Sentences with phrase «takes clear positions»

He takes clear positions and is very quick to respond.»

Live4Him wrote: @ME II: The Bible takes a clear position on slavery And what is that position?

The Church doesn't define the standard on this, given that the Bible takes a clear position on the gay issue.

«It does not take a clear position on the reach of the free exercise clause.»

The class struggle left — organised in the Keep the Party Labour umbrella group and the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs — took a clear position against the document and adopted tactics to maximise unity with any part of the soft left prepared to defend any aspect of party democracy.

He panicked on taking a clear position on hydrofracking after protesters galvanized; he abandoned his promise to bring real mandate relief to counties and municipalities as part B of the property tax cap; and his legislative agenda got secretive and sloppy to avoid scrutiny, even after he had promised transparent government.

«From February they took the clear position that this data was excluded from what is covered under HIPAA.»

Fifty - four percent oppose making information on test - score impacts publicly available, 30 percent express support, with the remaining 16 percent not taking a clear position either way.

The teacher encourages children to take a clear position, justify it, and respond to each other's contributions.

The pre-order campaign surpassed our expectations significantly and the game has taken a clear position in our portfolio, where we believe it will have a longer period of long - tail sales.

«The postmodern museum is about pluralism, while the contemporary art museum is about taking a clear position, about breaking with the dominant interpretations of freedom, creativity, and democracy.»

Not exact matches

To see which company is in better position to take over as the clear - cut No. 1 smartphone maker, we asked the next generation of smartphone users which they prefer: the Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phones.

Once I know my audience I would craft a clear offer based on the position I want to take within an industry and focus on making sales as soon as possible.

said county singer Jason Aldean, making it clear that his position on the current gun debate will be to avoid taking a position in the politically charged debate.

The business presents an ideal opportunity for a new owner to take over a proven and scalable business with thousands of glowing reviews, clear market demand, and a leadership position within the niche.

When it became clear earlier bullish bets on oil post-OPEC were about to cost speculators a lot of money, traders and their machines took over and engineered bearish positions to mitigate losses.

In any event, it is clear that taking a defensive investment position during periods of overvaluations has never harmed long - term returns.

The positions taken are not directly, or even plausibly, the necessary consequence of clear and authoritative teaching.

If prominent leaders want to insist that America still has a moral obligation to take in thousands of Syrian refugees — a courageous, if unpopular, position in the current atmosphere — they should at least acknowledge the clear risks involved, and not disparage those who disagree in good faith.

One of the most useful ways of doing this is by what psychotherapists call taking an «I» position — «making clear statements about your own thoughts, feelings, and actions without using others to explain the way you are.»

The positions he has taken with candor and defended with clarity do not bind the conscience of the reader, but they do challenge the reader to make his own equally clear and equally dedicated responses.

CNN: My Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up about guns Pastor and author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»

I take their clear, serious - minded positions over the equivocation and obfuscation of a marketing ploy any day.

Clear to any Biblical scholar is the truth that if it takes work an arguement to come to one position, but a hundered literate eight year olds can read the book and come to the opposite arguement, then your arguement is contrived, false, and not true to the text.

«Usually that's something that's very clear in the rules: when two cars are side - by - side at the chicane and one gets to take it and one doesn't, you give back the position, but this time the FIA must have been having a Heineken.»

WE need a Costa type striker (Nothing wrong with Giroud) who can score by making his own goals apart from taking clear chances, Additional creativity to fight for OZIL (No disrespect but for 42M he has not proved to be a game changer in Big games — Better players even cost less e.g Costa, Hazard - HE MUST DO MORE) and Cazorla position.

Whether you're the leader of the Spurs or Facebook, you need to step up and be a good leader, state your case, be clear as to your position on things, take responsibility, and support the cumulative effort.

This season these teams have performed poorly but we have not been able to take the clear opportunities we have had to get ourselves in to a commanding leading position.

GK down so now the most important position to strengthen is ST.. So many massively underestimate Giroud and Walcott — Strikers that may be available are Martinez, Mandzukic, Higauin can be slightly better than Giroud — but if you take in 1 year to adapt to EPL — they are no improvement over Giroud for next season To improve we need a real world class one and in this market it is clear that he does not come cheap — I won't be surprise if the asking price is somewhere at 50M pound mark.

With Louis van Gaal's side somewhat short of options in midfield last season as Michael Carrick spent a lot of time out injured and new players like Ander Herrera and Daley Blind took time to settle, it's clear that Schneiderlin could make a fine addition in that key position.

The Brit carried on his form from Montreal to take his 66th pole position and go a clear second on the all - time pole position list

If we're sitting at 26 and there's a CLEAR difference maker regardless of position, I take it.

Welbeck also backed the statement of the boss and even admitted that his half hour against Norwich had taken a lot out of him, but in another Arsenal.com report he made it clear that he did not really want to be a sub and that he would much prefer to start in the centre forward position.

Passes were finally penetrating and both Benik Afobe and Diogo Jota were taken out in dangerous positions after Bonatini had already hit the post with the game's clearest sighter.

A central position gives him five clear passing options: the two midfielders, the winger, Sigurdsson on the left and the striker, whereas if he were to take up a position out wide, that leaves with with just three: the attacking midfielder inside, the striker and a midfielder.

The club's home form has, however, helped to see them take up a position in mid-table, five points clear of the drop zone.

From someone with no clear position in the United side he now seems to take up every one.

I hope I made clear in the post that I'm not taking a position either way on PCRM's petition — I lack the scientific chops to evaluate the studies they submit in support of it.

Now that AG Andrew Cuomo is dipping his toe into the roiling waters (via Fred Dicker) on select issues such as the still - late state budget, the Ravitch plan and lifting the charter school cap, his opponents are taking the opportunity to call on the yet - unannounced gubernatorial hopeful to make clear his positions on a host of other topics as well.

We have a clear ideological direction on how this country should be run and to that extent we have always taken the consistent position against capitalist policies of privatization and deregulation and that explains our opposition to hike in fuel prices.

«The Governor's position is clear: the Democrats must unify to take back the majority,» said Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for Cuomo.

«It's pretty clear the Democratic party in Erie County hasn't taken a position on any issues in about 50 years,» Reese said.

«We respectfully request that you take down your video and make clear your political positions without using 9/11/01 as a backdrop for your message.

Labour needs to take advantage of this situation and position itself as the clear alternative to the Tories with progressive policies to raise living standards.

It is not clear yet what the company will do in the light of the position taken by the Natural Resources Minister.

When asked why the move had not been announced earlier, the home secretary insisted he had made clear when he took over from Charles Clarke two weeks ago that all ministerial positions were «provisional».

He also referenced a court case involving the Civilian Complaint Review Board from a year earlier, «when the Law Department took a very clear position that the state law required us to keep this kind of information confidential.»

It is clear that the Tories are already falling out over Brexit and immigration, and Labour must take full advantage of that by positioning ourselves as the defenders of the interests of the mass of ordinary people as opposed to those of big business.

But repeated polls suggest that there is no clear candidate among Labour's senior figures who could be guaranteed to turn the party's position around if he or she took over as prime minister.

But the city took the opposite position, arguing that MIH applies only when new residential density is created rather than merely moved — an interpretation that local Council member Corey Johnson accepted in late September, clearing the path for the project to move forward.