Sentences with phrase «questioners in»

Not much can be done to create artificially the atmosphere for debate, though the enterprising convener can plant suitably robust questioners in the audience.

A question begging for my attention right now: How does one find / create a community of questioners in which to participate in, reflect with, and grow from?

Since they are unwilling to answer, Jesus incorporates his questioners in his teaching and lays out three parables of judgment against them.

Netflix doesn't share any of its earnings information with its questioners in advance, and — this is crucial — doesn't get to see what its interviewers are going to ask in advance, either.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

It is an answer which, in one sense, leaves the questioner in as great an ignorance as he started in.

«I think the questioner in this case was also trying to pull us into a discussion of video, audio, interaction, and linking, which I resist for two reasons.

From the Shatzin files this morning: «I think the questioner in this case was also trying to pull us into a discussion of video, audio, interaction, and linking, which I resist for two reasons.

He sets the clear contours of reason against the mysterious arabesques of emotion and poses as a questioner in the on - going cultural - philosophical discourse, which began with the Classic versus Romantic Movement.

I vividly recall a video in which a questioner in Australia tried to lecture my friend Stephen Schneider about how climate forcings were logarithmic and that this somehow invalidated the whole of climate science (wrong on multiple levels, and Stephen put the questioner in her place).

: A questioner in the crowd asked whether Louderback's portfolio of shows, which pull far fewer viewers than your average network TV output, can really succeed?Louderback: «The idea that you're going to have these huge hits with millions and millions of viewers is fundamentally wrong.

Not exact matches

Throughout the hearing, Comey declined to deny any assertion made by his questioners that mentioned Flynn or any other individuals, explaining that the FBI is not in the business of correcting or verifying such reports.

In one of those transcripts, a clever questioner asks Clinton for her advice to someone thinking of running for president in 201In one of those transcripts, a clever questioner asks Clinton for her advice to someone thinking of running for president in 201in 2016.

Yellen's questioner hadn't asked about whether there is too much emphasis put on the timing of the first increase in more than eight years.

Pichai was due to address Google employees in a company - wide meeting on Thursday — but it was cancelled after some questions were leaked in advance, along with the identity, political leanings, and sexual orientations of the questioners.

«We have reached out to the AFT to set up a meeting and that's on - going,» Sloan said in response to the questioner, while continuing to defend the bank's decision not to stop doing business with gun makers.

If you read the response in context, it is not quite as ridiculous as it sounds: Bowden's point seems to be that the regulatory burdens that his questioner complained about aren't that important, because the private equity business is so good that the additional regulatory costs are easy to bear, and well worth it to avoid messing up a good racket.

Questioner 15: Increasingly, men and some women don't find ROI in a long - term relationship worth it.

I have always been a questioner who doesn't like formulaic thinking and was a real pain in the butt to my teachers and parents when I suspected I was being fed drivel.

If you have watched him make a big concession in a debate, or respond sympathetically to a hostile questioner, or provide a generous account of an opposing view in a book or essay, then you know that his kindliness is often the sign that serious intellectual vivisection is about to commence.

ttm, Belittling the question or the questioner and trying to shut them up is a form of spiritual abuse when it's done in a religious context or for supposedly religious reasons by someone in a position of authority.

The very pluralism and agnosticism of the society they live in makes modern children keen and earnest questioners when they pass into the middle and senior schools.

After finishing its discussion of a passage from the Hebrew Bible, the group began focusing on a passage from Matthew's Gospel in which Jesus instructs his questioners to «render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.»

But of course this in no way answers the questioner who asks, «Why doesn't God stop evil and cruel men from causing so much suffering?»

Assertions to the effect that God is the Creator of the universe, the Father of mankind, or that he came in human form in Jesus Christ, probably do not relate helpfully at any point to the experience of the questioner and may well clash with well - grounded concepts derived from other areas of his experience.

Questions and questioners should be, and always are welcome in any community I serve.

The content and tone of the questions suggest that the questioner is a moderately skeptical but sympathetic secularist who wonders if Christian faith will survive in a post-Enlightenment world.

Though I could sympathize with portions of what each of my questioners had to say, the fact that modernism» the modernism which theologians assume they must address» could disappear so completely in five short years signals grave dangers for the post-Communist societies of Eastern Europe.

We worry about those who do not fit in, we are uneasy about questioners and doubters, we feel that there needs to be more order» and regularity.

My three postmodern questioners among the students at Charles University» the fundamentalist, the syncretist, and the deconstructionist» each in his own way represents a portion of post-Communist Czech society.

If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.

He refused to answer except in evasive terms which suggested that if his questioners could not see for themselves it was useless to tell them.21

Everything depends therefore on finding the right questions, which in turn presupposes a continually deepening awareness on the questioner's part.

Since the vividness and power of the story itself is adequate testimony to its authenticity, we may assume that it was a parable told by Jesus in answer to such a question, although the circumstances of the questioner and the questioning are now lost to us.

The questioner rapidly moves on to confront the interviewees with a moral dilemma, describing an actual slaughter of 1,600 Jews that occurred in 1942: «If a Nazi soldier put a rifle to your head and demanded that you bury Jews alive with a bulldozer, would you do it?»

When put to them in this way, the interviewees begin to acknowledge that perhaps the questioner has a point - perhaps saying that a woman has a right to choose isthe same as saying that the Holocaust was not morally wrong.

When most of the interviewees admit that it is indeed a baby, they are asked to finish the following sentence: «It's okay to kill a baby in the womb when...» Various responses follow: «That's very hard to say...»; «It should never be done lightly...»; «If the mothercannot provide for the baby...»; «If the mother was raped...» The questioner presses the issue: «When asked about the Holocaust, you said that you valued human life, so why is this situation any different?»

The president's comments on the matter came during a town hall event in Maryland, when a questioner who identified herself as an atheist pressed Obama on statements he made as a candidate in 2008 suggesting he was against permitting discriminatory hiring among faith - based organizations backed by taxpayer dollars.

Instead of remaining a natural mechanism for soliciting information, which they are, they assume the shape of an interrogation in which the questioner is also the tormentor.

He replied to a questioner concerning St Paul's claim that the existence of God could be clearly seen in nature (Romans 1:20) that he disagreed with St Paul since he did not think his atheist friends were stupid.

He surprised his questioner by replying «No» and added that there was always a risk in Catholic and Protestant theology of making Christ too abstract and an «abstraction» does not need a mother.

Exactly what the Morning Star symposium questioner had in mind I am not sure, but his question was as germane as it was unanticipated.

Such questioners are inclined to be uncivil in the answers they seek.

On the whole, millenials in the church don't care about whether their friends / neighbors / coworkers are believers / non - believers / questioners.

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

When a friend asked him the other day how it felt to own the most successful racing stable in 1959, he looked briefly but sharply at his questioner, then gave one of the rather pedantic answers for which he is noted.

In Episode 98 of Edit Your Life, Asha and Gretchen talk about her new book, The Four Tendencies, in which she lays out a simple framework for understanding our internal motivations (Obligers, Upholders, Questioners, or RebelsIn Episode 98 of Edit Your Life, Asha and Gretchen talk about her new book, The Four Tendencies, in which she lays out a simple framework for understanding our internal motivations (Obligers, Upholders, Questioners, or Rebelsin which she lays out a simple framework for understanding our internal motivations (Obligers, Upholders, Questioners, or Rebels).

Just by making sure my child's arm strength was good, (through normal play and climbing on the jungle gym etc.), I knew he could support his own weight on a regular toilet seat; no problem at all, never fell in or anything His daycare also has the same situation as the original questioner starting at around 2 yrs old.

The past week's online uproar at the thought of Republican frontrunners skipping their turn in the sights of YouTube video questioners has been both revealing and (for a Dem) quite a source of mirth.

But even in these situations, the questions (or questioners) are chosen by a moderator.