Sentences with phrase «leaving open the possibility»

The website does leave open some possibility that the concert promoters» policy could change someday, noting that if the marijuana rules at Coachella change, «we will update this answer.»

But he stopped short of declaring the song in the public domain, leaving open the possibility that others may hold the copyright and setting the stage for a trial.

The U.S. has agreed in principle with Argentina, Australia and Brazil on «alternative means» to address steel tariffs for now, but the White House said if these alternatives aren't finalized shortly, it leaves open the possibility of reimposing tariffs.

Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono left open the possibility that Abe might meet Kim at some point.

However, it left open the possibility that the hotel could voluntarily disclose that information to law enforcement officials.

But he said there was «tremendous cost pressure» at GM at the time, and he left open the possibility that it influenced the automaker's handling of the problem.

However, his responses leave open the possibility he could have been involved in another way.

Kirby's remarks left open the possibility the White House might decide not to send more advisers or to provide more hands - on help to Baghdad's troops.

White House officials scrambled Wednesday to calm both the markets and Republicans, leaving open the possibility that some tariffs ultimately won't be implemented if China lowers barriers to U.S. exports.

A copy of the restraining order, obtained by The Times and first reported by NBC News, left open the possibility that it could be modified in the future.

As my colleague David Graham wrote, the letter from Trump's lawyers that Trump proffered on the subject last week «doesn't define several key terms,» leaving open the possibility that one of Trump's projects benefited from Russian funding through a pass - through corporation or another intermediary.

Another possibility, though, is that Cohen's denial of a Prague visit is in fact technically correct, but misleading in some respect — after all, his denials have been very specific to the city of Prague itself, which would seem to leave open the possibility of a similar meeting to the one alleged that took place in some other nearby city or town.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

The company also left open the possibility of upgrades later if negative seasonal factors don't impact it to the same extent they have in the past.

Trump's business conflicts with America's national security interests can not be resolved so long as he or any member of his family maintains a financial interest in the Trump Organization during a Trump administration, or even if they leave open the possibility of returning to the company later.

That leaves open the possibility that there were parts of the memo that were true.

However, without naming blockchain technology specifically, Durkin went on to indicate that the CME is nonetheless interested in ways that «technologies associated with [digitization]... might further complement [CME's] client needs,» leaving open the possibility of integrating certain services with a blockchain environment.

It was a forecast that allowed plenty of room for enthusiasm, as it also left open the possibility of disappointment.

The investor also leaves open the possibility that if the bonds» price rises, he or she can ignore the put option and sell the bonds at a higher price.

The framework did seem to leave open the possibility of a direct reform.

The Fed said it would not take any more steps to help the economy for now, but it left open the possibility of more steps later.

(REUTERS)-- The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged today in a nod to concerns about a weak world economy, but left open the possibility of a modest policy tightening later this year.

If you don't know, then admit it and leave open the possibility that God did it.

The discussion thus far has left open the possibility that events that are really present have their effect only through the mediation of temporally intervening events.

I am still an atheist by definition because I do not believe in any Gods even though I leave open the possibility that one or more exists.

Therefore, given the amount of room there is, does that leave open the possibility of a god (maybe not the Christian God or any other god we know about) that is out there?

I have been concerned to demonstrate that Camus» writings leave open the possibility of God as understood by Whitehead, and that Camus» thoughts on rebellion and its source in the beauty of nature are compatible with and made consistent by a process notion of God.

Goss is not concerned here with the validity of Whitehead's conception of God, but rather to demonstrate that Camus» writings leave open the possibility of God as understood by Whitehead, and that Camus» thoughts on rebellion and its source in the beauty of nature are compatible with and made consistent by a process notion of God.

But whereas Justin was eventually able to reconcile his sexuality with his faith and with Scripture in such a way that has left open the possibility for a relationship with a man in his future, Wesley says that «my own story, by contrast, is a story of feeling spiritually hindered rather than helped by my homosexuality.

We disagree in that whereas I leave open the possibility of exploring an alternative mode of relation, he wishes to foreclose this.

It leaves open the possibility that men and women can please God while still at enmity with one another and having contempt and disregard for the rest of creation.

In chapter 1 of that work Hartshorne distinguishes between absolute unsurpassability, impossibility of being surpassed by anyone, even oneself, and relative unsurpassability, impossibility of being surpassed by anyone else, but leaving open the possibility of being surpassed by oneself.29 This distinction has a point only for a temporal being.

Refraining from executing even those persons who may deserve execution is the way — the only way — in which to avert the occasional execution of persons mistakenly convicted, and to leave open the possibility of their exoneration.

One can thus see how the translators rendered the Latin subjunctive fiat as «let it be done,» leaving open the possibility of readers interpreting it as a command, concession, or — what I think is the most compelling, grammatically — a wish construction.

The fact that he leaves open the possibility of failure for the Christian enterprise also suggests that he does not ignore it.

To argue that this leaves open the possibility that there are other noncognitive occasions that lack mentality strains the text.

This leaves open the possibility that Mary on Friday and Mary on Monday are somewhat different realities, both quantitatively (one is older than the other) and qualitatively (Mary on Monday has actually had experiences over the weekend which Mary on Friday could only imagine)(OOTM 104 - 5).

But if any knowledge of God mediated by psychical concepts would leave open the possibility of its being merely symbolic instead of truly analogical, what could rule out this possibility?

Does the lack of explicitness in the Apostle's Creed leave open the possibility that a pastor or church could ignore the pressing issues of social justice, kingdom living, and earth - care, among many others?

The statistics left open the possibility that the cost of growth might soon exceed the benefits of growth.

That this first step is an error is indicated by Searle himself in his allusion to the bipolar (private and public) character of conscious awareness, which prompts one to ask whether most scientific approaches to the problem of consciousness are vitiated at the outset by a failure to leave open the possibility of an indissociable bipolarity in key ideas (such as public - private, subjective - objective, and body - mind).

Their invectives against the substitution of ritualistic correctness for righteousness leave open this possibility, and of the greater prophets Ezekiel alone, standing on the threshold of the postexilic period, expressly calls for a purified ritual as an integral part of the worship of Yahweh.

And since all three leave open possibilities for maladaptive reactions, it becomes exceedingly difficult to pin down what constitutes complexity and what the effects of complexity may be.

Faith needs a philosophy that does not exclude metaphysical reflection and whose reflection leaves open the possibility of affirming the reality of God.

Genuine dialogue, leaving open the possibility of mutual change, is by definition unknown to fundamentalists.

-- for it leaves open the possibility that we can act in a morally blameless way.

There seems to be a succession of experiences, but (if the succession is a continuum) there are no single experiences» (M, 286); (2) that Peirce «fell into a subtle but complete mistake» when he held that since «continuity leaves open possibilities which discontinuity excludes... the burden of proof is upon discontinuity» (MR, 467 - 68); (3) that «he could not, in the continuum of becoming which he posited, give meaning to the idea of a definite single event» (M, 287).

Finally, as I have already noted, the assertion of values left open the possibility that those of any class or status might claim to embody them.

Being clearly outside the ethnic and racial category of a Venetian or European Christian leaves open the possibility — the suspicion — that he may be dangerously close to a particular category of «Other»: the Turks.

It does not reduce mind to palpable 19th - century matter, nor even to a something situated in physical space; and it leaves open the possibility of other, non-objectivating modes of encountering mind, in which another «Thou» is met.