Sentences with phrase «several arguments have»

Several arguments have been raised by critics of the LPP, including the potential discrimination that LPP participants might face in the job market and the speculation that law graduates who could not find articling jobs will have difficulty finding employment after being called to the bar.

The uniform prior in climate sensitivity is, indeed, suspect, and several arguments have been presented against it.

Several arguments have been made in favor of creating a single set of expectations for what students should know and be able to do.

I really want to read Cholesterol Clarity after several arguments I've had about the subject with others.

Not exact matches

«I've heard several arguments over the years about how this doesn't really matter, but I believe it does,» writes Rae in his LinkedIn post.

Several courts have ruled against the merger, agreeing with the Department of Justice's (DOJ) argument that it would decrease competition and raise major antitrust concerns.

It's a slightly technical argument, but the bottom line is that however you account for them, options grants combined with repeated «extraordinary» charges have effectively wiped out the entire «growth miracle» of the past several years.

The thrust of his argument is that interest rates need to go up as the Fed's been «adding enormous policy accommodation over the past several years» and, even while they've long been missing their inflation target on the downside, there's a risk of getting «significantly behind the curve.»

... The argument that gun control allowed the rise of Hitler has circulated among gun - rights advocates for several years.

But Poetzscher, echoing arguments Uber has made before, said they told Ron and Levandowski on several occasions that they did not want them to bring anything from Alphabet.

But one argument that several gold bulls have advanced is that, even as gold bullion has dropped, the shares of gold mining companies have risen.

Now, if at the end of last week not just one, but several gold bulls have indeed advanced the argument that one should be bullish on gold «because gold stocks are outperforming gold», then we want to know where precisely this nest of anonymous gold bulls is located, and what they are smoking there.

I may have preached words similar (but much better and with decent argument) for the christian church for several decades..

As Rook said, the scholarly community distances themselves from her not because she's a woman (there are several contemporary Egyptologists from Europe who are women who equally have nothing to do with her) but because her arguments are untenable.

The moral arguments against pornography are well - known, and recently, several big - name celebrities and sources like Time magazine have been warning about the effects porn has on the brain.

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

Q.: Proponents of triage and lifeboat ethics have responded to criticisms by advancing several formulations of an argument based upon biological need.

We concluded that there are several reasons that could be used to support an argument for choosing Jesus as our compass, for granting him a sacred role as meaning - giver: first, we are not aware of any especially good alternatives; second, his ability to serve in this role has been confirmed in many faithful lives; and third, in choosing him we align ourselves with a compass which is in the public domain, and as such our interpretation is subject to the correction of tradition and public debate.

Having spent several years in the study of Whitehead's thought in seminary and later in graduate philosophy seminars, I had finally worked out a position on the validity of Hartshorne's ontological argument that related that argument back to the more empirical, experiential, and descriptive theism of Whitehead.

Growing out of a series of books and essays Kekes has written over the last several years - on the nature of moral argument, the problem of evil, and the conflictual goods and evils that make up life as we know it - Against Liberalism marks the author's most explicit broadside against liberal theory to date.

These contrasting positions are, of course, simply the echo of views that have contended with each other at different points in Christian history and have been a staple of argument over the last several decades within the academy.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

While today's delicious menu will go some way to assuaging opponents at Regent's Park — including stuffed courgettes, mushroom risotto and vegetable lasagne — several University of Oxford students and colleges have already been convinced by the environmental and health arguments.

Can you honestly make a credible argument that, say, Patrick has not been better than Filppula for the last several months?

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

I amongst many others have known for several seasons (even discounting the no - money tears argument» that AW is no longer a competent manager / tactician / stategist.

Brendan: I've heard several persuasive arguments for why this schedule reshuffling is good for golf and different golf organizations.

Despite the considerable financial outlay by Queretaro for the acquisition of the Brazilian superstar last summer, Ronaldinho has never able to show his best performances while playing in Mexico and has had several arguments with the club over seemingly trivial issues.

I find this argument interesting, as I recall several years ago, when we still played 4 -4-2, a number of fans on forums such as the now defunct 606, arguing for a change to 4 -3-3 given the 4 -4-2 formation had become «outdated».

For several decades, critical educators, mostly in philosophy of education, have been questioning the concept of celebrity role model and all that it implies, but none of their arguments have diminished the popularity of the idea.

My precious baby interrupted sleep has so far been brought to a swift end with Eminem blasting out of my son's room, the girls having an argument over who drew the best unicorn and several requests for pancakes.

There were several times when a simple misunderstanding could have escalated into a full - blown argument; however, reminding ourselves of what the core issue was — the feeling that was felt, the need that was identified — diffused the situation into an opportunity to really see the big picture.

This is an argument against Tummy Time that I've heard from several sources, but here are some important things to remember:

I've had several arguments with hard core advocates over this, in fact — and was told that I don't know what I'm talking about, despite the fact that I have actually successfully nursed 6 children, and that all the evidence we have shows that women who are exhausted are likely to have supply problems.

The argument became heated and the two had to be separated on several occasions by others.

Chris Grayling has tried out several arguments to defend his ban on sending prisoners books - but none of them stack up

I have argued, in several places, including Open Democracy that «Labour must now define its own positive centre - left argument.

Either way, increasing the speed limit has several effects, which could be used as arguments against it.

In discussion of Denham's argument, several responses, such as Stuart White's, took the opposite argument to yours - saying that this was all very well in principle, but New Labour had quite a lot of focus on «rights and responsibilities» at the bottom, in welfare reform, the New Deal and so on, and had been pretty muted about applying that principle higher up.

The argument is problematic in several respects, not least the fact that Labour would almost certainly have to pitch itself further to the right if it was to have a hope of winning an election without its tally of Scottish MPs.

Following his own statement and statements from several supporters, Espaillat answered questions from the press, including whether he believes that Charles Rangel has willfully neglected small business owners, how does he reconcile his criticisms with the reality that many local residents decried the lack of shopping and services before this «big - box» mall existed, whether his «40/40/20» housing formula, in place of the common «80/20», is a state or federal issue and his view of Congressman Rangel's argument that Rangel's experience allows him to more productively represent the district.

In short, Kellermann concluded, the governor's proposal won't provide «meaningful, long - term relief for municipalities in fiscal distress, and endangers the viability of the pension funds,» which is pretty much the argument others — including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner — have been making for several weeks now.

«Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views,» Mr. Schumer said, saying he had thoroughly heard out arguments for and against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Several Cabinet members including James Purnell and Hazel Blears are thought to agree with Progress» argument, which has been circulated among Labour MPs.

Judges in Greene and Albany counties threw out petitions by the plaintiffs — the Brennan Center for Justice and several Democratic lawmakers — without addressing the merits of their legal arguments to have the practice overturned.

De Blasio and his senior officials have repeated the argument on a near - daily basis over the last several weeks that support for mayoral control should not depend upon a certain mayor or set of education policies.

The iCivics games consist of several modules that include citizenship and participation (Activate), The Constitution and Bill of Rights (Do I Have a Right, Immigration Nation, Argument Wars), budgeting (People's Pie), separation of power (Branches of Power), political campaigning (Win the White House), local government (Counties Work), the Executive branch (Executive Command), the Legislative branch (Lawcraft, Represent Me), and the Judicial Branch (We the Jury, Supreme Decision).

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, who earlier had ruled against the National Institutes of Health, this time came down on NIH's side in several key arguments in the case.

To support his argument that we and other animals don't have an evolved capacity for number per se, Nunez cites several different strands of research in the current literature, including experimental work with humans from non-industrialized cultures, which suggests an imprecise approach to quantity.

According to Ruuskanen, there is one way to prove whether daylight saving time truly contributes to strokes: «If we, in our country, abandoned daylight saving time and, in a follow - up of several years, saw that the small increase in stroke incidence disappears, it would make a strong argument that it actually is the clock change that raises stroke risk,» he said.