Sentences with phrase «viewed as irrelevant»

Attorney was shocked when I told her how often abuse of the mother is viewed as irrelevant to custody, since this is not true where she practices.

While homeowners are familiar with typical aging - related projects, they view them as irrelevant, according to data from the recently released HomeAdvisor 2016 Aging - in - Place Report.

Not exact matches

Even in After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre claims that «the barbarous despotism... which reigns in Moscow can be taken to be as irrelevant to the question of the moral substance of Marxism as the life of the Borgia Pope was to that of the moral substance of Christianity» (a view not likely to be shared by such as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn).

Your views on this subject should be irrelevant in your consideration for promotion, just as your views on any racial group should be irrelevant.

Their religious views were as irrelevant as their star signs.

Such authorities are pretty much regarded as irrelevant either way, and their views add little of value to the positions of secular authorities.

The natural tendencies are, on the one hand, toward a world - denying spirituality that views religion and politics as absolutely irrelevant to each other, or, on the other hand, toward an accommodationist stance that uses one to «legitimize» the other.

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

The study also found that students are significantly less cynical about politics and government than their elders; they simply tend to view politics as irrelevant to their lives and to the issues they care about.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

His idea of a «suffering God» really qualifies him as a heretic, so his views on gay marriage or gay lifestyle are, to me, irrelevant.

Like it or not, men view the church as irrelevant because much of what concerns men is either not addressed or when it is talked about it is done so in a feminine manner.

And even more so do we view our ancestors as hopelessly irrelevant.

One consequence of this is that we now view and defend practices contrary to the essence of marriage as irrelevant to the nature of the relationship, and rather hold autonomous self - determination to be central to it.

Accordingly, Griffin concludes that Plantinga's Free Will Defense must be viewed as basically irrelevant «to the problem of evil as humans actually grapple with it» and therefore as not «anything worth doing» (ER 45).

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

Media are being viewed instead as products and thus discussion is taking place in the realm of trade negotiations where issues of justice and equity are often ignored as irrelevant.

As a result, the myths of the mystery religions were irrelevant for such a Jew as Paul, until he encountered the view that the myth had happened in historAs a result, the myths of the mystery religions were irrelevant for such a Jew as Paul, until he encountered the view that the myth had happened in historas Paul, until he encountered the view that the myth had happened in history.

@JM — don't feel sorry for Atheist because what you feel is irrelevant the argument you are refusing to acknowledge is we want you to live your life as we do without trying to mandate your views.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

As soon as it is viewed as an incentive, punishment becomes irrelevant to the virtuous inmates and wasted on the vicious oneAs soon as it is viewed as an incentive, punishment becomes irrelevant to the virtuous inmates and wasted on the vicious oneas it is viewed as an incentive, punishment becomes irrelevant to the virtuous inmates and wasted on the vicious oneas an incentive, punishment becomes irrelevant to the virtuous inmates and wasted on the vicious ones.

Directly opposed to this view is the pragmatic theory which regards theoretical activity as an affair of rationalizations, essentially irrelevant to practice; practice is valued both for its own sake and as more directly contributory than thought can be to the welfare of men and the glory of God.

Usually his views are perceived as irrelevant.

On the Labour side this is reflected in viewing the Lib Dems and other parties as irrelevant while in other parties its replicated in fantastical dreaming about replacing Labour (unlikely in our electoral system).

Hayek feared that increasing government intervention in the economy would inevitably lead to the undermining of democracy, but within a few years his views were regarded as old - fashioned and irrelevant to the emerging consensus.

Also, 1) getting married is always a choice (well, in the U.S. anyway) regardless of sexual orientation and 2) as lazarusL mentioned, whether it's a choice or not is irrelevant to libertarian views.

This week, we hear two views on union membership, so before you jump in, or write the issue off as irrelevant, see what our contributors have to say.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

You may view these as innocuous or irrelevant, but they are formative in how we experience and approach relationships and sex as adults.

The teacher, despite good intentions and passion, is viewed as an adversarial or irrelevant authority figure.

On the other hand, proponents of the view that history is about facts and dates would regard essay - based tests as deeply flawed, since they assess students» writing and linguistic skills as well as historical knowledge (what is sometimes called «construct - irrelevant variance»).

Rivals include anything that's been around the «Ring with a view to setting a fast lap, though at this level it's irrelevant, as the GT2 RS will be parked alongside them in owner's garages.

Before I'm accused of being a Luddite, I have no problem with technology but I do with the prospect of being told what to do by a machine and the fear that one day a non-driving legislator might view the «drivers» viewpoint as irrelevant in the wider sense of transport for the masses.

I see indie publishing as a combination of creative endeavor and having a small business — and if you view it that way, most of the agent's points become irrelevant.

In Shields view, authors wishing to create new and relevant work work need to turn away from what he sees as the outmoded and irrelevant nineteenth century approach to the novel, and instead look at breaking...

Agents generally view buybacks as a means of offsetting option dilution, as a way to smooth or juice EPS and, best of all, as a share price booster to increase the value of their options — intrinsic value «s usually ignored and / or completely irrelevant.

As an irrelevant aside, I couldn't disagree more with this syk1288's view.

Since I usually play MMOs as single player games besides the occasional PvP, I'd say it's fair to compare the two from that point of view (single player vs. NPC mobs, PvP and group PvE are indeed irrelevant for a comparison).

P.P. - The late abstract painter Paul Brach once said that one day painting will be viewed as cloisonné is today - a visually seductive but culturally irrelevant medium.

Once the other is an «un», the original basis of dispute is borderline irrelevant, The polarised sides view the other as either ideologically wedded and alternatively ideologically opposed, to the root causes.

The court viewed the trace amounts of THC in hemp seed as insignificant and irrelevant, just like the trace opiates in poppy seeds, which are similarly exempted from the CSA and which the DEA hypocritically ignores.

The Court viewed as insignificant and irrelevant harmless trace amounts of THC in hemp seed, just like harmless trace amounts of opiates in poppy seeds.»

I just give you the consensus view in these arguments, which is very easy to do because it is well known, and all you do is give something that looks either made up as you go along or an irrelevant cut - and - paste of something.

On the other extreme you have the humanists who view human welfare as paramount and human ingenuity as boundless, so even if real global temperature effects are completely irrelevant.

Therefore, it should also be irrelevant whether investment tribunals offer their views on relevant EU law, and if so whether it is considered as part of domestic or international law.

Or should it be viewed as legally irrelevant?

Did the client weigh the lawyer's advice before ignoring it, or view the lawyer's advice as irrelevant to its decision?

If your profile information contains lots of info that is irrelevant to the job you're applying for and doesn't contain those skills that are relevant, they're certainly not going to view you as a preferred candidate.

As the Australian Human Rights Commission has previously submitted, «[t] o take any other approach contemplates a paternalism that considers irrelevant the views of a group as to their wellbeing and decisions materially affecting them»As the Australian Human Rights Commission has previously submitted, «[t] o take any other approach contemplates a paternalism that considers irrelevant the views of a group as to their wellbeing and decisions materially affecting them»as to their wellbeing and decisions materially affecting them».