Sentences with phrase «justified by claims»

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly

«The threat of inspection is now becoming a convenient stick with which to beat teachers, with poor management practices being justified by claims they are required by inspection.

They justified themselves by claiming they were humane: they did not touch people, they only attacked objects.

Not exact matches

Monday's decision overturned a March 2013 dismissal by U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan of antitrust claims that could justify triple damages.

During a conference call last year, chief financial officer Grant Isaac justified the European office by claiming the majority of its customers reside outside Canada.

It did so before the claim was fully justified, but by placing it in the public arena, it gave employees an incentive to match the Japanese.

The Minister justified getting rid of prudence by claiming that the risks are balanced and therefore a prudence reserve is not required.

It seems that more and more people justify investing in cryptocurrencies — even at current record prices — by claiming that they're an effective hedge against the instability of fiat currencies.

BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

On the other hand, when we have a church dinner in which the food is supplied by church funds, how can I justify claiming all of my church donations as tax exempt?

Saul justified his fatal decision by blaming Samuel for being late and then claiming he had felt «compelled» to offer the sacrifice (1 Samuel 13:12).

I find that Whitehead's exposition is question - begging and seriously misleading.4 The exposition is misleading insofar as it suggests that belief in either a specific or generic causal nexus is adequately justified by a subject's experience of CE alone and not ultimately by systematic considerations, particularly those related to prehension.5 If Whitehead's theory of perception was intended to stand alone without support from the rest of his system, as Ford suggests (EWM 181 - 182), then I claim that it is insufficiently justified insofar as a part of it, the theory of CE, is inadequately justified.

You can not make your claim without demonstrating that atheism, by itself, is sufficient to justify mass murder.

* In the Balkans we recently experienced the dark side of religion at its worst: Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Islamists all justifying their tribal blood lust by a claim to special Divine Favor.

With Davidson he affirms a strong version of philosophical antifoundationalism, claiming that beliefs can be justified only by other beliefs.

«Life - style» justifies any way of life, as does «value» any opinion» (p. 235) Attempts by Freud and Marx and their followers to reshape our understandings are not only wrong, Bloom claims, but boring.

We often cover our unbelief in sweet theological nothings: And beyond our nagging doubts, we are troubled by the implications that we as modern believers might be forced to draw were we to face up rationally to our claim to have been justified by Christ's blood.

John Rawls justified his particular constraints on public discourse in part by claiming that natural - law theorists («rationalist believers») deny «the fact of reasonable pluralism» when giving public reasons.

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

«Conservatism» is term people use to justify whatever their own beliefs are by attributing them to the past and thus claiming this validates them.

Muslims try to justify this early violence by claiming that mohammad and his followers «suffered persecution» at the hands of the Meccans in an earlier episode, in which mohammad was evicted from the city of Mecca and had to seek refuge at Medina.

This poll was cited by the Islamic Republic News Agency, to justify the rather different claim that «A majority of Christians around the world [the Tablet's email poll to its newsletter subscribers could hardly be said to so representative] believe the Pope should not have quoted derogatory statements against Islam».

We must not try to justify service for our neighbor by claiming that it will «help us» in our evangelism».24

The declaration makes for good class discussion, but whenever I asked my classes to evaluate Freud's claim that science is the only reliable road to truth, it did not take them long to recognize that the claim itself is logically self - defeating, since it could never be justified by any conceivable scientific experiment.

These are the same people who tried to justify banning a full - body swimsuit from public pools by claiming it's not «hygenic.»

People speaking out against bigotry and hate by people who use their religious beliefs to justify depriving others of the human rights the religious claim for themselves by virtue of their beliefs.

It is just deceptive to use the label Christian by those who feel fully justified in rejecting it as apostate, and claiming to have «restored» the original intent.

Second, he tried to justify his unjustifiable behavior by claiming that he was trying to be «absurd» and «humorous.»

Those who claim to be Christians often justify their oppression of the poor by saying that the poor will have their reward in heaven.

Metz is convinced that faith can not accept this relativization, and accordingly it is an essential task of fundamental theology... to defend, justify or give an account of the authenticity of religion, in opposition to those systems that claim to be meta - theories of theology».6 It can not do this by developing a still more comprehensive overview.

If those of us engaged in teaching the privileged are to justify our work, it can not be only by claiming that we enrich the experience of our students.

As my explication of and commentary on the text of the Enquiry proceeds, it should become clear that the picture suggested later by The Concept of Nature, a picture that represents Whitehead as dogmatically claiming that»... there is but one nature, namely the nature that is before us in perceptual knowledge» (CN 40), is, however justified by contextual evidence, a distortion by way of an oversimplification of the deliverances of a mind greatly occupied with issues at once subtle and complex.

It remains laissez - faire in its approach to social welfare and justice, and justifies this stance by claiming the state has no ability (rather than no right or no reason) to intervene in such matters.

And yet in the jurisdictional struggle between church courts and common law courts Coke not only claimed the latter's superiority but justified the claim by reference to common law tradition.20 In so doing he effectively sided with Puritanism in its struggle against Anglican traditionalism.

They justify their supereminence by claiming a special technical or managerial competence.

With the proclamation of the Kingdom by Jesus on the one hand and this parable on the other, we are justified in arguing that Jesus, for all the claims he made and implied about the significance of his ministry and message, none the less looked forward to a consummation to which this was related as seed - time to harvest.

I even tried to justify my actions by claiming that my caramels actually were medicin.

That's different from «feeling delight» over an injury because it makes someone else feel pain and then trying to justify it by a broad claim of them having it coming.

The Sun have since claimed Real are plotting a move for Pogba and Ince believes the 24 - year - old would be perfectly justified in looking to leave as he can understand why he'd be frustrated with being shackled by Mourinho.

Wenger justify my claim by the comments he made today on cazorla and Coquelin.

He justified his wages, then reported to be # 50,000 a week, by claiming that he deserves them because he entertains people, just as movie stars do.

To preserve their sense of being a good person, they justify their abusive behaviors by shifting the responsibility for their decisions onto their partner and claim the betrayed is to blame.

And I just want to add that it's pathetically naive to justify attending by claiming you will be better able to influence this conglomerate.

On the rare occasion that I reach my underground station and realise I've left my Oyster card at home, I get a Travelcard and claim it back through IPSA, justifying it by saying that I'd had to travel from Westminster to the constituency that day.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, the claim by BOST that this contaminated product was sold at a competitive ex-depot price is false and can not be justified.

MPs justified themselves in the expenses scandal by protesting that they hadn't broken a rule; maybe they didn't need to claim for a second house but doing so was allowed and therefore no wrong was perpetrated.

The stadium, at a $ 70 million investment, cost more than three times the projected amount listed by the Fishkind report, which was what Ramapo used to justify its investment in the project, claimed Rhodes.