Sentences with phrase «insistence about»

I keep wondering about this insistence about «inflation adjusted» reports.

Not every man wants to sleep with a woman right away, and not every man who sleeps with a woman right away won't want to keep seeing her and maybe even commit to her (and, despite Evan's insistence about not wanting to hear the exceptions, the marriages and long - term relationships that resulted from first - date sex, it has happened to me and many other women, «rule» be damned!).

Robert Topher is a bit over the top in his insistence about the flood, tower of babel, new covenant, etc, but is probably relatively harmless, except to his own children.

Not exact matches

The ethos of the Bush - era CIA was «know - nothingism,» as Paul Krugman put it at The New York Times, «the insistence that there are simple, brute - force, instant - gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise.»

CNBC's John Harwood reports on President Trump's tweets about his insistence on getting his travel ban in the wake of the London terror attacks.

The irony is that when we first started talking about inflation targeting, it was our insistence on that very flexibility that made people think we weren't serious.

TIMING Giuliani's insistence the money had nothing to do with the campaign is complicated by the fact that Daniels» silence was secured just days before the 2016 presidential election, and as Trump was dealing with the fallout from the «Access Hollywood» tape in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

But China is likely to complain about any eventual duties since Commerce will judge it as a «nonmarket» economy, despite Beijing's long - standing insistence that the state no longer determines prices.

The insistence on the value of other creatures seems to many liberation theologians to be an effort to impose on poor people unnecessary limits to the way they go about meeting their urgent needs.

Pentecostalism fuses a theology of divine immanence with an insistence that God will bring about the kingdom through a final, decisive in - breaking of Christ.

It has to do with compassion and vision, but there is also something frightening about it, a kind of desperate insistence.

What I like about Fox is their insistence on BOTH sides of any argument appear together to voice the argument of either side.

Furthermore, there seems to be specifically Christian wisdom at work in talk about the «ethics of long - range responsibility,» or in John Rawls's insistence that the notion of justice be expanded to include justice to future generations (A Theory of Justice [Harvard University Press, 1971]-RRB-.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Schlesinger's disingenuousness is seen in his insistence that he holds religion «in high regard,» which is about as believable as the claim, «some of my best friends are Jews,» when uttered by an anti-Semite.

Pastoral care's commitment to humanistic psychology — particularly its insistence that relationships must promote personal fulfillment — appears to trump concerns about children's need for stable families.

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

It was at Warren's insistence that Chrystal wrote her unvarnished book about Warren.

This emphasis on talking about change rather than actively trying to implement it runs directly counter to Dewey's insistence that the philosophy of education is «ultimately the most significant phase of philosophy.»

Or you have heard it presented like this: To be a Christian you must join the church — and then such insistence on sectarian peculiarities, or even such theories about the one true church, that finding the appeal utterly alien to your normal thinking, you have cried again, I can not.

One suspects that Scorsese's insistence on leaving it in suggests that either the artist in him rebelled against being told what he could or could not do, or some satanic impulse hinted that without that slight movement under the bedcovers, none of the publicity generated by fundamentalist protest would have come about.

The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are about sex and sexual activity.

To this day, I continue to feel rushed and afraid, (not to mention completely paranoid about birth control), despite my husband's insistence that we will share the responsibility of raising children equally.

He concludes: «The struggle for and insistence on possible and sensible use of the media of mass communication centres in the end on reflection about the church.»

For our negative theologian not to be a liar, there must be at least one true statement about God, and this is his insistence that all (other) statements about God are not true and thus must be negated.

For example, despite his insistence that what he does is different than what goes on in an Institutional Church, he still describes a group of people who sit in chairs arranged in a square, sing some songs from a book, and talk about spiritual things.

When Rollo May writes in his book Paulus (p. 113) about his friend and teacher Paul Tillich, he speaks about Tillich's relationships with others by saying, «His love for us was relentless in his... insistence on our best.

The quotation from Rollo May about his friend and teacher Paul Tillich shows that one of the ways in which genuine caring is manifested is precisely in the insistence that others shall «become what they truly are,» to use May's own phrase.

Recently I assigned a class Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation, a book that to my mind combines at a fairly systematic level many of the qualities I have been speaking about, most notably the insistence on the relation of Christian belief and life style.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

Even setting aside all those Romantic exaggerations about Juan's Promethean or Luciferian defiance of God, one can still say that his unwillingness to repent and his insistence on accepting that final dreadful invitation actually affirm both the existence of divine law and the godlike power of the soul to choose its own destruction.

If we admit that in some matters the Reformers were greatly mistaken, we are more free to recognize other areas where they may still be ahead of us: Calvin's insistence on a weekly Eucharist for the whole community or John Knox's stress on gathering the congregation about the Lord's table.

In so far as their proclamation about God involved novelty, this aspect was to be found in their insistence upon an absolute monotheism.

His colleague George Lindbeck added an insistence on the primacy of language over experience and a theory about religion as a cultural - symbolic medium.

This democratization of learning neatly fit into Luther's emphasis on the priesthood of all believers, Protestantism's view that individuals should make their own decisions about the future of their immortal souls, and the Renaissance insistence that learning and ideas should be available to all.

The popular picture of Jesus as one whose purpose was to proclaim truths about himself most often construes loyalty to him as insistence on the truth of those claims.

Peevan, I really don't care what you think of me... your insistence that you have to arm yourself with an AK to feel good about your limp dick also gives me the right to say exactly what the fvck I think about your willingness to keep letting kids get killed with your precious penile extention.

for God to have my believing, it can not be necessary for him to believe as I do, merely by virtue of some general proposition about part and whole... So your insistence that human believing within God must mean human believing by God, must rest on some special law of mind as a whole, not on a general law of wholes.

He prefers to meet the skepticism of his day about the second coming with a sturdy insistence on the old doctrine.

It differs from ordinary prefaces because it does not state who the author is; it resembles them in its statements about (1) the occasion of the work, (2) its reliance on trustworthy materials, and (3) its insistence upon the competence of the author.

There is no need to recall Haeckel's blasphemy about a gaseous vertebrate: suffice it to remind ourselves of the classical tradition of religious philosophy with its insistence that God can not be defined except in negatives — apoios, without quality, the ontos on, the thelon, (See Philo.

Much can also be gleaned on a pragmatic level about how best to open a church's arms to outsiders — not least Warren's insistence that the church gets no credit for new members, only for members turned into ministers.

I worry also about Warren's insistence that people want to be in church with people who are like them.

His principal contribution in The Lesser Evil is his insistence that moral reflection should be at the center of the discussion about how to confront terror, but readers should not regard this as the last word in that discussion.

That is to say, the fact of our death provides us with something we can readily enough forget or neglect — namely, the insistence that whatever we do, whatever we are, whatever we achieve, have about them the quality of finitude and mortality.

There is no baseless conclusion (belief) about there being no gods because it is the insistence upon having a basis upon which to draw a conclusion that leads back to the default position.

If you're friends with me, you've probably already heard me rave about the Life Changing Loaf of Bread and have also probably tried it (upon my insistence, of course).

For blogger bgh of Viva El Birdos, while things were looking up just days ago, the tale of this NLCS has unfortunately become about how the team's insistence on putting Chris Carpenter in the postseason rotation may spell its doom:

saying there will be plenty of teams calling about CJ in the offseason, despite Olshey's insistence that he's untouchable.

He was substituted, and the tweeters were happy that the point they had been making about Bilic's insistence to play him at right back had been proved.