Sentences with phrase «for skeptics of»

have deemed respectable enough to grant one - on - one interviews to promote their projects, is now advocating Nuremberg - style war crimes trials for skeptics of human caused catastrophic global warming.

For skeptics of the chronically criticized members of the state Legislature, the 2016 legislative session has often seemed in danger of becoming what some Albany watchdogs used to call a «Seinfeld session» — all about nothing — with big issues languishing.

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Since I kept the rest of my routine the same, it's not too far - fetched to think that this little, pretty vitamin is a pleasant surprise for skeptics.

Frustrated she couldn't find a vitamin brand she trusted or connected with, Schneider founded Ritual, a new line of women's vitamins made «for skeptics, by skeptics.»

Yet for all the talk of China's economic might, skeptics are gathering force.

Longtime nap - skeptic and author Daniel Pink says this kind of coffee nap, or nappuccino, as he dubbed it, recently changed his life for the better.

Moshe Milevsky, a finance professor at Schulich and one of Canada's best - known home - ownership skeptics, has long argued that for young people with limited means and unrealized career potential, stowing most of their wealth in a single illiquid asset is foolhardy.

Skeptics will question whether he is a little too corporate - friendly for the tastes of Democratic primary voters.

That's good news for bullish traders, and a comeuppance of sorts for skeptics that warned against a market reckoning in the event of tech weakness.

For the skeptics, it was a simple matter of 20 % margins being less than 40 % margins.

Merger skeptics argue that today's premium valuations make it a bad time for Gilead to be a biotech buyer: The recent M&A surge has driven up the prices of companies investors see as potential Gilead targets — including Vertex (VRTX) and Bristol - Myers Squibb (BMY).

There are eager adopters (a gaggle from an office down the hall showed up within minutes of my desk arriving, eyeing it with the sort of uninhibited desire that's usually reserved for Nanaimo bars at the United Way bake sale) and there are skeptics.

Skeptics, however, point to the robust secondary market for the tokens to argue the tokens resemble shares of a company's stock.

There were plenty of skeptics in 2009 when Disney bought Marvel Entertainment for $ 4 billion, but the deal looks like one of the best of CEO Bob Iger's career.

I will admit that when it was just a bookseller I was a skeptic of Amazon's viability as a business and also of Jeff's strategic leadership, but he has proven to be what I look for in a CEO — a bold visionary that implements big strategies, sometimes despite conventional wisdom.

«The need for a business plan simply doesn't exist, and I would argue that making one is a poor use of your most valuable resource: your time,» agrees fellow business plan skeptic Anthony Saladino of Kitchen Cabinet Kings.

But as hybrid publishing grows, some skeptics wonder if the industry may be forced to reckon with the results of its own success: a market flooded with forgettable books created by companies for hire.

After defying a grim outlook for the consumer discretionary sector, the designer and retailer of «yoga - inspired» sportswear is once again back to being a stock - market darling, testing its record highs and all but silencing the skeptics who once dismissed it, with no small whiff of macho market chauvinism, as a fluff stock — a women's fad.

Skeptics of the marches seized on the roles of major interest groups, suggesting that the students were unwitting participants in political warfare that should be reserved for adults.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.&raqFor anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.&raqfor the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.&raqfor movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

I was a Mairs and Power skeptic for a number of years because of their «Midwest focus», but finally I could not deny their results have been consistently excellent.

For skeptics and outright opponents, no time is the right time to enhance CPP benefits and ensure the income security of millions of future Canadian retirees.

Skeptics might well ask: Are management teams simply stretching for returns, or are they pursuing creative and disruptive strategies to spur shareholder returns amid an environment of lackluster growth and a dearth of investment opportunities?

Noel once told me that he started his walk away from Christianity in that context; graduate school finalized that journey and when I came to know him, he was a massively articulate, Bible - steeped skeptic with little taste for the cultural Christianity that characterized all too much of the deep South.

The term Reductionist is the accurate term for 95 % of so called skeptics.

Then, when the skeptic disbelieves in the space ship because of the Chad's poor argumentation and the invisible, undetectable nature of the space ship, Chad asks, «What investigation have you done to disbelieve in my invisible and undetectable spaceship which I can not offer any good arguments for?»

The problem for the skeptic is that there is no evidence for anything in the web and so nothing in the web of theories can be tested objectively.

These were the conversations surrounding the emergence of the canon, says Wright, a process that has been subjected to scrutiny by both Catholic traditionalists, «asserting the supremacy of the church over the Bible,» and by postmodern skeptics, «asserting that the canon itself, and hence the books included in it, were all part of a power play for control within the church.»

I have heard all kinds of grounds for morality from atheists, agnostics or skeptics but none of them hold up.

And «I'm a neurotic skeptic who thinks she's a Christian most of the time, but hates so much of what Christianity stands for, yet loves the teachings of Jesus, but struggles to actually follow them» tends to frighten people a bit.

As for the miracle attributed to Blessed Teresa, «There are always skeptics who question every Vatican - approved miracle, and accuse the Church of manipulating the evidence, but the Congregation's medical board has very vigorous examination procedures, and stands by its decisions.»

J.R. serves as Cultural Cultivator of The Renew Community a Jesus community for skeptics and dreamers in Lansdale, PA..

Thus, to conscript Prof. Smolin for the purpose of understanding Arkes, «while it is typical of skeptics that they see evil emanating from absolutes,» the warrant for that very judgment is one for which their skepticism can not account.

Your name on here «Voice of Reason»... I believe is an insight into who you are - you're looking for truth and are a skeptic.

While some get caught in the sticky maze of Bible that reveals a skeptics desire I see the love of redemption of souls, that harvest onto the promised land, a hope in love perfected revealed in a pure heart a holy one that works all things for the good of those who believe.

Bartholomew does not directly engage many contemporary Christian place - skeptics» those who agree, for example, with Michael Novak that whatever diminishment of place it may cause, globalization has made these «the best of times for those committed to solidarity.»

ANYBODY can write for HuffPost, and it's something of a laughingstock in the skeptic community.

Since I am tired of explaining to my wife that, contrary to Arkes and Hittinger, I am not a moral skeptic, I am grateful to Mr. Ball for understanding that I have merely been urging moral modesty on judges: «I hope there is no need to stress that Bork rejects neither God nor God's laws; he simply doesn't want earthly judges barging into God's act!»

Shouldn't we be far more skeptic of something that is new rather than something that is thousands of years old and has endured faithfully for that long?

For some of these, a hardened skeptic could argue that later scribes made up events to fit in with the Old Testament prophecies.

In his search for truth, Augustine was genuinely troubled by the Skeptics» arguments that one can be certain of nothing, and that careful thinking in no way provides a reliable guide to a wiser life.

Similarly the Hebrew skeptic demanded sound evidence for the claims of current belief.

But the most famous skeptic of the Old Testament is the writer who, for lack of further information, we call by the title we have attached to his book.

If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you....

Ecklund reveals how scientists — believers and skeptics alike — are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for «boundary pioneers» to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.

I make it less about making a good argument and more about proving myself to the skeptics for the sake of improving my status.

For seekers, believers, and skeptics, Collins has gathered flowers of prose — classic and contemporary — that quietly display the harmony between reason and faith, in contrast to what he calls «the cacophony of extreme voices dominating the microphones, bookshelves, and airways.»

The Eighty - eighth Psalm, for example, was written by an outspoken skeptic on this subject (E.g., Psalm 88:3 - 12) and the Book of Ecclesiastes was scornful in its denials:

For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.