Sentences with phrase «judgements about which»

These low external validity rates raise concerns about using these cross-national data sets to make judgements about which countries are higher or lower in victim rates.

«We have made a judgement about which will deliver homes within our 10 - year forecast horizon.

Not exact matches

These measures are calculated by excluding a proportion of extreme price changes, but unlike the exclusion - based measures, no judgement needs to be made about which particular items to exclude each period.

No More Page 3 is uncompromising in its judgement of what some consider a British institution, condemning the messages The Sun gives out to children and explaining how jarring it looks next to stories about rape and domestic violence, which supposedly display a more supportive attitude towards women's issues.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

Him: «I... often enjoy your messages but you do have a habit of making judgements about peoples motives which is more than a little irritating... my concern was your willingness to read into peoples posts motivations that are not there, that they have not said.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

Can anyone say retaliation??? Doesn't anyone see a problem with this time line??? Before anyone passes judgement on the Bishop which is very easy to do, try and think honestly and clearly about any options he could have taken.

There is no higher vantage point from which to make a judgement about how things «ought to be».

At Pentecost the disciples received the Holy Spirit, which teached them about the true character of Christ: On earth the Church has to share Christ's destiny to be rejected and to suffer up to Judgement Day.

There were false prophets saying peace peace in Israel's history and only a brave few that swam against the tide with warnings of something quite different — that Israel was apostate and about to face judgement which came to be true.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

The opposition is between the view that the further back you go, you go to more and more rudimentary judgements and the view that there is a real difference between perception and thought; and also that you don't in perception come down to a (Kantian) inchoate manifold which you work up with conceptual schemes, but that you come down to something given in sense - awareness about which you can say a great deal more than that.

Instead of a community of people exercising wise judgements about the general welfare or even acting out of enlightened self - interest, we have large groups of people expressing unexamined prejudices which are all too easily manipulated by those who control the mass media.

I make no judgement about something which, as a non-member, is no concern of mine; but if I were a member, then I should be forced to say that, in my opinion, if men were to be stationed at the doors of churches with whips to drive worshippers away, or inside the religious orders specifically to discourage vocations, or among the clergy to spread alarm and despondency, they could not hope to be as effective in achieving these ends as are trends and policies seemingly now dominant within the Church.

Forgiving the initial stoppage, which is a tough judgement call, he never should have talked to anyone about the replay and was not permitted to decide it was lethal after the fact.

Yet, right at the time when one would think that most Czechs are able to care only about things which bring them material profit, the bulk of the people in this country show that such a judgement would be harsh and unfair: thousands and thousands of them, all visibly moved, have been attending designated places (first a church near the Charles Bridge, later the Vladislav Hall in the Prague Castle) to bow down before the coffin of our former President, usually after waiting for hours in long lines.

Yet, right at the time when one would think that most Czechs are able to care only about things which bring them material profit, the bulk of the people in this country show that such a judgement would be harsh and unfair: thousands and thousands of them, all visibly moved, have been attending designated places (first a church near the Charles Bridge, later the Vladislav Hall in...

Our predictions are based on sets of statistical evidence for each constituency, which were used to make informed judgements about the probable outcome in each.

The story is particularly embarrassing because it was Ms May's own department which accepted the reasons for the judgement and many delegates quickly began joking about «cat-gate» on the conference's fringes.

Vicky Pryce has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice, in a judgement which raises questions about how much senior Liberal Democrats knew about the row before it hit the front pages.

Again the general impaired judgement and risk taking can lead to foolish stunts which could put others at risk as well as the drunk himself, like deciding to discharge a firearm for some insane reason while drunk without thinking about who may be hit.

«It's not about the culture secretary's judgement - it's about the prime minister's judgement which is so badly flawed even his deputy won't support him,» he added.

Iain Duncan Smith's «workfare» programme was branded illegal in October, when he lost an appeal against a court judgement which said the department had failed to give welfare claimants sufficient information about what would happen if they refused to take part in free work for high street companies.

The present system, in which MPs mark their own homework by passing judgement on each other about expenses wrongdoing, is appalling.

«Because the speech for the first time was not accompanied by the budget, we don't know yet the ramifications of everything that was being talked about in the speech,» de Blasio told reporters on Monday, «which is why I'll express my praise for some of the things I heard but until we see the details, and particularly the budgetary details, we can't pass a final judgement.

This time, the accuracy of their predictions fell to around 59 percent, and was even lower during trials in which the participants were not very confident about their judgement.

The lesson begins with an activity aimed at exploring how as humans we are conditioned into making judgements / assumptions about things which distort reality.

Graduation rates are still important, but if you're trying to make a judgement call about your current school or one you're interested in, try to get other information like how many kids are actually reaching the standards in reading, math, and science, and which groups of kids are making progress or falling further behind.

Ofsted's rankings illustrate these differences by ranking councils in terms of the inspection judgements made about schools in their areas, including academies which are outside of local authority control.

We are not suggesting that teachers should never plan activities which will support them to make judgements about their children or that they should rely exclusively upon serendipity for their assessments.

We still make a judgement about teacher effectiveness, but we do it annually in September, taking into account a whole range of mandatory evidence which the teacher provides:

just finished first draft on second BLOG for School Improvement Net on «Lesson Grades — considering judgements and moving on» i which I link this BLOG and say nice things about it!

He added: «Experts need the data to make a judgement about the extent to which the allocation of places at a regional level will meet local teacher supply needs.

It's true that you could mark a video as having adult content, but that is based on user judgement (my 6 year old daughter loves watching videos about makeup and hairstyles, which quickly led to «related videos» that included extreme body piercing and modifications... not something she should be watching just yet).

From an outsider's perspective, an immediate worry about this approach is that the site could potentially operate in a manner similar to a Hollywood focus group, encouraging authors (consciously or not) to cut anything difficult or alienating in favour of a blander, more widely acceptable middle ground — trying to appeal to all of the people all of the time rather than trusting the judgement of one auxiliary pair of eyes (speaking of which, professional editors probably won't be too chuffed either).

My GigaOM and paidContent colleagues Jeff Roberts and Laura Owen have written about the details of the judgement itself, and also about the potential impact on Apple and the ebook business as a whole, but what really interests me is the broader landscape in which the lawsuit sits, and how much of that has been determined by the digital - rights management infrastructure the Big Five publishers put in place.

We talk about these girls and the bachelor as if we know them, and can make judgement calls on which contestant might be the best fit for this highly edited «catch».

Gears of War Judgement is an origin story about Baird which, correct me if I'm wrong, but between the leader Marcus Phoenix, Dom the reserved one, and Cole Train who was the badass, wasn't Baird like the least interesting member of the Delta Team?

If a report by PS Lifestyle is to be believed, Sony is circulating a survey about the rumoured fighting title featuring PlayStation heroes, in which the publisher is asking for a judgement on the title PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale.

Inevitably, at the opening Tuymans was asked about the recent judgement by a Belgian civil court, which ruled that his painting A Belgian Politician (2011) infringed on the copyright of the Flemish photojournalist whose photograph inspired it.

The democratization of aesthetic judgement is reflected in a 1994 project of the Russian - born conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid in which they enlisted a poll service in several countries to widely survey the public about that characteristics that would make the best painting and the worst painting.

One could argue about which is most worthy based on number of cases, years of life lost, etc., but in the end it's clear that both diseases are worth combating and any ranking of one over the other is a value judgement.

I wouldn't want to pass judgement on Bengtsson's motivations (not knowing the man), but his actions undermined any confidentiality agreement the journal had with its reviewers (which surely Bengtsson would know about), as well as forced the reviewer to «out» himself if he was going to defend himself against Bengtsson's accusations.

If you do a Bayesian estimation based on what the model does over the 20th century or LGM etc, you have to start with a prior belief about the sensitivity, which may depend on your judgements about the «someone» who built the model.

If you do a Bayesian estimation based on what the planet does over the 20th century or LGM etc, you have to start with a prior belief about the sensitivity, which may depend on your judgements about the «someone» who built the planet.

By taking a unified stand and claiming the individual mandate was unconstitutional, the Republican Party, conservative think tanks, right - wing media and Republican activists helped create a climate of controversy about the legislation, which then pressured the mainstream media to report on the controversy, which then created a cloud of doubt among the public, which ultimately created an environment in which the right - leaning members of the Supreme Court could make a judgement that may have looked radical or outrageous if not for the contextual cover provide by permission structure.

We say this because the division of powers part of the judgement (commencing at para 98) is full of all sorts of references to two levels of government (see e.g. para 141) and similar comments about «interlocking federal and provincial schemes» that make it abundantly clear that this Court has given no thought to the space within which indigenous laws may operate within the modern constitutional order (for recognition that the law making authority of aboriginal peoples pre-dated the Crown's acquisition of sovereignty, was not extinguished by that acquisition of sovereignty and was not impaired by the division of legislative powers between the federal and provincial governments in 1982 see Campbell v British Columbia (2000), 189 DLR (4th) 333 (BCSC) and Justice Deschamps in Beckman v Little Salmon / Carmacks First Nation, [2010] 3 SCR 103 at para 97).