Sentences with phrase «general criticism of»

And it's about a general criticism of the «master of the world» and his strategies of appropriation and utilization.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilities).

Aside from general criticism of the process itself, there are the issues of the large lump sum appropriations, projects funded by mysterious sources, and the governor faulty marketing of his budgetary discipline.

Would so much time be given to general criticism of sermons if there were not among us yet a high expectation?

Although there are many general criticisms of ISDS, it still remains an important element to consider when doing business and / or investing abroad.

A longform blog post from Chief Scientist Dr. Steve Carter provides a detailed response to general criticisms of eHarmony's approach.

This point of view leads me to make three general criticisms of the papers.

Not exact matches

How to Take Advantage of Online Review and Answer Sites: Removing False Information Responding to constructive criticism is one thing, you can take it into account to improve customer satisfaction and your business in general, but what if there's false, defamatory information about your company floating around in the ether?

The official said the EPA chief has alienated colleagues by jockeying for the role of attorney general, a position currently held by Jeff Sessions, who has come under frequent public criticism from Trump.

A set of policies that can not withstanding constructive criticism now will be of little use in a general election.

The «sandwich method» of criticism, for example — where you first offer specific praise, then offer specific criticism, then conclude with more general praise — he dismisses out of hand.

In a larger context, the conflict between General Fusion's vision and the criticism it generates illustrates the problem of the orthodox and the heretical in the science world, says Turchi.

The Ontario Auditor General's 2014 Report includes a chapter on Infrastructure Ontario's P3 program that is particularly damning — and corresponds with many of the criticisms made on this blog and elsewhere by myself and others.

The union's criticism of BC Hydro accounting practices echoes a warning made last fall by B.C. Auditor General John Doyle.

There is also a report coming soon with the results of an investigation led by former Attorney General Eric Holder into the company's management culture — which was spurred by allegations of sexism and other criticisms of company culture.

Valeant's prescription drug sales began to unravel last year as its history of large price increases drew sharp criticism and the attention of lawmakers as well as New York and Massachusetts attorneys general, which opened investigations.

A comment about Bill Gross» criticisms of General Electric last week.

One of the major criticisms of the Canada - China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, and of bilateral investment treaties in general, is their use of ISDS.

Finance Minister Doug Horner will face criticism over Auditor General Merwan Saher «s investigation into whether the government violated the Government Accountability Act by releasing shortened versions of financials documents during the 1st quarter update of the provincial budget this summer.

Their criticisms of Christianity in general also criticize Obama's beliefs.

Also, I love the cartoons in general — they are a much - needed loving criticism of institutionalized / organized religion.

There are those of us who wish the church in general to demonstrate love and compassion instead of criticism and judgment.

As such, it takes its place in the general scheme of extensive connection, the «external» world of cause and effect, continuity and change, which is the more traditional field for historical inquiry and philosophical criticism.

Whitehead's process doctrines allow us to sort out the phases of interaction constituting such development, and there is also a tradition of literary criticism devoted to the general forms of action, which I shall discuss below.

Granted, however, that biblical criticism is a legitimate, and even a useful, branch of scientific study, is it important for the general reader, who has no particular interest in matters of archaeology or ancient history?

When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

Insofar as all these are concerned with questions of historical fact, they may be subsumed under the general head of historical criticism.

Wilder is unique among contemporary New Testament scholars because of his profound combination of the techniques of New Testament scholarship with those of general literary criticism.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

As for the Church's social justice views — Allen mentions conservative criticism of Caritas in Veritate (while overlooking the many conservatives who applauded it)-- I wrote two separate columns for the Times of London online a) praising the essentials of that specific encyclical, and Benedict's economic and social justice teachings in general; and b) saluting Archbishop Oscar Romero, who I believe will one day be declared a saint, precisely as a champion of Catholic social justice.

I was certainly not classifying people, simply reflecting on the tone of criticism in general regarding people of faith on this blog.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

Presumably, if the idea of God is to be even minimally significant, some sort of religious experience is necessary.16 This appeal to religious experience is itself a qualified one, since Hartshorne is prepared to argue that positivism can not exhibit a coherence in its basic life principles that is comparable to a theistic position.17 So he operates in general on the assumption that the crucial issues involved in man's attempts to conceptualize God can and must be adjudicated by a rigorous analysis and criticism of the various views of God which are logically possible.

But Dr. Torrey has shown that if the text in its more difficult form (which on general principles of textual criticism is likely to be more original) be translated word for word into Aramaic, it becomes both grammatical and perspicuous.

We can say as a general answer to the above criticisms that what they are actually objecting to is the God of classical theism, the God who is other - worldly, timeless, the God who makes paper plates.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

«It may be in part satirical, but it is chiefly a rather good - natured criticism of the human race in general.»

Consequently when the form critics came to discuss the historicity of the gospel tradition, a question for which their method was at best only indirectly relevant, they tended to arrive at the conclusion which their general orientation suggested, rather than a conclusion which form criticism as such required.

There have been important recent criticisms of the excesses of scientism, but even these grow out of an acceptance of the general scientific method of drawing coherent conclusions from observation and experience.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

Nigeria, the most populous black African country, has had a particularly sad history of press repression, particularly under the former military junta headed by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, whose infamous Decree Number 4 against criticism of the government was the pretext for a number of detentions of journalists, some of whom died under mysterious circumstances.

«As a general rule, I will respond to little if any criticism of me in the media, on social media, blogs, open letters, etc..

I have made no effort to identify the specific sources of the criticisms with which I shall deal, since they are general in character and have come from a variety of writings and discussions.

The first general and less specific criticism would hold that a philosophical interpretation of Christian faith almost inevitably tends to be inadequate.

But your criticism of fasting is totally obtuse — based on a host of assumptions about Mormons and faith in general.

He made a few remarks about how Dallas's view of things reflected a general antipathy among some evangelicals toward contemporary culture, but I was still puzzled, given Balmer's criticism, as to why anyone would find this kind of religion attractive, and I wished our guide had helped us to see that a little better.

A quiet word from his Superior in Germany, with a reference to the wishes of the Order's Superior General in Rome, and to criticism at the papal court, would, it had been thought, do the trick.

But the term «postmodernism» became current outside this general discourse, within artistic and literary criticism, and in this other more specialized discourse, the «modernism» to which «post -» was prefixed has meant the sensibility that emerged in the arts around the turn of the present century, in deliberate rejection of the world shaped by Enlightenment and Romanticism, i.e., of the world otherwise called «modern.»