Sentences with phrase «simply by claiming»

One person can end a marriage simply by claiming «irreconcilable differences.»

You can't resolve the dilemma of who is being illogical simply by claiming the logical high ground.

Animal Control officers can really inspect all colony records upon demand, simply by claiming there is an «alleged violation of law» or if there is a complaint.

In other words, plan fiduciaries now will have greater freedom to expend portfolio resources to effect liberal social goals simply by claiming that they think doing so will have long - term benefits without having to quantify those benefits.

Not exact matches

Claims of a massive cost blowout for Perth's new stadium have been denied by the state government, which says the latest estimate of $ 1.6 billion simply reflects a different way of presenting the numbers.

It's possible to use this truth to your advantage, Morgan claims, simply by finding the pitch at which your voice is naturally strongest and most resonant — the place where you maximize those undertones (he calls this high - power, radio - friendly voice «the Ronald Reagan voice»).

In short, the recent claims by Assange, who is in exile to avoid an arrest warrant for rape in Sweden, simply do not add up.

But Fuji Pigment claims that, by adding strategically placed layers of ceramic and carbon, it has managed to suppress corrosion and reaction byproducts, creating an aluminium - air battery that can be recharged multiple times by simply adding water.

Underneath the claim was a genuine problem with the message, that people truly wishing to assist the protesters could do so simply by checking in rather than sending funds or supplies to support their efforts.

Any country's capital account of course is simply the gap between its domestic savings and its domestic investment, and because the capital account must balance the current account (the two always add to zero), to say that the gap between savings and investment in any country must be equal to an opposite gap between savings and investment abroad is simply to restate the far more intuitively familiar claim that every current account surplus in the world must be matched by a current account deficit.

The Prime Minister seems to believe the recent moves by the US and China to battle pollution are simply a misguided response to fictional claims about climate change.

So claims the Ava Winery, a San Francisco start - up that is making synthetic wine without grapes — simply by combining flavour compounds and ethanol.

Simply repeat the process: click claim, prove you are not a robot by checking the Google Recaptcha box and hit the «submit» button again.

Given the rapidly deteriorating economic condition of the U.S., a claim that housing sales continue to increase is simply not credible, with or without the verification provided by the mortgage origination data.

Back in December, Trump lawyer John Dowd claimed that it was impossible for Trump to be guilty of obstruction of justice, simply because he's the president — an assertion that was roundly derided by legal experts.

Cash Code Software, designed by Robert Allan, has lofty claims that if you simply download the Cash Code Software you can become a millionaire like him in just 60 days.

Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.»

BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.

Its been blinded by political power and has been completely revamped in a way that Leaders in Islamic Countries claiming to follow Shariah Law use it simply to gain power.

As for the insults, you might wish to skip the hypocrisy when it is you who claimed that without religion there can be no morals, simply power - you insult many by making such a ludicrous claim and you fail to comprehend that there are only 2 billion Christians in this world... does that make the remaining 5 billion immoral?

Actual «acts of abstinence» succeed in preventing pregnancies 100 % of the time, but that's a totally misleading metric, You are claiming that a METHOD is 100 % effective simply by counting only those times the method worked.

As for the claim that if one simply waits long enough with an open heart, God will reveal Himself — that same argument is made by just about every religion.

This isn't information where we can simply say «I believe this way, and here is my evidence for it, and Bill believes that way, and here is his evidence...» These are claims that Bill makes to undermine the faith while citing data that is fabricated overtly or else is rejected by the scholarly community.

When we make claims to worship God, it must not be simply by the place we go on Sunday morning or by the words that come out of our mouths, but by the lives we live and the actions we perform, for that is true worship.

I'm not surprised by the lack of originality, but I hope you at least understand why this claim by believers is simply part and parcel of their heightened sense of «holier than thou».

Atheists do not claim to know everything, they simply are not convinced by the things that have convinced you.

Here is a concrete example of what economists mean by «efficiency» and what I am calling prudence: enriching the rich in Tanzania simply does not accomplish what its label claims; it is inefficient, inefficacious, imprudent.

@ME II: My point is simply that you fail to abide by that which you wish others to do when making claims about the Bible.

My point is simply that you fail to abide by that which you wish others to do when making claims about the Bible.

That's convenient — rely on a particular image of this version of «god» for so long, which by the way is depicted this way on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, until people start realizing it's nothing more than another version of Santa, then simply move the goal posts by suddenly claiming «Huh?

Those of you who are claiming that the Bible was written by man and not inspired by God, have you even researched into that or are you simply relying on what people have told you?

Yes, gender stereotyping damages men too, but it remains the case that the vast majority of positions of power in society are held by men; to claim that men are systematically oppressed is simply a lie.

They simply have claimed it for themselves by mob rule.

While atheism has become a generic term with varying definitions, I would argue that the typical atheist simply rejects claims made by men about gods / goddesses.

Some prominent figures — French politician Jean - Marie Le Pen and columnist / presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan, for instance — have given Holocaust revisionism a major boost simply by making reference, albeit in a slyly noncommittal fashion, to some of its claims.

Von Campenhausen believes that if the story were simply a legend «it would not have specified three women (who, by Jewish law, were not competent to testify) as the decisive witnesses ’25 and he is supported at this point by H. H. Rex who claimed that «This is in itself a point in favor of the authenticity of the tradition.

The horrors experienced by some six million Jews and others in the Holocaust simply shattered all conventional claims that God will somehow «make it all right» in the end.

Hence in the end it would seem as if that true eternal claim that demands purity of heart, by willing one thing, were done away with, as if it had been withdrawn from government, set away in retirement at such a distance from daily life that there simply could be no talk about it.

If the majority of society put half of the effort into developing their intellect and forming their own beliefs that many put into living a life controlled by what any random man who claims they are spreading God's message, perhaps people would actually come to their own conclusions rather than simply accepting the ones presented to them as the one and only truth.

Perhaps they are simply «returning fire» for all of the anger and hatred hurled at them by those who claim belief?

Such an observation is typically countered by the claim that rather than excluding and separating from their brothers and sisters, these believers are simply addressing the overt and insufficiently acknowledged sinfulness of the church.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

So, while it is too simple to simply claim people are «born that way» (sexuality doesn't emerge until adolescence), of the potential factors — genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences — the first three are going to be determined before birth by the genetic and chemical characteristics of the individual.

For our purposes here, this means, not that I shall argue for my claims by showing why they satisfy these two criteria — there simply is not enough time to show this — but that I am bound to allow that they are the criteria by which you may judge the validity of whatever I shall say.

There does seem to be something fundamentally wrong with activity exclusively determined by the pursuit of power, or claims to «know» which simply reflect the imposition of the perspective of the knower upon the object known.

Neville's claim that Platonism is supported by a religious intuition of the «irreducible dualism between Form and chaos» (CG 67) in reality is simply unconvincing; every metaphysics acknowledges the contrast between order and disorder, but there is no reason to think that that contrast — as experienced — is any more genuine or vivid for a Platonist than for an Aristotelian.

If the Christian message had been a series of intellectual claims or affirmations, supported by the miracles of Jesus, let us say, as the complete evidence of the truth of these affirmations, then assent to the truth of Christianity would have been simply an act of the rational intellect, satisfied with the evidence thus adduced and subscribing without reserve to the various formulae of affirmation.

Northrop, by changing the rules of evidence in the light of the philosophy of science, claims that language is not simply a linguistic convention but is a report on reality.