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I refer to the declaration by Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis ("On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone"), and to the judgments expressed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and then by Pope Benedict XVI concerning its definitiveness.
The definitive exercise of teaching authority
Accordingly, the task of deductive rules and their deductive consequences, undoubtedly, is to codify reasoning that is not arbitrarily determined and exhibits definitiveness and invariance.
The fallacy of misplaced temporality in Western Philosophy, natural science, and Theistic religion
Although EBP practices, especially experiments, generally provide more definitive answers than, say, focus groups or descriptive statistics, it does not follow that definitiveness is what policymakers find most useful.
Where's the evidence?
Thus even in its definitiveness, the work will continue to demonstrate its value by pointing us to new directions of study concerning the interplay among the myriad Jewish subcommunities and the varieties of Jewish expression.
City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York
Losing the Marbles" affirms with punning, aphoristic definitiveness that "All stone once dressed asks to be worn," but also asserts that "the will- / To-structural-elaboration"--the determination to design, to organize, to interpret--ensures that where recovery may fail reinvention will inevitably flourish.
James Merrill's embodied memory
Despite the definitiveness of these studies, as well as other conclusive studies coming to the same finding, no colleges or professional publications or news media would cover the findings, or take them into account in the college admissions process.
Affirmative Action Assumptions: for many years, debates over "affirmative action" programs for blacks going to college have focused on "fairness" when they probably should have centered on "worth."
Such awareness must not be allowed to lead to false attitudes of definitiveness of the knowledge of God's relational encounter with humanity in general.
"Love one another as I have loved you": the place of friendship in interfaith dialogue
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Shaping many into one
The only exception is Brain Peterson, author of Burning Fight, In his introduction he makes no grand proclamations of objectivity or definitiveness.
"Well I don't care about history": oral history and the making of collective memory in punk rock
the fostering of critical thinking and alternative perspective taking, they must examine peer feedback with caution, since peer feedback by definition differs from professional or teacher feedback in terms of its quality, authority and definitiveness.
Accomplishment in the multitude of counsellors: peer feedback in translation training
Thomas Howard insists on the historical definitiveness of the work, which he ranks among the greatest achievements of Christian art, including Dante's Divina Commedia: "Four Quartets stands as Eliot's valedictory to the modern world.
Midwinter spring, the still point and Dante. The aspiration to the eternal present in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
113) This review confirmed a lack of consistency, clarity, and definitiveness in these assessments, despite considerable efforts on the part of various jurists.
Idiots and insane persons: electoral exclusion and democratic values within the Ohio Constitution

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