Sentences with phrase «of general remarks»

But first, a couple of general remarks...

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General Dempsey's remarks come a week after ISIS made some of its most significant gains since it rampaged through Iraq last summer.

In his Wednesday general audience remarks, Francis asked Catholics to consider «the Christian seed of radical equality between men and women» when discussing the reasons behind declining marriage rates around the world, according to Vatican Radio.

A leader of Yemen's Houthis and a member of the group's delegation to the talks in Kuwait, Mehdi Mashat, on Sunday has slammed the Iranian Chief of Staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri over remarks published Sunday about Iran's desire to establish naval bases in Yemen and Syria.

That will be the general theme of my brief remarks today.

«All local matters are to be banished from the general legislature... and if our friends in Lower Canada choose to be extravagant, they will have to bear the burden of it themselves,» remarked Brown with reference to his previous annoyance.

It's not for nothing that the two best received remarks of the general election season have been Bill Clinton's Democratic convention speech and Romney debate performance.

These rather general remarks do not prove anything, of course; they only suggest one must live in an Aristotelian world to draw genetic successiveness so close to physical time as to call both time.

But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»

We should now like to say something that concerns both types of Catholic in the same way, making some general remarks on compulsory alternatives.

I only want to make some remarks on the subject of apparitions and visions in general from the point of view of the

I mean to quote Tolstoy at some length; but before doing so, I will make a general remark on each of these two points.

These general remarks on exorcism are located here because the controversy originally began with an act of healing.

I do not understand Jesus» words to love one another to include the bickering, the «I'm right and you're wrong and that means you're going to hell», the anger, snarky remarks, intolerance and general lack of love that I find not only in the comments on many «Christian» blogs, but also that I read and hear expressed by «Christians» elsewhere.

The only places in which a general account of the coming to be of the human being is implicit are in pp. 290 - 296, and 528 - 531, extending my remarks to other living things, none of which do I believe to be intelligible either in their nature and behaviour or in their origin in purely physicalistic terms.

Though Process and Reality was written three years before Gödel's published results, the general tone of Whitehead's remarks regarding the thesis of Principia seems to anticipate trouble.

Vidal - Naquet remarks (with specific reference to Butz's Hoax of the Twentieth Centurythough with application to denial literature in general) that it is «possible, of course, even easy» to refute them, «assuming one knew the archives, but it would be long and tedious... [and] to demolish a discourse takes time and space.

Some commentators went further, and implicitly (and approvingly) placed the Pope's remarks in the general context of Samuel Huntington's famous (and widely contested) analysis of the relationship of Islam and the West as a being a «clash of civilisations».

Insofar as that is a true description of the general pattern of egocentricity that characterizes all men there is no great illumination in remarking that this generation is so disposed.

I make these general remarks about the two sorts of judgment, because there are many religious persons — some of you now present, possibly, are among them — who do not yet make a working use of the distinction, and who may therefore feel at first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the following lectures the phenomena of religious experience must be considered.

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

As a general remark, it is surprising to find a contemporary thinker relying on a theory of meaning as naively empirical as this.

He made a few remarks about how Dallas's view of things reflected a general antipathy among some evangelicals toward contemporary culture, but I was still puzzled, given Balmer's criticism, as to why anyone would find this kind of religion attractive, and I wished our guide had helped us to see that a little better.

These few general remarks on religious symbolism should, of course, be elaborated and refined.

This leads us to a second general remark: for the primitive, symbols are always religious because they point to something real or to a structure of the world.

Penfolds is among one of the most popular wine brands that are «greatly abused» in the mainland market, David Lucas, regional general manager of Greater China for Wine Australia, remarked earlier last week at a Vinexpo event.

Around 3.5 billion people suffer from inadequate or inappropriate diets,» said Matthew Morell, Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), in his opening remarks.

After wading through hundreds of comments bashing the institution of marriage, doubts about my methodology, and nasty remarks about women, men and relationships in general, it appears everyone missed the point.

Sometimes grandparents will make remarks about potty training as part of general criticism about the way their grandchildren are being raised.

One Labour candidate who didn't even make it through the general election campaign was Cambridgeshire South East's John Cowan, a 35 - year - old whose «offensive remarks» cost him the chance of becoming an MP.

At 9:40 a.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray delivers remarks at a U.N. Commission on the Status of Women side event hosted by the Mayor's Office for International Affairs, Consulate General of Germany, 871 United Nations Plaza, Manhattan.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

In his closing remarks, Dr David Hine, who organised the conference, said that conferees had had a rich and fruitful day of discussion, and that the conference had shown how both political scientists and the general public have changed the way they view Europe.

Retired General John Kelly's remarks, made to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and reported by the New York Times Wednesday, were a rare departure from the president on one of the core issues that defined his upstart run for office.

In his remarks, Chairman of the occasion and General Secretary of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Pa Ayo Opadokun urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently recognize late Abiola as a former President of Nigeria and name a national monument after him.

In his brief remarks, General Abubakar thanked them for the visit, urged them to continue to objectively report the conduct / activities of the Division in and out of conflict situations.

Commenting on remarks made by Ed Miliband on public sector pension reform during his Question & Answer session at TUC Congress, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:

In his remarks during the graduation ceremony held at Command Day Secondary School, Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri Borno State, the special guest, Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas commended the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Major General Ibrahim Manu Yusuf for initiating the programme in collaboration with MGF which he said will go a long way to increase households incomes of the barracks community.

In his remarks, the General Manager of Jiangsu Wuxi Taihu Cocoa Food Company Limited, Mr. Liu Jianhui, commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola for tapping possible opportunities to develop the state commercially.

Senator James Seward (second from left) makes opening remarks as co-chairman of the general government / local assistance budget conference committee.

At Civic Hall Tuesday night, «Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will make remarks at an event, hosted by NY Tech Meetup, entitled «Tech and Government Featuring NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman»... The Attorney General's remarks will be followed by a panel of representatives from his office, moderated by Andrew Rasiej, Chairman of NY Tech Meetup.

In his remarks, National Security Adviser, Maj - General Babagana Mongonu said the 4th session is coming at a very crucial period, particularly as «We have witnessed the collective resolve of both our Presidents for peace and stability in our two countries in particular and the sub-region in gGeneral Babagana Mongonu said the 4th session is coming at a very crucial period, particularly as «We have witnessed the collective resolve of both our Presidents for peace and stability in our two countries in particular and the sub-region in generalgeneral.

In his acceptance remarks, the representative of the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Chris Jemitola thanked the medium for the nomination and all those that voted for both the Nigerian Army and the Chief of Army Staff for the prestigious awards.

The pre-parade remarks included three speakers from Ireland: Minister of State for Training & Skills Ciaran Cannon, performer and LGBT activist Panti Bliss and Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny.

Earlier in his remark, the Director General, Economic Planning, Dr. Charles Akinola said about 205 hectares of land has been exclusively made available by the state government for the actualization of the programme.

At Saturday's Fabian Society «Next Left» conference, General Secretary Sunder Katwala remarked that Labour's defeat felt akin to bereavement for many of us.

She said that Puzder has to be judged by his actions, remarking that Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump's Attorney General - designate — who has been criticized for his anti-civil rights record — showed up to his hearing like a new person who «all of a sudden» no longer wants to break the rules.

Responding, David Cameron accused the chancellor of cynically announcing the tax cut to escape a «deep hole», remarking it was the move of a chancellor heading towards a general election, not a party leadership contest.

At 8:30 a.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will deliver remarks at the launch event for UN Women's HeForShe Arts Event with actors Emma Watson and Forest Whitaker and Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka, Under - Secretary - General of the United Nations and executive director of UN Women, The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

On the refusal of the Comptroller - General of Customs to appear before the Senate, Saraki remarked: «When we talked about Customs, we were talking about something in the interest of Nigerians, but some people now take to blackmail and propaganda and now say it had something to do on car duty.