Sentences with phrase «general skepticism of»

This message undoubtedly plays into the public's general skepticism of another electoral bid by Fernandez de Kirchner, who has become the country's single most divisive politician.

The shares turned in a solid performance as the year went on, despite the Facebook IPO disaster and general skepticism of social media stock performance — Yelp is up nearly 50 % since the IPO.

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It is unclear where Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has expressed skepticism in the past of appointing an independent prosecutor, will take the investigation from here.

It's unclear if Trump's tweet means he has decided against rejoining the TPP or if it's just a general expression of skepticism as the process is underway.

One challenge to our growth investing strategy in 2018 may be the high level of investor skepticism surrounding current valuations for US equities in general, and for technology in particular.

My general aversion to the doctrine of predestination / limited atonement has unfortunately ruled out some good Presbyterian churches, and our shared skepticism regarding the prosperity gospel / signs and wonders have kept most Pentecostal churches off the list.

There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure of any of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer mystery of God by witnessing to the glory of God's actions with a cocksure orthodoxy, and a philosophic climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth of things.

Christian faith... is possible apart from belief in Jesus» resurrection in particular and life beyond bodily death in general, and because of the widespread skepticism regarding these traditional beliefs, they should be presented as optional.

In general, skepticism about a complete explanation of creativity is based on the notion that a creative act issues in an outcome that is new in kind, which was unpredictable, and which has a definite character that is neither reducible to the sum of its elements nor exhaustively traceable to its antecedents.

This is not a philosopher's expression of ultimate ignorance, or a matter of general skepticism.

In the case of a «speculative system» which fuses historically obsolete cosmologies, Whitehead's repeated and in fact passionate emphasis that the «elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6) seems not at all able to be brought into some coherent association, Whitehead's reflection that we could ask ourselves «whether the type of thought involved [in his cosmology] be not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis» (PR xiii / viii) may hit not only upon the widespread skepticism with regard to the «main doctrines of Absolute Idealism» in general, but also, in particular, upon doubts concerning their ability to be transformed «onto a realistic basis.»

Such skepticism may be justified, yet we find ourselves wondering whether DH has not in fact preserved here the very ancient but real encounter of free - ranging Syrian forces with the Yahweh - tribes (notably the Othnielites) inhabiting southern Canaan in the general area south of Hebron.

For example, Hornacek praise can still come after a bad loss, or Porzingis skepticism can still come after a good performance, and these kind of counter viewpoints should not be shot down simply because they do not match with the general collective thought of the moment, as long as they are calmly and logically reasoned.

Multiple former colleagues said she was key in reaching out to members of the community, overcoming their skepticism about law enforcement and convincing them to work with the attorney general's office on those cases.

The skepticism was aimed not at Aiello personally, but at big developers in general, following news last week that the city would not get any new property taxes for 30 years from the short - circuited development of Destiny USA.

DOE presents a good distillation of the Administration's general approach to science and technology: a particular skepticism of federal technology programs and hostility to climate research; a general interest in scaling back even fundamental science; and a desire to increase investment in defense - related activities.

Both Longhi and Warren harbor some skepticism about the extraordinary level of plagioclase purity in the anorthosites detected by Kaguya but maintain that the general implications remain relevant.

Christie told the Associated Press that public skepticism about the standards can be traced to a general distrust of the federal government.

Perhaps it's this environment, amid increasing skepticism of virtual charter claims, that led officials with the attorney general's office in California to lash out at K12 Inc. last week while announcing the conclusion of a long - running investigation of the virtual charter outfit.

Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

In doing so, he achieved all his goals: He had overthrown centuries of theory and skepticism; flung aviation into the forefront; and established himself among the general public as the nation's foremost scientific mind.

«Although consumption of soft foods may promote plaque accumulation, the general belief that dry foods provide significant oral cleansing should be regarded with skepticism.

Grin's track record (the original BCR was their only game that wasn't critically panned), the lack of reviews, and just a general skepticism surrounding Fatshark, the game's partially Grin - staffed developer, made me cautious.

I expressed plenty of skepticism of the whole idea in general.

It is the decoupling of dispassionate from skepticism that makes public discussions about climate science and environmental issues in general so uninformative.

The take - home point, made by Sam Kazman, the group's general counsel, was: «As this 1922 story demonstrates, scare stories about the environment should always be treated with a degree of skepticism.»

From my own reading on the history of science, antagonism and skepticism are essential to good science and to scientific progress in general, and scientific consensuses are more frequently wrong than right especially when the experimental evidence is ambiguous, and impede scientific progress more often than not.

Doc & Pull My Tab, So as not to go too OT let me weave this around the general topic of Scientific skepticism and the citizen researcher.

Sound like a good sample for a study of how real - world white male hierarchical individualists, who in fact comprise the core of climate skepticism in US general population?

Reviewing his history in the blogosphere, he seems to fit the PSY4 category in John Mashey's taxonomy most closely: «Ego / pride: in skepticism in general and of scientists in particular», although it's doubtless more complicated than that.

We report three studies — including an analysis of large - scale survey data — in which we systematically investigate the ideological antecedents of general faith in science and willingness to support science, as well as of science skepticism of climate change, vaccination, and genetic modification (GM).

In general, any climate policy approach — if it was meaningful in its objectives and had any chance of being enacted — would have become the prime target of political skepticism and scorn.

In 2012, Oreskes was instrumental in arranging a CAI workshop of legal experts that evolved in 2016 into a conspiracy by 17 state attorneys general to criminalize climate skepticism — also known as the failed #ExxonKnew campaign.

Too many elements of (thermo --RRB- mathematical maturity are missing from the Makarieva et al. manuscript, and missing too from critical reviews of it... and missing especially from skepticism of climate - change physical science in general!

a) Their emotive commitment to the imminent calamity that consensus climate science forecasts is so deep, they have sacrificed all skepticism in this domain and * themselves * truly believe the faked stories simply because they purport to come from climate scientists (authority) and hence are yet more indicators of general anticipated calamity.

It takes every fibre of discipline I have to restrain that compulsion down to mere skepticism by effort of logic and reason, analyses and mathematics, and it does make me snarky, but I often come to quell my objections by selecting of the various alternatives the one that does best answer logic and mathematics, analyses and reason, and a framework of knowledge and general principles.

Wrote a how to manual on general «inate skepticism» using over a hundred concrete examples from a variety of fields including education, energy, health care, and other fields.

Throughout the Barack Obama administration, McKibben was a leader in the campaign to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the Keep It In The Ground campaign, the campaign to criminalize climate skepticism — which included collusion with the 18 Attorneys General for Clean Energy) and the #ExxonKnew attack campaign.

I treat with some skepticism the general dismissal of the Hague Convention as a mechanism.

Overall, there is a lack of trust in institutions among the general population and many lawyers apparently share in this skepticism when it comes to technology.

The tribunal also expressed skepticism when reviewing documents and statements made outside of the general business context, which appeared to strengthen the argument that they were an employer.

And while it's still an open question as to whether such tests will go live, during the Blockchain Connect conference in San Francisco last week, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse framed the general skepticism as old - fashioned and out of touch.

This idea proved very unpopular, but it shows the general skepticism in forks, and how developers have zero control over the situation due to the nature of open - source.

Combine that with a sense of skepticism about the tech industry in general, and the idea held by many that companies would rather sell you a new gadget than help you prolong the life of the one you currently own, and it's not hard to see where paranoia about Apple's intentions here might stem from.