Sentences with phrase «do claims of this sort»

But do claims of this sort have a place in Christian Myth?

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Claiming deductible medical expenses could help you lower your taxes, so don't forget to save your receipts every time you shell out a co-pay or incur any sort of unreimbursed cost.

As usual, the people (like yourself) that claim they use science and facts do nothing of the sort.

They do, however, also argue that if faith came from ourselves, or was in any way something we do instead of God doing for us, then it is in some way meritorious, and since that does not jive with their understanding of total depravity, then they must claim that saving faith must only be from God, and not a response or action of any sort on our part.

For people whose faith claims rest as resolutely on incarnation as Christian claims do, the impact our own peculiarly incarnated lives have on the way we do theology — and therefore on the sort of theology we do — ought to fascinate us.

«The trouble with this approach, of course, is that despite the veneer of civil religion, most people in America aren't worried about whether they break one of the Ten Commandments now and then, and they certainly don't see the logic behind the claim that infractions of that sort warrant everlasting damnation.

On the other hand, the theistic claim that natural selection was God's way of creating life (sort of) doesn't vex evangelical materialists much at all.

The unlimited freedom of everybody to claim absolute freedom for everything works like a sort of secret brain - washing by anonymous powers which does not necessarily abolish freedom but narrows in advance the sphere in which the individual can make his free decision.

Whether something of the sort may be supposed to occur in the organic realm does not solely depend on whether in the organic (sub-human) sphere, substantial formal principles essentially higher than the principles constitutive of inorganic reality can strictly be postulated by natural philosophy, in the way claimed by Vitalism rightly understood, as entelechies of sorts, though of course in themselves these could not be the objects of perception, because a posteriori and experimentally it is only complete beings which are met with, never principles of being as such.

For example, I don't know what sort of evidence or criticism could be brought to bear on Mr. Farrow's claim that only sexual difference, and not sexual orientation, is fundamental to human well - being.

Politically the first sort of irresponsibility is manifest in the claim of nations to sovereignty, that is, to their claim to be under obligation to no power beyond themselves or to be justified in doing anything that seems necessary to preserve national existence.

Or, instead, do we have in his letters essentially the sort of claims about Jesus and the sort of devotion to him that Paul acceded to subsequent to the «revelation of his [God's] Son» (Gal.

I do not claim to be a theologion or any other sort of bible expert, but I accept that every word in it is true and inspired by God.

To those who claim that improving gun control laws and restricting the sale of assault - type rifles wouldn't do a thing to keep this sort of tragedy from happening: How do you know?

How can we assume in any sort of confidence that, even if there is a sort of sentient being which is undetectable to us and capable of doing even half of the things many claim it can, it gives a single moment of its time to caring about us.

So, for example, T. W. Manson claimed that `... if God did in fact speak to us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus it is vitally important to know as fully and as accurately as possible what sort of life and death and resurrection became the medium of divine revelation», (T. W. Manson, «The Life of Jesus: Some Tendencies in Present - day Research», The Background of the New Testament and its Eschatology, ed.

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

But, that does not stop our activist friends from making all sorts of baseless and vile claims about the technology.

It's just incredibly petty and desperate to claim that 1 goal that you didn't even make any sort of effort into.

Claiming to have some sort of insider information from the Arsenal dressing room, Barton says that the Frenchman actually discourages players from doing what many think is needed, blasting team mates for not doing their jobs and rallying the troops.

It was noticeable to say the least, but the Frenchman played down the idea that he did not prepare properly for the Liverpool game, but claimed that his team, and especially some individual players, did not have the right focus for the Liverpool clash because there was an international break about to start and, more importantly, there was all sorts of speculation about who might stay or go in the final few days of the summer transfer window.

If Arsenal are to make any sort of success of the new season, and prove Arsene Wenger and our CEO Ivan Gazidis right with their claims that the Gunners did well in the summer transfer window, then you would have to say that we need our Chile international star Alexis Sanchez to be firing on all cylinders.

And yes, statistics of any sort, particularly defensive football statistics, are opened to a host of interpretations, the data we do have on hand supports the claim that Davide Astori was perhaps Roma's best defender this season.

you indeed do represent a group of idiots claiming all sorts of ITK factiods and truisms dredged from the yellow press BS you so eagerly swallow hook line and sinker.

I saw the documentary last week and I really didn't get the feeling that they were pushing homebirth, or that they were claiming any sort of definitive conclusions.

I sorted through the many products claiming to be registry essentials, weeding out items that I found to be complicated, overpriced, redundant, or that simply didn't work as promised until I had a streamlined list of the best baby products for newborns.

Evers claimed that the policy «gives the university the means to expel a student for participating in any sort of protest,» and «does not even provide a definition for the word «disrupt.»»

It is not, as some of Corbyn's detractors have claimed, the worst local election performance for decades (Ed Miliband's Labour did a little worse in 2011 and William Hague did significantly worse for the Tories in 1998) but it is the sort of local election performance heralding failure at the next general election.

That bias can influence the sort of secondary work Gould did is a different and a much less surprising claim than unconscious bias influencing actual measurements.

It's a mathematical way of saying that the risk (R) associated with a possible discovery of extraterrestrial life is a combination of the danger of the life if it does exist (Q, which itself is the sum of several other factors such as what sort of life it is and how far it is away) and how likely the claim of its existence is to be true (δ).

And two, although we don't have the data with the bioidentical hormones, we know from the Women's Health Initiative that estrogens were not the fountain of youth that Suzanne Somers sort of claims.

If you do a quick Internet search you will find all sorts of health claims for amalaki, including healthy functioning of the liver, heart, brain and lungs.

And then there are the times that references they use to back up their claims do nothing of the sort.

Oats do in fact contain gluten (some claim it is a different sort of gluten, and therefore should not be counted), and in australia products containing oats are subject to the same terms to be classed as gluten free as flour, barley and rye are (detectable gluten must be below 20ppm).

They usually claim to do the same sorts of things — lower your appetite, give you energy, increase your metabolism — but the mechanisms are going to be different.

What to me is mind boggling: I stay lean despite eating as much as I want, whenever I want (which is naturally once a day), have no struggle with any sort of cravings for non whole foods, spend very little time exercising, have better sleep than ever, do not remember the last time I have gotten the flu, astounded my dentist as she claims that my decayed molar has somehow magically healed itself over the course of a year, have a HDL of 90 and trigs at 30, my 25 hydroxy D level is at 75 without any supplementation... etc..

I've not got much experience being invisible though I can tell you stories about people who seem to resent tall women and will deliberately ignore them, as though my standing taller than those around me is some sort of obnoxious claim on something I don't deserve.

I am who I am, I have 3 son's two are grown and awesome, my youngest is12 and awesome.I'm not complicated but im simple minded I love music of all sorts I love to laugh.I'm not perfect but that's ok I do nt claim to be

As it is, the stilted claims at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempt.

I don't feel quite fair claiming this as any sort of best of list of the year.

Cross got into a sort of public debate with fellow comic Patton Oswalt for participating in the movie, which he claims he did so he could buy a house or something.

Note that I'm not claiming to be an expert in any of those things, but I've found that even minor improvements can (can, not will, I'm not peddling some sort of ’12 Steps to Become an Internet Zillionaire») make a difference, and it doesn't take much time or effort to make those improvements.

I do not claim that there is any sort of industry standard, or that everyone thinks the way I do.

Amazon claims that the new Paperwhite's faster processor should improve page turn speeds by 25 percent, but we didn't find that sort of delta in our testing.

I'm sure it does get muddier when it comes to traditionally published authors, although it's disingenuous to claim or even to imply that midlisters or new authors are impacted the same as bestselling authors by these sorts of fights.

Although both my insurance company and I know the plaintiff's claim is a bogus one — the plaintiff is using one of those personal injury law firms you see on late - night TV — and I know that my insurance company will do its best not to pay anything at all, I am concerned that this sort of public information could wind up on my credit report, even if I was to be paid a judgment in full.

Sort of hard for a creditor to claim they didn't know the nature of the funds in the account, right?

Numbers like «90 % of professional investors fail to beat the index» get thrown around a lot, but even John Bogle doesn't make this sort of claim.

While there may be reasonable arguments against CAPE, claiming it's BS sort of doesn't fly when your own peaches analogy seems a bit disingenuous itself.

Mr. Tilson thought of himself (likely «thinks of himself») as a great value investor, but that claim didn't play out in his Tilson Focus Fund so he sort of gave up and headed to hedge fund land.