Sentences with phrase «standard of judgment»

Your standard of judgment for approval does not obviously appear connected with scientific merit.

By that more appropriate standard of judgment, the committee's own data indicate that testing and accountability have proven effective, if not quite the spectacular success promised by those who enacted NCLB into law.

So, if my standard of judgment is judgmentalism, where does that leave me?

This public would expand in social inclusiveness as its ethical level rose, gradually elevating the minds of commercial men toward the standard of judgment summed up in Smith's idea of the «Impartial Spectator,» the quintessentially public citizen.

Can't be a standard of judgment, because it's not a standard for all.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Despite all influences to the contrary, it lifted a standard of judgment in the light of which the Christian conscience at its best could not be content with social evil.

Both apply the same subjective standard of judgment: shock.

The Subscriber further acknowledges that the Indices were compiled, prepared, revised, selected and arranged through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money by Barclays Capital and constitute valuable commercial property and / or trade secrets of Barclays Capital.

Amos had other standards of judgment, and the clarity and firmness with which he set the existing situation into the context of a loftier conception of religion gives him an outstanding place in the history of revelation.

If we accept them, we must look to Jesus for our ultimate standards of judgment and at the same time keep on estimating relative values and probable consequences within the common life.

[there is an] urgent need, which still persists today, to overcome the separation between faith and culture, -LSB-...] in the firm conviction that Christian Revelation is a transforming power destined to permeate patterns of thought, standards of judgment and norms of behaviour -LSB-...] Jesus Christ -LSB-...] alone illuminates man's true dignity.

It may have been, by our standards of judgment, a waste of precious time to dream of «Jerusalem, the Golden.»

He wants to subvert the standards of judgment integral to our understanding of abstract painting, while being committed to the act of making... He is interested in — to use his own words — perversely cultivating the tenuous relationship between «creative seeing» and the randomness of nature without becoming explicit... By finding ways to foreground his conflicts about painting, while also expanding its definition, Burckhardt has become one of the most interesting artists of his generation.»

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Professions like medicine, nursing, and engineering are effectively given monopolies over fields of practice because (or so the story goes) their work is so complex, and requires such nuanced judgment, that only the members of the profession itself are qualified to set standards and to adjudicate violations.

But rather than passing judgment on whether globalization is a wonderful or a terrible thing, Easterbrook accepts it as a mixed bag, foreseeing «an endless tumult of improved living standards wrapped with ribbons of stress, anxiety and dissatisfaction.

This included a discussion of the independent registered public accounting firm's judgments as to the quality, not just the acceptability, of AMD's accounting principles and such other matters that generally accepted auditing standards require to be discussed with the Audit and Finance Committee.

As a result, the judgment by index fund managers is trustworthy as far as standard behaviors, such as expropriation or mismanagement of free cash, is concerned.

The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2014, the firm's judgments as to the acceptability and quality of FedEx's accounting principles and such other matters as are required to be discussed with the Audit Committee under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)(the «PCAOB»), including those matters required to be discussed by Auditing Standard No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees.

He may never read the Bible, but the value judgments of the Bible, and especially the gospel, have become in large measure his own standards, even though he gives them little conscious attention.

The conventional literary - critical judgment that the following verses (17 - 19) were not part of the original unit is doubtless correct, but the standard critical conclusions on vs. 16 — fragmentary, a corrupt text, distorted in transmission, et cetera — result from the failure to recognize the difference in form and the functional relationship between Scheltrede and Drohwort, the deliberated and composed invective called forth by the received Word, the divine threat or judgment.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involved?

In the first place, no amount of prayer will take the place of right discernment of good and evil through standards set by the outlook of Jesus, of right calculation of the probable consequences of our acts, of right knowledge and judgment of the total situation in which our lives are set.

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

Also appealing is Epstein's assertion of judgment in such matters as dress («The baseball cap marks a steep decline in elegant male attire» and «The notion of having shined shoes speaks to holding up standards, even if in a very minor way»).

Since the judgment stands, and is no doubt explicitly represented in the thoughts of many of us as it is implicitly represented in the value standards of the great dominant majority of Americans, of American Christians and of American intellectuals, we must ask by what right, with what rightness can we honor Jonathan Edwards today?

There is the tendency of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and self - righteous judgment according to a moral standard which we assume puts us in a good light and others in a bad.

Pinnock's flexible use of the word «inerrancy» causes him to criticize certain evangelicals like Lindsell for an «overbelief about the Bible» which seeks to protect it from its own humanity.42 It compels him to criticize the position of irenic inerrantists like Daniel Fuller, who, according to Pinnock, operate in their judgment of Scripture's infallibility according to an a priori standard derived inductively from doctrinal verses (2 Tim.

Used to justify all manner of errant nonsense, it is nevertheless «essentially prophetic, which is to say that its ideals and aspirations stand in constant judgment over the passing shenanigans of the people, reminding them of the standards by which their current practices and those of their nation are ever being judged and found wanting.

As the Lausanne Covenant asserts, the Bible is «without error in all that it affirms» Although detailed inerrantists like John Montgomery and Harold Lindsell resist referring to the writer's intentions as a criterion for Biblical judgment, sensing, rightly, that its adoption undermines their position, they nevertheless use such a standard on occasion (see Lindsell's discussion of differences in Biblical numbers [Num.

The assessment of a philosopher's importance by his or her contemporaries is a risky business, for future generations have a way of unmaking the judgments of their predecessors.1 Yet, by standard measures, Charles Hartshorne (1897 - 2000) was one of the premiere philosophers of the twentieth century.

If in earlier situations the standards of critical judgment that properly applied to foundational theological assertions allowed for appeals to authorities of various kinds to settle the issue of their credibility, for us today all such appeals can have at most a provisional validity.

Niebuhr said that moral pride «is revealed in all «self - righteous» judgments in which the other is condemned because he fails to conform to the highly arbitrary standards of the self.

In such cases, the ACOG proposes to override their best medical judgment in favor of «standard care» as determined by the ACOG.

In an extraordinary essay, «Colors, Cultures, and Practices» in The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standards.

He then provides a fascinating account of how painters such as Hals and Turner discovered through the practice of their painting color discriminations that established standards of excellence that make impossible relativistic judgments.

Faced with Catholic clericalism, Orthodox binding, European Protestant devastation, confrontations with old and new paganisms, the irrelevance of much of American Protestantism, and ominous signs that, by standards of human judgment, the church was unequal to its task, the editors relied on a secret for hope.

An individual can profit greatly by the criticism of his fellows yet he will realize that they are judging him by standards which are neither his own nor God's, that he is both a worse and a better man than their judgments indicate, and that the greatest service they can render him is to call him back to his own best self.

Yet the judgment of the outsider is not the final judgment of God, and his standard is not the divine standard for the church.

So, too, I can not share Cobb's judgment that there must be some other standard than its intrinsic philosophical excellence which enables us to decide for a certain form of natural theology.

At least the scientific community employs detached and objective standards that undermine our efforts to take refuge in the slanted judgments of shared faith.

The Gospel was subjected to the judgment of this or that worldly standard; rarely did the reverse occur.

There is a continuing piety in the land that dictates the inclusion of a Lincoln quotation in every major political address — most commonly, if unintentionally, to justify a crude departure from the high standard of Lincoln's judgment.

If the authentic self is defined largely through its autonomy from the collective standards of social propriety and aesthetic judgment, then conformity to collective expectations is a sign of the self's distortion and even corruption.

On October 21, 1978, five days after the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II, the «liberal» Polish Communist journal Polityka opined that, since World War II, Poland had been «a special example of a creative and fruitful coexistence between nonbelievers and Catholics»» which seems, in retrospect, an almost unimaginably self - delusional judgment, even by Communist standards.

Although the moral standards and ethical judgments of this country have long been permeated by Christian teaching, there is a widespread ignorance both of the actual history of the Christian Faith and of its revolutionary character.

Yet if we say that they have been «deceived» or are «mistaken» or have been indoctrinated by «false» ideas, then we are passing moral judgments, and the moment we do that we are implying that there are standards of good and evil.

As moms, we are subject to a lot of judgment and are measured by standards of perfection or superhuman performance.

Pregnant with the Stars examines the American fascination with, and judgment of, celebrity pregnancy, and exposes how our seemingly innocent interest in «baby bumps» actually reinforces troubling standards about femininity, race, and class, while increasing the surveillance and regulation of all women in our society.