Sentences with phrase «equivocation in»

Explains meteorologist Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: «I have no equivocation in saying that all heavy rainfall events, including this one, have an element of climate change in them, and the level of that contribution will increase in the future.»

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The fallout from the racism - fueled violence in Virginia and the president's equivocation in the wake of it continues to reverberate.

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«There is no room for equivocation here: the evil on display by these perpetrators of hate should be condemned and has no place in a country that draws strength from our diversity and humanity,» Dimon added.

There is no room for equivocation here: the evil on display by these perpetrators of hate should be condemned and has no place in a country that draws strength from our diversity and humanity.»

But I wonder how she would approach the Trudeau government's equivocations over the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), the star - crossed trade agreement that former U.S. president Barack Obama hoped would counter China's economic dominance in Asia.

Nor the equivocation used to confuse, as in Mormon.org, glossing over different uses of the terms.

But as someone who has taken more math classes in college than he is willing to admit, I can declare without equivocation that EVERY circle is perfect.

One wonders if there is anything more crucial for the preacher to do than to obey the sadness of our times by taking it into account without equivocation or subterfuge, by speaking out of our times and into our times not just what we ought to say about the Gospel, not just what it would appear to be in the interests of the Gospel for us to say, but what we have ourselves felt about it, experienced of it.

Unless we are in effect to abandon all attempts to talk about God as such (a form of apophatic theology which Neville's position seems to favor), the «devious analogy» to which he refers is so devious that it is hard to distinguish it from equivocation or even fraudulent misrepresentation.

They believe that environmental ethics, rightly understood, points to an alternative discipline and an alternative way of thinking in its own right: one that recognizes without equivocation the radical interconnectedness, and the equal value, of all beings.

Distortion, misstatement, exploitation, misrepresentation, equivocation, irresponsible use of power — this is «business as usual» for the National Rifle Association in its anti-gun-control campaign.

In other words, the fallacy of equivocation occurs when in the course of an argument the meanings of an ambiguous word or phrase are traded unfairly to get us to accept the conclusion when in fact we shouldn'In other words, the fallacy of equivocation occurs when in the course of an argument the meanings of an ambiguous word or phrase are traded unfairly to get us to accept the conclusion when in fact we shouldn'in the course of an argument the meanings of an ambiguous word or phrase are traded unfairly to get us to accept the conclusion when in fact we shouldn'in fact we shouldn't.

According to logician Trudy Govier, «The fallacy of equivocation is committed when a key word in an argument is used in two or more senses and the premises of the argument appear to support its conclusion only because these senses are not distinguished from each other.»

In a desire to permit his listeners that freedom of choice which is essential for the birth and exercise of faith, he may become guilty of equivocation It may be with the minister as with the student who, unable to remember whether a word is spelled with ie or ei, forms both letters the same, places the dot between them, and leaves the instructor the freedom of choice!

The Christ of the Gospels, and the Christ of the Church's faith, is One who is indeed truly human, in every respect and without equivocation; but he is also One who is truly divine — pictured first as Messiah, sent from God and coming again from God with power and great glory; pictured soon as the Word of God, as God Himself, made flesh and dwelling amongst us.

On the other hand, he has poignantly elegized Jewish martyrdom while condemning Nazism, declared at the synagogue of Rome that the Jews are the legitimate and honored older brothers of Catholics, stated on the 20th anniversary of Nostra Aetate that «anti-Semitism, in its ugly and sometimes violent manifestations, must be completely eradicated» and, after months of equivocation, indicated that he would like the Carmelite nuns to withdraw from their Auschwitz convent.

If the divine life is indebted to no - one and can receive no value from anyone, then to speak of serving God is to indulge in equivocation.

Apart from the elaborate ontology, the issue is equivocation, using Christian terminology that merely confuses the issue concerning the Mormon rejection of trinitarian Christianity, with Joseph Smith and Mohammed playing similiar roles in this regard.

Sin - pain, on the other hand, is more subtle in its equivocation.

All of Satan's speeches to his minions in Book I or to Eve in Book IX draw on the resources of equivocation.

Paul's way was to proclaim clearly the truth in Jesus Christ with no mincing or equivocation.

Akabueze, while clarifying issues raised concerning the budget during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, said, «I can say without equivocation that there is no padding in the 2017 budget proposal.

«I would conclude by stating categorically and without any equivocation that ANY link whatsoever with Mr. President, or any court case or cases, of my personal gift from my personal resources delivered to Justice Niyi Ademola by myself on that occasion or any suggestion whatsoever that it was anything but such a gift or that it ever came from Mr. President or at his instance or that I was acting, under any circumstances, on his behalf is most malicious, utterly ridiculous and in very poor and revolting taste and most undeserving of any further comments.»

As a crunch period approaches, in which Britain's future trade agreements with the EU must be agreed one way or the other, the time for judicious equivocation is almost over.

Johnson could not survive in No 10 because the Conservative party needs an obfuscator in charge, someone to protect the straining extremes of its moderate and right - wings from each other with highly polished equivocation.

Speaking at the NPP manifesto launch at the trade fair center in Accra today, Nana Akufo Addo stated: «Let me state clearly and without any equivocation that John Dramani Mahama can not teach me any lesson in patriotism.

That in itself is an odd stance, but it's not the equivocation on gun control that Democratic State Chair Nancy DiNardo invoked, let alone a reversal.

Hence it could have been called without equivocation, if the Court of Appeal had returned Umeh, as the winner of the senatorial election having obtained the second highest number of votes cast in the election.

In his final advice to the government on March 17 2003, Lord Goldsmith said the use of force was legal under international law and removed the equivocations and doubts contained in his earlier statemenIn his final advice to the government on March 17 2003, Lord Goldsmith said the use of force was legal under international law and removed the equivocations and doubts contained in his earlier statemenin his earlier statement.

Without equivocation, the Court of Appeal held that where there is nullification of a general election and a re-run election is ordered, only candidates who were nominated to contest in the nullified election can contest in the re-run election.

After seemingly interminable equivocation over whether he would like to see his own party fully in charge of Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded under questioning yesterday that full Democratic domination of the State Senate would be an «optimal» — if unlikely — arrangement.

Miliband argues that the Corbyn programme looks backwards, citing the pledges of nationalisation, increases in national insurance for high earners and «equivocation» over the UK's role in the EU.

«I would conclude by stating categorically and without any equivocation that ANY link whatsoever with Mr. President, or any court case or cases, of my personal gift from my personal resources delivered to Justice Niyi Ademola by myself on that occasion or any suggestion whatsoever that it was anything but such a gift or that it ever came from Mr President or at his instance or that I was acting, under any circumstances, on his behalf is most malicious, utterly ridiculous and in very very poor and revolting taste and most undeserving of any further comments.»

We are recommending, without hesitation or equivocation, permanently ending the use of Rikers Island as a jail facility in any form or function,» reads the 146 - page report.

So without connecting the dots to demonstrate without equivocation, how the infrastructure will lead to improvements in the welfare of the people, it becomes a mere show.

The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations, and unstated assumptions underlying known paradoxes has led to significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics.

What is more, the manner of the assassination of the treaty — a brief statement late on Friday last by the State Department in Washington and equivocation from David Maclean, the British minister in Rio — poisons the atmosphere of the summit.

Previous schemes for preventing equivocation simply stored such signatures in the annotations of transaction records.

To prevent equivocation between blocks, it's still necessary to confirm that the bitcoin that the Catena user spends in one block is the same one that it spent the last time it made a public assertion.

It's something like finding Bobby Ewing in the shower — and that equivocation is, at the end of discussion, the thing that's the most prescient about an already shockingly prescient film.

It's the O.J. trial in a nutshell, from gentrified equivocation to a grassroots eruption burning down its own house.

At this point in his career, some 70 films in, you admire that Herzog's willing to make things that are «unintentionally» anything, yet there's the hope if not expectation that he will shy away from half - measures and equivocations.

[1] And most intriguingly, annual testing — the star of the current debate — stays in yellow thanks to Alexander's equivocation on the issue.

After my first time in attendance, I can say without equivocation or provocation that the Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the most downright spectacular automotive events the world has to offer.

I quickly rushed out my standard equivocations (see above), though I didn't use toothache, because in his business hours, Rick is a dentist.

In December, after years of equivocation, it finally sent its Super Mario mascot on to the iPhone (a debut that Nintendo resisted for years.

Bailey's poetic equivocations invite this in peaceful contemplation.

This oft - forgotten moment is central to the plot of Haegue Yang's first large - scale solo show at a French institution, «Family of Equivocations,» a project two years in the making with Strasbourg Museum's curator Camille Giertler.

In the essays that he published over more than three decades, he turned even his equivocations into dictums as he explored subjects that included not only art, architecture, and the art world, but also urban development and national affairs.