Sentences with phrase «means making judgments»

Sometimes that means making judgments about what the current team is capable of — and what it's not so good at.

Not exact matches

Stern did emphasize though that Fidelity's move does not mean their clients can make bitcoin transactions through their corporation, saying «we're not necessarily making a judgment on bitcoin.»

Discreet means careful, cautious, showing good judgment: «We made discreet inquiries to determine whether the founder was interested in selling her company.»

This doesn't require that you believe what they believe or condone their behavior; it simply means that you quit passing judgment long enough to truly understand what makes them tick.

«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.

It just means different people will make a different judgment on the same behavior.

There is a reason that bad things happen, that we have to make choices that are hard, that we need to use our judgment, that we feel grief and feel pain and love, too — these are all things meant for our learning.

Being «good» for fear of judgment by god or being «good» as a means to make it into heaven, really isn't authentic goodness.

That DOES NOT MEAN that there aren't denial, rejection, hells of our own making, and judgment and all that.

We may be wrong in our judgments, of course, but that does not mean that we should not make them.

Can we not make the judgment that it is precisely this vision of the death of God in Christ that can make possible for us a realization of the deeper meaning of the Christian and eschatological symbol of the dawning of the Kingdom of God?

This does not mean that the interpreter must become a metaphysician in the sense of making metaphysical judgments — although, at some point these become unavoidable and are in fact implicitly at work from the beginning, as in all thought — but rather that he or she is responsible for recognizing the metaphysical question which the thrust of the text implies.

Philosophical theology goes «beyond the identification of criteria and procedures for judgment to the making of actual judgments concerning the meaning and truth of Christian witness» (46).

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).

Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will more perfectly.

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.

It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.

Under the secret call of grace in which God offers himself, this freedom is always meant either for judgment or salvation, and only the Gospel says reliably where this leap of freedom leads: it encounters the God of forgiving grace, indeed it is made possible only by him.

But this does not mean that there is no place for the kind of moral judgment that is relevant to mature experience and that makes men uneasy, more fully aware of the consequences of their decisions, more sensitive to the dark side of their culture.

It means finding God in all the experiences and relationships of our lives; in our «world making»; in creative occasions of giving birth to a child, to a painting, to a poem, to a sermon, in sustaining events of eating a meal, cleaning a house, recycling our refuse, providing jobs, maintaining friendships; in experiences of judgment because of our reliance upon destructive weapons, because of our loss of integrity; and in redemptive relationships wherein we experience forgiveness, renewal, and peace.

However, the meaning is found when the words find their meaning in our lives... how we think, our decision making, our judgment of situations, our values, etc..

Or «to believe in the cross of Christ... means to make the cross... our own, to undergo crucifixion with him... the cross becomes the judgment of ourselves... crucifying the affections and lusts... overcoming our natural dread of suffering... and the perfection of our detachment from the world... the judgment... and deliverance of man.»

That's where the difficulty lies, not only in the conflict of judgment — conjugal versus revisionist beliefs on marriage — but in the mode of discourse, the process of how meaning is made.

Of course, making meaning of an experience requires judgment.

To make this point, Pope Francis appeals here in this address and elsewhere to John XXIII's words at Vatican II, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia: «For the deposit of faith, the truths contained in our sacred teaching, are one thing; the mode in which they are expressed, but with the same meaning and the same judgment [eodem sensu eademque sententia], is another thing.»

That does not mean, however, that Easum and others taking his approach exhibit the sort of taste and informed judgment that would make them reliable guides to Christian growth (or even church growth) in the sphere of music and the arts.

They must be rooted in a belief system through which, as Saul Bellow says in his foreword to Bloom's book, we have «access to the deepest part of ourselves — to that part of us which is conscious of a higher consciousness, by means of which we make final judgments, and put everything together.»

Means the Irish courts should use the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights when making decisions about cases in Ireland

Bey, who is black, said he talked to Shelley himself and made his own judgment that the article twisted Shelley's comments out of context and it did not mean Shelley was racist.

This lack of basic knowledge and confidence means that people are uncertain of the facts and the issues at stake, so that how the subject is framed makes an enormous difference in shaping judgments about policy preferences.

As for peer review, it means only that reasonably qualified scientists examined the manuscript and recommended changes to improve the paper, or recommended that the paper be rejected; the journal editor has to make a determination about the merits of the paper based largely, but not entirely on the reviewers» comments (the editor has some discretion in deciding to accept or reject — his / her reputation as an editor, and the reputation of the journal, depend on sound editorial judgments).

Being open about our struggles to make our family meant some judgment and some frustration about how uneducated the average person is regarding infertility.

The authors highlight several scenarios in which discrepancies between givers» and receivers» opinions are especially evident, and use these as examples of how well - meaning givers can make errors in judgment.

• Genuinely interesting idea left thoroughly unexplored: Galen Erso's decision to become a collaborator with the Empire so that he could build a weakness into the Death Star, and what it means to make a moral judgment to become an accomplice in the murder of millions in hopes of saving billions.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

The whole point of collecting all of this information — and DQC is clear that they mean much more than just test scores — is to use it to inform inquiry, human judgment, and decision - making.

Currently, many teachers view observation as the same thing as evaluation when in fact these structures (informal, formal and walkthrough observations) provide a means for gathering what Charlotte Danielson, Dr. Robert Marzano and others experts refer to as a preponderance of evidence in order to make a reasoned judgment about a teacher's overall practice.

If we are going to use value - added measures to make judgments about teacher quality, we owe it to these teachers, to their students, and to the public to do all we can to ensure that the means of computing them are accurate, reliable and fair.

«On the problem with extending the tenure beyond two years... It's important that while we want teachers to at some point have due process rights in their career, that that judgment be made relatively soon; and that a floundering teacher who is grossly ineffective is not allowed to continue for many years because a year is a long time in the life of a student... having the two - year mark — which means you're making a decision usually within 19 months of the starting point of that teacher — has the interest of... encouraging districts to make that decision in a reasonable time frame so that students aren't exposed to struggling teachers for long than they might need to be....

And if you're first prompted to make those judgments by an agent's query form template, let that serve as an important reminder of the risk you take by publishing through any means without having answered them ahead of time for yourself.

As important as the advice, «don't judge a book by its cover,» is for not making quick judgments, that doesn't mean that all your potential readers are following it.

Every «no» judgment we make means one less book added to our towering to - be-read pile.

This fact sheet explains what setting aside a county court judgment (CCJ) for debt means, and how and when you can make this request.

This means several breeds - not only «pit bulls» - can and will be affected by these ordinances depending on the subjective judgment of the individual making the breed identification.

An exhibition showcasing gender difference in revolutionizing ways of «making» sculpture does not mean ghettoizing women artists in a separate history or making outmoded hierarchical judgments between feminine and masculine approaches.

Still, as Foley's comments illustrate, they do consider some scenarios more likely than others, which means they are, at least implicitly, making judgments about the likely course of politics.

Yet there are several legitimate judgment calls made when combining datasets to make a global mean - time series.

That should mean not pretending that any GCM or any model or any data set is anywhere near accurate and reliable — let alone the final conclusions and judgments based upon them that can make it through Peer Review.

And even where a judgment or decision looks arrogant, that doesn't mean that the judge who made it is an arrogant person.

As Benjamin Cardozo observed nearly a century ago in regard to judgments in general, making sense of an image involves a wide array of implicit (which is to say, unconscious) meaning shaping factors, such as education, experience, class, ideology, and character.