Sentences with phrase «unambiguous about»

The defendant, the children's mother, should have been «unambiguous about her intentions» and given the plaintiff «real and escalating warnings,» the judge said.

Ybarra is unambiguous about where the inspiration for this tick - tock approach comes from:

Clear your mind of any doubts and be unambiguous about your objectives.

The opening article of the 4th constitution of the first Republic is very clear and unambiguous about why we elect governments: «The Sovereignty of Ghana resides in the people of Ghana in whose name and for whose welfare the powers of government are to be exercised in the manner and within the limits laid down in this Constitution».

(Though we need to note that while the Bible speaks consistently for justice and for siding with the poor it offers little that is unambiguous about policy and strategy for achieving it - another example of how God gives plenty of scope to us to participate in creation - redemption by using our imagination and initiative!)

Jesus is unambiguous about his definition.

Winn is honest about the ambiguity of the Bible on his topic, but equally unambiguous about the requirement of the gospel in our particular moment of discernment and obedience.

He was also unambiguous about his calling as an apostle (2:6 b) in that the instructions he gave carry «the authority of the Lord Jesus» (4:2).

Not exact matches

The chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve is being as unambiguous as she can be about the Fed's realist approach

It's truly ironic that the field responsible for branding has a brand identity that's about as unambiguous as Facebook's 58 gender options.

The historical lesson here is fairly unambiguous, although as always it is disappointing that economists who do propose such a solution for China evince so little curiosity about the historical precedents.

History rarely provides morally unambiguous tales about the rise and fall of any institution, including religious ones.

So, there is clear and unambiguous teaching about the wrongfulness of sex outside of marriage, the good of marriage and procreation, and the wrongfulness of abortion, euthanasia and reproductive technology.

In a pluralist world, what may be called moral innocence tends to be lost, that is, the innocence we have as children growing up that our own religion and the views about right and wrong we were taught are the only ones, unchallengeable and unambiguous.

Bater pertinently comments, «If there was that much ambiguity about the resurrection of Jesus for the eyewitnesses, on whose testimony all the succeeding ages must depend, do not the efforts twenty centuries later to establish it as demonstrable and unambiguous take on a certain comical effect?»

In each case, however, the tension in the title is at variance with a text that reaches for the unambiguous answer that religion is ultimately about peace, and that peace is what God wants.

For he had seen that no existing form, no empirical reality, no manifestation of personality or society is unambiguous in time, and that we, to be authentic, have to admit doubt and relativity into our consciousness — and then marshal the courage to be on the other side of doubt about being and worth.

McKenna links their preparedness to accept the Democratic Party's adoption of an unambiguous pro-abortion policy in 1980 to four further causes: (i) an inferiority complex towards their «secular humanist» «soul mates (in) the civil rights movement» who «dismissed (Catholic) concerns about killing unborn children.»

We have found the FLW Standard to be very helpful because it gives us a clear unambiguous way for talking about food waste.

As reported by Sky Sports the other day, Rafa Benitez tried to play down the speculation about Benzema and Gareth Bale and while his words about the Welshman were confident and unambiguous, the same was not true of the Frenchman.

Another analysis is that it is intended that the organizations behind these hits are unambiguous and that each hit is intended to send a loud and clear message to others similarly situated about who is ready, able and willing to kill you if you don't behave.

When he phoned Ravitch about the job, the governor was unambiguous as to what he needed: «We're facing fiscal problems that are growing, and I need help.

A crooked restaurateur testified Tuesday that he had «clear» and «unambiguous conversations» with Bill de Blasio about making illegal contributions to his campaign — and that the mayor ignored repeated warnings that what they were doing wasn't «kosher.»

Mangano defense lawyer Kevin Keating asked Singh if he had «unambiguous conversations» with de Blasio about what he was doing.

ANDREW LANSLEY: Yes, I think he was right because the authority of parliament frankly has been brought in to crisis point and that authority needs to be re-established not just in relation to the Speaker, but in so many other ways, which is why tomorrow for example, the scrutiny panel that David Cameron has established, that is going to be looking not only at making sure that everything we do is transparent and reasonable in the future on clear, unambiguous rules, but we are going to look back, as indeed we've done in the Shadow Cabinet and said, it's not about whether we were within the rules, it's not about whether it was legitimate, it's actually about whether we have done something which is unreasonable, which the public would not regard as acceptable and that, that test, that tougher test is one we've applied to ourselves and we will apply throughout the Conservative Parliamentary Party.

According to one source familiar with the effort to pass the bill, despite the unambiguous limits on it, Senate Republican leaders pointed to concerns some religious communities voiced about their freedom to counsel young people unfettered by the state.

I see the government's role as giving the best possible advice — direct, unambiguous, based on available science and free of food industry influence — about the role of diet in health.

In any event there was a second unambiguous domestication event about 3,500 years ago when African cultivated rice (O. glaberrima) was bred from the African wild species O. barthii in the Niger River delta.

The results presented in this experiment is the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

The results presented in this experiment are the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

«We've developed a platform for computer - mediated communication between humans and dogs that opens the door to new avenues for interpreting dogs» behavioral signals and sending them clear and unambiguous cues in return,» says Dr. David Roberts, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-lead author of «Towards Cyber-Enhanced Working Dogs for Search and Rescue,» a paper about the work.

Currently, we do not have access to research that will give an unambiguous answer about which exercises transfer best to COD ability.

Then the key is you have to make some decisions yourself about what you find important and what studies you think weren't unambiguous enough to be ignored.

A romantic side story, sappy backgrounds for everyone on the mission, carnivorous creatures, an unambiguous ending; exactly what about this movie do critics and early - viewers think is so incredibly high above us that only 1 % will be able to grasp it?

Late in the film, Ribisi asks Brolin whether maybe there's something a little troubling or even hypocritical about their gangster - smashing squad trying to destroy Cohen's empire using tactics even the vicious Cohen might find excessively destructive, but the film is so unrelentingly positive and unambiguous in its depiction of righteous violence that this stab at moral ambiguity feels arbitrary and halfhearted.

There is a case for summative school ratings, which send an unambiguous message about the quality of a school to parents who might otherwise be overwhelmed with information.

In short, Strategy 2 generates unambiguous evidence about the existence of peer effects, but the range of estimates is somewhat wide: 0.10 to 0.55 points is a plausible summary of the range, given the various results and known biases.

But as a signaling device to schools and teachers about what mattered to the higher - ups at the DOE's Tweed Courthouse headquarters, they were clear and unambiguous: Raise test scores, but most importantly raise everyone's test scores.

However, Microsoft has at least given its users clear and unambiguous guidance about what to expect.

And yet a rally in bonds is not exactly an unambiguous statement about deflation.

By «pure,» I mean that this is a game about the pleasure of unambiguous violence.

Ending up with nothing that challenges or requires amendment to AGW, the IPCC, the clear and unambiguous influence of moderate volcanoes, or the vastly rationally superior views expressed by Jennifer Francis about the influence of AGW on the Jet Stream as supported by direct high quality unfiltered evidence, and through the Jet Stream on extreme weather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY0RdXmLGdU

1) Show us the past literature where clear discernible, unambiguous predictions about the trajectory of all important climate variables such as «global temperature», «global sea level», «global rain fall», «global severe weather events» and other key «global climate» parameters were made.

We recommend that clear and unambiguous evidence is gathered about the way claimants invest their lump sum damages before legislation changes the basis on which the discount rate is calculated.

Nor is there any disagreement about the fact that retirement benefits can be changed even after the employee has retired, provided the contractual language allowing the employer to do so is clear and unambiguous.

However my question is not about this specific case, but about the legal terminology: Is there an accepted unambiguous understanding of this phrase in law?

«Lawyers and judges need to start thinking about alternative non-textual ways of articulating reasons for decisions so that the rationale for an outcome of a particular case is clear, transparent and unambiguous.»

If the text is deemed to be «unambiguous,» then textualism seems to cleanly slice through obfuscation like a scalpel, cutting away all messy questions about how to define and apply broad statutory purpose, legislative history, or judicially crafted substantive canons by instructing the judge to follow the «plain» text.

Claude Ducloux, an Austin lawyer who represents attorneys in the State Bar of Texas grievance process and is knowledgeable about legal ethics but who is not involved in the case, says the Supreme Court's ruling assures lawyers that when they have an unambiguous agreement with a client, that agreement is going to be valid and the client can not inject testimony into the case that the agreement says something else.

While the Court was indeed unambiguous in its conclusion that McKercher had acted improperly — in violating the bright line rule, in dropping its CNR retainers and in failing to be candid — the lack of any conclusion about the appropriate remedy necessarily weakens the strength of those conclusions.