Sentences with phrase «general points about»

Its general points about the long - term damage of endless violence are well - made.

The first argument hangs on some very general points about relations.

While this article covers some general points about certificates of deposit, we've also provided a more detailed look at average CD rates here.

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.

Furthermore, St. Paul argues the general point about there being a moral order in the universe precisely with reference to male and female homosexual practice (Rom.

I take the general point about worthless fixtures and the fact that there was a lot which was rather unedifying about the Stanford game.

When Corbyn says the «evidence points towards Russia», he is making a general point about culpability - because even if it did not order the attack, it was at fault for letting someone get hold of the nerve agent.

We've got to reflect the society we're in... I think that the general point about women representation was and is a good one, and I think that it has and is being addressed.

Let's be clear, if she was making a general point about the desirability of a progressive taxation system, then fine.

That's not the impression I was trying to give at all — the point of the article was the pricing, rather than compatibility, and I just mentioned in passing that when it comes to ePub sales in the UK iPad is in a slightly different position, and can't use the existing stores like Smiths and Waterstones, rather than a general point about iPad as a whole.

After a paragraph or two summarising what makes a good ad campaign and ending with a general point about the matter (like say, «market your games in a creative way» or what not).

Your general point about there being multiple limits on plant growth is perfectly valid though.

My comments about «my links» was not about you personally, more a general point about where I sit, and the endless criticisms sharing important related info / science that flies right over the top of peoples heads, especially intelligent PhDs who can not see the wood for the trees and have little holistic vision (imho).

I understand your general point about generating random values, except for why there need by any question about how you choose your Monte Carlo values in this case.

Not exact matches

According to a Pentagon inspector general's report: «Leon Panetta was fully cooperating with the movie project and that several CIA staff used White House - approved talking points to talk to Mr. Boal [the producer of Zero Dark Thirty] about the intelligence that led to UBL's [Usama bin Laden's] location.»

I was tired of books with stories about generals, parables about mice, and endless scientific studies with numbers that could point any which way.

The move by AA to beef up its Code is an opportunity to emphasize several key points about the role and significance of a Code of Ethics in general.

This points to semantic confusion about these terms among the general public.

Among the findings: Results from the federally - funded General Social Survey, considered the gold standard on social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their lives.

Going down the rabbit hole further points to an ugly situation where editors are battling about neutrality, and members of the general public are «vandalizing» the page.

Much of this comes about from the significant reductions in tax rates (reduction of two - percentage points in the GST, a six - percentage point decline in the general corporate income tax rate, among others), without offsetting reductions to program expenses.

True Wealth Ventures General Founding Partner Sara Brand spoke at the Dallas Startup Week along with other investors, talking about deal points of early stage venture deals with knowledgeable founders.

(Note now that we are not talking about a free banking system — I want to make a point about fractional reserve systems in general and show how the problem is that the system isn't free, not that it's based on fractional reserves.)

Kraken's CEO pointed out the short turnaround time requested by the Attorney General's office, and the public nature of the request, making it clear that the Attorney General's request is more of a public relations campaign directed towards cryptocurrency exchanges rather than an honest attempt at getting information about the companies» operations.

One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

But such a suggestion only returns to the previous point about the general illumination that theism needs to provide to render itself plausible in our day (GPE 272).

The point about Fit for Missionis that even this is not considered enough: having established the general principle, this admirable bishop now lays down the practical detail, so that nobody has any excuse for ignoring his clearly expressed wishes.

Gary, if you read it once more, you will find that I am asking very general questions and making points about the human condition.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

If I've a point to make about your ignorance, bigotry and general loutishness, I'll do it in my own name.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Under the best epistemological circumstances (i.e., God's) there is an identity of knowledge and givenness, when knowledge is truly knowledge, for Hartshorne; on this point he departs from Brightman who maintains a firm distinction between knowledge of the given and the given — this is a part of the general thesis about the «innocence of the given.»

Good point about Atheists knowing more about religion because, in general, we've thought about it, worked though the nonsense we had pushed down our throats and lived to forgive, for the most part the adults in our lives that did their level best to scare us, to scar us as children.

It is the Thomistic conception, or the general ways of thinking about God given definitive shape by Thomas, that Hartshorne takes as his chief rival, and he takes one of the basic recommendations of his position to be that it succeeds at those points where Thomas fails.

Two comments about this third point: First, the statement of this requirement is evidence that neither the concept of God in general nor the conception of the consequent nature of God is ad hoc to Whitehead's system.

I make these general remarks about the two sorts of judgment, because there are many religious persons — some of you now present, possibly, are among them — who do not yet make a working use of the distinction, and who may therefore feel at first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the following lectures the phenomena of religious experience must be considered.

Before going on to speak of the convergence that exists on this point between the present General Secretary of the World Council of Churches and the Encyclical Ut unum sint, I must first take the further step of showing that the suggestion about dialogue and reception as phases of a conciliar process has not come out of the blue.

Writing about Humanae Vitae just a month after Pope Paul VI issued it, at which point lots of Catholics, including a goodly number of Jesuits, had popped a cork, the then - superior general asked his fellow Jesuits to assume an attitude of «obedience which is at once loving, firm, open, and truly creative» and «to do everything possible to penetrate, and to help others penetrate, into the thought which may not have been his own previously» - precisely because they were Jesuits, and this is what Jesuits do.

It's funny, but it seems to me that everything that has been said about vision COULD BE said about Christianity in general — depending on your point of view.

So I said, somewhat dubiously, because this was a secular lecture to a general audience and I was afraid of being misunderstood, that my point of view about life was going to show under the story, because that's inevitable, but I never consciously write about moral precepts, and I do not like moralism, which is another form of do - it - yourselfism.

Hence there is naturally no longer reason to formulate general ideas about the highest good, about virtues and values, for every such theory originates from the spectator's point of view.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

This point was reinforced about 200 years after Newton when Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity produced the modern theory of gravity — capable of explaining not only the behavior of our little local solar system but also the structure of the whole cosmos.

Okun makes his point about equality of opportunity and efficiency in a book entitled Equality and Efficiency: the Big Tradeoff.34 In general, he insists, approximation of equality can only be obtained at the expense of decrease in efficiency.

If this last point seems vague and general, let us take my earlier remark about political boundary lines on a map as a concrete illustration.

I then suggested two further points about general existence.

Perhaps the point of Jesus» question was not to make a general statement about natural disasters, but rather to evoke a response similar to that of the Pharisees, who after being asked a similar question, turned and dropped their stones.

It will be well at this point to say more about preaching in general in the ante-Nicene Church.