Sentences with phrase «whether by virtue of»

He is not as mentally sharp as he was, whether by virtue of the injury or the associated medications he takes to manage his condition.

When you're perceived as belonging to an identifiable minority, he notes — whether by virtue of ethnicity, sexual orientation, or otherwise — «people will project certain expectations onto you.»

Whether by virtue of geography or history, the Siberian courts we visited seemed at least partly removed from the Kremlin's influence.

Agbakoba urged the court to determine «whether by virtue of Section 147 (2) of the 1999 Constitution, the President can hold the office of the Minister of Petroleum Resources without confirmation by the Senate of the National Assembly.»

Not exact matches

On the other hand, Watanabe, devout Christian that he is, has received a host of Buddhist feelings as his birthright by virtue of his Japanese heritage — just as a feeling for Christian values is an Americans birthright whether one chooses to accept the Christian faith or not.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

And this is precisely the authoritarian foundation of traditional preaching, whether that authority be lodged in the church, the Scriptures, the ordination of the clergy, or in the exclusive ability of the clergy, by virtue of their training, to handle aright the eternal truths.

One wonders: do the authors of the Platform themselves agree about whether the «dignity of all persons» is offended by abortion, whether racial quotas honor or violate the principle that «discrimination is abhorrent,» or whether the virtue of «tolerance» requires putting up with obscenity in the music of rock and rap?

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

The deists were influential well beyond the theological arena by virtue of the fact that a large number of this country's Founding Fathers were Deists, whether closeted or openly.

The equality of death exposes the ephemeral character of the cultural standards by which we judge ourselves, whether we are puffing ourselves up by virtue of our achievements or being crushed by our failure to measure up.

In recent issues of Process Studies there has been a spirited discussion among several contributors about whether or not God can be prehended by finite actual entities either in terms of the divine consequent nature or in virtue of a somewhat revised understanding of the divine primordial nature.

Whether we like it or not, we are separated from our fellow - Christians of the sixteenth century and earlier by virtue of a world view which causes us to think quite differently about some aspects of life on this planet.

And yet, whether they choose to withdraw or stay, believers should be wary of overstating either the horrors of the present era or the virtues of the American pop cultural landscape gone by.

I would monitor my body - weight, composition, cholesterol profile, chronic inflammation indicated by C - Reactive Protein (CRP) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) whilst doing so to help assess whether the diet was something to consider following periodically or continuously since insulin sensitivity is very important but not the sole factor determining the healthspan supporting virtues of a dietary template.

The primary criterion is whether they can, by virtue of their awesome communication skills, make an audience pay attention and learn something.

We've been able to bridge those findings to human studies, developing ways to both look for those neurons in the retina, see whether or not they're sick using imaging techniques that Alf and Vivek have developed, and clinical tests along with Jeff Goldberg in order to detect whether or not patients are losing an excessive amount of those kinds of neurons by virtue of different types of field testing.

In this study, we examined whether the potential to utilise global regulatory mechanisms to control gene expression through chromatin organisation varies between housekeeping and tissue specific genes (Hkg and Tsg respectively) by virtue of their organisation.

An idea is judged as good by virtue of its contribution to the collective, whether it adds practical, artistic or intellectual value to our experience.

Historians differ on whether Captain Bligh was truly such a monster or Christian such a paragon of virtue (some believe that the mutiny was largely inspired by Christian's lust for the Tahitian girls).

As I haven't read the Newberry Award - winning Kate DiCamillo novel on which the film is based, hard to know whether to accuse this adaptation of fidelity or whitewash — but at the risk of judging a book by its cover, the artist's rendering of India Opal on the trade paperback hints at the latter by virtue of looking nothing like the Aryan ideal that is Robb.

I debated with myself a lot whether I was supposed to go with «Kung - Pow» or «Kung - Fury» for this one, but ultimately «Kung - Pow» won out simply by virtue of being funnier.

At the beginning of the year, these films are unburdened, but her at the end it's as if they've been automatically waved through into Certified Greatness by virtue of being beloved by all, and you have to make an active decision on whether to not include them, but exclude them.

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Whether you want Seneca moral essays that explore the moral epistles, Alexander Pope moral essays on criticism that examine the moral qualities and virtues of an ideal critic, or you want to critic on the genealogy of our moral prejudices proposed by Nietzsche, our writers will use their interpretations of their principles in developing a strong moral position for your paper.

By virtue of going through it, there is an additional level of professionalism present - whether you personally think the book is crap or not.

But as more consumers obsess this season about the iPad mini and the new iPod touch, and whether the Google Nexus tablet is superior to the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, and the virtues of the iPhone 5's lightning connector versus the old iPhone 4s connector that predated it by less than a year, it's a good time to step back and wonder how we have come to this pass.

Barlow dilutes the nature of her mundane media by her exquisite use of color, whether included by virtue of fabric, electrical tape or spray paint.

And there is Michael Pollan's magazine essay on the virtues of attacking the climate problem, in part, by growing at least one item on your menu yourself, whether in a plot hacked out of a lawn or a pot on a rooftop.

We are, all of us, in various positions along a continuum of lesser to greater individual or family climate virtue, whether by intention, by pre-existing preference, or by level of means, though in the developed societies, we are as individuals and families bunched towards the less virtuous end of the spectrum in terms of the stability of the climate.

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The key question for Section 230 purposes will be whether Avvo and other reputational ranking systems are embellishing or enhancing third party material (or creating new material) by virtue of the way it is collected, processed, and displayed.

[173] It is a separate question whether the party to whom the documents are disclosed acquires a right to assert privilege by virtue of a common interest (see Section 31.5).

Quite apart from the general question whether all fundamental rights lend themselves to being the subject of interpretations varying from one legal system to another, the fact remains that there is one area where, by virtue of Article 52 § 3 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, EU law has itself limited the scope of its autonomy, namely as regards those rights which the Charter has borrowed directly from the Convention.

At issue was whether or not the student with special learning needs [Jeffrey] was denied a «service» ordinarily available or provided to other students by the Board and the province by virtue of the fact that he had a learning disability, and if so, whether or not the Board's actions were reasonably necessary or justified under the circumstances.

Outside the law school context, writing center scholars have long debated whether generalist tutors (those that are not expert, or even conversant, in the writer's subject matter) can provide the right amount of feedback.105 Some believe generalist tutors are the ideal, because «the ignorant tutor, by virtue of her ignorance, is just as likely — perhaps even more likely — than the expert to help the student recognize what must be stated in the text.»

The court looked at the policy reasons behind the fireman's rule, including whether the plaintiff assumed the risk of danger by virtue of his position as a police officer.

Underlying the topics argued at the hearing was the more normative question of whether an individual should be able to acquire a visa to come to Canada merely by virtue of proving that he has the financial resources to support himself or whether he should additionally have to demonstrate, as specified in the act and regulations, that he will make a significant contribution to economic activity in Canada.

Whether they arrived there by virtue of age or substandard performance, de-equitized partners have boosted the ranks of non-equity partners even further.

The question was whether he was specified in the policy as a driver of the insured automobile by virtue of being listed on the Certificate as one of the drivers on the policy, notwithstanding being excluded from driving any of the vehicles on the same policy.

The case concerns debts owing from a foreign sovereign state and whether assets subject to a Third Party Debt Order («TPDO») in the UK are immune to execution by virtue of the State Immunity Act 1978.

As to whether the Yukon is required, by virtue of s. 6 (1) of the Languages Act, to communicate with and provide services to the Board and its employees in French, there should be a new trial with the benefit of a full evidentiary record, not a dismissal of the claims.

Any law that imposes the penalty of imprisonment, whether the sentence is mandatory or discretionary, is by virtue of that penalty a deprivation of liberty, and must conform to the principles of fundamental justice.

59 Should that court find that, in the circumstances of the cases before it, such a denial does not follow from the refusals of residence permits at issue in the main proceedings, that would be without prejudice to the question whether, on the basis of other criteria, inter alia by virtue of the right to the protection of family life, Mr O and Mr M could not be refused a right of residence.

(b) whether the accused was, at the time of the commission of the alleged offence, suffering from a mental disorder so as to be exempt from criminal responsibility by virtue of subsection 16 (1);

That said, the question of whether the BIA renders Part II of the SFSA inoperative by virtue of the doctrine of paramountcy was decided in the court below and will no doubt soon present itself again and frequently in that court.

The fundamental issue for determination was whether his contract of employment is to be viewed as a fixed term employment contract with an objectively justifiable maximum term of nine years or whether the contract was converted by virtue of the Fixed - Term Employees (Prevention of less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/2034)(The 2002 Regulations) into a permanent contract thereby entitling him to continue working or upon termination obtain redress for unfair and wrongful dismissal.

The Court of Appeal found that the judge erred in law in finding that the other directors had a disclosable interest by virtue of the «employment benefits» that would accrue to them, nor did he consider whether the benefits were material.

The issue is whether Apple, by virtue of having its design patents infringed by Samsung, is entitled to all of Samsung's profits made from the infringing phones (regardless of how much that design contributed to the value of the phone).

Whether that's Alexa struggling to find a musical artist that you know is available through your streaming service of choice, or (as happened with us) having Alexa mistakenly order a pricey Nintendo Switch, its errors are all the more frustrating by virtue of the fact it so often works perfectly.