Sentences with phrase «over the meaning of»

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

The battle over the meaning of fiduciary and of «best interest» rages on.

The great disagreement among people is over the meaning of perfected dignity, even if they do not use this kind of language.

The «church» was formed by his followers, who fought like cats and dogs over the meaning of those events.

I always get a little nervous when I encounter a bunch of theologians arguing over the meaning of the gospel, each armed with his own sophisticated definition of it.

[Editor's note: At this point in the discussion there was a long debate over the meaning of words, especially the meaning of «perception.»

As I noted above, this is not clear in contemporary debate over the meaning of positive and customary international law, and the case for this position must be argued, not merely asserted.

Several generations of students at Duke Divinity School have heard James «Mickey» Efird use those carnivalesque words to conclude debates over the meaning of a biblical passage.

I used to puzzle over the meaning of the story which appears in the early part of John's gospel about Jesus changing water into wine.

The recent excitement over the meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls illustrates this perfectly.

For as Callahan rightly notes, our captivity to technology results from its implicit ideology — our confusion over the meaning of death.

The Synoptic Gospels were not written until some 30 years after Jesus» death: the first century Christian community had a number of years before they were written to mull over the meaning of Christ's life.

I remember sitting in a Bible study with Amy who debated with me over the meaning of the word «salvation.»

For parallel to (and in some cases generating) the explosion of historical knowledge about American Catholicism has come an effort to put that knowledge — better, a distinctive interpretation of that knowledge — to various partisan purposes in today's struggles over the meaning of orthodoxy, authority, and ministry.

If they mutually agree to take the risk, the act must be orientated to its true purpose: unitive through procreative (see Faith March 2006, Editorial, Confusion over the Meanings of Marriage).

[Ed: We discussed appropriate developments in this area in our March 2006 editorial, «Confusion over the Meanings of Marriage», and attempted them in our March 2009 editorial «The Assault upon the Sexes»]

Among many other things, the struggle for the doctrine of the Trinity was a debate over the meaning of the Bible.

Smolinski said Medinah's «all - or - nothing» position appeared to ignore the fact there is a dispute over the meaning of an intergovernmental agreement, and that the two sides are «fighting in a fog.»

Meanwhile, some people voiced concern over the meaning of the results.

This seems to be an issue over the meaning of the word «rig».

«Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make an assessment of the merits of making provision for parents to have a choice over the means of vaccination of their children against measles, mumps and rubella under the NHS.

There has been controversy over the meaning of a clause in the criminal code of Ghana's 1992 constitution which condemns «unnatural carnal knowledge».

Initially seeking evacuation, area activists soon found that they were engaged in a far larger battle over the meaning of America's industrial past and its environmental future.

As the editors write in this month's Scientific American, the ruling failed to define what «unreasonable» discrimination of Internet content is, leaving too much up for debate — «the only certainty it gives is of the tens of thousands of billable hours to be spent arguing over the meaning of «unreasonable» in federal court.»

They often sat up late into the night, in intense debate over the meaning of the revolutionary quantum theory, then its infancy.

Parapsychologist Charles Honorton and critic Ray Hyman fought over the meaning of the accumulation of results.

The media's varied interpretations of the Thai AIDS vaccine study's results reflect the widespread confusion over the meaning of statistical significance.

«Fair compensation» is being claimed over the means of online player - to - player interaction in games such as World of Warcraft and Call of Duty.

These debates highlight longstanding disagreements over the meaning of «higher intellectual demand.»

After some discussion over the meaning of the quote, Zohara Candelerio, who commutes from Queens every day, raises her hand.

So America's constitutional system is adept at accommodating our divisions over the meaning of our history, but only for as long as we cherish and protect the principles of federalism, local control, and freedom they embody.

I mean there are real people who are willing to insult someone over the meaning of «game» and folk who make twines are the least likely to do that.

What we have, then, is a struggle over the meaning of art between primary and secondary texts in relation to production.

As we ruminate over the meaning of their dialogue, Eduardovna hits us with another reveal: the sitcom cuts away and we are shown that all of this is a set — the fiction we already knew it was.

For centuries, viewers of this masterpiece have puzzled over the meaning of Bellini's composition and have sought explanations in a variety of pictorial and textual sources.

Now Donald Duck represents the triumph of the proletariat and the workers taking over the means of production.»»

I feel that important issues have been raised in fights over the meaning of the climate e-mail exchanges, and some have resulted in changes to how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change operates.

This oscillation presumably mirrors the confusion over the meaning of «sustainable development» as well.

Also, could stumble over the meaning of words.

A remarkable news from Scientific American: Physicists Battle over the Meaning of «Incontrovertible» in Global Warming Fight

Since we are limited to one question: What will be the effect upon our Liberty if we hand over the means of production (energy) to the «command and control» of unaccountable bureaucracies (EPA and U.N.)?

On blogs like Dr. Curry's I continually see learned, and heated, arguments over the meaning of fluctuations in the «annual temperature of the earth» in the hundredths of a degree range (sometimes thousandths), with data plotted over hundreds or thousands of years, while noticing that there doesn't seem to be a DEFINITION of the «Annual Temperature of the Earth» and that the climate science community, collectively, would be hard pressed to provide me with an «Annual Temperature of Bob's House» with a credible and defensible resolution and precision of + / -.01 degree, using an instrumentation system of their choice.

Grauniad: Well, perhaps we are arguing over the meaning of «running» the rag.

There will doubtless be future litigation over the meaning of SFL and any legislative exceptions to it.

Will and Trust Litigation: We handle disputes over the meaning of estate planning documents, arguments involving personal representatives or trustees, and challenges to documents based on lack of capacity or undue influence.

If so, you might want to mention that (e.g. «Contract dispute over meaning of legal term»).

Even though you didn't actually write the contract, you're the one that came up with it, so if there's a dispute over the meaning of something, the court going to side with the other person.

Already it has struck over the meaning of «family proceedings».

On March 5, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal appeals court in Washington should not have vacated the award, holding that nothing in the treaty overcame the normal assumption in US law that arbitrators rather than courts should decide disputes over the meaning of procedural conditions to arbitration.

This will minimise the potential for confusion over the meaning of clauses.