Sentences with phrase «judgment of certain»

But it's also an accurate judgment of certain people.

We suggest that the Legislature consider such a change to avoid potential claims that the filing of judgments of certain foreign nations, without prior notice and the opportunity to be heard, may result in an unconstitutional taking of property without due process of law.

Not exact matches

But there is always a certain amount of judgment in forecasting, and there is no benchmark for analyzing the Trump effect.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Albert Einstein would later write about her, «Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgment - all these were of a kind seldom found in a single individual... Once she had recognized a certain way as a right one, she pursued it without compromise and with extreme tenacity.»

Calculating the CABB requires a certain number of judgment calls in extracting the business cycle from the trend, so no two sets of estimates will be exactly alike.

Mr. Morley is seeking a judgment and order that Square, Mr. Dorsey, and Mr. McKelvey hold ownership of Square in constructive trust for Mr. Morley, as well as a variety of damages, injunctive relief, royalties, and correction of inventorship of certain of our patents.

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

The fact that certain rights were intentionally omitted from the documents compared to typical VC financing documents is a judgment call that requires the guidance of an experienced attorney.

While only 6 % of respondents were peaceful to cruise using cryptocurrencies in their retirement plans, another 14 % were meddlesome in the judgment but not certain that Bitcoin or identical vehicles were right for them.

(Though not eternal, certain forms of judgment always befall us the here - and - now when we sin, and Jesus does not desire we experience such personal and relational destruction).

Religion often demands that you do the opposite to science and reject what the objectively observed evidence is, allowing your bias towards certain predetermined beliefs to rule your judgment of things instead.

Or if at the outset a man does the opposite, and he is then so fortunate as to have the judgment of the crowd express itself to the contrary, then he can be fairly certain that he has laid hold of the right thing.

«One thing only do I know for certain,» he wrote in Civilization and Its Discontents, «and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness — that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with argument.»

I do not know for certain how we weigh these matters or make these judgments, but, speaking only for myself, I must say that Bambi is a more profound book than Charlotte's Web, probing more deeply the mystery of mortality.

What is not so certain are some of his judgments about that evidence.

Calvin, Institutes, I.vii.5: «Enlightened by him (the Spirit), no longer do we believe that Scripture is from God on the basis of either our judgment or that of others; but, in a way that surpasses human judgment, we are made absolutely certain, just as if we beheld there the majesty (numen) of God himself, that it has come to us by the ministry of men from God's very mouth....

If we reject the means by which God extends grace and mercy to us, and want to depend instead on the blood of bulls and goats, then there is no chance of forgiveness, but instead have only a «certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation» (Heb 10:27).

«I think if we change that step and really become students of each other's narratives and ask questions about why people perceive certain things in a certain way instead of jumping to judgment, then I think we'll be better equipped to have more diversity in local churches.»

However, it is desirable in schools to shift the weight strongly in the direction of individual discursive qualitative judgments and to reserve the numerical ranking solely for situations where competitive ratings are of the essence, as in scholarship allocation, honors citations, and certain job placement recommendations.

In the aristocratic view it is assumed that esthetic judgments are relevant only to certain kinds of activity and are reserved for the aristocracy only.

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.

The conscious judgment that a certain argument or a certain type of argument is invalid is first the product of unconscious thought.

Students may still be encouraged to come to their judgments as to what is the best way to study the phenomenon of religion, the solution of certain historical puzzles, the relation of religion to other aspects of culture, and so forth.

If we ask: by what is it manifest, by what is it promised with historical clarity and in created, objective form (and not only in the never absolutely certain testimony to grace of the mind in the depth of conscience) to the world of all ages, that it stands under the mercy and not under the judgment of God, the only answer can be: solely through Christ and his Body which is the Church.

The activities of both the seasoned corporation officer and the bright new initiate are oriented in terms of common values, shared judgments concerning the desirability of certain ends.

The imaginative pictures of the myth provided an expression of their faith that the divine judgment was already certain even in their own time though it was not yet clearly to be seen.

The souls preserved in the underworld were already experiencing either punishment or consolation, as in their time of waiting, they anticipated the certain judgment yet to come.

In point of fact, such is the natural order followed by our rational knowledge: we first conceive certain beings, then we define their essences, and last we affirm their existence by means of a judgment.

Having experienced, first hand, the devastating effects of rejection and judgment, Jennifer knows full well the challenges of being «out» in certain faith communities.

Basketball fans believe that they can be as certain about judgments of better and worse as chemists are in deciding whether a given compound is sugar or salt.

Hebrews10.26 - 31 «For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

So, too, I can not share Cobb's judgment that there must be some other standard than its intrinsic philosophical excellence which enables us to decide for a certain form of natural theology.

For appropriateness entails a judgment about a certain text - as - interpreted, within which «propositions reside; it is not a judgment made in the interpretation of a text.6 In other words, although «process hermeneutics» proposes that theology attend to «propositions» in Scripture - as - interpreted, this proposal is impartial, at least initially, to any proposition; that is, it is materially indeterminate.7

A similar judgment is tendered by William Seager, who points out that if the psychological is supervenient upon the physical, it is so in a way that is crucially different from the way in which liquidity is supervenient upon certain molecular states, because we have no idea as to why the joint activity of insentient neurons should give rise to consciousness (MC 179).

In my judgment, this is an undesirable confusion of basic terms in Whitehead's philosophy, so that in the end one is no longer certain of what is meant either by an actual entity or by a nexus.

Jews should understand that Christian disagreement with certain political policies of the state of Israel entails a theological as well as a political judgment.

For the text to be taken as testimony, as relevatory, judgment must be made about objective characteristics, above all what Ricoeur calls in Interpretation Theory its «self reference,» its claims to represent an «I» or a «we» engaged in a certain past «event of discourse.

For how else are we to carry a certain idea of justice or goodness to extremes if not by conforming our judgment of eminence to the testimony given outside of us in history by the words, the deeds, and the lives of certain exceptional people who are not necessarily famous, but who testify by their excellence to that very way of eminence that reflection attempts to reproduce in itself and for itself?

My judgment is that this conventional scheme is still useful provided one avoids certain misunderstandings that an unthinking use of it may perhaps encourage.

I hardly have to say, I think, that in my judgment the strictly metaphysical reflections of a certain form of process philosophy provide a unique resource for Christian theology.

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There are certain ways of speaking about Jesus which imply, or even come near to stating, that Jesus did something to change the attitude of God to men, that somehow Jesus changed God's wrath into love, that somehow Jesus persuaded God to hold his hand and to pacify his anger to withhold his judgment of condemnation, that, to put it very crudely, Jesus by his sufferings and his death bought off God.

If the answer to the first question is no, then we may say that no judgment of the form, «I ought to act in a certain way,» is warranted.

Deuteronomy 19:15 - 21 makes the point even more emphatic that lex talionis is in Israel not a universally binding principle, but an ancient item of elemental justice still appropriate and applicable only in certain particular judgments.

It is also emphatically to be observed that in very fact the principle of exact retaliation is not normative in the Old Testament; that the law is demonstrably of Canaanite formulation as it appears here, borrowed for an interim period by Israel, and retained only for certain particular cases as a norm of judgment in specific instances of injury.

We may wish to suspend judgment on the ultimate meaning of human existence, but in actual fact we find ourselves compelled to act as if certain things were true and certain values more important than others.

I suspect a profound ambivalence in certain democratic denunciations of Hitlerism, for in the violence of the tone and the obstinate simplism of the judgments, we betray our bad conscience, our secret anxiety, our unacknowledged temptation.

We have come more and more to mirror our culture, or certain strands within it, rather than to speak to it an effective word of judgment or healing.

This approach allows relative judgments that certain categories of acts are likely to be negative, but no absolutes.