Sentences with phrase «opposing positions»

The idea of opposing positions was a significant aspect of Bourgeois's outlook.

In the present century there have emerged two opposing positions regarding theological method and how to approach the subject of revelation in particular.

Once you've established your foundation with allies, it's time to engage with those who may be on the fence or leaning toward opposing your position.

Nava was selected to serve as a residential advisor in Butler College (one of Princeton's residential colleges), and earlier this fall, as part of his duties there, he led a discussion of two academic articles taking opposing positions on same - sex marriage.

Delegates took opposing positions on a blueprint for merging at their respective conventions held here last month.

The two are opposing positions in seaside towns.

He believes that there is a great divide between those who have reached that conclusion and those who have reached some other; and that communication between the two groups is impossible, because their respective members start from diametrically opposed positions of belief (or nonbelief) and see with different eyes and hear with different ears.

The parties take opposing positions with respect to the South Fork Wind Farm, a proposed installation that would be some 36 miles from Montauk in federally leased waters that overlap with historically productive fishing grounds.

While the book will jolly up conservatives, the less partisan - minded will wonder if it is good news that, if Anderson is right, there is today no forum that even approximates an honest meeting place for opposing positions.

Two cool guys in bad situations with the same injury, two guys on opposing teams in the Super Bowl, two guys who play opposing positions but Manningham's story differed in one large way — he's got the Super Bowl ring.

The idea is that students will first read a text or texts, examine the writer's explanations and points, and then — and only then — develop a claim which they will back up with text - based evidence, as well as acknowledge opposing positions and present counter-arguments.

The Labour leader and the shadow foreign secretary will now advocate opposing positions from the frontbench when MPs meet, with Corbyn opening and Benn closing.

The Pope assures his reader, nonetheless, that in communion with the Church's living Tradition and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit «we can serenely examine exegetical hypotheses that all too often make exaggerated claims to certainty, claims that are already undermined by the existence of diametrically opposed positions put forward with an equal claim to scientific certainty» (p. 105).

Beardslee sharply opposes this position and suggests that it is in Gnosticism and not in Biblical eschatology that we find such a total opposition.

Prudence is not a matter of splitting the difference between opposed positions; it is the moral and political art of incorporating principles in public policy.

Washington — Two mayors of heavily minority cities with high teen - age unemployment took opposing positions here last week on an Administration bill before the Congress to allow employers to pay youths a subminimum wage.

Data Presentation — where you have to present several opposing positions to the problem along with the arguments supporting them;

I became adept at trading diagonally opposed positions, often in different accounts.

Some say that this can lead to a conflict of interest, as there are dealing desks that might fill your orders on a discretionary basis depending on whether or not their own opposing position could turn out profitable for them, but this isn't always the case.

Two dramatically opposed positions are those of Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils - Aime, who thinks both Sony -LSB-...]

b. Facts entangled in culturally antagonistic meanings.Here opposing positions on facts become ransformed into badges of membership in opposing groups.

The House bill's rent - seeking and tax - raising provisions in the middle of a recession all but goaded Republicans to take increasingly radical opposing positions on climate change out of sheer political opportunism, with among other consequences climate denial emerging as a central plank in the rise of the Tea Party in the summer of» 09.

So while talking about opposing positions is probably warranted, it does need to be put in its proper context.

These two intractably opposed positions are grounded in the constant struggle between employer and employee, judiciary and legislature, and precedent and evolving law.

In a profession where the ability to argue opposing positions without tossing off juvenile put - downs should be the norm, the vitriol just keeps flowing.

He and Scalia held opposing positions on the nature of harmless error review.

Dexia and FMS opposed this position, and an expedited trial was held six weeks later.

In effect, given the timesheet places the customer and the advisor in directly opposed positions, the customer is now waking up to the fact that they want to know in advance what the price for the work will be.

Although the two articles, by Barbara Kay («After a divorce, equal parenting rights should be the norm,» March 19) and Tasha Kheiriddin («Equal shared parenting laws don't put kids first,» March 20) appear at first glance to present diametrically opposed positions, each expresses valid concerns in regard to the importance of maintaining parent - child relationships, ensuring continuity and stability in children's lives, and containing parental conflict.

NEW ORLEANS — They play for opposing teams in Sunday's Super Bowl and play opposing positions, and both had their seasons ended by ACL tears, so getting together 49ers wide receiver Mario Manningham and Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb seemed obvious.

As a longtime science journalist, I suspected that this is the kind of instructive controversy — with top - level people taking opposing positions — that often occurs at the leading edge of research.

Unfortunately these labels have been converted into the symbols of opposed positions and divisions.

She is unabashedly pro-choice, and most republican voters would oppose her positions on universal health care, gun control, immigration, and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

Emails from Iksil to superiors that were later made public in conjunction with the Senate report show he tried to exit the positions he had taken once he realized he was being squeezed by traders taking the opposing positions in the small, illiquid market.

Some people are fundamentally unwilling to compromise, and sometimes, there really isn't a middle ground for two diametrically opposed positions.

Oppose these positions, fine, but we're now in the realm of standard conservative policy fare.

Also the centrist daily To Vima calls the debate much more alive, because it also gave opponents the opportunity to showcase their opposing positions on a number of issues such as the economy, the implementation of the redemption or refugee problem.

This makes it easier for you to take the two opposing positions to ensure that you come out on top.

it's a knee - jerk reaction — and ironically one equally controlled & dictated by the opposing position.

The Supreme Court itself has hardly been immune to the centrifugal tendency to adopt extreme characterizations of opposing positions, as evidenced by the readiness to label legislative decisions with which the Court disagrees as «irrational,» «prejudiced,» «invidious,» «suppressive,» and «defiant.»

The fact is, it is the TRANSITION from one position / group (whatever their viewpoint) to an opposing position / group which causes the friction.

the opposing position is about life: the baby's life, the mother's life, and your life.

However, in the spirit of the experiment, I urge readers to acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses of both their position and the opposing position.

For the opposing position, Buchanan quotes George C. Ball: «The urgent need of modern man [is] to use the world's resources in the most efficient manner.

It would be foolish to suppose that most of the advocates of the opposed positions are insincere, that their beliefs are unimportant.

The fundamental point, once again, is that variety in expression does not necessarily mean incommensurable or opposing positions.