Sentences with phrase «stance being taken by»

The term might also have fit a story earlier this week out of Washington describing the increasingly imperial stance being taken by some judges towards the news media.

A similar stance was taken by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi a week ago when he said that blockchain requires «rapid adaptation in our workplaces».

Not exact matches

71 % of those surveyed by Morning Consult said it's important for companies to take a stance on social issues, compared to 19 % who say it isn't important.

Mr. MacDonald comments that the aggressive stance taken by the big three Canadian telcos is «unfair».

In the days following election, numerous boycotts are floating around on both sides of the aisles as comments made by a number of executives win praise or condemnation taking some sort of stance as it relates to the election.

It's likely that the U.K. would continue to be bound by European law during that period, although it could take a more aggressive stance and repeal the U.K.'s European Communities Act of 1972 immediately, but that would have extremely complex legal consequences and overshadow the separation negotiations.

But, Schultz exemplifies being personal by taking action on his social stances, including providing healthcare for full - and part - time workers, which is a radical departure from most large American corporations who employ shift workers.

Selling has been exacerbated by recent comments from European Central Bank head Mario Draghi, who has taken a more positive stance on the European economy.

My stance is to raise cash by managing open trades to close them as winners and do not trade much except ultra short SPX trades (small trades) to take advantage of the market action (or lack of) but stay exposed only very little.

A clear sign that the EU is not rubberstamping BRI was the European Commission's stance during the BRI Summit in Beijing in May 2017.13 This demonstrated fairly strong EU unity on the issue and reportedly took Chinese leaders by surprise.

In a recent article in National Review, the conservative news magazine founded by William F. Buckley in 1955, columnist Kevin D. Williamson takes a hardline stance, arguing that Trump's 15 percent tax is «about 15 points too high.»

Unimpressed by Beijing's progress on North Korea and market opening, he is taking an aggressive stance on aluminium dumping.

Of course, the ideal is to avoid the «slow bleed» of option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomes.

It's a big shift from the stance Facebook took a year ago, when agencies including GroupM called out the fact that posts published by clients were being seen by fewer of their fans.

For example, if Bitcoin is not a currency, then Bitcoin forwards and Bitcoin swaps that involve the exchange of Bitcoin for another currency will not fall under the statutory definitions of the more lightly regulated foreign exchange forwards or foreign exchange swaps.10 Likewise, retail trading of Bitcoin derivatives will be limited to designated contract markets, rather than subject to the retail foreign exchange dealer regulations.11 Treating Bitcoin as a commodity that is not a currency dovetails with the stances taken by other U.S. regulators such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)(virtual currency does not have all of the attributes of real currency) 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (Bitcoin investments are investment contracts because Bitcoin is a form of money) 13 and the Internal Revenue Service (treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes).14

Citigroup is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers, making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate.

I went to college in the early 1980's and was berated in class, by my philosophy professor, for taking a firm moral stance in a debate between students.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

By dismissing the possibility that God doesn't exist you are taking a Gnostic stance.

The man was opening a door to real and amicable dialogue and Bill slammed it right in his face by taking the «superior morality» stance.

God's love has [48] been reduced to a stance God takes unswervingly toward the creation and fallen humanity, bereft of passion and particularity, an eternal and unchanging love utterly unaffected by the responses of the beloved.

We need to adopt a stance that is more radically self - critical, that is, one which does not predetermine the norms by which self - criticism will take place.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

Nonetheless, he feels that the polemical stance taken by the Church Fathers against other religions is not strictly necessary «in our own day».

Because they were not well equipped to deal with the intellectual challenges posed by modernism, fundamentalists withdrew from mainstream seminaries and secular universities, frequently adopting an anti-intellectual, populist stance that, to use Carpenter's phrase, «often took the form of railing against one's enemies before an audience of one's friends.»

By being how he is, Matt forces people to have to actively take a stance, whether for or against.

Regarding the Church and its self - understanding, the question is no longer simply when and by what authority the Church (as distinct from the individual Christian) should take a stance on ethical issues.

When this happens, the aggressively masculine stance and the dislike of women's having their part and place in the affairs of the world — and in religious communities, the refusal to give women a full share in the communities» life and in their ordained ministry — are taken to be supported by the cosmic order and hence given a divine force in human affairs.

Every interpretation of the meaning of human experience, every understanding of the world in its totality, must by necessity start from some particular stance — or, better, must find some particular point that is taken to be of special importance among all the events or occasions; it provides a clue to the totality of experience.

Both are theories and so by taking a stance that «science», i.e. the Big Bang was more believable because of your theory which is no more provable than the theory of a God was hypocritical, something you claim people who believe in God are.

The apologetic stance taken by our leaders is perceived as weakness and we are trounced because of that perception.

Only by taking Paul's words out of both their immediate text and their cultural context is such a stance possible.

Kantor says the signs of the times, such as the way Girls corrects Sex and the City, indicate that women know the various stances and «Rules» tried out by modern women since the Brown days haven't worked, so that the time is ripe for single girls to throw out their Cosmo, and take up their Jane.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

The results echo faintly the stances taken by Puritans, Pietists and Wesleyans, who, in their own ways, were also in controversy with feudal societies and mystical speculations, and were simultaneously open to the dialogue between religion and science in an attempt to shape a new future.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.

Someone further down mentioned the fact that these 4 were once covered by HL and it seems rather hypocritical of them to take the stance they are now, especially when it was proven that the 4 at hand do not cause abortion.

His stances religious or not are not the norm so people should take anything from him or any of the religious right with a grain of salt, they're extremist who run by a different drummer and should be treated that way!!

Faith, in the context of an emergent universe, is simply the stance that we at the human level of emergence would take when we surrender ourselves to being influenced by whatever higher field there may be encompassing the cosmic hierarchy.

Denver is taking a progressive stance by creating this component of the Office of Economic Development.»

This approach breaks from the norm of traditional responsible consumption messages and takes a progressive stance by showing that drinking responsibly can be aspirational.

Key to the success of this approach will be the stance taken by major supermarkets.

While the winemakers were happy to deal with the problem by buying back the wine, Foster's Group chief executive John Pollaers took a far more aggressive stance by relying on a rarely used part of the Consumer and Competition Act, section 98.

If there was ever any doubt as to Ice - T's stance on food, the hip - hop icon cleared it up in the Body Count video «Institutionalized»: While taking a lunch break, he's accosted by a film crew member wearing a «Meat Is Murder» T - shirt.

This means condemnation by clubs and other fans on an individual level, and while taking on an entire train carriage might not be a wise idea for an individual, it is encouraging that Chelsea have taken a proactive stance regarding this incident; the club are appealing for witnesses.

As if that is not odd enough, the claim is being made by people known for taking the stance that Wenger is a dictator who runs every aspect of Arsenal.

Having already rejected two bids of # 78m and # 90.4 m, Liverpool's owners Fenway Sports Group on Friday took the assertive decision to release a statement saying «the club's definitive stance is that no offers for Philippe will be considered and he will remain a member of Liverpool Football Club when the summer window closes», but that was followed by the 25 - year - old's camp emailing a transfer request.

If you now consequently wish to take, as you previously have, my stance as proof that you are right and that Arsenal are indeed especially persecuted by the media, then you are merely indulging in the logical fallacy, ad ignorantiam — aka argument from ignorance.

Although he's done nothing to suggest that he's looking for a transfer, there have been suggestions that Coutinho's head has been turned by the Catalonian giants — with that being said, considering the stance the club has taken, he'd almost certainly be setting himself up for disappointment should he push for a move to the Nou Camp.