Sentences with phrase «questions by claiming»

«It is not acceptable that they have previously sent witnesses who seek to avoid asking difficult questions by claiming not to know the answers,» Collins added.

It is not acceptable that they have previously sent witnesses who seek to avoid asking difficult questions by claiming not to know the answers.

You'll almost certainly dodge that question by claiming he has always existed, so if that's the case, what suddenly prompted God to create a universe filled with over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars after spending an eternity extending into the past existing alone in an absolute void of nothingness?

Not exact matches

Shortly after Oliver unveiled the address, the FCC claimed its website had crashed under a denial of service attack by unknown hackers, a claim which some have questioned.

In the last four years or so, Battista has observed an influx of clients who've had their business travel claims questioned by the Canada Revenue Agency.

The independent directors of Finders Resources have questioned some of the claims and assumptions used by Indonesian group Eastern Field Developments, which has announced a takeover offer for the West Perth company.

Sessions also made this claim in July when questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Separately, a sales manager in China received a call from a man claiming his inquiry was already OK'd by Silvercorp executives (it was not) and attempted to get the sales manager to confirm some leading questions.

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

Despite claiming to be a Japanese brand, Miniso had only four stores in Tokyo compared with more than a thousand in China, therefore is widely questioned by the users for the brand's origin.

There are no shortage of people who make their livings by claiming to have answers to these questions.

Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by U.S. banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hacks, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.

Facebook's CTO Mike Schroepfer has just undergone almost five hours of often forensic and frequently awkward questions from members of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online disinformation, and whose members have been further fired up by misinformation they claim Facebook gave it.

Schroepfer was questioned on this during the session and said that while there was some overlap in terms of individuals who had downloaded Kogan's app and who had been in the audiences targeted by AIQ this was only 3 - 4 % — which he claimed was statistically insignificant, based on comparing with other Facebook apps of similar popularity to Kogan's.

Finally, there's the question of whether this money truly did come from American Media Inc., as claimed — or whether it traces back to Trump himself, companies controlled by him, or some other wealthy figure.

A new set of crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety questions Tesla «s claim that the Model S is the safest car in history.

As MBC customers began to raise more and more questions about the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency, the defendants allegedly attempted to double down by claiming the company had secured a deal with another cryptocurrency exchange that was not named in the CFTC statement.

Even in After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre claims that «the barbarous despotism... which reigns in Moscow can be taken to be as irrelevant to the question of the moral substance of Marxism as the life of the Borgia Pope was to that of the moral substance of Christianity» (a view not likely to be shared by such as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn).

When you used the word «must» as opposed to asking a question or stating something prefaced with... «in my opinion»... you, by using «must» are claiming something that you do not absolutely know as a fact, but is * opinion.

That would bring into question any claims that this was a nation founded by actual Christians, right?

They refused to let anyone from outside the community speak, and when one village trustee questioned whether the economic claims of gambling included the costs of gambling, she was quickly silenced by the mayor.

Is it time to ask serious questions of publishers who release books by people claiming to have gone to heaven and come back?

The God claim is an extraordinary, sweeping claim, usually accompanied by many other extraordinary sweeping claims that are needed to explain too many otherwise impossible questions.

if anything belief would lead one to question and find facts to support their claim or find that their claim is not supported by anything but the belief in it and then lead one from belief to knowledge of.

The liberation that love engenders and the claim that it lays upon us are absolutely binding; they are kerygmatic address, which, as Bultmann interprets Paul, «accosts each individual, throwing the person himself into question by rendering his self - understanding problematic, and demanding a decision of hint» The kerygma can be defined as «absolute» in two respects.

And wherever she went, in trouble or in triumph, still she was a living spirit, the mind and voice of the Most High, «sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions,» claiming to herself what they said rightly, correcting their errors, supplying their defects, completing their beginnings, expanding their surmises, and thus gradually by means of them enlarging the range and refining the sense of her own teaching.

Many of Chile's bishops, and members of Francis» own sex abuse advisory board, had questioned Barros» suitability to lead a diocese given claims by Karadima's victims that Barros stood by and did nothing while Karadima groped them.

Although the formulation of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my consciousness a radical conflict between the claims of faith on the one hand and the reality of the world on the other.

I find that Whitehead's exposition is question - begging and seriously misleading.4 The exposition is misleading insofar as it suggests that belief in either a specific or generic causal nexus is adequately justified by a subject's experience of CE alone and not ultimately by systematic considerations, particularly those related to prehension.5 If Whitehead's theory of perception was intended to stand alone without support from the rest of his system, as Ford suggests (EWM 181 - 182), then I claim that it is insufficiently justified insofar as a part of it, the theory of CE, is inadequately justified.

The more interesting substantive questions raised by Schlesinger's essay are: 1) is Schlesinger truly the relativist he claims to be; and 2) if not, does his own position itself have religious presuppositions, even if he himself is unaware of them?

The great uniqueness of Niebuhr, his social science perspective on theological questions, is constantly deprecated by him; or else, when in one of his self - depreciative moods, he claims he is not a theologian.

For Christians, admittedly, the question was made more difficult by the claim that God had chosen to reveal Himself in Jesus Christ.

The claims made by Religion deserve no speacial shelter from examination and question.

Having indicated something of the range of forms taken by believing reflection, we must turn to the question as to the norms by which every claim to Christian truth is to be judged.

Although there are various articles and books showing what I have called systematic theological concerns, philosophical criteria are used, usually exclusively, when dealing with questions of meaning and truth, criteria which are respectable in the academy.3 Process Christology, for example, usually follows Schleiermacher, and tends as a result to be embarrassed by strong exclusivist claims.

Those who are offended by the claim that horses or chimps or whales (OFD; also see OOTM 13, WM 49) deserve more respect than the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy usually resort to a type of question - begging which Peter Singer calls «speciesism»: the human fetus in the early stages of pregnancy deserves moral respect just because it is human.

The question wasn't how do we know the bible is true (what I think you mean by «Judeo - Christian historicity»), because certain claims the bible makes are beyond questions of historicity.

These remarkably contradictory, and unexplained, claims by one of the very few Australian creation «scientists» who has genuine scientific qualifications, calls into question whether anything said by this group on the subject can be taken seriously.

This story has been used by media to create a firestorm and the the scientists are the ones whose credibility is brought into question (even though it's the media making claims).

This comes surprisingly close to saying that Manuel II got it right when he claimed that Islam had been spread by the sword; and it does prompt an important question: of those many Muslims who took offence at the Pope's use of Manuel II's words, why did so few of them respond that he was in error, since Islam is essentially a religion of peace?

That's the question posed by a provocative media campaign that claims that some prominent conservative leaders can not serve two masters: Jesus and the controversial author of «Atlas Shrugged,» Ayn Rand.

This absolute demand of the gospel, when stated as a generalization, is seldom questioned by Christians, though no Christian if he is honest with himself will claim that he has met it.

To ask what status in truth a portrayal of Jesus by an artist who never saw him can conceivably have is inevitably to open the door to the wider question: Does anything we claim to know about him, theologically or historically (save perhaps that he once lived), have any great objective validity?

18:21 - 22) That means, if forgiveness is to be real, there is no question of commensurable achievements upon which the petitioner depends and bases a claim; the petition for forgiveness must be made by men who wholly renounce all claim.

To answer that question, the results of historical study of Christianity can be subjected to philosophical analysis to determine the essence of Christianity, that which defines it and yields criteria by which to assess any particular teaching, institution, or practice that claims to be «Christian.»

The question of Jesus claims to be «The Son of Man» is Biblically validated by Matthew 21:9 and Mark 11:9 and Luke 19:38.

And all of this... is being attempted by virtue of the fact of the very things you claimed to hate earlier in your posting where you said:» What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things without question based on fear.

In addition to noting that the fact that the question was given such attention at the Synod and that those who were the strongest advocates were given special prominence by the Holy Father, they can reasonably claim that they have been given permission to proceed to use the «internal forum» for readmission.

The deeper question is how intuitively convincing is this claim when confronted by the fact that the whole earth is one fleeting speck in the observable space - time continuum of the cosmic process?

Christian understanding of God's transcendence raises questions about the extent of the claims of every historical community or movement or ideal, but these questions are given clearer focus by the fact that they are asked in the light of the revelation of God's solidarity with all men in Christ.