Sentences with phrase «of issues of the character»

The logo is based on the same one that has graced hundreds of issues of the character's comic book adventures, though it has been chromed up a bit for the big screen.

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«Seldom does a single crisis embody such a wide range of issues that go to the heart of the character of a regime,» University of B.C. law professor Pittman Potter commented this month on the website of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, of which he is a senior fellow.

Rather than point readers to another weighty tome on a serious issue of the day, Gates used his latest post to suggest a book that's quite out of character.

Most of the issue seems to be over the fact that an origin story for the Joker is antithetical to the entire concept of the character.

«It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.»

While the American people clash on issues ranging from guns to taxes, what Comey sees as Trump's lapses in character and integrity are an affront members of all political parties, he said.

«It is not the story, nor the characters, nor the outline of social issues that draw me back, but the sheer beauty of the structure of this grand, one could even say, «model» novel.

«In addition to my well known differences with Donald Trump on public policy issues, I have raised questions about his character after his comments on Prisoners of War, the Khan Gold Star family, Judge Curiel and earlier inappropriate comments about women.

Such recommendations must also include a statement from the recommending stockholder in support of the candidate, particularly within the context of the criteria for Board membership, including issues of character, integrity, judgment, diversity, age, independence, skills, education, expertise, business acumen, business experience, length of service, understanding of the Company's business, other commitments and the like, as well as any personal references and an indication of the candidate's willingness to serve.

Kelly — who first learned of the domestic violence allegations against Porter months ago — issued a glowing statement of support for Porter's personal character after the allegations first surfaced publicly Tuesday and privately urged him to remain on the job until the next day when his resignation was announced.

Faulkner might not have been displaced enough, and there was an authenticity «issue» with some of his characters as a result.

Suppose, further, that this issue was logically related to matters of principle at a deeper level, so that one could not commit oneself on this issue without also making significant commitments about the internal logic and character of the tradition as a whole.

The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain from an intact, extracted fetus whose heart had restarted — described on camera by a former tissue procurement technician — as an issue that defines «the character of our nation.»

When Jews and Christians have something in common to say to the world, especially when that message is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious public discourse fall by the wayside.

But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

Nevertheless he also writes: «The perfection of God's superjective aim, derived from the completeness of his primordial nature, issues into the character of his consequent nature» (PR 524).

Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism.

To me, this means it's about character issues and behaviors that may disqualify a leader from a role of public ministry, at least temporarily and perhaps permanently.

The issue is that by reason we often only grasp the atonement character of Jesus» sacrifice, and that could cause that we become worse instead of better after conversion.

We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.

The issue of drink or drugs is simply a matter of character and independence.

It is, I think, necessary to question what it takes for one to stand truly equal among one's fellows; to explore the limits of a rights - oriented approach to the problem of inequality between racially distinct populations in our contemporary national life; to deal with issues of dignity, shame, personal responsibility, character and values, deservingness.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

We must be willing to acknowledge that ALL men may come to Him and enter into a relationship where He begins a process of correction to the issues of the ungodly character of our nature.

But just war as Christian discipleship involves a thicker account of intent, revolving around issues of character.

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The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

As the reader becomes actively involved in the process of reading, what he or she engages is not simply the issues of plot and character but also matters of norms and values, which the reader may embrace or resist.

In contrast, other delicate issues of a less political or nonpolitical character receive franker treatment.

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

While the first clutch of episodes mainly focused on aristocratic social issues, the second series features a string of shocking plot twists, including the surprise deaths of several major characters.

The perfection of God's subjective aim, derived from the completeness of His primordial nature, issues into the character of His consequent nature.

To deal with issues involving inspiration is more than to make an apologetic appeal to the character of Scripture's autographs which we no longer possess.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

The generic character of John XXIII's original intentions for the Council, of course, was essentially responsible for much of the subsequent struggle between the Council Fathers and the Roman curia, the latter being accustomed to dealing with «live issues» rather than with general goals of development.

There are a lot of character issues from my unredeemed self that needed (and need) to be put to death.

The author says that perceptions of Mitt Romney's and Barack Obama's characters matter more to voters than the issues.

Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.

While Hauerwas may be quite correct in asserting that it is impossible to ascertain specifically exactly what is determined and what is self - determined in concrete situations or more generally about one's character, a conceptual elaboration of the relationship between efficient and final causality would have been helpful in clarifying the issue.

In general, skepticism about a complete explanation of creativity is based on the notion that a creative act issues in an outcome that is new in kind, which was unpredictable, and which has a definite character that is neither reducible to the sum of its elements nor exhaustively traceable to its antecedents.

The issue concerning the extent to which a civilized society manifests a certain «identity» of social character — that is, the extent to which it is a self - identical entity — can likewise be resolved by comparison to a Society per se.

I will only be dealing with the topic of preaching, but leadership and character are also issues that could (and should) be addressed.

But, where mainstream critics took issue with an uneven script, Focus on the Family's «Plugged In Online» took issue with the main character's actions not being up the Boy Scout code of conduct.

There is renewed interest in religious and spiritual figures — men and women whose lives stand out because of their character and commitment — and in moral and ethical issues.

«Reality», for Panikkar, is the wholeness of Being that is constituted through God, Man and World, not the empirical reality which is of merely provisional character — as is maya in advaita - vedanta.60 Probably under pressure from the impact of Liberation Theology in the USA where Panikkar was teaching at the time, he had to face the issue of the political dimension of his theology and has reacted to it repeatedly in prefaces to his publications.

Moreover, a third approach is possible, namely, one which employs what we may call a «strictly metaphysical» analysis concerning neither the matters of fact at issue in appeals to experience, nor the hypothetical necessity at issue in the correlational form of presuppositional analysis, but rather the strict necessity that pertains to the character of factuality as such.

Does the Body of Christ (the American Church) have an obligation to ignore Tony's «Debacle» (an attention - getting debate being staged) and try to draw Tony and the Christian community back into the deeper issues of lack of character, inability to honor God's authorities, abuse of financial power, church blindness, and using church events as a smoke - screen for evil actions?»

This leads to one of the two major issues I would like to address: the character and function of intuition.

However, to return to the main issue before us, it may seem that we are being disloyal to traditional Christian teaching if we in any way cast doubt on the universal and unsurpassable character of Jesus the Christ as decisively revelatory of God.

There were hardly any questions about issues that most Christians would consider to have a peculiarly moral character, such as abortion, but intense interest in topics such as the expansion of NATO.