Sentences with phrase «at least questioning whether»

However, there are indications some companies appear to be listening, or at least questioning whether copy - cat M&A deals will deliver their growth ambitions.

At least we question whether the compiler has understood the spectrum of mankind's Scriptures from within or whether he has merely combed them for those parts which appear to be useful.

With so much more choice, we must at least question whether the BBC should try to be all things to all people.»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

In the case where your loan is investing in growth, the question will always be whether or not the growth will outpace (or at least eventually outweigh) the effective interest rate.

While the lure of start - ups is probably here to stay for Gen Y (and the reputation of corporate American is probably permanently tarnished), it's more of an open question whether Gen Y isn't slowly simmering towards rebellion, or at least a desire to change the status quo of their Boomer parents.

At least one financial services analyst questions whether Lending Club's latest move is a sound one, given the negative press that online lenders have gotten for charging high rates and lending to unworthy borrowers.

«The question from a financial stability point of view is whether or not those measures, to the extent they encourage more credit and more investment, may not buy some more growth today, but increase the risk of some disruption in growth further down the road,» Carolyn Wilkins, the Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor, said at least week's press conference.

As Congress returns from recess this week, the big question is whether the shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed at least 17 people, and injured more than a dozen others, will push Congress to actually do something on guns.

But, it is at least an open question whether central banks can always be credible in claiming they will hit their inflation targets.

It's not even a question anymore whether Faraday Future is challenging Tesla's design because the startup company has already made it clear in a teaser video released on Dec. 15 that its main competition for the FF91 — at least in terms of speed — are the Bentley Bentayga, Ferrari 488 GTB, and Tesla Model X P100D.

This at least raises the question about whether or not it is constitutional for the Treasury Secretary to mint a coin in order to bypass a Congressional restriction on debt accumulation.

By Eli Yokley Top Stories Special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly has at least four dozen questions he wants to ask President Donald Trump to learn more about the president's ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the Russia probe.

Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself, according to a list of the questions obtained by The New York Times.

«The answer may be entirely innocent,» Mr. Denton said, musing on the question of whether Mr. Harder was paid by someone other than Mr. Hogan, «but I think in order for people to understand what's going on here, what the stakes are, I think it's important that it be out in public, or at least that he'd be asked the question in public.»

Whether it all works as he expects is a different question, but at least he knows what he wants to do.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

At the very least, it is an open question whether a nuclear freeze today would enhance the world's safety.

However, we might ask whether these three types of questions about congregations do not in fact fragment a course of study, and in at least two ways.

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

The question I will address is whether speculation about what Jesus was in himself, especially how he was related to God (meaning how God was present in him), is an essential or at least important task for Christian theology.

Wasn't it proper at least to raise the question of whether my draft card should be surrendered to the lordship of Christ?

The question is NOT whether there are other dimensions and the ability to effect things (at least at molecular level) without regard to space and time (given effects at distance regardless of the supposed speed of light limit), this is fact.

If Carter has an inadequate full - employment policy, as I think he does, at least we're discussing what kind of full - employment policy and not the idiotic question of whether there should be one.»

It would at least prompt the question whether this «nature» were not simply the a priori structure of the knowing subject's cognition, having nothing at all to do with «reality in itself».

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

But the question of whether that imposition is soft or hard is an important one; at least some commentators, particularly on the left, will not tire of pointing out the potentialities, in Christianity, particularly, for a sacred order that imposes commanding truths against certain aspects of the traditional family.

while it is impossible to discuss this controversy here, it is at least worth noting that it is not irrelevant to the question whether one historical revelation may be taken as an advance over others.)

However, to my mind, any concept of a limited deity finally entails a denial of the capacity of God to redeem the world and thus, ironically, raises the question of whether God is in the last analysis even love, at least love in the Christian sense of the term.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

At the very least the question of whether various ceremonies and ideologies should be regarded as rituals and theologies is clarified if a plausible reason can be given as to why they can be.

One way of gaining at least a partial answer to this question is to consider whether or not the professional clergy who transform the more sophisticated literature of religious traditions into verbal discourse have any training in such matters.

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

Whether he goes to jail for as many as five years because he rejected the draft and whether he ever fights again — Elijah Muhammad has decreed that he must not — are questions at least momentarilWhether he goes to jail for as many as five years because he rejected the draft and whether he ever fights again — Elijah Muhammad has decreed that he must not — are questions at least momentarilwhether he ever fights again — Elijah Muhammad has decreed that he must not — are questions at least momentarily moot.

But on being shot with a direct question on whether he thinks at least one deal can be struck, he replied with a simple «Yes».

The question of whether Arsenal are better off with Arsene Wenger as the manager has been a matter of some debate and discussion among Arsenal fans for some time now and I am sure that it will continue to be so for at least another year or so.

While I understand it will annoy the fans who have paid to see the current team, in almost every sport the system is set up to vastly favor a team that tanks in terms of getting back to respectability (or at least to acquire the assets that can get a team there, whether or not they're capable enough to use them is another question).

They may a net a goal against our defence but the question is whether we can get at least two without Ozil and Mkhitaryan playing.

The question remains whether Southampton will invite discussions or stand firm on their decision to keep the player rather than cash in on a deal which could be worth at least # 70m.

There are questions on whether the pair will be able to cope with first team, Championship football, since they have very little experience, but there's no harm in at least trying.

As with Coutinho, there were questions about whether the club and player would be willing to reconcile, at least for the next few months.

And let's not even go into the question of whether it is wise, as was suggested by the Department of Agriculture, that school lunches require at least half of the breads served each week be from whole grains.

This represented a stark change from the colonial era, when mothers normally breastfed at least through infants» second summer.3 The move to early weaning was so relentless that doctors complained bitterly in a 1912 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that breastfeeding duration rates had been declining steadily since the mid-19th century «and now it is largely a question as to whether the mother will nurse her baby at all.»»

If you're confronted by the excuse of purdah to stop something happening, at the very least it may be worth questioning whether it really falls fouls of the rules.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

«The question of inherent unfairness concerns not simply the structure of the system which may be capable of operating fairly, but whether there are mechanisms in place to accommodate the arguably higher risk of unfair decisions for those with mental health, learning or other difficulties which effectively deprive them of the ability effectively to participate in, at least, some of the decisions,» Lord Justice Leveson said.

Last year's independence referendum might have settled — for the time being at least — the question of whether Scotland should be an independent country.

While there are still some questions whether Rep. Aaron Schock, R - Ill., — or any other House Republican — will challenge Walden, at least one potential contender is out.

Whether the new trade deals the UK will have to negotiate are going to be hugely beneficial or at least help soften the blow from reduced trade with the EU is another question.