Sentences with phrase «viewed against the fact»

The court also considered the other enunciated factors: in law, «blameworthy conduct» could include failure to pay child support (which was not the case here), but the refusal to disclose income had to be viewed against the fact that the mother did not request disclosure until 2011, which was almost 13 years after the initial child support order had been made.

Not exact matches

In view of this, it is puzzling that these countries complained about «currency wars,» alleging that the «monetary tsunami» unleashed by the U.S. and the euro area was threatening their competitive positions by pulling up their currencies, when, in fact, the real and the rupeewere falling against the dollar and the euro.

Because the indulgence of its aestheticism is in fact against the law, NAMBLA leads a shadowy existence and its membership tends to be secretive, although every once in a while it breaks into public view, causing consternation in the «mainline» gay movement that is bent upon assuring Americans that it wants nothing but tolerance while it is conducting a revolution that will change everything and everyone.

The world is black and white and anything else is seen as soft... I can tell you for a fact that he is viewed positively by a large majority of scheme people who find his views odd but like the fact he sticks up for himself against the posh establishment.»

Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

In particular, evangelical leaders need to covenant together to avoid and publicly condemn name - calling, slanderous stereotyping, inaccurate, one - sided depictions of another's position, distortion of facts and an unwillingness to test one's views against others on the basis of Scripture.

In fact, for the very reasons you suggest, Chromosome 2's fusion argues against the literal view of a genetically perfect Adam / Eve who only suffered mutation after the fall, that is, an overnight fixation of this fusion throughout the entire human population.

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

Aside from the fact that this is an example of that penal substitution view rearing it's head, for in this view, God hates sin, and is angry at sinners, and so must kill His Son as a way to appease His own wrath against sin (which doesn't make much biblical or theological sense), the real reason I was shocked to read this statement is because it is the exact opposite of what Paul actually says in Romans 8:32!

In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

In this essay, I have referred only to the Book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be.

People both for and against abortion have abused and manipulated language to gain support for their views; but certainly, pro-abortionists have been especially guilty of brutalizing language to cover up the fact that abortion is the killing of innocent unborn babies.

In fact, from each ocean view room balcony hotel guests can observe the near constant clutch of surfers hanging ten — a quintessentially Californian vista, especially as they are silhouetted at dusk against the orange, red and otherwise polychromatic backdrop of the setting sun.

The fact that Arsenal did not buy a new DM over the summer has dominated the JustArsenal comments for the last few months, and everyone thought that Arsene Wenger was definitely at fault, a view that looked vindicated when we saw Francis Coquelin limping against Chelsea after landing badly on his knee.

PS: Don't get me wrong, I respect the fact that you post your optimistic yet contrarian views on here despite all the evidence that keep stacking up as an argument against optimism.

While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent draw against Reading at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions League group and winning the last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league leaders.

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Anytime a black person alleges that they have been racially discriminated against, they are viewed as a «Don King» sort of radical until they can prove racism did, in fact, take place.

Thus, to appoint a person who is clearly biased against Israel, who believes that a call to destroy a sovereign state should be regarded solely as «political views» and who justifies his legal opinion to bring an Israeli political leader to justice based on mistaken facts, if not on his fertile imagination, is incomprehensible.

«Allow the Igbo and support them to hold a referendum to decide their future either as Nigerians or as Biafrans in view of the fact that the population of the Igbo that supports Biafra is far larger than the few who appear to be against it.

@xrorox Well, in fact Daesh is still there having intensive clashes against an - Nusra (which is quite nice from almost any point of view).

When the appeals court overturned Silver's corruption conviction, it said that many people would view the facts that came out in the case «with distaste,» but the instructions to the jury did not track with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2016 in a corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The statement by reader — «In fact calling a special at all will severely hamper their efforts to win back the majority and would have to be viewed as a slight against them.»

The fact that candidates are viewed unfavorably by people who plan to vote against them isn't surprising in itself.

The position of the Federal Government is that in view of the fact that Cameroon has been a major key player in the war against insurgency and the involvement of Cameroon in fighting for the stability of Nigeria, it will be out of the foreign policy context of Nigeria to abandon Cameroon and the acting president directed me — and I have communicated appropriately that if the only vote that will come to Hayatou will be from Nigeria, Nigeria should stand with Hayatou.»

In fact, understanding the dynamics of how novel ideas enter a scientific field requires a long view, reports another NBER working paper: «Bias against Novelty in Science: A Cautionary Tale for Users of Bibliometric Indicators» by Jian Wang and Reinhilde Veugelers of the University of Leuven in Belgium and Paula Stephan of Georgia State University.

In view of the above - mentioned facts, while giving to M. Farman the credit for first publicly demonstrating that it is possible to fly in all directions, both with, against, and across a light wind, we nevertheless wish to recall to the aeronautical world the fact that to America belongs the credit of producing the first successful motor - driven aeroplane, and that to such men as the Wright brothers, A. M. Herring, and Gustave Whitehead — men who under the tutelage of Lilienthal and Chanute, have begun with gliding flight and gradually worked their way forward to the production of a self - propelled aeroplane in all its details, including the gasoline motor — belongs the real credit of having produced the first successful heavier - than - air flying machines.

If we do that we will find that much of what we have taken as fact is simply untrue and is designed to support a certain world view that keeps us imprisoned in this world of separate selves, or egos, that creates, for its own apparent self - preservation, a world of separation, of Us against Them.

No, I expect the anti-Blaine groups to continue looking for a case with facts supporting their point of view — that is, a case involving an application of a Blaine Amendment in a way that appears to discriminate against a particular religious tradition, denomination or practice.

Lewisham are confident that Ofsted back their view, because it was in fact Ofsted who rejected the governing body's appeal against the warning notice.

I don't want readers to think that I am some kind of romantic Neomodernist looking for originality or genius in a work of art; in fact, I have written and spoken extensively against such a view on my blog and at this year's SECAC convention in Savannah, among other places.

I'm sticking with my view for the moment, bolstered by the fact that everyone seems to correlate hurricanes against SST and I've never seen anyone correlating them against upper temps.

If I was viewing this situation from the outside, the very fact that a site, like Real Climate, basically refuses to let someone like me post would be a huge flag against their veracity.

How much pushback have you demonstrated against the CAGW belief when confronted by facts that do not support your views: e.g. the fact there is a lack of evidence demonstrating that GHG emissions will do more harm than good.

In the Advocate General's view, the fact that ULD may exercise its powers of intervention against Facebook Inc and Facebook Ireland in no way would prevent it from also taking measures against the Wirtschaftsakademie.

In fact, former prime minister Stephen Harper, speaking at Yukon College in Whitehorse in August 2014, following the death of 15 - year - old Tina Fontaine — who was killed after she left her foster home — stated that violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada should not be viewed as «sociological phenomenon.»

The Premier, the Honourable Dalton McGuinty, expressed the following view as part of a news conference: «The Attorney General has made it perfectly clear this is unacceptable, it's not in keeping with practice and in fact, it's against the law....

Even if we had taken a different view of the substance of the case, in the exercise of the court's discretion we would have declined to grant any relief, having regard in particular to the fact that Parliament has addressed the question whether there should be a referendum and, in passing the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, has decided against one.

Those economic data should bode well for commercial real estate, which is often viewed as a hedge against inflation due to the fact that leases include escalation clauses that often mimic changes in the Consumer Price Index.