Sentences with phrase «about opening arguments»

The day was entirely about opening arguments, but both Uber's and Waymo's strategy centers largely on one thing: Our opponent stooped to the levels they did because they were afraid we would beat them.

Not exact matches

In the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck things.

The eight justices, who open their 2016 - 17 term on Monday, will hear arguments on Wednesday in the case of an Illinois man, Bassam Salman, who prosecutors said made nearly $ 1.2 million trading on inside information about mergers involving clients of Citigroup Inc, where his brother - in - law worked.

As for the claim that if one simply waits long enough with an open heart, God will reveal Himself — that same argument is made by just about every religion.

One of the wonderful things about the Episcopal Church and other mainline traditions is their affirmation of reason and their willingness to see both sides of an argument and be open to ambiguity.

And the «borrowed from Zen philosophy» argument about God's will interpreting what is just and good, not mortal man, does not apply when the rules are enforced by child molesters who are as open minded as the Hitler's Youth clubs they spawned from.

Joy itself is evangelical, and people are more easily shocked by a happy, chaste Christian than they are by hearing about statistical studies of homosexuality or even philosophical arguments, such as sexual acts having intrinsic meaning and being open to new life.

I'm on board with talking about grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love, and I'm open to prudential arguments for abolishing the death penalty in the U.S..

I'm open to a rational argument about it.

I just opened justarsenal and i saw this whole discussion (Arguments) between about 90 % anti wenger and 10 % (maybe even less) AKB's.

, basically busted that argument wide open, and my interview with Cyma Shapiro about «Nurture: Stories of New Midlife Mothers,» her traveling photo and essay exhibit of mothers aged 41 to 65, indicates more and more women are finding ways to work around the age - fertility issue, happily.

Despite the trend in adoption towards openness, we have all encountered concerns about and arguments against open adoption.

The case would bring out into the open many of the U.S. government's current assumptions and arguments about the legitimacy of drone attacks.

Douglas Carswell argued that Brexit was «not an angry nativist xenophobic vote» but «won precisely because it was an argument about Britain being open, internationalist, generous, and globalist».

The British people, largely undecided and uninformed about AV, were open to arguments but the onus was always on the Yes campaign to make its case.

The last thread seems to have very little discussion about polls and lots of partisan argument, so I thought it time for an open thread.

I was very happy that she challenged many long - standing assumptions and prejudices that people have about migration; it is rare to see such a full - throated, data - driven argument for open borders in the media.

Now I'm open for all your arguments about why your coffee place is the best there is, and I might try it out soon!!

For instance, the opening scene involves a flavorful argument about paying for a meal instead of just getting straight into the meat of the idea of cults.

Based on the novel by Shûsaku Endô about a pair of 17th century Jesuit priests who travel to Japan to locate their missing mentor, «Silence» attempts to tackle big ideas like faith and sacrifice but never really makes it beyond its opening argument, like a broken record playing different variations of the same scene over and over again.

Opening - night crowds raved about Blindspotting, starring Hamilton star Daveed Diggs, a buddy flick set in San Francisco - neighbouring Oakland about two moving - van drivers — one white, one black — that teeters into spoken rhymes when arguments get heated.

In a sad note for fans of the original movie, though, Trejo won't be reprising his role as Razor Charlie, a stone - faced vampire bartender who's surprisingly open to semantic arguments about Class Two driver's licenses.

TJ Miller called Donald Trump a «troll» during his opening monologue at the Critics Choice Awards and sidestepped mentions of his arrest after he reportedly slapped an Uber driver during a heated argument about the president - elect.

In his time working at the federal Education Department, Culatta made strong arguments for the development and sharing of open educational resources, and he encouraged districts to share information about ed - tech policies.

But while I think an argument could be made for such a system (so long as it included the other caveats in my previous comment about educational standards, religious and other bias, and open enrollment), it still wouldn't be charter schools.

After all, people don't want to buy eReader (be it eInk or not), people don't care about whether format is open or not (although 1984 argument may scare some people, in reality eBooks are little different from paper books in this regard for all practical purposes).

In reality, just about no amount of money is too small to begin investing (of course, that will depend on whether your broker has a minimum deposit required to open an account)-- but for the sake of argument let's look at how to invest in stocks with only $ 1,000.

Joining me this week are USTA's Roger Dow, talking about the current open skies controversy (and argument) between U.S. and Gulf airlines, Dan Cottrell, fireman and smoke jumper, who talks about the differences in fighting mountain and city fires, Kristen Snavely, head wrangler at Triple Creek Ranch, and Jack Gladstone, Blackfeet singer, lecturer, and writer (and Rose Bowl Champion), who tells (and sings) the folk story of a young orphan boy and his elders tracking a bear.

Of all the arguments you can have about art, ones that start «I hate modern art...» or «old art is boring...» are the least likely to open up new ways of viewing it.

To me the argument is not really about Open or Closed, the argument is really about fluidity: What people really need are work environments that allow them to flip in between «private» and «collaborative», «quiet» and «noisy» work modes in as fluid a manner as possible.

Battling exhaustion and the flu on the Monday after the opening, Goldstein, sitting in the Stedelijk's popular restaurant with a cup of fresh mint tea, considered for a moment, then said, «If artists make arguments about what a work of art can do, and if artists give us an opportunity to have insights through their own eyes and words to culture we all share, I think Mike, in a most profound and almost impossibly comprehensive way, gave us not only a window [into] but in some ways a means to rethink art and to examine our relationship to our culture and our society.»

It is useful to bring out in the open the (il) logic behind these types of distracting and mostly irrelevant arguments about the existence of said vineyards.

• Lack of formal model verification & validation, which is the norm for engineering and regulatory science • Circularity in arguments validating climate models against observations, owing to tuning & prescribed boundary conditions • Concerns about fundamental lack of predictability in a complex nonlinear system characterized by spatio - temporal chaos with changing boundary conditions • Concerns about the epistemology of models of open, complex systems

«The argument is simple: In a media situation where anyone can report, publish, and be noticed, transparency (in purpose, methods, and ethos) becomes the new umbrella ethic, the new route to credibility — the willingness to be open about who you are, what you're doing, and why you're doing it.

I would like to see more open discussion about the Hartwell paper analysis, and other nuanced analysis — but to repeat one last time: Categorizing any arguments for even strong carbon taxes as «Marxist» does not seem to me like a good starting point (as would categorizing the Hartwell paper as «denialist.»

Wolf Walker The opening paragraphs of this article give me the same tingling - down - the - back - of the - neck feeling as those creationist arguments about thermodynamics.

«What this leak also shows is the tendency by some to dishonestly engage in an open process and to cherry - pick «facts» about climate change to suit their own arguments, while failing to consider the full body of evidence.»

Because once this graph was given such totemic significance to the political process — ie, once so many arguments about so many futures were seemingly based on this document — its authors should have either managed expectations of science, or fully opened up every aspect of their research to scrutiny.

However this excerpt from page 18 seems to contradict your arguments even though your point about the laboratory strains not proving to be optimal in the open pond systems seems to be upheld.

Ms. Christensen said in her closing argument that her client was «shocked» that the man with him opened fire, and went on to say that he felt terrible about the way things went that day.

And I am certainly open to arguments about the relative, and different, costs, benefits, and long - term dangers — not least to democratic legitimacy — of either approach.

In other words, there was no agreement to build the house in a «rustic» manner; (2) however, because the contract gave the Respondent a «free - hand» in designing and building the Appellants» house, it was open to him to build the house in a rustic manner if he so wished; (3) notwithstanding any such wide discretion, «the argument in relation to rusticity can not be used to whitewash every flaw in the Respondent's work»; (4) the Appellants did not act unreasonably in not signing the Respondent's daughter's defects list; (5) some of the DJ's critical comments about the Appellants» conduct (including accusations that they were «squeezing» the Respondent for more) appeared to be «rather excessive and unnecessary», and were «best avoided».

Indeed the arguments in the judgment were all canvassed almost thirty years ago by my friend David Lepofsky in his Harvard thesis for Archibald Cox, published as Open Justice — the Constitutional Right to Attend and Speak About Criminal Proceedings in Canada.

One of Canada's most successful advocates writes about what you need to do to win your case - from fact investigation and witness preparation - through opening statement, examination, and cross-examination - to legal research and preparation of final argument.

It still feels awkward and exhausting to try and come up with customized arguments for each opening about why I'm awesome (and I AM awesome, but no good at talking about it).

Many arguments I hear about in couples therapy involve discontent from one person about opening up about their feelings, and getting frustrated that their partner tries to fix or solve the issue.

But the minute you open the door and drop your keys on the counter, you find yourself knee - deep in an argument about how he or she bought the wrong type of pepper.

, basically busted that argument wide open, and my interview with Cyma Shapiro about «Nurture: Stories of New Midlife Mothers,» her traveling photo and essay exhibit of mothers aged 41 to 65, indicates more and more women are finding ways to work around the age - fertility issue, happily.

Further, cherry - picking the circumstances that suit you only so as to make your argument and in this case it would be when the buyer walks into your open house, doesn't cut the mustard Steve, because it is more likely that the double - end would come about because the buyer came to your open house rather than from the REALTOR's list of clients.

However, even if the Contractor could make the argument about the empty pool, the court stated that the Brokerage would still be entitled to judgment because there was no duty to warn the Contractor about an open and obvious danger like an empty pool.