Sentences with phrase «point of a discussion about»

The Committee on Drugs therefore has not placed nicotine (and thus smoking) in any of the Tables but hopes that the interest in breastfeeding by a smoking woman will serve as a point of discussion about smoking cessation between the pediatrician and the prospective lactating woman or nursing mother.

Conservation needs to be the starting point of the discussion about water policy.

The point of this discussion about cat personality is to try to and help new owners to understand what shapes the potential personality of a cat in relation to being a pet cat, living closely with people.

One of the points of discussion about Abstract Expressionist New York as well as MoMA's recent de Kooning: a Retrospective (September 18, 2011 - January 9, 2012) was how difficult it is to hang a Pollock or a DeKooning in the same room with other artists.

His reflections serve as the starting point of a discussion about contemporary painting through the work of five young artists, who approach the canvas in very different ways.

In 1996 I defined the turning point of the discussion about climate science (the point where we could actually start talking about policy) as the date when the Wall Street Journal would acknowledge the indisputable and apparent fact of anthropogenic climate change; the year in which it would simply be ridiculous to deny it.

Not exact matches

It's a hot topic and a frequent point of discussion among investors, entrepreneurs and stock traders, so you should want to know all about it.

What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

At another point, he was asked about the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre — which he said had initially been involved in discussions between him and SCL to be part of the project but fell out of the arrangement.

Trump's tweet came hours after his top economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters the US is «in the pre-preliminary stages of any discussions» with TPP countries about rejoining the pact, and that the prospect of reentry was more a «thought» than a «policy» at this point.

A whole discussion can be had about the effect of the Bitcoin network and value on the interest and price of alternative cryptocurrencies, but the point is that for the purpose of privacy it can be relatively easy and cheap to move into Monero and back out in Bitcoin, or at some exchanges, directly into cash.

The findings point up the importance of family discussions about money.

There has been a lot of discussion about shopping using voice assistants through smart speakers, but fewer data points related to mobile have been reported.

Jay introduces the guests for the program, gives updated information on the sponsors and talks about some of the discussion points for the day's program.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

The point about trading (even in corpses — which connects this discussion to the one we've been having about how to treat the newly dead) is even more profound and points, of course, to a conclusion about what a completely commercial, ruggedly libertarian society would really be like.

I'm also going to add this; in earlier comments you raised some legitimate points for discussion about how the British Mandate was apportioned, which is a huge part of the whole quagmire and the legality of it all is a huge, tangled, convoluted mess.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

We were having a splendid discussion about her new project, when I revealed my lack of sophistication by asking the utterly un-artistic question: «What's the point?»

while I'd be glad to enter into a discussion about that (considering the early church reject Tatian's Diatesseron — which offered a «harmony» of the gospels into one account), it misses the more foundational point.

Again, like last week in the discussion about the Breastplate of Righteousness, I have a little pneumonic device, an acrostic of sorts, to help you remember these points.

In this line of thought it is worth pointing out that Discussion about mission has raised a question about the very nature of the church.

During the discussion I made some points about how a Sixties - inspired deconstruction of middle - class manners and morals contributes significantly to the disorientation and dysfunction of today's working class.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

«In any group of young people there will probably be people who will at some point experience gender dysphoria so a respectful and caring discussion could make all the difference in terms of them feeling accepted, and could help them open up about how they feel,» he says.

This point about freedom is a standard ingredient in Whiteheadian discussions of the problem of evil.

But before we come to that discussion, it will be useful for us to turn our attention to the question of «resurrection» — first, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, about which so much of the earliest Christian writing found in the New Testament, and so much of the Christian experience of discipleship, turns; and second, to consider the point of the continuing Christian affirmation that those who have responded to the event of Christ are themselves made «sharers in Christ's resurrection».

The council itself said little about justification, but it set a mood that made discussion of this old point of division inevitable.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 231) The only point that needs to be made about these comments for the purposes of the present discussion is that the consequent nature of God has a functional role in Whitehead's metaphysical system.

Yes, at some point we all have to have a discussion with ourselves and pretend there's a higher force that gives two figs about a bunch of silly, poorly evolved hominids.

To say this is to anticipate what will be said a little later about the Christian «story,» but the point is of the greatest importance at this stage of our discussion.

Mike i have been thinking hard on this subject i hope you do nt leave the forum as i think we will get into a good debate / discussion the Lord has shown me alot of insight into this subject that i hadnt even thought about until Jeremy proposed his point of view.The word say iron sharpens iron we need to understand what we believe not just walk away because we feel it is treading on our beliefs because they change as we learn and understand because we have believed something for a long time does nt make it right.Use this opportunity to grow to learn and to understand what the Lord is wanting us to know if we cant do this as brothers how are we supposed to do it with unbelievers.brentnz

Every discussion about the «point of contact», about the historical and supra - historical elements in Christianity, about apotheosis and incarnation, has always revolved around this relation between Christianity and classical humanism.

Ultimately, the whole discussion about the ordo salutis in Romans 8 leads the student of Scripture in the wrong direction about Paul's point.

I have nevertheless tried to discern here, by tacking back and forth between them and noting certain revealing points of intersection, the shape of the conversation that provides the current context for discussion about religion and higher education.

We did end up having a discussion about different faiths - expressing nor endorsing opinions on any in particular but merely educating the students on the differences (and then they pointed out the lack of difference between many).

It seems that the main point of David's cartoon is being missed in all this discussion about transformation.

Both of them are now believers, which is their choice as adults, but they fully understand my position on religions and we sometimes have some wonderful discussions on the subject, but I usually just get them confused because I know so much more about the Christian faith than they do because I have studied it from a secular point of view.

In a pluralistic society such as ours, therefore, finding a common consensus of desirable qualities necessary in human society as a beginning point for discussion about the role the media play in contributing to, or detracting from such shared qualities, is awfully elusive.

Having engaged in far too many seemingly endless and usually fruitless discussions about the word «inerrancy,» I am both convicted and encouraged by McKnight's reminder here that «having the right view [of the Bible] isn't the point of the Bible... We must begin an entirely new conversation that gets us beyond the right view of the Bible to one that seeks to answer this question, «What is our relationship to the God of the Bible?»

I thought that was the point of the whole discussion about eagle feathers and how long it takes to get them from some government agency in Denver.

The reason is clear: the discussion about existence as a perfection, as if that were all that is involved, does not make explicit the far more important point that, in the case of «God,» properly understood, nonexistence was never a real possibility, a consideration entirely overlooked by those who blithely say that, of course, we all know that no existence can be derived from «mere» ideas.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

In a good number of internet discussions, you will find arguments about the use or non-use of EVOO in cooking that focus on the issue of smoke point.

Absolute nonsense, so this site is being abused by people to ramble on about anything they want regardless of what people put up as discussion points.

And yeah, I pretty much agree with his points about why the others in the discussion of GOAT aren't # 1 either.

If we hadn't dropped as many points as we've done recently, the worry about referee's decisions wouldn't be a topic of discussion at all.

Personally I don't feel we are far away from having a team that is, in technical ability, ready to compete on all fronts, but Petit makes a very good point about the current striker situation at Arsenal and it's a topic of discussion that will not go away until we are satisfied.

One of the main points of discussion after Barca exited Europe in Rome last week was about Valverde's use of his squad.