Sentences with phrase «defend our positions in»

We cognicenti know that national debts are not of any great economic consequence, but it's impossible to defend that position in public debate.

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.

The author defends his position in terms of insights and criticisms of several process thinkers: Robert Neville, John Cobb, F.H. Bradley, William A. Christian.

Long, meanwhile, defended her position in the polls, which show her losing in a landslide should the election be held today.

Elsevier defended its position in February this year with its open letter to the research community.

This is the point at which you should be able to defend your position in relation to the essay question.

In fact, without a proper plan and solid eDiscovery methodology, one may have serious trouble defending their position in court!

The results of the game and the discussion afterwards where the students defend their solution to the matter, help the law firm understand how each student operates under stress and their individual skills at solving problems and defending their position in front of others.

The result is that brokers assert ownership of the data — a position supported by NAR — but may not have all the pieces in place to successfully defend that position in court.

Not exact matches

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the new investment gives Uber some extra funds to invest in defending its declining market share in the US while it fills vacant executive positions and formulates a strategy to balance its finances before its IPO.

NEW YORK Wells Fargo & Co's two biggest competitors have been nabbing market share in lending to commercial and industrial customers in the American heartland, a sign of how difficult it has become for the scandal - tarnished bank to defend its position against rivals.

But what pisses me off is that they don't bother getting in touch with their clients to at least defend their position with their SEC issue that they are having.

A price tag of $ 43 a share is «probably the cheapest and most efficient way for Google to get a strong IP position in wireless and defend the Android eco-system against legal challenges,» he writes.

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.

It is a powerful example of how corporations work with startups, invest in ideas and talent, and, in turn, defend and grow market position.

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).

What I was sure you could never know I now know, and now I am in the uncomfortable position of knowing this and having to defend it to all of my atheist and agnostic friends, who think I've probably lost my mind.»

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).

• In response to Yoffe's story, Drinan's family issued a non-denial: «We find it odd that anyone would come forward with this allegation decades later when our uncle is dead and in no position to defend himself.&raquIn response to Yoffe's story, Drinan's family issued a non-denial: «We find it odd that anyone would come forward with this allegation decades later when our uncle is dead and in no position to defend himself.&raquin no position to defend himself.»

Perhaps, but I can't help but believe that when people in a position to defend a belief system for this they have no evidence after a while there must be some shred of doubt that sneaks in.

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.

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 a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.&raquIn a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.&raquin the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.»

[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.»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.»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.

57 The consequence of this understanding is the adopting of a position that I have termed «hard determinism,» controlling every element in creation, in contrast to «soft determinism,» in which God's final victory gives definitive shape to all that we have provisionally worked out by our own exercise of freedom along the way.58 It is what finally renders Pannenberg's attempt to defend Augustine by shifting God from Eternal Present to Ultimate Future an unsuccessful effort to resolve the issue of theodicy.

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.

Except in this case, only Christians «carry the ball» (i.e. defend their position).

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.

The construction of a building must no longer be the default position in local churches, where those who do not want to build must defend their position to those who do.

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.

Personally, I believe the position all Christians of today should be to obey Romans 13 but also believe the lesson taught in Romans 13, that the ministers of God (government) have the right to built an army from among its citizenry to defend our nation against the forces of evil.

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.»

Vance uses the Bible sparingly in defending his position, whereas «Blood Guilt» is totally dependent upon the Bible to make its case.

His religion was a reflection of his state, and Chauncy was, in reality, defending this position.

And, indeed, apart from this necessity of doing so, I am interested in defending that position.

The position I have presented is consistent with the critical realism defended in Chapter 3 above.

In Christology Reconsidered (London, SCM Press, 1970) Pittenger restates and defends his christological position in response to criticisms of his earlier statementIn Christology Reconsidered (London, SCM Press, 1970) Pittenger restates and defends his christological position in response to criticisms of his earlier statementin response to criticisms of his earlier statements.

The proponents of the latter position believe that there are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

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.

In a SLAPP lawsuit, even if the moral position is successfully defended in public and in court, the adverse media attention can turn a legal victory into a public relations defeaIn a SLAPP lawsuit, even if the moral position is successfully defended in public and in court, the adverse media attention can turn a legal victory into a public relations defeain public and in court, the adverse media attention can turn a legal victory into a public relations defeain court, the adverse media attention can turn a legal victory into a public relations defeat.

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.

Proponents of «intelligent design theory» refuse to answer such questions, because it is rhetorically advantageous for them to take a purely negative position in which they criticize Darwinian theory without defending a positive theory of their own.

I don't know of a more profoundly failed position, or a more poorly defended one, than the assertion that a particular God is real, alive, and intimately involved in the lives of people.

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).

These essays are crucial for any assessment of MacIntyre's position: Arguments and observations he makes in his books were often first developed in articles, and defended later in other articles, not widely available.