Sentences with phrase «than debating about»

Rather than debating about how advisors are paid, we should be working to create an environment where all Canadians — irrespective of their net worth — have access to sound financial advice delivered by competent and qualified professionals.

The American Christian debate about just war theory is in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.

Sorry, Michael, but I have a hard time parsing that statement to mean anything other than debate about the MWP, climate sensitivity, etc. is politically motivated.

Not exact matches

ANALYSIS: CBH has served WA grain growers for more than 80 years, but debate is raging about whether now is the time to kill the co-op.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

Realtors polled for the monthly survey said they are hearing very few concerns from buyers about rising mortgage rates or the new tax laws, even fewer concerns than in December, when the tax laws were in final debate.

This paper will suggest that fund size segmentation yields important insight into the debate about the viability of the venture model and that smaller funds with less than $ 250 million of committed capital are the answer to better alignment and outsized returns.

Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union there has been more debate about the future of London's large financial services industry than any other sector of the economy.

The NDP could have framed this debate as one of protecting Alberta jobs and an Alberta - based company, rather than just about cancelling a contract with a giant Australian company (it was later announced that an appeal panel determined that Alberta Health Services breached its duty of procedural fairness in the RFP process in a substantive manner).

There is much debate about the sensibility of these tariffs, but rather than wade into that morass, let's examine what tariffs are and how they impact the economy and your investments.

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

Having substance and making an effort to communicate that substance works a lot better than Cain's 9 -9-9, or Gingrich's moon colonies, or Romney's convention story about roses or Obama's trying to skate through yesterday's debate on smugness.

I have heard many different theologians debate whether the behemoth was a crocodile or a hippo and some say it refered to a dino of some kind, none had any more proof than conjecturing about what the ancient hebrew words to describe it really meant.

The pope's short address left out much recent debate about enhancement technology and treatments that move «beyond therapy» to make us «better than well.»

Paul is not entering into the debate about whether creation is out of nothing rather than out of some primordial mass.

«So rather than starting the debate himself, actually it's grassroots... because of the very specific situation in Brazil, have requested the Pope, and the Pope is a pope of dialogue and is saying, «yeah, let's talk about this».

I think the conversation between traditional Christian groups and the gay community is much wider than the narrow debate about the biblical view of same - sex relations.

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

And rather than reviving the old debates about the nature of Being itself, wouldn't it be better to think about matter in terms of the incarnate Christ?

I love Jesus and I do feel that he had died for each and everyone of our sins and I feel we are all loved equally no matter what we do rather it be for murder to just plain old coursing He loves us all honestly I've debated in my mind that if Christianity is about being mean hateful and thinking that you're going around better than everybody then that's not the religion for me

As anyone who has mastered the time - honored art of argumentation and the Socratic Method can tell you, nothing will favorably end a debate quicker than a picture of Willy Wonka saying something snarky about Benghazi.

How much the Allies knew about the exterminations and what they did to stop it, other than fighting Germany in general, I suppose may be debated, but I hardly think that a description of, «just watched while 6 million were killed,» fits the facts.

Several years ago, a protracted, solemn, and highly technical debate raged through several prominent literary journals about a new edition of Joyce's Ulysses, a debate that reminded one of nothing more than the fundamentalist - modernist debates about the historical authenticity of the Scriptures.

Much of the most heated debate is less about the conduct of the candidates than about the meaning of a vote.

The chairman of Christian Aid also appeared to blame the ongoing debate over Europe on a growing sense of nationalism in the UK, he said: «With the Scottish independence agitation and all the questions about a federal UK quite a lot of people feel we need to affirm now what we are, what we distinctively are as English even more than British and that imperceptibly I think strengthens some of this unease about that mysterious entity called Europe which is over there.»

In fact, they debated about coming home because it seemed the grandmother might not live more than a day or two.

Those of us who believe, for instance, that surgical intervention might not be an appropriate remedy in the case of those experiencing confusion about their sex are ridiculed as intolerant or bigoted, rather than offered the opportunity to debate.

In 1966 Paul VI would recall that the Council was about «voice... style... approach» in the teaching of doctrine rather than debate or apologetics (p. 426).

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

Until then your «opinion» is worthless for no more than idle debate on here, or in your favorite meeting place where you sit and gossip about how perfect your world is and how God himself has placed you on that mountain to dictate his rules to the world because your so clean of any sin.

Roof muses that those of us writing and debating the issue at the time seemed more concerned about the survival of our institutions than the spiritual health of people.

Catholic theologians who have questions about the teaching owe the Church, themselves, and their colleagues something more than liberal posturing and point scoring in intramural debates.

There are surely other things that Christians must understand to enter the debate about Israel, and Jews can state them more poignantly and compellingly than any non-Jew can.

As I debated with a Muslim about the Bible and Jesus, I was soon surrounded by a large group firing probing questions at me, coming quicker than I could answer them.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Nevertheless, the press either chose not to understand what the UNESCO debate was really all about or purposefully misled the public about the matter; either way, the U.S. news industry adopted a less than «balanced» approach to the issue in order to protect its own self - interest.

More often than not, when two (or more) groups of Christians are hotly debating an issue (and calling each other heretics in the process), it is because both groups have incorrectly framed the issue, and are arguing about something that should not be an issue at all.

We come to debate narrow political topics and leave knowing more than we did, not only about the issues, but about those with whom we are arguing and about the world we share.

But, upon thinking about it, I decided that nothing is more appropriate than interrupting our comments about the debate over homosexuality with ten - word reminders of the hope of the gospel, which gives every conversation new depth and meaning.

It is significant that the terms of the debate about faith in the world are deemed to have been set by people like Richards Dawkins, just as it is significant that the debate is seen as a «political and secular», rather than a religious, one.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

The past dozen years have seen more serious and open debate about sexual orientation in North American churches than during any comparable time in history.

You do nt really care what he has to say about anything else, yet you are more than glad to drag His name and the bible (which you know nothing about) into a debate about to support your position.

I am not about to get into the complex history and debate surrounding consubstantiation (the Lutheran view) and transubstantiation (the Catholic view), except to say that both, in one way or another, see the bread and wine as becoming something more than just bread and wine, and in this way, the elements become holy and impart grace to the believer.

I hope it gets overturned and then each aspect of it really gets debated and thought about and passed slowly one peice at a time, rather than a mad rush like this law was passed.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

They don't of course, but the debate about the healing properties versus the «damaging» aspects of chile pods is much older than you think.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...