Sentences with phrase «risked throwing the baby out with the bath water»

More conservative theologians, on the other hand, believed that his constant criticisms of Bibelglaube (faith in the Bible rather than the one to whom the Bible witnesses), «credo - Credo» (intellectual assent to the tenets of the Creed) and faith as a bloss Fürwahrhalten etner Lehre (a mere holding of certain doctrines to be true) risked throwing the baby out with the bath water.

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In the rush to university reform, Germany's policy - makers risk throwing out the promising baby with the tired old bath water.

Hopefully the baby will not be thrown out with the bath water and a balanced opinion that accepts the benefits while acknowledging the risks and methods of mitigating those risks will be the final outcome.

While governments» renewed interest in Indigenous land matters is a welcome one, we run the risk of «throwing the baby out with the bath water» where policy aims to make fundamental changes to land tenure when the potential for existing leasing options has not been fully explored or realised.

In my opinion, if the Competition Bureau of Canada can snub basic «common sense» along the way towards making reference and arguments relating to specific sections of the Competition Act, then the integrity of the Act is washed in the same tub, and there's a strong risk of: «throwing out the baby with the bath water»!