Sentences with phrase «said at face value»

This is not to say that it is necessary to take everything that is said at face value but it is necessary to listen with an open and sympathetic mind.

Pick the first option and Phelps will take what they said at face value.

She took what they said at face value.

To all of you who keep claiming this was about «not wanting to lose to a girl»: Why can't we simply take what this kid said at face value?

One general problem with interpreting facetious remarks is to distinguish between things said in irony and things said at face value.

The paper also got a very painful reminder of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face value, when its reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned out to be a tissue of lies fed to one of its reporters.

«Most of us accept what they are saying at face value, but really, it's just part of the game.

Instead of taking what they say at face value... search out the Scriptures yourself and prove to be a workman rightly dividing the word (2nd Tim.

My goodness you're stupid All he has to do is say it, and many believers looking for an excuse will accept what he says at face value, and he knows it.

The fact you can not take what he says at face value and believe him until he proves otherwise shows you have severe trust issues.

If anyone is silly enough to take anything that Wenger says at face value then you have been in a coma for the better part of 10 years or simply a season ticket holder that gladly renews each year in May when the talking heads from corporate Arsenal start their usual blather about the transfer market and the inevitable success that lies ahead... stop talking Wenger and start doing the very things you and the rest of the suits keep spewing each and every year... just imagine how amazing this squad would be if we even did half the things that Gazidis claimed we would or if Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» club

You hear pundits talk about the general election «pivot» because of this, and why I'm not sure you can really take anything anyone says at face value during a primary election anyway.

It's great you're reading up on it, but I wouldn't take anything that NHS says at face value — they've done complete U turns on their pregnancy guidance before (e.g. unpasteurized cheese is now deemed safe).

Be wary: Do n`t take everything your potential partner says at face value.

They don't know your sense of humor, your background, or your close friends, so they have to take what you say at face value.

We're supposed to take everything Petit says at face value.

A terrific scene between Parker and the Ultimate Nick Fury, who mostly accepts what Peter is saying at face value, and more words in a single bubble we've seen outside of a Grant Morrison book.

So let's disregard the whole clone thing now and take what I'm going to say at face value without qualifiers hanging onto it from my original comment: It is my opinion that Wolf, while different, shares enough visual and / or gameplay similarities with Fox, that I personally would rather see them bring in brand new approaches to fighters instead of him.

Most reporters aren't qualified to make individual scientific assessments, so they have to take some of what scientists, or their detractors, say at face value.

To take what science academies say at face value, and as a true reflection of the science, is naive to say the least... «Nullius in verba», as they tell us.

Tiresome that you never can take what people like McIntyre say at face value.

You can not take what these companies say at face value.

While most of the world simply takes what everyone else says at face value, there's always been a da...

If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian, you have generations of experience that tells you not to take what these whitefellas say at face value.

Some are honest mistakes but many really strike me as being deliberately misleading, so it is a good idea not to take what CRA says at face value.

Not exact matches

In many situations, the factor will insist on «recourse» — the right to sell the invoice back to you at face value if the debt goes unpaid beyond, say, 90 days.

There's much to be said for being one of the oldest people in the room and the credibility you receive at face value simply for not being young.

«Today's Summit will underline that we remain committed to defending our people and upholding our values as liberal democracies in the face of any threat, whether at home or abroad,» May said in a statement Wednesday night.

As the film pushes in on the face of Jesse Eisenberg, the actor playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the final captions before credits start rolling says Facebook «is currently valued at 25 billion dollars.»

«We felt that the recent smoothing in trade war discussions felt too quick and too easy to take at face value,» Neil Campling, co-head of global thematic group at Mirabaud Securities, said in a research note Thursday.

Although Uber faces stiff competition from Chinese market leader Didi Kuaidi, a firm valued at $ 16 billion and backed by Chinese Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd, Kalanick said he relishes the challenge.

The question is whether to take official comments at face value,» said managing partner of Cerno Capital, James Spence.

«On the face value it looks like they got a very high rent, but if you count in concessions it looks different,» said Faith Hope Consolo, chair of the retail division at Douglas Elliman.

No, I'm not looking over my shoulder, waiting for the bogeyman to get me — rather, I now rarely take anything anyone says to me at face value.

There's a lot of gross misinformation, and outright propaganda put out there by creationists aimed at just reassuring the opponents, who they count on to take what they say on face value.

Last time I proffered the idea that pain is a problem for the atheist because he has to figure out what to do about said pain - and some of you took that at face value, but I think some of you are rightfully scratching your heads.

The fact that you insist on others not taking your own words at face value says a great deal about your preferred modus operandi — none of it favorable.

But ultimately Nick says this phrase, when taken at face value, is not true.

Director Andy Flannagan said: «We should start by welcoming comments about faith and taking them at face value, whether from David Cameron or from politicians in any party.»

They take it at face value and do not try to sugar coat what it says or explain it away.

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

I'd say he got it right even if his wit is lost on some who would take his comments at face value.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

- No one takes evolution at face value or because Darwin said so.

belief in anything without supporting evidence is a childrens game... We teach our children not to lie, judge a book by its cover, or to take anything at face value or to just believe without questioning... you know, we say stuff like check the source and don't believe everything you see / hear... should we teach seeking knowledge or to have faith in without?

To be sure, there are many people for whom a sentence beginning «The Bible says...» carries an automatic mandate to believe it, more or less at face value.

I was genuinely interested in hearing what you had to say because, at face value, your post does not appear to accommodate our freedom to choose.

In that book he repeatedly cautions the reader not to take Whitehead's language at face value, since Leclerc is sure that Whitehead could not mean what the language says.

Jesus said to not just take someone at face value (as far as whether they say they're Christian or not) but to also look at the fruit they grow (i.e. how they act and treat others).