Sentences with phrase «hold their positions because»

While I'm not inclined to ascribe motive in this case and prefer to give Ham the benefit of the doubt that he holds his position because his conscience demands it, I think these folks bring up a good point about how we can become so heavily invested in a certain ideology that change comes at enormous cost.

By getting used to using these terms, it is said, IRC persons will get over the insensitivity of resenting the fact that others hold positions because of their color or deficiencies in English.

So many people can't buy and hold their positions because they let emotions take control of their decisions.

For example, your troops can be told to hold the position because otherwise if you place them behind a few guard towers they'll merrily run straight forward to fight the enemy.

From the way Boulton's rubbing Sir Muir's nose in it I would guess that he holds the position because someone who Boulton clearly regards as having much more leverage than the hapless Sir Muir has appointed him.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Refrain from avoiding taking action just because an employee is a friend or holds a position of leadership.

The other thing to note is that because BJK holds big positions in companies including Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts, investors might dismiss this as the «Las Vegas ETF.»

Because hedge funds are not required to report their bond holdings to the SEC (although they do have to report equity positions), we don't know exactly who owns how much of which Puerto Rico bonds.

I've been considering adding to MO and PM, but have held back because they are larger positions.

This is generally not possible because brokerages hold, for the benefit of short position customers.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

Its relatively high global position reflects the special place the Australian dollar holds in portfolios of international funds managers because of its relation to commodity prices, offering a degree of diversification from other currencies.

Holding on to a position because it did well for you during tough years, or outperformed years ago, is not reason enough to hold something.

Analysts have hold on their long position of Bitcoin because the cost is inside an descending channel.

These concentrations of positions in the hands of the largest bank holding companies and investment banks posed risks for the financial system because of their interconnections with other financial institutions.»

Many funds, particularly those with disciplined management teams that like to hold long - term positions, are able to avoid taxes for years because they buy shares of businesses and simply park them in the bank vault.

Because these people (priests and pastors) are held to a higher standard by virtue of their position, yet they routinely abuse their power.

To hold the position that any debate you have you win because you have a divine operative that can never be wrong even when he is you just stand up and say «Our understanding of that is flawed so however the bible said it may not be what it meant but it's never ever wrong, someone go back to translating and interpreting it till we figure out a way around it's errors, er, i mean, misunderstood or mistranslated passages...»

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

I use the NKJV (because I hold the Majority Text position), but as a second choice, I would go with the NRSV as well.

Of course he holds this position, because he does not know how Christians killed Baptists under William Tryon when Baptists were not allowed to Marry, be in government, gather for worship, have a shcool, or own land.

Just because someone holds a belief does not make them more or less able to do their duties in an elected position.

Yes, because of the fact that there is ZERO evidence for any gods, disbelief / unbelief (agnostic atheism) is the most logical position for a person (with critical reasoning skills) to hold.

Can you imagine the number of deaths that will occur if Obama releases the terrorists presently held by the military?I only include these coemmnts because many people are misrepresenting the church's position (Doctrine) on capitol punishment, AND Obama is distorting the realities associated with terrorism and attracting a lot of Catholics with his lies and distortions!

He pulled up his legs into a fetal position and floated, listening to the roar of the waters that sounded like a thousand hands clapping, «the hands that heal; the hands that hold; the hands we desire because they are better than desire.»

Do you really believe that a Dean or Professor (or even Pastor: o) holds that title because they are in their position for power?

There are three basic issues here: the significance of Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument, the justifiability of rejecting metaphysical claims in principle because they «impoverish» experience, and the correctness of holding that Hartshorne's position does so impoverish experience.

Maybe I am, but for the most part, those who have accussed me of that in the past, say I am that way because they don't like my positions and me stating my strong held postions.

If you agree with every position and view that a candidate holds then congratulation because you are the candidate him or herself.

What Campanis, 70, did was to tell Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline that few blacks hold managerial positions in baseball because «I truly believe that they may...

A note on the Scriptural references: Because this paper deals with our understanding of Scripture and challenges the traditionally held position and doctrines, I have made an effort to give biblical references where appropriate.

I will refrain from such rhetoric because for most of my life I held a position on the subject very different from the one I now take.

The co-operative effort in modern missions is significant precisely because it does bring together in common action groups which hold different doctrinal positions.

Likewise, the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s changes to its policy took place over a much longer time than Azumah names, involved persons holding many positions left undescribed, and came about not because the denomination chose to ignore the Scriptures but because over time, many of us became convinced that there are theologically and historically faithful ways of reading the Scriptures that find space for contemporary understandings of homosexuality.

Agnosticism is really the best position to hold, because we truly don't know the real answers to any of these questions.

Seriously, we don't need people in powerful positions making decisions on the fate of millions based on fairy tales — Because Atheists who have held power positions are so compassionate like chairman Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot.

I don't see ND as moving them further than this, as you say you do not address theological issues and because the ministry does appear to itself hold this position.

It is not, as Griffin contends, because Plantinga views his traditional concept of God «as holding a privileged, virtually invulnerable position in the minds of believers,» and thus has no interest in «asking what we might learn from... others» (ER 48 - 49).

Plantinga does not play defense because he believes that his brand of theism holds some privileged position or because he is not interested in learning from others or because he is not involved in a common quest for truth with his critics.

Mainstream Christian theology's position held that Judaism had been supplanted, the Jewish covenant with the divine no longer valid, because of the incarnation of God as Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross.

(Because someone is bound to ask, I've made it pretty clear in the past that I support gay marriage as a civil right, and would hold this position regardless of whether I believed such marriages should be blessed by my church.)

Variety in theological expression, as Guarino rightly notes, «must be commensurable with the fundamental creedal and dogmatic affirmations of faith» because different systems can not hold positions that are fundamentally contradictory.

Not the former, as Ford went on to maintain after the publication of my book, because it succeeds only in ferreting out metaphysical doctrines once held by Whitehead, but ultimately rejected by him in favor of his final metaphysical position (RIWW 50).

In terms of intelligence and education the jobholder is frequently «overqualified» for the position he holds but this causes no personal distress because of the meaning the job has for him.

You take it as a winning position because other people can't show your statement to be false, but they hold no valid point to begin with.

As I said, advocates of this position hold that Jesus is eternally subordinate to the Father, but that that role has nothing to do with his being, who he is or his ontology, because according to them a person's eternal condition is irrelevant to their existence.

He held this position until twenty - seven when he was fired because of his drinking.

Sorry, if you don't retract your use of the phrase «rescue the church» I will hold fast to using the term rhetorically Messiah to call the position and function that you've attributed to yourself, because I only know of one that will come again to rescue the church.