Sentences with phrase «dominated by criticisms»

The Commons was dominated by criticisms of proposals to cap the benefit at # 400 for family homes with more than four bedrooms.

The speech was an opportunity for the mayor to set his ship back on course after several difficult months dominated by criticism of his pick for schools chancellor, the CityTime scandal and the sluggish response to the post-Christmas blizzard, which sent his approval ratings tumbling.

Not exact matches

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

The great theologian and preacher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834), who has been called the father of modern Protestant theology, did so at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but was subject to strong criticism in the twentieth century by Karl Barth, whose emphasis on the objective revelation of God in Jesus Christ has dominated much theological thinking in the twentieth century.

Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible doctrines, and producing a theory of Whitehead's own historical development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power of causal efficacy is reduced to the status of the past as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process of concrescence).

Commentators ascribed her victory to a strong personal vote, decisive in a campaign dominated by issues such as the Iraq war, criticism of Tony Blair and a leap in council tax caused by periodic revaluation of property values.

In his case, it follows a start of the year dominated by negative press headlines and criticism by the unions and even his former adviser Maurice Glasman.

With New York relevant in the presidential primaries for the first time in decades and both major political parties coming into the state's vote with competitive races, much of Tuesday was dominated by problems with the New York City Board of Elections and criticism of New York State's antiquated voting rules.

In film criticism, auditory perception is rarely prioritized in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a film screening, our attention is not necessarily dominated in a directional sense by the pull of the visuals.

Film criticism, not without its own scandals last year, is now dominated not so much by erudite journalists but white, male geeks who, somewhere between their love of comic book movies and web design, decided they had the chops to write about cinema without relevant education or experience.

The only criticism is a comparative lack of audio comments; we get just one track dominated by Jackson himself.

This is in the wake of the Golden Globes, which received prompt criticism after failing to nominate Gerwig or Peele for best director, a category that was dominated by white men and was immortalized by Natalie Portman, who seized on the moment to call out the «all - male nominees» in the category when she presented the award earlier this month.

Amid criticism that the profession is increasingly dominated by people who were educated at public school, he called for greater support for drama in the state school system and for youth theatre.

But the picture is structured by a series of stripes that make it a cousin once removed to a contemporary stripe painting by Kenneth Noland, a painter whose work dominated art criticism at the time but which now seems much less substantial than Thiebaud's.

Ironically, art criticism during the film noir era of Abstract Expressionism was dominated not by art historians but by poets whose language was redolent with sensibility.

Since the Fresno programme launched, feminist art - a term that did not even exist before Judy Chicago - spread around the globe despite continuous criticism by major museums and institutions unwilling to integrate women's history and feminist art into mainstream, male - dominated exhibitions.

The American Bar Association gets its fair share of criticism from lawyers who don't appreciate the political positions that the ABA adopts or who feel that the organization is dominated by large firm interests.

Besides these, a major game changer in the last decade lies in the review of distribution models and practices on the sale of investment products, prompted by criticisms of bank - dominated distributions, high sale charges, questions of potential conflict of interests and investors» claims for mis - selling.