Sentences with phrase «standing against evidence»

You would try standing against evidence that the Bible is full of errors, contradictions, and obvious lies... with what evidence???

The juxtaposition of Orwell's book and the Barmen anniversary is important, for if we are to stand against those evidences of the Orwellian world that we already see, important resources for doing so will be found in the stance, Conviction and courage of the creators of Barmen.

Not exact matches

I am an avid reader of the sciences and philosophy as well so I believe that with my educational and life's background I can speak intelligently on these subjects but certainly not exhaustively and stand ready to discuss evidence (s) for and against with anyone willing to dialog without rancor or name calling or nastiness.

Thus what others have noted and called a great scandal of inconsistency in Bultmann's method strikes me as being singular evidence of his own remarkable sensitivity to the persisting truth of myth, as something existentiell, which somehow must stand over against the logic of demythologizing.

In 1964, further evidence against Mandela came to light and he, along with several other activists and saboteurs, stood trial again.

The true believer must stand by his faith whatever the apparent evidence against it.

To go against the mountain of evidence supporting it requires blind faith and is an unreasonable stand to take.

And even Blackmun might have come to see that his argument could not have stood up against the array of empirical evidence that formed that brief for the state of Texas.

Premier League clubs voted against using VAR next season after the technology was trialled in cup games, and the league said on Wednesday it needs more evidence of a benefit to fans and clubs before making a decision on safe standing.

Moral notions, in particular — which in contemporary times have been demonstrated to vary significantly from one culture to another — stand as evidence against the innateness of ideas.

The court had insisted it could not allow the deportation of Al - Qaida's «spiritual leader in Europe» to Jordan to stand trial while they suspected evidence used against him might have been obtained by torture.

Justice A. S. Umar of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Monday, June 19, 2017 admitted in evidence two documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, who is standing trial for alleged corruption.

«We should be standing firm against these changes before they are made and demanding that there is transparency, accountability, and a thorough evidence based assessment made of public service alternatives to this proposed dispersal of public assets into private hands,» he concludes.

Scientific theories are tested, and stand or fall, against the evidence.

Teachers stand on the front lines against dismissive attitudes toward climate change, and have had varying degrees of success in Idaho and Ohio classrooms in bringing students face - to - face with discomforting evidence, even when challenged by a new crop of deniers - in - training.

They will stand there with the evidence against them right in their faces and keep on lying.

The Clexit group's secretary is Viv Forbes — a director of Australian company Stanmore Coal who has long stood firm against the tsunami of evidence linking greenhouse gas emissions to risky climate change.

This conclusion is advanced without evidence of any kind, before or after, which makes it stand out rather from the surrounding material, like bright orange smoke against a blue sky.

Their conclusion may add evidence for or against strong AGW, but they don't take more general stands on AGW.

Yet the very person whose past is exposed is making allegations of deceit and manipulation of evidence, use of propaganda against climate scientists and the IPCC, the NAS and other science orgs, and these charges stand and are repeated!

New evidence leaked over the weekend proved what many water protectors already suspected: private security and local police used surveillance and other counter-terrorism measures against their peaceful resistance of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux land.

In Minnesota, a panel of twenty - three citizens who hear evidence against a person accused of a crime and determine whether that person should stand trial.

This Bill stands against that tradition and is strong evidence that the damage that will be done to Canada's reputation is but a ready price the Conservatives are willing to pay to capture that single - minded, anti-immigrant vote.

Mr. Christiansen's convictions were set aside; the Crown «appropriately conceded» that, if the general warrant is found to be invalid (and if the evidence obtained as a result of that warrant were excluded) the convictions against Mr. Christiansen could not stand.

The most promising explanations for that advantage are the defendant's superior resources, the social standing of physicians, social norms against «profiting» from an injury, and the jury's willingness to give physicians the «benefit of the doubt» when the evidence of negligence is conflicting.»)

Evidence of an internal promotion or job - title change at your current firm, rather than moving to a new firm to get a promotion, stands you in great stead against your peers.

If you are able to provide evidence of occasions when you have used and developed these competencies, you will stand a far better chance against the competition for a graduate job in the industry.