Sentences with phrase «raise serious points»

But Locher, whose work has been exhibited internationally, including at Aperture Foundation / New York, Le Dictateur / Milan, and Fashion Space Gallery / London, and has appeared in numerous magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, W, Neon, and Interview hasn't just done it for fun; sometimes confrontational, often amusing, her photographs are intended to raise serious points about politics and social conventions.

On a different note, Paul raises a serious point.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it happens so often that it raises serious questions about the other approaches, at least insofar as they try to proceed — ever so carefully and judiciously, they suppose — without this central point up front.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

The expenses scandal of 2009 demonstrated that public opinion can be raised to boiling point over parliamentary misbehaviour, but little distinction was made in the media between serious fraud and accidental claims for single portions of dog food.

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

When I talk to serious, successful investors, few ask, «Do you think the central banks will raise rates two or three times by a quarter - point before the end of the year?»

A point Crichton raises that, in my opinion, merits serious discussion is the cost / benefits analysis of environmnental regulation, combined with the principle of uncertainty relating to unintended consequences.

Within hours after the Daily Mail ran a strongly supportive news piece about our paper, an EU - funded environmentalist extremist group had telephoned round and obtained instaquotes from half a dozen rent - by - the - hour «scientists» about our paper, but, as our point - by - point refutation demonstrates, several of them had not even read it and not one had raised a serious scientific objection to it.

However, feet2thefire raised several points arising from Climategate that are more serious than not listening — namely scientists rigging the climate debate from behind the scenes.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

The Environmental Working Group's report, «Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol production:

If you were serious about engaging with skeptics on this point that you have raised you would explain the error in your own words and stand ready to defend your explanation.

You've certainly raised some very important points in your assessment when it comes to serious legal research.

While the above post represents a young associate's view, as MacEwen writes, many of the points raised, particularly the one about law firms rewarding «competent masochists» poses a serious question for the entire profession.

As the author of the article correctly points out, any attempt by the Illinois legislature to modify the retirement benefits of existing employees entitled to those pensions will almost certainly raise serious legal and constitutional questions that the Illinois, or perhaps even Federal courts, will ultimately decide.

Serious convictions and number of points may still be recorded on your history and may also raise your auto insurance costs.

While serious videophiles may want to get more granular with the calibration, we made only a small tweak to the color setting, raising it by a few points, to get things locked in.