Sentences with phrase «not accept the premises»

First, I don't accept the premise that millennials are leaving the church.

One may not accept the premises of Anglican polity, but in this case the polity has done its work with integrity according to its own self - understanding.

Sorry, I don't accept your premise.

I just don't accept your premise that an affair can be had in secret with no ramifications.

«That's why when I had the conversation at the earlier press conference, I was intending to say I don't accept that premise that my jurisdiction is only subject to government employees.

I don't accept the premise that this problem is only limited to government employees.

«I don't accept the premise that my program and my jurisdiction is only limited to government,» Cuomo said.

«I don't accept the premise you are running a perfect organization,» Cuomo told a crowd of more than 120 officials and other guests at Laborers Local 66 in Melville.

«If Vanity Fair want to characterise that as a go - between, then fine, but I don't accept the premise of what they're insinuating.»

«I don't accept the premise that most of the education we're attempting is adequately resourced to address the task, and arts education is one of the many compromises.

Ensure access to resources for building quality arts education programs; do not accept the premise that the arts will be the first cut from the curriculum or budget.

NR, I don't accept your premise that a protagonist can not undergo substantial change in a single day.

does not accept the premise that closed material procedures (CMPs) should be more widely available in civil proceedings... does not accept that the increased use and training of Special Advocates can address the inherent disadvantages to claimants that the increased use of CMPs would inevitably involve.»

Not exact matches

Your belief is flawed because you've accepted the premise of an idea which can not possibly be falsified.

And if Adam did not exist, then how are we to accept the premise of inherited sin and the need for a savior?

The quest for total consensus is an illusion, and indeed there is no reason to accept majority rule in such a matter if the majority does not share one's premises.

Even if I accepted the premise that the Christian bible (in its present form no less) somehow represents the final word on God's will... it still does not reveal any such edict.

---- The reality is that the fool is the one who accepts any premise that hasn't been demonstrated to him.

The reality is that the fool is the one who accepts any premise that hasn't been demonstrated to him.

The Basingers» conclusion «that even when starting with classical premises one still ends up with process - like conclusions concerning divine power» (PS 11:23) would seem to apply even more thoroughly than they realized, for it would seem that the classical theist would have to accept the view that God can not create without limiting his power.2

An «intelligent design» curriculum based on the very premise that «intelligent design» is logic - based and not entirely «faith - based could never be accepted by those who want to teach «intelligent design» in our schools because logic compels:

This is the most interesting point for you atheists, because there's no way to get out of this but accepting by faith the premise that not only God exists, but also is good and won't fool you.

Yet for some reason we do not dare to follow his logic even when we accept some of his premises, such as this one of our determination by our strongest motive.

The work of C. H. Dodd on the historical tradition in the fourth gospel does not help us appreciably here, because, even if we grant his case (and we could not accept his basic premise that early tradition and historical tradition are synonymous), 63.

I thought, however, that the entire argument presented by Aquinas on the existence of God began with a premise I can not accept.

If we accept your premise «you can do nothing if not allowed by God» then how can one rebel.

By accepting the humanists» standards of subjectivity and the relativity of values as a given — that is, as a premise and not as a problem — the liberal religionist has gone a long way toward betraying the grounds for public order.

I do not believe that philosophical questions are open to proofs, if that means that, from premises any rational person will accept, issues so vital to people as the existence of God will be rigorously decidable.

Let's accept that sometimes that might take place on church premises and sometimes that might not.»

Starting by saying that you need to begin by accepting that God is real before «evidence» supporting this premise materializes simply can't be a trustworthy path towards truth because you can apply that to anything and get the same result.

To get the Christian god in you remove premise y and add p, q, r, s, and m. I would argue that the premises that must be dropped for people to accept the Christian god are premises they don't really want to drop and so work with an unballanced set of beliefs.

While it is crucial to accept the premise that biting is an age - appropriate behavior for toddlers, it is just as important to accept that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Although one might first have to accept your premise that «the optimal society is one wherein there are neither rich nor poor,» which I'm not prepared to do.

For those who have not yet had the particular enjoyment of working with those who «think outside the box», they may have some difficulty accepting this book as a work of non-fiction - so outlandish is the premise that were you to suggest it in a novel it would be laughed off as ridiculous.

The fact Miliband might be willing to take them on on their own territory, rather than accept their premise and argue that they are not the right people to deliver it, as Cameron has implicitly done, bodes well.

Meanwhile, Menzgold continue to reiterate to the public through notices some of which had been pasted at its premises and branches warning «We do not accept cash deposits here».

Cameron says Miliband is accepting the premise that the Conservatives will win the next election, and not mentioning that unemployment is down today.

As I said, I'm told — and local Cllr Lindley says the same on the Vote 2012 site — that without the Ind the Tory victory would have been even greater, as he dented the Tory vote in a couple of boxes, so I don't automatically accept your premise.

If you do accept that premise, looking for whether or not there was ever life on Mars is important in two ways.

And even if Platt is not ready to fully accept the premise put forth in the new paper, for now, he says, «I can't come up with a better one.»

Even if we accept the premise of cure, we have not found a valid standard to make our ethical decisions.

I'm finishing up a new book called beyond Calorie Gate, which is basically if we accept the premise that the black box is what we need to count, and not calories, how do we do that?

I accepted the premise that is was not really necessary to include meat, fish or poultry in the diet to be healthy.

Men don't seem to have much problem fasting and that makes evolutionary sense if you accept the premise that they were the hunters.

It's not clear, and certainly not advisable, from a plot standpoint exactly why Wolverine (series mainstay Hugh Jackman) must break Magneto out of prison in 1973, but certain lapses in logic must be accepted to buy into the general premise, which is essentially «getting the band back together» in a past that never was — to change the future.

Campy fun is sure to be had for those willing to accept the premise, and even if the film itself could never remotely tries to be anything but bad, this is one of those «guilty pleasures» that one can't help but have a good time watching, especially if you decide to watch this with a group of rowdy friends.

In essence, it's about being professional and taking care, which means don't: agree to meet alone; allow over-familiarity; give out your personal mobile number; meet informally outside working hours and away from your organisation's premises (and certainly don't do so without getting formal approval); allow too frequent contact or over familiarity that may be acceptable with friends, colleagues and family but not from people with whom you only have a commercial relationship; discuss your private life, or social or recreational interests of you or your partner; accept offers, discounts or other services or products by the client, customer or contractor; accept hospitality or gifts that you yourself wouldn't pay for from your own pocket; and don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, obligated or might be open to misinterpretation or might be difficult to explain to your manager, a journalist or an investigator.

When we believe and accept the premise school boards can not appropriately provide services for their residents, we might as well sign our students over to a centralized authority to tell them how to learn and what to think.

The premise that students moving to charter schools will cause financial quakes in traditional school systems also suggests we should accept another premise that public school systems are so inflexible they can not adjust their fixed and variable costs and still produce quality learning.

Firstly his premise is mistaken, ebooks are not the disruption, merely the manifestation of the disruption (of which more below) and secondly even if we are to accept his categorization of ebooks as the disruption / sustaining innovation, he misses a key point about the nature of the trade publishing industry that undermines his argument.