Sentences with phrase «taken as a judgment»

Obviously, the collapse of Eastern European socialism — if indeed it is collapsing — can not be taken as a judgment upon Christian socialism.

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«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Nordstrom empowers their employees to do whatever it takes to please the customer, as long as they use their best judgment to decide on a plan of action.

The men were told to look at the images for as long as necessary to make their judgments, and longer time spent looking specifically at the faces and bodies of the gay male couples was taken by the researchers as another sign of attraction to men.

It also means taking responsibility for your own thinking, such as stereotypical, snap judgments and prejudices about how people «should» behave.

He did not take advice, legal or otherwise, as to whether he should have participated in the city council debate, the judgment confirms.

Shkreli funded the Merrill Lynch settlement — and avoided the filing of the confessions of judgment — by causing a $ 900,000 investment in Retrophin equity securities made by MSMB Healthcare to be recharacterized as a «loan,» causing the «loan» to be repaid with interest, and using the «loan» proceeds together with other money taken from Retrophin to pay Merrill Lynch.

Taking a longer - term approach to talent resource development is just as important to the investor as it is to the client: It is hard to conceive of people making sound investment judgments over longer time - frames if investors themselves are not being evaluated and mentored with the same long term philosophy.

I regard this could - have - been scenario as delusional because I take Gerecht's judgment of Egyptian liberals / secularists to be all too accurate:

In the apocalyptic developments reflected in the books of Ezekiel, Joel, and Daniel, the judgment takes shape as a great battle in which Yahweh will rescue his people from the hands of the powerful empires which have held them in bondage.

Martin might respond that my criticism is unfair because he is not asking for skepticism about those points on which historians agree; he is only asking that Christians suspend judgment about the resurrection taken as a physical, historical fact.

They ignore the negative judgments on the world to be found abundantly in the Gospels and Epistles and take their stand on the text «God so loved the world...» They go so far as to suggest that the church is not really important.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

No doubt one of tradition's opinions assessed the monarchy as in divine intent beneficent, another as negative divine judgment already taking effect.

Rather, it informs all as to the basic principles that ought to be taken into account in coming to specific judgments, in interpreting the particularities of human situations and in guiding concerted action.

He is beginning to take his rightful place as Al Masih, the Messiah, who heals, delivers, forgives, and saves from the final days» judgment.

God took upon himself what he inflicted on Ahab, just as he took upon himself and suffered the massacre of Ahab's house according to his own judgment.

Rather than take as his criterion for judgment either the principle of «factual» accuracy or the principle of the author's immediate intention, Fuller proposes that inerrancy must be posited only in terms of the Bible's «overall purpose,» I. e., in terms of the intention of God who inspired it.

The question, how far this or that story may be taken as an accurate account of what happened on this or that occasion is one upon which judgments will vary.

Those descriptions which one considers more stable and more directly accessible will be taken as data, but that judgment will itself reflect theoretical assumptions.

Insofar as they take the initiative to provide what in their judgment is needed, they decide this in consultation, not with public officials, but with business leaders.

First, bishops should consider to whom their decisions are addressed as serious conversation partners and take their insights and judgments into account.

He clarifies the answer to the prophetic problem in a resource of mercy beyond his judgment which becomes effective as he takes the consequences of his judgment into himself.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

Provided this judgment is taken as it should be, not as formulating a timeless principle, but as relative to the classical philosophy that Pascal clearly had in mind in making it, it can claim the full support of contemporary historical, including biblical, theology.

They take this record of God's judgment as evidence that the God of the Bible isn't really good at all, and therefore should not be believed in.

Even if that wasn't the case, as the Author of life God still has the right to take life according to His own judgment.

With the same conclusions of fact before them, some take one view, and some another, of the Bible's value as a revelation, according as their spiritual judgment as to the foundation of values differs.

As an educated country we should take more time to educate ourselves on outside culture and religions and not make ignorant judgments against a people as a wholAs an educated country we should take more time to educate ourselves on outside culture and religions and not make ignorant judgments against a people as a wholas a whole.

Believing that the future as well as the present belong to God, the minister of these Advent texts might find it well to listen to Hans Kung's admonition: to take care lest she preach judgment too loudly and insistently before the small and defenseless and too softly and half - heartedly before the powerful of this world.

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

For the text to be taken as testimony, as relevatory, judgment must be made about objective characteristics, above all what Ricoeur calls in Interpretation Theory its «self reference,» its claims to represent an «I» or a «we» engaged in a certain past «event of discourse.

(John 3:17) In so far as divine judgment takes place, it is operative here and now, an inherent testing of life by its responses to opportunity, a constant interior arbitrament by which light shows up darkness — «He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already....

Isa 53:8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

Eternal life is present now (5:24); judgment is happening now (10:26 - 28); even though the disciples in John's gospel have trouble understanding Jesus (as they did in Mark), at the very beginning of the gospel Jesus is described by John the Baptist as «the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world» (1:29).

The judgment that one particle of matter is spatially separated from another may be true in a sense but false when taken as implying an absolute separation in reality.

The Supreme Court has taken the position that society has the obligation to make a judgment as to what speech is appropriate for children, just as persons under a certain age are not allowed to drink, drive, or vote.

It is therefore the judgment of a growing number of Protestant Christians that it is not only the right, but the duty, of parents to take all relevant factors into account, including as a prime factor their service to God and his Kingdom, and plan for their family in the light of the total situation.

Jesus» resurrection, and upon the message, (a) the expectation of the coming judgment, with Christ as judge, and (b) the promise of salvation of those who repented and trusted in him, taken along with (c) the purely subsidiary and qualifying or evidential reference to Jesus» earthly life and ministry — this very relation between hope, proof, and historic fact is the relation which prevailed in the period of the oral tradition of the sayings and deeds of Jesus, and eventually fashioned the structure of the Synoptic Gospels.

But in that case why did it not yield to the judgment that convenience, or the avoidance of embarrassment, could not possibly be taken as the justification for killing any other human being?

Clamence was walking across the Pont des Arts on another occasion, when he heard a mysterious burst of laughter, which he takes as a mocking judgment on his life.

Evil here, as in the Zohar, is explained as a waste - product of creation and an inevitable result of the limitation, or judgment, that must take place if separate things are to exist at all.

Christianity becomes an instrument of mental distress when biblical passages such as this are taken literally: «You have heard that it was said to the men of old, «You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.»

However, a fortunate turn of events has landed one such opportunity (not ideal but still one that can be argued as optimum) in our laps to take a verifiable judgment call on the efficacy and effectiveness of Arsenal's manager.

Sure, some people really do change as they mature, but why take a chance on blowing a valuable draft pick on a guy who has repeatedly exhibited such poor judgment?

Which is why I want to call attention to what is happening in our AP community: As much as we try to be welcoming to every AP parent, there is still judgment passed among us — the woman whose birth ended in a Cesarean, the mother who can not breastfeed, the father who came to AP later and with a history of spanking, the lower - income families in which both parents must work, the parents who do not take their baby to bed with them, and so oAs much as we try to be welcoming to every AP parent, there is still judgment passed among us — the woman whose birth ended in a Cesarean, the mother who can not breastfeed, the father who came to AP later and with a history of spanking, the lower - income families in which both parents must work, the parents who do not take their baby to bed with them, and so oas we try to be welcoming to every AP parent, there is still judgment passed among us — the woman whose birth ended in a Cesarean, the mother who can not breastfeed, the father who came to AP later and with a history of spanking, the lower - income families in which both parents must work, the parents who do not take their baby to bed with them, and so on.

I would want to take care in jumping to describe someone whose judgment on this is different to mine as less rational.

You as an individual can use paypal today, if you don't mind them taking their substantial percentage, subject to their judgment on disputes, and you don't mind giving them permission to raid your bank account when they see fit if a judgment goes against you.

«While I do not sit in judgment of his conduct I would think that the voters will at some point take it into account and question whether or not he has the temperament to serve as county executive,» Meyer said.

However, confusion reigned from the time the people received the news of the Supreme Court judgment as arguments for and against took the center stage.