Sentences with phrase «raising pointed questions»

After spending several days discussing ways to encourage student inquiry, a technology specialist raised a pointed question: «What if the librarians already have a district - approved research process?

A blog post on Time Magazine's Web site raises a pointed question in the headline: Pregnant women awash in chemicals.

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At one point in the CNN debate, the two candidates actually debated who grew up poorer after a question about raising the minimum wage.

But the company's willingness to spend (and lose) limitless sums money to drive competitors out of business raises a question regulators might soon have to answer: At what point does being too competitive make you anti-competitive?

The numbers are staggering — and as the New York Times points out, ownership (that's you and me now) isn't happy — but the fireworks raise another question: How should companies retain employees during bad times.

The writing speaks to the community willing them to get involved by asking questions and raising points over which healthy debate might ensue.

Their agreement on a free - trade pact timed with the G20 meeting in Germany can be as substantive as it is symbolic, raising the key question of whether it might serve as a turning point for the United States as the Trump administration decides on its future trade agenda.

Trump delays metal tariffs on EU, Mexico and Canada: Reuters Special Counsel Mueller has far - ranging questions for Trump: NY Times US consumer spending and price inflation picked up in March: Reuters Pending homes sales in March for US point to subdued growth: CNBC Dallas Fed Mfg Index: mfg activity rebounded «strongly» in April: Dallas Fed Chicago PMI edges up in Apr, remains relatively subdued vs. recent history: MW Fed expected to hold rates steady this week and raise rates in June: Reuters Rising gas prices on track to deliver most expensive driving season since 2014: AP Initial Q2 GDPNow estimate for US economy is a strong 4.1 %: Atlanta Fed US Treasury in Q1: 2018 borrowed the most since 2008: Bloomberg

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

«Mr. Speaker, as I said, on the subject of credibility which was raised by the NDP, my point is this,» Mr. Moore offered, attempting to segue from a question about the shuttering of the Health Council of Canada.

Moore went on to question why the allegations had not been raised before, at which point a man shouted, «All the girls are lying?»

The move caused China's entire yield curve to drop 15 basis points and raised interesting questions about the PBOC's policy intent.

Judging by the companies that have used the act to hide things that might have raised uncomfortable questions, the critics have a point.

Not only does this raise questions about the inner workings of the platform itself, but points to the privacy policies of all social media platforms in this malleable, digital age.

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The news / noise flow is almost constant so it even raises the question as to at what point investors become numb to headline risk.

One of the lowest points may have come last November when President Obama formally, and forcefully, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, citing climate change priorities that raised questions about the future U.S. appetite for Canadian crude.

This raised the question of whether the data would prove out our opinions, or prove the old guard actually had a point.

In the symposium Saturday, Fischer raised a typically thoughtful point about capital flows to emerging markets, posing a question to the panelists who had just presented a paper.

In fact the whole point of doing this is to address the question that is frequently being raised these days.

Too bad, because you raised some decent points, but when questioned, deflected your answers.

Another «elephant in the room» problem with the «virgin» business, is the question of why, if the point of the text in Mathew is that Mary was a virgin, (to say nothing of the problem raised by the fact that the gospels say he had «brothers», ie James etc), but why does Mathew spend so much time going througn the geneology.

Apr. 8, 2013 — At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.

In response to the central point of Romans 3, which is that God freely justifies those who trust his faithfulness, as he vindicated the righteousness of Jesus» trust of him, even unto death on a cross, by raising him from the dead, the question that arises is: «Is God righteous to justify simply on the basis of trust in his faithfulness?

The point of my post is that I was raising a question about your implicit suggestion that his theology lead him to where he is today.

«22 - A particularly graphic illustration of this point was the made - for - TV movie Playing for Time (1980), a film which raised a touchy question: How could Jewish women musicians play far Nazis in the concentration camps?

It raises a question that all thoughtful Christians must at some point address: How do we identify the true tradition of Christian teaching throughout history, and what part does the Church play in that tradition?

«Frankly, there's a lot of museum politics involved in this, a lot of careers committed to a particular point of view even if new scientific evidence raises questions,» Ruben said.

The author explores these elements and possible points of contact with elements in Christian tradition and experience, raising questions about religious language: reality, analogy and metaphor.

In this line of thought it is worth pointing out that Discussion about mission has raised a question about the very nature of the church.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

As you did in Adventures in Missing the Point, the 2003 book you co-wrote with Brian McLaren, you raise questions that are supposed to make us young evangelicals think.

Before addressing myself directly to questions which are raised in my mind by the analysis of this issue in Christ Without Myth, I should like to record certain points at which I find myself heartily in accord with Schubert Ogden.

Another point that I will raise with Fr Phillipe is the question of the widespread abuses of the liturgy that the late Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have sought to halt.

Therefore two prehensions may have the same spatio - temporal standpoint but still differ if the subjects in question differ in the unity of their subjective immediacies.73 But though in this he sides with Cobb, Ford faults Cobb on the very point Wilcox raises.74 For while God, in Cobb's view, is omnispatial, he is not omnitemporal.

On this point, Muslims might raise a question of prudence, among other things.

If I may take the chance to respond to my respondents in the issue itself, Andrew Bacevich, Mark C. Henrie, and Paul J. Griffiths raise a number of challenging questions — many, however, peripheral to my main point.

This is important because I believe (as I think Flo pointed out), that in a way, the entire rest of the Bible was written to provide an answer for the questions raised by the book of Job.

The reintegration of science, metaphysics and theology lies in the direction of showing that observation gives rise to questions that science answers, but that these themselves raise questions that call for metaphysical responses, and that these in turn point to a different kind of explanation which, though ultimate, is also personal.

We are seeking not to expound a thesis but to represent a point of view and to raise a question.

So it appears that questions are unwise when all the evidence points in a particular direction, but we still raise questions.

This only happens occasionally in the book but prevents the reader sharing in the deeper revelation and love of God that is occurring at that point in salvation history, especially in light of the New Testament, and raises the question that if the person in Scripture who is experiencing this unique relationship with God didn't really understand God, then how can we?

The question I want to raise is this: Is the crank element — what I shall hereafter refer to as «crankitude» — that manifests itself in the work of Kurzweil and Leibowitz merely a reflection of personal idiosyncrasy or does it point to something more significant?

(Secondary questions about point 4 will be raised later in this essay.)

This concentration point, God's preferential option for the poor, raises the question of the Gospel for all those who objectively are not poor or do not consider themselves as such.

You raise some really good points and ask some very good questions.

The point, rather, is that belief in the divinity of Jesus does not settle the question of Christianity and other religions, and it raises again questions about the truthfulness, or (better) the literary character, of the Gospels.

I believe that the point of view that I have derived from my internalization of Whitehead's philosophy helps me to raise broader, more inclusive, questions, than are asked by those whose points of view are shaped chiefly in schools of business, the study of international relations, or immersion in economic theory.

Recently, there has been considerable increase in scientific understanding of the spontaneous development of spatial and temporal organization (structure) in physical, chemical, and biological systems.3 In an earlier note (PS 11:35), I suggested that this progress in science raises points that may be helpful in dealing with a question of current importance for process philosophy.

We are now in a position to raise our second main point, which I will pose as a question.