Sentences with phrase «as the argument drew»

As the argument drew to a close, and my daughter started preparing for her bath, I gave her a big hug.

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Avoid endorsing their viewpoints, because this individual will not think twice about drawing you into a third - party debate or argument as an avid supporter of their opinions and actions.

Harper even drew on Canadian John Humphry's drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an argument for militarizing Canadian foreign policy.

He here offers a persuasive practical, as well as unabashedly moral, argument that personal merit and competition are in the short and long term interests of minorities, drawing on his own rise from poverty, which he describes as an escape from «the liberal plantation.»

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

Name - dropping may not always be the most convincing argument, yet one has to show respect for any movement that can draw to itself support from such notables as Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller and Major General Franklin Davis, former commandant of the United States War College.

Two arguments for this opinion are drawn from the logic of names, but his primary authority is the Christian neo-Platonist pseudo-Dionysius, who is quoted as saying, «of him there is neither name nor opinion.»

Further than this we can not see and our argument must cease — except, as I have now to show, in the case of the Christian, who, drawing upon an added source of knowledge, may advance yet another step.

Three issues ago, and then again in the last issue, he's devoted «The Back Page» to persuading us that most modern men and women, even the faithful among us, find it hard to think of nature as morally purposeful, and therefore won't be persuaded by arguments that draw upon a robust notion of what things are for.

This metaphysical agnosticism diminishes as we develop larger - scale interpretative arguments, all of which draw on often unspoken, even unconscious, assumptions about the way human history and culture unfold.

Focused on more traditional arguments and images of death and the afterlife, they do not draw attention to the recent emergence of mourning as a spiritual concern.

However, as I showed in Evil Revisited (90 - 94), this argument relies on principles drawn from the philosophical theology of F R. Tennant, whose position on the God - world relation is essentially the same as Whitehead's.

But one or two speakers offered more novel arguments, such as increased stigma for children on free and reduced price lunch (when paying students leave the program) and attempting to draw a connection between California's drought and wasted fruits and vegetables.

As the Nov. 7 election draws near, here's a guide to what exactly a constitutional convention is, the arguments for and against holding one and what would happen if voters say yes.

Closing arguments ended this morning & the Jury received their orders this afternoon, as the trial of Ramadan Abdullah draws to a conclusion in Broome County Court.

A whiteboard was requested, she added in a later interview, so the jurors could draw a timeline of the Skeloses» actions based on the closing arguments from prosecutors, whom she praised as «amazing.»

«As we draw closer to the next Presidential and Parliamentary elections we all as Ghanaians expect ALL parties involved in the process to base their arguments and campaign rhetoric on the truth and desist from emotional and non-factual statements, especially where my name has to be mentioneAs we draw closer to the next Presidential and Parliamentary elections we all as Ghanaians expect ALL parties involved in the process to base their arguments and campaign rhetoric on the truth and desist from emotional and non-factual statements, especially where my name has to be mentioneas Ghanaians expect ALL parties involved in the process to base their arguments and campaign rhetoric on the truth and desist from emotional and non-factual statements, especially where my name has to be mentioned.

Winnicott's notions of «potential space» and «transitional objects» are drawn upon in this paper to advance an argument that online flirting should be considered as a form of play.

There inevitably reaches a point, however, at which the filmmakers» excessively kid - friendly tendencies become impossible to ignore, as the movie is slowly - but - surely suffused with tedious, needlessly drawn - out comedic sequences that are exacerbated by Levy's penchant for indulging his actors» improvisational impulses (with an excruciatingly prolonged argument between Larry and Kahmunrah surely the most egregious example of this).

There is a very clear sense in which I am being unfair to The Congress as I am writing about a dramatic film rather than a philosophical essay but Folman's decision to critique dramatic artifice whilst engaging in dramatic artifice means that The Congress draws your attention away from the drama and towards the film's flawed philosophical argument.

This argument is not lost as there is an acknowledgment as the 2015 draws near, that sustainable peace should have been one of the goals of the MDGs from the start apart from sustainable development.

This is an argument that draws wide support from educational bodies and providers, as REC Education regularly meets with teaching unions, government departments and local authorities, creating consensus that teacher absence should not lead to a poorer standard of teaching.

It may be tempting to use this news as an argument against vouchers, especially because the evidence is drawn from the most sophisticated research tools available to scholars who study these programs.

There are persuasive arguments on both sides of the question, as was evident in a public hearing that drew a contentious discussion among a large audience of attendees.

Quantitative analysis» main contribution in thesis writing is its ability to display the fact of an argument as a result of making a statistical inference about a particular sample of data drawn from a population.

As a rule, teachers, and professors evaluate such works based on each students» writing and critical thinking skills, combined with the ability to draw logical conclusions and support personal viewpoint with strong arguments and facts.

Beds are one category likely to draw customers into an actual store, rather than online, because people like to see, touch and feel this merchandise — another argument for offering high - quality products as these will not only withstand this kind of scrutiny but will actually benefit from it.

But one thing is for certain: it was a hell of a marketing campaign, because EA and Activisions bickering helped to draw attention to both titles and the imaginary war between them, as well as helping to spark even more fanboy fueled forum arguments.

And although it would be hard to refute this argument as it is evidenced through your article, you use Sucker Punch's laziness to try and make a statement («cultural cowardice») to draw attention to yourself.

Hugh first drew this image in 1998, reportedly as a result of an argument with a girl.

The arguments used have the same intellectual quality as flat earth arguments, yet somehow that has no effect on how they are believed, or the illogical connections drawn from them.

In Cox's lecture, it exists as a crisis, and he draws authority for his argument from that crisis.

They draw a line on a graph showing the rate of warming from that unnatural peak in 1998 to now, and make it look like warming has continued at a steady pace, and not accelerated as expected (an argument that would fail any Statistics 101 class, as it ignores «regression to the mean»).

«Premise» is defined as (on - line dictionary): «A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.»

The arguments interested me in high school from «Limits to Growth», but drew healthy skepticism as the predictions slowly failed about famines and arable land reductions.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

I know how tempting it is to assert (or rather, hope) that an average might cancel some of the errors made by each of the three methods, but as long as they share data they are in no sense independent, as long as the are based on differing methodology the are in no sense identically distributed, and there is no theorem or sound argument I can imagine that errors in methodology are unbiased, zero sum white noise drawn from some trendless distribution.

And the Summary Report's descriptions of supporting and opposing statements and arguments are too brief, and their accuracy can not be easily checked because they lack sufficient references to the specific texts from which such statements and arguments are drawn, as any formal writing should.

«You have to appreciate my role as a pundit is to draw inferences and make arguments on behalf of the side which I'm assigned,» she says.

Participants will be invited to design various tools to support online courts — for example, tools to help litigants structure their legal arguments, organise their documents, negotiate settlements without advisers, as well as systems that will promote «open justice» and machine learning solutions that will help analyse all the data generated by the online courts (these examples were drawn, in part, from discussions with HM Courts & Tribunals Service).

However, at the very outset of the counsel for the plaintiff's address to the Supreme Court, Mr. Finkelstein denounced the straw - man argument that opposing counsel was attempting to draw as the plaintiff's position: that Mr. Bhasin believes Clause 3.3 can only be exercised for cause.

The argument is as follows: situations of scarcity — whether of money, time or otherwise — draw us into a tunnel and tax our bandwidth.

The need for Term Life coverage applies equally to income - earning spouses, and there are strong arguments for acquiring life insurance for a partner who is not drawing an income as well.

Any discussion about life insurance as an investment after you retire is certain to draw strong opinions on both sides of the argument.

They analyze the various competing models of gambling pathology, and they draw upon recent empirical and clinical data to make the most persuasive argument yet for officially reclassifying compulsive gambling as an addiction disorder.