Such an institution would schedule periodic gatherings for
public expression of the implications of Christian faith.
While there is good reason for this skepticism, it is ironic that a theology so geared to public issues should neglect the
most public expression of Christian faith.
The loss that many non-Scottish British would feel if Scotland were to secede is only now finding
public expression as the day of decision approaches (see for example Madeleine Bunting's heartfelt plea).
An essential component of human organization, from religious communities to constitutional democracies, public opinion depends
on public expression and public assembly.
Dr Pearman, who headed the division of atmospheric research for 10 years until 2002, said he was admonished by his Canberra superiors for «
making public expressions of what I believed were scientific views on the basis that they were deemed to be political views.
That's what is really happening in the pages of the local newspaper, and the portrait of a heavenly afterlife is a kind of by - product of families» needs
for public expression of their loss.
It's not that Christmas is under attack; instead, our society is becoming better at embracing its religious diversity and challenging the notion that a single majority religion should
dominate public expressions of belief.
After those decisions, Americans became more and more uneasy
with public expressions of religion until, by the early 1980s, religion had been almost completely banished from public discourse.
They are not the failure of private phenomena to find
adequate public expressions, nor are they private «causes» failing to have their usual public «effects.»
Moreover, the alleged privacy protected in Roe differs in kind from the other privacy precedents insofar as the right necessarily affects the interests of another human life, the fetus, and insofar as the abortion procedure has a
decidedly public expression.
It is important to add that such a narrow definition was initially palatable because it came during a transitional stage, lasting until around World War I, in which scholars typically also had substantial religious affiliations and loyalties, or at least strong religious backgrounds, that provided an impetus for broadly
humanistic public expression.
Now imagine, beyond and above this legion for communication control, a United States Department of
Public Expression which could act on its own or respond to anonymous complaints about any book, magazine, newspaper, statue, painting, poster, videotape, song lyric — in short, about any «object» which might «express» anything.
Minorities do not have a constitutional right to be protected
from public expressions that remind them that they are in the minority.
The most
dramatic public expression of the discontents of Conservative Judaism occurred the previous May when Ismar Schorsch, the outgoing chancellor of JTS, gave the commencement address.
The sight of Israeli helicopter gunships firing missiles into Palestinian cities is so great a contradiction in Jewish ethics and history that thoughts are bound to be diverse and to
seek public expression.
Such
public expressions hamper the European identity shared equally by all EU citizens, and distort the images held by the respective collectives.
Dromey's
very public expression of concern — he toured various television channels to be interviewed on the matter — raised suspicion among some supporters of Blair that his actions were deliberately designed to embarrass the Prime Minister and consequently benefit Prime Minister in - waiting Chancellor Gordon Brown.
But there hasn't been
much public expression of support for him, and some Republican leaders have pointedly said they would stick by their process.
The results of this contested partnership
between public expressions like graffiti and their subsequent redaction allude to the deep history of negotiating urban space.
«Continuing, she boldly asserts, «Most often, artists did not have the expectation that viewers would encounter their works in situ; rather the majority knew that documentation in film, video and photography, or through sketches and plans, would be the
primary public expression of their practice.»
This was the surfacing and more
openly public expression of sentiment which is at least prejudiced and at its worst xenophobic.
As Tarantino says, his proposals are «guided by the need to take account of changing technology,» which (in my words) has seen the barriers to
public expression reduced to nearly nil.
The Canadian Judicial Council in its Ethical Principles for Judgesrecognizes that restraining
judicial public expression requires a balancing of freedom of expression with the importance of impartiality and independence (at D. 5):
More likely, the resurgence is simply
giving public expression to what has been there all along in an overwhelmingly Christian nation rooted, albeit sometimes tenuously, in the Judeo - Christian moral tradition.
Estimating the influence of the news media
on public expression — on whether it causes individuals to take public stands on key policy issues, for example — has long been challenging to scientists.
Dr Pearman, who headed the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research for 10 years until 2002, said he was admonished by his Canberra superiors for «
making public expressions of what I believed were scientific views, on the basis that they were deemed to be political views».
When asked what kinds of
public expressions of support parents would be willing to make, most focus group participants said that they preferred to write letters and testify before Congress or the city council rather than participate in other forms of expression like demonstrating and voting.
Public expression of appreciation has a powerful impact.
Price's repayment of $ 51,887.31 for his own travel costs and
his public expression of regrets did not placate the White House.
Much of governance and politics, at least in
its public expression, is notional.
The fourth of a six - volume interdisciplinary series of books on «
Public Expressions of Religion in America.»
McClay's description of truth as «epistemic suspension» rightly portrays liberalism's shapeless ontology, but his «
public expression of a moral community» can not replace a theological definition of the Church.
To give
public expression to their standards, some communities will restrict the peddling of pornography.