Sentences with phrase «making value judgments»

But they do have a far keener understanding of the importance of free expression than do most government administrators or jurors, and they have had considerable experience in making value judgments of the type required by the constitutional standards for obscenity.

I think lawyers generally shy away from making value judgments on behalf of their clients because: attorney - client privilege is unilateral (i.e., only the client can assert it, not the attorney) and if a client really gets into trouble, he can always say «My lawyer told me to do it.»

Weinstein: Of course I'm making value judgments; that's what ethics is all about.

Just listen and ask questions, without making value judgments.

The innovator has to be able to feel outside the box, too — that is, to make value judgments about the images and ideas that he or she has produced in such abundance.

Neuroscience has, in fact, established a connection between the part of the brain that makes value judgments and that which experiences negative emotion.

JB: When you make a value judgment don't you immediately step yourself outside of this evolutionary process and say that the reason this is good is that it's good.

Morality, by definition, is a value judgment about certain behavior and that requires a person to make the value judgment — so, it must be subjective.

The approach I have outlined above interprets texts and theologies; it never makes any value judgment psychologically on the authors of these texts.

To say, for example, that Hitler and Stalin were evil men or that we should work to relieve the suffering of the poor is both to make a value judgment and to state a fact.

The three critics R. P. Blackmur, Jean - Paul Sartre, and Cleanth Brooks, although varying in the explicitness with which they affirm the criteria and their philosophical bases, all make value judgments that have such implications.

You make value judgments based upon your crzy bible.

I was implicitly citing that Callaway point about the option eligible rotation, not making a value judgment about the relative quality of Sewald and Rhame.

She excavates the hidden beliefs people hold by measuring how fast they make value judgments when shown a rapid - fire succession of stimuli, such as photographs of faces.

What we do is whittle out the relative likelihood of each of these outcomes so we can make a value judgment about whether or not the risks are adequate to move forward.

It is arrogant, reckless and hazardous to make value judgments on the significance of a species.

Gabb emphasized that the study examines the presence of potentially harmful chemicals (as determined by various authoritative sources like the EPA and NIH) in consumer products, but that it makes no value judgments regarding the safety of the chemicals themselves.

«I refrain from making a value judgment over whether this short attention span online is good or bad,» he says.

I almost never make value judgments about these ingredients — the idea is that you now have all this information, you make your own decisions,» explained Di Justo to one reader.

Some people like that kind of thing though, I make no value judgments about them.

The difficulty, however, in assessing dispositions, whether they espouse social justice or are seemingly harmless as at Winthrop, arises when the assessors make value judgments rather than encourage academic freedom and respect freedom of conscience.

Help them discover that journalists and newspapers must also make value judgments by encouraging them to explore the six core values of journalism from the National Assication of Journalism Editors:

But there are a number of policy issues that empirical evidence will not resolve because they require us to make value judgments.

Teachers make value judgments about technologies presented to them, and the more valuable they judge a tool to be, the more likely they are to use it (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2010).

«I think it upsets people because it seems like we're making a value judgment about them,» says Shawn Rosenmoss, an environmental engineer and original Compactor, who has two children.

The IPCC considers all the different ways of calculating climate sensitivity, without making a value judgment about which is best.

This is just science, we're not here to make value judgments.

Whatever the automatically generated bill looks like will then have to be checked against budgets and considered to see whether all of the items contained in it are actually chargeable as per whatever costs order has been made, let alone making a value judgment as to whether the costs are proportionate and reasonable.

Like if you throw enough at it, it will spit back a thing you want, and I think what gets lost there is that they aren't learning — and perhaps your mythical second year associate too isn't learning — to make value judgments about what a good source is and what isn't, and maybe if your AI is smart enough to say, «Hey, everybody thinks this law review is more reputable than that law review,» but even that again is sort of... it's area - specific.

«There is obviously a risk that courts, in identifying the procedural steps to be followed, might make value judgments similar to those expressed by substantive review courts.

And while BTB won't make any value judgments on Comey's testimony or the jurisprudence that might be spawned from Twitter posts, law students can learn two things from yesterday's events.

Not making a value judgment here, just pointing out that some people are scared to go to court because they fear being deported.

I find these questions silly, not because lawyers shouldn't make value judgments on where to invest their time and money, but rather, that questions like these can inspire thinking in exclusionary terms.

A thought provoking question and answer session followed, whereby the panel and audience discussed whether using language suggestive of making a value judgment on which types of cases «deserve» to be legally aided is unhelpful, and whether as lawyers and future lawyers we have a duty to refrain from acting Pro Bono and effectively «mopping up» some of these cases, in the interests of revealing the true extent of the issue.

(By the way, please understand that when I say this, I am not making any value judgment about you or about her.

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When asked whether he would make different choices if he could start over, Bayard Winthrop, the CEO of apparel company American Giant, highlighted the value of his past errors in judgment.

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

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

«At this time, the general judgment is that their volatile valuations, and inadequate investor and consumer protection, make them unsafe to rely on as a common means of payment, a stable store of value or a unit of account,» the report said.

«The use of the value - at - risk models which made no sense from my judgment because they cut off the tail» David Einhorn

You seem to expect them to formulate a mutually exclusive value system to make comparative judgments which simply can't happen.

You can even make judgments about the value of the religious ideas you were taught or that you possess.

Even without a carefully articulated theory of value, we can make rough and realistic judgments that the subjectivity of the sea mammals is greater than that of fish, and that the subjectivity of a chimpanzee is greater than that of a chicken.

From this point, judgments can be made regarding the adequacy of the values that are embodied in the order.

These are approaches to religion employed by «social scientists» who presumably refrain from making what are called value judgments.

At this point I am going to make an unabashed value judgment.

For all of its shortcomings, mainly vagueness and the tendency to invite contention, the language of costs and benefits, or risks and benefits, or good and bad consequences (a language whose value Kass minimizes) does a reasonably good job of helping us make prudent judgments.

Our culture lacks a way of talking effectively about the ultimate value of human life, or making large judgments about what is good for human beings in the long run.

In stating in summary fashion the Christian conception of the Kingdom of God we are not pretending that we can see perfectly what this means, nor are we saying that we can arrive at a formal principle which can act as a rule by which all Christian value judgments can be simply made.