Sentences with phrase «intellectual weakness of»

This was not focused on at today's meeting, and was an intellectual weakness of the meeting today.

The very intellectual weakness of keeping science at arm's length invites the dominant dualistic mindset to interpret scientific as well as other observational data in a reductive manner, which leads to nominalism.

He regularly helps with the Tory leader's most important speeches and gave 2007's definitive speech on the intellectual weaknesses of Gordon Brown.

We could go on with other intellectual weaknesses of the CPI — substitution effects, owners equivalent rent and hedonics, none of which are theoretically wrong, but which are applied wrongly, and lead to an underestimate of inflation.

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He said this included an insistence by one supervisor that he join a special program to prepare for the Series 7 broker examination because blacks» «intellectual weakness» left them «inherently less capable» of passing, the complaint said.

The Rev. Thomas Reese, author of «Inside the Vatican,» said Benedict's greatest strength was that he was an intellectual and a teacher - but that was also his greatest weakness.

This weakness could not become conscious until a sufficient number of American Catholic intellectuals were formed; and they were being formed in the»30s and»40s.

Moffett further states that in the opinion of some western scholars, another reason for the weakness and final disappearance of Asian Christianity was the inferior intellectual character of its theologians.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Sammy Awuku, does that mean that Nana Akuffo Addo is participating in the IEA Debate because Edward Mahama and Ivor Greenstreet shall do your bidding to cover the intellectual weakness and shallow outmoded gold coast policies of NPP Presidential Candidate?

In the end, we may need to accept the fact that the school's - and the state's - role in this domain is simply limited: by its meager portion of children's lives, by its pedagogical weakness, by the absence of political and intellectual consensus, and by the modest capabilities of state standards and tests.

A MIDAS ™ Profile provides a descriptive narrative of each students» intellectual strengths, weaknesses and interests so you may personalize instruction to improve motivation.

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Rather, using as a vantage point their situation as underdogs in the realm of grandeur, and outsiders in that of ideology, women can reveal institutional and intellectual weaknesses in general, and, at the same time that they destroy false consciousness, take part in the creation of institutions in which clear thought — and true greatness — are challenges open to anyone, man or woman, courageous enough to take the necessary risk, the leap into the unknown.

As Morrison described intellectuals during the 1930's: Polarization being a weakness of intellectuals, many young scientists believing that capitalism was finished turned to the popular ideologies of the day, Communism and Fascism.

Kristin also counsels companies, venture capitalists, angel investors, and individual investors by helping them evaluate the viability of patent portfolio assets and properly understand the strengths and weaknesses of the intellectual property assets which enables them to make critical investment decisions.

I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and intellectual property rights will have the effect of slowing down or sometimes even blocking this from happening.