Sentences with phrase «point using a claims»

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She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

He himself claimed to be» «an old school point and click prop trader» who had «always been good with reflexes and doing things quick,»» and the «Layering Algorithm» that he used was a customized version of «a program that allowed non-programmers to engage in automated trading using spreadsheet commands and functions.»

She pointed out that smugglers are using claims of «credible fear» to get their human cargo into — and remain in — the United States.

At that point, the claimed infringement related to the dual - lens system used in the iPhone 7 Plus, while the latest case targets the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X also...

Why did the CFIB use the year 2000 as a starting point? In another example of selecting statistics to fashion your claims, they chose 2000 because that was a recent relative low point for municipal spending.

(Creationism fails to be a theory mainly because of the last point; it makes few or no specific claims about what we would expect to find, so it can't be used for anything.

Since 99 % of women use birth control at some point in their lives, I hardly think many Catholic women are operating as you claim they «should».

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

Like the good Dr. has pointed out, using your book to refute someone elses book when both have the same historical significance, outlandish claims and religion is probably the dumbest thing you can do.

Both are used to signal the reader or TV viewer that the idea, point of view or product has authoritative support and is supposed to work and one not need question it's truth claims or usefulness.

My point to Steve was to point out that we do come to different conclusions using the same scripture therefore neither of us can claim scriptural authority.

My point was that believers in all faiths claim that same experience; I used Vishnu as it pertains to a large, active religion.

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

But if we use the Trinity as myth to point to this unknowability of God, we must make clear that we are not claiming that God is in fact tripartite.

When we add the obvious point that the term itself is very frequently to be found in the synoptic tradition and comparatively infrequently outside it, then it becomes clear that we are fully entitled to claim that the real and significant differences between the use within the synoptic tradition and outside it call for an explanation.

The pity is it has been bastardized by people who've laid claim to the person and message of Jesus and used it to further the agenda of their flesh, thereby missing the point entirely..........

The point I wanted to make is that God invites His people to study His Word in depth, to use the minds that He gave us and renewed, to gradually discover the deep levels of His progressive revelation, and to compare the internal consistency of His message to claims from other religions which invariably crumble upon thoughtful analysis.

So the principle that God uses language to tell us things is at once established; and the claim that Scripture is a further case in point - a claim, be it said, that is irremoveably embedded at foundation level in Jesus» teaching about his Messiahship and God's righteousness (1)-- presents no new conceptual problem.

But Topher, keep in mind that if God can bend scientific laws as He chooses, there is no point in using ANY science, including science you claim supports the Bible.

It is a criterion much used in England, as McArthur points out, and he claims that it is the most objective of the criteria which can be used.

Although one could argue that we are wrong in subtracting certain things or in using the values we do at various points, and so claim that economic welfare has in fact not declined in recent years, it would be equally possible to reintroduce leisure into our calculations and end up with figures indicating a more drastic decline.

The issue was on hell and whether it should be used in evangelism and your point of stating that the gospel was claiming that the Christian way of life was a better way of life as though that was sufficient.

Yes, the Muslims claim a «single source» for the Quran, and try to use that as a talking point, but it still doesn't hold up.

Defenders of classical theism often implicitly use the latter criterion, claiming they have defended their God's failure to prevent horrendous evils by simply pointing out that there might be some reason, knowable only by God, as to why it was good not to intervene.15 I would say, in any case, that it need not be «clear» in a strong sense of the term.

In the light of that claim, it is reasonable to attribute the New Testament's use of the phrase «the Jews» to the point of view of an era when the church was in conflict with the Jewish community, hence to conclude that the anti-Semitism in the New Testament is incidental.

I am not suggesting faith in God is the same as faith in astrophysics but merely to point out that you too use faith as claimed knowledge in something that you simply can not prove.

Louis van Gaal has refused to use De Gea until after the transfer window has closed, claiming that the former Atletico Madrid's concentration will be suspect until that point.

It is all very well to make money but unless that is used to finance the team in order to achieve the success Kroenke claims is his driving ambition, what is the point unless it is to line the pockets of Kroenke and co?

I simply pointed out that the studies you cited did not support the claims you were making, and that you can not draw casual inferences from studies that do not use random assignment.

One study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) found that, although parents may claim that sleep aids work well for their infants, the research actually points to the fact that babies tend to use a lot of different objects for falling asleep, instead of just one favorite object.

It doesn't point to a specific claim, and then asks whether all such claims use or ignore wireless access.

Danny Hakim at The Times pointed out today that while the internal memo from Linda Lacewell does seem to include a passage that backs up the initial claims first report by The TU in 2007 — that then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno did use a state helicopter for non-official use at least once.

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle points out the tipline was created in February 2012, well before the Safe Act was enacted and denies Goodell's claim the Division of Criminal Justice Services has been asked to use the tipline to target Upstate rifle owners.

Take the points yourself and use linear least squares to make a linear function, which will disprove your baseless claims.

Watts then pointed to embroiled data firm Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, whose CEO claimed in hidden camera footage that the company could use Ukrainian sex workers to entrap politicians.

The study claimed that 80 % of the accounts were created in the weeks before polling day, and were used to target voters with key political messages during vital points in the campaign, including the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

Honestly, I am slightly pro-legalization myself (maybe with some rationing system), but anytime I see someone claiming the point about medicinal THC (or the one about using hemp for ropes and paper) makes me wonder if maybe marihuana actually causes that much brain damage.

The point being that the biggest argument for controlling marijuana, the claim that it lead to use of worse drugs, was pretty much proven to be false, and most statisticians and researchers seem to agree on that fact today.

hypothetical situations used to illustrate my point, not claims of anything that actually happened.

Markey's support for the bill, and more specifically her unsubstantiated claim that a bishop had briber her to drop it, was used by Barnwell as a talking point against her.

Cambridge Analytica claims on its website that it's able create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level,» and that the company has «up to 5,000 data points on over 230 million American voters.»

The conference has spent the last month pushing back on the claims of advocates for public financing and debated the cost of the system, pointing to more pressing needs for the use of public funds.

Prosecutors, in their complaint against Ciminelli, point to his political contributions and claim they were used to buy him access and influence in Albany and ultimately win more state contracts.

She used another bill she is the lead sponsor on as a point of comparison, incorrectly claiming that while her «Card Check Neutrality» bill has 20 co-sponsors, the preferential rent bill only has 6.

It wouldn't be hard to use China as a jumping - off point if you're in organized crime or another nation state looking to cause some saber rattling between China and the U.S.» Much of the U.S.'s current tension with China comes from Google's claims that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

Casti's claim that complexity is subjective is, therefore, beside the point, although he is right to point to the confusion that arises with the use of the same word «complex» in anecdotal and formalistic contexts.

Others point out that such a claim is hard to prove because the same factors that lead people to use marijuana in the first place might also lead them to use other drugs.

Most of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second generation), must be confirmed by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.

The FDA, in its warning letter to Meditherm, ordered the company to stop making broad claims about its cameras, pointing to a Web page that lists «76 specific conditions for which you say your device can be used... for example, lower motor neuron disease, neoplasias (melanoma, squamous cell, basal) and nutritional disease (alcoholism, diabetes).»

Those who claim correlation using derivatives (differences) removes a linear trend miss the point.