Sentences with phrase «against argument rather»

nice to see constructive for and against argument rather then «wengers a old tw*t etc» where have u been?

Not exact matches

Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

My ultimate point was rather to note that morality should not be the backing point for an argument that supports, or is against, abortion.

Rather than being an ordered argument against visionary thinking in the church, it is a kind of crazy quilt of my posts and cartoons related to the topic.

«So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings,» John Stuart Mill observed, «it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

In the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercy.

If it had been in the original «Antiquities of the Jews», rather than being a later interpolation, Origen would have used it in his arguments against the 2nd - century Greek philosopher Celsus.

rather than have a rational argument against the idea I expressed, some people can only correct spelling mistakes — thats because they have no rational argument.

Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming he kneeled against things that he didn't — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything.

-- Vote against the finance bill after listening to the people's concerns over issues like the 10p tax rate (assuming the bill remains talking about retrospective taxation)-- Recognise the much bulkier and more vast argument against 42 days legislation and support the rebellion against this legislation rather than supporting the PR men and the policy writers to the hilt regardless of the realities of the situation.

(I could also ask what arguments can be made against, but I consider that a rather obvious question and can easily come up with several reasons myself)

There is a strong progressive argument to be made against membership of the EU by people like me who see it as contributing to the problem of political alienation, rather than part of the cure for it.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

According to some climate scientists, the cold in places like Florida actually could be a sign of warming, rather than an argument against the phenomenon.

These examples illustrate classic uses of ad hominem attacks, in which an argument is rejected, or advanced, based on a personal characteristic of an individual rather than on reasons for or against the claim itself.

To posit the argument against fracking, a highly likable Dustin Noble (John Krasinski) acts as a roving environmentalist plastering signs about the town condemning the fracking, even accepting a bribe from Global's agents and, rather than keeping quiet, using the money to buy more signs opposing the offers by Big Gas.

Rather, Lions for Lambs includes characters presenting arguments for and against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as criticism of a press too eager to report what they're told rather than think for themselves, and an exploration of the political and social disinterest of «Generation Why?&rRather, Lions for Lambs includes characters presenting arguments for and against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as criticism of a press too eager to report what they're told rather than think for themselves, and an exploration of the political and social disinterest of «Generation Why?&rrather than think for themselves, and an exploration of the political and social disinterest of «Generation Why?».

Appiah makes a powerful and surprising argument against the idea that the cultural artifacts of long - gone civilizations uncovered in archaeological digs should belong to the nation that currently occupies that ground rather than the world.

«So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.»

Some arguments could be make against us: it's an evidence that what's used to be for a long time, a few authors at the top of the industry, the only ones to have the right (not always by merit, but rather because they were chosen by publishers) to have their books visible, was highly detrimental for the rest of us.

Arguments against the long - term strategy state that investors forsake gains by riding out volatility rather than locking in gains, essentially timing the market.

You make a good argument against credit cards, however I would rather see everyone control their purchases and stay out of debt.

Many, many people have legitimate arguments against the game, but those people usually also concur that it's still a good game, just one that they didn't like personally and that it perhaps wasn't deserving of the many maximum scores it got, rather than just trying to validate their dislike by declaring it to be terrible.

Nor, for that matter, does the 11th century portion of the recommended Polar Urals version of Briffa et al 2013 — which supports the argument against Briffa's decision to use an «inadequate» version of the Polar Urals data, rather than the comprehensive Shiyatov dataset.

Right, I should have said «How this can be turned around to become an argument against the relevance of mitigation» rather than «against mitigation».

The experts, rather than the public, could see the flaws in Wegener's argument which is why there was a scientific consensus against him.

It might be worth checking them against the actual book just to make sure they read verbatim, that's just the sort of ammunition for someone like Plimer to engage in his trademark gabbledygook so he can attack a minor error rather than answer the main thrust of the argument if he were to notice this post

The arguments I have seen against this approach are all based on fear rather than on cool - headed logic.

Much of the public argument against the science indicating that our greenhouse gas emissions are driving global warming has been carried by lobbyists and paid spokesmen who attempt to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.

People against the Tiny Home movement are essentially saying that rather than glorify the idea of giving up comforts to survive, the U.S. Government should fix the economy so that people don't view the idea of living in a home about the size of a standard RV as reasonable.Besides which, the argument continues, the people who could most benefit from having a Tiny Home are those who can't afford it.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

Contempt often gets expressed in the midst of an intense argument in a last ditch effort to win, but it can also become a rather chronic attitude that defends against deeply held resentment of not feeling valued or good enough in the eyes of one's partner.

Personal Attack (Ad Hominem which is Latin for «against the man» indicating that the attack is directed against the speaker rather than his or her argument): This fallacy occurs when we reject someone's claim or argument by attacking that person rather than the person's claim or argument.