Sentences with phrase «action against the argument»

Not exact matches

The main argument against taking action to reduce carbon emissions has always been economic.

Would some people still be discussing the merit of the memo's arguments or would there be a universal call for swift action against its author?

Some hope was offered in a more sophisticated poll commissioned by Christian Action Research and Education, which invited respondents to consider five arguments against assisted suicide to see if these changed their views.

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

Those chapters reflect the arguments MacIntyre had been developing against behaviorist and deterministic accounts of action, as well as his development of Wittgenstein's distinction between description and explanation — all of which is crucial for the constructive account After Virtue gives of practical reason and the virtues.

Despite their very obvious christian undertones, I though that the last book contained an argument against religion (more - so organized religion, which is a bit different), where the donkey and the monkey pretend to respectively be and be acting for Aslan (the Jesus symbol) and their actions result in widespread chaos, and the eventual collapse of Narnia.

Specifically he notes how he refused to entertain the arguments against military action in the run - up to the Iraq war, even when articulated by card - carrying conservatives, because his hatred of terrorists and liberals outran his reason.

Arguments from Treasury Wine Estates proponents such as Willibald Hajszan («Treasury Wines class action unrepresentative», AFR Letters, July 7), fail to acknowledge several issues in trying to discredit the current securities class action on foot against the global wine giant.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

«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.

Without indicating what action he might take in the Ivy case, Soares insisted he was working to prevent a defense attorney from raising a potentially disastrous legal argument against any district attorney who might bring charges in a case that falls into what Soares characterized as the executive order's ample ambiguities.

In 2009 he said, when talking about climate change, that the «science is highly contentious, to say the least» and «the climate change argument is absolute crap», but did accept that precautionary action against it was a good idea.

If such a matter involves external action by officers or other representatives of the Association, a summary of arguments for and against the proposed action, approved by the President, shall be submitted with it.

O'Leary acknowledged that there is a danger that the positive tone of this report could be misinterpreted to bolster arguments against climate action.

Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.

Perlmutter's email, once leaked, was widely interpreted as his argument against female - led movies, despite myriad other factors at play here — even as the email neglected to mention smash action franchises such as the Hunger Games trilogy or the Alien saga, which were led by female heroes.

The argument for colorblindness in this context, however, is no different from the argument used against race - based affirmative action.

It's an argument that the FDIC raised in their action against Rocky Mountain National Bank, a duty to make sure their debt settlement clients were complaint with state laws and not misleading or harming consumers..

The next question, coming shortly, is for groups using energy poverty as the basis for arguments against action on greenhouse gases.

China's commitment begins to undermine those arguments against action.

Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.

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.

With very few exceptions, the US press has utterly failed to cover climate change as an ethical and moral issue while focusing on the scientific and economic arguments against taking action that have been made by opponents of US climate change policies for almost 30 years.

Building an argument against climate action upon a forceful claim about the most likely outcome of greenhouse gas emissions is to build an argument upon analytic sand.

For all of these reasons, arguments against taking action to reduce the threat of climate change based upon scientific uncertainty fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

Again and again proponents of action on climate change have responded to economic arguments against taking action to reduce the threat of climate change by making counter economic arguments such as climate change policies will produce new jobs or reduce adverse economic impacts that will follow from the failure to reduce the threat of climate change.

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

Ethical issues that arise when arguments are made against action on the basis of scientific uncertainty or cost to national economies?

Uncertainty forms an integral part of climate science, and it is often cited in connection with arguments against mitigative action.

None of this is an argument against action but it is an argument for informed debate ensuring we take the right action.

- especially the futility argument, which will be used against any single helpful action.

A recent study comparing arguments against climate science versus policy arguments against action on climate found that science denial is on the relative increase.

I think a stronger argument against action would be whether there is effective action we can take.

These groups gladly accept Exxon's support, which enables them to keep churning out misleading reports, to flood newspaper op - ed pages with bizarre arguments against action to curb rampant carbon emissions, and to appear on right - wing TV and radio where they're invited by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to tick off blatant distortions of climate science without challenge by actual climate experts.

Yes, I have read arguments why one should deny global warming or actions against it, just not any honest and sane arguments.

Jon wrote a very interesting paper in which he argued that even if the skeptic narratives are correct, the old narratives I was telling wasn't an argument against climate action.

Because you can very well accept that climate change exists and still find arguments against climate action because the costs of doing something are so great.

This makes the arguments against taking actions against climate change not just wrong, but dangerous,» Dr. Gleick said in his written testimony.

Towards the beginning of his classic essay «The Core of the Case against Judicial Review ``, Jeremy Waldron notes that his argument is not directed against review of executive action, that is, most of what we conventionally call administrative law.

The plaintiffs appealed (2017 ONCA 103), this time restricting their arguments to the issue of whether the second lawyer had owed them a duty of care to advise of the limitation period as it applied to the potential negligence action against the first lawyer.

The court will hear arguments tomorrow in a case where a Toronto doctor is appealing a Superior Court decision that dismissed his libel action against a former head of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and ordered him to pay more than $ 310,000 in costs.

Recognizing that litigation results — and the prospects for settlement — often hinge on the presentation of persuasive legal arguments in line with the relevant case law, Mr. Cooper employs an effective mix of case law research and evidence consultation in order to ensure that clients on a tight budget understand all the costs and benefits of proceeding with, or defending against, a legal action.

In response to the policy argument against allowing relitigation of class certification, the Court noted that stare decisis and comity are the legal system's remedies for repetitive litigation that falls outside of the rules of preclusion, and that once a class action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.S.C.??

In Canada, the arguments raised by Wendel would appear to potentially have some resonance in relation to the action commenced by Edgar Schmidt against the Attorney General of Canada.

If a direct infringer's actions reasonably do not infringe the more conservatively construed claims then you likely have a good argument against inducement.

The court will hear arguments tomorrow in a case where a Toronto doctor is appealing a Superior Court decision that dismissed his libel action against a former...

D's core argument was that he had discovered his claim against the proposed defendants before January 1, 2004 and, therefore, the limitation period for the action against them was 6 years from the time he turned 18.

The Court of Appeals agreed that the EIPA does not create a private right of action against a bank, rejecting the plaintiffs» argument that such a right was implied by the statute.

The practical effect of the proposed change would be to allow enforcement bodies, such as the OFT, to take action to remove notices, and to bring action against EULAs «without complex legal arguments about whether the licenses were or were not contracts», they said.

Whatever the arguments for and against, no positive action has arisen in connection with the Law Commission's report and cohabitants are in no better position than they were since it was commissioned.