Sentences with phrase «accepting the arguments made»

CRA accepted the arguments made on my behalf and eliminated all of my taxes owing.

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Arguments have been made that banks in general often do not face criminal prosecution for violating anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulations, but instead, according to the author of the aforementioned article referred to above,» (accept) settlements that either defer or erase the threat of criminal suits.»

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

Every person of every faith can make the same argument, and by that logic, it means EVERY god that has ever been posited should be accepted because there is no evidence to the contrary.

It is also a matter of political common sense: If you want an argument to be heard, engaged, and accepted, you make it in a language that those you are seeking to persuade can understand.

I love the argument he makes, even while I am a progressive Christian who accepts homosexuals as equals in the eyes of God.

Kirsten: There's an article in The New York Times about Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens basically making this argument that for the first 200 years of the country it was just accepted that the Second Amendment was understood to protect a well - regulated militia.

The current trend would make it likely that gays will become fully accepted by the majority of Christians, perhaps within our lifetime, in which case your argument loses ground, right?

If you accept that as your basic premise, then arguments for God's existence will obviously make sense to you because they just confirm what you al; ready believe to be true.

A strong argument can be made that all children who die are accepted into Heaven by the grace and mercy of God (2 Samuel 12:22 - 23; Mark 10:14 - 15; Matthew 18:2 - 4).

So these «internal» arguments against free will theism are purely ad hominem, drawing upon ethical views that free will theists are thought to accept but which need not be shared by the process theist making the argument.

Makes for nonsensical, contrived arguments — especially for the shouters who are quite happy to accept whatever they hear as fact.

Therefore I simply can not accept the argument that some people keep trying to make, suggesting that Arsenal fans should be «Happy» with things at the moment.

Ignoring your insane, made - up statistics, your argument is that because babies die in hospitals and elsewhere by other means that we should all accept home birth deaths as well and refrain from discussing how to prevent them?

And knowing one family with one child who has separation issues does not an argument make — there are many factors which lead to anxiety issues and there is no reason to accept the idea that a child who has regular close contact with their parent (s) will develop separation issues.

The great irony of the history, in my view, is that accepting Churchill's critique of the appeasement policy of the 1930s was very explicitly a choice that our interests were inextricably linked with what happened in Europe (there is an argument, made by Paul Kennedy and others, that this can be said of much English and British history back to 1066) and that this inevitably meant speeding the decline of Empire and global power status.

«It is one that is not going to happen and I think that those backbenchers who keep putting forward those sorts of ideas should just come out and accept that what they really want is for Britain to leave the European Union because that is the argument they are actually making.»

Prosecutors on Thursday afternoon wrapped up 10 weeks of testimony and arguments in Central Islip, where they sought to make the case that the one - time elected officials accepted an illegal stream of benefits from restaurateur Harendra Singh and, in exchange, abused their public positions to get him two county contracts and more than $ 20 million in town - guaranteed loans.

Even if one accepts the Cameron argument on the «global race», it suggests we dismantle our society and make it more like China or India.

The argument made about gay men still buying the drug but under unregulated conditions has probably been accepted by the Home Office behind closed doors — but it can not accept it in public, because it is one of the key general arguments for drug legalisation.

When we present a new job opportunity to people like this, they don't blindly accept our arguments for making a move; they form their own view based on a careful analysis of the facts.

Haven't read whole thread but hoping no one is making the argument that this is like shifting to color or sound, both of those posed clear impediments to a kind of versimilutude cinema, but for ninety odd years we have accepted the sufficiency of the format without question.

It might actually make your argument sound plausible unlike the ravings of an idiotic Sony / Microsoft fanboy (which it is now) who can't accept that new technology means better advances in gameplay and style.

«Bad Moms» makes a compelling argument for embracing imperfection and vulnerability, but we shouldn't have to accept that kind of messiness in our movies.

Unless these assumptions are made explicit, however, measures of student performance are weak arguments, for the reason I gave: students in voucher - accepting schools could do worse and vouchers could still be good policy.

What makes the report so curious is that they actually accept four facts about the Common Core that leave little of their argument intact.

Writer often forget that their main purpose in an argument is to «win» it, to make the reader to accept somebody's point of view.

Although the considerations and arguments are many, it could be helpful for lenders if FHA accepted more responsibility by establishing and enforcing specific requirements designed to protect FHA lenders and FHA from making loans to those who are incapable of making mortgage payments over the long term.

If the listing agent had submitted the current listings and made a good argument to the lender for my offer being accepted I would not even be writing this article.

I do not accept your arguments because they go on the contrary of what has been reported sometimes even on the headline of the article, and when asked for a source or proof you paraphrase the same point, post a passive - agrressive comment, or talk about your credentials as if somehow that alone invalidated the point being made against your claims.

Montford's truncated and distorted history of paleoclimatology is the basis for his subsequent argument, but it must be accepted to make sense of anything else he says in his book.

Regarding Mr. Morano and the Senator he represents, if he is making (in part) the argument that major (and quick) climate change are inevitable and that we therefore should just accept and live with it, then how does he respond to the argument that death is inevitable, so why shouldn't we all just be happy meeting the maker now rather than later?

A valuable short paper that has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters (subscription required) makes a strong case against presenting any argument about human - driven global warming that's based on short - term trends (a decade or so).

Esty and Porter make the additional argument that voters would be much more apt to accept their proposal as a source of federal revenue than a rise in the income tax or the like.

But seriously I'd say everyone can make a contribution by putting all political arguments aside on scientific issues, although I do accept that on policy issues they can't be.

Natural variability is now widely accepted as making a significant contribution and our argument for a lowered climate sensitivity — which would indicate that existing climate models are not reliable tools for projecting future climate trends — is buoyed by accumulating evidence and is gaining support in the broader climate research community.

Dogma is if you keep refusing to accept our arguments against man - made global warming.

I think Michael Criton has made the best argument and comparison to commonly accepted «truths» of the scientific community, that were later found to be incorrect; most recently the stomach ulcer causes actually discovered against the entire gastroenterological medical community.

To date no arguments have been made for either up or down that have been accepted by both sides of the climate debate.

The fact you can't accept my argument doesn't make you right.

Personally I tend to keep the arguments about the information itself and the way it was obtained separate — if I think that making information public is genuinely in the wider public interest then generally I'll welcome its release (I guess there would be exceptions if the methods involved were really extreme) but at the same time recognise that the people responsible have to recognise and accept that there may be consequences for their actions.

I presented a list of simple statements for you to accept or deny because you had failed to make any rational argument to back up your sneers.

If you accept Lindzenâ $ ™ s â $ ˜impeccably logicalâ $ ™ view that the two arguments are comparable, you reach the conclusion that the link between human activity and climate change is now so well - established that it makes about as much sense to doubt it as to doubt the relationship between smoking and lung cancer, that is, no sense at all.

You can make an argument about those areas having the best coverage but the accepted truth, even by skeptics, that the world has been warming up steadily since the little ice age.

While the argument rumbles on for some, with Exxon now accepting the existance of man - made climate change, and with the climate skeptic's favorite scientist actually being a vocal climate action proponent, I'm ready to move on until someone shows me convincing evidence of this elaborate hoax I keep hearing about.

Wait a minute... do you think, just maybe, they don't want NASA collecting any more evidence, because it might further undermine their «uncertainty» argument and make their science denial even harder to accept?

The president of the Queens Bench Division was, however, unimpressed by an argument which, if accepted, would involve «a massive and unwarranted leap for the court to make».

These were to address one or more of eight issues seen as important to courts: form - filling — making court documents more accessible to litigants in person; order drafting — creating orders that are more likely to be accepted by courts; continuous online hearing — challenging the question of whether a court is a place or a service; argument - building — to aid non-lawyers in creating well - structured arguments, distinguishing fact from law; outcome prediction — using technology to answer the natural question «what are my chances of winning?»

There are few, if any, absolutes in Canadian law, so much is possible, but at this point these arguments have not yet been made and accepted as good law.

2 We do not accept the appellant's argument that the charge to the jury on the subject of the wording of the indictment effectively amended that indictment to make the offence date November 19.