Sentences with phrase «defend its position as»

The 66 year - old is into the last season of his contract, but we all know that his job is at least safe until that point, and Gary Neville has moved to defend his position as boss, although is hardly convincing in his reasoning.

Responding in your pre-match news conference in an explosive manner in order to defend your position as the manager only feeds into the narrative.

I'm not too concerned upon defending my position as I feel its defendable with support and documentation.

Not exact matches

The move offers Lufthansa and rivals a chance to acquire slots at airports such as Berlin Tegel and Duesseldorf, with Germany's largest airline keen to defend its domestic position against expansion by low - cost rival Ryanair.

But during a freewheeling press conference on Tuesday, Trump returned to his original position, labeling multiple parties as complicit in the Charlottesville unrest and seeming to defend some of those seeking to protest the Confederate statue's removal.

The more learned - sounding books position this point as asking for the most you can reasonably defend.

Consider: The U.S. women's team is positioned to defend its 11th year as either world or Olympic champions.

The corollary of that is an enfeebled fin de règne in which Merkel defends a centrist legacy against attacks from both sides, accompanied by a gradual loss of party discipline as potential successors jockey for position.

That position has been getting increasingly difficult to defend, however, as Facebook has been paying media companies to create content and planning to develop its own TV - style shows.

As the head of the National Economic Council Cohn didn't have responsibility for Trump's social positions, and he wouldn't have to defend them publicly.

Those pushing for change are dismissed as quixotic, he argues, and those who oppose new laws aren't forced to defend their positions.

«Gillette was poorly positioned to defend share as consumers shifted to cheaper razors,» said CFRA Research analyst Joe Agnese.

But I am game to hear how you defend such a position of being anti-gay rights in the church (and it seems in society as well — ie: marriage).

In the name of a higher morality, their argument went, birth control could be defended as the lesser of two evils (a position argued by the dissenter Charles Curran, among others).

Yet christians are as eager to kill as any non-christian, and they twist the bible in all sorts of way to defend that position.

[In light of his position on gender roles, Piper could not bring himself to endorse Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, but conceded that «defending abortion is far worse a sin for a man than serving as Vice President is for a woman.»]

For we shall neither defend her former social position as far as at all possible, nor shall we want to make her give up whatever is still left of this historical position as fast as possible and of her own free will.

7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming of a not - yet - existing occasion and the relations between existing things.

In a moment I shall defend my account from this charge, but let me first point out that Cobb's theory of regional inclusion leads to a position that is equally as absurd as the conclusions with which he attempts to saddle my presentation.

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

Ruether, who holds that anti-Judaism has developed within the church as «the left hand of Christology» — that it is really the reverse side of the Christian confession that Jesus is the Christ — defends the position of an «unfulfilled messianism.»

Whereas confessional Lutherans defend the historic Christian position of the church on hot - button issues such as same - sex marriage, the ELCA and its partners have embraced the secular world's positions on these issues.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

Someone else «defended premillennialism over against postmillennialism rather than arguing for the posttribulation Rapture as opposed to the pretribulation position.»

The position which has been defended in this book is that Jesus was influenced by the apocalyptic expectations of his time and probably did speak some such words as these, expecting an imminent day of the Lord which did not occur.

I think the gospels are in very good shape and I think they are as reliable as they do they were first passed out (problem isn't those scriptures — but churches use of those scriptures — out of context a lot of times — to defend their positions).

In culture wars, as in philosophical debate, words are often like towns along the battle front: they offer a strategic position and must be fought for and defended, and not relinquished as soon as the enemy advances.

And as for the athiest, unless he has 100 % of all knowlege in the entire universe, he can not defend his position that there is no God, even though the universe declares it to be the case.

Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:

I do question the education levels of people, but if you are going to make sweeping negative generalizations about gay people, you better be able to defend that position (as I have friends and family that are gay and they are amazing people who don't deserve what is said about them).

His beliefs and politics: Burns, who identifies as pro-life and supports a «Christian America,» rallied for Trump starting in the primaries — defending in particular the candidate's position among Christians and African Americans.

Polkinghorne then turns to orthodox Christian commitments such as a theistic understanding of God and creatio ex nihilo and defends them against competing positions.

But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).

Without any fixed position on what is given in human nature, any manipulation of it can be defended as legitimate.

And he should learn to do this not only to defend the Christian position, but to understand and stand with his people as they take their place in the world, even though standing with them will sometimes have to be out of his weakness and lack of answers for the profound questions they are raising.

Such persons should be serving as police, security... personnel, defending and prosecuting attorneys — not only as counselors and workers in halfway houses, the more usual positions for the reform minded.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

As a consequence, they were assailed from many quarters and could not defend their position by better means than ruthless suppression and naked force.

I contend that (2) and (3) can not be defended against an epistemic construal of Whitehead's position and therefore should be abandoned as necessary conditions of nomological generalizations.

Sam, I'll take your presumption point as having a possible validity, however while you do say that you don't fully agree with Jeremy you don't criticize his position and do appear keen to defend it from my criticism.

More wings that can defend multiple positions, play small ball 4 and don't need the ball as Lillard, McCollum and Nurkic are going to eat up all the shots.

I disagree.A wingback can be viewed as a defensive winger.Whether the Ox likes it or not he's been blessed with the qualities of a winger.To me that's his best position.He's only doing well as a wingback because of his attacking abilities.As I said earlier a wingback can be viewed as a sort of defensive winger.That's why CB's who are used as RB or LB can not play wingback.Wingback needs the player to be able to adapt himself like a winger while also being solid defensively.Ox has the attacking part but not the defensive part.With Bellerin we have the best of both worlds.He can attack, defend and also has the speed necessary to play wingback.I fear Ox being played at wingback will cost us when we play teams with tricky wingers.He should rather be challenging Sanchez or Ozil for their positions and not wingback.The guy hates to always have to defend which in truth he can't.

This was a well - played hard - fought contest, as you'd expect from the Defending Champs and the Team in the best position to take that title away..

Rosicky works well in his current position as he can and does put a shift in defending unlike others.

Middleton could help there, Delly can guard both guard spots, & Snell's a guy that can defend multiple positions as well.

The whole team needs to defend front to back, as a first principle before being in a position to attack as a whole unit.

What amazed me is that after Özil goal our team collectively relaxed on the defensive end and was happy to sat so deep as if we were in the late stage of the game... we should have better mixed up our game plan sitting deep to defend in a more compact way is good but when you have the ball you must take good care of it and find teammates in good positions quickly... both Cazorla and Ramsey were poor and I do feel that they both should've been subbed of early for Rosicky and Walcott!

Monreal / Niles were very sloppy in possession and defending against the opponent, niles is learning the position and will improve if given match time, monreal as a senior payer should be showing leader ship.

I would like to tell arsenal fan that the transfer window is not arsenal's problem.Let explain what is in my mind.We need to reinforce our team but we need to think in the future that most of the high class players are going to refuse signing for arsenal fc because of Mr Wenger's philosophy.It looks like arsenal becomes cemetery of players.How many players came in and left because of performance, became good players out of arsenal.We need to accept all of the transformation Mr wenger brings in arsenal but now it does not work.Why??? because lack of tactics, strategies and pretending best players for Mr wenger mind but in reality those players do not get standard of best player.Mr wenger wants to prove everybody that he is wright that players who are calling by wenger are best.I means Mr wenger is the only one can see all matter in good position or bad.He is wrong by thinking this way.He does not like criticism.he is the mind of arsenal.Everything he can say or defend is wright.Think about morrinho comments about arsenal!!!! Why he likes to be arsenal coach!!!! One thing I want to say about arsenal players, I think everybody watch arsenal games.We have got short mind players who play two good games and the rest shameless.They are working hard in the training ground for catching Mr wenger's mind to let them play; what is behind their (players) mind to be the most regular players.Those players have no vision even ambition; they are never becoming high class and their carriers are going to finish in arsenal after arsenal we are going to see them playing for championship.They do not care to become legend as Ian wright, Vierra, Berckam, piress, Henry... What is the big behind their mind to use wenger name to be selected in national team.They are not able to face different leagues in the world.

If i here Wenger defending his defence still after another poor defensive display im going to go crazy, Monreal is not good enough to even play for us in his favoured position never mind as a CB!