Sentences with phrase «open criticisms of»

But where is the open criticism of the creepy mercenaries like Bill Tieleman of the NDP?

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs took issue with Chuck Schumer's open criticism of the White House's Israel policy at the gaggle today.

His reference to having first met Teachout at a meeting of activists opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-- an initiative championed by former president Bill Clinton — was the closest that either one came to open criticism of the Democrat who wrested the presidential nomination away from Sanders, and who is viewed askance by many of his most ardent supporters.

The governor and the emir have been embroiled in a proxy war for many weeks, with the state government's anti-corruption agency launching a probe of Kano Emirate Council finances in apparent retaliation for Emir Sanusi's open criticism of the governor's top project priorities.

MacColl was perhaps an unlikely choice in that he was known for his open criticism of the art establishment, including Henry Tate's collection.

As with Richard Tuttle, his rejection of the seductions of weight and thickness, his insistence on immateriality, were an open criticism of physical size and mass as the measures of Modernist progress, best exemplified then in Frank Stella's and Richard Serra's work.

The Federal Circuit panel's recent open criticism of the redundancy practice may signal an attempt by the court to check the practice, despite cases holding that institution decisions are generally not subject to court review.

Not exact matches

The tax code is riddled with exceptions and exemptions, so Finance Minister Bill Morneau could make a lot of reforms and still find himself wide open to criticism.

Criticism of a thing, a piece of media, or something inanimate is OK if you know what you're talking about, but criticizing individuals opens a door that you don't want to walk through in social media.

It's hard to open up to criticism, particularly in the early stages of a startup when passion is at its peak.

Stepping out of our comfort zone to learn something new or be open to constructive criticism and even failure is the embodiment of getting out of our comfort zone which will only make us better leaders.

China laid out a clearer timetable on Wednesday for opening its financial sector to more foreign investment by the end of 2018, as Beijing looks to fend off growing criticism from the United States and others that it unfairly limits competition.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

This arguably affirms one of the major criticisms of the program, which holds that companies don't always sufficiently attempt to fill open positions using domestic labor before applying for temporary foreign visas.

This Tuesday, Houston's Lakewood Church — one of America's largest and most prominent megachurches — announced plans to open its doors to evacuees of the Harvey flooding, following several days of criticism over its pastor, Joel Osteen's, response to the crisis.

Valeant's prescription drug sales began to unravel last year as its history of large price increases drew sharp criticism and the attention of lawmakers as well as New York and Massachusetts attorneys general, which opened investigations.

In a fairly open criticism ripple's — the company that supports the payment Protocol, which he founded in 2013, at the same time he left, stated that the introduction of centralized financial payments Protocol in cryptography is a system that is no better than SWIFT or PayPal.

Wells Fargo's chief executive Timothy Sloan on Tuesday defended the mega bank against withering criticism from lawmakers that it has not done enough to reform itself since admitting last year it had opened millions of fake accounts customers didn't want.

And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.

The criticism (Akin's remarks) is creating major tensions between the mainstream Republican Party and a key part of its base days before the GOP's convention is set to open in Tampa, Florida.

And if the world sees in Israel a legit case for criticism that bears a nasty odor of something else, I have to open your eyes.

Therefore, we can safely conclude that Dr. King would have embraced gay rights just as powerfully as Coretta had it not been during a time when to be so open about gay rights for a clergyman, especially one who was black and fighting other problems would have left him open to plenty of criticism and worse.

The argument of this sermon was open to criticism on the ground that the preacher seemed to take for granted a highly debatable view of the redemptive value of human suffering; yet he was calling attention to something very important, namely, that if we quote Baxter's words as Professor Lampe has done, we must not forget that the scope of Christ's suffering is limited.

Only when the decision is made as a matter of deliberate policy can the school's ways of relating to its immediate situation truly be governed by its overarching end, be open to self - criticism, and become an integral part of the effort to understand God truly.

Such negotiations assume a lack of open public criticism of one another on the part of the principals.

My critique of Disney is not so much concerned with the content of its films and other media, though the content is certainly open to criticism.

But let one of them depart from «the script» and begin to theologize, write and publish on issues of the Latin American reality and pressures, criticisms and open opposition begin to emerge.

When I have tried to introduce the idea of the nontranslatable Qur» an to my Harvard students and Western friends, one of their typical reactions is to think that, like Roman Catholics and the Latin Mass before the Second Vatican Council, Muslims will also soon come to realize the necessity for translation, which will then open them up to higher criticism.

Perfect objectivity is not something we can achieve, but it is an ideal we can strive for by consciously opening ourselves to criticism and correction both by God, speaking through the text, and by the convictions of others.

«Where standards of right and wrong are asserted with dogmatic certainty and are not open to discussion, and, even worse, where these standards merely express the interests of the stronger party in a relationship while clothing those interests in moralistic language, then that criticism is indeed justified» (p. 140).

Many years ago, I saw a Catholic priest do something that left him open to a lot of criticism but in the end, was the wisest thing he could have done.

When Al Smith faced Herbert Hoover in the presidential campaign of 1928, his open support of the «wet» position occasioned even more criticism in the CENTURY's pages than the fact of his Catholicism.

The period from 1968 through 1971 was one of internal turmoil and increasingly open criticism.

While his analysis is not nearly as narrow or dogmatic as those of unbridled proponents of the free market, he is open to the same criticism: he leaves it to fate — or at least to the market and the state — to resolve problems like poverty.

Though he presses the analogy of the religious body with the physical organism and though his concept of the «divine society» is open to criticism, de la Grasserie does offer helpful categories for the understanding of «external religious society,» and particularly of the «societies to the second power,» as created by prophets and saints.

To begin with, I might call his attention to Naomi Schaefer Riley's God on the Quad and Alan Wolfe's The Opening of the Evangelical Mind, not to mention the thoughtful criticism and self - criticism of distinguished scholars like George Marsden and David Lyle Jeffrey.

Anyway, the plot thickened when, in response to some of the criticism his list was receiving, Shaffer responded with «An Open Letter to Christian Women Blogs.»

I gladly record my debt to Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr. and Anton Boisen, whose course, «Experience and Theology,» in The Chicago Theological Seminary opened up the relation of theology to psychology for me; to Seward Hiltner, Granger Westberg, and my present colleague, Earl Loomis, with each of whom I have taught courses on the relation of psychiatry and theology; and to William Oglesby of Union Seminary, Richmond, not only for his encouragement in the project I was undertaking, but for helpful criticism of the lectures.

In addition to listening to constructive criticism of the way that «celibate gay Christian» is open to misunderstanding, we also need to look critically at the way that the language that has been used by Courage / Exodus / NARTH is also open to misunderstanding and has been used in misleading ways.

This criticism is made by the (now) over 100 Muslim scholars in their 2006 Open Letter to Pope Benedict which states: «figures such as al - Ghazali (d. 1111 CE) and many others are far more influential and representative of Islamic belief than Ibn Hazm (d. 1069)».

My reply to such criticism was: how could one expect clergymen to acquire this knowledge if medical schools were unwilling to open their classes to clergymen seeking this kind of information?

Most of the other acts of interpretation that are going on in our midst are cryptic and therefore not honest, not available, and not open to criticism.

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In print, the New Journalism indulges in a lot of first - person narrative, as I have done in this article — as if I were really laying myself open to your criticisms.

His conclusion» that the Catholic Church under Pius XII was imperfect (and therefore open to criticism)» is likely to advance the cause of Pius XII and bring justice to a topic often devoid of it.

This opens the progressive position to any number of reductio ad absurdum criticisms.

«As a general rule, I will respond to little if any criticism of me in the media, on social media, blogs, open letters, etc..

But the National Council of Churches has wisely kept the panel independent of outside pressures and, to a surprising degree, opened a new era of responsible, ecumenical, and theologically informed film criticism.

When I invited him to inspect Spinoza's criticisms of Maimonides for himself, he recoiled with imprecations at the suggestion that he open the forbidden book of the arch-heretic.

The nature of and perhaps the attitudes within those institutions doubtless are open to criticism, but the forming of some such «countercultural» societies (e.g., congregations) seems intrinsic to the Christian faith.