Sentences with phrase «idea of defending»

Despite the fact that Apple's tablet market share has dropped from 60 % to 32 % in just a year, the company now absolutely rejects the idea of defending market share.

It is the bottom line of the government of every nation - state to protect the geographical, political and cultural integrity of a country, and the idea of defending the national interest against external attack is perhaps one of the simplest of political ideas.

«Somehow the idea of defending Christians has acquired a bad taste in Europe, as if it means excluding other people,» von Habsburg said.

Not exact matches

In any case, it's generally a good investment of the modest amount of time it takes to pay attention and be polite unless the people pitching haven't done their homework, don't appreciate or want to hear about the magnitude or difficulty of what they're setting out to do, or just aren't really prepared to effectively present and defend their ideas.

The basic idea that Freeman defends is that corporate managers shouldn't see themselves as beholden primarily to shareholders, but rather as ethically obligated to balance the interests of a wide range of stakeholders.

In an editorial published on September 17, the Post defended the idea of prosecuting Edward Snowden, the former CIA operative who leaked classified documents to the media in 2013.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defended the idea of tariffs on everybody in an interview, and when he asked whether Trump indeed planned to impose penalties on the entire globe he answered in the affirmative.

The fourth category — attacks that take the form of ridicule or character assassination — «go after the person defending the idea, not the idea itself.»

The president's comments about the deputy come as he's promoted the idea of training and arming teachers to defend against shooters, a controversial proposal to which prominent Democrats and Republicans have voiced opposition.

Despite criticism from Democrats, the White House is defending the idea of throwing a military parade.

If you're bound by the foolishness of anti-gun politicians in prohibiting trained teachers and staff from defending students, then a bucket of rocks is actually a reasonably good idea.

It is a powerful example of how corporations work with startups, invest in ideas and talent, and, in turn, defend and grow market position.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of the few public officials who defended Jones's right to go ahead, even as he condemned the idea as «distasteful.

They also argue that the amnesty the South African government granted to perpetrators of human rights under apartheid in exchange for their testimony before the Truth Commission compromised justice and could be defended only if it were necessary for a transition to democracy, not by any idea of reconciliation.

And whenever something or someone from the «outside» comes into our space, we attack in the name of defending our faith, our ideas and our way of life — by any means necessary.

I'm sick of defending my faith after the fact to nonbelievers that means I'm not pro-active in my faith.It really irritates me how Christians get so offended at these groups and decide, through their pious thinking, that the best thing to do is create an alternative to these days and other ideas.

It is easier to defend the idea that the bible is not the word of god, but simply a history of human thought and just as we discard old scientific ideas when we have new information, we discard old philosophical ideas.

As hard as your youth pastor tried, you may not be prepared to defend your faith in the marketplace of ideas that is college.

Two of the favorite passages trotted out to defend the idea of mutual edification as the commanded purpose for church gatherings are 1 Corinthians 14:26 and Hebrews 10:25.

Rev Justin Welby: Various shows He doesn't tend to do comedy panel shows (although frankly, I think that's an oversight on his part), but Welby has not been afraid to defend his spicier ideas (such as Wonga - slaying) to some of TV's fiercest interviewers.

On one level, it's wildly out - of - sync with the times, defending such ideas as moral knowledge and design, which contemporary philosophy has long believed to be dead and buried.

Ephesians 2:1 - 3 is a favorite text for Calvinists to defend the idea of Total Depravity and total inability.

He defends neither his version of the cosmological proof for God's existence, his unique twist on Leibniz» idea that God created the best of all possible worlds, nor his once - celebrated demonstrations of the soul's immortality.

Lots of men sure think so, and one verse that has been used to defend this idea is Genesis 3:16 where God tells Eve that her desire shall be for her husband, but he shall rule over her.

Ernst Troeltsch wrote a book defending the idea of Christian superiority, but he later decided that a more honest and accurate view would have to abandon that claim.

They have a couple texts they use to defend this idea, one of which is Ephesians 2:8 - 9, which will be considered tomorrow.

The common idea is to defend the teachings of the faith, by demanding that adults responsible for the upbringing of children actually believe in those teachings if they wish to bring the children within the church's embrace.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

Though he verbally defended the old New England idea, it is interesting that he defended it more on the basis of reason and human rights than on the basis of Scripture, and this defense of congregational independence later provided arguments for advocates of the revolution against England.

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

In defending such a genuine Christian vision of God working in the world by «persuasion,» weakness, and love, he was disappointed by the penetration of the later Christian theology of anthropomorphic ideas of «God» (ruler, moralist, first mover).

Even as early as his 1845 Essay on the Development of Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea of infallibility, and precisely as a bulwark against infidelity in all its forms:

When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

Romney has to explain some fairly complicated policy ideas in a couple of minutes and defend them from Obama's distortions.

VocalAtheist should be embarrassed at being so obsessed with someone he never met, to the point of googling them around because he can't argue with them to defend his own ideas with anything but schoolyard social skills.

Oh, the ideas are all there, but the book contains very little of the exegetical evidence which is needed to defend the ideas.

You may be compelled to defend your theology in front of your whole class; however, arguing with someone who holds a couple of master's degrees and a doctorate or two is not the best idea.

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy, theology, all of which are pertinent to the religious significance of Darwinism.3 What many seem not to understand is that the crux of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two kinds of theism and two kinds of evolutionism.

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

It provides a good warning to conservatives against falling into the trap of defending the idea of «judicial supremacy» in their critique of the president's statement about a «group» of unelected people striking down a congressional law.

It provides a good warning to conservatives against falling into the trap of defending the idea of «judicial supremacy» in their critique of the president's statement about a «group» of unelected people striking down....

One must attack (or defend) Christian faith where it may actually be found, not in the mind as an idea but as a form of life realized in the historical community established by Jesus Christ.

He spent SO much time in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God (most of volume 1) defending the idea that the crucifixion of Jesus should be our guiding lens through which to read the entire Old Testament, including the violent portions of the Old Testament.

A number of conservative Church of England figures have signed a letter which defends the former Archbishop of Canterbury against any criminal probe, calling the idea «bizarre».

So long as the right tries to defend them without offering a broader ecology of a deeply integrated and formative community — something broader, for example, than the long - standing defense of «family values» that denigrates the idea that there is a relationship between the family and the village — it can offer no real alternative to liberalism.

D. M. MacKay has defended such extended user of the idea of complementarity.

When people seek to defend the idea that God is violent «because the Bible says so,» what they are really doing is allowing the violent portrayals of God in the Bible to override and trump the loving and merciful portrayals of God elsewhere in Scripture, even when both portrayals are talking about the same historical event.

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.