Sentences with phrase «claim that groups such»

Gay critics, of course, claim that groups such as Exodus and NARTH need to be liberated from their «homophobia.»

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Neuromarketers claim that such methods are more cost effective, but even more important — much more efficient than traditional methods such as focus groups.

The claim above that only the FLDS group has taken such a position is not true.

Rosemary Ruether and other sympathetic but critical scholars have noted this point as observers of such groups; Goldenberg, Christ and Daly have made the claim from within their movement.

I imagine that these people claim to have done similar things, but there are lots of groups today who make such claims, and as soon as people make these claims, big alarm bells need to start going off in our heads.

I think if you have a group with a leader claiming (or implying) that they are spiritually advanced, talking to god, or with special knowledge, such abuse is more likely.

but the point is this: is it logical to claim one group has such grand sophistication while * simultaneously * arguing for that level of naiveté?

Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in plSuch groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in plsuch protections already in place.

But implicitly, at least, certain international human rights groups and the European Court of Human Rights are making just such a claim.

Frustrated with such fractiousness, another group in the church at Corinth arose claiming to have no mere human leader at all: «We belong to Christ,» they said.

Both groups would immediately see such syncretism as a corruption of both communities and a violation of their most central claims, and they would be appropriately outraged.

Thus, not only is group - interest an abstraction from the interests of concrete individuals, but such interest also has the tendency to accomplish the opposite of what it claims to do.

«Consumer groups claim that usage of the telephone has decreased among lower - income groups, such as the elderly.

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

Failing to adequately contextualize such incidents means that the plight of other groups, in this case the Falun Gong, is obscured by the claim that Christians have it the worst.

They and their allies and supporters (such as the 300 + self - identified LGBT and allied scholars, lawyers, journalists, and activists who published the manifesto «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» — a group that includes respected mainstream figures such as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino) would, I have no doubt, sharply react against the claim that polyamory «is attractive because monogamy is hard.»

For example, it must address such matters as whether faithfulness to that self - identification is a necessary condition for a group's counting as a Christian congregation, and whether groups that do not claim to worship in Jesus» name may nonetheless be said to know God and God's redemptive presence.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

They did this, Ehrman claims, to bolster their case for orthodoxy in the face of challenges from heretical groups such as the Adoptionists, the Separationists and the Docetics.

The substantive claim is that Confucian values are anti-democratic; Asian societies, according to Samuel Huntington, are said to favor authority over liberty, the group over the individual, duties over rights and such values as harmony, cooperation, order and respect for hierarchy (Huntington, 1993).

With the spotlight now on them, peak industry groups have been reeling in their defence of the status quo with such outlandish claims as hens in cages are «safe from the weather».

One such article (Untold also covered this article) claimed that 80 % of Arsenal supporters wanted Arsene Wenger to leave, but just clicking on the link reveals that the only people that were polled were the Arsenal Supporter's Trust (AST) a blatantly anti-Wenger group and the only surprise is that they did not get 100 % wanting Wenger out.

Para 15 or 16: «Where a claim is specifically aimed at a particular group of consumers, such as children, it is desirable that the impact of the claim be assessed from the perspective of the average member of that group.

Visits by home visit LCs or small group practices of IBCLCs, such as those provided here at Lactation Care, would like be «covered» but would require payment at the time of service and a reimbursement claim to be submitted by the family.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

I am not making the claim that hospital births are nearly 300 % more dangerous than home birth, I am not making this claim because even though some grouping of numbers taken outside of context supports the statement to make such a claim would be unethical and foolish.

The World Health Assembly calls for an end to promotional claims on foods for infants and young children because they generally mislead parents and undermine independent information from health workers, mother support groups and expert sources such as NHS Choices.

The former president had earlier urged the security agencies to arrest members of such vigilante groups who he claims were attacking supporters of the National Democratic Congress after the 2016 elections.

Contrary to such claims, they are part of an overall regime imbed at preserving demographic superiority of one racial group over another in certain areas.

Environmental groups such as the Soil Association claim that GM technologies have consistently underperformed and insist that agro-ecological farming, not GM, is the key to feeding future generations sustainably.

The attack was claimed by the Islamic State extremist group, but the police cautioned that such claims were «routine whether or not they've had any previous engagement with the individuals involved.»

He is equally critical of Corbyn's links with Palestinian terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, claiming they reinforce «the perception at the last Election that Labour is anti-Jewish.

Bill Lipton, WFP's New York State director, claims Cuomo menaced unions or people that have financed WFP and affiliated groups such as New York Communities for Change (NYCC), Citizen Action, and Make the Road New York that endorsed Nixon.

Going by those warnings and alerts, could it not be possible that some undesirable elements infiltrated the protesters in Zaria by acting the ugly script since the Shiite group are claiming that they had been holding such processions and demonstrations for more than 30 years?

Eglin dismissed the claims of environmental groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature that trade barriers should not be brought down until the GATT had assessed the impact on the environment.

But this is the second time that his group has published such a claim in just over a year, opening up a philosophical debate about where the finish line really is, and if Danishefsky has met the lofty goal that he — and the scientific community — have set for themselves.

Omega - 3 fats become only the second food or ingredient group to win FDA approval for such qualified health claims.

A recent analysis of an 11 - day observing run in 2009, however, failed to identify any such dark particles, casting doubt on two competing groups» prior claims of possible dark matter signals.

DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD: Well this work started just over a year ago when we were contacted by a group of mothers who complained that their children had been developing perfectly normally until they had encountered an environmental insult, in many cases they claimed it was the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and then had lost their... all their acquired skills, such as speech, language, developmental milestones.

The detox debate Opinion may be divided on the benefits of doing a detox diet, however, the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) claims the scientific basis for these kinds of stringent diets is lacking and such severe dietary restrictions of whole food groups may be unnecessary.

Over the summer, Duncan complained that opponents were «fringe groups» who make «outlandish claims» about «really wacky stuff» such as «mind control, robots, and biometric brain mapping.»

This powerpoint was prepared to give students a clear understanding of the truth behind groups such as ISIS who falsely claim to represent Islam and Muslims.

In response to a question from the committee about whether there should be a deprivation - based approach for charging for reviews of marking, Collier claimed Ofqual lacks the power to require exam boards to set differentiated pricing for different groups of students, and added that exam boards had no plans to bring in such arrangements.

French motoring advocacy group 40 millions d'automobilistes - 40 million motorists - has criticised the new limit, doubting the objectivity of the government's claims about the causes of fatal accidents, and suggesting an independent motoring committee should be set up to study the real causes of such accidents.

Based on the MLB Evo platform that also underpins other Volkswagen Group SUVs such as the Bentley Bentayga, Porsche Cayenne and Audi Q7, the Urus utilises plenty of aluminium in its construction and has a claimed kerb weight of under 2.2 tonnes.

However, it seems such bendable e-readers are back again, thanks to a group of researchers based in Taiwan who claim to have hit upon a novel way of devising electronics that could withstand bending and shearing forces up to some extent.

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A group of researchers at Virginia Tech claim to have achieved just such a feat, as the software they have developed for the Android OS works on the basis of the current location of the device where it is situated.