Sentences with phrase «scepticism on»

Confessing to scepticism on this point, Cross notes that «[i] t is impossible to train men for freedom in a condition of captivity,» and suggests that the notion that people can be reformed by being sent to prison has had a baneful influence on the courts by encouraging them to impose prison sentences more frequently and to lengthen them in the name of rehabilitation.

The lack of scepticism on here about an homogenized, gridded data set is interesting given the response to other such data.

Certainly in the field of climate change, one could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that «advocacy for the cause» trumps the need for scepticism on any day of the week (22).

Pardon my scepticism on your scepticism!

I finally settled on the evidence and disgarded the scepticism on both Evolution (helped by accepting the Geological Age of the Earth) and Global Warming, and I recall that I decided it was the choice of language to lay out their case that helped confirm who to trust and who to ignore.

There is a majority scepticism on this issue across the political spectrum, with 57 % of people who voted Conservative in 2010 agreeing (2010 Lab, 70 %; 2010 Lib Dem, 75 %).

On press - politician relationships, Clegg says that there should be some scepticism on both sides.

This scepticism on command - and - control approaches to the environment has propelled this blog into the headlines on a couple of occasions.

Faced with Labour's reasoned opposition, and with substantial scepticism on their own benches, the government backed off from seeking a mandate they would not have obtained.

My final coconut oil use is for oil pulling, this is a pretty interesting topic and requires a fair bit of explanation so I'll save this for another post — but it involves swirling coconut oil around you mouth every morning to clean it out, sounds crazy but it's awesome and something that I've really come to love despite a lot of scepticism on the topic to start with!

To propose that the wholesale slaughter of other nations by the Israelites was a misunderstanding on their part and not indeed specific instruction from God is to bring wholesale scepticism on the reliability of Scripture as God's reveal word to His creation.

Not exact matches

May 3 U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp's outgoing chief executive, Marcelo Claure, told Reuters on Thursday that he expected negative stock reaction due to scepticism over the chances of the proposed merger with T - Mobile US Inc being approved.

May 3 (Reuters)- U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp's outgoing chief executive, Marcelo Claure, told Reuters on Thursday that he expected negative stock reaction due to scepticism over the chances of the proposed merger with T - Mobile US Inc being approved.

A Christian expert on gender issues has expressed scepticism over the government's commitment to closing... More

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In their reaction against scientific scepticism, and scientific generalisation which were as sweeping and as prejudiced as any theological temerity, they failed to distinguish the root causes of the new unbelief from the arrogance of the unbelievers, and met with equal contempt and malediction what could only be properly answered by the careful separation of fact frompresumption and prejudice on either side.

But talk of church growth is often met with scepticism — why focus on numbers?

Attacking theocentrically oriented theologians like Stanley J. Samartha, Ashish Chrispal says that such thinking «moves away from the centrality of Christ and the triune God,» and that Samartha «fails to recognise that the kind of pluralism he and other pluralists propose can make the religions a matter of indifference or can take a form of pious scepticism or people may renounce all religious choices, since they can live equally without them» and goes on to emphasise that

Up until that year Leah had been a blogger of some repute on the atheist channel of the Patheos network, writing on mathematics and scepticism and interacting in a friendly way with many Christians.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

I've taken the liberty to call it «Greek» chickpeas on toast as I used cinnamon in the tomato sauce, which is something Greeks do a lot and despite my initial scepticism it works really well.

The NSW Government's plan to prosecute alleged water theft on the Barwon - Darling River has been met with scepticism from lower Darling landholders.

Ederson may not be the most obvious candidate but it is important to remember the pressure that was put on his shoulders when he first arrived last summer, both in terms of Guardiola's demands and expectations / scepticism among fans and media.

With Milan's season on the brink of disaster and continued scepticism around the financial security of their owners, the appointment of Gattuso seemed like a desperate roll of the dice.

The media have been urging United to splash the cash in January on a new central midfielder, an area they are especially lacking in, so Sir Alex's decision to opt for a former Red Devil, who at 35 struggled for appearances last season, has been greeted with obvious scepticism.

Rather than treat Rodgers» advise on fitness with his trademark irascible scepticism, he most allow himself to recognise what methods work for specific players in order to protect one of the country's star assets for years to come.

Domestically the EU is also facing new tensions: a sharp rise of euro - scepticism and of nationalist movements has been registered in many European countries, including Italy, France, Germany, Hungary and the UK, with the UK arguing for a referendum on its own EU membership in 2017.

Mr Redwood, who led the Conservatives» review on economic competitiveness, attacked Labour's «doctrine of equivalence» between date rape and so - called stranger rape, which he said he said «led to jury scepticism about many rape claims».

I confess to arriving at the event in Berkshire on a glorious Friday morning with a degree of scepticism.

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

(Douglad Carswell will, I am sure, believe it shows he is winning the argument): Hence «Pointing out the scale of climate scepticism among the online opinion formers on the right does not, of course, prove that they are wrong, or right.

Therefore, their scepticism over whether it will succeed is either wishful thinking on their part, or they know something the rest of us don't.

The reason for our consistent focus on building a new movement politics is a deep scepticism as to how a top - down approach can succeed without a much broader civic mobilisation: I wrote about the missing civic politics that after one of several pre-G20 and pre-Copenhagen events, something developed by Paul Hilder of Avaaz who is among those trying to do this in practice.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Awuku expressed his scepticism with the...

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

«Secondly we need to think big about social democracy and allay the scepticism about globalisation and immigration... We in the centre ground need to make our policies as exciting and innovative and popular as those on different wings of all politics.»

The News of the World said: «The New York Times story contains no new evidence — it relies on unsubstantiated allegations from unnamed sources or claims from disgruntled former employees that should be treated with extreme scepticism given the reasons for their departures from this newspaper.

And, despite initial scepticism from almost all observers, it turned out to be right on the money.

Yesterday's speech was light on new policy, so we must assume the point was to send a message: that despite growing public scepticism — a recent YouGov poll found 78 % of people thinking it «unlikely Cameron will deliver his immigration promises» — he remains personally committed to doing so.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

But at the same time we need a strong and clear «right - wing» stance on things like crime and law & order, security, backing the traditional family and marriage, and of course clear EU - scepticism - better - off out.

I am a great admirer of John Redwood re deregulation, tax cutting and EU - scepticism, but putting the boot on the other foot, it is not like John Redwood has made a great job of overturning the Conservative pro-EU stance in the last decade or two, is it?

Indeed, I suspect that the annual conferences are doing more harm than good, by reinforcing the public scepticism that our politicians are more interested in putting on a show than in tackling Britain's problems.

«The New York Times story contains no new evidence - it relies on unsubstantiated allegations from unnamed sources or claims from disgruntled former employees that should be treated with extreme scepticism given the reasons for their departures from this newspaper.

While most members of the Labour movement will read anything in the Mail about unions with a level of scepticism, on this occasion the basic facts seem to be incontrovertible.

The ceasefire agreement was expectedly greeted with scepticism by the Nigerian military, who gave the sect a period of one month during which there had to be no attacks on any public place or military installation before they would take them seriously.

Discounting my scepticism, I would say I don't know whether it could make me want to vote Tory, but that probably meeting Mandela was a very genuine attempt to pay his respects and to be on the right side.»

A computer that gauges if someone has a conviction based on their photo has aroused much scepticism, but it's a reminder of the ethical dilemmas of smart tech

A snapshot of views on evolutionary science in the UK reveals a surprising level of scepticism.

The AfD did not make election statements on science, and declined to answer Nature's questions before the election, but party leaders have previously expressed climate scepticism and distrust of genetic engineering.