Sentences with phrase «skeptical questioning of»

She is the most political of Mercer's three daughters, largely directing where the family puts its resources, and is known in conservative circles for her unyielding and skeptical questioning of candidates and established political operatives.

The media narrative on this has generally excluded any skeptical questioning of the official Pentagon rationale for the shootdown.

Not exact matches

It was that skeptical mindset of questioning 18 th - century medical treatments that led Hahnemann to propose his new system, homeopathy, based on his «like cures like» theory.

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

The hearing wrapped up about a half hour ago (you can watch it on C - SPAN), but Senators skeptical of his nomination questioned Gottlieb's close financial ties to the health care and biopharma industries, which have paid him millions in speaking and consulting fees over the years.

At the press conference, the questions bore a remarkably aggressive tone — many of the reporters were from media outlets skeptical of the Chinese government, including the Falun Gong - linked New Tang Dynasty Television and the Epoch Times.

Last year in one of my blog posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model.

«I am confident that the Russians meddled in this election, as is the entire intelligence community,» CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday, with a note of agitation in his voice in the face of skeptical questioning.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being skeptical and asking questions — even asking questions of yourself.

The content and tone of the questions suggest that the questioner is a moderately skeptical but sympathetic secularist who wonders if Christian faith will survive in a post-Enlightenment world.

George Bernard Shaw Peter L. Berger, the most eminent sociologist of religion in the world today, many of whose sociological works as Berger says «read like a treatise on atheism,» has written a mature and skeptical affirmation of Christianity in his new book Questions of Faith: A...

An interpretation of some negative and affirmative theologies of religion from a reading of Peter L. Berger's Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).

Though one can understand the reasons for the rise of this Christian pragmatism, it remains a dubious thing, giving birth to all sorts of skeptical questions.

A bigger question is why you aren't skeptical of this claim?

I raised my two daughters telling them to ask questions and be skeptical which of course makes one an atheist.

Diversity Even some of the most conservative congregations may tolerate small groups of questioning, agnostic, and skeptical people.

At a meeting in Sydney at which John Shelby Spong, the Episcopal bishop of Newark in the US, spoke about his book Saving the Bible from Fundamentalism, an ex-fundamentalist and skeptical young man asked Bishop Spong this question.

He also discussed the use of sites like Politicopia to encourage discussion in the middle rather than on the fringes of the political spectrum, though judging from the audience questions, the crowd was a bit more skeptical about the potential for getting moderates to speak up (i.e., they're moderate because they're not strongly involved).

This drew a skeptical response from legislators on the budget panel, who questioned Madison why state is yet to have a clear picture of how the $ 3.9 billion project will be paid for.

TechPresident's Micah Sifry was a little skeptical of how transformative the debate format will be, since citizens have been asking questions of candidates in townhall - style debates for years, but the organizers believe that opening the process up to more people than just those selected to be in a single auditorium WILL make a significant difference.

New York's top court on Tuesday heard arguments on the controversial issue of aid in dying, and judges seemed skeptical during questions from the bench.

Flanagan said he shares parents» concerns about student privacy, but he's skeptical of the lawsuit and he questioned whether it might have broader implications.

At Friday's hearing, the Council was skeptical of the administration's plan, with Ferreras - Copeland questioning whether it addressed long - term budgetary concerns from federal cuts under the Affordable Care Act and the system's decline in revenue generation.

ALBANY — State lawmakers are growing more skeptical of the Cuomo administration's economic development practices, as long - simmering questions have been reinforced by a slew of felony charges and continual power plays by the Democratic governor.

The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on global warming.

Modern mimic: Some Paleo lifestyle advocates are skeptical of monogamy, pointing wistfully to a time when, as one commenter wrote on Paleohacks, a website that answers questions about modern - day cavemen and cavewomen: «Sex was a lot more egalitarian and promiscuous than you'd think it was.»

«These findings call into question how much more there is to find using the selective sweep approach, and should also make us skeptical of how many of the findings to date will turn out to be validated.»

If this makes you question the old adage that «a calorie is a calorie,» and that it's the overall number of calories you eat that determines whether you gain or lose weight, you're right to be skeptical.

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I was skeptical of the setting spray at first because I question their effectiveness but I genuinely felt that this spray did help in making my make - up last all day.

He asks skeptical questions, feeds Jack some overly symbolic lamb stew and offers pithy insights: «You can not deny the existence of hell,» he says, «You live in it.»

Wilson is a filmmaker who wants viewers to question what they see and hear in the media, and he's willing to travel thousands of miles in order to highlight why you too should remain skeptical about Moore's motivations as a filmmaker.

With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen.

At first Grace is skeptical of his questions, but as she grows more comfortable, her story expands.

With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the...

The only two who are skeptical of Morgan are Skip (Boyd Holbrook), the facility's cook (who has a drunken encounter with Lee that forces an unnecessary question of romance into the mix), and Dr. Alan Shapiro (Paul Giamatti), a psychiatrist who's called in to evaluate Morgan's state of mind.

The author is skeptical of those who question the organization's politics (left - leaning?)

Although I think the wording of the charter school question may have skewed the results a bit (after all, «Somewhat Opposed» and «Somewhat Support» are two ways of saying the same thing, like a glass half - empty or half - full), it's not surprising that a majority are skeptical of charters, since most of the survey participants work in traditional public schools.

At last night's New Haven Board of Education meeting, New Haven Board of Education President Carlos Torre and member Alicia Caraballo, «peppered proponents with skeptical questions and declared themselves unprepared to vote yet» on the plan to divert even more New Haven and Connecticut taxpayer funds to Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company with operations in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

I hear skeptical questions from the back of the room: but what about marketing information, reading levels, testimonials from my high school English teacher, my experience as a teacher in a special school for the double - jointed?

While the first commenter (cdreimer) echoed the sentiment that Amazon's KDP Select resulted in fewer sales numbers «for no reason last year» and the Smashwords ones grew, the second voice (Darren G. Burton) introduced a skeptical series of questions how authors could afford to lose their low profit margin.

He was also very patient because I was skeptical about the process and had a lot of questions.

As you may be able to tell from some of my questions, I'm often skeptical of books on making money in real estate.

These are the three items that you should focus on and these three items are where you're skeptical, ask a lot of questions, and keep a good balance.

If you're stuck with that person or your regular adviser is pushing these products, there are three basic actions you must take: Be skeptical, ask every question you can think of, and keep your portfolio diversified.

My understanding of most of the (lets call it) skeptical positions from people like Roy Spencer is that they essentially claim exactly that: the absence of a large signal compared to noise (or natural variability) and the entire debate is essentially about the question, whether noise is a measurement / statistical problem or the very nature of climate itself?

In contrast to RealClimate and Skeptical Science, which are focused tightly on science questions, this initiative appears to be trying to both clarify the state of the science on global warming and, in the same breath, promote policies that could curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Further general questions can usually be be answered by first using the Search function in the upper left of every Skeptical Science page to see if there is already a post on it (odds are, there is).

And as we learn from the Skeptical Science article I linked to earlier, there is going to be a delay of «decades» between the effects of the CO2 emissions in question (i.e., the heating of the atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect) and a corresponding warming of the oceans.

Which, of course, immediately raises questions in the minds of those who are skeptical of extraordinary claims that fly in the face of accepted science...