Sentences with phrase «on the ambiguity of»

Gregory makes a stunning point on the ambiguities of giving to those derelicts among the poor who are by consensus generally regarded as less worthy: One should give not just to the unworthy poor, but also to the worthy poor, regardless of their moral condition, and for a profound reason: because one «gives of his bread to an indigent sinner, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man.

Clegg concentrates on the ambiguity of the government's response to the banking crisis.

Yet the film remains true to McEwan's intellectual preoccupations with different kinds of love, and has lost none of the novel's most memorable elements: the plays on the ambiguity of the title, the arresting first scene, and the strange dynamics of the relationship between Joe and Jed.

The film hinges on the ambiguity of grief as a process that is both absolutely necessary and potentially destructive.

His take on the complications in Dade's life is sophisticated and thoughtful, especially on the ambiguities of that «relationship» with Pablo, while his limning of the growing friendship with Alex is deeply satisfying, never striking a discordant emotional note.

Such materials as surgical tubing play on the ambiguity of ready - made and made for a physical emergency.

Kydd's conceptual concerns hinge on this ambiguity of seeing.

Suffice it to say, it did point out how just how vapid your «those tribal climate scientists think the science is settled and I can prove it by playing on the ambiguity of that phrase» claptrap is.

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

There's a lot of research on the value of ambiguity.

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

On the public front, I think it's important to call out that kind of discrimination forcefully and with no ambiguity.

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.

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 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.

a) I know the color of all my friends» eyes b) I am comfortable with ambiguity c) I know what all the controls on my stereo system are for d) I often adjust the controls on my stereo system and can tell the difference when I do

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.

None of the five members of the panel, led by Scott Egner, manager of managed account sales at Ameritrade Institutional, suggested that advisors should count on a delay or repeal of the rule, which is due to take effect April 10 although Larson noted that this is a «time of ambiguity.»

We have folks (the CD Howe Business Cycle Council) who have set the definitions and draw conclusions based on the data, and even still, there's what appears to be a fair amount of subjectivity and ambiguity involved with classifying recessions.

The total amount of the notes was relatively small so it didn't have a huge impact on the economics of the investment but we could have avoided the ambiguity by dealing it with more clearly up front.

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.

Were we to play the idle game of «dialogue» on this issue, the implication would be clear: These people foolishly sacrificed their livelihoods and reputations for the sake of an ambiguity, not a truth.

The ambiguity of what it means to be Christian is a key feature that has allowed it to survive despite the fact that it's based on a book of fiction.

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.

On the one hand, this was for me a painful experience, forcing me to recognize the extent to which my identity was that of a white American, and making me aware of the extreme ambiguity of that identity.

Without the latter, ideals do not stand out sufficiently beyond the ambiguities of the present, either to serve as a judgment on historical actuality or as a lure for future realization.

Today we move on to Chapter 3 — «The Old Testament and Theological Diversity» — which addresses some of the tension, ambiguity, and diversity found within the pages of Scripture.

Once I was able to live with ambiguity and some measure of humility I was on my way.

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.

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.

Scholars experience the phenomenon time after time: you approach a new subject with a few large general impressions and inevitably discover, upon investiga tion, that the impressions don't do justice to the complexity of the data, or, at the very least, that they take on shades of ambiguity you had not previously imagined.

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 colors.

«Testifies to»: there is a troublesome ambiguity about the logic of this relationship, an ambiguity that pervades much of the recent literature on science and religion.

On this issue it is possible to experience such contradictory jolts of conscience that one finally doesn't know whether to list oneself as a member of a society of the courageously righteous who are mature enough to face up to life's ambiguity and do the difficult things that freedom requires — or simply a society of moral failures.

The claim that «Jesus was not a pacifist» is an example of the fallacy of ambiguity, sometimes also referred to as equivocation, where an orator tries to build his argument on the uncertainty of words or on a term that has multiple meanings.

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.

On the one side we have the prophets of the word, who announce the very power of God, with no ambiguity or ambivalence, and with hard objectivity.

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.

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

It was Madison who reflected most on ambiguity, obscurity, cornplexity, the equivocal, and the noncopiousness of language.

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.»

The ambivalence on the part of many scientists about what they ultimately hope for, and the ambiguity of their language about it, is matched by similar tip - toeing by some seasoned science reporters.