Sentences with phrase «by the assertion of»

In all instances, however, utterance gains its significance from the tension marked by the axes; and the pattern of rejection of one pole in a unit of signification accompanied by an assertion of relation between two others, used by the semioticians, is similar to the narrative expression of setting found in a local church.

They seem to be trying too hard to balance ecclesial magisterium and subjective authority in order to avoid the («pre-Vatican II» again) ultramontanist «attempt to conjure certitude out of doubt by the assertion of an ecclesial authority» (pp. 43 and 38).

Inspired by the assertion of Roland Barthes in La Chambre claire (Camera Lucida)(1980) «I have determined to be guided by the consciousness of my feelings», the works are themed around the idea of emotional affinity.

So I remain more than a little mystified by your assertion of a strong correlation.

The Bureau is not persuaded by the assertion of a mortgage broker commenter that creditors should be prohibited from providing the Loan Estimate.

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Throughout the hearing, Comey declined to deny any assertion made by his questioners that mentioned Flynn or any other individuals, explaining that the FBI is not in the business of correcting or verifying such reports.

Now that Bornstein is claiming the original letter was essentially dictated by Trump (a stark turnaround from his previous assertions the physician «really» wrote the letter himself), the gastroenterologist might face censure by the New York medical board, according to Dr. Arthur Caplan, the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York and one of the nation's most prominent bioethicists.

It's both an assertion of strength by the company and the biggest move to date in a radical strategic pivot.

«Women are trained to keep their attention on themselves,» she said, an assertion that's backed by some of the latest social science.

A 2012 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation calls the PBM assertions of Medicare savings «overstated» and says the reduced cost probably stemmed from incorrectly high predictions of prices and from brand drugs going generic.

Here's my question: When can the repeated assertion of falsehoods despite being confronted by factual evidence be considered «lying»?

Given the assertions by members of Congress in 2012, and the emails that are already in the public domain, the sluggishness is concerning.

The Globe and Mail recently speculated that the mandate will remain largely the same, but that it may be amended «to include a forceful assertion of what he [Carney] calls «flexible inflation targeting,»» or his right to respond to economic shocks or dangerous buildups of credit by taking longer than usual to bring inflation to the central bank's 2 % target.»

But Baron's account contradicts assertions by President Trump, who has repeatedly accused Bezos and the paper of doing Amazon's bidding — in addition to criticizing its political reporting — despite the fact that Amazon itself does not own any stake in the Post.

And all of them argue that the proposed tax cuts, estimated to reduce federal revenue by more than $ 1.4 trillion, won't increase federal deficits, an assertion that's been contradicted by Congress's official tax scorekeeper.

Opinions and assertions about the condition of the US labor force are also offered by financial market participants, advisors, economists, and academics.

That assertion netted her a libel claim by Lorenzo Tan, the former chief executive officer of RCBC, who also sued Deguito's lawyer.

That account was questioned in 2013 and 2014 by investigators working for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which also issued a lengthy report in December that challenged the CIA's assertions on the effectiveness of torture.

Trump concluded his assertion by comparing Obama's «wiretapping» to Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal that resulted in the then - president's resignation from office in 1974 after he ordered a break - in of the Democrats» headquarters.

Most notably, the upcoming OIG report detailed by The Times stands in contrast to Trump's assertion, given its focus on McCabe's authorization of disclosures that ultimately resulted in a negative story about Clinton.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Reebok settled a dispute this week revolving around Reebok's assertions that certain of its shoe models tones and strengthens muscles just by walking in them.

When pressed by host Jake Tapper, Mook clarified that «this is not my assertion, there are a number of experts that are asserting this.»

Trudeau's concern about an untargeted reduction in the small business tax rate being used by wealthy Canadians to save on their tax bills is warranted, in Wolfson's view, but one could quibble about his assertion that a «large percentage» of small businesses are doing so.

But Mr Kenny told the Socialist Party TD: «I reject your assertions of any comments made by our Minister for Finance at the eurogroup meeting.

That judgment, about whether the government should get involved in the entire P2P throttling debate, will likely be made by the end of the summer, but Bell certainly could not have helped its assertion that congestion is a huge problem by opening its own (non-P2P) video download store last week.

The White House's Patent Assertion and Innovation report of June 2013 found that since 2005, the number of defendants sued by patent trolls had quadrupled.

The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.

An article published by Bloomberg — LINK — this morning started off with a rather improbable assertion: «The new fixed - income haven is, of all things, the market for junk bonds.»

Probably the best examples are the ridiculous assertions by various companies, including General Electric, that «the quality of our earnings is supported by our cash flow», and that «Cash is cash.

By revealing them, investors would have been better informed of the risks the bank was taking, and more able to test the assertions of management that the situation was under control.

Equitable estoppel does not bar assertion of patent claims later amended by reexamination when those new claims differ in scope from earlier claims in the patent that...

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

The eight - page letter written by Trump's lawyer, Joanna Hendon, accuses the Justice Department of acting in «an aggressive, intrusive, and unorthodox manner» in an attempt to «eliminate the president's right to a full assertion of every privilege argument available to him.»

The admission by Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen that he made the $ 130,000 payment of apparent hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election does not make the Trump campaign's legal problems go away despite Cohen's assertions.

Back in December, Trump lawyer John Dowd claimed that it was impossible for Trump to be guilty of obstruction of justice, simply because he's the president — an assertion that was roundly derided by legal experts.

Security experts challenge Gemalto's results of its «thorough» investigation of the Edward Snowden assertion that millions of SIM cards were breached by the GCHQ with help from the NSA.

That perhaps lends credence to critics» assertions that the petro is just a virtual barrel of oil, an attempt by the Maduro government to raise billions of dollars in foreign exchange in order to keep the government in operation without having to do the actual hard work of drilling for and shipping oil.

On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Bernard Williams are leading the attack against such debilitating philosophical notions as Hume's notorious «Is / Ought» distinction and Kant's simplistic fusion of morality with mere duty.

He's just refuting the ridiculous assertions by some creationists to refute clear evidence of evolutionary theory, or suggest that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

But to get to primary assertion of if not be based on Christian principles — read the Constitution & study Christianity (because judging by your words, you don't know it) and if you can't see the correlation then you just don't want to.

The Bible for centuries has been an assertion, initiated by ancient man, to lend credibility to religion and as assertion to lend credibility to magic of man's folklore experiences — interfacing with a higher being.

There is, hidden in this desperate assertion of victim status by blacks to an increasingly skeptical white polity, an unfolding tragedy of profound proportion.

Some of these occur in the case of the actual entity where there is an assertion of: the unity of creativity and creature; the concurrence of divisibility and indivisibility; the pervasion of atomicity by nonatomicity; and the conversion of something indeterminate into something determined.

Live, you don't suppose that the sophisticated weaponry that has been designed in the last 50 years may have more to do with it than your assertion that each and every one of these shootings were caused by prayer being taken of schools?

Part of the explanation for these decisions is an exaggerated deference by conservative justices to assertions of governmental interests.

I should emphasize that there is nothing methodologically wrong with this assertion, although it does go against the grain for many New Testament scholars, who, as J. Z. Smith has observed, are still dominated by the essentially apologetic (and Protestant) myth of Christian autochthony.

By and large, the majority of mainline theological ideologies make pretty strong assertions about there being one God, one way to heaven, and one path to follow.

I am free now of all the stresses, time wasting rituals, contradictions, impurities explained by faith alone, false teachings and illogical assertions which only faith based reasoning can reconcile (because it allows you to ignore facts, science, logic, and truth).

But if he and Polanyi are right about nihilism (Polanyi's «empty self - assertion») being at the heart of the mentality of a culture dominated by Scientific Positivism then its occurrence is obviously not dependent on the specific form of the doctrine, be it Marxist, Fascist or whatever, in which it is expressed.

The assertion that everything that is is constituted by the coming together of other things seems an interesting hypothesis, but quite outside the sphere of religious meaning.