Sentences with phrase «many issues at stake»

The issues at stake matter to him both personally and professionally, he told CNBC.

There are many issues at stake, particularly the role of women in the military, and, as Fox News put it, the «blurring of gender lines.»

There are other issues at stake.

«Given the important public policy issues at stake, we have also asked the court to hold its hearing in open rather than behind closed doors.

It is worth mentioning that John Wilcox is also directly involved in high - profile Morrow Sodali assignments, when the issues at stake («delicate» items in the Agenda, need to deal with activist «shareholders», consultation at Board level, etc) require it.

You might have a shot if there is an actual issue at stake or real anger over something, but otherwise your chances are slim.

The issue at stake is not so much the independence of boards, but their legitimacy and credibility.

With all the important issues at stake in the presidential and vice presidential debates, it takes a small and pettifogging disposition to be concerned with a matter of fairness.

Our hearts revolt at it because there is no worthwhile moral issue at stake.

Since it's often assumed that the biblical status of same - sex relations is the only issue at stake, a «winner takes all» atmosphere is created.

The combination in many churches of an obsession with issues of sexuality and a simultaneous lack of serious engagement with the theological issues at stake in the current war illustrates the point nicely.

If on the other hand the world is in truth a battlefield whereon victory is in the making — and if we are in truth thrown at birth into the thick of the battle — then we can at least vaguely see how, for the success of this universal struggle in which we are both fighters and the issue at stake, there must inevitably be suffering.

-- I tried to sidestep some of the political and social questions raised (due to my lack of expertise in these areas and to the many other opinions already aired in response to this article) and instead call attention to some of the spiritual issues at stake.

The criticisms aimed at the Pope's plan for curial reform, the other issue at stake in this pontificate, are also founded on theological and juridical grounds.

The Pope's choices not only show his sensitivity towards the world's peripheries and a certain pastoral approach, they also indicate a change concerning the pivotal issues at stake in this papacy.

But there are larger issues at stake.

Discussions of immigration often oversimplify or distort the moral issues at stake.

Rather, the primary issue at stake among the churches is a philosophical question what is the nature of human life and which philosophical concepts most adequately depict it?

This CNN article only contributes to the general public's ignorance regarding the issues at stake in reconciling theism and evolution.

Because the scientific paradigm directs and alters understanding, the issue at stake is freedom of thought itself.

There were many legal issues at stake — discrimination, sexual equality, religious....

While Crosby's interest in this article is limited to Tertullian's quandary (and our own) of relating the elements of the Christian university, that is, philosophy, literature, history, and the liberal arts, to the life of redemption and faith, the underlying issue at stake seems easily to extend beyond intellectual culture.

There are profound issues at stake, such as the ones raised in Martin Buber's polemical book Two Types of Faith.

The issue at stake, which Ratzinger has picked up on, is not one of defending or attacking biblical historicity but rather a more fundamental one.

It sounds like an easy and impactful way to take a stand, but is boycotting a corporation the best way to reflect Christ in light of the issues at stake?

The issue at stake is not whether one needs material criteria by which to interpret the whole, but rather what is the nature of the criteria.

Whether God alone is the ultimate benefactor of my suffering, or whether its redemption is shared by later finite individuals like myself (and perhaps including myself), the issue at stake is the same.

The pre-discussion Relatio, signed by Cardinal Peter Erdo, identified all the issues at stake.

This is a really tough question, if only because the issues at stake are incredibly complex.

Such moves often appear as ad hoc procedure in Whitehead's metaphysics, but the real issue at stake is the coherence and adequacy of the entire system.

There simply was «no worthwhile moral issue at stake» (October 8, 1914).

We believe that there is a real issue at stake.

The fundamental issue at stake is the question as to whether wine ought to be present in the cup, along with water.

The real issue at stake in Kentucky's religious liberty kerfuffle is not discrimination, but belief — a belief that will not bow to sexual progressivism.

It seems to me, however, that Panikkar is underestimating the burning issues at stake even within Christianity, which do also have an influence on the outcome of interreligious dialogue.

To understand what he is talking about, one needs to know something of the issue at stake in the whole letter, the problems in the Galatian churches to which it is sent, the peculiar meanings words like «law» have for Paul, and similar matters of historical understanding.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

It is this anthropology that must be addressed; this is the spiritual issue at stake.

The Church faces the task of making the more difficult and nuanced argument that the Catholic conscience should be respected on particular occasions, when the extent of the co-operation and the gravity of the moral issue at stake are such that forcing co-operation would be unacceptable.

The issue at stake for Abram and for us is the issue of «calling.»

The issues at stake are deeper, and of real importance.

When will we take seriously our moral responsibility for the effects of our actions upon the hundreds of millions of people who have no part in the decisions and who do not even share our view of the issues at stake?

As I see the matter, there is not in fact any constitutional issue at stake.

Now that the press knows there will be large issues at stake, they'll go into an aggressive mode, and in Rome they know how to do it.

Bishop provides a worthy review of some of the various issues at stake.

It might be that the deepest issue at stake in the new evangelization has to do with the Church's attempt at a reconciliation with the Jews.

That is to say, the authors, with very few exceptions, do not rely on denunciation and defensive generalizations, but take the current controversy as an occasion for renewed and deepened reflection on the specific theological issues at stake.

It is here that the profound issues at stake, which are more difficult to specify than knee - jerk polemicists on either side often assume, come most clearly into view.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

The third group of essays explores a variety of further issues at stake in the contemporary controversy.