Sentences with phrase «debating points as»

However, it is perfectly obvious I have little to lean here as the discussion starts with an assumption that nuclear is evil, and the objective is to fire off as many debating points as possible, no matter how ill thought out and unsubstantiated.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

Not exact matches

The state government has extended its discounted charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility by another year, to help junior miners continue exporting iron ore, as debate around the sale of the port continues.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

Exactly when things went off the rails is subject to debate, but many point to the controversial acquisition of Compaq Computer in 2001 by HP's then - CEO Carly Fiorina as the start of the decline.

The Munk Debates website has announced that the «Pros» managed to add 12percentage points to their portion of the opinion pie, as 70 per cent of those polled after the debate last night decided that we should indeed, tax the rich (more).

In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireAs the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireas one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

My impression is that stocks will not see a durable intermediate - term low until the point where a recession in progress is taken as common knowledge, without the debate that persists even now.

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.

Whether this process works exactly as intended is a point of debate in the industry.

Even for the children of Donald Trump, as Clinton pointed out in one primary debate.

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.

The missing piece in the payment debate is the point - of - sale terminal, as it influences what payments a business accepts and, to some extent, what price they pay to have receipts processed.

Although there is still debate on what exactly natural is (as Mr. ATM points out) I think its a good sign that also the large food companies are starting to recognise the trend, albeit slowly.

Futures were near session highs as the debate ended, with Dow futures briefly adding more than 100 points.

As the quality of life between East and West slowly merges due to advances in technology, continued urbanization and changing demographics, opportunities across numerous industries will arise which we aim to point out and debate.

Mr. Walker pointed out that other industries such as electronics, the high - tech sector, transportation and materials suppliers have a stake in the debate because they depend on a competitive auto industry.

Many of us often question the point of a debate such as this.

It is what has lead me to my veiw that Atheism as a religion, the passion most Atheist have for their point of view from the start you may not fall in this category but I'm sure you know someone that does.The same applies to Christians that freak out on someone and start forcing their view on others, I see that as wrong also if someone asks or brings the debate to you then by all means debate but why be rude how does it help?

Again, though, that was not my point (as I think the debate would become interminable on this or most any other blog!).

«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.»

Not as pithy as the quote being debated, but the point seems quite clear...

Arguments as the one you made are really misleading points to distract the meat of the true debate.

The fact is, you know every debate point I would / could bring up, and I know your's as well.

As Erasmus pointed out in his debate with Luther, God would not have called us to choose him if Luther's position were correct.

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

= > that's a reasonable argument (I disagree with it), but as the amendment only has the affect of reducing the age at which the unborn childs rights are respected, the only point to debate is what age it should 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.

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.

But as Chait points out, that debate among liberals gets short - circuited pretty quickly by identity politics.

Note how you jump to verse 8 when you recite the verse, leaving out the key point at verse 6: «If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, «Let us go and serve other gods,» which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers...» Here the person is not entering into a debate but rather asking you to go and serve other gods — that is when when God is saying watch out.

At that point we began to have regular debates disagreements, and found our common ground as well.

There is no reason for me to survey the current debate as concerns the substance of the arguments, nor to suggest my own verdict on each of the contested points, as I would do in a setting where time and structure would permit a serious debate in just war terms.

Now, we can all debate as to why Reverend Graham has taken the actions he has until the cows come home, but, all that is, at this point in time really, is a distraction (no surprise there!).

The entry point into the debate has varied, but there has always been an awareness in the Church that the search for visible unity and the communion the churches seek, is connected inextricably with the authority with which the Church interprets and lives up to its traditions, but also the way in which we act as Christians in the world.

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

As several of you have pointed out, NT Wright does indeed consider his views to be in keeping with Calvin and the Reformed tradition, and his recent debates with John Piper and company over justification are something of an internal skirmish rather than a theological divide.

As a Jew and a subscriber to First Things since the first issue, I have looked for contributions to the debate from other than Christian and secular points of view.

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.

It is an idea that again points us to the New Testament, for it is suggestive of Paul's famous debate among the members of the body as to relative importance (I Cor.

Thus the issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.

Of course, as I have stated so many times before, I am under no delusion that fishon, and now you, or anyone who seems to take great pleasure in pointing out the «error» in the beliefs of others, cares at all how much impact their attitude plays in the debate.

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.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

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.

But then, as my Auntie Joanna pointed out, when he gets to Heaven and Edmund Campion asks him what it was like being an English Catholic, being stitched up on TV debates may pale into insignificance compared with being hanged, drawn and quartered in front of a large crowd.

Just as those who dissented from Humanae Vitae were able to use a seeming openness to their point of view in the process that preceded the encyclical to legitimize their view, so too will dissenters find justification for their positions in the debates at the Synod.