Sentences with phrase «on judgments about»

Re: Kenneth Fritsch (# 90) Steve's comments were easy to circumvent with minor wordsmithing because his arguments weren't based on the peer - reviewed literature itself, but on JUDGMENTS about how to characterize that literature.

Their decisions depended on judgments about how strength in one might offset weaknesses in others.

The distribution of variables to be measured across the two surveys is based on judgments about which respondents (teachers or administrators) were most likely to have the authentic information about each variable.

Speaking about the initiative, climate change minister Phil Woolas said a «new currency» was being created which would have «huge implications» for the government and on judgments about the feasibility of various proposals.

The foregoing paragraphs rest on judgments about the Gospels which can not be detailed here.

Decisions of the courts on the abuse of discretionary powers, he says, «are based far more often than the courts have admitted on a judgment about what it is thought right for Parliament to wish to do.»

Not exact matches

The cold, honest truth about firms is that they must rely primarily on entrepreneurial judgment.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

In an appropriately titled study called Impact of Color in Marketing, researchers found that up to 90 % of snap judgments made about products can be based on color alone (depending on the product).

Either consciously or unconsciously, we make judgments about the professionalism, character and competence of others based on first impressions.

You'd think that investors would be among the most cold - blooded and rational consumers of information — after all, fortunes depend on them making bias - free judgments about what they hear on earnings calls — but according to this new research, they are actually highly swayed by one tiny shift in language, just like everyone.

We make judgments about what we should do based on the people who survived, totally ignoring all the guidance from the people who failed.»

But now, according to The Journal, we learn that Flynn's work involved a meeting on September 19, 2016 with senior Turkish government officials to discuss how to remove a Turkish dissident from the United States without going through judicial or other legal processes — actions that could violate U.S. criminal laws and that certainly raise anew serious questions about Flynn's judgment and ethics.

And he clearly also had a very significant personal interest in the matter, one that would raise suspicion about undue influence on the Mayor's judgment.

Business editors can't resist passing judgment on new or unknown companies; reading about the then $ 2 million business I detected no seeds of greatness.

Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.

Confident people don't pass judgment on others because they know that everyone has something to offer, and they don't need to take other people down a notch in order to feel good about themselves.

The more I learned about the real Marcia Clark, not the two dimensional cardboard cutout I saw in the news, but the complicated, whip - smart giant - hearted mother of two, who woke up every day, put both feet on the floor and dedicated herself to righting an unconciscable wrong, the loss of two innocents Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown, the more I had to recognize that I, along with the rest of the world, had been superficial and careless in my judgment, and I'm here today to tell you I'm sorry,» Paulson said to Clark while onstage.

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

And while there is no legal requirement that underwriters like Mr. Thiel reveal their involvement to the opposing side or the jury, it is considered fair game for lawyers to ask questions about financial backing — something that Gawker Media did on Wednesday in court as part of its efforts to overturn the Hogan judgment.

If you rely on your VC to make the toughest calls that probably says more about your own insecurities with tough, unknowable, judgment calls than about your VC.

Morningstar's analyst ratings are highly subjective and rely on judgment calls about the validity of the manager's process.

«To the extent that the EU has barreled forward with consent being the key, in this environment when we can't really know what's being collected about us all the time and what's being used, putting the onus on a person to use judgment to allow or disallow something could be problematic,» she said.

Try not to make judgments about what you see: Simply pretend you're a fly on the wall, and observe as neutrally as possible.

Vertical equity: A value judgment about whether the net tax burden on people at different levels of well - being is appropriate.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

It's a summer Friday, the World Cup is on, let's talk about declaratory judgment suits over shareholder voting bylaws.

(About 2 million people with liens and judgments on their reports will see no change at all to their scores.)

Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;

If I have accepted the variety of usage and am looking to find or create a use to support metaphysical generalization, I can rely on the uniquely intimate and immediate revelation of my own experience — intuitively grasped from within — to authorize an insider's judgment about what reality is like at its heart.

Martin might respond that my criticism is unfair because he is not asking for skepticism about those points on which historians agree; he is only asking that Christians suspend judgment about the resurrection taken as a physical, historical fact.

When I later asked Parrish about that newspaper letter exchange, he commented: «I felt like someone was trying to sit on God's throne and pronounce judgment.

That's not about doctrines of «repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.»

In this complicated milieu, he remained dissident but independent, anti-regime but secular and un-Catholic, and developed further a subtlety and restraint about rendering judgments on people as objects of politics, as actors in politics.

Three: If these essays are written to deepen process theology as a mode of systematic theology on the supposition that a theology is truncated if its rootage in Scripture is not clear, then it is crucial to be clear — in ways in which these essays do not make it clear — how process hermeneutics warrants any judgments about what is normative for Christian theology.

What is never speculated about is what might have been said behind closed doors: you never, for instance, hear the story of Saint Josemaria entering Franco's office and announcing that he has come to talk to the Generalissimo about he will say to God on the day of judgment.

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So, a proper understanding of Luke's great reversal condemns me for sitting on my missionary judgment seat about the golden egg.

On judgment day, I don't want to try to rationalize why I voted for a cult member who caused souls to be damned, by feebly explaining that I was more concerned about repealing Obamacare, preventing a redistribution of wealth, preventing abortion (those lives are in heaven), preventing gay marriage, and restoring individual liberties.

What is remarkable is how quickly the need of the church to make ethical judgments on many problems entered into the shaping of the tradition, as appears to have happened with the modification of Jesus» word about marriage and the injunctions concerning the handling of disputes (Matthew 19: 7ff.

As I think about stories that are centered on people like Mark Driscoll I have to keep repeating this mantra to myself: gift more grace rather than justify more judgment.

And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us.

On the other hand, the chief problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.

When we consider his pessimism about Americans» depth of belief, I am reminded of the words of Herberg's contemporary, Walter Reuther, who admitted that he was frightened to pass judgment «on the purity of one another's motives.»

Greed, lack of caring for others, passing judgment on others, etc — all things that are so common to Rush and the GOP are about as far removed from Jesus as one can get.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

If your an atheist you might be in a position where you can make a neutral judgment not based on what religion you were taught about, but based on what you learned what the bible really says!

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

Hi Blake, I don't think the verse is referring to our understanding of the Bible or theology, or that we shouldn't rely on our ability to think or make judgments at all about Scripture.

Those who merely read about College, without studying the careful manner in which that judgment is supported, may indeed fear that it provides a foundation for the blustery attacks on higher education by the secretary of education.