Sentences with phrase «of obscuring the facts»

And it turns out Redmayne is into finding out exactly this kind of obscure fact.

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.»

I was lame then, too, but youth and drugs did a good job of obscuring that fact.

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.

But all of the game theory may have obscured the fact that actual firms have to prepare their businesses for this uncertain regulatory landscape.

But the fact that many companies embed their ethics function within their HR function may actually obscure the extent to which every aspect of HR is ethically significant.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

They hide or obscure the facts and figures relating their business like the total number of customers, total hashrate of the service, the method of calculating or distribution of mining rewards.

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

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.

(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.)

This parallel has been obscured by the fact that the term «kerygma» can ambiguously refer both to fragments of primitive Christian preaching embedded in the New Testament text, and to the word of God I encounter from the pulpit or in my neighbour today.

In fact, a liberationist outlook obscures rather than clarifies the practical imperatives of Christian ministry within the U.S.

All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.

More concretely, the glorification of dialectical tension in Soloveitchik's case can obscure the extent to which his thinking, with all its nuance and complexity, does in fact exhibit exceptional coherence, harmony, and integration.

Its reality can be denied only by obscuring the fact that ideas and attitudes determine the decisions by which the greater part of life is regulated, and exercise much control over bodily acts.

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.

What might matter is that you name an obscure historian who lived 18 centuries after Jesus as a primary source of your facts.

• Fact # 7: Mark Batterson is the author of the recent book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day based on an obscure reference in 1 Chronicles 11:22 «Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

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 fact that this takes place over some time merely obscures the issue, but the phenomenon in question is the whole of the phenomenon.

For those who Have seen the palace and Have made it their home, they surely can attest to the fact that the Lord of the palace Does indeed Live there (a somewhat obscure reference to one of my favorite books).

Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that the text is often corrupt, and the language obscure to modern scholars.

Whitehead's extensive use of this phrase tends to obscure the fact that it is employed to describe two different kinds of perishing.

«The fact that propositions were first considered in connection with logic, and the moralistic preference for true propositions,» Whitehead contends, «have obscured the role of propositions in the actual world....

But it has also tended to obscure the important fact that the Bible is a definite body of literature, with its own intrinsic unity.

The more elaborate details of verses 11 - 24 should not obscure the fact that the same double point is being made.

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.

On the one hand, attention to the widespread presence of societal forces obscures the reality of autonomous individuality; on the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholes.

However, Mill's argument overlooks the capacity of the silver - tongued tyrant — domestic or public — to obscure from his victims the fact that he has dealt with them unfairly.

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.

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

The wonder of it has been obscured for most readers by the fact that it comes to them in their own language, hence is accepted, half unconsciously, almost as modern literature.

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.

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.

Scientific classifications often obscure the fact that «different modes of natural existence often shade off into each other» (MT 18).

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.

The confession that God is infinitely above human thoughts and speech, that he guides us without our comprehending his ways, that the fact that human beings are an enigma to themselves even obscures the clarity that God communicates to them — this confession belongs to the idea of revelation.

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.

Some facts are luminously obvious, but the rest of our experience is obscured in a deep, penumbral shadow with reference to which our intellectual faculty varies from that of a savage to that of a jellyfish.

There is no blinking the historical fact that the clarity of the church as sign has been grievously obscured.

It's also clearly a policy - driven result — a fact the MSM is attempting to obscure with a huge amount of noise about Palin and anonymous corporate giving.

YeahRight You are amazing in that you claim the entire Bible a tale yet claim as fact some obscure writing no one considers credible with the exception of David Johnson who claims Jesus never existed yet also holds to your obscure writing.

In spite of the fact that the original Reformers — particularly Luther — began the movement with a liberating rediscovery of free grace and dying love, their successors... rapidly obscured that liberty by scholasticizing the stuffing out of it.

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 J of the title was discovered in 1711 by Henning Bernhard Witter, an obscure Lutheran pastor of Hildesheim, so obscure, in fact, that his role in the naming of this source of the Pentateuch was only rediscovered in the present century by the French biblical scholar Adolphe Lods.

This may be a more charitable reading of Nestorius than the facts warrant, but it points to a continuing concern of Protestants: Granted the legitimacy of doctrinal development, including the Christological clarification that led to the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, where are the checks against exalting the Virgin so high that her son is obscured?

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.»