Sentences with phrase «supposed authority for»

They wrote an extraordinary diatribe against our supposed advocacy of the «discredited» and «flawed» R - squared statistic, citing Wilks (1995) as supposed authority for this diatribe.

So Parker's supposed authority for his «proxy» argument gives no support whatever for this particular urban myth.

Not exact matches

If preachers are using their supposed spiritual authority to sway impressionable voters that's just as fair to criticize as influential stars using their celebrity to further their own causes amongst impressionable fans, for example.

margot707, I suppose you don't mind that the children of the world steal from you, as they lie to you, having no respect for you, your neighbors, or authority while they are doing what they want to do, when they want to do it.

Does not the Scripture, which is supposed to be the Protestants» sole authority for faith, have something quite singular to say of Mary — «blessed are you among women»?

As this title intimates, the supposed subject is religious liberty, but the real matter at hand is contraception and (for those who have ears to hear) the rapidly eroding moral authority of U.S. priests and bishops.

Thus, within the common tradition, moral education is supposed not only to prepare people to rule but to prepare them as well to recognize in their fellows the virtues necessary for the exercise of authority.

But is it less bizarre for these lawyers to suppose that «the people» in 1787 «transferred all of their governing power» over their own children to these artificial authorities?

Some of my Episcopal friends tell me that episcopacy is not a name for a particular kind of church constitution (as Presbyterians might suppose), but rather an understanding of representative authority and responsibility in ministry vested in a college of «sacramental persons» — an understanding compatible with a wide range of constitutional theories and structures.

I mean look at us for a minute we are supposed to be an authority on what?

In such a case, if it exists, the scientist would, of course, be compelled to withdraw his assent to the legitimate teaching authority of the Church, if it were supposed that he really considered the certainty of the scientific «result» as definitively truer and surer than the grounds which he had previously believed he possessed in justification for the claim of the Church to teach.

Then he came to a series of «Offers» to the Church authorities: (1) «Allow us to teach the Gospel freely... Do not persecute and resist that which you can not do and are all the same supposed to do and which others want to do for you... (2) Luther and his followers would continue to work without any expectation of payment from the established Church authorities.

And, really, this concept that some scripture is not meant for authority but only for individuals... well, back when it was written there was very little «individuality» and those in authority are... wait for it... «ordinary people»... at least, they're supposed to be!

Let us still further suppose that this supervisor has absolute authority to permit one person to eat the food and prevent another, so that each one will eat what is suitable for his temperament and the sick person will therefore not be tormented nor the healthy one fall into loathing because of excess of food.

If by social gospel they mean the good news that God loves the world and intends to redeem it, that God is building a new kingdom in our midst under the authority of Jesus Christ, and that we show our allegiance to this kingdom whenever we love our enemies, serve the poor, turn the other cheek, pursue holiness, preach the gospel, and care for the least of these — then yes, I suppose I have.

This was supposed to be a defining message, one that put to rest any doubts as to what sanctions there were for players who used social networking sites to air their grievances at the officials, authority or fellow professionals.

There is a mechanism already in place in the US constitution which has for aim to temper the supposed «excess» or «irrational enthusiasm» of the people, but without resorting to any other ultimate authority than the authority of the people itself.

There is an irony that the report from the «Centre for policy studies» failed to mention that the NHS is the only public body, that we are aware of, that has it's own full time litigation authority costing some # 7 million per year set up to deal with the complaints from patients regarding treatment they have received from a healthcare system that is supposed to protect them.

And the $ 16.7 million pales next to the $ 495 million from the New York Power Authority — funds literally generated upstate at the Niagara and Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their families.

The Chief Psychiatrist of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Kwasi Osei, has called for the enforcement of laws that prevent supposed healing centres from chaining psychiatric patients in their care.

It is supposed to meet the uninsurable costs of freak occurrences and will be funnelled into local authorities to reimburse them for the cost of emergency services and the flood clean - up.

She said the county executive was supposed to use his authority for emergencies and for people with special gifts, not for someone to put up flags around the executive building for a special event.

They have therefore called on the city authorities to intensify the exercise and also consider the state of the market since that is the only place the discharged and stranded traders are supposed to settle for their business.

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, and defence lawyers in the trial of some former government appointees for their roles in a supposed $ 6 million fraudulent deal between the National Communication Authority (NCA) and Infraloks Development Limited (IDL), argued in court today [Tuesday], about the number of days the case should be heard in a week.

The Water Authority relied on a 50 - year water plan it updated every couple of years that was supposed to project the area's need for water against population growth and infrastructure demands.

But in fact, by suppressing the student's natural tendency to make — and to want to make — moral judgments; by relentlessly denigrating the student's core western cultural heritage; and by pandering to the supposed victim status of some cultures in relation to others, this ideology is a recipe for further alienating a generation already too comfortable with a fashionable distrust of authority.

Charter schools are supposed to have complete authority within their walls — authority to hire, fire and otherwise evaluate teachers as they see fit without outside requirements — in exchange for being held accountable for their students» success.

She peered at him with that no - nonsense gleam in her sapphire eyes, a gleam that, for all its supposed authority, stirred a fire in him.

For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.

Not a single scientific authority or reference is cited in the «Report» for any of the supposed catastrophes arising from «global warming» that it mentions.

Suppose the revision to TGD L for non-residential buildings comes into force in, say, July 2017, with a transitional arrangements target of, say, 31 December 2018 for buildings owned and occupied by public authorities.

Articles are supposed to be verifiable from third - party authorities, and what passes for an authority is fairly strict, too (a casual newspaper article might not make the graade.)

I suppose, however, that accumulated interests since 1982 exceed this amount by far and are the actual reason to proceed with the case for the Italian tax authorities.

The judge, relying on the well established authority of Gentle v Faulkner [1900] 2 QB 267, agreed with NatWest that unless there is any contextual reason for supposing otherwise a covenant in a lease against assigning demised premises covers only a legal assignment.

It is vital, nevertheless, for an offender and a supposed victim to comprehend that a supposed victim does not have the authority to «drop the charges» and additionally that a supposed victim's cooperation might not be needed to protect a conviction.

I suppose I should keep this paper in my back pocket for the next time the other side goes to one of those lower courts for authority.

Still fewer engage to such a degree that they feel ownership over the experience and vested with authority and superior understanding of how the platform is supposed to work that they wouldn't hesitate to call out Twitter's owners as fools who clearly don't know what's best for Twitter.

We are at a loss to understand upon what principle of law, applicable to appellate jurisdiction, it can be supposed that this court has not judicial authority to correct the last - mentioned error because they had before corrected the former, or by what process of reasoning it can be made out that the error of an inferior court in actually pronouncing judgment for one of the parties in a case in which it had no jurisdiction can not be looked into or corrected by this court because we have decided a similar question presented in the pleadings.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.

If you're aware of the obligations of the agent under agency then you are supposed to also be aware that the seller is the employer and the agent must do as lawfully directed by the employee — there is no upside down authority for the agent to have authority over the employer which was effectively your opinion.