Sentences with phrase «much contention as»

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And while I'm not sure I agree with the Distributist Review «s contention that this tradition «[remains] as vibrant as ever,» it's foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matter.

It is my contention that both the existential phenomenologists and Whitehead have gone «beyond skepticism and realism» in a much more satisfactory way than Laszlo with his «complementarity» theory, which, although brilliant, seems contrived and artificial in many respects.6 Laszlo believes that a complete phenomenological reduction can be carried out; he believes that intentional objects are discrete and therefore isolatable as pure essences.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

In my review I was not referring so much to his concession (quoted by Mr. Ghelardi) that if God does not exist then natural selection is our best available candidate for how complex forms came to be» although that quote certainly is as good an indication as any of my contention that the design argument will only end up becoming a breeding ground for atheism, a fetid terrarium for a whole new brood of Richard Dawkinses (not a pleasant thought, that).

We have some hearsay «historians» of the day like Josephus, but, as it turns out, there is much contention among scholars about his works and how much they may have been tampered with.

Passion, contention, peril, and adventure belong to the goodness of life as much as to its evil.

There is that much truth in Stauffer's contention so far as this particular debate is concerned.

Oklahoma City has other quality young pieces on the roster to ease some of the pain, but the path back to title contention is much longer if Westbrook is gone as well.

In mid-November, it looked like that trend had a chance of coming to an end, as Oregon, Mississippi State, TCU, and Baylor were all very much in contention to make the inaugural college football playoff.

I'm driving the ball really well right now and if I'm going to get on the greens just as much as everybody else, I think that I'll have a pretty good opportunity to be in contention, which it doesn't surprise me.»

The France striker has been linked with a move to the Gunners for much of this summer as they seek to lift themselves into Premier League title contention.

«Berns also peeks into the gray matter of dolphins, sea lions, and Tasmanian devils, bolstering his contention that both four - footed and sea - dwelling mammals think and feel much as we do, a sentiment animal lovers and fans of books by Jane Goodall, E. O. Wilson, and Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason will heartily embrace.»

«Of the fifty - seven children who had low blood calcium levels, thirty - eight (66.7 percent) drank more than four bottles (12 to 16 ounces per bottle) of soft drinks per week, but only forty - eight (28 percent) of the 171 children with normal serum calcium levels consumed as much soft drinks These results more than support the contention that soft drink consumption leads to lower calcium levels in children.

LGBT Interest Gawker Rich Juzwiak is brilliant as usual - a must read on Lance Bass's «masculine» Reality TV wedding Women in Hollywood Lionsgate won the bidding war for Julianne Moore and Ellen Page drama Freeheld In Contention redemption might be coming for the much maligned 54 (1998) with Mark Christopher's directors cut?

These lower versions sound so much better which leads you to wonder what was with all the up - shifting (p.s. I love the album as is, unlike most) Salon on why you should watch Project Runway again In Contention has a Venice Film Festival preview Gawker defends Ben Affleck's casting as Batman by way of Heath Ledger's equally (at first) controversial casting as The Joker.

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As the use of technology in schools grows rapidly — whether in blended - learning environments, for project - based learning, or just because it's the fad du jour — how much time students should spend learning on a computer is a point of contention.

It is my humble contention that these policies are misguided as much because of our behavior as anyone else's.

Much of the talk in favor of the No Child Left Behind Act's reauthorization is centered around two contentions: that the federal law needs only some tweaking to be made right, such as shifting to a «value added» or «growth» method of charting progress; and that, once tweaked, it must be fully funded to be effective.

One contention in the book is that we at professional schools now know at some level the original dream is flawed, and tell our students as much, but we continue to act as if the old equation is true because we don't have much to replace it with.

Deasy Wants 30 % of Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30 % of a teacher's evaluation will be based on student test scores, setting off more contention in the nation's second - largest school system in the weeks before a critical Board of Education election.

Building a book - length argument around his contention that «the seventeenth century is the moment when one world - view was displaced by another because the scientific displaced that of faith,» Grayling paints a picture of astronomers, mathematicians, medical doctors, and even alchemists often reaching conclusions that even they dearly hoped weren't true — because the answers meant opposing Christian doctrine, unwise if you wanted to keep your job, freedom or head... To my ear, though, the tone of the Grayling's prose is rather flat — think «textbook» and you've pretty much got it — so many of these unexpected sidelights are not presented as compellingly or dramatically as one might hope.

While the hunting versatility of the breed has served it well in the field, it has caused much confusion and contention among ridgeback fanciers about what these dogs are, and are not, as hunting companions.

Too much pressure on the brake or not enough trust in your car as you slide around a corner sees you quickly both off of the road out of contention for a spot on the podium.

Teddy was a conservationist not a preservationist... He adopted Pinchot's philosophy that all resources should be used efficiently, even natural resources; this discounted other values and goals that we now consider in the «public interest»... While he did much to advance environmental policy... He also set up the contention in regulatory agencies that today plague our ability as citizens to obtain objective and independent information.

Given that much of the science backing the consensus view is not in contention, and given that as we saw in the last entry in this series that there is an ethical need to be very careful in talking about the uncertainties associated with climate science, a PR firm led strategy that emphasizes uncertainty without regard to how much of the science is settled is extraordinarily unethical.

I am willing, at any time, to discuss in as much detail as anyone wants, the basis for my contention.

So if the price of power to drop in Hawaii, is it your contention that people would use as much power as they do now?

The whole Kerr article as such only gives voice to the opinion that «no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer» so we can take its contention that there has been a pause seriously.

The remaining areas of contention then become whether others who may directly or indirectly have facilitated the sexual assault, such as an employer, are also liable, and how much compensation (i.e., damages) the victim should receive.

On appeal the contentions that the judge had attached too much weight to the apology; should not have treated it as sincere; and that the apology should not have been considered sufficient to outweigh the severe effect the defendant's conduct had on the victim, were rejected.

2.2 Holy Blood Holy Grail has much more to it than the Central Themes as expressed so that the Claimants contention that HBHG has very little apart from the Central Themes is not correct.

It was a redundancy dismissal case, as was the leading case of Alexander v Bridgen Enterprises Ltd [2006] IRLR 422, [2006] All ER (D) 224 (Apr) which was much in contention.

The findings aren't exactly surprising, as this has been a point of contention for some time, whereby many believe Buterin has too much power over the network for it to truly be called a decentralized blockchain.

With under - display fingerprint recognition pretty much out of contention as far as the Galaxy S9 duo is concerned, and a notch - containing design feeling highly unlikely, Samsung may have indeed settled on a conservative placement of its «next big thing's» biometric sensor.

Taxation of cryptocurrency trades is the subject of much contention and as tax return statistics roll in it's clear that many traders and...