Sentences with phrase «formed judgments as»

In the fall of 1971, I was a senior new to Ole Bull High, and while I had formed judgments as to the former (I agreed, the war did suck), I had no idea who Kristi Casey was and whether or not she was a fox, stone or not.

10) Catholics, in seeking to form their judgment as to whether the death penalty is to be supported as a general policy, or in a given situation, should be attentive to the guidance of the pope and the bishops.

Not exact matches

The Arbitrator (i) shall apply internal laws of the State of New York consistent with the Federal Arbitration Act and applicable statutes of limitations, or, to the extent (if any) that federal law prevails, shall apply the law of the U.S., irrespective of any conflict of law principles; (ii) shall entertain any motion to dismiss, motion to strike, motion for judgment on the pleadings, motion for complete or partial summary judgment, motion for summary adjudication, or any other dispositive motion consistent with New York or federal rules of procedure, as applicable; (iii) shall honor claims of privilege recognized at law; and (iv) shall have authority to award any form of legal or equitable relief;

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

Paul makes some qualifications concerning the adequacy of human judgment, even his own, in specific cases; but we see that commitment to the spirit of love as an alternative to legal obedience requires responsible living and the honouring of authentic forms of behaviour appropriate to the new life.

If we think of «theory» as the forming of generalizations or synoptic judgments and think of «practice» as requiring judgments about particular cases, then inquiry guided by these three types of questions will always require capacities for doing both.

It is not necessary to illustrate this situation here at the beginning of our reflections with particular examples of the questions or proceedings which gave rise to disquiet, since we shall have to go into the matter, as far as is necessary and possible, when forming a judgment on it.

Bergson distrusted intellect as it was commonly conceived and employed in scientific and philosophical circles precisely because of its abstractive procedure in forming any cognitive judgment.

Thus, where historical criticism, reading the Book of Isaiah, tries to distinguish which materials come from the eighth - century prophet, the sixth - century prophet and the fifth - century prophet, literary and canonical critics focus on how the final form of the book has created the context within which all of its materials are now to be read, as a movement from judgment to salvation.

Weigel must either believe that some propositions are properly subjects for moral judgment, and others not (this truly is a form of Gnosticism), or that some propositions are more easily held and accepted by current society, and that the Church as a matter of pragmatism ought to prioritize low - hanging fruit.

Furthermore, the particular experiences interpreted as religious on the basis of the categoreal feelings and subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded on the basis of an alternative value judgment.

Whitehead noted that the most general case of conscious perception, the most primitive form of judgment, is the negative perception («perceiving this stone as not grey»).

For when war is used as a form of divine judgment, a pacifist's opposition to God's rod of correction would effectively be resisting the will of God.

Christians will always be cultural exiles insofar as Christian Tradition is not co-extensive with any single culture or any form of ecclesial existence and thus calls all forms of life into judgment in the light of Christ.

In the form in which this coming kingdom was eventually delineated, as divine victory and the final consummation of Christ's work on earth in both judgment and mercy, the biblical symbolism of Christ's return becomes meaningful.

Reason as a means of forming a judgment is included in religious doctrine because whatever reason favors, religion agrees to.

His critique of liberalism, as he puts it in After Virtue, «derives from a judgment that the best type of human life, that in which the tradition of the virtues is most adequately embodied, is lived by those engaged in constructing and sustaining forms of community directed towards the shared achievement of those common goods without which the ultimate human good can not be achieved.

The sentence of death, which David himself has meted out, is removed; but the faith which gives form to the biography regards the harassed remainder of David's life as the fulfillment of an irremovable and unalterable judgment.

Yes, we are to discern good from evil, but we insist on judgment as a form of condemnation.

They form judgments through past exposures more or less dimly related to the dispute, but which live on as half - remembrances and vague impressions that nonetheless have shaped values and steered beliefs.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

The language of theology is filled with the rich diversity of namarupa, but Brahman stands as the final judgment over whether any name or form is adequate to represent reality.

Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.

On the contrary, «globalization is something that is yet unfolding in various ways and myriad forms so that I fund it both presumptuous and premature to be making final theological or ethical judgments about as a whole.

Many defended Wellhausen against charges of anti-Semitism by correctly pointing out that he was evenhanded in his negative judgments: his hostility was directed at all forms of orthodoxy, as he defined these.

Scripture interrogates Christians» lives; they are «formed in the kinds of moral judgment necessary for them to live faithfully as friends of God.»

But all of this deterioration of form, this negation and destructive judgment, is seen as the positive work of Yahweh's word toward that original purpose — the creation of a covenant people and through them the blessing of all the families of the earth (Gen. 12:1 ff.)

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

By excluding men under thirty - five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second, it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.

He argued that tribunal was properly constituted, as only two members were required to form a quorum to sit in judgment on a case.

Portraying the Lib Dems as locked into a Tory agenda that many do not support, he added: «For the first time since this Conservative - led government was formed, voters will have their chance to pass judgment on David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

The flagbearer of the All People's Party (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has welcomed a High Court order to the Electoral Commission to allow him correct errors on his nomination forms describing the judgment as proof that the nation's democracy is working.

In line with this view, Gary Hart, the retired U.S. Senator and one - time presidential hopeful, argued that although a big part of success as president is picking smart people for key positions, «it takes a pretty keen mind, honed by study, travel, experience, and exposure to competing ideas, to form good judgment and to know whom to trust on complex substantive issues.»

It's hard for me to imagine how the dominant, non-formalist form of film studies, with its systemic handicap of abstaining from value judgment and not being able to treat the film as an independent aesthetic object capable of producing an infinite variety of affects, can be terribly instructive for the enterprise of film criticism, which necessarily calls for a hierarchy of values on the part of the practitioner and his / her acknowledgement being a sentient, unique subject capable of being transformed by the film.

However, justices did not make a broader judgment as to whether its Blaine Amendment could be used to bar religious institutions from receiving other forms of state aid.

(That said, we'll reserve our final judgment for a later date, as Mitsubishi claims the transmission's control software isn't yet in its final form.)

And if you're first prompted to make those judgments by an agent's query form template, let that serve as an important reminder of the risk you take by publishing through any means without having answered them ahead of time for yourself.

The parties have been unable to agree upon any of the matters of substance, in particular on the form of and territorial extent of any injunctive relief, upon the extent of any Island Records v Tring disclosure (relevant to the election of an inquiry as to damages or an account of profits), upon whether and if so in what form there should be an order for publicity of the judgment as an enforcement measure, upon the appropriate basis and order as to costs, upon whether the Claimants» costs should be reduced by reason of the fact that for a period an exclusive licence was not registered, upon the extent of any CPR 31.22 order in relation to alleged confidential information, upon whether there should be permission to appeal and upon whether there should be a stay pending any appeal.»

What's clear is that vital help for pet owners can take various forms, which is why listening and learning — while putting judgments aside — is as important as delivering the care itself.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

I concluded I couldn't personally form a primary judgment on the issue, and the person I expected to trust on this (Doney) came across as too normative (read — motivated) for me to find the testimony compelling.

Of course, if someone had access to & used * any * standard for assessing evidence that was * reliably * correlated with «truth - seeking» & that could be used to determine the LR or weight to be assigned evidence in a Bayesian framework, that wouldn't be «motivated reasoning» as I've defined it; motivated reasoning refers to the tendency of individuals to assess evidence in a manner that promotes some goal or interest independent of forming an accurate judgment — such as maintaining his or her standing in an identify - defining group.

Whether in the form of an advisory opinion or otherwise, a court judgment would be perceived as taking sides and, thus, would only aggravate an already badly politicized situation.

This enables people to form their own judgment as to whether the opposing argument has been correctly and fairly represented.

People form judgments about the type of person who lives in the property as a result.

The short form of the IPCC's statement is: «We are making a mathematically unsupportable judgment call and disguising it as mathematically supportable science».

Were I to extend this duty, in my judgment, any form of distraction could potentially serve as basis of a liability case,» Morris County Superior Court Judge David Rand stated in May 2012.