Sentences with phrase «by moderating a position»

I don't think that's an appropriate contention here at all, scientific questions aren't resolved by compromise or by moderating a position; they are resolved by evidence.

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The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

Because the assemblies and committees of the World Council are peopled by denominational power elites, there is a minimum of the kind of influence from grass - roots evangelicals which tends to moderate the positions and actions of the denominations themselves.

The importance of this novel recommendation for ethics lies in its characteristic ability to moderate between extreme positions: although, against the pragmatists, values are held as eternal, they are not, against the Platonists, degraded by their relation with the finite world.

The WSJ notes that this year's budget deal was harder to come by than usual because legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels, revealing a «growing polarization» in Albany that «poses a hurdle for a governor who has long positioned himself as a moderate mediator who prizes governmental order such as on - time budgets.»

Pataki, for the record, is a moderate Republican who at times got into hot water with conservative supporters by describing his own position on abortion as «pro-choice.»

There's a genuine difference of opinion between the Cuomo and de Blasio administration on charters, but the move also stands to benefit Cuomo politically: Along with his opposition to the pre-K tax hike, it cements the governor's position as a moderate bulwark against the more liberal de Blasio on education, appealing to voters outside the city and preemptively shutting down a potential area of attack by his Republican challenger as he runs for re-election.

In this conversation with Grant Reeher, Lamb says Hanna's image as a moderate has been cultivated by positions taken at the margins.

Shanker gained a hearing for his ideas from both liberals and conservatives, not by taking moderate positions that consistently split the difference, but by embracing a coherent philosophy that sometimes led to «liberal» policy conclusions, other times to «conservative» ones.

When an Israeli politician finds himself attacked by his own for taking a moderate position on settlements in the West Bank, he retreats to Yalta, the place he vacationed as a child.

I figured now would be the PERFECT TIME to use the KINDLE CountDown opportunity, especially given where I'm positioned on the interment on LinkedIn where I Own three groups and Moderate three more, Twitter, etc I'm also being interviewed next week by someone who has a very sizeable following, and where I'm one of the MOST FREQUENT commenter.

The position amounts to less than 1 % of assets, and most of the day - to - day fluctuation in the Fund tends to be attributable to differences in the performance of the stocks held by the Fund and the indices we use to hedge, but we expect the higher - strike put options to fortify our defense against the risk of indiscriminate selling should the market encounter more than a moderate amount of weakness.

Legendary feminist art historian Linda Nochlin and art curator Maura Reilly are joined by contemporary women artists for a discussion moderated by Arezoo Moseni about the positions of women artists and women in the art world today and how they have changed since the 1971 publication of Nochlin's landmark essay «Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?»

The position, identity, and dislocations of the three painters in the exhibition, their political allegiances, intellectual influences, levels of reception and inscription in art histories, as well as their formal choices will be discussed by curators Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero, independent curator and art historian David Teh and moderated by M + Ink Art curator Lesley Ma.

Listen to highlights of the Position 8 debate between Tim Burgess and Jon Grant moderated by Bill Radke.