Sentences with phrase «point questioning whether»

I know some are vocal on the media but the amount of noise out there would normally affect a human being and would start at some point questioning whether he is doing the right thing.

Who here hasn't at one point questioned whether they could be productive while luxuriating in a full eight hours of uninterrupted sleep?

Not exact matches

You want customers to question whether to burn their points right away or save them up.»

There are ways to get around the income caps, but before getting to that point, experts say the first question is whether a Roth even makes sense for you.

Still, the question remains whether the Obama administration scrubbed the talking points and used the video red herring in order to cover up the fact that they failed to prevent a planned terrorist attack that killed four Americans on the anniversary of September 11.

As a number of observers have pointed out (including Fortune), the question isn't so much whether Facebook filters out certain kinds of news — something that newspapers and other media entities do every day without much scrutiny.

For instance, Facebook has used R in predictive analytics to answer questions like «Which data points predict whether a user will stay?

Whether the company can deliver visionary new, reality - defying products that become bonafide hits is an open question, although critics would point out that Apple has largely failed to do so throughout its history without Steve Jobs» involvement.

Whether or not acquisitions are the answer to plugging revenue and R&D holes is a more complicated question, as Fortune «s Stephen Gandel points out.

«The question from a financial stability point of view is whether or not those measures, to the extent they encourage more credit and more investment, may not buy some more growth today, but increase the risk of some disruption in growth further down the road,» Carolyn Wilkins, the Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor, said at least week's press conference.

A key legal question is whether Seattle - based Amazon has grown to the point of discouraging innovation from competitors.

Chris Grady, a Stoneman Douglas High School senior who's enlisting in the military, asked Rubio a very pointed question on whether he'd agree that there was no place for large - capacity magazines.

Their agreement on a free - trade pact timed with the G20 meeting in Germany can be as substantive as it is symbolic, raising the key question of whether it might serve as a turning point for the United States as the Trump administration decides on its future trade agenda.

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

The economic fundamentals are highly supportive of this thesis, at this point it's only a question of whether or not the monkeys at the Fed are losing their ability to rig the markets.

In the same section, Zuckerberg has talking points that help him skirt any questions over whether he will or should resign (he's not planning to)

Understandably, with huge sums having been lost (and in some cases gained) in the blink of an eye, pointed questions are being asked about the sell which first triggered the process and whether it was an attempt at market manipulation.

-- Mueller's team is asking witnesses «pointed questions» about whether Trump had prior knowledge of the stolen Democratic emails before they were made public, and if he was involved in their release.

While some people question whether VIX is too low, it is worth noting that the average levels for Bloomberg's estimate of A-T-M implied volatility were 2.6 points lower than the VIX Index.

This raised the question of whether the data would prove out our opinions, or prove the old guard actually had a point.

Because of the wide range of purchases associated with travel spending, we suggest you call an Ultimate Rewards representative whenever you have a question of whether a given transaction will earn you double points.

The question is ridiculous, since yes, the religious leaders (Jews) had a hand in killing Jesus, but the conclusion that modern Jews are responsible is also ridiculous, as well as the insistence on retracting the question by the ADL, whose whole point is to prevent people from blaming modern Jews, not whether the answer is true or not.

The only question is whether a particular society has enough of the faithful to care for its poor so as not to have the charitable vocation usurped by the state, at which point it is no longer a Christian society.

There follows from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state of cosmological physics or by....

Finally, if the point of this author's essay is to conclude that we shouldn't waste our time on whether Judas is in heaven or hell, why bring it up in the first place with a headline that begs the question?

That is the question initiating his several protagonists» quests as wayfarers, whether Will Barrett's journey to New York City and points North and his return to his baffling South, or Binx Bolling's wanderings about New Orleans.

I was very reluctant to do that because I felt that I really wasn't sure if I would get an answer, or that I wouldn't be ready for an answer, or that I wouldn't know for certain if I felt that I did get an answer that is was actually from God or whether I was just deceiving myself, so for a few years there I just put that off, however those questions and concerns kept boiling up within me, so at that point I couldn't take it anymore putting it off.

But I guess my answer to your question would be, I have no clue... But I'm not sure whether it matters to the point @ hand...

This brings us then to the real point of disagreement between Plantinga and Griffin: the question of whether every actual world must necessarily contain self - determining entities and hence whether an omnipotent being can unilaterally bring about any world devoid of genuine evil.

The Reformed theologians behind the «Reformed catholicity» project acknowledge that the Church has — and must have — hermeneutical authority, and the point of my critique was merely to question whether their view of this issue is consistent with their understanding of the Church.

Admittedly, it is a bit different, because one can't really question whether my wife exists, but I hope you'll forgive a somewhat flawed analogy, and see the point I am trying to make.

The point at issue is whether or not monogenism is an infallibly defined dogma, and therefore whether or not the question can legitimately be discussed in any terms at all.

The question now is whether there is any point of contact on the side of liberation theology for the concerns of process theologians in areas to which liberation theologians have paid less attention.

The sharpest point of disagreement concerns the question whether Bonhoeffer's involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler signaled a shift away from his earlier pacifist commitment.

Then, too, we have to face the question whether there can be any point of contact between the Christian view of things, and the way educated men look at the world and its history today.

He points to the crucial distinction between growth - inhibiting and growth - enabling religion: «There is no one without a religious need, need to have a frame of orientation and an object of devotion... The question is not religion or not but which kind of religion, whether it is one furthering man's [sic]

Whether Ryken correctly limns the subtleties of the last point — how one may repudiate dominant trends and emphases in an institution and yet maintain allegiance to the institution itself and not simply to its «ideal» — is a question readers are left to ponder.

One might well question, at this point, the validity of nonreligious interpretation, asking whether Bonhoeffer has given us any example of non-religious interpretation rather than speaking only of its importance.

Whether or not the brain «stops functioning» at any given point is not necessarily the same question as whether there exists any other reality besides the one «the brain» can oWhether or not the brain «stops functioning» at any given point is not necessarily the same question as whether there exists any other reality besides the one «the brain» can owhether there exists any other reality besides the one «the brain» can observe.

The point for us is that for these two 20th century professors — as much as for any mystic wrapped in contemplation in some more remote ashram — the inevitability of death brought one face to face with the question of whether his existence had any point.

This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?

The crucial epistemic question concerning the experience of CE from the subject's point of view is whether the experience is accurate or deceptive.

The issues of chief difficulty arise at the point of questions as to whether Jesus expected the Kingdom to come on earth or only in some realm beyond earthly history, and in the latter event, whether he expected earthly history to end very soon by a catastrophic divine intervention when he himself would return in glory to reign over a transfigured world.

Whether there will be another generation prepared to see its duty and do it is at this point an open question.

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 oWhether 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 owhether 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.

The question that Wyschogrod presses time and again is whether on this particular point the proper Jewish understanding is not the proper Christian understanding as well.

I think we are talking past each other on the point of whether the geometry of the universe is a question of mathematics.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

The number of Muslims in every nation that were globally pointed out might be correct, but the question here is, whether these numbers of Muslims are aware well about the teachings of Islam in the right way with out extremism?

The condition requisite for healing it always this about - face, and from a purely philosophical point of view it might be a subtle question whether it is possible for one to be in despair with full consciousness of what it is about which one despairs.)