Sentences with phrase «fundamental weaknesses of»

«If this rumour proves true, it is just a small climb - down which doesn't address the fundamental weaknesses of the white paper.

This is a fundamental weakness of Grace Jantzen's perspective in God's World, God's Body.

In spite of the aspects of his thought that process philosophers and theologians can rightly appreciate, I shall contend (1) that a fundamental weakness of Hauerwas» thought is a view of the self that is unclear and lends itself to a «substantialist» interpretation; (2) that such a substantialist interpretation is further reinforced by an «essentialist» understanding of Christianity; and (3) that such an understanding culmninates in a separatist notion of the church - world relation.

A fundamental weakness of Labour's recent general election campaign was the failure to offer voters hope of a return to prosperity.

In fairness, Miliband did recognise the fundamental weakness of Labour on the ground, but his attempts to revive it were stymied by the Pretorian Guard of Blairites surrounding him, particularly Ed Balls and Douglas Alexander.

A fundamental weakness of exome chip designs (and exome sequencing, for that matter) is the emphasis of known genes.

The fundamental weakness of the Agency 6 group management and strategy has been that they have been focussed exclusively on «protecting their position» for SHORT term profit, rather than aiming at success in the medium / long term and therefore greater earning for their shareholders.

I won't go further into this line of thinking, you can torment yourself by reading the original post if you wish, but the Ashley Madison hack seems to reveal a fundamental weakness of the social norms supporting monogamy.

Not exact matches

The fundamental comprehension of Apple's weakness in a lack of product diversity in comparison to its financial size helps explain why so many have always had one foot out the door when it comes to the company.

What's surprising about the weakness on the West Coast is the absence of any change in economic fundamentals, such as a spike in unemployment, to explain it.

«We are undergoing an apparel renaissance here in the U.S. and these stocks are worth picking at into any weakness that we might get on Monday because right now, they have the best fundamentals of any large group in the entire stock market.»

Surely the weakness of the dollar is a reflection in significant part of strengthening fundamentals in Europe, which if it signifies greater competitiveness is a reason to ease not tighten.

With the likelihood of a recession so low and our positive fundamental core thesis in place, it isn't whether we should be aggressive on any meaningful weakness, but when.»

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

Ogden, while paying tribute to the constructive efforts of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer and Tillich in the fight against supernaturalism, nevertheless notes a fundamental weakness in them, namely, that «the conceptuality these theologians employ is insufficiently developed, so that what they mean when they speak of God is left obscure or uncertain or else their conception of God is still determined by the same metaphysical - theological premises by which the supernaturalism they seek to transcend is itself determined.

These considerations led Whitehead to suggest that a fundamental weakness in modern education is its failure to exploit the value for education of exposure to the arts.

The strength of the form - critical approach to the gospels is that it does justice to this basic and fundamental aspect of earliest Christianity; the weakness of Gerhardsson's approach is that it does not.

In recent years a number of techniques have been employed to overcome a fundamental weakness in traditional preaching, its monological character.

The fundamental inadequacy from which the other weaknesses are derived is his impoverished view of the nature of human beings.

But he also highlights significant weaknesses, for example: «Argumentation to justify fundamental Catholic and Christian positions on sex education is lamentably absent» and, it invokes «secular rhetoric in explaining the aim of understanding the Church's teaching on contraception and pregnancy as becoming «able to make informed choices»».

Even if steps are taken to avoid psychologizing, to give due emphasis to the eschatology, etc., the fundamental weakness remains the fact that the deliberate elevation of a historically reconstructed figure to the central concern of faith must inevitably lead to the confusion of two quite separate functions: the reconstruction of a historical figure and what we shall call the construction of a faith - image.

This is a fundamental weakness in our play (may be it is an effect of the big losses that we had had last season), people not getting into the box.

Perhaps the most fundamental difference is the relative weakness of American political parties compared to their British counterparts.

But as we reach the end of the parliament, there remain a number of fundamental weaknesses in the economy which Osborne has simply failed to fix.

Even enforcement of no - bonus rules for failing traders wouldn't correct the underlying fundamental weaknesses in our financial sector.

«In summary, analysis of the Fukushima Dai - ichi accident reveals no fundamental safety weaknesses in the UK's nuclear industry.

It's possible — just possible — that the weakness in personal income tax receipts reflects a more fundamental weakness in the economy, and perhaps an accelerated movement of high - income households to other states.

But to rebalance your economy in a currency union at a time of global economic weakness you need more fundamental support.

Senior Tories believe Coulson's decision highlighted a fundamental weakness at the heart of their campaign: that it has become too negative just as Brown finds his feet and Labour's private polling reports that Cameron is shrill and failing to embody optimism.

However, experimental measurements have, to date, not been able to provide data with enough depth to identify all the fundamental mechanisms and to explain weaknesses of currently used design tools, due to the difficulties of performing engine - scale experiments and acquiring spatially and temporally resolved data.

The RyR1 is of fundamental importance for the development of muscle force and a decrease in its content may be causally linked to the profound muscle weakness seen in patients with some forms of congenital myopathies linked to recessive RYR1 mutations.

One of the fundamental weaknesses in the present treatment of cancer is the ability of tumor cells to endure stress under conditions of metabolic deprivation or chemotherapy.

«A fundamental weakness inherent in this approach is that one makes assumptions concerning the relevance of the phenotypes and the mechanisms underlying them to the actual disease process going on in a human patient,» Gusella said.

This was the «fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time.»

As currently defined and structured, the enterprise has fundamental weaknesses that can lead to suboptimal wealth creation and at times even to destruction of wealth.

Observers like Bracey, Kohn, and others, dead set against any fundamental changes in the nation's schools, usually work hard to dismiss the TIMSS results as evidence of any structural weakness in the U.S. education system.

However, fundamental rights do not normally yield to that kind of utilitarian calculus, and taking refuge in stare decisis in this case looks like weakness, not strength.

Philippa Darley, specialist advisor at Ofsted for non-association private schools, said leaders are «not getting the basics» of good teaching right, mainly due to their «fundamental weaknesses in expertise».

Ofsted should be examining itself minutely, acknowledging its weaknesses and proposing major, fundamental revision of the way it operates.

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

There are several fundamental factors that help shape the long - term strength or weakness of the major currencies and will affect you as a forex trader.

Generally speaking, we will sell a stock for one of four reasons: (1) the safety of the dividend payment has come into question due to unexpected fundamental weakness; (2) the company's long term earnings power appears to have become impaired as a result of new competition, secular changes, etc; (3) the stock's valuation reaches seemingly excessive levels; or (4) we have a new stock idea with a more attractive valuation and fundamental outlook.

Personally, I prefer focusing on the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of each individual company I am interested in investing in.

And with current weakness in the share price, an entry point to this dream is looking more and more attractive — especially since the weakness in the stock price is more a reflection of rising interest rates than of actual company fundamentals.

It is essential to determine whether the stock's price has fallen due to a fundamental shift in the company's finances or its core business, or because it has been a victim of overall sector or market weakness.

Some of the best horror games even intentionally make the controls difficult to master to instill that weakness into the most fundamental level of the game.

Yet another attempt to gloss over this fundamental weakness in the man - made global warming theory is made in a recent paper by Peter W. Thorne, John R. Lanzante, Thomas C. Peterson, Dian J. Seidel and Keith P. Shine: Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy.

by Robert Ellison (Chief Hydrologist) • The theory and estimation of the role of cloud in changing Earth's dynamic energy balance is an area of fundamental weakness in climate science.

However trying to dress up a critical weakness (i.e. that it doesn't actually violate the rules as given at the time) with a slight of hand about «violating the spirit of the rules» strikes me as «missing the point» in a more fundamental way.

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Japan, in the Hague Abduction Convention case between James Cook and Hitomi Arimitsu — which upheld the Osaka High Court's revocation of its prior order that four children wrongfully retained in Japan should be returned to their habitual residence in the United States — vividly highlights the loopholes and fundamental weaknesses in the Implementing Act under which the Convention was brought into Japanese law and the resistance within Japan to acceptance of the principles underlying the Convention.