Sentences with phrase «is an open question»

Whether the projects will pay off down the road is an open question: Some critics argue that China is funding them indiscriminately in a global pork - barrel push to build alliances.

The newspaper recently eclipsed the Times in monthly visitors, but it's an open question whether that's drive - by traffic or long - term readership

Just how quickly that desperately needed competition will arrive, however, is an open question.

Company insiders say they are not selling well — though whether that's due to varying American tastes or other factors is an open question.

Unfortunately Mr. Bruening does not provide any empirical evidence on his three proposals, so whether or not they are valid in practice is an open question.

Although just how associated Kodak wants to be with the device is an open question.

Whether any of these upcoming shows will be a hit is an open question.

The company's future is an open question, given its lack of presence or traction in key markets that matter, such as smartphones and tablets.

That's an open question, and a very tall order for Spiegel and Snap's leadership.

Whether the company can deliver visionary new, reality - defying products that become bonafide hits is an open question, although critics would point out that Apple has largely failed to do so throughout its history without Steve Jobs» involvement.

Even if regulators approve the combo, which is an open question, AT&T will have to bet that owning creative content is better than just providing the pipes and towers that get it to customers.

This was the opening question asked by Vanity Fair special correspondent Sarah Ellison during a powerful session at Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit in Washington, D.C. this morning, shortly after former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson took the stage.

Whether Disney can manage to extend its successful track record with Marvel is an open question.

He agreed, however, that it's an open question: «We are actively asking ourselves about whether or not good governance might mean something different to family firms, and that's the next place we hope to take our research.»

It's an open question whether that will still be the case in 2018.

«Obviously there's an open question about what Google's incentives are.

It's an open question whether he can even attract qualified people.

In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.

It's an open question, I guess, who is more susceptible to incentives.

Whether there will be any short - term relief when it comes to valuations is an open question.

If it is phased out, what will replace it in order to help maintain the financial integrity of Canadian broadcasting is an open question at this point.

Where we go from here is an open question.

These are all open questions that will determine where stocks go from here.

Now it's an open question whether the US will turn its attention to other Chinese firms — like Alibaba, which has been working to grow its US presence, and Tencent, which has been pushing its online payment service, WeChat Pay.

Whether an 8 3/4 or 9 1/2 per cent mortgage rate is a real bargain in a country with an underlying rate of inflation of 2 per cent is an open question, but the public seem to think it is.

It's an open question whether we'll see that level of prospective return in the next market cycle, but even if we touch that level of prospective returns 5 or 6 years from now, stocks will have gone nowhere in the interim (including dividends).

What happens to Kingdom's stakes in these companies now is an open question.

If the market survives, I feel confident that stocks would outperform inflation — but how much is the open question.

Whether these eye - popping gains in commodities and related ETFs can be maintained is an open question.

Whether DeMoss can help soften the evangelical line toward Mormons is an open question.

It is an open question as to whether the outcome is different if the first lines read: «Vice is a spectacle of so ludicrous mien, / As to be laughed at needs but to be seen.»

Whether this commitment will truly direct actions is an open question.

Whether Jesus ever delivered such a prolonged diatribe is an open question.

In most of the ancient manuscripts the Gospel according to Mark ends with 16.8: whether he deliberately stopped there, or meant to write more but was prevented, or did write a conclusion which was afterwards lost, is an open question.

At the very least, it is an open question whether a nuclear freeze today would enhance the world's safety.

Both are opening questions that speak to some very core issues in the debate.

Thus whether the data of CE are reliable or not would not be an open question, because they could not fail to be reliable.

I have concluded that the experience of CE does not in itself have objective epistemic significance, because whether it is reliable is an open question and it is not self - justifying Furthermore even if taking the experience of CE as veridical is justified systematically by the direct perception underwritten by prehension, nevertheless the sense in which such direct perception is reliable is epistemically disappointing, since it is external to the subject and does not necessarily involve any propositional knowledge on its part.

Whitehead's exposition appears to be question - begging, since he appears to assume that what he describes is an (accurate) experience of CE, whereas it is an open question for the subject whether the experience is accurate or not, whether it is an experience of actual CE or only an experience believed to be of CE.

Even as conservative a Catholic moral theologian as Thomas J. O'Donnell admits that AIH was an open question in theory and in practice before 1949 (see Medicine and Christian Morality [Alba House, 1976], p. 266).

But it is an open question how much solid improvement has come in consequence.

was the opening question of his Gifford Lectures, and this question represents the core of his thought, his controlling theological principle.

Thus, he quotes Daniel Maguire as declaring that «the morality of terminating life, innocent or not, is an open question although it is widely treated as a closed one.»

Now that the Rebbe is dead, it is an open question whether or not Schneerson's successors (whoever they turn out to be) will bring about such a redefinition.

Even for him the only result was an open question.

Or we are confessing something to be an open question.

That is an open question.

Implicit in that affirmation is the suggestion that the issue is not settled even for us settled secure North Americans, but is an open question with risks.

Whether American evangelicals were up to the challenges of this rapidly changing world was an open question.

Whether real health care reform can be built on this foundation is an open question.