Below is a copy of the letter he sent to the Panel on Scientific Boundaries for Review detailing his 10 main
points of concern about their proposed changes:
Not exact matches
A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking
point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two
concerns about the CIA's first version
of talking
points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking
points went further than what she was allowed to say
about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings
about the security situation were ignored.
Oil prices fell as increased drilling in the United States
pointed to more output, raising
concerns about a return
of oversupply.
Gibbons
pointed out the speculative and risky nature
of ICOs, his
concerns about Bermuda's reputation, and that «a lot
of regulators have taken a pretty strong approach to this.»
As investors, we are generally happier when the consensus is worried and we highlighted some
concern about this very
point at the beginning
of the year.
But Europe is
about to
point to a better way
of balancing the interests
of technological innovation and privacy
concerns.
If those factors were positive here, our
concerns about immediate downside risks would be less
pointed, regardless
of current valuation extremes.
Mr. Fuerstenberg
of Mercer
points out that some bosses may look at a woman and a man
of childbearing age and favor the male for a promotion because
of concern about the woman taking a six - month maternity leave.
The completely unexpected decision by the Bank
of Canada to cut the bank rate by 25 basis
points was a clear indication that the Bank is
concerned about Canada's economic prospects.
It brought home the
point of why Facebook users are
concerned about a data breach and an invasion
of privacy.
Because
of this, businesses don't have to be
concerned about creating an attractive personality and can use LinkedIn to sell their products or services through useful, direct, and to - the -
point content.
Here are a few data
points that have me gravely
concerned about the state
of the Chinese market (just as I was in 2007):
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,175
points Monday in an exceptionally volatile day for financial markets around the world, stirring
concerns about the durability
of the long - running stock gains.
Buyer personas are fictional representations
of your actual, paying customers, created based on the data you have
about them — such as their job title, budget, buying motivation, challenges, company size, age, pain
points, education level, buying
concerns, etc..
In particular, the organization raised
concerns about leveraged trading
of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk
of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this
point.»
According to the data, 73 percent
of Americans say they're not
concerned about losing their job — up five percentage
points for the month.
The whole
point of this note
concerns thinking differently
about the mining sector and how to approach it given some
of the aforementioned issues.
«If I were
concerned about anything from a long - term housing market
point of view it's the supply
of housing in Toronto and Vancouver,» Evan Siddal, the head
of the federal housing agency, the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation, told Reuters.
They have had the extraordinary
concern for why others are breaking the Sabbath law, but when they are shown that they are not really
concerned about the actual law or the actual spirit
of that set
of laws, they do not admit they are wrong: they plot to «destroy» the one who has
pointed this out to them, and to everyone.
If you really go down the list looking at every word and the heart behind it in light
of scripture and in the light
of the law
of the Spirit
of life you'll find major discrepancies and see how carnal, worldly and unbiblical those
points of views really are... I'm
concerned about the heart behind such views because it isn't one
of a disciple (one who emulates their rabbi and is possessed by the «Holy» Spirit
of God).
Having known both
of these scholars and having written
about Talmon at some length, I must
point out that Talmon wrote expressly on the French postrevolutionary and restorationist traditions and not
about the later period that
concerned The Origins
of Totalitarianism.
They don't seem to go out
of their way to
point out that Obama rarely goes to church, so they should drop the fake
concern about his religion.
The decline in the number
of missionaries sent abroad has become for them a symbolic focal
point for their
concern about the entire denominational involvement overseas.
[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's
point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his
concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are,
of course, warranted.]
Like the part
about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions
of our lives up to this
point, threatening to talk to the pastor
of the church we're visiting to share his «
concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess
of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.
My
concern here is that WTS and other Reformed institutions are elevating Calvin's theological interpretation
of God to the
point that it is understood to be a comprehensive explanation
of God, the only «right» way
of thinking
about Him and worshipping Him.
The acceptance
of women at West
Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy has been hailed as a victory by many feminists, as well as by people who are
concerned about the quality and quantity
of career military personnel.
Thus we are faithful only if we use the freedom resulting from institutional separation
of church and state in order to develop, preach and teach an integrated, theologically rooted perspective
concerned at each
point about «truth.»
The international Christian and Jewish communities were at this
point expressing
concern about the significance
of the Nazi regime's restrictions upon Jews.
The same is true
of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited
about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent
of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,»
concerned leaders have diverted the attention
of viewers from the most important problem, the basic
point, namely, that the whole process -
of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.
While Collingwood is explicitly affirmative
about the realistic standard
of Alexander's starting
point, he is reserved
concerning Whitehead's.
«After all it's only the purely immediate men — who so far as spirit is
concerned are
about at the same
point as the child in the first period
of earliest infancy when with a thoroughly endearing nonchalance it lets everything pass out — it's the purely immediate men who can't retain anything.
In saying all this, I am merely
pointing to another layer
of disagreement with Newman: Ultimately we part ways not just over our conclusions
about dogma but also over our assumptions
concerning the relationship
of Church, Scripture, and tradition.
The principal
points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality
of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them
of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence
of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing
concerned him, not even the loss
of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace
of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets
about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean
of the blood
of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all
of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight
of the Ephesian church and to feed the church
of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.
As well as learning from the past
about the importance
of a healthy diet, we might also reflect upon a
point made by one
of the contributors to «Sunlight» (a journal
of the 1920 - 30s
concerned with promoting healthy living): that we have minds as well as bodies, and behaviour depends upon «whether one's mind is fed on treasure or on trash».
I hadn't really thougth
about it from the
point of vie
of them showing
concern andwanting to serve.
In a rather exhaustive eighty - page subject index for the Institutes, one finds Calvin writing
about divine love only in four paragraphs.52 In four columns
of citations
concerning «Christ,» only a single one involves love, God's loving act in Christ.53 And at no
point in his extensive scriptural references did Calvin even deal at all with 1 John 4:8, 16.
What started out in this chapter as a question
concerning the rational and scientific justifiability
of revelation has at this
point turned into a question
about the justifiability
of the enormous amount
of trust that underlies the scientific, critical enterprise itself.
The first was a conversation with a young couple who were reflecting on the problem
of finding modest, non-sexualizing clothes for their very young daughters, a
point which led them to express
concern about the educationally sanctioned sexualization
of even elementary school children.
The
point here is not one
about the relative merits
of altruism towards others vis a vis self -
concern.
Obviously, he was MORE
CONCERNED about the much larger problem
of ADULTERY by heteros, but don't expect HYPOCRITES to make as big a
point about it.
But one who hears this call and observes the efforts and
concerns of the church from the
point of view it engenders, is very likely to be lukewarm
about the church.
One
of the important
points about the new spirituality is how to read the biblical materials in terms
of a dominant
concern of our times namely the removal
of present oppressive structures.
Instead
of you being
concerned about the welfare
of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the
point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning
about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.
Concerning the question
of stupid ideas, I tried to make it clear in my last
point, but I guess I have to clarify, I probably talked too much
about different things.
This thinker, whose name I shall not disclose, said that he was becoming more and more convinced that there was «something in the older metaphysical — he called them «ontological» — claims; at the moment he was much
concerned, he said, to find a way
of giving more than linguistic status to such propositions as «personal God», for it appeared to him that these statements somehow
pointed to a truth
about the universe,
about the nature
of things, that must be reckoned with in any honest description
of the «way things are».
(Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1990, p. 36) As the Ehrlichs
point out, this is a frightening figure for ecologists, yet they are even more
concerned about the rising fraction
of potential plant production that is being lost for all life, including ourselves.
This would remove some
of the arbitrariness, but I have other
concerns about the nature
of process and the «cut - off»
point of the dative phase that need to be thought through before I could adopt this approach.
Similarly, questions
about Christology can be raised from the
point of view
of a variety
of contemporary
concerns.
Persons
of faith should be deeply
concerned about the current surveillance flap not because privacy is an absolute end in itself but rather because it
points to and safeguards something else even more basic and fundamental, namely, human dignity.