Sentences with phrase «at face value as»

However, defendants are increasingly challenging these amounts, saying they should not be taken at face value as «reasonable.»

Many courts have accepted that the amount billed for services can be taken at face value as «reasonable» for services rendered.

For years, emails touting the Stella Awards have been circulated and citizens, including the press, have taken them at face value as real, true - life cases.

The following is from the US Academies of Science in 2002 — from doyens of climate science — and can be taken at face value as a description of real world data.

They have all attempted to debunk this paper based on what would seem at face value as legitimate reasons but if you look a little deeper at what they have said you see it just a veneer thin piss poor attempt.

I'm sure elsewhere on the internet that claim you made is taken at face value as true, when clearly it is not.

That said, if you don't compare these two events, and simply take it at face value as a cool addition to the Downtown Vegas scene, I do think it has it's own particular charm and place in the Downtown landscape.

In any event, you appear to have taken my own piece (at Though Cowards Flinch) as much at face value as you accuse others of taking Liddle's too much at face value.

I generally assume that people will take a question at face value as a place to begin a discussion.

Reimarus showed that it was impossible to reconcile the stories of Jesus as told by the four different Gospels (and particularly their accounts of Jesus» Resurrection), so the Gospels could not be accepted at face value as genuine records.

Keep in mind that my hermeneutic in school was to take Scripture as much at face value as necessary, because I expected that God had a message to communicate to me and I wanted to hear it.

So The Giving Tree can not be taken at face value as a story about human giving and receiving.

Not exact matches

«Today's Summit will underline that we remain committed to defending our people and upholding our values as liberal democracies in the face of any threat, whether at home or abroad,» May said in a statement Wednesday night.

The buyer seems positive and eager to get started with the proposal (suspiciously enough, without raising concerns or objections), and the salesperson takes that at face value, letting emotions cloud their judgement and forecasting the deal as a «sure thing.»

As the film pushes in on the face of Jesse Eisenberg, the actor playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the final captions before credits start rolling says Facebook «is currently valued at 25 billion dollars.»

While these skills initiatives and research investments can probably be largely taken at face value, they also provide Facebook with useful lobbying points at a time when regulators and lawmakers across Europe are taking on the company over issues such as hate speech, privacy and tax.

The worldwide nominal value — also known as the notional or «face» value — of derivatives tripled in the five years leading up to the recession, at which time it was around $ 600 trillion, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

If you buy a bond for less than face value on the secondary market (known as a market discount) and you either hold it until maturity or sell it at a profit, that gain will be subject to federal and state taxes.

These securities are known as Original Issue Discount (OID) bonds, since the difference between the discounted price at issuance and the face value at maturity represents the total interest paid in one lump sum.

Bitcoin is an electronic currency, so merchants who receive it cash it in at its face value to pay salaries, bills or just take it home as profit.

As the market took the new Fed Chair's hawkish words at face value on Tuesday, which triggered the current leg lower in stocks, we suspect a more dovish stance from Mr. Powell that could be the perfect occasion for a short - covering bounce.

As with the EMBI +, the EMBI Global includes U.S. dollar - denominated Brady bonds, loans, and Eurobonds with an outstanding face value of at least $ 500 million.

Its beyond my understanding but I am aware analysts such as Martin North have been suggesting that the guarantees are not as secure as they may at face value look..

The cash raised by the sale of the tokens, at a face value of 10 cents in fiat currency, will be used to expand GBX's and GSX's FinTech capabilities as well as doubling or trebling current staff levels.

Richard: Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

While at the face of it, the value seems mind boggling but it doesn't come as a surprise because globally, e-commerce has been witnessing staggering growth, propelled by the sprouting of various e-commerce startups across the world....

It's equally foolish to accept it at face value and underestimate the great achievements of liberty and law that we as Americans rightly take pride in and must work to protect.

You speak as if you have done so yourself... or have you accepted at face value what Dawkins and many others claim: that there is no evidence of God?

However, I do not accept at face value your characterization of all of the events as malicious on our part.

Sure, tabloid and gossip magazines were around, but they were so outlandish as to never be taken at face value.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

It gave freedom from the tyranny of already antiquated forms of thought; freedom from the necessity of accepting at their face value, as part of a divine revelation, puerile and sometimes revolting survivals from primitive times.

Christian fundamentalists, who read the New Testament at face value, and who look at today's events through the lens of the New Testament, are inclined to treat the passing of the last 2,000 years as if nothing has substantially changed.

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

Never - the-less, without accepting the work at face value, it is possible to regard the Book of Mormon as the product of an extraordinary and profound act of the religious imagination.

Taking at face value the unproven preached out by people who sell the word of God as their day job.

Reading receptively and trustingly does not mean accepting everything in the text at face value, as Paul's own critical sifting of the Torah demonstrates.

But taken at face value, they are alienating insofar as they betray us into placing our own possibilities outside of us as attributes of God and not of humanity, viewing ourselves as unworthy objects of a projected image of our own essential nature.

Why should any rational adult accept at face value a claim that if made about anything other than religion, would be scoffed at as a lie?

At face value, these items seem to punctuate the argument in favor of Christian Privilege existing as a visible, tangible construct in American society.

The text may be presented to its readers at face value simply as the literary structure of a linguistic code (langue), but its otherness includes an authorially originated speech performance (parole).

Just remember as you peruse the media not to take all news stories at face value.

As such I must reflect on these principles further rather than accept them at face value.

He takes Russia's feeling of insecurity, and its fears of the loss of historic trophies such as the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea, at face value.

I would argue that there is no such thing as reading the Bible at «face value.»

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

Because this is so very easily refutable one can regard such attempts as nothing more than pure propaganda aimed at a believing audience use to accepting things at face value.

If you don't take the Bible at face value, then look to men like Polycarp, Clement, and Ignatius who were taught by the Apostles, and read as much as you can about these men as well as what they themselves wrote.

Our theology warns us not to accept Stout's liberal democracy at face value, and our sense of history suggests that things are not as bad as MacIntyre and Hauerwas make them out to be.

There are tons of words within James 1 and 2 which evidence that James is speaking to folks as if to take their faith at face value and is simply urging them to get to work.