Sentences with phrase «questions the judgment of»

Far be it from me to question the judgment of one of the greatest strategists in Oscar history, but... what?

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I question, though, the judgment of legalizing with a stroke of the pen everybody who is here, because that's basically saying that we as a nation will turn a blind eye to our own laws.

In truth, accounting is necessarily a question of judgment, a discipline that aims at providing «fair» representation of an organization's financial health.

A 2012 PCAOB inspection report of KPMG deficiencies cited its failures to question management judgment, including failure to test management's assumptions on loan loss reserves.

And while there is no legal requirement that underwriters like Mr. Thiel reveal their involvement to the opposing side or the jury, it is considered fair game for lawyers to ask questions about financial backing — something that Gawker Media did on Wednesday in court as part of its efforts to overturn the Hogan judgment.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada tried to quell questions about its governor's impartiality and judgment Monday, saying Mark Carney was not afoul of conflict rules by vacationing in the

That raised questions about Carney's impartiality and judgment, but the central bank has said Carney did not run afoul of conflict rules.

While Cushman's rivalry against Eastdil and CBRE was a clear headline grabber over the past year, industry insiders have questioned whether the team or the company is superior in the case of Harmon and Spies — and whether it's fair to pass judgment in an uncertain market.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

But it was a very unsatisfying attempt — to have weighty theological questions determined by delegates who came together for a few days with little prior study of the issues, who were sometimes inclined to suppose that such questions admitted of «yes» or «no» answers, and who passed judgment after rather limited opportunity for discussion and debate.

Providentially minded critics of American imperialism could as easily make the case that God in his providence is radically anti-American, that American failures and setbacks are manifestations of God's judgment on the U.S. Webb is aware of these questions but seems not to entertain them seriously.

Oregon's Supreme Court, which had already concluded that this question was irrelevant, dutifully answered that in its judgment criminal prosecution of Smith and Black would violate the federal Constitution.

In difficult cases one asks not (for instance) whether the rule against murder has exceptions but whether this kind of case counts as murder - a question of analogical judgment.

Where sin, death, and the devil are no longer the bondage in question and where fear of God's judgment has been diluted or dissipated into political correctness, then justification becomes liberation from anything that anyone experiences as bondage.

May I suggest that today our corporate witness of healing, of teaching, of social service and social reform, of judgment and forgiveness in society provokes precisely the same question.

I would question whether we need to bring the hypothesis of formative causation before the court of scientific judgment, even if it does somehow find independent authentication there.

If God is just, there can be absolutely no question concerning the justness of his judgments.

Yet this touches on what makes Ezekiel a prophet to begin with; he forces us to question whether our discomfort over God's judgment comes not so much from fear of taking sides, or of being found on the wrong side, but from feeling affronted.

That question is being answered in many different ways in this generation, but the final judgment on sexual action is what it means for the fulfilment of persons now and throughout life.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involved?

But where questions are open, there is room for differences of judgment, including what may turn out to be erroneous judgments.

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

While young people may be afraid to share their doubts and questions in evangelical churches for fear of judgment and condemnation, they may be just as afraid to share their doubts and questions in mainline churches because no one seems to be talking about those issues!

If we think of «theory» as the forming of generalizations or synoptic judgments and think of «practice» as requiring judgments about particular cases, then inquiry guided by these three types of questions will always require capacities for doing both.

Judgments a school at least implicitly makes about these three questions deeply shape its identity and will almost certainly be reflected in the decisions it makes about the content and movement of its course of study.

Question: Can we yet turn back the judgment that we too will die in our own blood where and because we have shed the innocent blood and seized the cherished human heritage of myriad, uncountable, unsung, powerless, and dispossessed Nabaths — red, black, brown, yellow, and white?

It is not necessary to illustrate this situation here at the beginning of our reflections with particular examples of the questions or proceedings which gave rise to disquiet, since we shall have to go into the matter, as far as is necessary and possible, when forming a judgment on it.

They follow Muslim jurisprudence in marriage, divorce, and inheritance, but resort to the judgments of wise men in questions of war, tribal solidarity, and trade.

It's easy to stand in judgment of the father in this story, but the question is how would we have reacted?

This does not mean that the interpreter must become a metaphysician in the sense of making metaphysical judgments — although, at some point these become unavoidable and are in fact implicitly at work from the beginning, as in all thought — but rather that he or she is responsible for recognizing the metaphysical question which the thrust of the text implies.

The full answer to that question can only be given by looking at the next two chapters on judgment and the end of the world.

The question is if this is not a revelation of God's judgment, at all, then what is it?

While his judgment about the value of the accord for the preservation of catholic life in Europe may be seriously questioned, he did not support the agreement simply to enhance his own power, as Cornwall implies, but because he felt it was in the best interest of the church at the time.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

When we turn, in the light of these preaching comments, to pastoral care, the critical question is whether the attempts to understand and accept, to get inside the other person's frame of reference, to apprehend and help to clarify the nature of his specific conflicting feelings, all together imply the absence of judgment.

The promise of reward usually clouds the mark's better judgment just enough for them to suppress questioning the incredible claims that the conman is making.

«I think if we change that step and really become students of each other's narratives and ask questions about why people perceive certain things in a certain way instead of jumping to judgment, then I think we'll be better equipped to have more diversity in local churches.»

The Murjites — literally those who postpone; here, those who postpone judgment until it is pronounced by God on the Day of Judgment — were more tolerant than the others in their political views and more liberal - minded on theological questions.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

A Yes answer to any of these questions brought further questioning as to whether the person responding thought his or her judgment or impartiality would be clouded by the circumstances.

The question, how far this or that story may be taken as an accurate account of what happened on this or that occasion is one upon which judgments will vary.

The first question concerns the final judgment; the other concerns the ultimate correcting of injustices.

When our contribution is united with and influenced by Jesus» contribution, that judgment is already positive and remains only a question of degree.

Yet the persistent tendency of conservatives to rely on doctrinal tests raises the question of whether they agree with the Reformers» insistence that the church itself must submit to the judgment of God and must avoid an imperial and authoritarian stance.

A theology for our day must call our lives into question by reminding us that God's message of mercy is also a message of judgment.

Three issues are of particular import in the document: the authority of the authors to render Shari`a judgments, the scope of legitimate fighting in Shari`a reasoning, and the question of legitimate targets.

It removes the necessity for you to question human morals or to make your own moral decisions, because it lays out a set of simple rules upon which you will always fall back if things get a little too confusing or uncomfortable for independent judgment or consideration.

But more important is the question of what basis there is for distinguishing «false» transcendence from «true» except, as the authors finally do, by reference to the realm of ordinary moral judgment and their own collective and informed insight.

More recently, in 1996 when this journal pointedly addressed judicial usurpation in a way that raised the question of the legitimacy of the political order as it presently functions, Commentary reacted with alarm to the suggestion that all polities and parties are subject to transcendent moral judgment.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.