We have no business
making political judgments about those kinds of issues.»
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.»
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.
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.
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.
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 enforcemen
Political values are important in antitrust, but
political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcemen
political 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.