Sentences with phrase «in judgments like»

The authoritative quality of crowd - sourced wisdom is a well - flogged heel for those in legal circles too, often trotted out in judgments like some Karl Von Hess to be beaten up by proper prudent legal authority.

Not exact matches

You'd think that investors would be among the most cold - blooded and rational consumers of information — after all, fortunes depend on them making bias - free judgments about what they hear on earnings calls — but according to this new research, they are actually highly swayed by one tiny shift in language, just like everyone.

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

Savvy leaders like Apple's Eddy Cue are willing to correct errors in judgment when contractors like Taylor Swift draw attention to unfair corporate policies.

According to Keith Rabois, a Khosla Ventures partner and former executive at LinkedIn, PayPal, and Square, areas that require human expert judgment, like healthcare and law, are most likely to see disruption in the coming years.

But anyone in a position like his — at the head of a media empire — ought to have the good judgment not to do things that require such public apology in the first place.

«Relative deprivation is an idea that says that when we make judgments about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with author Daniel H. Pink.

And while there is no legal requirement that underwriters like Mr. Thiel reveal their involvement to the opposing side or the jury, it is considered fair game for lawyers to ask questions about financial backing — something that Gawker Media did on Wednesday in court as part of its efforts to overturn the Hogan judgment.

Such recommendations must also include a statement from the recommending stockholder in support of the candidate, particularly within the context of the criteria for Board membership, including issues of character, integrity, judgment, diversity, age, independence, skills, education, expertise, business acumen, business experience, length of service, understanding of the Company's business, other commitments and the like, as well as any personal references and an indication of the candidate's willingness to serve.

Judgments like these are of fundamental importance for hiring decisions in sectors such as service, in which employers are searching for intelligent employees.

«What we know so far is that the secretary used some bad judgment, obviously, but, you know, in the big picture, what he's done for the VA, we believe, is moving in the right direction... and we would like to see this resolved so that he can get back to moving the VA in a direction we think is the right direction.»

What I would like to do tonight is to examine household debt from several perspectives in order to form a judgment on whether its current level poses risks for the economy, and what those risks might be.

Rather, it is a set of Lochner - like expansions (in my judgment) of the Founders» understanding of natural rights (which itself may be the correct understanding of Locke, or not, and which, to necessarily complicate things even more, itself was usually moderated in practice by most Founders holding elements of the communitarian - classical view) that is the real ground of my distinction between the natural rights conception of liberty and the economic autonomy conception.

His only judgments came against the religious leaders who were judged not for their sins but, because they lived in continual judgment of any who did not act just like they did and because they failed to extend grace and love to those who needed it the most.

What's wrong with the church when folks like Shane Claiborne who have reputations for loving their enemies, giving without expecting anything in return, and withholding judgment can't get speaking gigs because of their «questionable» theological positions?

Even though Christians and atheists also perpetrate acts of terror and violence (in places like movie theatres, elementary schools, and shopping malls), many of our neighbors react with particular fear and judgment when the perpetrator is identified with Islam.

Fr Skinner considers that Tract 90 brought things to a head but I would have liked mention made of the influence on Newman of the Jerusalem bishopric, which was, in a way, as crucial as the Gorham judgment was for Manning.

There is no resentment or alienation, because he knows these judgments as gifts from God, as gratuitous rather than possessed or earned, and so he recognizes in the modern naysayer a person like himself, one who does not yet understand.

In an area like Skid Row where so little is being done, it is not wise to be perfectionistic in one's judgmentIn an area like Skid Row where so little is being done, it is not wise to be perfectionistic in one's judgmentin one's judgments.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

This is also seen in the difference between those who see Jesus as in some way embodying a universal principle, as is the case of theologians in the tradition of Schleiermacher, and those, like the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who stressed that humans can in no way sit in judgment on God's revelation.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilIn Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

This obstinacy is like the infantile notion of a child, who in his lack of judgment even sets up a cleft in the father's nature; for the child imagines that the father is the loving one, that punishment on the other hand is something that a bad man has invented.

«Mr. Graham's calling is not to pass judgment, but to proclaim the biblical truth that Jesus is the only way to heaven» ------ I'd like to know what Mr. Graham's response is to the fact that not all humans in this world know who Jesus is.

The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (BJC)» which is more like a rump committee than a joint committee since the withdrawal of the Southern Baptist Convention» also issued a harsh judgment on Republicans in the name of a presumably nonjudgmental God.

Ro 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Chadwick offers this fairly common consideration regarding the Pope's prudential judgment: «If a defending attorney were desirable in a historical subject, the main line of the plea would need to be something like this.

They predicted the Fall, or saw it in retrospect, as the judgment of God upon an unfaithful and sinful nation, but they understood the function of the catastrophe to be ultimately, like the Exodus event, positive and redemptive in character.

Just like young Scorsese in the streets of Little Italy, his films don't lead viewers to judgment or glorification of the imperfect players on screen.

If you have not repented then you are in error (in spite of all your accusations) If you have repented and have called upon the Almighty God to save you and cleanse you from your sin, Then what is the purpose of these letters (unless you want to pass judgment on those that do not believe like you).

Many of these practical judgments are required in education, which Dewey liked to call «the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested» (MW9: 339).

I would hope to have a response like the guy in the story, but I don't think anyone can stand in judgment of what one might do in a similar situation.

God brought judgment on nations with like - minded behaviors in the past he will do it again in the near future.

Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.

But in unfolding itself like this, faith follows the categories of scientific thinking and assesses its own validity in accordance with the rules of judgment and conclusion.

In Sheol, some distinctions were worked out so that even before the final judgment, part of Sheol was Paradise, and part was like Gehenna, the place of ultimate judgment.

This formidable ascetic, haunting the wilderness in his uncouth garments, revived the popular image of an inspired prophet, and like the ancient prophets he announced the impending judgment of God on a recreant people.

Pinnock's flexible use of the word «inerrancy» causes him to criticize certain evangelicals like Lindsell for an «overbelief about the Bible» which seeks to protect it from its own humanity.42 It compels him to criticize the position of irenic inerrantists like Daniel Fuller, who, according to Pinnock, operate in their judgment of Scripture's infallibility according to an a priori standard derived inductively from doctrinal verses (2 Tim.

Jesus looked into the future and saw the rising tension of his day culminating in the destruction and desolation of the people and the land he loved; like the prophets of old, he foresaw the doom of judgment meted out, not on the heathen only but upon his own nation, its leaders, its people, its temple.

As the Lausanne Covenant asserts, the Bible is «without error in all that it affirms» Although detailed inerrantists like John Montgomery and Harold Lindsell resist referring to the writer's intentions as a criterion for Biblical judgment, sensing, rightly, that its adoption undermines their position, they nevertheless use such a standard on occasion (see Lindsell's discussion of differences in Biblical numbers [Num.

Picking in a religion gives you a 1:1000 shot at making it into heaven, though a.1 % chance is still better than no chance, I believe that even if you have no faith in any god whatever god you may face at judgment day, you have a better chance of getting in, living a good life without faith than living a life with belief in a different god, as gods are usually jealous and would not like you believing in a different god.

Whereas the principle set forth in Deuteronomy may provide some means of measuring the accuracy of the predictions of an astrologer like Jeane Dixon or the lucrative prognostications of a dispensationalist like Hal Lindsey, it is less well suited to discerning the reliability of a call to moral judgment and decisive action.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

Of course the FACT terrorist apologists like yourself continue to lie about is that the intelligence community in a virtually universal judgment deemed the threat to be very real in Iraq and the need for war to be so paramount that the coalition formed was historic in their unison.

Making judgments and taking actions can be pretty tricky, and no doubt even unpleasant from that context, but like Shawn noted in his «invasion» analogy, they may be entirely necessary (maybe that's a tool to employ in unpacking ethical / cultural aspects of Biblical history).

Just would like to call attention to 1 Corinthians 1:10 — «Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.»

I hadn't spent much time thinking about what it's like for gay kids to overhear their parents talking about gay neighbors with derision and fear, for example, or how narratives about judgment and hell can be processed by kids in some pretty destructive ways.

The fact it is a «judgment» (like a court room) gives me the feeling we are there in the moment participating in our own verdict (we are not representless are we?).

But as I urged above, it would be wrong (in my judgment) to try to interpret all this too literally and logically; Prof. Hartshorne was right, I said, in saying that the symbol of the divine Triunity, like the «incarnation» and «atonement» as symbols, is much more appropriately retained as a symbol, as imaginative proclamation; it can then retain its indicative and suggestive value without our seeking to phrase it in the idiom of some particular philosophy or world view.

And consonant with the immutable position of Yahwistic prophetism, whose primary proposition is always the effective impingement of divine life upon history, the meaning of Solomon's reign and of events subsequent to it is discerned in the scheme of sin and judgment: like Babel, apostasy results in the rupture of human community.