Sentences with phrase «been problematic by»

While that absolute number may not have been problematic by itself, the fact that job growth failed to pick up steam while those units were delivered hampered the market's performance considerably.

Not exact matches

«We don't know exactly what McGahn said, but the mere fact that he put a stop to that letter is another piece of evidence that Mueller could use to say, «Donald Trump was warned by the White House counsel that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway,»» former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider in September.

By understanding the types of bosses that are most commonly cited as problematic, you can correct your habits and position yourself as a great boss, a great coworker, and a great leader overall.

The statements made by their hired gun, Benjamin Zycher, are problematic and not only because they directly contradict what is in his report.

By almost anyone's political calculation, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's increasingly problematic drive for the White House will be practically impossible to pull off in November unless he can carry Florida, the premier battleground state.

The second complaint said a study submitted by Theranos last year for a herpes test was extremely problematic because of improper research protocols.

«Guys like Conor Lamb in districts that the president won by 20 points are gonna need room to say some things that in a place like Fairfield County, Connecticut would be problematic with the so - called base — not so - called base but the base.»

That meeting, if confirmed, is viewed as especially problematic by U.S. officials because the Treasury Department in August 2014 named Sechin to a list of Russian officials and businessmen sanctioned over Russia's «illegitimate and unlawful actions in the Ukraine.»

First, there is no incentive for Facebook to do any of this; while the company denies this report in Gizmodo that the company shelved a change to the News Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social network.2

Asked about the basis for the $ 8.5 billion settlement, Kent Smith, a Pimco executive with experience in loan servicing, testified on June 7 that it came in part from an estimated percentage of problematic loans that was provided to the investors by Bank of America.

To some extent, these concerns are allayed by the existence of natural hedges, such as foreign currency export income, although rising US dollar - denominated debt servicing costs at a time of falling US dollar - denominated commodity revenues would obviously be problematic.

Sure, investors are paying the fees, but if a trustee wants to be hired by sellers of securities in the future, being combative on problematic loan pools may be unwise.

Asked by the DCMS committee whether the ICO has adequate powers to carry out its responsibilities Denham flagged a problematic gap in her «information notice powers» — noting that while the ICO can make a formal demand for information, organisations are not compelled to disclose the requested data (though they can be prosecuted for not doing so).

No. 2 Disclosing fees and incentive payments is problematic: Let's tackle this by invoking Charles Munger's idea — invert the fiduciary rule to see what would happen.

In part, that's likely because Parker finally took their concerns to heart and is taking action to change Nike's culture by dismissing what he seems to believe were the most problematic executives at the company.

As highlighted by ethereum's hard fork last year, such a scenario can be problematic.

While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while others require disclosure — Uber is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs, are problematic at this time.

When I asked about the controversies that Facebook is currently embroiled in (Russia meddling, out - of - control ad platform, data abuse by third - party developers, tech addiction), Cook called out advertising - based business as problematic.

When it comes to money management, anything extreme can be hailed as foolish or erroneous, hence many of these actions can be seen as problematic particularly if applied by a financial novice.

A problematic contract lost the company $ 29m, a new CEO came on board in October, an opportunistic takeover by CIMIC was rebuked, and a new Indonesian contract resulted in a new top shareholder.

(Note that a ratio of over 90 % has been identified by bond rating agencies as being problematic for retaining our valued AAA - credit rating).

However, this would require legislation to be approved by Parliament before the new benefit can be put in place, which may be problematic.

Implementing a negative interest rate policy can also be problematic, in that it can punish people who save by forcing them to pay for their deposits.

James: Banks have seen an increasing focus by treasury teams on how they are capitalizing and funding their subsidiaries in problematic areas of the world.

These examples, described to CNN by five of the medical unit's former and current employees and which appear to represent the more problematic practices there, were endorsed by Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, a doctor.

A new study conducted for the Broadbent Institute by Richard Shillington and Robin Shaban entitled The Brass Tax: Busting Myths About Overtaxed Canadians, provides compelling evidence that the Fraser Institute's findings are problematic and paint a deceptive picture of typical Canadian tax rates.

But I can not assess Mason's presentation of Whitehead in itself; my concern is with the fact that by interpreting Heidegger in the image of his reading of Whitehead, he produces an account of the temporal problematic of Sein und Zeit that seems fundamentally mistaken at key points.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

They have also been influenced by the much - contested argument of Lynn White, Jr., and others that the classical Western theological tradition has proved ecologically problematic.

It can however be deflated quite easily by changing «evil» to something more tangible but just as problematic; gratuitous suffering for example.

Obviously, such groups can be problematic when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Of course, these proposals are not a catalogue of absolute norms nor a panacea for the Church of today, for they will always remain problematic by their very nature.

The liberation that love engenders and the claim that it lays upon us are absolutely binding; they are kerygmatic address, which, as Bultmann interprets Paul, «accosts each individual, throwing the person himself into question by rendering his self - understanding problematic, and demanding a decision of hint» The kerygma can be defined as «absolute» in two respects.

I assume that the word «character» (also a problematic term) might also point to what is intended by the expression «inner being,» and that such words as unselfish and selfish, helpful and unhelpful, friendly and hostile, open and bigoted, would be more particularized variations of the more basic notions of loving and hating.

Frankly, any understanding of divine sovereignty so unsubtle that it requires the theologian to assert (as Calvin did) that God foreordained the fall of humanity so that his glory might be revealed in the predestined damnation of the derelict is obviously problematic, and probably far more blasphemous than anything represented by the heresies that the ancient ecumenical councils confronted.

Murray comes up with a very useful measure of community dysfunction: the percentage of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a living, single mothers raising children, a guesstimate of prime - age adults who are living alone, and those uninvolved in any community activity.

If one thinks of reality as constituted by matter and energy in the space - time universe, if one has basically a material understanding of what is real, then the reality of God, a nonmaterial reality (allegedly) becomes very problematic.

There the problematic is shaped a by a history of discussion mostly among philosophers.

Despite his problematic nature described by Pagels, Augustine, the dark prophet of Christ's grace, can be adequately corrected only by theologians equally committed to Christ's grace.

On the other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience, is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.

But the problematic nature of his exegetical claims may be illustrated by reference to the discussion between Herbert Braun and Ernst Käsemann concerning christology and anthropology in the New Testament.

It then analyzes how even an ostensibly logical argument is rendered problematic and even self - contradictory by extraneous details or slippages in meaning which at first appear peripheral and unimportant.

I was beginning to learn that Yoder was perceived by many as deeply problematic because he is such a decisive threat to our accepted

This brief commentary on the category of subjective unity was expanded by a response to the problematic just rehearsed (S7).

Educated and prosperous people are much more problematic for the Church; the poor can be led around by the nose.

We must begin, though, with a confession that the idea of a designing and controlling deity whose existence is rightly denied by many skeptics is also problematic from the point of view of a kenotic theology.If God is all - powerful in the sense of being able to manipulate things at will, then the facts of evolution do indeed cast doubt on the plausibility of theism.

That the transcendent reality is experienced by the religious imagination as a commanding will may be conceptually problematic.

One no longer need do and think just what had been done and thought, and the mythical meanings by which man had lived so long were now problematic rather than simply given.

But relying on the letters of Peter and Paul is problematic because in nearly every case, the admonition for wives to submit to their husbands is either preceded or followed by the admonition for slaves to obey their masters.