Sentences with phrase «meant by an authority»

But first, we must see what we mean by authority.
But, before we can understand that, we need to consider what we mean by authority.

Not exact matches

Limited fiscal headroom means the government is likely to cut remaining fuel subsidies but analysts expect authorities to soften the blow by targeting spending to low - income households.
ABUJA, March 7 - Nigeria's parliament passed legislation on Wednesday meant to help authorities tackle money laundering and funding for terrorism by allowing its financial intelligence unit to operate free of state control.
Page Authority was developed by Moz, and it means the likelihood that your page will rank highly in search.
The appointment of even one SEC Commissioner with significant experience as a state securities regulator would dramatically improve coordination between state and federal securities authorities and bring a perspective informed by experiences from Main Street America where investor protection is personal and capital formation means real jobs.
This might mean, for example, that the central bank would need to run a more stimulative policy than it would have otherwise to offset the effect of macroprudential policies, and the macroprudential authority would impose more stringent measures than it would have otherwise to counteract the leverage and risk taking generated by looser monetary policy.
By contrast, Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain system, which means there is no central authority holding all the information used to create applications.
In responses to three subsequent consultations, issued in 2012 by the European Securities and Markets Authority («ESMA»), Canadian Securities Administrators («CSA») and the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee of Australia («CAMAC»), Glass Lewis has consistently expressed the view that a market - based solution, in particular a code of best practices developed by proxy advisors, is the appropriate means to address the relevant issues raised in these consultations — namely conflict management, transparency of policies and methodologies and engagement.
By skipping a recent leaders» debate, Doug Ford learned nothing and that means the Black community is as endangered as before because the absent politician is poised to become the one with the most authority to impact their lives, Royson James writes.
««Virtual currencies» means a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority, not attached to a legally established currency, which does not possess the legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange or for other purposes, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.
It's by no means necessary, but it does add a sense of authority to your Page.
Most links are «dofollow» by default, which means that Google will actively view them and consider them as authority - passers.
Aberdeen's Wolf said Chinese authorities could make life difficult for American companies operating on its turf by using selective enforcement of regulations, such as fire codes and food safety, as a means to shutter parts of their operations.
This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking, as too many levers must float in your favor — such as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.
The announcement comes within weeks after Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal stated the use of virtual currencies is not authorized as a means of exchange by the RBI, and after Deputy Governor Shri R. Ghandi suggested that confidence will only be placed in a virtual currency issued by an authority.
The Long term trust that the HighLow broker enjoys from its clients that complaints will not be happening that often is due to the fact that this broker is ASIC regulated in Australia, meaning that the trading services as well as other conduct of HighLow broker is monitored by a reputable government authority.
But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.
Pastoral and administrative authority rests with the bishop of the local church, by which is meant the diocese.
There is no one higher in authority or power, but that does not mean He exercises His power by controlling everything in our lives.
Re Ed's comment, ultimately I think we only make the cages ourselves, but those in «authority» are only to happy to «guide» us in by all kinds of means and are really happy to keep us there!
Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?
Subsidiarity means that authority has been vested in and should be exercised by those communities closest to the persons most affected by decisions.
What was meant by the signs of the times is not clear, beyond the general implication that any person who observed and understood what was going on about him would not need any other sign from heaven to attest the divine mission and authority of Jesus,
By roles they mean one thing — males have authority over women.
For most feminists, this means no strict gender roles or a hierarchy that demands a man be the authority over a woman just because he's a man and that a woman be submissive and quiet just because she's a woman.Feminism means allowing both women and men to be themselves as God created them to be — as individuals, not defined by their reproductive system but rather by their personalities, their relationships, their definitions of themselves.
She does not mean to be a totalitarian religious society whose life and decisions are all ruled by the orders of a central authority.
First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.
And by scripture I mean the apostolic authority of Peter, Paul et al..
The context of Genesis 1:26 - 27 gives us the best clues as to what is meant by «image» and it probably refers to the things that set us apart from animals — our intellect, emotions, will, authority to rule over creation, desire for relationships, and other non-physical attributes and characteristics.
Science has raised new questions for the text to answer but by no means has it replaced the Scriptures as the authority.
As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).
The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or «just» use of military force — legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as the presence of a «just cause,» «right authority,» «last resort,» and the use of «means proportional to the end.»
There were many others less lucky, such as the great Sufi mystic al - Hallaj, who was executed for blasphemy after running through the streets of Basra shouting «ana» l - haqq»» literally, «I am the truth»» the statement having been interpreted by the authorities, probably correctly, as meaning «I am God.»
This doesn't mean that they are intrinsically bad people, but rather, that most Americans are uneducated, easily influenced by propaganda, and lack critical thinking skills and the ability to question purported authority figures.
As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».
Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»
Being persuaded that Barth abandoned the Bible by surrendering to the authority of the church, he is determined to realize the meaning of the Bible apart from the church and its tradition, and under the impact of what he would like to identify as the radical Christian tradition.
That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz
Under the authority of God's free Word, she contends — her work retains some Barthian glosses — Christian identity is constituted «by a community of argument concerning the meaning of true discipleship.»
The young should be taught to obey the rules established by persons in authority and to have a respectful regard for the principles of conscience that those rules are meant to embody.
A case in point is Childs's recurring use of the term «coercion,» by which he apparently means that the text itself, in its deep authority, requires a certain exposition, redaction or reading.
And is there room here to also debate the nature of Scripture — like what we mean by «authority» or «inerrancy» or «inspiration»?
What I meant by that is I do not have to refer to a specific authority, whether it be the Bible, a Pastor, a certain set of dogmas, a god, ect.
The possibility of reconciling the two authorities, and their enduring reconciliation, subjectively, in the Church as a whole, is never, therefore, realized by means of a principle that men can apply, but only in the promise of God that he, the source of both modes of knowledge, will again and again ensure in the Church as a whole that unity will remain possible to men, despite the duality of their sources of knowledge.
The local authority set up an investigative team that was meant to negotiate with the diocese but there was no right of reply about their proposal and so they straight away tried to demolish it by force.
This holds as long as they are undertaken by competent authorities, and when all means of reconciliation have been exhausted.
For example, if women aren't meant to have authority, why was Deborah appointed by God (Judges 4)?
Such a «right» of «faithful dissent» has long been claimed by Catholic progressives, not least with respect to Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the appropriate means of regulating fertility, and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul II's apostolic letter reaffirming that the Church's authority to ordain extends only to men.
people and congregations are blown to and fro by the winds of secularization, but unlike the students they have little or no experience of historical consciousness applied to faith, hence must live in a changed world by means of antiquated pieties and timeworn concepts of authority, morality and the Bible.
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