Sentences with phrase «not equivocation»

That in itself is an odd stance, but it's not the equivocation on gun control that Democratic State Chair Nancy DiNardo invoked, let alone a reversal.

This is not equivocation.

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When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Whilst I am aware that the diocese has said that the school may if it wishes do this, it hardly inspires confidence, not least given the apparent equivocation of its official «Guidance Notes» - and few schools take this option.

It would be easy for a campus ministry group to wink and nod toward their evangelical ancestors, pointing to a doctrinal statement that doesn't exactly say the right things but doesn't contradict them either, while buying political protection and cultural shelter through equivocation and virtue signaling.

One wonders if there is anything more crucial for the preacher to do than to obey the sadness of our times by taking it into account without equivocation or subterfuge, by speaking out of our times and into our times not just what we ought to say about the Gospel, not just what it would appear to be in the interests of the Gospel for us to say, but what we have ourselves felt about it, experienced of it.

Astonishingly enough, the simple phrase «none greater» involves two major equivocations, not indeed as Anselm used the phrase, but as it might reasonably be used, even though the possibility of such usage seems not to have been clearly seen by Anselm or anyone else.

Such terms as solidarity, the common good, the guardian state, close regulatio n, and even equality are, as history has painfully taught us, equivocations.

Certainly with these different senses of words it is possible to fall foul of equivocation, but it does not seem to me that Whitehead has been guilty of that.

You have not justified that equivocation, and continue to merely assert that it is the «logical conclusion of atheism».

The claim that «Jesus was not a pacifist» is an example of the fallacy of ambiguity, sometimes also referred to as equivocation, where an orator tries to build his argument on the uncertainty of words or on a term that has multiple meanings.

Moreover, this «big tent» approach to uniting parents could backfire with black and evangelical Christians, for whom agreement with the NPA's larger pro-parenting agenda may not make up for this equivocation on homo - sexual parenting.

In other words, the fallacy of equivocation occurs when in the course of an argument the meanings of an ambiguous word or phrase are traded unfairly to get us to accept the conclusion when in fact we shouldn't.

According to logician Trudy Govier, «The fallacy of equivocation is committed when a key word in an argument is used in two or more senses and the premises of the argument appear to support its conclusion only because these senses are not distinguished from each other.»

I'm not sure what happened with Owen's post and Facebook — it appears to be an issue with some new ad coding on his Web site — but I can say without equivocation that I had nothing to do with getting it censored or deemed «unsafe.»

The government's equivocation over what Brexit will entail does not ruffle him, he says, welcoming the obfuscation that protects against apparent U-turns.

Johnson could not survive in No 10 because the Conservative party needs an obfuscator in charge, someone to protect the straining extremes of its moderate and right - wings from each other with highly polished equivocation.

Speaking at the NPP manifesto launch at the trade fair center in Accra today, Nana Akufo Addo stated: «Let me state clearly and without any equivocation that John Dramani Mahama can not teach me any lesson in patriotism.

It's an opinionated but levelheaded film — politically nuanced, but not leaden with its equivocation.

At this point in his career, some 70 films in, you admire that Herzog's willing to make things that are «unintentionally» anything, yet there's the hope if not expectation that he will shy away from half - measures and equivocations.

And after much equivocation over the bar with the android — he knows it's not a very nice thing to wake her, but — Jim rouses Aurora to join him for the next 89 years.

Yet the sense of relief does not last, for these islands of clarity are invariably surrounded by a broad sea of circumspection and equivocation that leave one adrift, wondering just how reliable they and similar assertions are, and just how policymakers might go about using this book to improve educational outcomes for minority children.

To her credit, Pilon does not iterate these canards but argues only that the concept is «susceptible to equivocation and manipulation.»

I quickly rushed out my standard equivocations (see above), though I didn't use toothache, because in his business hours, Rick is a dentist.

In the essays that he published over more than three decades, he turned even his equivocations into dictums as he explored subjects that included not only art, architecture, and the art world, but also urban development and national affairs.

This presents the visitor with unique challenges, equivocations, hesitations and confusions regarding the works of art and their thresholds and borders, not to mention the aggravation added to the duties of the museum guards.

Killian's concept doesn't do that, and luke - warmist equivocation doesn't either.

But if someone will not admit a small error and insists on shifting the conversation away from directly adessing it by comments on the magnitude, then I see that as slimy bill Clinton equivocation.

No equivocation here — no suggestion that extreme weather events don't seem to be increasing, that sea - level rise is much as it has been, and that ocean acidity is as yet really unmeasurable.

Equivocation isn't a sign of cognitive weakness.

«This central truth must be stated without equivocation: control of the emission of human - induced greenhouse gases will not halt climate change.

President Obama has always resorted to equivocation when the truth wasn't working for him.