Sentences with phrase «on old questions»

Do they deploy Levitt's trademark economic techniques to shed new light on old questions?

Papers by Christopher Peacocke and Tim Crane try to throw light on the kinds of nonpropositional and nonconceptual content that states of mind can have, and there are good essays on an old question about sight and touch (Michael Martin) and the relations between per - ception and action (Brian O'Shaugnessy).

If that's the case, you probably already know what your companion does for a living, so avoid cliché and put an interesting spin on an old question.

So in the smoke - free equivalents of smoke - filled rooms across the country, union kingpins are chewing on that old question, «What are we gonna do about this?!»

A dual - screen installation first shown at London's Chisenhale Gallery, Ed Atkins's Us Dead Talk Love is an acutely contemporary meditation on the oldest questions: about how humans relate to one another and to death as the great unknown.

Not exact matches

The 25 - year - old retail investor tweeted at Elon Musk on Monday, seeking to ask him a «crowdsourced» question during Wednesday's conference call.

Four U.S. House Republicans, including the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, on Friday wrote Apple chief executive Tim Cook asking him to answer questions about its disclosure that it slowed older iPhones with flagging batteries.

As they used to say on the old «Laugh - In» TV show from the 1960s, here is a «pot - pourri» of e-mails from people wrestling with some really tough questions:

Hobson, the 44 - year - old president of Chicago - based Ariel Investments, is now DreamWorks» nonexecutive chairman and also on the boards of Starbucks (SBUX), Estée Laude (EL) r, and Groupo (GRPN) n. She's a valuable adviser, the 62 - year - old Katzenberg explains, because she simplifies complex problems, always thinks long term, and asks questions in an unthreatening way.

The filing also argues that the 9th Circuit made the test for defeating a trademark too strict, and that it should — based on an older decision by a different appeals court — instead have simply looked at how most people use the word in question.

The surge has prompted tough questions for law - enforcement officials, forcing them to rethink the old playbooks on traditional hostage taking and theft.

The 39 - year - old actor posted a series of questions on LinkedIn a few days ago with the intention of starting a «live open dialog about gender equality in the work place [sic] and in tech in general» with his partner from venture capital firm Sound Ventures, Effie Epstein.

But as Brazil seeks to keep its economic momentum going, and begins to define its ambitions on the global stage in measure with its new - found clout, some question whether the 62 - year - old Rousseff will be able to handle what's heading her way.

«The kind of departments are very similar to our members, the average age is 30 to 35 years old, everyone wants to create life's work... We're saying we're keeping a close eye on it, there's definitely a cap — no question there's a cap.»

Every parent can remember when their 9 - or 10 - year - old children began to question Mom and Dad's infallibility on issues like bedtime and vegetables.

One major question on Wall Street is if the long - term downtrend in rates has now reversed, how will the government pay for all of this new debt on top of the old debt?

Just last week I went back in an updated all of the old keyword tool references and processes to now show the keyword planner — and I've already added 3 new sections based on questions and feedback from testers.

Please do have a play with the Search function in the top - right, as sadly we don't have time to fully answer questions to the level required on all these old posts.

This bull market is old — more than 3,046 days old, making it the second - longest on record.1 The question is, will it be more like a fine wine — getting better with age; or more like milk — nearing its expiration?

Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.

A: The question is how much weight you put on the old rule of thumb that two quarters back - to - back of contraction is a recession.

Some of you questioned god's morality based on some verses in OT, which described disturbing happenings in the old, BC history.

This factor may help to explain the reported sharp rise of sexual activity within the Postmature category, those sixty - five years and older (a number of «postmature» citizens of my acquaintance, for instance, would likely decline to participate even before getting to the questions on necrophilia and sadomasochism).

What makes Wasserstein's formulation eccentric is his insistence on Arendt's tendencies to accept at face value, without explanation, neo-Nazi historical formulations of the Jewish question and plain old Leninist approaches to the imperial tradition.

You might need to correct yourself and address the Jewish on this blog when dealing with the Old Testament questions.

A devastating question if we think of God as an old man in the sky with a long white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»

He also relates how he had to grapple with important lifestyle questions even at a young age: «At about 13, 14 years old, the question arose: Can I actually kick on Sunday morning, even though I was supposed to go to church?

I started my first blog on Xanga when I was just twenty - five years old: I was a burned out, over-churched, cynical Gen - X kid with a lot of doubts and questions.

My money is on the camel, and not only because I am fond of both camels and outlandish metaphors; but it is a very old question what Jesus really said had a better chance of passing through a needle's eye than a rich man had of entering God's Kingdom.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

Old debates about evolution often turned on the question of whether a million monkeys could accidentally type Hamlet in a given amount of time.

Meanwhile, over on Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog, RJS caused quite a stir by asking readers to respond to a letter from a seminary student who researched the science behind an old earth and evolutionary theory, found it to be sound, and now wrestles with the question, What is the basis for calling the Bible true?

Enough trust must be developed between the generations to permit older adults, who have the essential skills and handles of power, to work with youth and young adults in finding workable answers to the crucial questions many youth and young adults are asking, questions such as «What will enable humanity to survive on a livable planet?»

This is why, at one point in the book, I grant the Gnostics of old the validity of their questions, though I go on to revile the answers at which they arrived.

Well, your question doesn't stand up to principle because Christ lived and taught by what was written in the old law to perfection.Even the oft misquoted «He without sin cast the first stone...» was based on what was written in the old law.

They might not be as obvious or open about it on social media but the entrance into old age brings questions of retirement, health, legacy and eternity.

As it happens, Clare's fund - raising efforts set wheels of violence and tragedy in motion, stirring up the dust on the graves of four long - dead children and reviving old questions about their father's sudden disappearance.

Just a question on your recollection of the Old Testament account of Gideon... wasn't it Joshua who asked the Angel «are you for or against us»?

It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?

@Susanna - Beyond the fact that the Arch in question was not made from scratch and used older friezes to decorate it, would you care to show one image if Mithra on it.

And so I sat on the couch next to the old and dog - eared magazines and read one more time the list of questions Dr....

Revd Jim Percival, 64, from Holy Trinity Church in Freckleton was questioned by officers on Tuesday on suspicion of a historical rape allegation, relating to a 28 - year - old woman.

Walter Kaiser has written a new book on the tough questions about God and His Actions in the Old Testament.

On the question of coherence, some old problems remain and some new ones appear.

I'm sorry «old ben», but the answer to your question about God and the image displayed on your monitor is no.

Jacobsen packs a tremendous amount of theology and age - old questions in there, I particularly benefitted from the discussions about what really happened on the Cross, as it presents an alternative to the oft - memorized penal substituionary (Google doesn't think that is a word apparently...) atonement theories.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

For the most part religion subdues metaphysical thought by urging it's followers not to think independently on the big questions of life but rather rely on their doctrine for old outdated answers.

Our editor - in - chief even has a blurb on the dustjacket commending Stark for reframing old questions in fresh and provocative ways.