Sentences with phrase «controversial position of»

It's a film about the suddenly - controversial position of not appeasing Nazis and the importance of rhetoric as a skill in our leadership.

As the Paralympics take off this week, there are deeply political rumblings along these lines both about the government's rhetoric on disabled people, and the controversial position of Atos as an official sponsor.

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Kushner has, for the most part, tried to stay out of the public eye, especially given his sons» prominent position in a controversial White House.

«Harper, Bush Share Roots in Controversial Philosophy,» Donald Gutstein's tracing of neo-conservative «Straussians» in key positions in both leaders» camps.

One person close to the situation characterizes it as «de-nuking» Uber, leaving no one player — pretty much the controversial Kalanick — in a position to destabilize Uber ahead of a possible public offering.

Meanwhile, his live CNBC brawl with Ackman, who's on the other side of his position in controversial vitamin company Herbalife, lit up trading floors around the world.

Instead, they want the church to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox Church.

Because of Willett's controversial position, wrote Morrison, «another editor might have regarded him as a liability.»

I also do not believe that having students argue controversial positions necessarily makes them better thinkers or more morally sensitive as you implied by your comment about how an assignment like this could have the effect of causing students to think about the horrors of the Holocaust.

The experience of MICAH shows the result: even though the organization has adopted controversial positions, not a single congregation has dropped out.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

We saw that the picture of our rational powers taken for granted by this position is controversial, and so is its thesis that logically we have to adopt this view of reason to make sense of the enterprise of theological education.

What that does is it puts me in the position of being a lightning rod on campus surrounding the most controversial issues.

A pastor will assume that the negative responses to a controversial statement he made in a sermon or through a Facebook status can not possibly be worthy critiques of his position, but rather the kind of «persecution» Christians can expect to receive for saying and doing the right thing.

We believe that Catholics who, in good conscience, take positions on the difficult questions of legal abortion and other controversial issues that differ from the official hierarchical positions, act within their rights and responsibilities as Catholics and citizens.

The poll also answers other burning questions of our time, such as which golfer his peers would want on his back in a bar fight (hint: it's not Bubba Watson), who has the «prettiest swing» on tour («Not the Americans, that's for sure,» noted one LPGA voter), whether the PGA Tour should ditch Doral because of Donald Trump's controversial positions (nope), and whether LPGA players believe Michelle Wie will win another major (not so much).

Even Pelé, who has spent most of his post-football life carefully cultivating an image as the least controversial human being on the planet, has shifted his position.

Even Martial and Lingard's time on the wings has been controversial to a degree: to the fans, the Frenchman is being played out of positions while Van Gaal himself has previously admitted Lingard lacks the quality he would like in the right wing position.

The Chilean is finally looking like the implacable goal threat the Gunners have been crying out for ever since Van Persie's controversial move to Manchester United in 2012, however in order for him and his coalescing cohorts to hurt teams, it must be possible to pull the opposition out of position.

HOOVER, Ala. — The SEC's position on the controversial satellite camps popularized by Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has been clear: the league isn't supportive of offseason craze and supported the NCAA's initial decision to ban the camps.

The advice to make homemade baby formula as an alternative to commercial formula has been one of the most controversial positions taken by the Weston A. Price Foundation — and also one that has elicited the most grateful praise.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was considered a controversial addition to President Donald Trump's cabinet, and if her recent comments are any indication, people are right to be upset with her being in her position right now.

The get - together went as well as can be expected for a guy who has a very conservative position about immigration, sent out racist e-mails and made a number of controversial statements about various ethnic groups.

When he did so Monday night, surging past frontrunner Donald Trump as he rode a wave of enthusiastic support, it appeared to validate — if only for a few fleeting hours before the presidential race resumes — the political positions that have made Cruz such a compelling but controversial figure.

Those debates have not been programmatic statements of policy positions, and certainly not recommendations for areas of policy as deeply complex and controversial as immigration.

The management of the University of Ghana has disassociated itself from reports that it criticized Prof. Kwesi Yankah, the Minister of State in Charge of Education, on his position on the school's controversial deal with Africa Integras.

They said the mayor was taking «contradictory positions» by targeting the tribes while at the same time expressing support for constitutional protections of those looking to build a controversial Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Although Labour's official position is to support the renewal of the controversial Trident nuclear submarine programme, Corbyn's personal opposition will not be that popular in a constituency where the nuclear industry is a major employer.

Outspoken Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. has been labeled a bigot by LGBT advocates and their allies for his anti-gay marriage stance, and the Bronx Democrat has taken some fairly controversial positions on a variety of other issues, too, including, but not limited to, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino.

While Trump's decision to recognize (or to stop postponing it) the Jerusalem (western part) as the capital of Israel could be described as controversial or not, EU countries, which position themselves...

«I have taken strong positions on issues that have been very controversial, and worked with people on both sides of those issues to achieve reform and to achieve growth,» she said.

In 2006, Paterson sponsored a controversial bill to limit the use of deadly force by the police, but later changed that position.

The video, released Monday, comes after a week and a half of controversy over the Senate GOP majority's controversial payment of lulus to its own members and a disproportionate number of IDC lawmakers for committee positions that they do not actually hold.

It said further, «We welcome the resignation of controversial Speaker Umar Ahmed Imam after the mayhem and call on the newly - elected Speaker of the House, Hon Matthew Kolawole, to provide a dynamic leadership that would position the Assembly as a truly independent arm of government in Kogi State.

With the absence of any candidate of color in the AG's race, Schneiderman has been trying to position himself as the clear choice for Latino and black voters, stressing in particular his efforts on behalf of Rockefeller Drug Law reform and sponsorship of a controversial measure that will count prisoners at their last address for the purposes of legislative redistricting and not whever they're incarcerated.

Before you again spam my inbox with 50 + comments arguing about how you disagree about the majority position of certain subcultures on weakly defined political axis» I rewrote that section to be less «controversial».

On Monday, children's minister Edward Timpson delivered a speech to the Association of Independent LSCB chairs in which he sympathised with their often controversial positions «it might feel like media attention makes discussion of child protection impossible: that calm debate suffers under the intense glare of a media frenzy».

American Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram, who got 0.35 % of the vote for Governor of West Virginia in the recent special election, ran a controversial ad in the campaign's closing days that proclaimed him to be the «voice for white American issues,» according to WTOV channel 9.

Gov. Cuomo put state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on the hot seat Thursday over the state Senate's controversial practice of paying out stipends to lawmakers for leadership positions they don't hold...

Still, whatever the grumblings, Mr. Cuomo's strategy has largely worked: He has avoided taking positions on controversial issues, even as the state, facing a large budget gap, grapples with the prospects of laying off state workers, raising taxes or eliminating programs.

Background / positions: As a City Council member, De Blasio was a vocal critic of controversial architect Robert Scarano, who's been charged with filing misleading plans.

She has used her position's influence to prevent legislation he opposes — including controversial police reform bills — from receiving a vote, even though they enjoy the backing of the majority of Council members.

The onus will be on selecting Members with «sound» views who can be relied on to be loyal and supportive of the Government's position at controversial points of the legislation.

In an opening statement at a hearing in Albany to determine if Paladino should be ousted from his elected School Board position, attorney Dennis Vacco painted Paladino as a victim of an effort by fellow School Board members to punish him for making controversial, but constitutionally protected remarks about President Obama and his wife in another newspaper story.

Lazio has made his position on the controversial mosque the focal point of his campaign speeches and television commercials, and he continued the assault Sunday on Meet the Press, attacking the imam behind the effort (whom he's called a «terrorist sympathizer»).

[10] During a televised election debate Stephen Harper, while discussing the government's controversial decision to remove certain immigrants and refugee claimants from accessing Canada's health care system made reference to «old stock Canadians» as being in support of the government's position.

Clarkstown Council members Frank Borrelli and George Hoehmann, made impassioned pleas for everyone to support their positions regarding the controversial sale of the Millwood Senior Citizens Complex in Clarkstown: «This is not in the best interest of the residents nor the Town, we can find a better way than selling off Millwood to the preferred buyer.

The controversial Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Daniel Bugri Naabu failed to retain his position, not even...

The controversial Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Daniel Bugri Naabu failed to retain his position, not even after drawing sympathy votes from his storming the election grounds in a wheelchair as well as towing his mangled accident car to the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium in Tamale where the delegates conference was held.