Sentences with phrase «of the serious nature of»

A New York federal judge slammed legal titans Michael Mukasey and Rudy Giuliani at a hearing yesterday, saying they seemed «dismissive» of the serious nature of the charges against their client who is accused of helping Iran dodge U.S. sanctions.

«There were numerous telephone contacts between the Governor and Booker, some that he initiated even after he became aware of the serious nature of her accusations, and even just after he referred this matter to the OAG.»

Because of the serious nature of the crime, the investigation is under the direct command of the regional commander and under the direct supervision of the crime office.»

Well, it looks like the sports world is starting to take note of the serious nature of cheerleading: The Olympics have officially recognized cheerleading as a sport.

Most people are not aware of the serious nature of these risks, or seriously underestimate them, according to Humane Education authority and former Los Angeles Animal Cruelty Prosecutor, Bob Ferber.

You should not embellish your complaints in the hopes of convincing the doctor of the serious nature of your injuries.

ICBC chooses very «conservative» doctors to see ICBC claimants and chances are, regardless of your subjective complaints, you will not be able to convince him / her of the serious nature of the injuries unless there are clear objective signs of injury (i.e. broken bone, herniated disc, etc...).

Because of the serious nature of these accidents, it is important that you speak with a Denver personal injury attorney who is familiar with pedestrian and bicycle accident cases.

It's fun and super helpful when building a house and takes me out of the serious nature of my cancer (for those reading, I'm NED - no evidence of disease but will always be stage IV because it had spread - so I receive maintenance treatments every three weeks.

Not exact matches

On Psych Pedia, Steven Parton, an author and student of human nature, explains how complaining not only alters your brain for the worse but also has serious negative repercussions for your mental health.

The company engineers industrial automated systems, and the long - term nature of its projects can create serious payment delays.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

The modules are fun and entertaining despite the serious nature of the topic - and the learning just happens.

He correctly pointed out the systemic nature of the crisis and the serious risk of contagion not just for Europe, but also for the world economy.

Eric Janszen, Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson 6 November, 2010 Janszen (E): What I'm noting, starting with the gold crisis over the last few weeks, and the public nature of some of the complaints that we're hearing out of Brazil and China and the front page of the Financial Times, we seem to be heading into a pretty serious currency crisis.

The instant nature of the internet skews our sense of history and time but serious business builders have always recognized that it is never «easy» to build a successful business.

There are no serious location requirements for this nature of business especially since it is a web - based business.

Communism staked a claim to the future, and did so with an articulate, metaphysically serious account of the nature of man and the proper end of politics.

It's scary that someone with this conviction about the nature of evil is a serious presidential contender.

A serious effort has been made to reappraise both the causes and the nature of the American Revolution and the consequent development of the American Constitution.

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

The response is not, therefore, serious debate of the alternative doctrines of nature that the discussion embodies but a not altogether benign neglect.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

Despite a mounting body of research showing that high rates of divorce and out - of - wedlock births pose serious threats to the well - being of children, mainline Protestantism has had remarkably little to say in recent years about the nature, health and prospects of the family.

Not only do serious problems arise concerning time and space, but serious problems also arise when trying to explain the nature of being and acting human.

More serious distortions occur in their interpretation of history, nature and religion.

That's just the way it works in nature — it's called selection of the fittest, and if you mess with that, you will have serious, negative consequences.

I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little thing that people are foolish for falling into believing.

And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting as though it were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy, despite the fact that the nature of the intrauterine life has been the subject of considerable dispute in the past.

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

The pathological approach has, besides its assets, also a serious liability, and that is an exaggerated emphasis on the morbid manifestations and on the lower aspects of human nature and the consequent unwarranted generalized applications of the many findings of psychopathology to the psychology of normal human beings.

More must now be said about why, conceptually, it is important to see that religious commitment involves making serious claims as to the nature of things, what the setting of human life is like, as well as serious claims as to how human persons should behave in that setting.

The blood represents the sacrifice for sins showing the serious nature of mankind's rebellion from God and the proof of God's love for us.

In casting about for something serious in theology to read, I «by chance» picked up Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man in the University library.

Somewhat logically, given the wording and nature of the Bill, this guidance contains elements for Key Stage 2 (age 7 - 11) which are in serious tension with Catholic teaching (e.g. teaching this age group about sexual intercourse, contraception and homosexuality), and for Key Stage 3 (age 11 - 14) which directly contradict it.

The challenges we face today about the nature of marriage and family are serious.

«We do so out of deep human concern that if enacted, this bill would have a serious detrimental effect on the wellbeing of individuals and on the nature and shape of our society.

Prompted by his continuing experience with the institute courses, he began a serious research effort, convinced of the need «to find new ways to talk about the congregational body that can provide deeper insight into its nature, and enrich conversation with and among its members.»

Pastor Albert Mohler, a Southern Baptist, has commented that he respects the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's document Subsistitbecause it is consistent with previous Catholic teaching (with which he strongly disagrees), is honest about its inherent belief that the Papacy is integral to the nature of the Church, and that it shows a very sensible concern for the danger souls can put themselves in by being in serious error (as he believes Catholics are).

Its reliance on legislative and judicial procedures to decide a complex theological, moral, and ecclesial matter has only heightened even more the disagreement while minimizing the possibility of serious, sustained engagement on basic issues such as theological anthropology, justification and sanctification, the nature of sin, repentance and forgiveness, Scriptural authority, and the nature and purpose of ordained ministry.

And it is questionable whether much recent systematic theology has taken serious steps toward a more positive theology of nature.

To mistake Clemente's serious nature with an eccentric mysticism is to miss the whole meaning of his life.

Division also arose about a serious debate that arose about the nature of Jesus.

Then we have looked at public prayer, saying a great deal about its congruity with human nature and human life and attempting to show that it is both a duty and a privilege for anyone who would call himself a Christian in any serious sense of the term.

lmao nature does not have a brain a soul or spirit... nature is not a person... it doesnot make decisions... are you REALLY serious with this line of argument????

The rightness of King's position to approach our present serious social problems is clear compared to the relative and morally ambiguous nature of these alternatives.

Without necessarily seeking to do so, women clergy are presenting some serious questions about the nature of Christian vocation.

Although he sees this as a working out of a tendency rooted in the fundamental nature of Western thought and culture, Hall regards it as a serious distortion of the proper function of knowledge.