Amid the facile circulation of untruths, what will happen to our society's commitment to the authority of facts, of the often laborious accumulation of empirical evidence, and of the scrupulously attained findings of humanists and scientists?
Like evangelicals today, they maintained a strong commitment to biblical authority and a strong emotional desire for an easily understandable face-value interpretation of the biblical text ("God says it, I believe it, that settles it!" being a popular phrase).
A serious commitment to delegating authority would require scaling back the UCOP bureaucracy significantly.
We are brokenhearted over the pain and confusion we have caused many of our friends, who saw this decision as a reversal of our strong commitment to Biblical authority.
In their zeal for free-market competition and their ideological commitment to shifting authority away from Washington to the states, FERC's commissioners brushed aside their qualms and let the process roll forward.
The board consists of twelve to twenty-four truservingserving for three-year terms, who are required to be "confessing Christians who acknowledge a commitment to the authority of the Bible over all matters of faith and practice, the sovereignty of God, and the Lordship of Jesus Christ over all of life".
The first is a popular and political commitment to local authorities providing public services, which was lost in England during the period of contracting-out and privatisation under the last government.
The study is funded by Schering AG, Berlin, Germany, as part of a post-approval commitment to regulatory authorities.
11 13 The current UK study was suggested by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and was implemented as a commitment to the authorities based on the recommendations of the EMA.
"He didn't make any commitment to strengthen the authority of the F.D.A.," Ms. Zuckerman said.
