins has posted on her Facebook and Twitter statements including «I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor,» «I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,» and an assertion that Christians and Muslims «worship the same God.»

He points out that Descartes was the first modern philosopher to address himself to the problem of justifying ontological assertions in general, having asked questions such as these: When can I correctly and legitimately say that something persists over a certain time interval?

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.

His assertion that «unity prevails over conflict» finds its basis in the conviction that «the Gospel message always begins with a greeting of peace, and peace at all times crowns and confirms the relations between the disciples» (no. 229).

Clemson's run to the National Championship included plenty of assertions: a 41 - 10 romp over a good Appalachian State, a 58 - 0 humiliation of Miami that got the Hurricanes» head coach fired, and a 37 - 17 runaway over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl.

Rarely does the best team of the year win the UCL that year, so your assertion that RM or BM would have won it 7 to 8 times in 10 years is totally over the top.

Neville, to his credit, refuses to dodge any blame for the team's performance, and no one can deny his assertion that, when he took over, more than half the first tier players were carrying injuries.

I'm not sure whether it was her implication that teen mothers aren't trying hard enough to nurse, or her assertion that bottles are only warranted in emergencies that pushed me over the edge...

In fact, one of the most important findings of this book points to the assertion of informal rules and institutions over formal ones.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.