Sentences with phrase «on the merits of»

Eight months earlier, when a Conservative member of the House of Commons finance committee asked him to comment on the merits of a balanced budget, Poloz demurred.

But a report by the OECD published on March 16 indicated that there is still no global consensus on how best to proceed with the taxation of the digital economy or on the merits of an interim solution.

An ethical company should promote competition and win on the merits of its products and services.

The decision to include Chad in the ban casts additional doubt on the merits of the entire policy and the competence of the people making it.

Canadian economists and businesspeople weigh in on the merits of the Conservative budget handed down March 29.

As a result, the judge did not render a decision on the merits of our case,» John Ryan, president and CEO of CSBS, said in a statement on Tuesday.

But the divergent U.S. trade delegation is likely to have differing views on the merits of such an offer.

The potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, who served as President Barack Obama's top diplomat, avoided directly commenting on the merits of the pipeline.

Pro-Trump outlets including Breitbart and the Daily Caller have taken up the banner of opposition to net neutrality, apparently more as a proxy battle than on the merits of the rules themselves.

«Because [Giray] can not win on the merits of her claims, she has fabricated any number of fantastical and completely baseless allegations,» Ulukaya's legal team countered, according to The New York Daily News.

Furthermore, the speech emphasized the importance of First Nations» participation in these benefits — is this perhaps a nod to the ongoing charm offensive in B.C. to persuade First Nations on the merits of Northern Gateway?

Sessions on marketing in different countries elicited debates on the merits of direct mail in small markets such as the Netherlands, where customers still expect face - to - face calls, and in large territories such as Germany, where literature has proved to be a good selling tool.

«Elliott has always behaved ethically in its disputes with corporate managements and boards, and it is regrettable and disappointing that certain parties adverse to us would choose to promote false allegations about us rather than engage on the merits of our arguments in good faith.»

Congress seems to be ever so slowly coming around to popular opinion on the merits of medical pot.

This piece lets us know where Davidoff stands on FTTs, it doesn't provide much information on the merits of the policy.

It is the Startup Fund's hope that its participation will provide some assurance to other investors on the merits of the company's offering.

Product centricity causes selling organizations to not only focus on the merits of their product but also to have prescribed views of existing customer and prospective buyer needs.

Let's get back to basics and judge our pundits based on the merits of their arguments, not their directional affiliations.

«We are pleased that the Government has finally filed an enforcement proceeding, so that a court can weigh in on the merits of the summons without any procedural distractions.

Discuss comments based on the merit of the comments themselves instead of asking do you have a PHD in that?

Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they'll be lauded as experts on the merits of their work.

A debate is raging on the merits of such currencies.

Entrepreneurs apply by going to Social Capital's website, where they're greeted by the motto «Raise capital based on the merits of your business, not your network.»

«Charlie made me focus on the merits of a great business with tremendously growing earnings power - but only when you can be sure of it - not like Texas Instruments or Polaroid, where the earnings power was hypothetical.»

On Monday, Earnest said Obama will decide «on the merits of the application» and could not say how the State Department intends to reply to TransCanada's suspension request.

If you are sold on the merits of adding REITs to your portfolio, now may not be a bad time to do so.

Google in 2012 announced that it would crack down on low quality exact match domains (EMD) for websites that want to rank primarily on the merits of their domains.

The debate on the merits of active funds management versus passive continues to rage on.

Kevin Burch, outgoing chairman of the American Trucking Associations Such efforts were on national display last week when President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of fleet executives, drivers and other industry personnel — organized by ATA — on the merits of his tax reform plan at a stump speech in Harrisburg, Pa..

If we are to have an open and productive debate on the merits of faith versus science it is critically important that we clearly understand what these terms mean; otherwise there is no opportunity to objectively discuss our viewpoints.

So we have the two best posts in the entire land on the merits of these two reasonable hopes for the Republican future.

If there is a God and he is truly just, he will judge me based on my merits of helping fellow humans and making the world a better place to live, not how many times I dropped to my knees, clapped my hands together and chanted prayers.

Quite apart from conflicting views on the merits of the question at hand, there appears to be increasing opposition to the judicial usurpation of politics, of which the California court's decision is an egregious instance.

Is this some way to set up a pretenses for assuming his following words have validity on merit of his experience in the Eternal City.

When political science students were challenged about being Republicans, they were not thereby disenfranchised from voting; when economics students were challenged on the merits of capitalism, they were not thereby excluded from purchasing notebooks, But when students were told that everything they had learned about their religion before entering this class was wrong, did we know — or care — if their capacity to function religiously in a mature fashion was diminished?

The court expressed «no view on the merits of the cases» and pointed out that it did not decide whether «religious exercises has been substantially burdened, whether the government has a compelling interest, or whether the current regulations are the least restrictive means of serving that interest.»

Most of the action has been on the for - profit side (43 cases and counting), where — out of the 38 lawsuits decided on the merits of their complaints — 32 have secured temporary bans against the mandate's enforcement and 6 have been denied, according to a helpful scorecard kept by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Thus we accept it not on faith, but on its merits of being an accurate depiction of reality.

During the previews, the conversation became even more animated as each kid weighed in on the merits of a coming attraction.

A couple of years ago, British hoteliers Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, who are Christians, were charged with the criminal offense of using «insulting words» after a Muslim guest complained about their breakfast conversation on the merits of their respective faiths.

reveals no instance where the Court ruled on the merits of a civil, criminal, or administrative action involving government favoritism or discrimination against a particular religion.

It seems incongruous that the leader of a tiny ethnic group that lectures Rome on the merits of priestly marriage would draft the final statement of a Vatican Synod on the Middle East.

But as long as GQ feels like weighing in on the merits of the Bible, we at RELEVANT are feeling emboldened to step out of our own lanes and weigh in on something we actually know almost nothing about.

The Song of Solomon made the canon on the merits of the oldest orthodox view: these poems (which are in reality songs of erotic love) are allegorical of the love of God for the congregation of Judaism.

The consumer is not motivated to buy the product on the merits of the product per se.

I looked at the claims based on the merit of the evidence provided, and found it lacking completely.

«I am optimistic that these cases will eventually snake their way back up to the Supreme Court and given a full hearing on the merits of the case, I am confident that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of religious liberty,» Ferguson said.

The court managed to rule on DOMA and reject California's Proposition 8 without commenting on the merits of whether same - sex marriage was a constitutional right.

In June, the Supreme Court managed to rule on two separate cases involving same - sex marriage without ruling on the merits of a constitutional right to same - sex marriage.