Sentences with phrase «sides of an issue as»

«A reporter worth his salt investigates the facts by questioning as many people on all sides of an issue as they possibly can.

In a majoritarian system, however, its often convenient to lump different sides of an issue as left or right, and so we do.

Stefanik crossed party lines back in 2015 to vote in favor of the TPA (edited, see below), putting her on the same side of the issue as President Obama, who now finds himself at odds with the woman who is seeking to replace him, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Frontera is what I like to call a «humanist drama», which is a drama that tackles a polarizing subject head on — this case being illegal immigration — and does it by portraying people on both sides of the issue as honest and complex, instead of as symbols in an allegory.

She told me that she had agonized over being on the opposite side of an issue as some of her friends and usual allies.

Not exact matches

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An especially embarrassing breach came in September 2014 when an Army veteran with mental health issues scaled a fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House and made it as far into the building as the East Room before the Secret Service could apprehend him.

On the other side of things, Attorney General Schneiderman issued a statement as well, with a rather different tone:

For starters, you can use it as a way to list the pros and cons of each side of an argument, much in the same way that ProCon.org does for major and controversial political issues (see my example below).

As with any policy designed to deal with one aspect of a complex issue, there were side effects.

Without clear leadership, Republicans were outwardly divided over what to do next, as their offices are being flooded with calls on both sides of the issue.

Because Dreher's account of the historical relationship between realism and nominalism is basic to his subsequent argument, it can not be dismissed as a side issue.

Ryan Anderson has now tackled another fevered social issue from what today's cultural tastemakers and enforcers regard as the wrong side of a red line.

Seen as on the «right side» of every issue.

In examining each of these issues (and more) Wittmer steers a path between the extremes of both sides, as he puts it «conservatives fear that postmoderns don't care enough about doctrine, and postmoderns think that conservatives don't care enough about people.

I won't discuss any of the topics you have raised, but I will only encourage you to ask questions, challenge every single doctrine, and (as much as is possible) refuse to accept any single side of an issue without investigating other reasonable answers as well.

Even among Christians, for whom scripture should be a guide to life's challenges, many cling to the idea that issues such as abortion and the end of life are so complex that only a simple - minded person, unable to see two sides of an argument, could possibly take a firm stance.

There it appears, at best, as a side issue of legitimate interest to specialists, at worst, as a distraction from the truly urgent priorities.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

Your position as the saver or spender will change issue to issue, but the point here is that each side is coming from a different foundation of financial values, and those core values feed the arguments over money rather than the money situation itself.

On one side of the coin the new trend for artists to talk about issues such as faith as well as mental health, police brutality, racism, body image and fatherlessness is a refreshing shift from the materialistic, consumerdriven rhymes which hip - hop has become notorious for.

VOICE congregations on the West Side have conducted another round of neighborhood interviewing and are now working on issues such as housing, economic development and recreational facilities for youth and seniors.

Unless it is regulated by governments so as to insure that all people have access to all sides of issues, democracy as we know it becomes impossible.

While the program is one of the rare issues that has managed to draw wide voter support on both sides of the aisle, some Republican leaders have targeted it as an example of executive overreach.

I am encouraged by his acceptance of a substantial part of my criticism of classical theism as found in Aquinas; however, he sides with Aquinas and against me on some issues.

But foreign policy, of course, is largely a matter of prudence, and there are and should be good Catholics on both sides of issues such as what to do about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

But all this is in a sense a side issue, significant only insofar as it illustrates the moral bias of the teaching of Jesus as a whole.

This question, central in the fundamentalist - modernist controversy of the early 20th century, treats Mary herself as a side issue, a mere conduit for the one she bore.

It is good this issue is coming out because it is something that needs to be discussed but there's so much yelling and arguing on both sides I'm afraid you would get as much discussion from a group of first graders.

Washington (CNN)-- As the Supreme Court considers two major same - sex marriage cases that could change marriage in the United States, religious leaders on both sides of the debate believe they are on God's side of the contentious issue.

Thus the issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.

Once I really faced the issue, I found myself in a position slightly A side of the A / B fence but have migrated from that position as I've studied the issue in Scripture and mediated on the theology of the issue.

After years of wrestling with the resulting theological questions, Justin started GCN as a safe place for Christians on both sides to discuss the issue without being condemned for what they felt.

For excellent discussions of the need to recover the empirical side of the process tradition, see Lee, Bernard J., SM., «Two Process Theologies,» Theological Studies 45 (1984), pp. 307 - 319; Axel, Larry E., and Peden, W. Creighton, eds., Dean, William, Special Guest Coeditor The Size of God: The Theology of Bernard Loomer in Context (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987), also published simultaneously as the special January and May, 1987 issue of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol.

I don't think of Alise's belief as denial so much as a difference of opinion, akin to taking opposite sides on a political issue.

It is not an issue of tolerance [as both sides are arrogant] but of the right to exist for one's own life and happiness.

You see, no matter what side of the election issue you are on, one thing we can all agree on is that it is wonderful to be chosen as part of God's team.

As you know, there were a number of intrinsic political issues in play during this period: the tariff, oft overlooked by the politically correct in the continuing effort to locate Southern apologists on the side of pro-slavery, the compact theory, and Nullification, an issue that is again in the public square.

Thomas Reese was removed as editor of America by his Jesuit superiors - perhaps at the prompting of Cardinal Ratzinger — because under his editorship it was no longer clear that the magazine was on the Church's side of many controverted issues.

It could be argued that «gay rights» are but a side show and that the defining issue delineating the gulf between the Catholic Church and the modern world, or the «wider world» as Dr Rowan Williams calls it, is the acceptance or rejection of the Jesus of history, his Revelation and the structures he left for the transmission of that Revelation.

I expect only to find Christ in him as well as humanity, and honesty on both sides of the issue.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

(Job 1:6 - 12; 2:2 - 6) As the firstborn Son, Jesus, of all God's creatures, could give the most conclusive answer to that charge and the finest evidence in favor of his Father's side in the larger issue of the rightfulness of Jehovah's universal sovereignty.

As one might expect when it comes to issues of politics in the United States, the debate became almost instantly polarized between pro-gun advocates on one side, and pro-legislation advocates on the other side.

First up, you make an assumption as to which side of the fence I fall on in regards to the issue.

And since the issue that defines the contrast, how the self relates to itself and to God, is so fundamental, other Christian groups either fall on one side of this divide (Anglicans on the Catholic side, for example) or represent questionable attempts to straddle it (Calvin and Barth as less dialectial versions of Luther).

And before you jump all over me, know that there are plenty of issues I side with conservatives on such as crime and wasteful government spending.

Yourgrau has a talent for raising uncomfortable issues, and his slim biography of Weil will outrage Christians as much as Jews, for he takes Weil's side against her detractors from both religions.

But, alas, and this is not without its significance as showing the nature of the philosophical task, the result of Martin's critique is not to shake my confidence in my side of the basic issue that divides us.

With advocates on both sides of a contentious issue preaching to the choir, the hope of actually persuading anyone diminishes as each side's talking points become more predictable.