Sentences with phrase «make political judgments»

During the past forty years, voters have been taught by TV to make political judgments based on how they feel about a particular candidate, rather than how to evaluate a candidate's actual positions and actions.

It is not «un-Christian» to make political judgments — judgments that are fallible and invariably implicate us in worldly affairs touched by greed and the lust for power.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Austan Goolsbee, an economic advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, said «what the S&P is doing is making a political judgment and it is one that we don't agree with.»

But the House of Commons is entitled to make a political judgment on what the outcome of the negotiations should be, and to conduct its scrutiny accordingly.

We have no business making political judgments about those kinds of issues.»

This option would represent clearly the best chance of securing the highest turnout for voters; however, one problem identified by Lord Tyler is that voters could use their votes for the second chamber in order to make a political judgment on the incumbent government.

Not exact matches

Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcemenPolitical values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcemenpolitical pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.

Accurate judgments concerning the narrators of Traditions became difficult because the political feuds sometimes made the judgments far from objective.

Nor do Christians understand Jesus Christ as some kind of Ayatollah, communicating a blueprint of an ideal society and calling upon his believers to make laws, pronounce judgment, and execute his will in the political, economic, and social spheres.

Troeltsch, by way of contrast, was well versed in the social science of his time, and sought to make careful use of it in his theological, political and moral judgments.

Bernstein sees Dewey's liberal, political outlook as completely consistent with his view that philosophy's main task is «to become practical, where this means addressing itself to the basic issues and conflicts that confront us, and making practical judgments about what is to be done» (PA 225).

We always risk making bad judgments in the political mode of public theology.

Stated formally, we may put the question this way: On what grounds are we to base our judgments of value and thus our moral, social and political decision - making?

Then that is making a judgment on preconceived political correctness.

He's not without his imperfections, and sometimes he reminds me of Solzhenitsyn in some of the political judgments that he makes, but he's pretty good and he's a solid biblical scholar.

Leave aside the politics of it (which amuse me, frankly and make me like him), since when do political beliefs and boldness about that PREDICT poor judgment as a leader of a team?

CSEA, the state's largest public - workers union, announced it would suspend its backing of state lawmakers in order to «re-evaluate our political relationships and make judgments about the criteria.»

I share the view expressed by objective and reasonable members of the public that because the government was the 1st defendant / respondent against whom the Supreme Court made declarations of unconstitutional conduct in paying the judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the government has been pretending for purely political reasons at each turn to take steps to enforce the judgment and orders of the court only to deliberately abort them.

This action is necessary to give our union the opportunity to re-evaluate our political relationships and make judgments about the criteria we use in determining who has earned and deserves our support.

At the same time, social or political pressures might make principals less willing to assess teachers honestly if their judgments directly influenced teachers» compensation.

The political dimensions of a state - to - district intervention are often the most publicly visible, as people make judgments about the underperforming district and state education overall.

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

[16] Two, in so doing, they are making a political and not a scientific judgment, though they're not always clear on this point.

The political system is how policy judgments are made and these judgments call for information, including scientific information.

Therefore, if all lawyers could make it our second nature to enter Court without developing political debates, making neutral judgments, we will be able to build a strong, resilient justice system in our country.

As a legal realist would be quick to point out, picking a statute's purpose, selecting the level of generality at which to describe the purpose, and making the consequentialist judgment about which interpretation promotes that purpose can be a deeply political and policy - laden endeavor, one that looks a lot more like making law than finding it.

Therefore, if all law - yers could make it our second nature to enter Court without de - veloping political debates, mak - ing neutral judgments, we will be able to build a strong, resilient jus - tice system in our country.

He recognizes that the courts might be pressed again to defer to military decision - making («I would not lead people to rely on this Court for a review that seems to me wholly delusive») and proposes that the chief constraint against this unconstitutional action is the executive's «responsibility to the political judgments of their contemporaries and to the moral judgments of history.»

He said wearing the cap was a «lapse in judgment» and his intention was not to make a «political statement» or an endorsement of Trump's controversial views.

See para [31] of the judgment: «Th e penalty (if any) for failure to achieve the desired results of the strategy as published, because of errors in policy making (if such they be) should, it seems to me, be political rather than legal.»

The judgment about who can volunteer to be a charity trustee could be made based on the subjective views and opinions of whoever is running the Charity Commission — which might be unduly influenced by media or political pressure as opposed to an objective consideration of the facts and legal due process.

It was for a new kind of political message - targeting based on an influential and groundbreaking 2014 paper researched at Cambridge's Psychometrics Centre, called: «Computer - based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans».

He works in various areas — self and identity, judgment and decision making, moral psychology, and social cognition — all toward an understanding of how people reason about and behave in ambiguous and challenging social, economic, political, and moral settings.