Sentences with phrase «claims rest upon»

The theological term and its theological claims rest upon a broad scriptural base.

So the plausibility of the claim rests upon the idea that we should be identified with Labour as a «progressive bloc».

The crux of the plaintiff's claim rested upon her embarrassment and anxiety about a noticeable scar, as well as a hand injury that allegedly prohibited her from carrying out her duties at work.

Not exact matches

Its claim to being a society rests upon the prehension of the importance of Jesus in each of its members.

Her rationale for such a view seems to rest upon (1) a highly questionable interpretation of one text in Process an Reality and the claims (2) that only such a view is compatible with human freedom and (3) that only such a view is compatible with human faith.

Hence Mays's charge of confusion rests upon his claim that Whitehead is not doing metaphysics, and Mays's discussion of the extensive continuum does nothing to establish that claim.

So from a Whiteheadian perspective, understanding of a religious text does not rest so heavily upon existential appropriation of its message as the Heideggerians claim.

The only claim the Scriptures have must rest upon the long experience of the group whose religious life is nourished by them.

Yet the main plan of the gospel is simple and straightforward, and contains a number of consecutive historical developments which have a good claim to rest upon a true tradition.

The discovery of this fact about the Gospels is often popularly attributed to a contemporary school of scholars known as «Form critics,» but the fact was well established long before this particular school emerged and rests upon grounds considerably wider and firmer than those which support this school's particular claims.

Certainly theology can not escape finitude in its perspective, but I am convinced that it could now broaden its perspective (1) by admitting the metaphysical implications of its «historical» claims, (2) by thinking through the ontological status of the particular upon which it rests its case, and (3) by placing its historical thinking in cosmic perspective.

Atheists claim upon death the frog, the student, Hitler and Mother Teresa all enter an eternal rest.

Its claims have been rested upon its function as a sanction to right conduct.

This is a disingenuous claim at best, and seems to rest wholly upon cherry - picking individual polls.

As for your suggested experiments, the burden of proof rests upon those making the claims.

While London and Stratford - upon - Avon may claim him, they have no choice but to share him, since the rest of the world wants its own private observance of the most famous and the most performed playwright of all time throughout the course of this year.

Under Illinois law, however, quantum meruit relief is not available «when a contract exists between the parties concerning the identical subject matter upon which the quasi-contractual claim rests.»

IOW it was a total piece of junk, blade plus shaft, as is the IPCC AR4 claim of unprecedented late 20thC warmth for 1,300 years, which rests upon it,

The Rasoul decision shows that the onus on investigating the bone fides of a claim rests not simply upon the defendant to attempt to winkle out the fraud, but — in appropriate circumstances — upon the claimant solicitor's too.

-- At the second stage, the core of the analysis rests upon the connection between Ontario and the plaintiff's claim and the defendant, respectively.

Upon reading this claim language with the benefit of the rest of the patent's disclosure and the reader's own common sense, the invention had to seem simple (but elegant).