Sentences with phrase «serious questions as to»

There are serious questions as to whether it amounts to regulatory overreach for law societies to start regulating governmental organizations.

In Ontario, expanded powers to issue summary judgments were only instituted in January 2010, when the province's Rules for Civil Procedure were amended, and there were serious questions as to when and how they should be applied.

... This gives rise to serious questions as to whether the objectives of the harassment and grievance procedures are being met.

«The impasse also raises serious questions as to whether WIPO is even a viable forum for further meaningful patent discussions.»»

We know that there are great problems with SST until very recently (and even there we have serious questions as to the geographic coverage and accuracy).

However, with a potential risk of more severe problems, and the lack of a normal tail raises serious questions as to whether breeds should exist which rely on such deformities.

The report raised serious questions as to the value of debt settlement services and demonstrated how the debt settlement industry has harmed consumers.

As David Whitman puts it,» [T] here are serious questions as to whether there is adequate talent in the current teacher and principal pool to expand the new paternalism to scale.»

«While I have tremendous faith and confidence in our law enforcement officials,» Herbst said, «I have serious questions as to how no charges are being brought in this matter.

«While we recognise that the Conservatives have promised to review local funding rates, the fact that they chose to estimate the cost of extending funded childcare before finding out how much funding rates will need to increase raises serious questions as to how meaningful such a review would be,» Leitch said.

«The shocking increase in alcohol fuelled violence raises very serious questions as to why the government has decided to stop keeping records on this type of offence,» Mr Foster said.

The government's unwillingness to transparently investigate these attacks is simply inexcusable and raises serious questions as to the extent to which this unwillingness has contributed to the series of attacks that have occurred in the last year.

Combine those deficiencies with his character concerns, and there are serious questions as to whether he can become an NFL starter.

Even though the Company has not, to our knowledge, been implicated in any illegal activities, there remain serious questions as to how the appointment of just a single independent director will change and improve the Company's internal control system and its overall corporate governance practices.

There is a serious question as to whether growth can continue indefinitely as current theory and practice assume.

«I think there is serious question as to whether the Legislature can impair a contract like that,» said Pines, of Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP, and counsel for Madison Teachers Inc. «Will school districts or municipalities legally be able to withhold union dues?»

Viewing the report on incidents for restricted dogs raises a more serious question as to what exactly the basis is for this action.

With respect to # 27, it is worth noting that in fact there is a serious question as to whether the «Little Ice Age» was a global event, or was largely restricted to Europe.

At this point there remains a serious question as to whether we have enough context to understand all the factors involved.

The reasons of Madam Justice Stewart depend on the presence of a crime, but there is a serious question as to whether this can be taken as having been established by a finding that is based on the civil standard (balance of probabilities) as opposed to the criminal standard (beyond a reasonable doubt).

The Senior President stated that there was a serious question as to whether there had been a sufficient analysis of the evidence and how the court had resolved the serious disagreements in the expert evidence so as to conduct the proportionality exercise.

Not exact matches

As The Verge wrote of the bot's downfall: «It's a joke, obviously, but there are serious questions to answer, like, how are we going to teach AI using public data without incorporating the worst traits of humanity?»

When you question every incident of tardiness or absence, you set your employees up to feel as though they have to come into work even when serious circumstances are pulling them away.

«Osborne's appointment as Editor of the Standard raises very serious questions about both his own ability to continue as an MP and the newspaper's impartiality.

Few medical innovations have engendered as much excitement as CRISPR, but the gene - editing technology raises serious ethical questions: Will the power to edit our own DNA outpace our ability to decide as a society how far we want to go?

It raises serious questions about the Yellen Fed's commitment to transparency as well as its struggle to reach policy consensus.

As per media reports, a recent audit report regarding its debt situation has posed serious questions for the company to continue as a going concerAs per media reports, a recent audit report regarding its debt situation has posed serious questions for the company to continue as a going conceras a going concern.

Musk's dismissive responses to serious questions about his company's financial results suggest that he's confident that Tesla's shares, and access to the capital markets, will remain buoyed by his personal following as a technology visionary.

They all subscribe to the premise that creatures just as ficti - tious as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny have real influence in the real world, which calls their overall judgment into serious question.

My right to be treated and heard as an equal in government matters despite the fact that I am not a Christian is in serious question when a meeting starts with a Christian prayer.

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

Since most of them, however, choose to abstain, their use as examples of reestablished control is open to serious question.

Robert Wuthnow and Emma Green have both raised serious questions about how much religion polls can tell us, and how easy they are to misinterpret.Since I work as a data journalist....

No, it is the serious question, of what each man really is according to his eternal vocation, so that he himself shall be conscious that he is following it; and what is even more serious, to ask it as if he were considering his life before God.

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

Today, however, a serious question has arisen as to whether there is any logical justification for this division.

If you do find a passage that seems to support the church practice in question, you need to do some serious Bible study to make sure it really says what you think it says, and you're not just using it as a proof text.

Despite his depiction of God as creatively involved in the historical struggle, his limitation of freedom to strictly moral decisions, where each person was on trial to prove his worthiness, raises serious questions about the God - man relationship.

CNN: My Take: Reclaiming Jesus» sense of humor Here's a serious question about levity: The Bible clearly paints a picture of Jesus of Nazareth as a clever guy, but he never seems to laugh, much less crack a smile.

I was just trying to answer YOUR question [s], in as a serious manner as I thought them asked.

David, you say they are serious questions — I ask serious questions back, so as to have a cognitive answer [s].

«Behind this question is the serious concern that we do not seem to have a coherent or comprehensive approach to Islamist extremism as it is developing across the globe.

On the other hand, since the nonbeliever is by no means the only person excluded from the social and political order in which the traditional witness of faith is implicated, to think of theology as having to give answer to the questions of the nonperson is more likely to take account of all those to whom theology owes a serious response.

Well, Harvey Cox was the village Baptist and very proud of it, bright as anybody around, original, questioning, challenging, proposing, dreaming; he was a dazzler, serious and probing and ready to act as well as to talk.

However, Kiefer's art raises serious questions in my own mind as to whether it may unwittingly help to nurture some of the very beliefs and attitudes he hates,

At a 1981 Concern for Dying conference, Margaret Battin, who has written texts on ethical issues in suicide, envisioned a time in the distant future when Christians would come to treat suicide as a kind of sacrament involving a serious grappling with ultimate questions.

As the churches led in the struggle to end segregation and gross discrimination against Blacks, they might have been the locus in which serious reflection on these difficult questions took place.

As a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reaAs a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reaas a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reaas one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reap.

The issue as to whether we can have an intelligible account of «being» is indeed vigorously discussed in philosophy today, and we can not treat with indifference the serious questions raised by modern analytic philosophy about the meaning of statements about being.

But that people in general, either within or outside of the churches, find the Bible as a whole to be meaningful is open to serious question.