Sentences with phrase «of facts on the ground»

The conclusion that this is the case in Iraq is based on his reading of the facts on the ground.

An art monograph of Facts on the Ground was also released in the same year from Nazraei Press.

It has been my observation that you Marxist groupies of state - science are completely ignorant of facts on the ground when it comes to real science; I'm talking physics here; not your happy - clappy, pie - in - the - sky evangelical «science».

IOW, I think you (and others) are making sweeping statements with very little knowledge of the facts on the ground.

Not exact matches

That's despite the fact premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford, in a backgrounder to their recent agreement on the ground rules for building pipelines, warned that oil may end up crossing B.C. by train en route to Asia regardless of whether the Northern Gateway or Trans - Mountain Expansion projects go ahead.

China can not claim the moral high ground on trade matters; in fact, there is a strong case to be made that American voters» resentment of China's unfair trade practices is what put Trump in the White House in the first place.

Finding the right balance depends on a variety of factors — the nature of the attack and how the facts develop, among other details — but striking that middle ground is key.

These developments include major data privacy breaches such as the Equifax leak, the troubling revelations about the use of personal data assembled by Facebook for marketing and political manipulation, and the introduction of the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulations, which establish new facts on the ground regarding compliance for globally active companies.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

In response to the many requests to say something about Berry College and Chick - fil - A, I have to respond that the facts on the ground point in the direction of a kind of prudence impossible to spell out on a blog.

If, on the other hand, he somehow got a glimpse of the fact that I am calling for a biblically grounded and distinctive Christian political philosophy, then he should have seen that I do not merely «come precariously close» to trying to do such a thing; that is precisely what the book is about.

Praying brings our attention to the fact that God is present, and makes the spot of ground on which we stand into holy ground.

To the unsuspecting reader, it might seem that Altizer has in fact returned to his first stage, but for those who view Altizer's development as an ever - increasing awareness of the full implications of the dialectical method, Buddhism is now seen as the reversible (i.e., dialectical) ground on which a new radical Christianity can be founded.

[26] K. Miller, Finding Darwin's God: A. Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (New York: HarperColliins, 1999), 53f, distinguishes the «fact» of evolution, grounded on so much evidence, from various theories of evolution.

This process is not about dwelling on the past but rather grounding us in the fact that we are all sinful and must strive to be more Christ - like in every detail of our lives.

Drawing on the theological work of Henri du Lubac, Hans Boersma, and Rowan Williams, among others, Klassen explains how the fact of this pattern is grounded in the Trinity, in which all material reality participates.

He also could have easily placed the fake bones on dinosaurs under the ground to test those lacking in faith... as well as removed any evidence of the global flood after the fact because leaving definitive proof of biblical events is unnecessary when all you should really need is faith...

We still need to observe the facts of the conditions on the ground and try to make the best decisions for going forward — and we can't have our options frozen (and fixed) by exactly what was written down be people from long ago.

In fact, it is only on this ground that Hartshorne says we can say literally of God that he creates.

When speaking of something language also speaks of itself, pointing to its ground which is taken away from it, and by this very fact given: this is signified when we say «God» even though we do not mean by this the same as language as a whole, but the ground on which it rests.

The decision between these two possibilities is complicated by the fact that whereas there can be little question that Jesus used the phrase «son of man,» (The ground for this assurance is not merely the Gospel testimony that Jesus used the phrase; it is rather that it appears so often on his lips and nowhere else.

Others will prefer to remain on less speculative ground in merely affirming the astounding fact of order and in recognizing this as a primary datum in the nature of things.

On the divine non-temporal actual entity as ground for the relevance of eternal objects Whitehead contends that «if there be a relevance of what in the temporal world is unrealized, the relevance must express a fact of togetherness in the formal constitution of a non-temporal actuality» (Process 32).

Who needs the agreement of the Palestinians and the approval of the world when we Israelis alone have been determining the facts on the ground since 1967?

If ever so many thousands of years have intervened, if the fact came to entail ever so many consequences, it does not on that account become more necessary (and the consequences themselves, from an ultimate point of view, are only relatively necessary, since they derive from the freely effecting cause); to say nothing of the topsy - turvy notion that the fact might become necessary by reason of the consequences, the consequences being wont to seek their ground in something else, and not to constitute a ground for that of which they are the consequences.

But the fact that it has happened is on the other hand the ground of an uncertainty, by which the apprehension will always be prevented from assimilating the past as if it had been thus from all eternity.

So a quotation from St Paul on sympathetic weakness brought Luther on to better loved ground, and a suitable ending after a rather artificial apology for the verbosity of a letter which was not in fact very long.

In the course of the subsequent controversy Lessing developed a viewpoint that later became very influential, namely, that faith can not be grounded either on a book regarded as inspired or on facts regarded as historical.

And while the rest of the world seems to be pulling back on marriage as a concept (in fact, marriage among 18 to 64 - year - olds dipped below 50 percent in 2016), Christians are grinding their heels in.

Though our eating styles vastly differed when we first met (I focused mainly on a plant - based, gluten free diet and Stacey being Paleo) I loved how we were able to see through our differences and find the common ground: The fact that we were two women seeking health for our individual bodies, able to appreciate a lifestyle different of our own.

In fact, there's still snow on the ground and it's bitter cold, close to freezing and no sunshine today... I'm dreaming of warmer days...

There might still be snow on the ground where you live, but regardless of that fact spring has officially arrived.

The fact that everyone on the bench saw this play, most everyone on the ice saw the play, or at least saw Staal crumpled to the ground is a testament to the lack of heart and gutlessness this team has displayed all year, and pretty much throughout the tenure of this playoff run.

He faces a bit of a short - term issue with the fact that his offensive personnel has to basically forget everything it has been taught for the last 12 months and shift back to more of a grind - it - out mentality, but lord knows the players on hand were more likely to have been recruited by Dave Wannstedt to play this type of ball than whatever Todd Graham was attempting to do.

Considering that Arsenal had a daunting collection of players on the treatment table, and we started the game against Tottenham with an Alexis running on empty, a Cazorla that couldn't see straight and a Koscielny that wasn't 100 % fit, the fact we ground out a draw against our bitter enemies begins to look impressive.

They are getters, in fact, of anything that has the natural curiosity to reach down and pull lightly on the carrion - scented wick that protrudes above the ground and wafts a smell of decay and musk to the winds.

In fact, the new state of teh art training ground was paid for from the profit Wenger made on Nicolas Anelka, a player bought for # 500k but sold for over # 20 million.

Mark Hughes reveals that his players who have come from other countries are taken aback by the fact that they are supposed to be at the practice ground on 25th of December as well in England, a day when the entire world has a break from work.

Despite the fact Bentley had taken David's place in the England team at the time, he was still offering him little bits of advice on the training ground»

Particularly in view of the fact that we were only three points off the play - off places with some really winnable games coming up, we felt that we would be able to make up more ground on the teams occupying the top spots.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

1) The announcement that LFTB would be included in the product available for purchase under the school lunch program; 2) The CEO of BPI, when asked about the fact that LFTB was already in 70 % of the ground beef on store shelves (a surprise in itself), made a statement to the effect that his goal was to get it in 100 % of the ground beef sold.

While my petition focused on the use of pink slime in school food, I feel strongly that the media firestorm we created and the overwhelming response to the petition was animated by another concern as well: many Americans were learning for the first time about this substance and the fact that it's in, reportedly, 70 % of our ground beef without any sort of labeling for those who wish to avoid it.

Politics in Britain (and one could argue globally) has become dominated by neoliberal ideas, the so called «centre ground» is in fact neoliberalism, and conservatives tend to coalesce on the right side of this, Labour the left.

And as this column was written, we learned from the president's financial disclosure that he lied about the payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, while President Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, told graduates at the Virginia Military Institute, «If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.»

The past eight months have demonstrated that the IMF, EU Commission, and ECB believe they are able to impose whatever is in their economic interest and coincides with their economic philosophy on sovereign nation - states regardless of their government, the will of their people or the facts on the ground.

As Israel lurches to the right its desire for peace reduces by the day and its pursuit of policies of creating facts on the ground including the construction of more settlements increases.

In fact, the license renewal process is limited, focusing on environmental effects, such as endangered species, the effects of cooling water systems on fish and ground water quality; and, physical plant safety, such as the long term maintenance of coolant system piping or steam generators, as well as motors, diesel generators, and batteries.

«Business suffers from flooding, from droughts and wind storms and sustainable business prosperity really has to be based on a view of the future that is grounded in facts.

Contrary to assertion by some chiefs, mostly of the New Patriotic Party stock that, twice failed flag bearer of the biggest opposition party would be third time lucky in the upcoming November polls, facts on the ground show otherwise.