Not exact matches
Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various
other market specific and
other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results
of which form the basis for making
judgments about the carrying values
of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from
other sources.
We base our estimates on historical experience and on various
other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results
of which form the basis for making
judgments about the carrying values
of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from
other sources.
Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant
judgments and estimates, including the fair value
of certain forms
of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value
of acquired intangible assets,
which involve projections
of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value
which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value
of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives
of the assets.
There were significant
judgments and estimates inherent in these valuations,
which included assumptions regarding our future operating performance, the time to completing an initial public offering or
other liquidity event and the determinations
of the appropriate valuation methods to be applied.
Misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something different in the eyes
of God than according to human
judgment; that God turns toward the very places from
which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than
others.
If the state makes the
judgment of which institutions can benefit from vouchers, tax credits, and
other measures, we end up with the governmentalizing
of mediating institutions and the consequent destruction
of what makes them so invaluable in the first place.
Wildmon and
others are simply using the mechanisms
of the market place to express their consumer preferences,
which happen also to be their moral
judgments.
Amos had
other standards
of judgment, and the clarity and firmness with
which he set the existing situation into the context
of a loftier conception
of religion gives him an outstanding place in the history
of revelation.
In any event, it was all fairly conventional, merrily venomous talk - radio ranting, and I would probably have forgotten it a moment afterward if, at the end, the woman speaker had not opined that this «Occupy business» was all a part
of the decay
of the «traditional Christian values that built this nation» — a
judgment to
which the
other two assented vigorously.
He might even have been prevented from reaching the goal just by being unwilling to use any
other means than those
which the
judgment of eternity permits.
Am not sure if you are in the dark or the Darkest
of all Darks and only God would judge that and may have mercy upon your soul
which is clearly suffering the emptiness in life and would do be in pain after death and again on
judgment day but the hardest is when you are to pay your dues in the Hells
of Fires where it is said that every time skins are burnt they are replaced with
other fresh skins to no end if no mercy from God?
President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear
of communism»» together with Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation
of moral
judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for
which the evocation
of the specter
of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any
other form
of reasoning.
But it does mean that understanding
of the way in
which one movement arises out
of another and interacts with
others is an important factor in determining responsible
judgments about it.
There is the tendency
of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and self - righteous
judgment according to a moral standard
which we assume puts us in a good light and
others in a bad.
And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass
of time, when the noise
of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor
of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat
of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory
which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the
judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks
of thee and
of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit
of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to
others, didst rave in despair.
Forgiveness by God and by ourselves releases us from the tensions
which keep us from being generous in our
judgment of others.
Niebuhr said that moral pride «is revealed in all «self - righteous»
judgments in
which the
other is condemned because he fails to conform to the highly arbitrary standards
of the self.
No regard is shown for the conditioning
of heredity, habit, and circumstance,
which other thinkers had considered; but the
judgment is flat: if one does such and so, he is wicked; he shall die!
There is a sense in
which the divisions themselves already constitute some kind
of judgment after death, but a final
judgment was still awaited, presumably at the end
of time when all the human race have been assigned to their places in one or
other of the four hollow places.
On the
other hand, he said that the message
of Billy Graham, despite its simple pietism and obscurantist framework
of «The Bible says...,» has «preserved something
of the biblical sense
of a divine
judgment and mercy before
which all human strivings and ambitions are convicted
of guilt and reduced to their proper proportions.
In fact when He spoke
of judgment (
which I believe to be temporal) He referred to doing for
others.
Thus my
judgment is that the traditional view
of the past as a living resource is more adequate than the contemporary one
which Dr. Altizer, along with many
others, so eloquently represents.
These two ideas are closely related and, in my
judgment, have an importance for Paul and are intended with a literalism and realism
which can not be affirmed
of any
of the
other images, although, as will soon appear, I am by no means dismissing the second and third
of them as mere metaphors.
So, people who go to Hell, go there for a» designated period
of time»,
which at the end
of that period, they, as well as all
other dead souls, are CALLED forth to the
judgment of works.
So, too, I can not share Cobb's
judgment that there must be some
other standard than its intrinsic philosophical excellence
which enables us to decide for a certain form
of natural theology.
For appropriateness entails a
judgment about a certain text - as - interpreted, within
which «propositions reside; it is not a
judgment made in the interpretation
of a text.6 In
other words, although «process hermeneutics» proposes that theology attend to «propositions» in Scripture - as - interpreted, this proposal is impartial, at least initially, to any proposition; that is, it is materially indeterminate.7
There are many
other ways in
which this kind
of judgment of self, with the resulting conviction
of sin, unhealth, may come home to us.
In
other quarters it is the specifically ethical aspect
which commands almost exclusive attention — conduct, moral
judgments, philanthropy, the Christian social order, and the like, The advocates
of the respective views are often severe with one another.
Our moral
judgments, both in respect to ourselves and to
others, must therefore be made in terms
of the general direction in
which we are moving.
Quite the most notable
of all the chapters is the 125th,
which describes the famous
judgment scene through
which every soul must pass before the entrance into the
other world.
My own
judgment is that that doctrine
of God is always to be preferred
which,
other things being equal, interprets his relations with the world more, rather than less, like the way we interpret the relations
of other entities.
To relate the formal structures
of mathematics and science to the concrete particularities
of the world
of actual objects requires not only calculation but
judgment, a
judgment which, if Dewey and
others are correct, surely involves valuation and qualitative awareness.
Besides the conditions
of society itself, under
which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care
of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts
of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the
other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter
of death (and
judgment) has been used as a form
of social control.
In Buchler's system, a principle
of ontological parity is a commitment
which pervades the analyses in both the general ontology and the more specific metaphysics
of what Buchler calls human utterance.1 For Buchler, that no one
of three modes
of human
judgment is any more
of a
judgment than any
other is also an exemplification
of the more general principle
of ontological parity.
This means that our categories
of individuality and communion with the
other, freedom, action and suffering, causality
which leaves the
other free to be moved by the
other, and impartiality
of judgment have their analogues in the being
of God.
The demand for impartiality in
judgment then is not a contradiction
of love; but the high tribute
which love pays to the
other, the tribute
of seeking the truth in the
other and the
other in the truth.
To refuse a deity who is a sovereign and alien
other, or to will the death
of the transcendent Lord, is certainly to risk an ultimate wrath and
judgment, a
judgment which Christianity has long proclaimed to be damnation.
The dominant attribute
of God, the criterion
of judgment with reference to
which other aspects
of the divine nature were estimated, became the kind
of love the New Testament writers found in Christ.
Like many
other activities
of ministry — rendering a theological
judgment, structuring a sermon, being present to persons in acute crisis, discerning the plan
of action and strategy to
which a congregation is called at a particular moment in its life — choosing a myth requires the complex interworking
of rational
judgment, adequate information, emotional openness and self - awareness, intuition, sensitivity, prayerful reflection, and more.
«
Other - worldly» is the usual word for the invisible world, but difficult to reconcile with New Testament eschatology,
which speaks
of a future, a goal, and a
judgment.
But many Christians also «use» the threat
of God's
judgment and their own interpretation
of Scripture (
which they equate with God) as a way
of feeling superior to
others and getting brownie points in the Kingdom.
We pronounce blessing on those who believe as we do and
judgment on those who do not by the authority
of God; but is that divine authority the authority by
which Jesus spoke and taught: We believe that God is always on our side and not on the side
of other; but is it not possible that God
of Jesus may sometimes be on the side
of other rather than on our side?
To minister the word
of God faithfully is not the same thing as to peddle fallible
judgments about its remote implications concerning matters about
which others are more knowledgeable.
Similarly all
judgments which are made on the conduct
of persons, either ourselves or
others, require some ethical measure.
The religious view is based upon the universal applicability
of comparative
judgments, i.e., upon the existence
of some intrinsic good by
which all
others may be measured.
As an OG mama, I also don't give a rat's ass about what
other people think,
which is essential when making the decisions that shape your birth story (because there's a lot
of judgment going on).
(b) To qualify for licensure, an applicant shall be at least 20 years
of age and may not be addicted to alcohol or hallucinogenic, narcotic or
other drugs
which tend to impair
judgment or coordination.
I've been criticized for promoting a culture in
which working moms are expected to be «supermoms» when so much is already demanded
of them, for not paying attention to my babies while breastfeeding, for appearing to pass
judgment on Marina Abramovic, among
other things.
A final vote to convict may only come after receipt
of a
judgment from the Constitutional Court that «the acts,
of which the President
of Ukraine is accused, contain elements
of treason or
other crime.»
Membership in the United Nations is open to all
other peace - loving states
which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the
judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.