Sentences with phrase «defend my position on»

If you are going to use reason to defend your position on homosexuality, why bother with the bible at all?

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.

I love your blog, because you do an excellent job of defending my positions on many things, so I don't have to write a research paper every time someone asks me a question about my parenting style.

Even if you regard this as a «smear» against Corbyn (it isn't), he will be asked to defend his position on this.

Sanders has defended his position on guns, considering that he comes from a rural state with few gun deaths and loose firearms laws.

Both sides defend their position on grounds of equity.

On that front the Survation poll is pretty positive about Jeremy Corbyn with people saying he came across as more trustworthy and in touch than his rivals (though such polls are always a bit tricky because of the choice of clips — Survation tried to iron out any potential biasing effect by having clips from each candidate being interviewed on the Marr show, so they were all interviews, all the same setting and same interviewer... but even then you ended up with two candidates defending their position on the welfare bill, one talking about the EU referendum and one talking about rail nationalisation.

Although Congressman Weiner has never defended my positions on some of the issues that matter most to me, I know that he has fought hard for New York State.

Quinn also defended her position on installing an inspector general to oversee the NYPD.

If you need proof consider Eric Pickles» dismal performance on the last edition of Question Time when required to defend his position on MPs expenses.

Students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of constitutional principles and have opportunities to evaluate, take, and defend positions on relevant historical and contemporary issues.

We encourage students to develop and defend positions on public policy and controversial issues.

On Friday, students write persuasive essays defending their position on the topic.

I don't know why I have to constantly defend my position on this issue.

In fact, Mr. Pachter was so adamant about this belief that he defended his position on the Neogaf forum and also provided insight into his prediction methods.

I won't defend my position on the title, but it's not what everyone claims it is, but it IS a great foundation for future titles.

In reality, such schemes only demonstrate their inability to defend their positions on sound principles and logical persuasion and discussion.

Under the new leadership, the FCC declined to defend its position on Section 276, instead conceding 10 minutes of oral argument time to the intervenors.

The condo rep defended their position on rules.

Not exact matches

She added that Thiel should assume more responsibility and resign from his role at YC «to focus on his work getting his candidate elected, instead of putting his friends in the position to defend him.»

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.

J.P. Morgan's letter to shareholders defending its actions and Jamie Dimon's hold on the CEO - chair position not only missed its mark, it also unwittingly advanced their opponents» cause.

Following a streamlining of its Northern European investment banking business that dramatically enhanced its fundraising ability in 2012, Goldman Sachs defended its number - one position in M&A by advising clients on 13 deals worth a total of $ 20.6 billion.

Sometimes on the belief blog, I've been very vocal defending my position because I do not believe... it's time for the theists to do the same.

On the one hand, of course, all human relationships have some sort of drama, but it often seems that it get magnified in church because people try to defend their positions with pious spirituality.

Moldy, So you'd infringe on const itutional rights just because you disagree with our position and can not defend yours?

[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.»]

Especially if he is a priest, or has otherwise received a good and coherent religious formation in youth, he has to go on thinking and not rigidly repeat the formulas he once learnt or simply defend the old positions.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

Chip argues forcefully that the bishops, in their policy statements, are too sanguine about the burdens of immigration on unskilled workers and government coffers, while Scaperlanda forcefully defends the bishops» position.

For if he had truly grasped the position Arkes defends he would understand that his own judgment — that Arkes is mistaken at points — is itself dependent on moral notions not contingent upon relative circumstances or the contingencies of history.

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.

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.»

On the other side, for Beegle and Davis, pressure to defend their position (now, by locating «error») brings equally unsatisfactory results.

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.

Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an annual event organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund), flaunts an IRS tax code restriction stating that churches risk their tax - exempt status if they endorse specific political candidates or positions on ballot issues.

Thus, since it is Griffin's contention that this type of experiential grounding is not possible, the burden of proof is on him not simply to defend his position but to demonstrate that my analysis can not justifiably be affirmed.

However, Chad, if I were in a position to place a bet on your ability to sustain or successfully defend a claim on the reality of the God of Israel, those are qualities I could legitimately refer to.

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

It is important to add that I have not tried to defend Whitehead's position, nor to suggest that this is the only stance possible for a process theologian to take on this issue; I have only sought to establish that Whitehead did possess a discernable theory of social differentiation.

He was a Hegelian «absolute idealist,» and I still have his 185 careful comments on a 50 — page epistemology paper of mine that defended «naïve realism,» the farthest possible position from his.

To most Catholics it is less acceptable to censure those who defend the right to dissent than it is to censure those who appear to reject the official position on abortion.

Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) have long defended their die - hard positions against mandatory GMO labeling laws, often by feigning concern about the financial impact labeling laws would have on consumers.

Arsene playing a balanced team will give you positive results, especially playing against a big team, over the past years we have continued to use players not suited for certain positions, we actually had a player who used left foot on the left side of the field who got in attacking position, Kolasinac to me was the most important player going forward and defending.

The worry is still the the DM and CB positions maybe AW should try AMN in the CB role, there's nothing to lose because Xhaka can not defend if his life depended on it.

Still, Shaw showed his old defensive lapses once again with some shocking positioning on Alan Dzagoev's opener for CSKA on the night, and it is that kind of slack defending that will surely see him continue to miss out.

his weaknesses are his ability to defend — can't tackle, badly positioned, doesn't track runners, always breaks forward on runs and leaves gaping chasms in midfield that Xhaka can't cover alone, all of which makes him a bad central midfielder..

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!

until wenger really stresses on defending and forgoes this «attack the whole game» policy, arsenal do nt stand a chance to win major honours.also do keep in mind, attacking whole game drains out the players.better to put handbrake on and play when team has a 2 or 3 goal lead focussing on keeping posession and positioning... but i guess wenger will always go for the «u score 3, we score 4».