Let
us not obscure facts in the present heated ideological debate.
«A decade of legal obstructionism by Greenberg will
not obscure the facts.»
The triumph of conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention should
not obscure the fact that a sizable number of Southern Baptists share classic liberal concerns for women's rights, racial and social justice and international peace, not to mention the viability of historical - critical method.
But acknowledging this reality should
not obscure the fact that, to borrow Soloveitchik's language from another context, what we have in these opposing forces is not some illegitimate, unstable hybrid, but a radiant, integrated, and nuanced account of man's self - realization before God.
The more elaborate details of verses 11 - 24 should
not obscure the fact that the same double point is being made.
In dwelling thus upon our ethical perplexities we must
not obscure the fact that our deepest problem is to find the strength to do the right as we see it.
Yet this should
not obscure the fact that there are things to say about the kingdom which Christians who have given it any serious thought would seldom dispute.
The remaining differences, however, should
not obscure the fact that agreement has been obtained on some of the most hotly debated issues in the doctrine on justification, especially concerning the role of faith and concerning the certitude of salvation as based on God's promise.
That all this is true of religious institutions, though, should
not obscure the fact that churches are more than voluntary associations and are important not merely for being private.
The condemnation hurled at John Terry by the FA commission can
not obscure the fact that the case was handled badly from start to finish.
«And the noise being created elsewhere does
not obscure the fact that the work is getting done.»
However dubious such judgements seem, they should
not obscure the fact that popular culture can engage young people with politics, and can provide a route by which political values and ideas are negotiated.
The increasing diversity of home schoolers and institutional configurations should
not obscure the fact that many who home school still choose this option out of frustration with or protest against formal, institution - based schooling and seek to impart an alternative, usually conservative Christian, worldview to their children by teaching them at home.
The electoral success of pro-voucher politicians, however, does
not obscure the fact that there still isn't any solid evidence that students who use vouchers to attend private school perform better academically.
But it shouldn't obscure the fact that human drivers, despite marginal training and myriad distractions, do a remarkably good job of avoiding accidents.
But his shape - shifting can't obscure the fact that he was perhaps Germany's most important post-war artist, save only his onetime teacher Joseph Beuys.
Passing references to unreasonableness (at paras. 36 and 45) can
not obscure the fact that Abella J. essentially stepped into the shoes of the CLP and rendered what she thought was the most appropriate decision in the circumstances.
And should the information be confidential or subject to «solicitor - client privilege,» barking at a stranger won't obscure the fact that you, the sender, have screwed up.
Your rate may vary somewhat but that doesn't obscure the fact that interest rates are a major factor in changing the fundamental numbers and the investing landscape.
Not exact matches
Not all small businesses have much experience or many accolades to speak of; however, rather than try to
obscure that
fact, embrace it.
What may be oddest about the Nunes memo is that, by
obscuring the
fact that Page was
not a Trump staffer by the time he was placed under surveillance, it inadvertently supports the idea that he was coordinating with the Trump team — and, by extension, with Russian officials.
It's
Not Russia: Rich Lowry argues that «the Russian bot hysteria»
obscures the
fact that Americans hold fundamentally divergent beliefs — ones that run far deeper than Facebook posts.
(The strong force is based on a yet larger set of gauge symmetries, but this
fact was
obscured by a quite different effect and also was
not discovered for a long time.)
Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must
not be allowed to
obscure another
fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.
It may be that the outsiders do
not in
fact comprehend his message, but are the parables designed to
obscure it?
The
fact that the idiom has had a much longer and more varied history should make it possible for it to be rescued from bondage to a narrow usage which
not only turns out to be unwarranted, but which is in actual danger of
obscuring, even obliterating, an important value of the idiom.
The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America
obscures the
fact that the new immigration is bringing about
not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.
Here the thriving community of Judaism was sufficiently vigorous to attract proselytes; and in this century the Greek - speaking community of Judaism began the translation of its sacred writings from Hebrew (by some forgotten and by others never known).28 The details are
obscure, but the central
fact is
not in question.
They
obscure the
fact that modern governments can
not avoid influencing families, directly and indirectly, in countless ways.
Reagan was a master communicator — his effectiveness on television rivaled FDR's mastery of radio — but his charm tended to
obscure the
fact that he was
not teaching about reality.
Giant organizations have
not helped, and have in
fact obscured and distorted this for people who may be of simple intelligence but who would be totally capable of understanding.
And yet, he is
not wholly
obscure, either, to those who pass through the hardness of «plain
fact.»
Sometimes, to lay more emphasis on the uniqueness of this «sonship» of Jesus, his birth and infancy, which would seem in
fact to have been ordinary and
obscure (his home and family were so ordinary that his fellow - townsmen would
not accept him as a preacher in their synagogue), were pictured as having been miraculous and attended by wonders and glory.
But the recognition of such
facts as these must
not obscure Paul's sense of apostolic authority: «God has appointed in the church first apostles.»
www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk For each game there's
not only the match details, but also information about the history of the club we played (no matter how
obscure) and through this we have once again come up with some unexpected
facts (and a few half - proven suppositions too!)
I didn't see the problem in part because I was paying attention to the wrong parts of the code, but the
fact that the results showed up only in Firefox clouded things immensely, since the behavior was so weird that I wondered if I'd run afoul of some
obscure browser rendering error.
But their story of political conflict and compromise
obscures a crucial
fact: it's
not their money, it's ours.
The
fact is you have made changes following it; but in any event these events, tragic though they were, should
not obscure the enormous progress that Kazakhstan has made.
«The
fact that this video shows another example of an officer with his number
obscured assaulting a member of the public indicates that there is a systematic problem here,
not just a series of individual acts of misconduct,» said David Howarth, the party's justice spokesman.
David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for
obscure and diffi cult to source
facts), Armando Iannucci (for how
not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).
«While de Blasio won the mayoral election in a walk, and earned his landslide with a bold platform of taxing the rich to expand pre-K, his heady victory
obscured a stubborn
fact: The power to decide this issue doesn't reside in Gracie Mansion.
Popular films such as Multiplicity feed these nightmares by
obscuring the
fact that cloning can
not instantaneously yield a copy of an existing adult human being.
By
not stating a «most likely» number, they are consciously
obscuring the
fact that climate sensitivity has been climbing down.
In
fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly
obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of climate science) rather than the most prominent climate websites.
Last but
not least, when using CRISPR, remember to appreciate the
fact that it was first discovered in an
obscure bacterium and that we still have much to learn from biology in all its forms!
Though it's refreshing to see Langdon out of his element for once (even if the idea that he can remember
obscure facts and
not the word for «coffee» is as ridiculous as some of the film's major plot turns), it also defeats the purpose of going to see a Robert Langdon adventure.
I appreciated the
fact that emerging actors starred in the film, together with well known ones like The Rock or Jack Black, however, I must also say that the well known actors have
not obscured the emerging ones, which is great!
Critics» standard, obligatory «Best» and «Worst» lists are a tad disingenuous in that regard,
not to mention the
fact that journalists don't have a great reason to select
obscure barely released fare for either category.
But don't let these institutional vagaries
obscure the
fact that Hong is in the midst of one of the great cinematic winning streaks, a frenetic burst of creative energy that comes along only a few times in a generation.
The response surprised state board of education member David Tufaro: «We did
not envision the level of hostility to the point of
obscuring the
facts about the abysmal state of these 11 schools.»