Sentences with phrase «more political understanding»

Do you think reclaiming a broader, more political understanding of Catholic social teaching is part of the cure for this disease?

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Despite its use of «generic identifiers» for the individuals and entities listed, the DOJ «provided the Court with more than sufficient information to understand the political context of Steele's research,» the memo said.

A strengthened and more independent Parliamentary Budget Office would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would force the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would promote a straightforward and more understandable and open budget process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan, it would provide research to all political parties.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

A strengthened (more resources), and more independent (report to Parliament) PBO would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would strengthen credibility by encouraging simplification and forcing the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would improve the budget process by promoting a straightforward and more understandable and open process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan it would provide analysis and research to all political parties.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

Both understood that political agreements — such as creating corporations — make anything more than subsistence economies possible.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

The Anabaptist rejection of oaths was not merely an interpretative quarrel, but was understood more deeply as a part of the Anabaptist rejection of Christian involvement in political and military affairs.

It was easy to recognize, in the words of this latest exhortation to more faithfully follow the gospel in the economic and global - political realm, the voice of our dear shepherd» to see the sharp intellectual and moral challenge of his mind, coupled with the loving understanding of his heart, so passionate to bring Christ to the world and the world to Christ.

She is surrounded daily with supporters who bolster her views, people who understand themselves as moral crusaders, pursuing their aims with all the zeal inspired by political ideology or — perhaps more aptly — ersatz religion.

In its more common contemporary use, it contrasts with political «conservatism,» such that contemporary American political discussion is often largely understood as a debate between the two.

That this fear of being subsumed by Christianity lingers among Jews today is not surprising given that until recently «dialogue» with Christians, the wielders of cultural and political power, usually involved more polemic and proselytizing than understanding and cooperation.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

Those who take the time to peruse it carefully will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitutional period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from its parlous state today.

Those who take the time to peruse The Founder's Constitution will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitution period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from it's parlous state today.

In short, Culture and Abortion is addressed to the committed pro-lifer who seeks to understand more about the social, historical, political and literary influences on the «barbarity of abortion».

Fundamentally, they constitute an understanding about how blacks should respond to the great philosophical and political problems created by our history of degradation, more recently followed by our unequal citizenship.

The 1992 campaign has demonstrated once more that we are a very long way from understanding the implications of religion as the first political institution of the republic.

I need more than the resources of Bible, theological tradition, and my own commitments if I am to understand my faith and the world in which it is set; I also need the ethical insights of my secular colleagues, the political and psychological analyses of my friends and foes, and the prophetic jab of nonchurchmen whose degree of commitment so often puts my own to shame.20

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

In order to understand what Metz means by political theology, and thus the obstacle to a process theologian's becoming a political theologian in Metz's sense, we will need to study more carefully the position to which he came in that book.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

More important, he relates Burke's critique, which is fundamentally based on a classical and Christian understanding of natural law, to his political philosophy as a whole.

More than that of any theologian from Augustine to Luther, Gregory's pastoral work had awesome political effect — so much so that it has become axiomatic that to understand the Middle Ages, one must understand Gregory.

Evangelicals would understand their different political conclusions better and progress more quickly toward resolving their disagreements if they were more conscious of the components that contribute to a conclusion and if they tried harder to isolate the precise areas of disagreement.

Fletcher understood that cultural influence was vastly more important than political power.

The important thing is to understand that such passages and exegeses predisposed the Christians to accept the political power as more or less valid.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

Illustrating the influence of economists, Lord Keynes wrote: «The ideas of economics and political philosophy, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.

Understood that most of them were trained in private American Militias before they are sent to fight any opportunity into bringing peace in the region... they are nothing but another pirates on land as those in sea... read more on who support those to make political changes and presence in the area...!

To understand the Pentecostal phenomenon it is more useful to identify the meaning and the practical consequences of the religious beliefs and experiences in the daily lives of the faithful than to discuss the degree of political conservativism of their ideology.

I began to understand why she described the practice of self - care as a means of political warfare, how even getting more rest or drinking more water could be viewed as an act of defiance — radical, even.

JS: Why do you think there isn't more of that happening already — is it political will or a lack of understanding?

Part of the difficulty with creating a new understanding of adoption - including the women who chose it, the families who adopt, and the children who are adopted - is combating archaic adoption practices that not only reinforce negative stereotypes, but also do an incredible disservice to what adoption can be - that is, adoption is a legitimate pregnancy option for all women faced with a pregnancy decision, regardless of whether they identify as «pro-life» or «pro-choice,» religious or not, conservative or liberal... In the face of a pregnancy decision, the women who choose adoption feel no more part of the political discussion around it then the women who choose abortion feel about the political rhetoric characterizing their decision.

The main reasons it wasn't adopted more widely yet is because it isn't as intuitive to understand as most other systems, counting the votes takes longer than with single - vote systems and of course because of people who reject it for purely political reasons.

Just as their vision of political communication was shaped by a profound understanding of a still relatively new communication medium - television - so too do we stand on the cusp of a new and potentially even more powerful medium, the internet.

From Aristotle, conservatives derive their sense of the need for practical experience in judging both moral and political matters, and their understanding of the role of tradition in inculcating habits of virtue and wisdom in the young.For more see https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/conservatism/v-1

Chilean political system can be seen, to easy understanding, as a bipartisanship (similar to US, except that instead of two dominant parties it has two big coalitions - of - parties) At presidential primaries, Bachelet coalition (Nueva Mayoría) more than doubled its challenger coalition (Alianza).

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

More and more social movements and political parties are now understanding that a Basic Income could help to combat some of the most socially pernicious effects of the crisis and stimulate the economy from the bMore and more social movements and political parties are now understanding that a Basic Income could help to combat some of the most socially pernicious effects of the crisis and stimulate the economy from the bmore social movements and political parties are now understanding that a Basic Income could help to combat some of the most socially pernicious effects of the crisis and stimulate the economy from the base.

The group however noted that President Buhari as one of the Leaders who Physically identified and related with PRONACO to produce a peoples» draft constitution during its independently convoked citizens» driven Peoples National Conference, PNC for national restructuring between 2004 and 2006 is more likely to tow the line of restructuring as he was deemed to understand the positive import of a successful political restructuring on the country's development

Understanding just what's going on in these failed middle income countries is an important question in contemporary political economy, and it's something that I'll be researching more closely with a colleague over this summer; look out for a new paper on these issues later in the year...

I must admit I haven't read either Cowley or Norton, but I do wonder if Hanna's position, though his recent article doesn't make it explicit, is not more accurately understood as a lament on the loss of amateurism as a virtue in the political establishment (the amateur MP, the eccentric parliamentarian, the independent - minded representative, which of course gives the Hannan position indirectly: the professionalisation of politics and political parties, the well - drilled party system and an overbearing executive).

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

To his article I would add a more nuanced understanding of the international impetus which has played a heavy hand in determining the political history of Cameroon.

However, as we've collectively become more sophisticated at using omni - channel approaches to campaigning, understanding what opposing campaigns are doing across their social channels is imperative to avoid being caught by surprise — and even more importantly, can help strengthen your political or advocacy campaign.

There will be little support for a new political agenda based on a participatory process unless local communities understand such processes and receive protection from the state — and people see that the democratic process will indeed bring more benefits and security than before.

The problem is, Clegg says, he didn't understand the importance of the political symbols, from the Rose Garden press conference with Cameron (which came across as more bromance than business) to his acceptance of a nothingy office with no front entrance (Cameron refused to allow him to use Downing Street as a backdrop for media interviews).

That if the general public truly understood what was happening, they would be horrified and suspect more than a little manipulation, a stitch - up by the political elite.