However, neither Mr. Osborne nor Mr. Emerson testified at the hearing, Mr. Osborne because his opinion went to
the ultimate issue of what the Hearing Panel itself had to decide, and Mr. Emerson because it was discovered he had a conflict arising out of his firm's representation of Hollinger International in related litigation.
(4) The trial judge's failure to consider all of the evidence in relation to
the ultimate issue of guilt or innocence is an error of law.
The determination by the expert is not conclusive of the ultimate question of whether the accused was driving while impaired by a drug; their task is to determine whether the evaluation indicates drug impairment; the expert evidence can not presume
the ultimate issue of guilt; it is «merely one piece of the picture for the judge or jury to consider.»
While the specific issue of the proper scope of a final decision may not get addressed in Cuozzo,
the ultimate issue of whether an institution decision is reviewable after final decision will be decided.
Ordinarily, it is the jury's task to decide
the ultimate issue of whether the defendant acted negligently.
Beyond and yet within all political issues we recognize the more
ultimate issue of our relation to the eternal work of God.
For on
the ultimate issue of the self's own potential perfection (what I have called the First Good or goodness of the person), he does not require correct reasoning but only honest effort.
However dubious this theory may have been, I found myself confronting
the ultimate issues of the nature of the world and the nature of man in a more naked form than I was likely to face them in theology.
If the Word of God must necessarily speak with the mythopoetic words of men, it is all the more inevitable that this should be so where
the ultimate issues of existence are in question.
It is the free person, God's creature, facing
the ultimate issues of life and death, but facing them in their final dimensions, and making decisions which arise from the creative courage of one who has faced and accepted the conditions of real life.
He will not lose sight of
the ultimate issues of faith which he would bring before the other, but if he is to open the way to that faith he must practice a loyal, patient, and sacrificial acceptance of persons in their struggles.
The central focus of the church's message is on
the ultimate issues of life and death.
Not exact matches
The
ultimate step is to conclude that you can not work with your partner any more, and then the
issue arises
of whether it is possible for one partner to buy out another.
«Our
ultimate concern is for the intellectual health
of society, but there are
issues here that are more immediately germane to investors,» Fraser - Jenkins said.
Although the
ultimate amount is still in flux, it is clear that any deal would dwarf the size
of other settlements the bank has reached to resolve separate regulatory
issues.
The most straightforward way to do the deal and what most people do is to
issue the first investor 4 times more shares than the
ultimate equity investor to adjust for the 4x discount in price (ie if I give you 4x the shares it's the same as though you paid 25 %
of the price for the shares).
A few days later, while arguing that his personal feelings on the matter should not affect the
ultimate decision to accept or reject the proposal, he stated, «from my [point
of view] it seems that the community's feeling on this
issue isalready [sic] clear.»
And
of the
ultimate owners
of those shares, an estimated 75 % have instructed their intermediaries not to divulge their identities to the
issuing company.
In a 1989 interview published in the same
issue of the Hastings Center Report in which Kass's tribute appears, Jonas said that his purpose was to examine «in precise philosophical and metaphysical terms the
ultimate bases
of morality and human destiny.»
Of course, to the man without faith this appears to be both a piece of evasion of real issues in that it shelves difficult problems, and a piece of wishful thinking in that it believes in the ultimate goodness of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence of life denies such goodness and lov
Of course, to the man without faith this appears to be both a piece
of evasion of real issues in that it shelves difficult problems, and a piece of wishful thinking in that it believes in the ultimate goodness of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence of life denies such goodness and lov
of evasion
of real issues in that it shelves difficult problems, and a piece of wishful thinking in that it believes in the ultimate goodness of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence of life denies such goodness and lov
of real
issues in that it shelves difficult problems, and a piece
of wishful thinking in that it believes in the ultimate goodness of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence of life denies such goodness and lov
of wishful thinking in that it believes in the
ultimate goodness
of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence of life denies such goodness and lov
of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence
of life denies such goodness and lov
of life denies such goodness and love.
Here in the core
of the I is a center from which choice springs, from which responsibility for one's acts springs, from which the
ultimate sense
of uneasiness and weariness with anything that is short
of the highest
of all in reality ultimately
issues, from which remorse and repentance arises.
The one that has received most attention in our time is that stemming from Soren Kierkegaard and
issuing in modern existentialism.18 I shall not develop this point beyond suggesting that here, too, concern with the
ultimate import
of the immediate situation associates ultimacy with immediacy in its concreteness.
A clear understanding
of the genetic history
of mankind is important in coming to terms with the
ultimate issue in race relations — namely, miscegenation.
But to get married for these reasons and to expect to stay clear
of more
ultimate issues is to beg the sanity and sanctity
of human experience.
The only cure for this crippling influence is a strong and independent organized teaching profession, whose members are protected against outside interference in the performance
of their professional functions and who recognize and accept their responsibility for dealing knowledgeably and impartially not only with the proximate
issues of life but also with the
ultimate concerns
of faith through which the particulars
of life gain their deeper significance.
And therefore the «company commander,» just because he is loyally obedient to his superiors, can
issue orders which have behind them the
ultimate authority
of the emperor himself.
Whether God alone is the
ultimate benefactor
of my suffering, or whether its redemption is shared by later finite individuals like myself (and perhaps including myself), the
issue at stake is the same.
I do take
issue, however, with Hancock when he states that the natural sciences are «for the most part... safely insulated from the questions
of ultimate purpose that condition our understanding
of the meaning
of education.»
Such an
ultimate break is already manifest in the birth
of modern science, a revolutionary event
issuing in the realization
of an infinite universe, a universe in which the physica coelestis and the physica terrestris are unified if not identified, and also a universe in which every formal and final cause has disappeared.
Thus the
issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning
of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities
of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment
of this life in an
ultimate good which transcends the possibilities
of this world.
It includes many interchanges on special
issues through which, however, the movement toward the definition
of the
ultimate issue and the final objective proceeds.
When he deals with a mentally disturbed person he can not take the place
of the psychiatrist, but neither can the psychiatrist take his place; when political
issues are involved, he can not fulfill the functions
of the statesman, but neither can the statesman, as statesman, illuminate a civil crisis by bringing only
ultimate perspectives to bear on it.
But the
issues raised are matters
of ultimate importance toward which indifference is impossible.
In the discussion about the death penalty, there is the
ultimate moral
issue of the right to take life, and whether even the state has this right.
It seems to me that our objections to these
issues, and our progress toward an «
ultimate ethic,» are the result
of extra-biblical change, not intra-biblical clues.
Christian addresses seven flaws in the atheists» arguments for the non-existence
of «that Loser,» the «biggest fraud
of all time, cosmic zero,
ultimate no - show» — sexual liberty, reason and logic, good works, art, converts to Christianity, the human family, and life
issues.
The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community
of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study
of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with
issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.
Certain critics
of Charles Hartshorne have questioned how this foremost living advocate
of process philosophy could resolve what may be termed the
ultimate issue in metaphysics.
Whitehead's fault then, according to Neville, lies in his adopting a «rationalist» answer on the
ultimate issue or trying to achieve a final explanation in terms
of first principles which are themselves determinate but not in need
of explanation.
Let us begin by reformulating the
ultimate issue in Hartshorne's terms through a sketch
of his metaphysics derived largely from his Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method.
At a 1981 Concern for Dying conference, Margaret Battin, who has written texts on ethical
issues in suicide, envisioned a time in the distant future when Christians would come to treat suicide as a kind
of sacrament involving a serious grappling with
ultimate questions.
In any case, if Neville's Platonism has led him to formulate the
ultimate issue in a misguided manner, his dubious interpretation
of Hartshorne stems also from an objection which he (CG 63 - 66) and David Pailin (PS 4: 194f) have raised independently against Hartshorne's position.
No one can say that this doctrine is unheroic or without its insight into the
issue of ultimate concern.
One recent challenge to process philosophers has come from Robert Neville and has involved a vigorous critique
of Hartshorne's stance on the
ultimate issue (CG 36 - 76; PS 11: 1 - 4).
It seems to exhaust the theoretical options to say that such an answer must be achieved by reference to either: 1) the categories themselves; 2) the noncategorial aspects
of events; 3) both categorial and non categorial aspects
of events; 4) some alleged factor (e.g., a God, Platonic Forms, «nothing») other than the categorial aspects
of events; or 5) by nothing (i.e., by no alleged factor at all, including «nothing»), so that the
ultimate issue is meaningless or at least unanswerable in principle.
Also, Russell, unlike many religious folk who write on these
issues, has the virtue
of facing up to the implications
of his position without fudging by the use
of rhetorical appeals to love and the «
ultimate significance»
of acts
of sexual intercourse.
The philosophical
issue which is quite fundamental to scientific thought is that
of the
ultimate nature
of the physical.
Part
of the reason for Neville's less plausible interpretation is his commitment to a Platonic view
of universals, which leads him to formulate the
ultimate issue in a way that Hartshorne would presumably not accept.
Isn't that what your
ultimate defense is surrounding the
issue of your gawd?
But if they are dealt with at depth, the contribution
of Christian insights to the discussions will be a more natural preparation for the communication
of the gospel
of salvation in Christ than the charitable services have been in the past, because it raises
issues regarding the nature
of self - alienation in human beings and the
ultimate ways
of reconciliation overcoming it.