Sentences with phrase «authoritative statements»

They are happy to put out authoritative statements about them, but they have no real attachment to the issue itself.

Pekka you writes «on the willingness to accept conclusions on the basis of authoritative statements by experts»

That can be learned from books and good articles, but telling, what source is most appropriate for some particular person is not possible, because that depends on the starting level of knowledge and on the willingness to accept conclusions on the basis of authoritative statements by experts.

Meanwhile, Steve McIntyre DID predict a reduction in trend by half, or at least made several very confident and authoritative statements about what would happen, which Roger interpreted similarly.

Cornish writes that Wragg «avoids heroic, definitive or authoritative statements, who posits a vision of art which is as circular, or perhaps labyrinthine, as it is progressive.

He still carries the habits of a scientist, pausing in the middle of sentences to reconsider or rephrase what he was about to say, and shying away from making authoritative statements about anything he hasn't examined personally.

Also, the National President, National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr. John Onyebueze, chided the Senate for allegedly throwing away a bill that would have set up the office of the Surgeon General or Chief Medical Officer of the federation, which would assess the health status of any political office holder and give authoritative statements on their health status.

That impulse is articulated with repeated authoritative statements of great theological and moral sophistication, the most recent instance being John Paul II's encyclical (Centesimus Annus) on the free society.

Our openness to prophetic authority has the effect of rendering present authoritative statements provisional.

In other words, unlike the authoritative statements in the Bible and the Talmud, Dabru Emet's statements require argumentation before one is either persuaded or dissuaded by them.

That way I get to make authoritative statements, do authoritative actions, go in authoritative directions and everyone else gets to ignore me and go their own way, with me or without me.

Memories of division written into authoritative statements of faith are so powerful that centuries later they can continue to shape a community's perceptions.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

For us to sit here and make such authoritative statements on what happens after we die... well that would put us on the same level as being God, no?

The source and present location of the saying, as part of the Little Apocalypse, and the probability that the section once circulated without reference to the belief that Jesus was the Son of Man both point toward the probable origin of this type of Christology: it originated among those for whom the vision of Daniel was the authoritative statement of eschatological doctrine.

The pope, evidently, was willing for a time to tolerate dissent on an issue on which he had made a solemn, authoritative statement, hoping that the day would come when, in a calmer cultural and ecclesiastical atmosphere, the truth of that teaching could be appreciated.

Perhaps we should be looking not for detailed answers to our many questions but the authoritative statement of the principles which govern life beneath the ebb and flow of human circumstance.

See W. F. Albright, From the Stone Age to Christianity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946), for the most authoritative statement of evidence to this effect.

Mr Daudu's view implies that once the Supreme Court has delivered a decision, all are bound not merely to accept it as constituting an authoritative statement of the law of the land, but also immediately to accord it intellectual obeisance, and to undertake not to dissent publicly from that decision no matter how implausible or even improper it may seem.

So his assertion that David supports Brown (see 5.10 pm) appears to be speculative, rather than an authoritative statement about the foreign secretary's position.

Yet as she's making this authoritative statement, she also reveals her delicate, awkward position in the world.

The most authoritative statement of these concerns is a November 1995 report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of some 2,500 climatologists from throughout the world that advises the United Nations.

The introduction emphasizes that this is only a guide and not an authoritative statement of rules.

Authoritative statement Importance should be attached to objectively discernible factors, most importantly the judgment in the Evans case in 2003.

The language adopted should ensure that the Secretary receives an authoritative statement from the state.

To the author's knowledge, the Committee's report appears to be the only Greek authoritative statement defining peremptory norms within the context of restorative justice and mass atrocity law.

This paper, Foundations for learning, responds to requests from early childhood educators working in the non-school and school sectors for an authoritative statement explaining how the EYLF and the Australian Curriculum are aligned.

This website is only a general guide to the services provided, it is not a full and authoritative statement of the law.

(2) It is the major test case on the recognition of native title sea rights and represents the most authoritative statement of the law in Australia at the present time.

Not exact matches

Statements in the Old Testament about God or about how to treat our neighbors are all just as true and authoritative as those in the Gospels.

This document is worth mentioning in particular because it is a statement that is formally authoritative for the 900 million - plus people in the world who are Roman Catholics.

Finally, Whitehead's explicit statement has to be treated as authoritative, namely, that for him «creativity» takes the place of Aristotelian «primary matter» as the inclusive ground of unity of all realities in the world.

Moreover, none of the statements issued is authoritative for the Catholic Church or for Pentecostals.

The heart of the problem, according to Leff, is that any normative statement implies the existence of an authoritative evaluator.

Statements like that, from Jesus himself, are why Christians for 2,000 years have affirmed that the scriptures represent the word of God: divinely inspired, useful, sufficient, authoritative, trustworthy, and true.

In a statement they said: «We are very grateful and deeply indebted to Sir Philip for this detailed, thoughtful and authoritative review.

For a classic statement of the Reformed vision of the church, we can turn to the Second Hellvetic Confession of 1566 (3), widely recognized as authoritative in the Reformed family.

In general, researchers classify a parent as authoritative if he or she agrees with statements like these:

Although the newest edition of the authoritative textbook, Vitamin D, claims that in humans calcidiol binds with equal affinity to the DBP whether it is derived from vitamin D2 or vitamin D3, 37 the citation for this statement is the author's own PhD thesis, in which he reported results obtained from testing the DBP of a mere two people.48 Since the gene for the DBP is one of the most polymorphic known (meaning it exists in many forms), existing in three common alleles and 124 known rarer alleles (alleles are specific forms of the same gene), each allele itself having many polymorphisms, 37 a sample size of two is rather unconvincing.

Start writing on your chosen topic with a strong thesis statement in the first paragraph and back it up with quotes and statistics from authoritative sources.

This statement was quoted in the Wikipedia article about the game, as well as in many articles in authoritative gaming magazines.

It is interesting to note the Government Art Collection website describes Smith's work as «one of a series of authoritative, yet ultimately meaningless statements».

If there really was no consensus, you would provide multiple position statements from relevant and authoritative scientific bodies that directly contradict the prevailing view.

The provisional nature of his discussion is irrelevant; it is an explicit statement that 5 m of sea level rise in this century is a possibility he regards as viable, published in the scientific literature by the person who is arguably (and deservedly) the most visible and authoritative climate scientist in the world.

No substantiation for that statement, let alone anything authoritative, so I'll simply dismiss it as the ramblings of a closed minded, ideologue

Of course, IANAL, but it looks to me as though the various «big carbon» victims of this RICO persecution would be able to sue for triple damages: the IPCC, those responsible for the letter, perhaps even the scientific societies who have participated in the IPCC's perversion of Science then issued «authoritative» statements about the science.

The validity of this statement could be verified by the National Academy of Sciences, which can deliver prompt authoritative reports in response to a Presidential request [i].

Neither the statement nor the number was wrong; the fault lies in the fact that the IPCC cited a «middleman» rather than the original, authoritative academic source.

All the evidence for these statements is included in the comments above along with supporting links to authoritative sites.

The most recent report was published in 2014 and represents «the most comprehensive and authoritative synthesis of knowledge about global climate - change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability ever generated,» according to a statement by President Obama's science advisor when the report was published less than four years ago.