Sentences with phrase «claim the issue at»

In the lower courts, it's usually hyperbolic (and frowned upon) to claim the issue at hand is one of national importance.

Not exact matches

The federal government in Canada doesn't plan to legalize edibles until at least 2019, providing many more months for companies to solve this vexing issue — and more time for alcohol companies to stake a claim.

«We are horrified that [Love] experienced this assault on her vacation in Mexico, and other travelers should be aware of this incident,» TripAdvisor said, claiming that its policies and procedures have evolved since 2010, and that it was creating a notification system to warn about health and safety or discrimination issues at businesses.

The agency has been trying to make this better, or at least it has issued a report about making it better, but FDA approval is by its very nature anti-Valley, the opposite of moving fast and breaking things — which is why so many health trackers and similar devices (even apps) are very careful about their claims.

Fred Upton, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, put his finger on the larger issue facing governments worldwide at a recent hearing: «Was Solyndra just one bad bet by an administration rushing to claim credit for the first loan guarantee, or is it the tip of the iceberg?»

«The incident at the Bangladesh apparel factory that claimed 1,000 lives is less an issue of domestic versus foreign manufacturing than it is about fast fashion and the hidden costs of disposable retail,» he wrote in his blog on the company website.

If aboriginal people in this region are ever to progress at the rate expected by politicians and others it is essential that they have the ability to be both economocally and culturally «independent» of those who claim to know best how to address the issues but really have no prolonged on the ground experience.

At issue: the IRS's claim that Redstone owed $ 737,625 in unpaid gift taxes, dating back to his 1972 transfer of stock in National Amusements, his family's private holding company, into trusts for his two children.

Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, recently issued a report that said neither Democrats nor Republicans can claim to have superior budgeting practices at this point.

Most economists would cringe at the claim that any tax policy issue had ever been «debunked» or that a top rate of 50 per cent necessarily represents confiscation

The ReformaTories ™ reminded voters they were more Reform than Tory when Steve took a run at Canadian culture claiming it was a «niche» issue.

But giving a «yes» response to Doyle, Zuckerberg reiterated Facebook's claim that the company first learned about the issue at the end of 2015, when the Guardian broke the story.

At issue in the case is whether SLUSA divests state courts of jurisdiction over class actions asserting claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933 (e.g., claims alleging a material misstatement in a registration statement).

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall StreeAt issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Streeat the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

The issues with which the author deals and the questions he raises are aimed at those who would claim any absolute values in this life, including possessions, fame, success, or pleasure.

We face here a very difficult theological issue» at least for a faith that has been grounded not just in metaphysical abstractions but in particular historical claims.

Anyway this isn't a relgious issue at all, to make it into a relgious issue is a bit silly unless what they are claiming is that this rule ONLY applies to religious groups in which case that is clear discrimination on the part of the University.

Death threats issued to Pope Benedict XVI, Muslims burning the Pope in effigy, promises to conquer Rome and slit the throats of Christians, at least seven churches in the region of Palestine torched, a nun murdered in front of a children's hospital in Somalia, claims of Benedict participating in....

I was rather surprised to find myself quoted in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any church excluding Christians at a given place is not merely a bad church, but rather is not church at all, since a Eucharist to which not all the Christians at a given place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»

If over time, you begin to see that Irving isn't all that Irving claims to be or that there are suspicious activities happening at Irving, Inc. (behind closed doors), you have an issue.

The US Department of Education has published the names of colleges claiming the Title IX exemption; people on both sides of the issue have called it an effort at «shaming.»

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

There is also a fifth, more detached, philosophical way of looking at these issues without appealing to «direct historical influence» as if it were some sort of causal connection as Lowe claims it is.7 Of course the fourth line and fifth lines are outside ordinary present - day historiographical research, excepting undergraduates in general education courses (who seem inevitably to find, in spite of the odds in a fair - sized library, Russell's History of Western Philosophy first, and then cite it liberally).

There are issues here, too, and I think differences between us in the way we conceive this task, and possibly in the way we understand the claims of intelligibility; but at this stage of my presentation, let me say that with the intention of Professor Ogden's concern with intelligibility in faith, I heartily concur.

At one point, about 10 years ago, the head of a Holocaust survivors group paid for her time to accumulate a list of 1,000 Holocaust victims who had been baptized, after the LDS Church claimed the Jewish community was «overreacting to the problem,» says Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist in New Jersey who has been following the issue for 22 years, long before it made headlines.

Here the adoration of false gods is not at issue so much as the confusion that amounts to claiming to represent by an image what one is going to worship.

The claim that the housing policy issue was about «fairness» and that «several» gay couples lived off - campus at the time with significantly higher rental prices is certainly not my recollection.

Notably for our purposes, at all stages of the Barnette litigation in the courts below — as in Gobitis before it — the issues had revolved entirely around the schoolchildren's claim regarding their free exercise of religion.

At the beginning of his ministry his resistance to the temptations to claim for himself economic, political, or personal supernatural power may well reflect an inner struggle over the issue.

The United Nations makes no claim to being a super-State, but the bounds between domestic and international issues are so hard to fix that opposition to its jurisdiction at some points is inevitable.

At issue was whether school officials can be sued for violating the First Amendment rights of what the students claimed was their «private, non-curricular speech based solely upon its religious viewpoint.»

At the same time, claiming to know what God is like and how he would react to topical issues like gay marriage is ludicrous as well... by definition, if he is God, he doesn't think along the lines of a human brain, so we will never be able to understand him.

What is at issue in this chapter is whether the claims of revelation are in conflict with the desire to know the truth which allegedly animates critical consciousness.

In this paper, I want to challenge this interpretation, because it is at least one - sided and this one - sidedness has some important consequences, both for the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy itself and for the claim that this philosophy is a valid contemporary metaphysics, addressing all basic metaphysical issues in an intelligible war.

It's claimed frontline staff at Rochdale Council didn't know how to deal with cases of child sexual exploitation and that the head of the council «didn't appear to be interested in children's social care issues».

At least religion can make an honest claim to fact (whether it's an accurate claim or not is another issue).

At issue now is the pride of man, his claim to be God, his exaltation.

Normally one needs to look at a particular issue or claim and judge it based in its particular merits.

The question at issue is whether we can account for everything — e.g., all biological processes, including behaviour (and some people would include, others exclude, mind and / or conscious self - awareness)-- in terms of those entities, as reductionists and mechanists claimed, or do we have to invoke something else, which might be organizing relations» or «system properties,» as anti-reductionists and organicists argued.

The U.S. bishops, in particular, are concerned about the diffusion of the Catholic voice when movements and groups claiming the name «Catholic» issue political statements at odds with the bishops» own positions.

As my explication of and commentary on the text of the Enquiry proceeds, it should become clear that the picture suggested later by The Concept of Nature, a picture that represents Whitehead as dogmatically claiming that»... there is but one nature, namely the nature that is before us in perceptual knowledge» (CN 40), is, however justified by contextual evidence, a distortion by way of an oversimplification of the deliverances of a mind greatly occupied with issues at once subtle and complex.

What is at issue is the claim that prayer can change things.

The detail of the argument was not - at issue — it was enough that Luther was challenging authority, Popes and Councils alike, and defending Huss, a heretic known in the popular mind as one who said the laity should receive the wine at communion (not in fact an heretical claim), and whose followers had set up the still flourishing schismatic Church in Bohemia.

Recent developments are not particularly encouraging, as claims to individual autonomy are generally thought to trump the conscientious objections of Christians, Jews, and others who might recoil at, say, funding abortions or issuing marriage licenses to same - sex couples.

Because of current eco-label protocols and discussions by both industry and government on this issue, use of logo and claims on wine bottles is not permitted at this time.

Misleading claims are a continuing issue for the small business sector, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's latest Small business in focus report launched today by ACCC Deputy Chair Dr Michael Schaper at the COSBOA National Small Business Summit.

20 Dec 2017 — The 2 Sisters Food Group, which was at the center of a safety scandal earlier this year following an undercover expose which revealed poor hygiene standards and serious food safety breaches, is once again in the spotlight as media reports claim that Tesco found issues at a second plant where inspectors gave a «red» warning rating to processes at a chicken plant in Scotland.

Not to mention how wildly unsustainable the whole farming system in America is and biotech is is promoting this farming system / diet throughout the world along with food processors like Campbell's, claiming safety but not looking at all the other more important issues like environment, biodiversity, sustainability, animal welfare and the health of consumers.

Its quite unfortunate that Wenger is yet to find and still searching for a better player to add quality to the team at his disposal, my take is, the problem limiting Arsenal as a whole not claiming any major trophy is our high record with injuries and the coach inability to select the right player for the right spot, no genuine back up for some crucial positions, if and only if we can sort the injury issue out and Wenger selecting the right player at the right time and in the right game, then we're good to go.

Taggart bristled at the claims made in local news reports, but Oregon suspended strength and conditioning coach Irele Oderinde, a Taggart hire, and issued an apology.