Sentences with phrase «for equivocation»

Moreover, this «big tent» approach to uniting parents could backfire with black and evangelical Christians, for whom agreement with the NPA's larger pro-parenting agenda may not make up for this equivocation on homo - sexual parenting.

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.»

«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.

Not exact matches

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

It would be easy for a campus ministry group to wink and nod toward their evangelical ancestors, pointing to a doctrinal statement that doesn't exactly say the right things but doesn't contradict them either, while buying political protection and cultural shelter through equivocation and virtue signaling.

I think the above reasoning is flawed inasmuch as it entails an equivocation on the phrase «hope for all.»

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.

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 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!

You are merely using your own definition of god for that «logic», which would be an equivocation fallacy.

This is how they should always play against mid table teams — no equivocation, no half measures, just come right out and go for the jugular.

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.

According to him, he is committed, «without any equivocation, without any reservation, without any doubt, to take Ghana to the stage where public Senior High School education will be free for every Ghanaian child.»

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.

For all Mr Brown's presentational failures, his equivocations and paranoia, his greatest problem is that he has done nothing as Prime Minister to challenge the neoliberal orthodoxies of the past 30 years - nor did he as chancellor.

«Today I call on Gov. [Andrew M.] Cuomo to tell the people of New York without any equivocation whether he supports a yes or a no vote on the Constitutional Convention referendum this Election Day,» said Bill Samuels, a major campaign contributor for decades who created an advocacy group to hold a constitutional convention next year.

For my wife and I, there was no equivocation personally or professionally, but to the rest of the world there was puzzlement and even disbelief.

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

Earlier systems have used the Bitcoin machinery to guard against equivocation, but for verification, they required the download of the entire blockchain, which is 110 gigabytes and growing hourly.

And after much equivocation over the bar with the android — he knows it's not a very nice thing to wake her, but — Jim rouses Aurora to join him for the next 89 years.

Yet the sense of relief does not last, for these islands of clarity are invariably surrounded by a broad sea of circumspection and equivocation that leave one adrift, wondering just how reliable they and similar assertions are, and just how policymakers might go about using this book to improve educational outcomes for minority children.

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

A selection of her most notable exhibitions includes: Lingering Nous, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2016); An Opaque Wind Park in Six Folds, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2016); The Malady of Death: Écrire and Lire (commissioned by M + for Mobile M +: Live Art), Hong Kong, China (2015); Shooting the Elephant象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2015); Uneven Arrivals, Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts UCCA, Beijing, China (2015); Family of Equivocations, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France (2013); Honesty Printed on Modesty, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2013); Accomodating the Epic Dispersion, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2012); Arrivals, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2011); Voice and Wind, New Museum, New York, United States (2010); Symmetric Inequality, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (2008); Asymmetric Equality, REDCAT, Los Angeles, United States (2008); Sadong 30, Incheon, South Korea (2006); Unfolding, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium (2004).

While it is a scientist's job to answer genuine scientific questions, getting pulled into contrarian linguistic frames helps maintain the fiction that the science is still riven with fundamental equivocations and therefore too uncertain to form a reliable basis for public policy.

Then, without doing any means testing make the positive statement for the press that this is the warmest year without any hint of equivocation or doubt.

Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate and his equivocation by using «climate change» for «anthropogenic climate change» or «catastrophic anthropogenic climate change» etc..

(BTW, this Clintonian style of word - parse - requiring equivocation would get you cashiered as a military officer for «intent to decieve».

«We have gone past the point of equivocation, we need to act now for our sake and the sake of generations to come.»

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.»

Alas, as I've written before, such equivocation on the part of educators constitutes a win for the climate - denial movement, which has largely moved beyond characterizing climate change as an elaborate worldwide hoax and is now willing to settle for convincing people — in perpetuity, apparently — that the jury is still out.

President Obama has always resorted to equivocation when the truth wasn't working for him.

The paper contains all sorts of equivocations, such as «Unfortunately, no CO2 records are currently available for either of these events» — referring to the late Devonian, early Carboniferous glaciations.

Most of the items on this page are directly based on and respond to Wade Horn's prevarications, half - truths, and equivocations parading as «Positive Effects of Father Presence» from his 1998 taxpayer - paid - for propaganda piece Father Facts originally published at http://www.fatherhood.org/pdf/effects.pdf.