Sentences with phrase «on arguments of the past»

But, unlike most mediators, the facilitator usually has a counseling background and helps families work through the emotional fallout of divorce, keeps the focus on the future rather than on arguments of the past, ensures that the children's best interests are being addressed, and teaches the spouses (and their attorneys) to communicate respectively and productively.

To help expedite this process and guide discussions to be future - oriented rather than concentrating on arguments of the past, a neutral Facilitator is retained.

But, unlike most mediators, the facilitator usually has a counseling background and helps families work through the emotional fallout of divorce, keeps the focus on the future rather than on arguments of the past, ensures that the children's best interests are being addressed, and teaches the spouses (and their attorneys) to communicate respectively and productively.

Rather than focus on the arguments of the past, collaborative attorneys coach their clients to focus on the future and on what is most important to them, such as the health and well - being of their children.

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The Dragons» Den argument speaks to something of a mission Kopke has embarked on in the past few years to affect change in Canada's business culture.

Fischer, who has argued in the past that the Fed needed to be wary of being too slow in raising interest rates, made no such argument on Sunday.

On the lighter side, we attempt to answer one endless fan argument: How would the stars of the past fare in the NHL of today?

The thrust of his argument is that interest rates need to go up as the Fed's been «adding enormous policy accommodation over the past several years» and, even while they've long been missing their inflation target on the downside, there's a risk of getting «significantly behind the curve.»

The central chapter on the Second Premise (K 65 - 140) contains: (i) a refutation of the attempted application of Cantor's transfinite mathematics to the domain of extramental reality, (ii) two philosophical arguments which attempt to show the conceptual absurdity of the notion of an infinite past of finite actualities, and (iii) two arguments from physics (concerning Big Bang and Thermodynamic theory, respectively) which attempt to show that probably the natural universe had an absolute beginning a finite time ago.

that is, «The world is thus [italics mine] faced by the paradox that, at least in its highest actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones,» refers, because of the use of the word thus, to a previous argument that provides the grounds on which Whitehead bases his assertion that the world requires both novelty and order.

Sherburne's argument against me is based on using the term «extensive continuum» to refer to the nexus of occasions that constitutes the past.

By resting much of his case on the unproven assumption that schools in the past played the role he wishes they would play today, Hirsch detracts from his generally plausible argument that more could be done today to help children know and understand their culture.

I know that we've discussed this issue at length in the past, so if you've commented on the topic before, consider presenting what you think to be both the strongest AND THE WEAKEST elements of your own argument... in the spirit of the fast.

Madison's words were taken from a lengthy argument against a specific bill in Virginia's legislature which would have levied a tax in order to financially support the teaching of Christianity, and he argued against such a tax on the grounds that past legal support of Christianity had led to its corruption.»

Suffice for now is to say this: it is my opinion that 1) Scripture is clear that God's wrath and holiness demanded a sin payment, 2) as I read your articles you seem to be trying to use every logical, illustrative, and theological trick to convince yourself it's not true, but it's like you're losing the argument with yourself, 3) I really enjoyed that you broadened the truth of salvation through Jesus past justification (which many fundamentals focus on) to include redemption, sanctification, covenant marriage, adoption, etc..

It is, in fact, a cornerstone of an argument pursued by our editor in chief for the past three years, the war - on - the - weak motif.

We can't forever live off our past glories... we are already missing out on players of high value and we missed the UCL last year which really was one of our main arguments along with overpaying wages.

There is an argument, of course that # 75m of that money has already been spent on Virgil van Dijk — and while the timing of both deals does hint at that, Liverpool have a net spend of around # 30m over the past two years not including the Coutinho and Van Dijk transfers.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defense teams.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

Surely there can be no argument for thinking our first past the post system is actually democratic, where one party runs the country on a minority of our votes.

We are focused on using the powers of our Scottish Parliament to invest in the future, rather than re-running the old arguments of the past.

The issues at the several days of hearings that began on Monday may be more technical than in the past, but the arguments being bantered about are nothing new.

«There is a strong argument that the enforcement role of Local Authorities has been neglected in the past and should take much greater prominence from now on.

Tete Yartey also comes with the argument that Africa has been raped and we need to be reminded of things that went on in the past to learn from it.

This article is especially relevant today not only because it is a critical review of past research on moral education viewed through the lens and the work of the authors, but because it is also a critique of the current status of higher education and an argument for the need to focus more intentionally on equity and fairness.

Desplechin's new film is the prequel to his masterful 1996 movie My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument — and as such, it invites viewers to reflect on the past two decades of his career, during which he has brought to life a set of richly intricate and emotionally potent tales that evoke the singular pleasure of cinema, from My Sex Life and Kings & Queen to A Christmas Tale and now My Golden Days.

The Russo brothers understand how important the family dynamic is to this storyline, and they not only manage to portray that in this film, but use just enough personal banter on top of the intense drama to remind us that regardless of past arguments they've always been a strong unit.

Similarly, the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education, or NAATE, which provides specialized professional growth opportunities for educators, works to retain teachers and school leaders through opportunities to grow in data - driven instruction techniques, peer leadership, and communication and feedback.32 Building on past professional learning successes via its network of teacher leaders in 185 sites, the National Writing Project's, or NWP's, College Ready Writers Program demonstrated that teachers will commit to and participate in high quality professional development that helps them strategize approaches to teach argument writing using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom materials.

It seems to me that in decades past, an author interview almost always included some story of the writer's closeness to either an editor, an agent, or both — patience worn thin, arguments that broke through to epiphanies, real influence on the work by these representatives, whose business, then, lay so much closer to the writing, itself.

... In learning philosophy you have to learn to argue for or against philosophical opinions and to understand and assess philosophical visions and you have to become familiar with some of the arguments and outlooks that have been advanced on certain topics in the past.

In history, on the other hand, students are frequently expected to evaluate the plausibility of an interpretation of past events and to refer to documentary sources as evidence for their argument.

When one is absorbed in the actual process of analytical writing such typos can easily slip past our attention since one is focusing on getting the content and arguments right.

In the past discussion of certain religions on non-priority boards has caused so much argument, taking time and resources away from MoneySaving work, that we've had to put a stop to it.

(And FYI: I replied out of courtesy, but will ignore your replies from now on, because I truly do not care for your opinion since in the past I have read too many of your posts to realize that any «argument» you offer is truly worthwhile.

I revert back to my earlier argument that Thieves in Time is a throwback to a bygone era, unfortunately the game has some of its principles firmly set on sticking to the past.

but in an american audience, you can't get past the titillation and gender / feminist oppression because the argument is invalid without sex coming into a discussion and becoming filtered on one side of a long standing argument that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

A good example of the modulated artist is McIntosh, whose abstract paintings over the past decade are less monuments to completion than documentation of the arguments, altercations and injuries she has experienced while at work on her canvases.

I understand the argument that past projections are based on estimated future forcings which can change, but this amounts to the same things as tuning hindcasts and declaring matching a hindcast to observations as a validation of your model.

As noted by Jones and Mann (2004)[Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004], arguments that such evidence supports anomalous global warmth during this time period is based on faulty logic and / or misinterpretations of the available evidence.

As I've written in the past, there are clear economic arguments for government funded, private sector executed basic R&D on various climate - friendly technologies (I'm talking about invention and innovation, not diffusion), namely the public - good nature of the product of R&D (information), which leads to under - investment, given price signals.

It's been remarkable to see the lengthening line of Republican politicians, particularly presidential hopefuls, chiding Pope Francis for pressing the case for action to stem global warming given how much conservatives have stressed values - based arguments on important issues in the past.

Also, being on the Sierra Club web site does not discredit my arguments, which have been made by several highly - touted climatologists in the past (some of whom post on this site from time to time).

If policy on climate change waits until things are certain, it will be far too late (after all, there are still lots of arguments about what has happened in the past 100, 1000 or more years — certainty is generally an illusive, unattainable goal on the really interesting problems and questions).

Here, «it was very well known» and «proved by countless experiments» and the general «handwave to the past authority of Arrhenius / Tyndall / Fourier», enough to «prove they were right», while refusing to fetch any of these claimed empirical studies — those denying the Dogma were being successfully marginalised further by this wave of supercilious blocking of arguments from AGWs all the while they were hypocrically proclaiming their repulsion to the blocking of discussion on the science and objecting to the malpractices such as hiding open access of data.

The scientists also put paid to claims that global warming has «stopped» because global temperatures in the past 15 years have not continued the strong upward march of the preceding years, which is a key argument put forward by sceptics to cast doubt on climate science.

Perhaps the simplest argument that shows that Powell is wrong is that surveys conducted in the past ten years consistently show a stubborn, small minority of scientists who dismiss the mainstream expert view on AGW.

What does happen, has happened, in the past with articles like the one Science published is not so very different in a number of ways from what Rud Istvan, Steve McIntyre and others have done in blogs — bluntly point out deficits, tactlessly remark on flaws and fault, explore unreservedly whether any facet associated with an article or paper weakens its arguments.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Nisbet: In conducting any media analysis, as a researcher you have to make choices about which areas of the news media to focus on, basing these choices on past research, theoretical assumptions, and the types of popular arguments voiced about the media.