Sentences with phrase «questions about the limits»

Now on our scale of concerns, what to do about meat sacrificed to idols ranks somewhere below decisions about whether to sod or seed the yard, but in Paul's day eating meat was a question about the limits of Christian participation in pagan culture.

The findings support the lowering of drinking limits under Britain's guidelines and pose questions about the limits currently recommended in the United States, which suggest that up to 24.

There's a question about the limits of this methodology - how far back in time to go, for example.

João Louro's conceptual work is a questioning about the limits and the expressive capacity of the image, reflecting outside the narrow margin of the work of art itself.

The almost childlike handwriting of the ornamentally charged paintings provokes the question about the limits of painting as art or as an element of everyday life.

The images and objects he creates pose questions about the limits of representation by examining complex associations between found photographs, videos, and sounds from documentaries, photojournalism, and online media streams.

At one table, Charline von Heyl, Jacqueline Humphries, Haim Stainbach, and Wade Guyton thrashed out existential questions about the limits of radicalism in art.

This morning, Michael Levi, who analyzes energy and the environment for the Council on Foreign Relations, answered my question about the limits of presidential influence in a way that says Obama got it right by insisting that cutting demand through policies aimed at energy efficiency and the next generation of energy technologies had to be part of a long - term American energy (and oil) agenda.

The Second Circuit's sweeping rejection of Chevron's attempt to use a New York federal court to halt worldwide enforcement of an $ 18 billion Ecuadorian judgment places the international arbitrators center stage — and raises questions about the limits of arbitral power.

In commenting on Trial Lawyers here, I said that not only does the reasoning of the majority opinion in Trial Lawyers «rest on shaky foundations» whose weaknesses are brutally exposed by Justice Rothstein's dissent, but they «leave some important questions» — questions about the limits of the constitutional principles that it applies — «unanswered».

Your agent can answer questions about limits that may apply in these situations.

In recent months I have received a greater number of scope - of - practice questions about limited scope radio - graphy, telephone screening (following physician - approved protocols, algorithms, or decision trees), and administration of influenza vaccines, for example.

Not exact matches

«I was trying to explain, in response to a question about the election, that my limited understanding was that the President talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to, as he was NOT a politician.»

While most interviewers inquire about things like «the most difficult peer - to - peer situation you've ever encountered,» these questions are limiting and don't necessarily tell us much about the applicant.

«The relative size of the charge vs. expectations and limited disclosure related to potential off - balance sheet liabilities once again raise a question about the credibility of the current guidance and capital structure framework.»

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

Is your link building agency answering all of your questions about their process where nothing is off - limits?

This practice raised questions about whether the company complied with federal election law that limits the roles played by non-U.

The more you can takeaway from this post, the more helpful questions you can ask about your financial situation beyond the basics since the consulting time is limited.

Roger McNamee, founding partner at venture capital firm Elevation Partners, questions Uber's huge capital raises — $ 15 billion despite lingering uncertainly about per - ride profitability — and its limited financial disclosures.

Relatedly, Amazon's expansion into the delivery sector also raises questions about the Chicago School's limited conception of entry barriers.

Yang, who inherited a real estate fortune from her father, did not respond to questions about her offshore company, Joy House Enterprises Limited.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

Please call or email us today if you have questions about California FHA loan limits in 2018, or other mortgage - related questions.

However, with limited official details about what that means and none forthcoming from last week's FOMC press release, many questions remain:

Do you have questions about the 2016 FHA loan limits for Contra Costa or Alameda County?

Do you have questions about the 2018 conforming loan limits for California?

Reading about how Warren Buffett waits for «fat pitches» and advises others to limit the number of punches on their lifetime decision card to 20 made me question my own patience.

Most recently, with the energy sector singled out for special punishment, I'm getting a lot of questions about mid-stream Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) as a source of yield.

While the hearings were ostensibly primarily about data security and privacy, Zuckerberg's own words indicate he was not necessarily limiting them to the privacy issue, and lawmakers» questions covered everything from content censorship to Facebook's responsibility for illegal pharmaceutical ads.

Binary options are limited - risk contracts based on a simple yes / no question about the market's price action, like this:

You said, «You through your own decisions have effectively limited your options this is religious, this is believing in a god «YOURSELF»» My decision to question illogical positions and refusing to believe the blatant nonsense about imaginary friends has expanded my options.

The question is not which is greater in its use of language and its power of insight, but why Milton has been the more important for our culture and what we can learn about the limits of both canonical writings and their challengers through this interesting juxtaposition.

And it was evangelicalism that first told me that being a woman limited my potential, that science was not to be trusted, that democrats and gay people and Episcopalians were my enemies, that asking questions about these things was wrong.

As someone who consistently struggles with doubts about my faith, I've asked a lot of «off - limits» questions over the years, sometimes publically, sometimes privately.

The brilliant John Roberts «enumerated and limited government time bomb maneuver» just becomes a trivia question about the original superseded and obsolete rationale for how the Supreme Court upheld the power of the Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance.

They've been about questioning Obama's citizenship (not economic), suppressing abortion rights (not economic), restricting union rights (not economic), fighting gay rights (not economic), and limiting voting rights (not economic).

But at the same time this recognition of Jesus the Christ as our primary authority sets a limit to the authority of Scripture that raises questions about canonicity.

Important questions are raised about the limits of human creativity and they're (finally!)

When questioned about the constant work, perpetual meetings and limited family time, a work addict has the finest answer of all: «I've got to do this because these people need me.

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

-- the question still remains: starting as we must with our limited human experience, what is the road our thoughts ought to travel out toward the truth about God?

In the case of religions, doctrinal, ritualistic, and scriptural limits are necessary to protect the information about ultimate questions that they each consider important enough to pass on to the next generation of believers.

I don't think I would put them to the average layperson in a small group setting, but to a pastor or deacon, a question or two at a time... for the record, I am a high school grad, have had three jobs in my entire life (church custodian, newspaper pasteup [pre-computer pagination], and grocery deli clerk), am on SSDI for complications of Marfan's Syndrome, and a Medicare beneficiary, no secondary insurance because I am about $ 20 over the income limit for Medicaid.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

So too, attention to congregations whose practice of worship is necessarily shaped by its cultural setting would not be parochially limited to what goes on «within» congregations but rather have to question the value of any sharp contrast between «inside» and «outside» and attend to what is known about the cultural settings that inescapably shape its enactments of worship.

The cause of this uneasiness becomes clearer if we question Ignatieff's argument at several points: the validity of the moral paradigm itself, the assumptions from which he proceeds, the inconsistencies in how he describes the limits to be observed in doing the «lesser evil,» and his conclusions about specific elements of the war on terror.

Narrative theology can provide relief from these questions by limiting the intellectual and social context within which theologians and pastors can think about what they are saying and doing.

We may become explicitly aware of this dimension when we notice ourselves asking these limit questions: «Why should we be so concerned about violating life at all?»