Sentences with phrase «by general wisdom»

Putting the kids first, by general wisdom, is a great way to hurt your marriage.

Not exact matches

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

But surely none of these assessments of that bellicose era can hold a candle to General Robert E. Lee's reflections on it: «had forbearance and wisdom been practiced by both sides,» it might have been prevented.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

It is of less significance to know how many of such optimistic or resigned «wisdom» sayings were really spoken by Jesus, than to see that the view of man set forth in this proverbial wisdom is in general accepted by Jesus.

There is a homology between them, but nothing allows us to derive the specific feature of religious language — i.e., that its referent moves among prophecy, narration, prescription, wisdom, and psalms, coordinating these diverse and partial forms of discourse by giving them a vanishing point and an index of incompleteness — nothing, I say, allows us to derive this from the general characteristics of the poetic function.

I have also been very inspired by my trips to Japan and Japanese wisdom in general, from their «it's the journey that matters» philosophy to their culture of bathing, or their ceramics.

Some commentators wonder whether May might survive to fight the next general election when the conventional wisdom had been that she would leave after navigating Brexit — if she wasn't pole - axed by her own MPs first.

Credit Cera's understatement and the sneaking suspicion that his character was also overwritten, but pruned by a guy whose wisdom about the limits of his abilities makes up for his general lack of range.

He believed that people in general had the innate wisdom required for a representative democracy to succeed and that education was the means by which to tap that ability.

Steven Weinberger, general counsel of Wisdom Natural Brands, boasted on an online social network last month that he saves money by drafting his own trademark applications before sending to outside lawyers for review.

Anticipating Legal Process approaches to administrative law, he argued that judicial wisdom depends on identifying types of questions that «admit of reduction to general rules» best announced by courts.

Lawyers in general, and Convocation and the Law Society in particular, should regard self - regulation as a fragile privilege that must be nurtured and protected by wisdom, altruism, and competence at all times and at all costs.