Sentences with phrase «own political judgment»

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Austan Goolsbee, an economic advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, said «what the S&P is doing is making a political judgment and it is one that we don't agree with.»

The answer is that Niebuhr's realism «chastens all political judgments,» which gives Lemert the opening to chasten Niebuhr himself for «denouncing not only Soviet Communism but communism of all brands.»

Stanley Hauwerwas and Paul J. Griffiths Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her trenchant critiques of peculiarly American pathologies, and for the wisdom of her political judgment.

That's why he didn't realize that WORLD GOVERNMENT is an oxymoron and more generally why his political judgment was less astute than, as Beneton explained with charm and depth, the more erotic (and more screwed up and more Pascalian) Mauriac.

But such political judgment need not be translated into the view that there is no such thing as «the good life,» or that we are not ourselves to seek it and seek through a variety of institutional (though non-governmental) mechanisms to encourage and inculcate that moral and religious vision.

Trump's candidacy revealed three main groups of white evangelicals, each distinguished by prudential political judgments.

But prudence also requires political judgment.

They recognize that the Gospel transcends the always uncertain, always fallible political judgments that govern the city of man.

The prophets were not infallible on matters of fact, or in political judgment, or even in religious insight.

We no longer put them together in extended argument in order to catch all the factors that count in a complex political judgment.

Jews should understand that Christian disagreement with certain political policies of the state of Israel entails a theological as well as a political judgment.

The legal and political judgment that all churches are equal could lead to a similar theological judgment.

Simply put, there is no neutral ground from which humans form moral and political judgments because such decisions embody an embrace of this authority or that authority.

To Niebuhr, however, it was necessary for Christians to «take our moral responsibilities in this world seriously and [that requires] hazardous political judgments» (February II, 1959).

To ensure that «scientific data is never distorted» and that «scientific decisions are based on facts, not ideology» Obama effectively denies that there are any political judgments that can't be settled by scientific investigation.

The New Testament puts less emphasis on direct political judgments, both because of its eschatological setting and because Jesus and his disciples were not even citizens of the political empire in which they lived.

Second, a greater awareness of the complexity of political judgments and a more honest effort to locate the precise areas of disagreement.

Christians should readily recognize that they may be mistaken in political judgments.

He's not without his imperfections, and sometimes he reminds me of Solzhenitsyn in some of the political judgments that he makes, but he's pretty good and he's a solid biblical scholar.

It is not «un-Christian» to make political judgments — judgments that are fallible and invariably implicate us in worldly affairs touched by greed and the lust for power.

But as a rule, the discipline of moral theology, when it's not hectoring us for failing to be sufficiently progressive in our political judgments, has for many decades specialized in permission.

I myself can not find in that analysis the mature political judgment for which Bishop Wright calls.

But his sense of humor Was more like a tumor And his political judgment was nil.

During the past forty years, voters have been taught by TV to make political judgments based on how they feel about a particular candidate, rather than how to evaluate a candidate's actual positions and actions.

Yet the biblical story repeatedly tells of the nation's turn away from God's rule to other gods or to the misguided political judgments of the kings and rulers who did not heed God's true prophets.

This is a political judgment because it involves challenging certain governmental policies.

Affective intelligence and political judgment.

It is, in other words, a political judgment and, as with all things political, is extraordinarily subjective and vulnerable to all sorts of manipulations.

But the House of Commons is entitled to make a political judgment on what the outcome of the negotiations should be, and to conduct its scrutiny accordingly.

So for political judgment, the numbers from the copied table should maybe be corrected by including the percentage of adults who are taxed at 0 $.

Classically, it was not just that one needed to own property to be considered adequately independent to exercise one's own political judgment, but there was a hierarchy of occupations.

Again, Ed Miliband showed perfectly reasonable political judgment in refusing to back the strikers.

It is in practice, in political judgment, through struggle and negotiation, that politics is able to identify and realise values.

It is what this episode reveals about her political judgment and managerial acumen.

But lord chief justice Lord Bingham said: «The democratic process is liable to be subverted if, on a question of moral and political judgment, opponents of the act achieve through the courts what they could not achieve in parliament.»

«And when they go on duty their political opinions are put aside, and they serve everyone without any bias or political judgment.»

And Hague is once again proving that he has awful political judgment.

Former Cabinet Minister Peter Lilley said that it was wrong that political judgments now were resting with the courts:

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

We have no business making political judgments about those kinds of issues.»

The key question here is the soundness of these political judgments.

It involves political judgments.

Political judgments and preferences, rather than purely legal ones, may determine how these questions are resolved.

Maryland governor Larry Hogan has excellent political judgment.

This outside dynamic highlights the shortcomings of labeling and dividing lines of cultural, spiritual, and political judgment.

«If we expect to limit warming to something tolerable, such as the 2 degree Celsius threshold widely accepted as a political judgment, the time is very close where you have to stop temporizing and start achieving reductions that are both large and rapid,» Dr. Somerville said.

Deciding how to weigh all that is a political judgment as much as a scientific one.

Deciding where to draw this line involves political judgments as much as a scientific ones.

I'm not as concerned about the cost of controlling genuine air pollution and the political judgments relating to them, as I am about the claim that CO2 is a pollutant.

But as a political judgment, it was probably correct.