Sentences with phrase «general points you've made»

Again, though rightly showing some desire at least to exculpate the bank clerk who in effect helps the bank robbers steal, and certainly intentionally helps them move the money, Cummings is on shaky ground given the general points he makes.

The general point made when talking about people like Singer and so on is that they recieved major funding from fossil fuel interests — but isn't that also true of the New York Times, and doesn't it raise similar questions about the quality of their coverage?

Indeed, the case itself is a fine example of the important general point made by Lord Sumption, that when considering the piercing of the corporate veil, «in almost every case where the test is satisfied, the facts will in practice disclose a legal relationship between the company and the controller which will make it unnecessary to pierce the corporate veil.»

Not exact matches

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

Businesses can make this easier for everyone on their sales team by finding general pain points that their products resolve, rather then letting each salesperson customize every pitch to fit an individual client's problems.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

(And the fact that it carries a $ 399 price point — significantly lower than Facebook's Oculus Rift or HTC's Vive — may make it even more friendly to a larger general audience, rather than just tech enthusiasts.)

Using a general template that you've crafted as a starting point is fine, but you need to put in a little something extra to really make you stand out.

In a trial, all these declarations the Attorney General is putting in from people that make conclusions with no evidence, you can really point all that out on cross examination.

Providers will make it a point to give the necessary aid to help these programs run full speed ahead and guarantee that these projects get to run out smoothly, as in general, nonprofit organizations are similarly insured as those who are in the private sectors, there are just some particular needs, ideals and requirements that they have to accomplish for them to be able to provide the necessary policies for those who work within their businesses.

In general, to make up for the $ 95 you'll have to spend at least $ 9,500 each year in the long run to earn enough points to pay it off in cash.

«I think from the administration's point of view, this is an opportunity to make a very major pronouncement on its foreign policy and its European policy,» said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a former deputy secretary general of NATO.

For example, consumers» propensity to make a purchase increased by two points to a score of two, while perceptions of their personal financial situation and the general economic situation over the last 12 months were up three points month over month.

I'm exaggerating here but the general point he was trying to make was that merger arb is very much a low volatility way to invest in the market.

(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.

In such an environment, made worse because «Crescent Point has «no succession plan,» looking at a new coach and a new general manager,» is «very normal» in business.

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

The general doctrine of God developed in Process and Reality was implicit in Religion in the Making, but at two points substantive changes have occurred.

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

I only want to make some remarks on the subject of apparitions and visions in general from the point of view of the

i do nt hate any of you are your point of views i just know that believing in GOD and being a faithful servant has made me a better person in general, i was really doing alot of wrong in my lifetime before accepting JESUS into my life, GOD blees you all.

Finally, to complete the task immediately at hand, let me point out that Whitehead has also made abundantly clear the synonymity of the terms «being», «entity» and «thing»»... «potentiality for process» is the meaning of the more general term «entity» or «thing»» (PR 68).

We must regain the ideal that our political process must make men better, because it now makes them sick — and i'm not pointing to the particular and awful act of terrorism that shocked us this last week, but as you say to the general atmosphere of our political life.

But the general comments made thus far point toward other features of Enlightenment thought that are fully adopted by the academic discipline of economics, especially in its neo-liberal form.

I mean to quote Tolstoy at some length; but before doing so, I will make a general remark on each of these two points.

But as I closed our last hour with a general philosophical reflection on the healthy - minded way of taking life, I should like at this point to make another philosophical reflection upon it before turning to that heavier task.

«We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love another» wrote Jonathan Swift.4 He may be pressing his point, but it seems as if religious language is more specific articulating the role, place, needs, concerns of its own people and is if anything rather general when addressing the other as significant other.

To speak for a moment of the general argument of the Intelligent Design movement before getting specifically to Professor Johnson's latest book, I would like to make the following point clear.

It was not a mere act of cleansing; the Jewish historian Josephus, who understands it in this way, is in error at this point, just as he is in making completely innocuous the Baptist and the Baptist movement in general.

(To avoid misunderstanding it may be well to point out that the general synthesis outlined in these pages makes no claim to replace or to exclude the theological account of human destiny.

However I think that my «existential» use of the terms here is not alien to his more general line of thought; and in any event I find the words extremely apt in making the point I am arguing in this paragraph.)

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

It seems Jesus» parables make a specific point or two and fall apart if made too general.

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.

As for the conversation in general, you, BG, Awkward Situation, ect seem to be all making excellent points, as does John R bringing up good questions.

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.

Despite my hesitancy to use selective passages of Scripture to «make a point» and my general aversion to bullet - points, I felt it necessary to include a more detailed presentation of a biblical alternative to exclusivism for the benefit of those readers who are themselves searching for one.

I am no fan of Christianity or religion in general; and perhaps I am a bit hypocritical since I am not averse to mocking at times to make a point (I even like the South Park parodies), but the flavor of this cartoon just struck a sour note with me.

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.

The general point that has been made is that in the new conditions of the modern world the comparative study of religion has moved into a new phase — first, in that the object of inquiry has on a quite new scale been seen to be communities of persons.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

«16 This latter point does express an insight of Whitehead's, but he makes only general statements such as: «The purpose of God is the attainment of value in the temporal world.»

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.

However, at the same time topology was growing from its embryonic condition and was soon seen to be dealing with even more general invariants: those properties conserved no matter how a figure is distorted provided (a) it is not cut (i.e., points added) and (b) points are not made to coincide (points subtracted).

Sometimes the inquiry is general, but sometimes it is a very pointed «Excuse me, do you know how to make kale chips?»

At this point, you should hopefully be both disgusted at my general lifestyle (fine) but inspired to make some yourself.

When asked about the move, General Manager, Five Points Trading Company, Charles (Chas) Littlefield commented, «Moving production of Newcastle Brown Ale to Holland makes sense for our distributor partners and our consumers alike.

I was making a more general point.

Also, as sympathetic as I am in general to the point Dr Duh is making, at some point the bad losses have piled up so high that you can no longer legitimately explain them away as bad luck.