Sentences with phrase «ultimate issue of»

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.»
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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.
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