Sentences with phrase «to take at face value»

If taken at face value based on media reports (at this point, I've yet to find a full copy of the report) this appears to be no exception.

And that's not inherently a bad thing when taken at face value.

She's confident enough to not just take it at face value when her clients tell her what they want or don't want.

I'm sure elsewhere on the internet that claim you made is taken at face value as true, when clearly it is not.

So even if a stereotype were true, it could not be taken at face value by a lateral.

It would be interesting to see a full life cycle analysis instead of taking this all at face value.

So taking this at face value the extra cost of meeting carbon targets — according to this one study — could be up to # 320 billion.

So even taken at face value, the oft - cited yield gap between conventional and organic farming is smaller than the amount of food we routinely throw away.

That might be true but we can't take that at face value because of the problems with the survey.

And with the way the club held the line on that front over the summer, we should probably take them at face value on that now.

I'm a very literal person, which can be a bit troublesome, because I tend to interpret things too literally and take them at face value without reading between the lines.

The resume is always taken at face value, making it difficult for the person who wrote it, to make a true impression.

We'll never know his true motive; I learned many years ago not to take at face value excuses based on religion.

But that does not mean taking at face value contemporary scientific atheism.

Perhaps they are simply taking after their god, which if their stories are to be taken at face value got busy with a young girl or himself.

So from your point of view all the things that fit your narrow mind should be taken at face value while the rest are taken out of context.

But I also don't take at face value medical claims of how deficient kids are in certain nutrients.

While I use reviews as a rough indicator, I never take them at face value.

If it's not already evident, they were completely fabricated, and played for laughs, although there was always the suspicion that some readers took them at face value.

So, the next time a close friend or a romantic partner tells you something complimentary, try taking it at face value.

A fight about cabinets, which can seem unreasonable if taken at face value, is thus often a fight about much deeper emotions and relationship concerns.

Many courts have accepted that the amount billed for services can be taken at face value as «reasonable» for services rendered.

If you just made a fabulous dinner and your partner thanks you for making a delicious meal, then just take this at face value and be happy they noticed.

Even taken at face value, their outcomes have no bearing on whether American boys should be cut.

James Delingpole, who might perhaps best be described as a professional climate change denial journalist, published a rant on April 7, 2013, that combines inflammatory language, falsehood, and disingenuous «explanation'that, well, he doesn't really mean what he says and anyone who takes him at face value is either «dim» or a «professional offense - taker»:

The Dividend Blend portfolio from Taken At Face Value shows that dividend investors can expect to do exceedingly well even in the face of severe inflation.

That said, if you don't compare these two events, and simply take it at face value as a cool addition to the Downtown Vegas scene, I do think it has it's own particular charm and place in the Downtown landscape.

About Mike Mandel: Since the 1970s, Mike Mandel has been deeply engaged with photography, using its changing tools to pursue projects that question the nature and uses of a medium too often taken at face value.

Nintendo has neither confirmed, nor denied this report, so take it at face value for right now.

So her words are taken at face value with no corroboration whatsoever, and then embellished over the centuries by motive - driven commentators, novelists and artists?

We Aspies are notorious for literal thinking — taking at face value what is said, read or written.

You are very weak - minded to really take at face value a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories, when there isn't one iota of proof that ANY «god» at all was behind those writings.

If the current industry can't keep their prices high while competing with instant distribution of a vastly expanded literature — and that seems to be their only assertion worth taking at face value — then it's time for them to figure out how to make a business out of improved access.

While you shouldn't get too wrapped up in the how / where / when of texting (you'll drive yourself crazy, trust me), you can still take it at face value when he or she does text first.

The relationship between culture and cognition is surely vastly complicated, but Corner seems to think that complexity can be simply and easily ruled out with just a single questionnaire, and the results taken at face value.

Since taken at face value it's clear that the author already knows the answer to his question, I can not help but wonder if we are missing the true meaning and there is really more to it that is either just missing or was somehow lost in translation.

Be sure to read Taken At Face Value.

The buyer seems positive and eager to get started with the proposal (suspiciously enough, without raising concerns or objections), and the salesperson takes that at face value, letting emotions cloud their judgement and forecasting the deal as a «sure thing.»

Too many applicants take them at face value, not understanding that the results of any ranking might be based on little more than the subjective judgments of a journalist, with little, if any, understanding of business education.

While these skills initiatives and research investments can probably be largely taken at face value, they also provide Facebook with useful lobbying points at a time when regulators and lawmakers across Europe are taking on the company over issues such as hate speech, privacy and tax.

But while Big Media pretty much took at face value Harper's claim to be a moderate, largely non-ideological politician who'd shrewdly managed the Canadian economy, The Tyee offered different analyses.

In effect, it seems that Justice Gascon was prepared to take at face value Châteauguay's representations that it was enacting the reserve (at para 109) «to ensure the harmonious development of the territory of Châteauguay, to allay its residents» concerns and to protect their health and well?being...».

Rather than taking at face value Western rhetoric about itself as individualistic, secular and materialistic, and thus as an avowedly non-religious mode of civilization, we should recognize the deep religious roots from which these so - called secular values stem.

So some people write a story in a book long ago which gets morphed, twisted, and rewritten over the ages to what it is today and you just take it at face value believing everything you read as 100 % fact because it's written on those pages?