Sentences with phrase «on sacred cows»

The NBA Internet made celebrities out of cult favorites like Monta Ellis and cast aspersions on sacred cows (sorry, Kobe).

It is easy because it doesn't touch on our sacred cows.

As a Jew, he has dared to take on the sacred cow of militaristic Zionism, and has even forcefully criticized such a revered figure as Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, charging that Wiesel turns a blind eye to the suffering that Israel, «the homeland for persecuted European Jews and Holocaust survivors,» has inflicted upon the Palestinians.

Not exact matches

Itemized deductions: Following through on previous pledges, the new plan eliminates most itemized deductions, but retains the «sacred cows» of write - offs for mortgage interest and charitable donations.

(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads;

(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them;

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Two of these sacred cows involve settled positions on gender and homosexuality.

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

Badaru, while speaking with the aspirants, urged all to put on the best conduct adding that the party would ensure there is no sacred cow in the process.

That independence has allowed him to take on so many of New York's sacred cows: the MTA, unions, the entrenched Democratic machine and the state legislature.

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«It is funny that Fayemi is not even ashamed to sermonise on the need to say no to impunity and eliminate the syndrome of sacred cows, when he, himself acted like a sacred cow by refusing to appear before a commission of inquiry, duly constituted to probe his four years as governor of Ekiti State.

By insisting that the Senate abides by the constitutions and provisions in the Police act and regulations, the IGP is not holding on to any straw as asserted by the Senate Spokesperson but to the rule of law to ensure that there is no sacred cow.

Labour should focus on overcoming these challenges — which may require the slaying of some Labour sacred cows — and not presume that we are stuck in an inescapable secular stagnation.

To Nesbitt, all this upheaval has placed an even more sacred cow on the chopping block: the uniqueness of the dinosaur.

Founder of the University of Minnesota's Health and Eating Lab, Mann puts what she calls the dieting industry's «sacred cows» on the menu in a book that's equal parts science and self - help.

Funny jokes about marriage, relationship: man, lady, husband, wife, home life, adultery, The priceless humor and funny jokes on this page milk all the sacred cows of human family hijinks.

The most brazen of the bunch may be Im Sang - soo, whose work is founded on his irreverence toward national sacred cows.

Meanwhile, Spielberg directed his first box office disaster, 1941, a gonzo skewering of another sacred cow, the blind patriotism of WWII on the home front, penned by Zemeckis and his writing partner, Bob Gale.

And again, even Duncan admitted as much when he later said that «class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it on.»

Structure is also important, with specialist committees formed to make decisions on specific focus areas — human resources, finances and so on — so that you have people with specialist knowledge making decisions in these crucial areas If trustees are too closely connected to their school, there can be a tendency towards emotional attachment to «sacred cows» sometimes hindering progress.

By flouting every rule and convention about propriety and deflating every sacred cow, Stewart's book is guaranteed to give heartburn to every textbook watchdog and anyone who ever sat on a bias and sensitivity review committee.

The elected officials have been attacking the union's sacred cows with a ferocity that hasn't been seen before — eliminating seniority and tenure, introducing merit pay, defining teacher accountability, more school choice programs, etc. are all on the agenda.

(Unless, as I found out later, you stepped on one of their sacred cows.

Fortunately, Charlie Stross has already eviscerated that particular sacred cow of the publishing industry (see here and here), so I'll focus on what's actually causing my problem: publishing rights.

Dean Wesley Smith takes on one of the biggest sacred cows of the writing business — namely, the idea that first drafts are worthless, that a story or a novel is only any good if you've revised and rewritten it...

After reading his blog and his great series of posts on killing the sacred cows of publishing, I met Dean at the recent Superstars Writing Seminar.

Working on that sacred - cow - slaying mission.

On landing there, the first thing you experience is a dense crowd: skilfully turbanned Sikhs, women swathed in shimmering saris, young people dressed in Western style, rickshaws and sacred cows.

«But when it came to begin work on BioShock Infinite,» said Ken Levine, creative director of Irrational Games, «we only had one rule: No sacred cows.

This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, Frank opens himself up a sacred cow bistro.

Nope, but I'm sympathetic to a guy who catches unnecessary shit for taking a critical perspective on widely adored sacred cows.

Presaging Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley and exerting noticeable influence on artists such as Barry McGee and Ed Templeton, Saul's oeuvre is long overdue for deeper examination and this comprehensive publication provides the first complete overview of his work over the past five decades — from his epic historical canvases to his homage to Thomas Hart Benton, his lampoons of art world sacred cows and works evidencing his particular take on the existential dilemmas of the aging American male.

It seems fitting then, that he should take on some of the sacred cows of the self - important art establishment and give them a little taste of the Larry Rivers treatment.

Though I disagree with the first commenter that environmentalists as somehow by nature obstructionists, advocates on all extremes of this debate will have to be ready to sacrifice their sacred cows.

The root of the problem is two-fold: 1) economic growth is a sacred cow and 2) no serious global discussion is taking place right now on over-population.

His new book, published last month and provocatively titled «Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism,» takes on what Zehner considers the sacred cows of the green movement: solar power, wind power and electric vehicles, among others.

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

Speaking at the Association of Lawyers for Children annual conference last week, Mr Justice Coleridge said the courts were «shirking our responsibility to a degree which is bordering on abusive» by placing too much emphasis on the «sacred cow» of the views of children.