Sentences with phrase «position on the matters of»

On the other hand, NARAL members were somewhat more likely to take the «pro-life» position on the matters of highway safety, antimilitarism, anti-imperialism, gun control and social egalitarianism.

By the sixteenth century there was already plenty for a scientific critique of received ecclesiastical positions on the matter of authority to go to work on.

Likewise, i have never in my over sixty years of life heard media pronouncements presenting contradictory Shia and Sunni positions on matters of national interest.

I frankly can not think of a similar situation in which the disclosure of internal legal advice and the timing of that disclosure have so fatally compromised a state's public legal position on a matter of comparable importance (a good, but imperfect, comparison point might be Lord Goldsmith's advice to the UK government with regard to the invasion of Iraq).

The NAC, like the NACC, was unable to consistently develop coherent national policy positions on matters of national importance in Indigenous affairs.

Not exact matches

Recently, he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, defying the position of the vast majority of global leaders on the matter.

The fact of the matter is that salary comparisons will always be apples - to - oranges due to the many variables at play — so we as business leaders must define roles, devise compensation ranges for those roles, and then decide where the company will position itself within those ranges based on the variables.

They let a valued member of their team know that there is no «statute of limitations» on disrespecting another person, and that no one should ever get a pass, no matter how much money they have or what position they hold.

No matter how many negative interview experiences you have, you're still in the position of selling a company on committing to you.

«In line with this position, Ecuador proposed to Sweden the negotiation of an agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, which was signed last December and which provides the legal framework for the questioning.»

In a sign of how seriously Goldman is treating the new venture, the company approached several top consumer finance executives about the job, which comes with the title of partner, a highly coveted position at Goldman, the people briefed on the matter said.

Having a news outlet highlight the merits and current happenings of your business and / or quoting you on topics that matter to your business solidifies your position in the industry.

They have no specific expertise in the matter, and being a provider of these services puts the company in the awkward position of having a point of view on private personal matters as well as what defines basic well being.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, the truth of the matter is we don't pay much attention to trying to get an extra two basis points by being gamey on our short - term things and that credit default position is a weird, historical accident.

Ric is a veteran journalist who got his start reporting from the tobacco fields of southwestern Ontario, but came to Edmonton in the early 1980s to cover politics and other matters for Alberta Report, where he rose to executive editor, before moving on to senior writing and editing positions with Maclean's Magazine in Toronto and the Globe and Mail in Vancouver.

«The principles of balance, fairness, and reciprocity on matters of trade will continue to guide the American position.»

Given we have put in the position of needing to clarify this matter, we draw to your attention our specific concerns on the NDP's childcare proposal.

The nation is not only the third largest by race in the world, but because of the miss of unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.

Her position on this matter, as expressed in this article, however, is most definitely not Catholic, and I re-iterate that if she truly believes this, there are other faiths which are consistent with her beliefs, and she should be intellectually honest and choose one of them.

Theresa May also reiterated her belief that it was ultimately up to the church to decide its own position on the matter, during an interview marking half a century since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.

«Steve... demonstrates no awareness of and no engagement with either scholarly or popular positions, on either pastoral or biblical matters.»

There are a lot of commenters that are basing their positions on this matter on their emotions.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

What we would mind is those Christians (or people of any other faith, for that matter) who hold an absolutist, fundamentalist position on their truth.

Such an historical survey sets the stage adequately for Whitehead's own stance on the same matters, especially in view of the contrast between his position and the ones surveyed.

8Indices of Pannenberg's full position on this matter can be found in GST 2, chap.

Mr. Green is attempting to force his personal views as his religion dictates on all of his employees... perhaps he should speak to them and see what their position is on the subject matter.

Though he is a professed supporter of George Bush in other matters, and would normally be reluctant to align himself with Al Gore, it is Gore's position on global warming which he embraces.

But Christianity Today has moved away from the position of its founder on matters of social concern.

For example, people reading this exchange with a view to assessing the validity of Madden's criticisms of my position and the soundness of my rebuttal are acting on one of practical reason's per se nota first principles» namely, that intellectual understanding of matters such as those under discussion is something worth having and expending time and effort to achieve.

For that matter latest polls demonstrate that even a majority of Catholics disagree with the official church position on this issue, and an even stronger majority oppose the restrictions on birth control.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

We have agreed on some matters, disagreed on others, and maintained a clear and sincere sense of collegiality regardless of our positions.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

As a matter of fact, however, this position is a high and beautiful nest, for while it is not dependent on historical verification, neither is it threatened by any new discovery.

Therefor those that think would realize that a finite being as yourself would not be in a good position to question an infitine being on matters of morality.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

Despite his presumably sincere stand on such matters as school prayer, however, Reagan's religious position is not essentially theocratic, nor is this the basis of his ideological fit with most of the religious right.

It has been said that Teilhard could not accept in any genuine sense the position of his communion on these matters.

Only when we can identify these matters will we be in a position to respond to objections to the very suggestion that a theological school focus on the study of congregations.

This reference did not tempt me in 1914 to look up Clifford, but I evidently reconstructed his position from what Pearson did accept of his views on matter, as more acceptable to me than Pearson's.

Along with his parents, Matthew began carefully studying the Bible's few references to same - sex behavior (which will be examined, at length, throughout the rest of the book), and rethinking his position on the matter.

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

The conservative judges tended to argue in this vein: The Constitution is silent on the matter of marriage; the judges are not in a position, then, to declare any «constitutional rights» on this subject emanating from the text or logic of the Constitution; and therefore this question should be left in the political arena for the people and their elected representatives to decide.

One thing we can all agree on is: no matter what the position — Jesus did allow choice as this was the ONLY true way to Him and the Kingdom of God.

Cut off for several months from his lecture course, which was now being given by someone else, he was already in less of a central position, an ex-member of a deputation that had failed in its object, and now in a small minority on a matter of policy.

A month later, Archbishop Justin Rigali issued a statement reiterating the Church's position on such matters, citing several Church sources including Pope John Paul II's 1998 statement calling medically assisted food and water «an ordinary means of preserving life.»

Until those positions are filled with quality players, the likes of Arteta, Flamini and Per are always prone to making mistakes, no matter how much fight and passion we are putting on the pitch.

Life isn't a roller coaster for Braves star Chipper Jones, who's on top of the world no matter what position he's asked to play