Sentences with phrase «questions against the background»

Through dialogue undertaken in a common quest for wisdom, participants will consider these more fundamental questions against the background of transcendent commitments and a common recognition of the priority of first things.

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These questions are, as you know, at the heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background of such questions that I want to reflect upon the significance of human cloning.

Nonetheless, he was justified in raising the question of meaningfulness, and his real contribution to the discussion lay in his probing the question of meaning, particularly against the background of religious experience and biblical presuppositions.

Some years ago Horst Symanowski made this same point (against a more secular and more hopeful background) when he declared that people do not lie awake anymore worrying about Luther's question, How can I find a gracious God?

Against a black cover background was printed in blood red the question, «Is God dead?»

In a statement today by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale, the organization said: «Nigerians should have some sense of what it is the government is doing in our name, especially against the background of the declaration by the authorities that the anti-insurgency war has ended and the Boko Haram terror group defeated, as well as the unresolved questions on how over $ 2bn was spent by former Jonathan administration to fight Boko Haram.

Finding the Higgs boson is a question of seeing a signal against a background.

In many studies of human subjects the question of interest centers on whether a biological factor (disease state, treatment, host genotype etc.) results in a measurable difference on a gut bacterial community against the background of the naturally occurring differences among humans.

Questions about pay for academy trust managers are also against a background of schools complaining about budget shortages.

Pay special importance to the dates in question and analyze the effect of that particular historical event against social and cultural background of the times.

An investor's best defense against fraud, regardless of age, is to ask questions, research the suggested investment, do a background check on the advisor (see Chuck Jaffe's article on page 27) and talk to family members about any big financial decisions.

However, even with all this attention, few exhibitions have asked the question of how, against the background of thirty - five years of Socialist Realism, this internationally - oriented artwork suddenly appeared and why it captured the attention of the international art market.

In recent years, Issa has probed this question against the abstracting background and symbolic language of monuments and memorials.

A key question for understanding future impacts of particles and for the development of cost - effective control policies is the extent to which atmospheric particulate matter can be controlled through regulation of fossil fuel combustion against a background of OSCs.

Against this factual background, the national judge has referred three preliminary questions to the Court of Justice.

Against this background, potential questions may arise as to how far analytics could go in providing additional areas which may need to be considered in legal research, and whether these may come to alter fundamentals of the profession.

It followed, in the Privy Council's judgment, that requirements that an implied term must «go without saying» or be «necessary to give business efficacy» are not «different or additional tests»: rather, «in every case in which it is said that some provision ought to be implied in an instrument, the question is whether such a provision would spell out in express words what the instrument, read as a whole against the relevant background, would reasonably be understood to mean».

Sales appears to presuppose an affirmative answer to this question — because Parliament is to be taken to have legislated against the background of (and so to have assented to) the then - operative principles of judicial review.

This question is relevant when employers use information in a consumer report collected by a third - party Consumer Reporting Agency, like a background screening company, to take adverse action against an employee or applicant.

So the first line of defense against occupational fraud is a thorough and objective background screening designed for the job in question.

Nevertheless, against the background of the history of previous non-recognition; the subsequent respect accorded to native title by this Court and by the Federal Parliament; and the incontestable importance of native title to the cultural and economic advancement of indigenous people in Australia, it is not unreasonable or legally unusual to expect that any deprivations and extinguishment of native title, so hard won, will not occur under legislation of any Australian legislature in the absence of provisions that are unambiguously clear and such as to demonstrate plainly that the law in question has been enacted by the lawmakers who have turned their particular attention to the type of deprivation and extinguishment that is propounded.