Sentences with phrase «discussions on the merits»

It all started with a discussion on the merit of naturally gluten free recipes — by naturally gluten free, I mean recipes that never required any alterations in the first place for a GF person to be able to enjoy them.

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«If someone wants to have a discussion on the merits and substance of these proposals, let's have at it,» he added.

After a lengthy public discussion on the merits of cluing the public and press in on what exactly is being investigating and whether individual votes should be made known, the ethics watchdog emerged to say very little.

Discussion on the merits of choosing one option over another.

Then why is there such a wide range of discussion on the merits of the two viewpoints on the speed of writing?

Several people at the conference had lively discussions on the merits of helping animals as compared to other high - value impact opportunities.

We don't need to make Westerners like robots; rather, we just need to create a discussion on their merits, when they seem to work well, and WHY they work well.

Frequently avoiding discussion on the merits of the science, critics of skeptics attempt, instead, to discredit the speaker.

As New South Wales and South Australia launch discussions on the merits of lifting the rate of the GST from 10 to 15 per cent «in order to pay for the increasing cost of healthcare... Read more

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Commentary on my blog posts appears on Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter, providing me with an even broader discussion of the relative merits of my points of view.

There are other aspects of the NGP Report that merit further discussion, including its approach to adaptive management (we now have three different JRP reports in as many years that take different views on the extent to which AM can be relied upon in making a determination as to the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects under CEAA), the precautionary principle, species at risk and Aboriginal consultation.

For example, in my earlier short discussion on the Gospel of John, I lean towards some of the early chapters as having good merit, but then... we are given direct quotes of Jesus beginning in Chapter 14... by people that could not have been there....?

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

Many denominations went through a period of strenuous self - examination and discussion of the merits or lack of merits of a ministerial education and on the matter of what kind of education — if any — should be approved.

I just got finished having a lengthy discussion with a friend about the merits of beans for budget and as sustenance because that is how we roll on Sunday nights.

your discussions are mostly agreements, not discourses on the merits of the evidence (or lack of) presented by the nfl.

There has been much heated discussion on JustArsenal about the relative merits of Schneiderlin and Wanyama as defensive midfielders, but two things are pretty certain.

When there is more than one maternity units to choose from, there might be a discussion about the merits of either based on distance or subjective personal opinion.

Let's set aside discussions of artistic merit and admit that it's a pretty dreary view of the last functioning space shuttle perched on its launch pad.

Discussion of the merits, or lack thereof, of Brown and Brandeis claiming that postdocs on fellowships with stipends below the FLSA minimum are exempt.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: A discussion actually popped up on Twitter last night, as major movie bloggers began debating the merits of innocent Sandy versus the slutty Sandra Dee who pops up near the end of «Grease.»

For more on the NASCAR expansion check out discussion over its merits at Hit The Pass.

(Consider also the film that would yet nobble it of a Jury Award, João Pedro Rodrigues» Morrer Como Um Homem [To Die Like a Man]: early on in that overesteemed, if beautifully lensed, potboiler, a discussion about the merits of sex reassignment surgery occurs while one of the two trans - characters involved deliberates over whether to buy some orchids... Always with the fucking orchids!)

The fact that I'm opening this review not with a discussion of the merits of The Wild Life but of its commercial performance should make it clear that this endeavor is not particularly stimulating on an artistic level.

The discussion on how impossible this is to achieve is merited by those looking only to move chairs on the Titanic that is the present book based comparative (How do I rate against others?)

Could lead on to basic GCSE / IGCSE level, up to A level and IB discussions of the merits or otherwise of trading blocs.

The most heated discussion focused on the state's merit - pay program, which lawmakers decided to fund for the 1985 - 86 school year at $ 16.6 million, despite a rancorous debate over the quality of the evaluation process that has been used to choose the first year's crop of merit teachers.

A discussion that started out weighing the merits of a revised federal education law quickly turned into a back and forth about congressional process, with most parties agreeing on the substance, broadly speaking, of how No Child Left Behind must change.

The neutral can play a variety of roles, including facilitating discussions, providing parties with a «reality check» on the merits and value of their claims, assisting with creative problem solving, and writing agreements that reflect the needs of the parties.

On May 20th there is going to be a 60 minute series on audiobooks where a live discussion will talk about their meritOn May 20th there is going to be a 60 minute series on audiobooks where a live discussion will talk about their meriton audiobooks where a live discussion will talk about their merits.

I do not quite understand the discussions above about the relative merits of XSP vs IVV by focusing on tracking errors and MERs.

«If the real objection to managed colonies is that it is unethical to put cats in a situation where they could potentially kill any wild creature,» writes Patronek, «then the ethical issue should be debated on its own merits without burdening the discussion with highly speculative numerical estimates for either wildlife mortality or cat predation.»

As I said on Sunday, most of the Daily Getaway offers haven't been that great, and this week's are only just good enough to merit «discussion» (not necessarily «purchase.»)

The first two are basically irrelevant in this discussion, since this is not a debate about each person's own tastes and preferences in gaming that's happening around SF0 and particularly its controls but more a debate about their relative quality to game controls in general and certainly relative to the whole shmup or on - rails - shooter genre — and, since I started this particular discussion here with my first post, I'm telling you it's not about personal opinions of the game; it's about analysing its merits more objectively that that.

And when our discussion drifted to the merits of cacao fruit, Adrià bolted into the kitchen and had the staff produce a dish of cacao fruit ice cream on the spot.

You could take the (incorrect) prescription based on the bucket confusion, apply it to the full global temperatures (land included, hmm...) and think that this merits a discussion on whether the whole IPCC edifice had been completely undermined (Answer: no).

Interesting discussion with Josh Fox on the fracking controversy and the merits of natural gas versus coal.

There's sufficient merit in engaging the north and south, rich and poor, precautionary and libertarian, environmental and industrial factions in discussions every year that the talks under the original climate treaty — the Framework Convention on Climate Change — remain worthwhile.

These days any skeptic, or even «lukewarmists» like Tom Fuller, knows that the discussions on RealClimate are not in good faith, that heterodox comments will be censored, deleted, ignored, distorted or ridiculed as a matter of course and regardless of merit.

Before any rational discussion of the economic or scientific merits of President Obama's Clean Power Plan, to be finalized on Monday, can begin, it is necessary to take his...

Judith has claimed expertise by virtue of appointing herself to make authoritative claims as to who can and can't «responsibly» claim «expertise» that merits involvement in public discussions that have policy implications (as well as, btw, appointing herself as an authority on decision - making in the face of uncertainty), and that her opinions should be stamped with the authority of a «expert» because she has written some blog posts on the subject.

Assessments of «expertise» are relevant to assessing probabilities for those who can't assess technical discussions on their own merits, but even in highly technical discussions we can try to assess the degree to which a scientific method of analysis is manifest in the opinions a scientist expresses.

In recent discussion of the Weblog 2007 Awards, several commenters at other blogs have argued that our criticisms of the Mannian parlor tricks have been «thoroughly refuted and discarded by climatologists, published in a credible journal»; that «other professionals in the field who also have «looked in great detail at the problem at hand» and have come to the conclusion that rather than McIntyre's findings being «valid and relevant», they instead have found them to be «without statistical and climatological merit»; that CA «fluffed on the whole hockey stick thing».

If you can't argue points solely on their merits, without using snide offensive remarks, then you can stay the hell out of this discussion.

(For a discussion of the merits of various equity frameworks see, Brown, 2014) However, it is not necessary to agree on an equity framework to conclude that some national commitments fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

You seem to have missed the distinction michael; the piece by Dr Curry is an opinion piece based on her own experiences as a scientist, a climate scientist and as someone who as actively tried to further the discussion - unless i'm mistake Dr Curry has clearly stated that she still thinks there's merit in the theory, but has issue with the methods and presentation (though leaving an open mind for uncertainty natch #).

It is a focused (albeit OT) discussion on whether one particular analysis has any merit.

Then you can focus discussion on what needs to be discussed — the things you find under - supported in some scientific case or another (or the things you find to have merit in the contrarian case that are not generally accepted in mainstream science), vs. seemingly pointless discussions of policy that are based on fundamentally different assessments of physical reality.

Let's not pre-judge anyone prior to their having a chance to hear different sides of the discussion, but give speakers the benefit of the doubt for having honest conviction and opinion and remaining open minded enough to consider argument on its merits.