Sentences with phrase «questioning whether things»

Agreeing with the intent of the Council members» letter, she said, «It's the responsibility of everyone in government to be constantly questioning whether things are operating as cost effectively as possible.»

One can now prefigure an answer to the question whether things are real independently of our knowledge of them: whereas interpretations are always matters of conditional connections, things interpreted are harmonies of those conditional connections with essential features, and by that are not reducible to the interpretations.

Not exact matches

The scientifically - validated questions address traditional things like the communication skills of the physician, but will also take into consideration how the telemedicine technology worked, whether it was effective, and how it impacted the patient experience.

«Part of that is things like decorating and celebrating that, instead of questioning whether or not it's a good use of office supplies or time.»

The wrong metrics indicate that marketing is doing something, but they also produce questions about whether those are the right things to be doing - and ultimately whether marketing is having any impact on the financial metrics the C - suite cares about.

The question is whether all these startups are really good for the economy or do we need big companies and are these entrepreneurs who are selling out for $ 60 million or $ 90 million really doing the patriotic thing?

Going PC by PC to retrieve e-mail in the event of a lawsuit is time consuming and expensive — and if you can't produce relevant e-mail because it was accidentally deleted, the other side could use it to raise the question of whether you maliciously deleted things you didn't want them to find, Larrivee says.

Check out what they ask during job interviews and whether you should ask your potential hires the same thing: What's the one question you always ask when you interview someone?

Too many companies get used to doing things a certain way, sometimes to their detriment — and your questions force a healthy re-examination of whether the old way is the best way.

The question is whether over-using it is having a negative impact on the very thing you spent so much time creating an awesome PowerPoint presentation to accomplish.

There's actually a pretty good answer to this question — one that's especially relevant for startups — and a pretty simple guideline that can help you determine exactly (a) when is the best time to start hiring some qualified sales managers and (b) whether the time is right for the CEO to take a step or two back from the front line, hand off the ball to the sales team, and focus on doing more valuable things for the business.

And that appetite depended a great deal on investors» thinking on a lot of different questions, including things like whether Facebook still has room to grow or not.

Whether or not the deal will happen is still unclear, but one thing's for certain: if Apple wants to buy into the streaming music space, then there's no question that it's here to stay.

It's odd in that it kicks things off by asking you some weirdly specific questions about whether you earn income through farming, estates, or corporate partnerships.

Whether that is a positive thing remains a question, however.

However, there's a real question whether he can work quickly enough to turn things around and compete in an industry that adds wildly popular attractions like Universal Orlando's Harry Potter attraction or Disney World's's recently opened Frozen Ever After ride each year.

The question now is whether the XO - 3 will do the same thing for tablet PCs.

The shine has come off the oil sands, as more investors have started to question whether oil sands development is really a sure thing, particularly at the speed projected by bullish petro - boosters.

«The difficulty will always be that we will most of the time hear pretty positive things from China and the question is whether they will actually do them.

Most of the reason for this is that the question of whether a thing is or is not a security is a highly fact - dependent and, sitting from my perch on the East Coast and not in the offices of the issuers of these coins, I am in a very bad position to ascertain what is going on behind a company's closed doors, what's in their private correspondence and what intentions lay behind their issuances.

One great question she asked is whether the Dow inching toward 20,000 was a good thing or a bad thing.

«We did see a little slow down but I think it shows the success of small brewers in recent years and that we can question whether double - digit growth is a good thing or a bad thing,» he added.

I'm glad Markham raises the question of whether First Things welcomes articles arguing for the validity of «lifelong, monogamous gay relationships.»

Ondemand music, book and now audiobook providers are also taking an increasingly strong grip on their respective markets, causing some to question whether our homes will include shelves for such things in the near future.

Then, too, we have to face the question whether there can be any point of contact between the Christian view of things, and the way educated men look at the world and its history today.

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»

But the question here is, whether such comfort is the right thing.

If I can convince Joe of just one thing, it would be this: Drunkenness is a helpful metaphor for the kingdom of heaven; so helpful, in fact, that it answers the question of whether Martha will be disabled there.

The question of whether we experience ourselves as passive leads therefore into its opposite: Do we experience ourselves as agents, i.e., as actively affecting and changing other things which relative to our action are passive?

The question, therefore, is not whether classification is a good thing, but whether we are about to return to the simpler view of life that existed in the 1930s, when pictures that lowered «moral standards of those who see them» were forbidden.

The question isn't whether there have been different moralities throughout history, or whether or not different societies believe different things.

The question is simply whether or not there is such a thing as morality, whether it's binding, and whether or not you can dictate that, for example, murder is «wrong» and ought to be punished.

The question is NOT whether there are other dimensions and the ability to effect things (at least at molecular level) without regard to space and time (given effects at distance regardless of the supposed speed of light limit), this is fact.

These questions lead on to interesting discussions about whether the universe has a built in «directionality» or is guided step by step by a God who is forever interfering to put things back on course; and about the meaning of time and the role of special relativity.

The Iraq War, however, is not being fought with nuclear weapons and is in fact part of a strategy — whether wise or not is another question — aimed at, among other things, preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear capacity.

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

Such a case amounts to the same thing as the question whether a Catholic of the kind we need to postulate in this instance, namely a man with a scientific, philosophical and theological formation, could, without guilt, come to the subjectively honest conviction that he can no longer honestly and in conscience believe and affirm the Church's authority.

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

In estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called forth.

«The question is,» said Alice, «whether you can make words mean so many different things.»

The natural question is whether the next thing includes a return to the show that made him a star in the first place.

One of the key things the Altogether report highlights is the Home Office's apparent confusion between what is cultural and what is biblical Christianity, resulting in converts being asked often inappropriate questions to determine whether they are a Christian.

Any but the most confirmed literalist will question whether Jesus ever said such a thing, even as the punch line of a parable.4

In response to a question about whether the Jews should pay taxes or not, Jesus says, «Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.»

fred The question then become whether a Christian, who knows already the path to the kingdom, can then be a business person who exploits their workers, cheats on their taxes, compromises on safety and quality, and does other things in the name of producing more profit and personal wealth, right?

The question asked, is whether this is the right thing to do.

Bonhoeffer has said all that needs to be said against the God of the gaps, whether it be a question of explaining things or of understanding humanity.

In two other questions on the King murder the respondents were asked whether they had felt anger or whether it had made them «think about the many tragic things that have happened to Negroes and that this was just another one of them.»