Sentences with phrase «questions about the influence»

Rick Santorum, whom I firmly believe would be the best president out of the current crop of candidates, does not back down when questioned about the influence of faith on his life.

But the three candidates seeking the Democratic ballot line in the 24th Congressional District underscored their differences when it came to a question about the influence of money in politics.

There is no question about the influence of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy success on another of its franchises with this third cinematic installment of the Thor series.

Worksheet asking pupils questions about the influence of the financial sector on the uk economy.

With the standards on the defensive in many states, this poll raises questions about the influence of misinformation in the debate.

BB: I did have a question about your influences.

As FHA reserves dwindle, questions about the influence of the homebuyer tax credit program on FHA's losses.

So, to answer your question about influences — I can not cite one influence, but there are so many that enter my life in significant ways.

But Albers never exhibited his photoworks and usually hedged questions about the influences behind the «Homage to the Square» series.

An earlier artwork that engages with questions about the influence of consumer culture and technology upon the individual is Lynn Hershman Leeson's pioneering video work Lynn Turning into Roberta (1978), which documents her invention and subsequent fabrication of her fictional alter - ego Roberta Breitmore.

What an impact: reporters everywhere are finally asking tough questions about the influence of non-Canadian power on our regulatory processes, and the government is calling for measures to begin «fixing» the system to ensure that these foreign meddlers can not achieve their ultimate goals of stopping Canada's economic development, to turn Canada into «one giant national park,» as the prime minister himself put it.

Not exact matches

By next year, there are questions to answer about what data should guide policy and the extent to which preventing asset - price bubbles should influence the benchmark interest rate.

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

Extensive public comments by President Trump's attorney have compounded questions about whether the payment was made to influence the election.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

Leahy's line of questioning about Facebook's influence in Myanmar is not speculative.

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

The attack on the Democratic National Committee has raised questions about whether the Russian government is trying to influence the American election.

The news of Mr. Jobs» leave raised questions about the long - term prospects for Apple, given the influence and inspiration he has wielded at the company.

Seen this way, discussion of Islamic art can finally move from tired questions about the lack of figural representation to more interesting conversations on, for example, the complex relationships presumed between icons and idolatry or on Byzantine and patristic influences.

CNN: Election results raise questions about Christian right's influence For many conservative Christian leaders, it was a nightmare scenario: Barack Obama decisively re-elected.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

Berger has subsequently and substantively changed his thinking about religion and secularization, but the theory set forth in that book continues to have enormous influence on the discussion of these questions.

The major question should be, How did the grand consensus come about that influenced the construction of marriage in Western democratic societies?

After determining that I was not just another moralist who wanted to influence film content, but someone who was genuinely interested in film, Shurlock relaxed and asked me a question that was very much on his mind: «We are trying to determine what to do about a picture in which director Sidney Lumet wants to include a shot of a woman's bare breasts.

Even if Lowe was right to take this remark as downplaying Bergson's influence, it is the sort of question one gets from graduate students who may be overly eager to trace down connections instead of dealing with ideas, and Whitehead was never much for worrying about these sorts of things either.

Victor Lowe, who has written more about this issue than anyone else, insisted from the beginning that a very high standard of evidence ought to be adopted in investigating this question of historical influence.

It also led to the ascendance of biblical criticism (relativizing, to a certain extent, the Holy Scriptures), which in turn had negative influences on theology, generating a questioning attitude about the objectivity of established truth and the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and institutions.

Naturally, the question about creativity is a special instance of the more general account which can be given of Bergson's influence on Whitehead.

Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton have said: «To the extent that the media of mass communication has had an influence upon their audiences it has stemmed not only from what is said but more significantly from what is not said, for these media not only continue to affirm the status quo but in the same measure they fail to raise essential questions about the structure of society.

The conversation in question takes place at about the 4:30 mark in the video below, in which Lentz is asked if Hillsong NYC wants to influence politics.

Election results raise questions about Christian right's influence... The EVANGELICALS took over the Republican party when Reagen was president and they have been dictating the agenda ever since... I hope they keep dictating because I want to see the stupid backward republicans become extinct.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

Balthasar was influenced by Gottlieb Söhngen, the Munich theologian and teacher of Joseph Ratzinger, who disputed with Karl Barth about the question of natural, metaphysical knowledge of the existence of God (the so - called analogia entis).

I want to spend the next few minutes thinking about these two questions, and to guide our thoughts in doing so I want to focus on those great words written by Paul, or someone under his influence... I Timothy 3:15... «the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

He made his remarks about a former ACC rival in response to a question about how the university will «remain protected from the corrupting influence of athletics.»

But there are always questions about the quality and influence that the likes of Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck can have for Arsenal over the course of a season.

If this story about Arsenal sending Mesut Ozil off to the international break with Germany carrying a knee problem that he may have been carrying during the Premier League clash with Chelsea on Sunday is true, it would at least answer the questions about why our 25 - year old playmaker seemed to struggle to influence the game in the same way as the Chelsea midfielders Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas did.

If they jump up in the allocation process, they threaten the chances of Altidore joining Toronto FC while raising questions about league influence in transfer dealings.

This set of questions, I assume (since Annie is fairly cynical about Nestle's tactics at this point) isn't delivered in order to influence them.

Even if your kids don't seem to «open up» a lot during your phone calls, asking questions about your kids» lives is like planting a bulb in the ground which will later bloom in the springtime,... MORE when your children really need your influence and guidance.

The election results will influence thetiming but questions about the future for Labour need to be urgently raised within the parliamentary party.

During the Q&A session, there were a lot of questions about the potential for international community to influence Syria uprising.

(The governor has denied personal involvement, but danced around questions about whether his aides influenced the process.)

(The governor has denied personal involvement in the commission's activities, but danced around questions about whether his aides influenced the process.)

While there is a tangential conversation that could be had about the influences such actions would have on topical points for this Stack, this question belongs at Law.SE.

In February, Lerner asked the Campaign Finance Board and the Conflicts of Interest Board to investigate de Blasio's use of nonprofits such as the Campaign for One New York because it «has spawned a shadow government that raises serious questions about who has influence and access to the policymaking process.»

«majority (people with money / influence)... the minority (averages joes)»: isn't this question about the exact opposite: how to counteract a minority of rich / influential people having more influence than the majority of normal people?

«While the County Executive refuses to answer the remaining questions about undue political influence affecting county operations, COMIDA board members have chosen to resign their volunteer posts rather than be dragged into the quicksand of this ethics disaster,» County Legislator Mark Muoio, D, said.