Sentences with phrase «held views of an individual»

In some cases, for example, government action may seek to compel the promotion of a particular norm — such as acceptance of others — that may be contrary to the deeply held views of an individual or group.

Not exact matches

Perhaps the emerging one most widely held is the «dichotomized view» which distinguishes between homosexual acts (sinful) and a homosexual nature (an orientation not the fault of the individual).

An alternative view would hold that elimination does not mean sheer obliteration but rather that an individual feels all of his past with greater or less intensity or vividness.

For «many citizens who do not share these religious views hold such a compulsory rite to infringe constitutional liberty of the individual.»

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

I don't want to hold it against that individual but his actions have made an impact on my view of the clergy system.

The process view does hold to the autonomy of the world and the individual.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.

Cunningham is not alone in holding this view: influential novelists from Sir Hugh Walpole to George Orwell have agreed with him, seeing in Catholicism a fundamental threat to the supposed twin foundations of Protestantism and the novel: freedom and the value of the individual.

To oversimplify, conservative views of salvation focused on the details of how individuals lived, the acts they performed or failed to perform, the beliefs they held or failed to hold, and the emotions they felt or did not feel.

-- What Epicurus says about the individual's relationship to death (though his view contains but a sorry comfort) holds of the relation between the probable and the improbable: when I am, it (death) is not, and when it (death) is, I am not.

There are exactly parallel views of scientific models that have been held by many contemporary philosophers of science, namely, that models are purely subjective, psychological, and adopted by individuals for private heuristic purposes.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

It also avoids issues related to the changing classification of individual holdings in a fund, which is inherent in a «bottom - up» analysis (for example, consider the stock of Apple Inc., which could be classified as growth or value depending on one's point of view).

Portfolio positioning is at the discretion of the individual portfolio management teams; individual portfolio management teams and different fund sub-advisers may hold different views and may make different investment decisions for different clients or portfolios.

Each individual fund at Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) holds shares of mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) which allow donors to easily view the specific investments held by the account.

Rather than using the painting and sculpture galleries to present a purely canonical narrative, she has broken with her predecessors by treating individual galleries more like rotating special exhibitions, showcasing MoMA's holdings in certain areas and providing a more inclusive and nuanced view of modern - art history.

On the selection of convening lead authors... the IPCC can select a leading expert or two as convening lead authors — the potential problem is that these individuals will (even if subconsciously) frame the chapter based on their view of the world... this can make it seem rather difficult for those supporting other views (and I do not only mean only those holding contrarian views — there can be different schools of thought on the science, on uncertainties, etc.) to feel they are getting a fair shake... (p. 306)

The fact may be that individuals can be skeptical and hold different or similar political views in relation to the mainstream of climate science (environmentalism) and it's adherents has nothing to do with the overarching institutional structure and political persuasion of environmentalism as a social movement.

The cultural cognition hypothesis holds that individuals are disposed to form risk perceptions that reflect and reinforce their commitments to contested views of the good society.

While there is no doubt that the Covenant's refusal to accept LGBTQ expressions of sexuality is deeply offensive and hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and we do not in any way wish to minimize that effect, there is no Charter or other legal right to be free from views that offend and contradict an individual's strongly held beliefs... Disagreement and discomfort with the views of others is unavoidable in a free and democratic society.

Clearly, there is a spectrum of views, but whatever views an individual may hold, there is certainly scope for a constructive debate.

However, the Court held that as a general principle of EU law, the rights of defence also applied — as already set out in Sopropé — where Member State authorities planned to adopt a measure that would «adversely affect an individual»; an individual whose interests were «significantly» affected had to be put in a position where they could make their views on the information known on which that decision was to be based.

In light of the commonly held view that real estate is a safe investment, many private individuals use mortgage investments as a means of saving for retirement.

Betty has long held the view that there is a niche within the ethnic marketplace of individuals who require proper legal servicing but weren't getting it — and that it would be a growing and developing market.

Attachment theory posits that overdependent individuals hold a negative view of the self and try to achieve felt security by trying to minimize their distance from others (Little et al. 2011).

Though counterdependence and overdependence are both classified as insecure, they operate under different working models, with counterdependent individuals holding a negative view of others and overdependent individuals relying too strongly on others as a result of a negative view of self.

Past research suggested that insecure individuals generally hold more negative views of others (Collins and Read 1990).

CAMI recognizes Christian denominations as well as other groups and individuals hold differing views of marriage.

The Bureau held meetings with individual stakeholders upon request, and also invited stakeholders to meetings in which individual views of each stakeholder could be heard.