Sentences with phrase «more than rhetoric»

The lack of follow - up action may be indication that the promotion of equality and inclusion at our school remains no more than a rhetoric.

Such argument amounts to no more than rhetoric and noise; it is not science.

Any such push, if it's more than rhetoric, is commendable, as I pointed out in my 2008 post referenced above.

Maybe a statement you don't like, but based on much more than rhetoric.

«This was great rhetoric, but the issue is more than the rhetoric.»

For example, few states aligned their long - term goals to their vision for success, leaving many states» overall strategy for supporting learners» college - and - career readiness little more than rhetoric.

While the expectation of application of knowledge is found in many teacher evaluation documents, the real truth is the concept is nothing more than rhetoric.

Amanda King, a recent Effingham High School graduate who plans to major in journalism in college, says that as a result of rewriting drafts of scripts based on her teachers» and classmates» critiques, the course has improved her writing skills more than her rhetoric class has.

New Yorkers deserve more than rhetoric and hand wringing from our elected officials, they need real reforms to respond to what the US attorney has called a «culture of corruption.»

More than rhetoric links the campaigns of the two men.

His anti-austerity politics is little more than rhetoric.

Facts speak volumnes much more than rhetoric.

Huckabee's 2008 Iowa victory and Santorum's surge suggest that, in spite of the dominant stereotypes about evangelicals, they value religious authenticity more than rhetoric and care about more issues than gay - marriage and abortion.

Not exact matches

«Markets will realize that beyond the rhetoric, Brexit is nothing more than another Y2K.»

«Much of the rhetoric have become more protectionist than what we've been used to.

If Pyongyang's confrontational rhetoric is little more than brazen attention - seeking, its motives are at least partly economic.

The sight of each side talking seriously remained a more positive development than the discouraging rhetoric and gamesmanship that followed.

But as the mystery has deepened, US investigators have begun to look more closely at the insular, high - pressure world of the Havana embassy, and they have found a picture that is far more complex than the rhetoric and headlines have suggested.

«We were more expectant of the harsh rhetoric he started with than that he would intimate there's a deal,» he said.

The rhetoric in filings always makes risks seem more daunting than they are in practice, but this is an opportunity for MCD to deliver (no pun intended) on a front that its customers have wanted for years — really since the likes of GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB) and Seamless went mainstream.

«The question is whether Washington will accept more delay and continue with the rhetoric rather than action.»

The strange thing about the tariffs is that they end up punishing US allies more than the country that Trump has singled out most often in his protectionist rhetoric: China.

The rest of the propaganda and rhetoric connected to the 2016 election, which was elevated to previously unforeseen levels of absurdity, was little more than unholy entertainment that served to agitate the masses.

If there is an executive order, it's probably more likely to be weaker than his rhetoric.»

Some see her stance on trade as little more than typical campaign rhetoric.

The growing rhetoric about Iran — including talk from certain Israeli and American corners about an air campaign against Iran — had already begun to intensify in anticipation of the report, which will say more explicitly than previous IAEA assessments that Iran is indeed actively pursuing a nuclear weaponization program.

«Love the sinner — hate the sin» I thought was what Christianity pushed, but as we can see from this priest's actions Christianity is nothing more than hollow rhetoric when it comes to love and compassion.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

They are far more intertwined than our politically correct rhetoric would have us believe.

Yes, she's so right; government protects the wealthy more than it does the poor, despite standard political rhetoric from both major political parties.

This is more than mere rhetoric.

Given the fact that the regular opinion writers for our nation's establishment liberal paper so often indulge in denunciation, I find it more than a little odd that everyone is hysterical about Donald Trump's intemperate rhetoric.

But unless we can implement that rhetoric by exploring a power wiser and greater than mere humanity we are doing no more than underlining the obvious.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

I would say all sides come to the forefront, but I think that some of us see things from more than one side to begin with and that there are many «sides» (perspectives) that are out there, I don't think it is a polemic, and I don't think it is «sides» in terms of choosing sides in a war... more a dialogue where confrontations take place, but (hopefully) most of the time not with the intent of winners and losers (or, if that is the intent, that hopefully we realize that and adjust our own rhetoric to move away from that pardigm)

Yet it is the better guide not primarily because artists are wiser or better informed than the professional academic» when they are silly or misguided, which is often, their rhetoric - fueled errors are even more stupendous than those of the jargon - intoxicated, tenured mediocrity.

In light of actual employment practices, the black conservative rhetoric about race - free hiring criteria (usually coupled with a call for dismantling affirmative action mechanisms) does no more than justify actual practices of racial discrimination.

It would be hard to find more divisive, jabbing rhetoric on marriage than in these publications by self - described «marriage nut» David Blankenhorn, the founder and director of the Institute for American Values, and the late historian Elizabeth Fox - Genovese, well known for her testy rebuff of feminism.

To a lot of people, Republican immigration expansion rhetoric sounds a lot more like employer interest group politics than a plan to improve the economy in general.

The government's rhetoric is no more convincing in this case than in its dubbing of missiles of first - strike nuclear capability as «Peacekeepers.»

The result is a civil government with a religious flavor, a flavor nowhere more apparent than in the rhetoric of presidential inaugural addresses.83

It would be hard to find more divisive, jabbing rhetoric on marriage than in these publications by self - described «marriage nut» David Blankenhorn, the founder and...

What is often identified as evidence for a culture war has more to do with the requirements of» activist rhetoric than the attitudes or actions of the body politic generally.

It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean - spirited religious intolerance.

All institutions tend to place more power in the hands of the housekeepers than their rhetoric would allow.

And those who voted for Trump say, «The left gets more upset about careless rhetoric than the thousands of babies murdered every day.»

Mr. Nuechterlein's rhetoric, labeling orthodox critics of Benke as «ultraconservatives» with a «sectarian mentality» and a «blinkered preoccupation with unionism,» sounded much more like the kind of orthodoxy - bashing one has come to expect from the mainstream media than the thoughtful commentary typical of First Things in general and Mr. Nuechterlein's work in particular.

Dig under the rhetoric over taxes in Washington now, and you'll find one question: should the wealthy pay more in taxes than other people?

The rhetoric can generate a lot more heat than light.»

Its nice to smile and make Christians feel like they're rebellious by following a «dirty God,» but this is nothing more than surface - level, cliche - ridden empty rhetoric.