Sentences with phrase «of affirmative answers»

While the casting for the first season of Yardfarmers is now closed, applications for the 2017 season are still being accepted, with the short list of requirements consisting of affirmative answers to the following four questions:

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

In addition, Hartshorne claims that one who denies the existence of God explicitly can not avoid Anselm's conclusion under any circumstances, since his finding meaning in the central religious question at once prevents him from denying the necessity of the affirmative answer.

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If they answer in the affirmative, ask for specific examples of the micromanagement.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defended the idea of tariffs on everybody in an interview, and when he asked whether Trump indeed planned to impose penalties on the entire globe he answered in the affirmative.

The court answered both questions in the affirmative and held that the CFTC can pursue fraud and manipulation claims in virtual currency spot markets.5 First, the court found that the term «commodity» encompasses virtual currency «both in economic function and in the language of the statute.»

Remember, this trade is NOT a recommendation, only an illustration of a possibility available to option traders who answer in the affirmative to the following three questions:

My answer is in the affirmative, because of evangelicalism's ability to harness the language of crisis to facilitate renewal.

To answer in the affirmative is to adopt a realist stance on questions of gender identity.

Further proof of how effectively the church has terrorized people into believing that they must give an answer in the affirmative any time they are asked about their belief in a god.

To pave the way for affirmative answers to these questions, I now turn to one of Whitehead's most illuminating characterizations of the fourth Category of Explanation:

Indeed, he has thematically developed the idea of compassion in just the way for which I call, so that his answer to my questions is clearly affirmative.

Our analysis of religion and of the meaning of inspiration would suggest an affirmative answer to this question.

Since there is so much evidence of the moral decay that follows a loss of theistic conviction and so little evidence of the maintenance of civilization apart from this conviction, the burden of proof is on the person who answers Meiklejohn's question in the affirmative.

Insofar as this affirmative answer constitutes the adoption of the Socratic standpoint, I plead guilty to being a Socratic.

In terms of Christian theology an affirmative answer is disastrous.

The survey's major premise is that a person answering in the affirmative to six of the eleven questions is an anti-Semite.

An affirmative answer to this question receives some confirmation from the fact that within the immediate context we find some other words and phrases which point to the influence of the Baal cult on the language of Hosea and his contemporaries.

With respect to each of these questions, either an affirmative or negative answer can now be shown to be not merely prudent or imprudent but, given the current state of constitutional discourse, actually required or prohibited by the Constitution.

If we are to have any hope of advancing this discussion, it is necessary to challenge all the answers to the theistic question, affirmative and negative alike.

In almost every aspect of how that prayer could have been answered, God has seen fit to respond in the affirmative, and I will forever be grateful.

Offering hope to people, getting them to consider deeper, more important truths, working through tragedies, seeking healing and providing a bit of respite from the rest of the world is a pretty enjoyable job, and it's helped Williams answer in the affirmative.

On the face of it, the answer supplied by that narrative would seem to be affirmative.

(2) Can we reduce, or hope to reduce, the consciousness of self and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, and thus, if questions (1) and (2) are answered in the affirmative, to physics and chemistry?

Aquinas answered in the affirmative, in that, «since a thing is said to live in so far as it operates of itself and not as moved by another, the more perfectly this power is found in anything, the more perfect is the life of that thing.»

An affirmative answer to the latter, I suppose, would exemplify a purely Darwinian restricted view of evolution — Peirce's tychism.

If we accept that awareness is a kind of knowing, then the answer must be in the affirmative.

Doubts have been raised as to whether all such prayers, though uttered sincerely, can be sure of receiving an affirmative answer.

If «justified» has reference to the validity of sacrificial love, its intrinsic value and goodness, its beneficial consequences (both to the loved and to the lover), its meaningfulness, then the answer is in the affirmative.

(This will also involve an affirmative answer to a question posed by Donald W. Sherburne, namely, whether these Whiteheadian «conjectures» could «provide a systematic, rational framework capable of grounding the many insights into the relation of «mind» and «body» which have emerged from the reflections of such phenomenologists as Merleau - Ponty» [WPP 406].)

The question of whether we invest nature with these conditions I consider answered in the affirmative by the theory of projection which Whitehead will introduce in his essay «Uniformity and Contingency» (ESP 104) and later will develop fully in Process and Reality (e.g., PR 193).

(CCC1347) and it answers the question in the affirmative with a description of Christ on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24: 13 - 35.

If the answer is affirmative, the next step is to get straight on one's whole structure of religious belief.

Since Whitehead required that his categories be «applicable» (PR 3), this distinction implies an affirmative answer to the question posed earlier «whether there are primary organisms which are incapable of further analysis» (SMW 103).

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

The founders of NOOMA — one of a new wave of sports drinks boasting cleaner labels and less sugar — can reliably answer in the affirmative, as both Jarred and Brandon Smith played hockey for a living, and formulated...

Neer's NIRA, which is essentially a union of industrial recreation workers, has an obvious stake in answering in the affirmative.

If your answer to either, or both, of these questions is in the affirmative then you need to join our Fantasy Football League.

For the first two years of # 3's life, my answer to the prospect of a fourth child would've been an affirmative negative.

When asked whether they have communicated their call on Rev. Manso to rescind his decision, the Public Relations Officer of the Presbyterian Church in Ghana, George Larbi answered in the affirmative.

Whether one wants public support for the media or not is a political question (and one all developed democracies have answered in the affirmative in the twentieth century), but as people's media habits and the economics of the industry change, effective intervention probably ought to be built around the «information» part of the sentence quoted above rather than the «several large sheets» part (just as «public service broadcasters» have in many countries sought to redefine themselves as «public service media organizations» to emphasize their cross-platform ambitions).

This requires agreement of at least three quarters of the states, so it perhaps does not qualify as an affirmative answer to your question.

When asked specifically whether they support creating a system of public financing in New York that would limit the size of political contributions to candidates and match smaller contributions made to candidates for state offices, 61 percent answered in the affirmative.

In its judgment, the Supreme Court answered the above issues in the affirmative and granted the reliefs indicated herein in favour of the Plaintiff.

When the prosecution answered in the affirmative, the court then stood down the case for ten minutes and directed counsel to meet and agree on certain conditions for bail for the defendants which would be subjected to the approval of the court.

A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»

The second - stage alert triggers if there is an affirmative answer to any of these questions.

Today, more than 50 percent of doctors answer in the affirmative when asked if they support traditional Chinese medical techniques, according to a survey of more than 3,000 physicians.

People who answered in the affirmative to that question, especially mid age people who are looking for their wellness, should consider trying pomegranate herbal essence therapy as a way of addressing every aspect of your health.

About one out of five people I've polled answered this question in the affirmative.