Sentences with phrase «on ambiguity in»

(The Department's guidance is based on ambiguity in the Higher Education Act regarding whether the interest rate on a consolidation loan is based on the interest rates in effect when the borrower applies for the consolidation loan or when the lender disburses the consolidation loan.

In a film that relies on ambiguity in so many ways the cast here must be commended.

The paradox is only apparent because it depends on an ambiguity in the concept of freedom.

Not exact matches

You have to change, often on the fly, and needing to deal with a great amount of ambiguity in order to succeed.»

Giving a presentation entitled «Navigating Ambiguity» on Wednesday at the Fortune, Time and Wallpaper * Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, the executive director of Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school, observed that people seem to feel a heightened sense of uncertainty across the board — in politics, retirement, medical, disaster relief, even the weather.

Focusing on core competencies is the sure path to success but so is embracing ambiguity and constantly playing in different sandboxes.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

In a statement to CNBC, Mylan reiterated that it was following guidance from the federal government on the classification of EpiPens and it referred to a new government rule that intends to clarify ambiguities in Medicaid rebate laIn a statement to CNBC, Mylan reiterated that it was following guidance from the federal government on the classification of EpiPens and it referred to a new government rule that intends to clarify ambiguities in Medicaid rebate lain Medicaid rebate law.

When you're on the ground working with people, dealing with ambiguities in a new environment, you're gaining a real depth of understanding.

Like much of the research on how diet affects health, the research on the link between meat and cancer has enough ambiguity that it's possible to cherry - pick a research list that supports either position, but many reviews of research on the best - established link between meat and cancer — colorectal cancer — find, as this 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition does, that there is a convincing association between meat eating and colorectal cancer.

They seem to be hyper - sensitive about signaling changes in interest rate policy, but they seem to not care about the ambiguity and contradictions in the reporting on the actual metrics that they use to determine whether to change the policy or not.

Trump's constant reversals, ambiguity, mixed signals, and outright hostility to following through on US commitments on everything from trade deals to military alliances have destroyed trust in the US's ability to actually fulfill its pledges.

However, factoring in the extremely high supply, rate of inflation over the first couple of years and ambiguity about how useful the coin will actually end up being should be enough to keep buyers on their toes.

John McAteer's study of ambiguity in narrative along with Phil Tallon's witty dialogue between three fictional characters on a Tarantino set illustrate this ambivalence quite well.

In contrast to the rigorists» heavy stress on the New Age, these Christians point to the realities of the Old Age or to the ambiguity of life between the ages.

'» On the contrary: Here and elsewhere where the masculine / generic noun na'ar is used (of Dinah in Gen 34:3, 12; of young women in the legal texts of Deut 22:15 - 16, 21, 23 - 29) the context makes quite clear that no ambiguity of gender is implied by the non-use of the feminine na'arah.

The political game as played from 1956 on in Poland was looser than elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, and a world away from the USSR itself, but less repression made for more ambiguity.

My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.

It is not the case that the ambiguity lies merely on the subjective side, in the person as such.

Scripture is not clear on how we continue the work of Jesus in our life, or what it will look like, but that is where the ambiguity, flexibility, freedom, and creativity of Scripture come in.

The rarity with which Paul discusses any form of same - sex behavior and the ambiguity in references attributed to him make it extremely unsound to conclude any sure position in the New Testament on homosexuality, especially in the context of loving, responsible relationships.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

In our reaction against the decadent pietism of the recent past, we falsely prided ourselves on our willingness to accept life as it is, realistically, in all its ambiguity, not painting it in more glowing colorIn our reaction against the decadent pietism of the recent past, we falsely prided ourselves on our willingness to accept life as it is, realistically, in all its ambiguity, not painting it in more glowing colorin all its ambiguity, not painting it in more glowing colorin more glowing colors.

There is no provision in the Word which avoids on our behalf human ambiguity.

The ambiguity of victory over one's enemies is reflected in a midrash on Ex.

Bishop Persell, viewing the scene from the perspective of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, draws an even stronger conclusion: «If you're formed in opposition and negativity, you're bound to keep on splitting — there's always need for more purity, and you don't live with ambiguity very well, so you end up in a church of one.»

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

But in fairness to Ely it must be recognized that there is ambiguity in Whitehead on this point.

Now the difficulties and ambiguities in these quotations may be due, in part at least, to the inadequacies of language — on the part both of Ely and of Whitehead.

And there is ambiguity on this point in Whitehead's writings.

The ambiguities in the struggles for bread and justice call him away from such simplistic dualism to work on what he calls «the left wing of the possible.»

This chapter looks at one side of the Bible's ambiguity where we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations.

Winn is honest about the ambiguity of the Bible on his topic, but equally unambiguous about the requirement of the gospel in our particular moment of discernment and obedience.

There is ambiguity regarding war and peace in the prophets of the Old Testament, but they give a high value on shalom, and Yahweh is the Giver of that shalom.

Itself a potent example of the ambiguity of human association, the congregation nevertheless dares to accept its designation as the body of Christ and the household of God, proclaiming in its acceptance the incarnate nature of its God who took on servant form.

But I do wonder how much longer our society will stay trapped in a futile debate on sexuality limited to the moralists and the medicalists, neither of whom has much sense of the moral wisdom, compassionate understanding and sense of ambiguity available to us from the biblical tradition.

There is much to be said for the way in which liberalism feeds on ambiguities and complexities yet chokes on absolutes.

It has brought on a new thirst for clarity, precision, and freedom from ambiguity, all to be construed in terms of the models of the scientific method itself.

The Whiteheadian notion of society, on the other hand, can be employed without ambiguity in both the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

Philippa has learned the lesson of the moral ambiguities of her own actions; she is still on a journey toward the discovery of her own identity in reaching out to love another human being.

What is going on in our local churches — with all its obscurity and ambiguity — is the future of the church, for good or for ill.

Again and again, we find in Whitehead's later works an ambiguity — or, maybe better, the ambiguity — that permeates the whole of his later philosophy, it seems to me: on the one hand the necessity for real continuity, and on the other hand, the metaphysical necessity of atomicity, which means discontinuity.

Since Hitler could not face the searchlight that modern art turned on his personal madness, he was totally incapable of recognizing that in expressionism there was also a great deal of health — above all, the health of its extravagant affirmation of life despite life's ambiguity and tragedy.

To be sure, each of these subjective features is more prominent in religion; there is a greater diversity of models, greater influence of interpretation on data, greater tenacity in commitment to paradigms, and greater ambiguity in paradigm choice.

It is easy to see how the timelessness of God and of his knowledge led to the theological determinism, to the predestinationism of St. Augustine, St. Thomas and Calvin; for the abolition of time and becoming on the divine level eliminates entirely the ambiguity of the future which is uncertain only to our imperfect, time - bound insight, but which is in its completeness timelessly present in the mind of God.

In view of the ambiguity of what was going on in the struggles, the task of the Christian churches was to say «yes» to that which conformed to the Kingdom of God, as revealed to humankind in the life of Jesus Christ, and to say «no» to that which distorted the dignity and freedom of human beings and all that is alivIn view of the ambiguity of what was going on in the struggles, the task of the Christian churches was to say «yes» to that which conformed to the Kingdom of God, as revealed to humankind in the life of Jesus Christ, and to say «no» to that which distorted the dignity and freedom of human beings and all that is alivin the struggles, the task of the Christian churches was to say «yes» to that which conformed to the Kingdom of God, as revealed to humankind in the life of Jesus Christ, and to say «no» to that which distorted the dignity and freedom of human beings and all that is alivin the life of Jesus Christ, and to say «no» to that which distorted the dignity and freedom of human beings and all that is alive.

This kind of ambiguity must be avoided in the current war on terrorism, Dinges asserts.