Sentences with phrase «make particular points»

Share information about yourself, as appropriate, to build trust and to make particular points.

However, is there a theological point being made in all this or is this merely a matter of stringing proof - texts together to make a particular point?

And he was, after all, making a particular point here.

I may not agree with everything she says, but at least her points are thought out and pretty well articulated, unlike a lot of the posts here which are childish, and make no particular point at all.

Which makes this particular point singularly worthless.

If I remember correctly, Spitzer made a particular point of insisting his administration would be blind to political affiliation when hiring, and his appointments office came under fire for not moving quickly enough to suit rank - and - file Democrats in cleaning house of Pataki - era appointees.

A spokesman for Corbyn said: «Trolling and abuse on the internet and abuse on social media has been absolutely roundly denounced repeatedly by Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership, he's made a particular point of saying he completely rejects it.

But as observed, cougarlife.com doesn't make any particular point as to who can be a member, which is the reason you will also find some of the best young cubs on the website waiting for the seductive cougar.

Yes, Manulife makes a particular point of this in their loan agreements.

Looking to, perhaps, avoid the mistakes of its Xbox One reveal, Spencer also made a particular point of emphasizing Scorpio's backwards compatibility with the Xbox One family.

Not exact matches

Images without descriptions leave it to the user's imagination as to why you pinned that particular item or what point you were trying to make.

When a VC asks a founder why they made that part of the product red, or why this button works in this particular way, that founder has the knowledge of 30 user stories and 10 data points that inform them and have colored all of their decisions.

Bezos, in particular, demonstrates a key point of the report: The super rich are accumulating wealth faster, making it harder and harder to break into the club.

«The point of this bill in those states that get a waiver to do what they need to do to make it work better in their particular states has support exactly for that very person who, if, in the course between a year, get extra aid for support for pre-existing conditions,» Ryan explained, citing what he said were successful examples in Wisconsin and Maine.

That constraint made sense in a physical world: a business that invested heavily in printing presses and delivery trucks didn't really have a choice but to stick the product and the business model together, but now that everything — text, video, audio files, you name it — are 1's and 0's, what is the point in limiting one's thinking to a particular configuration of those 1's and 0's?»

I think it would be hard to make a bet that someone is not going to be an entrepreneur based on their skills and proclivities or at a particular point in their life.

Anchoring involves creating a mental reference point that influences our appraisal of subsequent conditions, and this influence can assume particular gravity in our decision - making processes when we confront uncertain environments.

Providers will make it a point to give the necessary aid to help these programs run full speed ahead and guarantee that these projects get to run out smoothly, as in general, nonprofit organizations are similarly insured as those who are in the private sectors, there are just some particular needs, ideals and requirements that they have to accomplish for them to be able to provide the necessary policies for those who work within their businesses.

excerpt: «First of all, if you did not do so yesterday, please take the time to read Kevin Carmichael's look at the trip, and in particular how pack journalism narratives have formed, but he makes very relevant points about the political dynamics and the regional politics of India that the Canadian media is completely ignoring.»

I think the particular point you are making in this post is also rather insightful — a bit of Buffet - think!

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

I'm no particular friend of Piper or of Margaret Thatcher, but on the occasion of her funeral Diane Francis wrote a piece on feminism which makes interesting points.

What makes the message of Mystic River doubly powerful is that the audience knows Dave is innocent (of this particular crime at least) and can only watch as his former friend first stabs him and then shoots him at point blank range.

The point applies to our choices about gender identity — especially the choices our children will have to make as they grow up, unlike us, having no choice but to choose in this particular marketplace.

I only use that issue to make my point — and in this particular post of yours, I will not get into the issue with anyone in this instance.

St. John makes the same point in his own particular language.

The point I was attempting to make with Michael is that his claims of some sort of visual (substantive) evidence for his particular brand of faith is baseless.

We must regain the ideal that our political process must make men better, because it now makes them sick — and i'm not pointing to the particular and awful act of terrorism that shocked us this last week, but as you say to the general atmosphere of our political life.

Thus far I have discussed the need for speculation in natural theology with regard to particular doctrines; but the point can be made more globally.

I will make four points, which are meant to have relevance beyond this particular issue.

O'Malley is especially single - minded in eschewing the use of terminology such as «liberal» or «conservative», making the valid point that such broad groupings were not easily identifiable at the time and were often marked by a certain fluidity in connection with particular issues.

But of course Tosh (with his particular humor) is making exactly the same point the author is.

Christopher Calderhead, author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case of a modern book the reader is the first to see any particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.

No attempt is made to take sides in the controversy, except on one particular point — viz., in the essays which have been selected for inclusion.

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

In addition to the lack of coordination among the bilateral and multilateral dialogues and to the problem of achieving, within the Churches, a binding reception of the results of dialogue, Raiser mentions one reason in particular that makes this reception of the results of dialogue difficult: «The paths thus far traveled «in the ecumenical movement have taken the separated Churches as their starting point and sought to overcome the division by convergence and formal agreement.»

Even if we determine the meanings the writer had in mind when he used a particular phrase, the very fact that we have to make an effort to see his point reveals that he no longer communicates directly.

[4] Humanae Vitae makes the point quite clearly: «a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife» (no. 13).

Another way to make a similar point is to say that the Christian experience of compassionate Wisdom has led to belief that this Wisdom calls us to act in particular ways at particular times.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

I have no interest in making such an argument, but I would insist that those who believe the story happened and those who believe it did not — or, at any rate, do not believe that it did — should both recognize that their beliefs at this particular point are largely irrelevant.

Your point makes sense only with a particular (and forgive my boldness in saying «shallow») reading of the Bible.

DE: I'd say that the bounding of a particular sense - awareness, when you are making it narrower and wider, will be in terms of some emphasis point — what attention fastens on and what becomes background.

Different genres of movies portray information differently, and so just as you would not expect accurate history and science to come from a love story, even documentaries, which often do portray accurate history and science, reveal history and science from a particular perspective, carefully selecting material to make a certain point, or tell a certain story.

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.

For this particular scenario yes, but overall they would also have to stop shoving religion in everyone's faces, stop indoctrinating their children (hey wasn't the point of this article about how god lets his children make their own choices?)

In particular, Oppenheimer points out the reality that both the NFL and Christian churches make their home on Sundays, «and 50 years into [the] national experiment of mixing the two, it is not at all clear that faith has won the day.»

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Consequently, far more to the point would be the deliberate development and institutionalization of practices within and among theological schools that would make prominent the theological school's own particular agenda of interests in congregations, encourage inquiry governed by that agenda, and reward such inquiry in its processes of promotion and assigning of scholarly status and esteem.

And then, we make a point of counting how many meals we get out of a particular cut *.