Sentences with phrase «not about merit»

This article wasn't about the merits of their product (which may be successful on the «their product is great and loved by many» level), it was about their business model.

This is not about the merits about the paid - sick days referendum recently passed by an overwhelming majority of Milwaukee voters.

«This appeal is not about the merits of charter schools or district schools, but rather about the state's overarching obligation to ensure a thorough and efficient education for all public school students in Newark,» Sciarra said in an earlier statement on the appeal.

It was not about the merits of the Law Society's regulatory choice per se.

Not exact matches

With an anxiety disorder, you feel general anxiety about life events even when that level of anxiety wouldn't seem merited by others.

In his 68 - page finding, Chen was careful to note that saying the plaintiffs constitute a class — one that potentially now includes a majority of Uber's 160,000 U.S. - based drivers — doesn't say anything about whether those plaintiffs have justice on their side when it comes to the merit of their suit.

Whatever side of the fence you fall on about Pokémon Go's merits as a children's game, you can't argue its impact on local businesses and marketing.

With that in mind, it's an interesting argument, not only for its own merits but also because of what it tells you about the vision of boundless meritocratic «disruption» that startup investors are trying to sell to the world.

«If you really do have concerns about the merits of this case, finding out who bankrolled it doesn't really help you at all,» said Mary Anne Franks, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law.

I do think there is merit in looking at general rates (we likely won't return to the rate environment of the early 1980's for example), but I wouldn't be getting excited about stock prices at these levels for the sole reason that bond yields are really low.

It's not a happy story, as Lord Lawson's complaint about their conflicts of interest is well taken for the most part, although I lack the expertise to know if his precise comparison has merit.

This article isn't about the existence of God or the merits of Catholicism; let Catholics discuss their Lent plans in peace.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

It should also be understood that one does not necessarily need to take a religious or moral approach to transmit the public - health message about the health and survival merits of restraining sexual behavior.

FOR ONCE, a person of public faith who doesn't seek to prescribe to me or judge me, but instead turns her focus inward to find out exactly why she believes as she does, and then writes about the experience so I and others can weigh the merits and decide for ourselves.

It's not something YOU merit the right to insult (although insulting seems to be all you are capable of) when you don't know a thing about it, outside of the fact that it is the result of ending ones own life.

What about the belief that since this world is temporary, it doesn't really matter — it's all ashes and dust, corrupt and lost so even the most noble acts are ultimately without merit — God will sort it out in the end...?

When political science students were challenged about being Republicans, they were not thereby disenfranchised from voting; when economics students were challenged on the merits of capitalism, they were not thereby excluded from purchasing notebooks, But when students were told that everything they had learned about their religion before entering this class was wrong, did we know — or care — if their capacity to function religiously in a mature fashion was diminished?

For the sake of liberals who are (understandably) queasy about defending abortion on its merits, Democratic politicians like to pretend that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms (it doesn't), that it is a common source of pre-natal care (it's not), and that abortion represents only 3 percent of its services (the real number is unclear, but far higher — though again, it doesn't help our cause to inflate it to 94 percent).

I can't help but wonder if all the devout religioners screaming that Hoffman doesn't merit a church funeral were quite so adamant about the Church's protection of all the child molesters and all their decades of masquerading in clerical costumes?

For all of their ingenuity and their (perhaps considerable) merits, in other words, these accounts seem not to be talking about the same sort of thing that we have all along understood «morality» to be (or that we encounter when we feel ourselves subject to «moral» constraints).

Whatever merit our reconstructed shepherding image has, and we believe it to be considerable, it can not, then, convey what needs to be interpreted about the persons who need help.

In the season finale, the justices delivered split opinions in two cases that had not even been fully briefed and argued on the merits — one about President Trump's limits on immigration from six majority - Muslim nations, the other about the right of a female same - sex spouse to be listed as a parent on a birth certificate alongside the birth mother.

Leaving aside all the gory details for a minute regarding the merits of his plan, what continues to strike me as discomfiting (but increasingly predictable) about his technocratic leanings is not just a lack of transparency regarding his ultimate intentions but a deeper and more persistant distrust of open public debate.

To return to the personal note encouraged by the editors, my own present theological dilemma is this: I am relatively encouraged (although not, I hope, sanguine) about the relative merit of the model for fundamental theology which I have tried to articulate in the past few years.

If God were omniscient and infinite and a whole range of other superlatives, but did not care about us, then God would not be the God we worship and might not even merit the name of God.

We also took our time because things like this can't be rushed, and the creation of lists like these always involves several pots of coffee, several hours of plumbing the depths of Spotify and a few late - night debates about the merits of this band, the lasting appeal of that album and just what constitutes a «Top 10» list.

CNN: Despite fights about its merits, idea of American exceptionalism a powerful force through history It's safe to say the first European arrivals to New England wouldn't recognize today's debate over whether America is exceptional.

When the Reformer insisted that civil magistrates «have been invested with divine authority, and are wholly God's representatives, in a manner acting as his vicegerents,» he explicitly warns that this does not settle questions about the merits of a specific form of government.

With all due respect that seems to me to be thin skinned in the sense of an argument not being able to stand on it's own merit and it being ironic about you alleging that in me.

We didn't worry about obtaining «merit» through good works, because we got our merit by grace, free from Jesus, even when we didn't ask.

The point here is not one about the relative merits of altruism towards others vis a vis self - concern.

My comment is not so much about the merits of their case as it is the 180 - degree turn the White House did on SCOTUS when the decision did not go their way.

Martin weighs the merits of his «all truths are timeless,» or can be so formulated without loss of truth, against what he takes to be my view (for no reason in my writings that I can see) that all are time - bound; he ignores the moderate or less extreme view that some (namely, truths about extremely universal and abstract, eternal and necessary things, including the essential structure of time as such) are timeless, and others (those about less universal and abstract, also non-eternal and contingent things) are time - bound, but this not in every way a careless thinker might suppose but in a definite and logically intelligible way.

That is the belief that Jesus is talking about acts after the fact of having received, not before with the intention of meriting reward.

Gould's argument has the merit that it warns us not to be too simplistic about attributing trends in evolution.

The mustard cream recipe makes about 10 times what you would actually need for 4 flatbreads and was not good enough to merit keeping around for a sandwich or something.

Not one to be shy about the merits of her cuisine, Cohen presents a menu that ranges from offerings like spinach mille - feuille with grapefruit ricotta and smoked pistachios to butternut squash scallopini with harissa labneh balls and green chermoula, and a platter of brussels sprout tacos and accoutrements that can be shared by the table.

Those of us who had doubts about this pairing (slowly raises hand) were not completely without merit.

And your comments pertaining to Wengers genuine belief that the midfield doesn't need strengthening is all you need 2 know about Arsenals ability to win anything of Merit next season.

i understand the critics but this one article criticized just about everything in the legacy of wenger and gave him not even merit for anything in his 20 year career of wenger..

I am sure that the debate will be raging just as much as ever among Arsenal fans about the merits of our England international star Theo Walcott and whether or not he can provide the Gunners with a good enough option for the centre forward position.

At least two of those schools (Mich, Stan) have very high academic standards and can't recruit players who can't make it into the university on their own merits, I am personally not sure about Southern Cal, but wouldn't be surprised if they can't recruit someone without the academic bona fides as well.

and not to forget that although MMA is a sport, what UFC is doing is not sport - related, it is simply an entertainment show which they are trying to «sportify» and legitmise via various means (e.g. stupid rankings, reebok etc.) so they have created this double standards, whenever they want they talk about rankings and merits etc. and when the agenda is something else, they talk about «big fights» and money fights...

Thinking about those times he was in Champions League squads, he was there because of injuries, not on merit.

Or is this about hierarchy and not merit?

I want to do well on our own merits not because Liverpool are about to lose their best player, Chelsea are in a bad energy spell, Spurs players are not happy etc..

We all gave le coq credit, but cazorla really helped him, am not saying the credit we give Coq is not merited just trying to say that Ramsey always fails to give protection to whoever partners him in midfield... Am really confused about Ramsey now... what is his best position??

In recent weeks Massa has been pretty outspoken about the merits of the team taking on someone new, and with so many people gunning for his seat it's perhaps not surprising.