Sentences with phrase «which is in contention»

He closes out the segment with final thoughts on The Witcher 3 which is in contention for his GOTY!

«I was telling the story on the putting green at the PGA at Kiawah [later] that year, and I told Joe LaCava [Tiger's caddie] that I had never looked at a leaderboard on the back nine and that it was my only regret,» said McGirt about his lapse in the first event in which he was in contention.

Not exact matches

A main point of contention in the race was the state's stance on the «bathroom bill» which denies transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choice.

One major point of contention between both parties is a deposition video that was leaked to Business Insider, in which Spiegel admits that Brown did conceive of the disappearing photos ideas and that he «may deserve something for some of his contributions,» none of which will help Spiegel's and Murphy's cause.

Curiously, in covering this effort, USA Today published a map highlighting cities and states that should be out of contention, yet added a footnote about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which both offer nondiscrimination protections although their state does not.

: A classic point of contention for risk parity is that interest rates, in general, are too low, and that while the approach may have performed well in the past, it is only because of an historic bond rally, which is unlikely to happen again.

But given the existential threat of climate change, or for that matter, the general state of our public goods, I find it awfully hard to accept the contention that there's nothing productive in which to invest the excess savings surplus countries continue to send our way.

But the engineer's refusal to turn over documents in the case — which hinges on Waymo's contention that key elements of Otto's tech was built off 14,000 documents stolen by Levandowski shortly before he left Google — may not delay Waymo's request for a temporary injunction that would prevent Uber from using its intellectual property.

Plus, in a white paper published earlier this month, a system for achieving zero - knowledge without compromising trust — a point of contention in some earlier iterations of the tech — was released, an update which could have exciting consequences.

Without intending any any disrespect to your contention, I wonder how the use of a school building by a religious group at a time or day when students and teachers are not using it is likely to result in a situation in which the «religious group becomes identified with the school, which appears to be promoting that brand of religion».

His contention was that capitalism is not just an economic system but an order within which culture, politics, and economics form a triad of «political economy» that is one of the great achievements of humankind and is best exemplified in the American republican experiment.

At the heart of To Empower People is the contention that those most immediately affected by the decision (notably parents and families) are in the best position to decide which institutions will best serve their needs - in education, health care, housing, and other areas.

He also said in 1 Corinthians, «10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of aChrist.13 Is Christ adivided?

Secondly, although it is easy from our perspective to identify, in isolation, certain «free choices» which we believe should have been vetoed by a Plantingan God, what must actually be demonstrated to make Griffin's contention a strong one is that the entire world system (the different possible world) of which such a violation would be a part would in fact result in a significant increase in the net amount of good in comparison to the actual world.

In support of this contention, it might be pointed out to me that we can argue by analogy to the self - transcendence of the universe from instances of transcendence which can be empirically verified.

This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?

It is my contention that both the existential phenomenologists and Whitehead have gone «beyond skepticism and realism» in a much more satisfactory way than Laszlo with his «complementarity» theory, which, although brilliant, seems contrived and artificial in many respects.6 Laszlo believes that a complete phenomenological reduction can be carried out; he believes that intentional objects are discrete and therefore isolatable as pure essences.

A process perspective on the language through which Matthew brings his christological witness to expression thus in my estimation lends support to Ogden's contention that the message of the New Testament is one that «can be formulated in complete abstraction from the event Jesus of Nazareth and all that it specifically imports.»

Except that Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory because it has no evidence in support of its core contention, which is that a god guided or started the process of evolution.

A process perspective on the language through which Matthew brings his christological witness to expression lends support to Ogden's contention that the message of the New Testament is one that «can be formulated in complete abstraction from the event Jesus of Nazareth and all that it specifically imports.»

«Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.»

First of all, I thank God for this article, and for the grace shown by the author in the face of much contention and strife (which are works of the flesh, and those who practice it them are in trouble!).

His contention is that Whitehead's move from Trend I, the delineation of types of existence, to Trend II, in which Whitehead has assigned some order of «priority» among the types, is incoherent, that it involves the arbitrary introduction of some other principle not required by, and indeed inconsistent with, that upon which the distinction into types is made.

Recently there was a Court judgment in Madras which granted the contention of a person who affirmed that he was a Christian by faith without change of community by conversion and therefore entitled to benefits ofthe scheduled castes of the Hindu community.

However, it is the contention of this essay that Hartshorne's thought has a significance which can not be limited to the confirmed «Whiteheadians,» but which also has relevance for styles of thinking that are more explicitly historical and self - consciously theological, including even the anti-metaphysical attempts of the «secular» theologies to speak of God in a political fashion.

The distinctive feature of his viewpoint is the contention that notions of relativity, contingency, and change, rather than being incompatible with the nature of deity, must themselves be essential components in an understanding of God which is both coherent and religiously adequate.

My contention is supported by the explicit diagnosis of the difficulties of Descartes and his followers in which the term subjectivist bias is used:

Whether or not one insists on the supremacy of God as a Creator, my contention is that there are also finite agencies and events in the world which manifest creative spontaneity.

Finally, if God would coerce if this were possible, process theists must question Ogden's contention that God is omnibeneficient in the sense that he is «good for others to an extent than which no greater can be conceived.»

Take, for example, the common contention that Hitler acted coercively when he placed Jews in concentration camps or the claim that parents are acting coercively when they finally pick up their recalcitrant children and make them go to bed or the common contention that a government is acting coercively when it refuses to give its citizens any input into the formulation of the laws by which they are governed.

Consequently as regards the fundamental contention we are examining, it is not appropriate, in view of the historical associations that burden the word «material» to subsume under the term «matter» the subjectivity which is also met with within the primordial unity we have described, because to do so would at least obscure the equally fundamental difference encountered in that unity between the knowing subject and the object which is merely met with.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

First of all, I would like to point out what seems to me the logical conclusion of Altizer's contention that tradition must follow the movement of energy beyond every particular form, in the direction of an apocalyptic identity of opposites in which God will be all in all.

This contention is critical in relation to Hartshorne's view of personal identity, which stresses the linear or «personally ordered» sequences or «trends of becoming» (k, 1, m, n).

To admit purely negative facts is in effect to give an independence to possibilities, to sever them from their residency in and relevance for actuality, and thus to deny (and even invert) Hartshorne's contention that actualities are the concrete from which all else is abstractable as aspects or constituents.

Or are we to accept Hartshorne's contention that in such cases we are just ignorant of the manner in which causal conditions have rendered the thing in question logically impossible?

Since it has always been a main contention of orthodox religion that God represents the very standard and meaning of morality, it comes as a shock to confront a view in which God and morals seem to fail apart and to be separate.

This investigation supports the contention that for both Newton and Whitehead some privileged space and time structure is presupposed by any physical analysis that is to be considered scientific and, specifically, shows that in Newton's analysis of gravitation and in Whitehead's analysis of impetus this privileged space and time structure functions as the framework, or background, in terms of which definite physical characteristics are then analyzed.

In his first book, entitled The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, Hartshorne announces his agreement with the Whiteheadian idea that the materials of all nature are events composed of aesthetic feeling,» claiming the additional support of modern physics for the contention; and he has never wavered in this conviction.17 Moreover, he also expounds in this work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experienceIn his first book, entitled The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, Hartshorne announces his agreement with the Whiteheadian idea that the materials of all nature are events composed of aesthetic feeling,» claiming the additional support of modern physics for the contention; and he has never wavered in this conviction.17 Moreover, he also expounds in this work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiencein this conviction.17 Moreover, he also expounds in this work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiencein this work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiencein his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiences.

But in the power battles which had been raging for some centuries, the contentions were common enough: «The Church's authority is greater than the authority of Scripture... the decretals of the Roman Church have to be added to Scripture... in the New Law the Pope's judgment is the oracle of God.»

According to Nikolaus Lobkowicz, Bonaventure is following Thomas Gallus's contention that «instead of applying the intellectus theoreticus» (i.e., our capacities for discursive and «speculative» reasoning, on which Thomas Aquinas focused), we «ought to reach God by the summus affectionis apex, the «tip of the will»: «It is by this communion (unitio) that we have to know things divine, not in terms of the sobriety of our intellect.»»

which was written in answer to Russell's well - known contention that Caesar himself «is not a constituent of any judgment which I can make».7 Against Russell Bradley contends that «the real Caesar... must himself enter into my judgments and be a constituent of my knowledge» (ETR 409).

I have followed Polanyi's contention that there are organizational principles operative in the universe which formatively influence the specific sequences of nucleic acids in DNA, and with Sheldrake I have postulated the existence of morphogenetic fields which canalize the processes of growth and development in organisms.

My contention that the propositional element in religious assertions consists of stories interpreted as straightforwardly empirical propositions which are not, generally speaking, believed to be true has the great advantage of imposing no restriction whatever upon the empirical interpretation which can be put upon the stories.

And even when one comes into sacred places where folk in organized philanthropy, social service or the church are supposedly working unselfishly for the good of men, jealousy is as present as it was on that last night when the Master with his disciples ate the memorials of his sacrifice and «there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.»

Instead we had a squad that does what it always does which is fall apart at the seems as a results of injuries and, IMO, bad mentality or weak will power, resulting in a run of results when it mattered most (as per usual) taking us out of contention early in 2016.

But Gerrard — who will leave the club for LA Galaxy at the end of the season — has not been overly missed it seems, as Rodgers's side have extended their unbeaten run in the Premier League, which started in mid-December, and have moved into Champions League qualification contention after Sunday's victory over Manchester City.

Joe Torre was back in contention for the National League batting lead after a nine - game stretch in which he went 15 for 32 and raised his average from.313 to.343.

Goalkeeper Chris Kirkland is in contention for a place on the bench after recovering from the back problem which cut short his loan at Doncaster.

With the squad that Aresenal has, which is one of the best in the premiership and with other top rival contenders not in contention, Arsenal should have an easy sail to glory this season.