Sentences with phrase «at stake in this issue»

Standing under the word in prayer while waiting for the clarification of the Spirit will satisfy neither those who argue for «justice now» nor those for whom the faith itself is at stake in this issue — and those people will necessarily continue their professions and protestations.

Not exact matches

The federal government in Canada doesn't plan to legalize edibles until at least 2019, providing many more months for companies to solve this vexing issue — and more time for alcohol companies to stake a claim.

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note to his employees.

That increases the shares outstanding and dilutes the stake of existing shareholders, since shares issued by the company through the exercise of options are not sold in exchange for cash at fair market value but are exercised at a discount.

There are many issues at stake, particularly the role of women in the military, and, as Fox News put it, the «blurring of gender lines.»

«Given the important public policy issues at stake, we have also asked the court to hold its hearing in open rather than behind closed doors.

It is worth mentioning that John Wilcox is also directly involved in high - profile Morrow Sodali assignments, when the issues at stake («delicate» items in the Agenda, need to deal with activist «shareholders», consultation at Board level, etc) require it.

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note obtained by Recode.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

What is at stake are issues of principle — the role of revelation and Scripture in the formation of conscience — that affect matters of doctrine ranging from the place of the Methodist Quadrilateral in the formation of United Methodist identity to the place of Christ in salvation.

With all the important issues at stake in the presidential and vice presidential debates, it takes a small and pettifogging disposition to be concerned with a matter of fairness.

As the author of several articles taking on the same issue in the Jewish press, I can add that there are real First Amendment religious rights infringements at stake, at least with regard to Judaism.

What finally emerged in the summer of 1518 from this frantic rethinking — recall that Luther was trying to work through the theological issue while at the same time explaining to the world why he shouldn't be burned at the stake for heresy — seems to have been shaped primarily by reflection on texts such as Matthew 16:19: «Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.»

(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to social reform and probably various sorts of social class sortings out, but the themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)

It is time for us to help clarify the moral issues that are at stake in our desire for peace.

The combination in many churches of an obsession with issues of sexuality and a simultaneous lack of serious engagement with the theological issues at stake in the current war illustrates the point nicely.

If on the other hand the world is in truth a battlefield whereon victory is in the making — and if we are in truth thrown at birth into the thick of the battle — then we can at least vaguely see how, for the success of this universal struggle in which we are both fighters and the issue at stake, there must inevitably be suffering.

A process is at work in the universe, an issue is at stake, which can best be compared to the processes of gestation and birth; the birth of that spiritual reality which is formed by souls and by such material reality as their existence involves.

-- I tried to sidestep some of the political and social questions raised (due to my lack of expertise in these areas and to the many other opinions already aired in response to this article) and instead call attention to some of the spiritual issues at stake.

The criticisms aimed at the Pope's plan for curial reform, the other issue at stake in this pontificate, are also founded on theological and juridical grounds.

The Pope's choices not only show his sensitivity towards the world's peripheries and a certain pastoral approach, they also indicate a change concerning the pivotal issues at stake in this papacy.

What is at stake for you in the issue of resurrection?

This CNN article only contributes to the general public's ignorance regarding the issues at stake in reconciling theism and evolution.

But, as they both believed, the issues for which they contended were issues in which men's souls were at stake; and they would have agreed on this at least, that the urbanities of modern theological debate betokened a failure to appreciate how serious the issues were.

While Crosby's interest in this article is limited to Tertullian's quandary (and our own) of relating the elements of the Christian university, that is, philosophy, literature, history, and the liberal arts, to the life of redemption and faith, the underlying issue at stake seems easily to extend beyond intellectual culture.

This sense that eternal issues are at stake in the mundane choices of our everyday life helps, I think, to account for the fact that, in this country, Lewis has been so popular among evangelical Protestants.

There are profound issues at stake, such as the ones raised in Martin Buber's polemical book Two Types of Faith.

Regarding the issue of ordination raised by James Nuzzo, at stake is the question of how all believers share eucharistically in Christ, definitely not brickbats or sibling rivalries.

What is at stake in the discussion of women is more than the surface issue, important as that is.

It sounds like an easy and impactful way to take a stand, but is boycotting a corporation the best way to reflect Christ in light of the issues at stake?

Such moves often appear as ad hoc procedure in Whitehead's metaphysics, but the real issue at stake is the coherence and adequacy of the entire system.

Important issues are indeed at stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even if they are in the cultural minority.

At stake is the seemingly obscure issue of whether the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima can any longer describe itself as either Catholic or pontifical — ie, papal.

The fundamental issue at stake is the question as to whether wine ought to be present in the cup, along with water.

The real issue at stake in Kentucky's religious liberty kerfuffle is not discrimination, but belief — a belief that will not bow to sexual progressivism.

And at stake in the dialogue in «our classes, our refectory, the suburban congregations in Westchester, the inner - city congregations of Brooklyn, and the bureaucratic part - time jobs at the Interchurch Center is a central issue: How does one achieve and combine authentic personal spirituality with equally authentic public spirituality?

According to Panikkar, Christian ecumenism is part of these «internal» issues, while what is really at stake is to be found in the ecumenical ecumenism among the religions.

To understand what he is talking about, one needs to know something of the issue at stake in the whole letter, the problems in the Galatian churches to which it is sent, the peculiar meanings words like «law» have for Paul, and similar matters of historical understanding.

In Western Europe and North America matters are more complex in the sense that the issues multiply and religious forces are divided, But just as much is at stakIn Western Europe and North America matters are more complex in the sense that the issues multiply and religious forces are divided, But just as much is at stakin the sense that the issues multiply and religious forces are divided, But just as much is at stake.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

But because I believe that the entire Church, including the hierarchy, benefits from honest challenge and critique, I have not avoided what might be deemed «controversial» when I thought it important: during political campaigns, when grave moral issues were at stake; during the Long Lent of 2002; in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run - up to the Iraq War; in response to challenges to religious freedom in America that couldn't have been imagined in 1978, when «work for religious freedom» meant «work for prisoners of conscience behind the iron curtain.»

Voting does not work well in situations of intractable polarity (witness the United States Congress) or when fundamental issues of faith and life are at stake.

When will we take seriously our moral responsibility for the effects of our actions upon the hundreds of millions of people who have no part in the decisions and who do not even share our view of the issues at stake?

But love is vulnerable in and through the beloved in the sense that in him its issue is at stake — its completion or frustration, its triumph or tragedy.

The issues involved in the American Revolution were not so profound or fateful as those at stake in recent or contemporary revolutions.

At stake is the issue over which the Nicene Council struggled mightily: Does God meet us in the real humanity of a historically real Jesus, «of one substance» with the real us, or not?

As I see the matter, there is not in fact any constitutional issue at stake.

Now that the press knows there will be large issues at stake, they'll go into an aggressive mode, and in Rome they know how to do it.

He said: «It's to make sure we're discerning the will of God in this situation but also understanding more about the issues that are at stake and bringing them before God, and that can't be a bad thing for any of us.

So that chapter reviews the current discussion historically and critically, and states a position with regard to the issues conceived to he at stake in it.