Sentences with phrase «positions espoused»

July 16, 2015 — The Globe and Mail editorial regarding the need for majority voting in uncontested director elections and for shareholder involvement in the director nomination process endorses the positions espoused by CCGG.

Democrats quickly mobilized to draw attention to what they cast as out - of - the - mainstream positions espoused by Mr. Paul — from raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 to questioning the legality of the Americans with Disabilities Act — as they sought to discredit what Jack Conway, the Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, described in an interview as Mr. Paul's «narrow and rigid philosophy.»

We have some different viewpoints to be sure, different canons of scripture even, but I've always given you the benefit of the doubt that you actually believed the positions you espoused, but this is over top demonization on a scale that I've never seen from someone claiming to be a christian before, not even from the most holier - than - thou fundamentalist.

And of course there are appropriately reasoned political defenses for pacifism (e.g., that of Martin Luther King, Jr.) and other positions espoused by young evangelicals.

(I will not speculate on what is meant by «among other things,» although positions espoused by Commonweal over the years provide suggestive leads.)

To point out the unrecognized similarity of Leclerc's «new» proposals of 1972 and the position espoused by Hartshorne at least since 1936 is, on the one hand, to claim originality for Hartshorne and, on the other, to indicate that the independent and thorough work of Leclerc adds to the credibility of Hartshorne's speculations.

For me, Hartford delineated what separated me from those to the «left» of the liberal position I espoused.

John Kumah, CEO of National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan, to some extent shared the position espoused by Mr. Poku.

«After he spoke, the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, aligned himself with the legal position espoused by Banire.»

The weight of evidence and argument against the orthodox AGW position espoused by the IPCC and supported by so many, is becoming very strong indeed.

Not exact matches

It espoused a position largely in line with other internet giants, arguing against the creation of fast lanes and emphasizing the importance of an open internet.

Trump's protectionist views on trade agreements are among his most divisive positions for conservatives in Congress, who have traditionally espoused a free trade agenda.

What you may be unaware of is that many Christians began from the position you've espoused.

But by the time I gave my talks at Bethel, I virtually espoused that position.

These are real questions, and when she utters the postmodern cliché, «Conflict is only generated by the familiar commitment to One; Creativity is generated by the Many,» I suspect that she doesn't really believe it: her own work tells her that univocal obsessives are much more likely to be creative than cocktail party flibbertigibbets who constantly espouse multiple positions.

I do understand why the sight of two homosexuals holding hands at a concert might have turned the stomach of a hardworking, dedicated churchwoman I know who has never in her life committed an act or espoused a position that her family, church, and society at large couldn't warmly approve; still, it's hard to forgive a human revulsion that won't question itself.

Members of our first group, the «hermeneutical ventriloquists,» think to espouse positions because of the Bible, but do so actually because of unsuspected political / cultural factors.

I espouse a prolife position.

If we understand corporeality in this stronger sense, and Hartshorne does espouse it in this sense, it is clear that it stands or falls along with Hartshorne's position on creation.

They're supposed to have kept the conservative coalition together, but opinions vary as to whether they should have kept King Mob under wraps, or moved more quickly to the positions that King Mob rightly espouses.

I suspect, in some cases I know, that those Christians who espouse a pluralist or inclusivist position, who reject the notion of salvation in no other name, have personally experienced the truth and the light that is discerned in Buddhist or Hindu or Confucian or Islamic communities.

This, I submit, is uncharitable in the extreme, and it also violates the principle, to which Griffin subscribed in Searching for an Adequate God, that a position ought to be criticized on the basis of its «core doctrines» and not on the basis of views that may have been espoused by some adherents but are not essential to the position itself.

Bleich cites numerous contemporary halakhic authorities who support the hard - line position on conversion that he espouses.

I can, God helping me, do no other,» when all the while God is trying to help us get beyond the position we so heroically espouse.

The position you men espouse boils down to this: All that a lost man must believe is that Jesus is the Giver of eternal life and he is saved.

Many women who espouse the prolife position do so, at least in part, because they have internalized patriarchal values and depend on the sense of identity and worth that comes from having accepted «woman's place» in society.

In this view a theologian can not take a position in faith or ethics that is contrary to the magisterial teaching «any more than you could espouse as fact in a secular university that one and one are three.»

The position being expressed or espoused by people in the Ashanti Region is clear.They still love and cherish the Npp but have resolved never to entrust their destiny and that of the party in the hands of the current leadership.The other side of the coin depicts one point, John Mahama has exhibited total discipline dealing with the people.One senior officer in Manhyia called me and his point was simple» Kojo Bonsu is out, your President will continue to win hearts in Manhyia because of his perfect manners and readiness to listen»

The Empire State Pride Agenda is the latest LGBT organization to weigh in on Carl Paladino's ant - gay statements, calling it «unfathomable» that the Buffalo businessman «could espouse the homophobic position that the lives of gay New Yorkers are not as valid as his.»

Skelos, who has endorsed fellow Republican Rick Lazio for governor, noted that all of the candidates — including Cuomo — have espoused fiscally conservative positions that the Senate GOP has long pushed, including a property tax cap, holding the line on taxes and a ban on borrowing to close the budget deficit.

His position in this respect is entirely mainstream, consistent with all of the following liberal thinkers: Mill, Green, Hobhouse, Hobson, Rawls, Dworkin, Ackerman, Galston, Nussbaum, Sen.... The «communitarian critique» of liberalism in the 1980s was always an attack on something of a strawperson, on a caricature of liberalism rather than the liberalism actually espoused by such as Rawls.

«Whatever the niceness and the current warm glow, Corbyn will be a leader of the hard left, for the hard left, and espousing both general politics and specific positions that the public just are not going to accept in many of the seats that Labour is going to have to win to get back in power.»

Despite pressure from the White House to drop his opposition, Schneiderman's position is catching on — particularly as the anti-Wall Street sentiment espoused by the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow.

«They now offer a position that is almost a word - for - word position already espoused by the attorney hired to represent owners of short - term rentals.»

Throughout the forum, Balter and Messenger expressed nearly identical positions on a range of issues from their opposition to the recently passed GOP tax overhaul, to protecting funding for Planned Parenthood and criticizing the bipartisan image that Katko espouses.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

Among Democrats, however, 74 percent said they would vote for the candidate who espoused the green position compared with 53 percent for the candidate silent on the issue and 37 percent for the one with a not - green position.

By the same token, selecting Senator Johnston as a speaker does not mean that my colleagues and I agree with every position he has espoused, either personally or as a legislator.

Nor does it mean that HGSE, as an institution, is endorsing the positions or opinions taken or espoused by Senator Johnston or any other invited speaker.

This position is most prominently espoused by Jay Greene, the head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, who has argued the evidence for a correlation between test scores and life prospects is weak, especially with regards to high - stakes testing.

• There was no terrorism, radicalisation or violent extremism in the schools of concern, but there was clear evidence of a number of people, associated with each other and in positions of influence in schools and governing bodies, who espouse, endorse or fail to challenge extremist views.

Finally, The Day the World Changed will return to the present through the resulting arms race, in an effort to espouse to participants the very precarious position we are all in, how close we are at any moment to another unspeakable tragedy, and the importance of public advocacy in the pursuit of abolishing nuclear weapons.

Because they are such authentic examples, based on Carone's position among the Abstract Expressionists and the dates they were made, and because they are fresh to us, bereft of the hype heaped on some of his peers, we can just see the philosophy they espouse without the encumbering veils of monetary, i.e. «cultural», importance.

What's unfortunate is that nobody seems to be in a position to make a criticism of what's going on, about standards being lowered, and having false ideals... We have a lot of young critics, and the young critics feel that the way to succeed in their own area is to espouse and support whatever it is that's catching on, and if they can be the first ones to proclaim it, they can then become another Clement Greenberg, perhaps.

AJ: If you don't personally believe what you deliberately and without error, hyperbole, or humor espouse or insinuate, or do believe what you omit specifically in order to further your position, you're lying.

Reagan was so successful as a corporate pitchman that a group of extremely conservative and wealthy backers put up the money to position him as a political candidate who would espouse the corporate ethos.

It espouses a ridiculous position — namely that the null hypothesis is presently that there is NO human influence whatever on climate.

The organizing committee posted a statement on the website of Service Employees International Union Local 500 that criticized the nonprofit for «the unexpected and unexplained path our leadership has taken in response to our efforts to unionize,» adding that «the actions of Media Matters executives have placed employees in the impossible position of continuing to produce content espousing pro-labor values for an employer who is challenging our right to unionize.»

Though the activists have attempted — falsely and improperly — to convey the impression that it is somehow illegal, immoral or damaging to the planet to vote for the Republican party's candidate in the forthcoming presidential election because he disagrees with the totalitarian position on the climate question that they espouse with such religious fervor and such disregard for science, in truth it is not the business of scientists to abuse the authority of their white lab - coats by collectively suggesting that «Science» demands the voters should or should not cast their vote in any particular direction.

This is a gross distortion of the position that Max and I espouse.