Sentences with phrase «been in contention as»

The seat, since its establishment in 2007 has been in contention as far as its name is concerned.

He is unlikely to play against Spurs, but there could be some first - teamers on display, including Adnan Januzaj, who is in contention as he looks to step up his recovery from a hamstring injury.

For Neighborhood Watch, he's in contention as Jamarcus, a recent divorcee who, we're guessing, signs on to the local Watch group.

Not exact matches

One area of contention is the matter of Apple paying taxes on the profits it recorded in Ireland as well as sending money back to the US to pay for research and development.

Qualcomm's contention that the chipmaker's future is brighter as a standalone company has become a tougher sell, given the multiple challenges that have cropped up in the past two years.

Although he has never concealed his own fringe political views — such as his contention that human freedom and representative democracy are incompatible — Thiel's open embrace of Trump has inspired some soul - searching in the proudly progressive technology sector.

Boston and neighboring Somerville remained in contention Thursday to serve as host city for Amazon's second North American headquarters, but a number of other prospective sites in Massachusetts were eliminated.

We'd like to note that in the document, Hsieh seems to take issue with some of our reporting over this past week, such as our contention that he has stepped down as leader of the Project, and even the basic premise that he is the project's founder.

The privatisation has been a point of contention in relation to the $ 11 billion Tabcorp and Tatts merger, with the potential transaction raised as a potential competition issue given both companies would likely have bid for the WA TAB.

I think Christians, in general, don't know jack squat about the gay lifestyle / community nor do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier by Trey.

To say that evolution was «proven» 100 years ago is to disregard the fact that even Darwin doubted his own contentions (as he states in origin of species), for every bit of scientific evidence for evolution there is scientific evidence against it.

One important source of this incompatibility is Hartshorne's characterization of reality as consisting concretely in units of experience, specifically his contention that experience is essentially temporal in structure and order.

To sum up, then, Wolf's article is important because it represents a «halfway house» between the traditional conception of a society as an aggregate of actual occasions with the dominant occasion providing the unity for the group and my own contention that every society, whether it contains a presiding occasion or not, possesses an objective unity in virtue of the dynamic interrelatedness of its constituent occasions from moment to moment.

The question is not as easy as it appears, but it is my contention that, mutatis mutandis, the ethic of reverence for life is not dependent upon a belief in God.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addresseAs evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addresseas many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

And while I'm not sure I agree with the Distributist Review «s contention that this tradition «[remains] as vibrant as ever,» it's foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matters foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matter.

Gustav Aulen's contention, for example, that the New Testament teaching on Christ's death is teaching simply about his conquest of the devil — the «classic motif» falls into this category as does Karl Barth's understanding of evil conveyed in his term das Nichtige or Karl Rahner's «supernatural existential.»

It is my contention that both the existential phenomenologists and Whitehead have gone «beyond skepticism and realism» in a much more satisfactory way than Laszlo with his «complementarity» theory, which, although brilliant, seems contrived and artificial in many respects.6 Laszlo believes that a complete phenomenological reduction can be carried out; he believes that intentional objects are discrete and therefore isolatable as pure essences.

Human activities — cognitive activities such as claims and contentions in particular — are exactly like that.

«Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.»

In contrast to the foregoing, our contention will be that the «natures» of God can better be understood, not as distinguishable parts, but as ways of indicating various interdependent modes of functioning by the whole actual entity, God.

However, in so far as there is truth in the contention that our brutal, heartless acts are the result of conditioning, it simply underscores God's primal responsibility in creating such a situation.

I identify this distinction because of its great importance in contemporary Christian theology and because I am curious whether it is felt as important for Buddhists and, if so, whether it is a source of contention among them.

Furthermore, Ely's statement that «the very notion of «redemption through suffering» implies a divorce between suffering as a means and as an end» and his contention that the individuality of finite things does not count are both denied in Whitehead's system by the notion that the meaning of existence is «now — for God and man.

Whether or not one insists on the supremacy of God as a Creator, my contention is that there are also finite agencies and events in the world which manifest creative spontaneity.

In my review I was not referring so much to his concession (quoted by Mr. Ghelardi) that if God does not exist then natural selection is our best available candidate for how complex forms came to be» although that quote certainly is as good an indication as any of my contention that the design argument will only end up becoming a breeding ground for atheism, a fetid terrarium for a whole new brood of Richard Dawkinses (not a pleasant thought, that).

That is, they can easily be interpreted as supporting the contention that God also believes «justice» (maximized freedom for the greatest number) to be more important in some contexts than the maximal preservation of freedom for each individual.

This canard in turn limits his critical imagination to the rather banal contention that Moby - Dick «s primary focus should be understood as «good and evil interpenetrated.»

My contention is that this phrase will prove to be an important term in any adequate Christian theology insofar as, on either construction, it expresses a concept indispensable to the foundational assertions of such a theology.

Consequently as regards the fundamental contention we are examining, it is not appropriate, in view of the historical associations that burden the word «material» to subsume under the term «matter» the subjectivity which is also met with within the primordial unity we have described, because to do so would at least obscure the equally fundamental difference encountered in that unity between the knowing subject and the object which is merely met with.

There is that much truth in Stauffer's contention so far as this particular debate is concerned.

If the contention is that in the Entrance and at the Offertory3 these songs were also permitted, the question arises: Why were they not mentioned by name in reference to the Entrance and at the Offertory, as they are in GIRM 88 with respect to Communion?

It is MacIntyre's contention that, in modernity, particularly in that peculiar form of modernity called liberalism, the stock of descriptions has become inadequate for our ability to act in a manner that can be intelligible to others as well to ourselves.

In support of this contention, they cite a study (Kuhn et al, 2011) that explicitly says that its results can not be used in this way: «While it is tempting to interpret our estimates as reflective of a psychological need to «keep up with the van den Bergs,» we note that they could also be driven by other factors.&raquIn support of this contention, they cite a study (Kuhn et al, 2011) that explicitly says that its results can not be used in this way: «While it is tempting to interpret our estimates as reflective of a psychological need to «keep up with the van den Bergs,» we note that they could also be driven by other factors.&raquin this way: «While it is tempting to interpret our estimates as reflective of a psychological need to «keep up with the van den Bergs,» we note that they could also be driven by other factors.»

In addition, Hartshorne's steady contention in the philosophical arena that metaphysics inevitably involves the question of God will not be regarded as insignificant by those who believe, as I do, that man and the world are incomprehensible apart from GoIn addition, Hartshorne's steady contention in the philosophical arena that metaphysics inevitably involves the question of God will not be regarded as insignificant by those who believe, as I do, that man and the world are incomprehensible apart from Goin the philosophical arena that metaphysics inevitably involves the question of God will not be regarded as insignificant by those who believe, as I do, that man and the world are incomprehensible apart from God.

As a matter of fact, his contention is that the emergence of neoclassical theism marks the beginning of an entirely new era in man's thought about God.

The process theodicy is based on a metaphysical contention: that God does not possess the power to unilaterally determine any state of affairs; while free - will theodicies are based on a moral contention: that God does possess the power to intervene unilaterally in earthly affairs but has decided as a general rule not to do so.

In response to this overall assessment of the FWT's methodological motives and behavior, I first want to address Griffin's contention that FWTs display the tendency to utilize a double standard when discussing evil — that they don't allow their «Own positions to be judged with the same rigor, and in terms of the same criteria, as the other positions.&raquIn response to this overall assessment of the FWT's methodological motives and behavior, I first want to address Griffin's contention that FWTs display the tendency to utilize a double standard when discussing evil — that they don't allow their «Own positions to be judged with the same rigor, and in terms of the same criteria, as the other positions.&raquin terms of the same criteria, as the other positions.»

Is it you contention the pastor should condemn Sandusky because of the accusations in order to be perceived by the public as «righteous» or «authentic»?

Others may believe that the biblical stories portraying God as an interventive being are at least in some general sense accurate and for this reason reject the process contention that God is not capable of such activity.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

To admit purely negative facts is in effect to give an independence to possibilities, to sever them from their residency in and relevance for actuality, and thus to deny (and even invert) Hartshorne's contention that actualities are the concrete from which all else is abstractable as aspects or constituents.

If God is conceived as being limited in power, though perhaps unlimited in love, then the defense of God in the light of evil and suffering boils down to the contention that God has created the greatest amount of good that he can, and the evil that remains is beyond his capacity to eliminate.

My contention is that «creativity» can not go even so far in the direction of an answer as did «prime matter.»

Since it has always been a main contention of orthodox religion that God represents the very standard and meaning of morality, it comes as a shock to confront a view in which God and morals seem to fail apart and to be separate.

This investigation supports the contention that for both Newton and Whitehead some privileged space and time structure is presupposed by any physical analysis that is to be considered scientific and, specifically, shows that in Newton's analysis of gravitation and in Whitehead's analysis of impetus this privileged space and time structure functions as the framework, or background, in terms of which definite physical characteristics are then analyzed.

It may, therefore, seem odd to appeal to Russell in support of my argument, since it is his central contention that sexual activity should be determined primarily by romantic love, as it «is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer.

As to those who disbelieve or mock religion, I read something recently that I'd like to share — not out of a spirit of contention and argument, but in one of genuine concern and interest for those who have not been taught by their own mothers or fathers (as I have most thoroughly been blessedAs to those who disbelieve or mock religion, I read something recently that I'd like to share — not out of a spirit of contention and argument, but in one of genuine concern and interest for those who have not been taught by their own mothers or fathers (as I have most thoroughly been blessedas I have most thoroughly been blessed):

There are still people who dispute that contention but not as many as there used to be» so few, in fact, that Stricherz does not feel compelled to go through all the copious evidence for it.

Canon Redford touches upon a number of fascinating themes: his contention that John's description of Jesus as the «Word of God» is rooted more in rabbinic literature than in a Hellenistic culture is fascinating and opens a rich seam of possibilities.