Sentences with phrase «only arbiter»

Commoditisation of legal services emphasises price and ultimately in the provision of those services, price may become the only arbiter.

If price becomes the only arbiter there is the severe danger that competitors will race to the bottom to provide the lowest prices.

The major element in this innovation was the unusual legislation that Augustus initiated that, although aimed primarily at the elite, for the first time made «the private life of virtually every Roman... a matter of the state's concern and regulation», with the state taking upon itself the unusual role of not only arbiter but also prosecutor for crimes of immorality, crimes in which it had previously had no interest.

I would like to point out to those here who think it is not possible for Jesuits (or anyone) to hold science and faith simultaneously, and who invoke «evidence» as the only arbiter of what is real, that human knowledge is always evolving.

Your worldview, where science is the ultimate and only arbiter of all things, is altogether too restrictive.

BUT, I don't think that traditional publishers are the only arbiters of what is good (and / or marketable), and what is not.

Not exact matches

Americans may be the original arbiters of fast food, but that doesn't mean we're the only ones who know how to produce craveable pizza and burgers in mass quantities.

Although it can seem that I'm making only baby steps of progress — and, yes, sometimes going sideways or even backwards before moving forward — my journal is an independent arbiter (and a silent cheerleader).

Time is the arbiter of value, and when you have businesses that grow, and those that don't, only then, over the passage of time, can you truly understand the drivers of compounding.

The final arbiter must be Christ, the only one who knows man's heart.

In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is.

The «agnostic society» is a society in which every man is his own arbiter of what is «reason» or «nature», and in which the only certainties to draw from in this unending debate are scientific, positivist, facts.

He writes, inter alia, «When the pope is understood not only as final arbiter to the deposit of faith but also its only source of theological reinterpretation, there is surely at least an impoverishment of the Church's theological life.»

Am I not only the master of my own life, but the very creator and arbiter of what counts as «I»?

The American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature have become the arbiters not only of scholarship but also of peer identity and recognition.

Winning is the only style and winning the ultimate competition is the only true arbiter of greatness.

He told me he was the only and final judge and arbiter of what he was allowed.

The Pantaleo order also said the Civilian Complaint Review Board had recommended a stiff eight - day punishment for the unauthorized frisk, but Bratton, who is the final arbiter of discipline, ordered Pantaleo to forfeit only two vacation days.

But while Horwitz is supposed to be an impartial arbiter in recommending whether fired workers should be rehired, he met only with management.

Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch.com, the self - appointed arbiter of correctness in the fields of medicine and nutrition, describes Weston Price as «a dentist who maintained that sugar causes not only tooth decay but physical, mental, moral, and social decay as well.»

Paul Bettany's stoical Osbourne is the only one who's able to operate with a level head in the situation, and he becomes de facto moral arbiter between the old hand and the young pup.

Reminders of this relationship between observer and observed are sprinkled liberally: It is doubtless no coincidence that a peripheral character is named «Truman,» nor that the ultimate arbiter of the gory goings - on is someone known only as «the Director.»

The watch might be the ultimate arbiter of outright performance, but the road is the only barometer of outright capability.

So it was only natural that he should be one of the founders of the Ferrari Club of America, and in an era before published registries and detailed chassis histories, he emerged as one of the arbiters of what Ferraris ought to be.

The only other person who may have a legitimate say is the reader, who is the ultimate arbiter of the value of any work, traditionally published or not.

-- Second, a dividend's the only legitimate arbiter of value?

Not only are central banks the ultimate back - stop for market stability (although that is an entirely separate Narrative), but also they are the immediate arbiters of market outcomes.

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He was not only at the forefront of establishing a market for this neglected art form; his reputation as an arbiter of artistic taste also provided an impetus for the collection and study of photography by museums and scholars.

Being the arbiters of human fertility, consumption and production — the check on human nature — Lee and Ince can only imagine so many mouths to feed, which each want more and more and more.

In state court and arbitration, the trial judge or the arbiter often encourages the parties to exchange trial exhibit documents and agree on their admissibility or at least focus on meaningful objections for only a few documents.

The Chief Justice held that s. 6 of the Act protects both the functioning and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a general court of appeal for Canada, at para. 49: «The purpose of s. 6 is to ensure not only civil law training and experience on the Court, but also to ensure that Quebec's distinct legal traditions and social values are represented on the Court, thereby enhancing the confidence of the people of Quebec in the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of their rights.»

In particular, state channels — a generalization of the lightning network concept in Bitcoin — would permit conducting most transactions off - chain between parties directly, using the blockchain only as a kind of final arbiter in case of disputes.

State channels a generalization of the Lightning Network concept in Bitcoin would permit conduct of most transactions off - chain, between parties directly, using the blockchain only as a kind of final arbiter in case of disputes.