Sentences with phrase «when public questions»

So women speaking about gender issues in the church have a lot working against them when public questions or critiques are automatically dismissed as divisive and whiney.

Not exact matches

Prepared by a coalition of the National Venture Capital Association, Dow Jones VentureSource Database, Rooney & Associates (a New York public relations firm), and DeSantis Breindel (a New York marketing agency), the report seeks to answer a number of questions about the role of «branding» when it comes to the venture capital business.

When it became public that his name was in the records of a Capitol Hill escort agency, Vitter put out a written statement of contrition, went into a week of seclusion, emerged and, with his wife (who happens to be a prosecutor), made a brief public apology, then refused to answer questions.

It made a rare public statement in July 2015, when it co-signed a Reddit post in favour of an increase in block size — an ongoing technical question the bitcoin community is debating.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the allegation against Kennedy inaccurate, saying it «does not align with the facts» and noting that the email in question ended up being marked as classified when released, with redactions, to the public last year.

But just as Harper is de-emphasizing some of his past comments, the Liberals are also de-emphasizing their stand on private care within the public system, as we saw recently when Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew did a very public about - face on this very question.

The idea was to establish a record that will allow for better questions from senators when Cohen is summoned back for public testimony, the official said.

Amazon.com went public in 1997, leading many market analysts to question whether the company could hold its own when traditional retailers launched their own e-commerce sites.

But in February, Jones's second public attempt to reach drivers went awry when drivers began flooding Jones's Facebook page with angry comments and complaints during a question - and - answer session.

There were a lot of questions last week when I wrote about public pensions.

Question: When is the most ridiculous time to perform and make public a resource royalty review?

The Nunes memo became public at a time when Trump's lawyers are negotiating with Mueller's team over whether he will answer questions related to the probe.

There are also related questions that arise when private placements and public offerings occur in close proximity to one another.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

The coalition then crafted questions to determine where the politicians stack up when it comes to, say, their stances on faith - based initiatives, public prayer and support of the word «God» in the Pledge of Allegiance.

One may question what his motives are when he prays in public.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

However, I do question the direction a Mormon leader would take the country when he is involved in a religion which lies to the public and to it's followers.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

This is why there is simply no such thing as a profound question in American public life, an astonishing thing when one stops to think about it but so obviously true that it is easy to miss.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

Watching him live this double life of public man and poet, one wonders what Astrue — or Juster — is really thinking when he answers the biting questions of a reporter demanding to know why the new commissioner hasn't yet personally fixed the entire Social Security system.

First, he was engaged upon a broad appeal to the public, by way of addresses in synagogues, preaching in the open air, teaching when he could find an audience willing to listen, and discussion with members of the public who wished to raise questions.

Kaplan goes very near the heart of the matter when he says: «The real question is not whether the American military can topple Saddam's regime but whether the American public has the stomach for imperial involvement of a kind we have not known since the United States occupied Germany and Japan.»

When a religious believer refuses to repress these questions or even uses his faith to answer these questions in the public square, he soon meets with secular ideology's intolerance toward even the formulation of these questions.

For instance, one public relations brochure addresses the question: «What does it mean when you say you are a Catholic university?»

Nevertheless, he experienced what might be called the «Osteen Moment,» when his entire ministry, in the public eye, came down to his answer to Piers Morgan's forced question.»

Franklin Graham turned on Jesus himself when he questioned whether Obama is Christian, in public no less, and many times.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

Quite apart from the state of a politician's soul and the related question of excommunication, there is the matter of public scandal when prominent Catholics act contrary to the Church's teaching.

On a Potluck Hangout we had last night, «I Think I'm An Atheist»... we've made this one public so that you can watch it... a couple of our participants said that they were about 16 years old when they really began asking questions and were met with resistance.

I received the first of many public humiliations for asking a nun that question when I was five years old.

Why, we men have learned, indeed experience teaches, that when there is a mutiny aboard ship or in an army, the guilty are so numerous that the punishment can not be applied; and when it is a question of the public, «the highly respected cultured public,» then not only is there no crime, but, according to the newspapers, upon which one can rely as upon the Gospel or divine revelation, this is the will of God.

We'll get the answers to those questions in Week 2 when they square off with Team Philosophos — KE SR1 (Roast Public House) who will appear shortly in the Power Rankings.

So when the public - address announcer, who is about half the age of Max's uniform (the one with the question mark on the back), blows the introduction to the Rock Around the Clock number, Max stalks off the field in a huff.

some fans are so fickle here sometimes, you give up on players who had bad games and now you praising these same players, you can criticize a player when they are playing badly, but do not bash them and question their ability, some people on this site believe in public opinion like the media, but the media and these ex players turned pundits are ALWAYS proven wrong, excuse my grammar, COYG!!!

When public office holders are asked questions about failings of their departments, they never say that their system is great (even if they are) and what happened is just an anomaly.

Section II of the report, Time Use Findings (Chapters 4 - 6), primarily draws from time use surveys and includes public opinion questions related to time use when available.

This is an advantage in public when your child asks inappropriate questions (see # 3).

Robin Kaplan: Yeah, and so - actually Whitney and Daisy, I'd love for you to kind of answer this question as well: After your harassment incident - Whitney, you mentioned that you had a really tough time leaving the house when it was feeding time because of this incident - so would you say you're pretty nervous about breastfeeding in public after this?

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

Opinions shouldn't count when it comes to answering questions that people might run with because they're public figures.

And when it comes to the inspection of Chinese - processed chicken, many serious questions have been raised about whether the public's safety will be adequately protected, as laid out fully in this recent letter from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown to Vilsack.

For the most part though, the questions that arises most often when people see public breastfeeding are politely asked, whether or not they come from a place of judgment or curiosity.

Look also at the commentators themselves — when was the last time you heard someone utter a phrase that seriously questioned the narrow consensus that passes for public discourse in this country?

A question I often pose when taking part in public debates is «if not us who?»

Amid ongoing concerns being raised over an advisory opinion that would require consultants to inform lobbying regulators when they seek to influence an editorial board's opinion, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics has released a set of frequently asked questions on the regulation.