Sentences with phrase «debate about this point»

You can have a logical, theoretical debate about this point as much as you want, but the following experiment will prove my point.

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With the country locked in a national debate about what an appropriate living wage should be, pay — in particular the minimum hourly rate — has become a sticking point for many businesses and their workers.

At one point in the CNN debate, the two candidates actually debated who grew up poorer after a question about raising the minimum wage.

Kane also points out that this way of thinking about the perils of filtering online content goes back to a 2001 essay by Cass Sunstein, which asked whether the Internet was really a blessing for healthy democratic debate.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debate:

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

This post about the Suzuki - Pembina report is a case in point: both sides of the debate seemed to think that I was offering aid and succor to the cause of the climate change deniers.

Its sole purpose was to provide updated economic and fiscal projections, to be used as a starting point for a debate about the upcoming budget.

I mean if we got back to robust economic growth, maybe we could even talk about it, but at this point in the economy, it just seems crazy to even be debating this.»

At that point, it was about masturbation only (no one had made a comparison to homosexuality), so, without much personal stake in the debate, I thought to myself «See, this is why people don't like the answers, not (always) because it doesn't let them do what they want, but because the answers are sometimes very poor indeed.»

At one point in the recent vice presidential debate, the candidates were asked about the role faith has played in their lives.

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

yawn... of course we all have subjective biases... i'm honest about mine... and really, what is the point of having the samed tired debates here... you already have your opinion made up, won't truly listen and will hear anything i say through that lens

Asked about the value of the newspaper debates, Charles said that trying «to lead people to salvation by pointing out sins... only brings antagonism and rebellion and shoves them away.

Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.

Yes, I was one of the freaks of Christianity who got his kicks studying, debating, and teaching the finer points of theology that few people even knew existed, and fewer cared about.

Most Likely to Start an Argument Between You and Your Friends: Roger Olson with «Some Thoughts About Conversations / Debates Between Calvinists and Arminians» «It seems to me that most 5 point Calvinists I know seem bound and determined to believe anything they think the Bible says regardless of how horrific that may be.

I see it as a book about the Kingdom of God, and what life looks like when you live into the «other side» of so many of our missing - the - point gender debates in the Church.

I made a point of asking about this at the conference, and theologian Peter Enns offered a brief response, noting that central to this debate is Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 in which Paul draws his famous parallel between Jesus and Adam.

Even more sad is that this article is about real heroes and the point of the article is lost in this religious debate.

Newman pointed me toward the dynamic development of historical debates about dogma, and to the institutional Church as the context and primary agent in these debates.

This article is trying to trick you into believing that this new discovery brings up «new points» about the «God debate».

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

well, i would have debating it with you being i like Aquinas but i agree with your point about how it is very outdated... however it does give insight into many things about how and why such beliefs are held with high regard.

Mr Newcome said the debate was not about the ethics of abortion, pointing out that the Church's position on that issue is clearly stated.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Per the Book of Galatians, the question of «sin or not» is a valid point to debate in Elementary School; but we can graduate from elementary debates of the Law, and enter into the great dialog about «how» to live the Law of Christ and «how» to experience the Unity of All Believers.

Due to the shear number of planets, of course one has to have the perfect conditions to support life, which (over billions of years of EVOLUTION) has perfected all of those systems to the point where we can debate about where it all came from.

One of the biggest moments in this second GOP debate was Carly Fiorina deftly taking control of the exchange and pointing it toward the macabre activities at Planned Parenthood — and how the top two leaders of the Democratic party are quite content to defend Planned Parenthood and let them go about....

Its categories — such as «Christ against culture» and «Christ of culture» — have ever since been familiar reference points in the field of Christian ethics and in debates about how Christians and the church should engage matters of politics, society and culture.

Some lunatics point here, some lunatics point there, but not one ever points to themselves and the anger they stoke relentlessly, which is indeed at the core of all this disgusting debate about who has the right to kill who.

It has been pointed out that as long as Christians remain embroiled in endless debates about what women can and can not do for Jesus, we are only utilizing half the Church.

But when we see the people on the other side of the debate as the enemy (by calling them names, labeling them or demeaning their convictions), we miss the point of what «fighting for our faith» is supposed to be about in the first place.

Mike i have been thinking hard on this subject i hope you do nt leave the forum as i think we will get into a good debate / discussion the Lord has shown me alot of insight into this subject that i hadnt even thought about until Jeremy proposed his point of view.The word say iron sharpens iron we need to understand what we believe not just walk away because we feel it is treading on our beliefs because they change as we learn and understand because we have believed something for a long time does nt make it right.Use this opportunity to grow to learn and to understand what the Lord is wanting us to know if we cant do this as brothers how are we supposed to do it with unbelievers.brentnz

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

Catholic theologians who have questions about the teaching owe the Church, themselves, and their colleagues something more than liberal posturing and point scoring in intramural debates.

even that debate about the angels on the head of a pin had some merit (though actually I think it was the point of a needle).

This debate about building a mosque near ground zero will have to be looked at in a different perspective, both from the Muslim and non-Muslim point of views.

We recognize that this approach carries with it certain dangers, particularly that of accommodationism, and yet it is also true that it has brought about considerable success, from Japan to Paraguay; whether the risk is worth the reward is a point we could debate.

Reynolds also highlights some of Akyol's oversimplified rhetoric, as when he calls the Paul / James divide «historical fact,» and questions some of Akyol's debatable assumptions about the prominence of Jewish Christianity in Muhammad's Arabia (a point that Reynolds is especially qualified to debate).

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

As he points out, Romney technically did not contradict his earlier statements about the HHS mandate, and considering that the debate moderator was....

Sometimes there's debate about the significance and point of the passage, and at other times people agree pretty quickly on the point.

However, this article is about the Bible and homosexual practice — surely the starting point before we get into any debate about «gay marriage».

And don't worry about little fvckwads like Open Mouth who can't debate one little point of yours and so they bring up a mistake from yesterday or some stupid sh!t..

Evans concludes his call to find common ground with what he considers an obvious point: «We can all agree that an effective debate about RGTs would be healthy for the human future.»

«pointing out» that I don't know what I'm talking about, without actually quoting what I got wrong, or even understanding the conversation topic in no way makes you look intelligent or even nominally good at debating.

, which deconstructed horror tropes and told a profound story about racial appropriation, to the point where debates are still raging over which genre it best represents.

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims has addressed the RBB Economics Conference in Sydney backing competition reforms proposed by the Harper Review Panel - three points were highlighted: (1) need to make a choice about s 46 - clearly preferencing a change to an SLC approach; (2) need to extend the Act to cover more government activities; (3) need to debate and decide the issues around competition advocacy and market studies.

But the point of this article is not to engage in the frankly tiresome debates about whether fat people can be healthy (they can).