Sentences with phrase «against the arguments for»

Not exact matches

There is research supporting arguments both for and against quotas, both practically and ethically.

Mr. Siegal's other client successes include securing a 2016 trial victory in federal court defending Marvel Entertainment against a claim that it stole a patent - holder's design for a Spiderman role play web - shooting toy, and numerous federal and state appellate arguments in criminal and civil matters.

But given the potent ethical arguments against corruption, not to mention the potent legal penalties for being caught engaging in it, it's a problem that needs to be tackled head - on.

It means deciding what one believes not by conforming to fashionable opinions, but by taking the trouble to learn and honestly consider the strongest arguments to be advanced on both or all sides of questions — including arguments for positions that others revile and want to stigmatize and against positions others seek to immunize from critical scrutiny.»

Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments today in the trial for former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media over a sex tape featuring Hogan that Gawker posted online.

This one will directly determine economic policy so complex, one columnist quipped, the arguments for and against «make my eyes cross.»

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?

Trump frequently villainized Garcia Zarate and cited Steinle's death during his presidential campaign, using the case to bolster his argument for a border wall and aid his crusade against «sanctuary cities.»

I believe that the arguments for or against transfer payments are largely moral and philosophical.

NEW YORK, April 16 - A lawyer for victims of terrorist attacks in Israel on Monday urged a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit against Facebook Inc, saying Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony undermined the social media company's argument that it bore no responsibility for content on its platforms.

But recently it also turned up something unexpected — a rare argument against making space for more learning in your life.

«If you apply our tool [and] measure your outcomes against your costs,» she said, «you can clearly make an argument for many of these new advances.»

Fed vice-chairman Stanley Fischer explained the arguments for and against an early increase in US interest rates, Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos said.

To better understand the arguments for / against convertible equity I suggest you read my posts on those topics:

The «bank for central banks» has released a paper on the possible impact of state - issued cryptocurrencies, as well as arguments for and against the introduction of such monetary instruments.

The Niskanen Center is already preparing challenges against eminent domain for pipelines that feed liquefied natural gas exports terminals, though the argument has not been tried in court yet.

An argument for or against the cryptocurrency and traditional money respectively can be better understood by thinking along these lines.

The first oral arguments in the string of lawsuits filed against DOL's fiduciary rule were heard on Aug. 25 by Judge Randolph Moss, U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia, in the case brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

Judge Randolph Moss, U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia, heard oral arguments for close to three hours Thursday in the first hearing against DOL's rule, but did not immediately render a decision.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

Carl Cohen argues that the argument that civil disobedience implies contempt for the law is «among the weakest» of the arguments against civil disobedience:

In arguments before U.S. District Judge William Alsup, attorneys for both parties laid out their case related to Waymo's request for a temporary injunction against Uber that would force the ride - hailing company to stop testing its autonomous cars.

You could make an argument for 5 % in gold as a good diversifier — although I'd argue against it as compounding will become a huge factor for your son later in life and gold doesn't pay dividends.

If Benchmark had no problem with the voting agreement for 14 months, as Kalanick alleges, then that could help Kalanick's argument against the need for an injunction.

The public debate is dynamic, with new arguments continually being advanced and new endorsements being announced both for and against the TPP.

One argument against this strategy is that value investing is investing, it is not trading over a short period of time, looking for the daily movements that take place in a stock's value.

To me, this is an argument against bonds (who would pay 40 - 50 P / E for a stock that, even though it will produce guaranteed earnings, it also is guaranteed to provide 0 % growth)?

The arguments used by the Minister of State for Finance were not unlike those against the changes made at that time.

The problem, for Aristophanes, is that there's no argument against incest from the point of view of pure reason that works on the individual level.

The irony being that he was threatened by the church for going against the whole «god did it» argument, which is what this guy was trying to claim, and has nothing to do with «real science»

The argument against this is that it teaches kids that you should expect to be rewarded for normal household tasks.

An argument against my position, of course, is having African - American soldiers serving at forts named for very or even fantically pro-slavery men (not Lee [although he was okay with slavery], but check out some of the others).

There might be no argument against such liberation that works for the women on an individual level.

A thorough review of the arguments for and against abstinence programs in Uganda specifically is available on the Human Rights Watch website.

You are probably already aware of the arguments for / against the Gospel of John — so, I won't go into them here.

The British, for their part, cleverly borrowed Abraham Lincoln, whose argument against southern secession seemed to them to rebut the pretensions of the American «secessionists» of 1776.

Like I wrote yesterday, even the most impressive and seemingly perfect arguments for or against God are limited.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

is a convincing and remarkably candid argument that the case for homosexual relations must be made against Scripture and the Christian tradition.

You raise a very good point that escapes most theists and that is while they argue against atheists for not believing in their god, they forget that most of those arguments could be applied to them by somebody of another religion.

The argument for no standards is an argument against the very idea of public decency.

Pete is right that the powerful argument against the 9 -9-9 plan is that it would be a big tax increase for the middle middle - class, those Americans who often didn't go to college and whose lives are becoming increasingly precarious and pathological.

That's the deterministic argument against punishment in a nutshell, under that philosophy it makes no sense to punish something for doing something that it can not avoid doing.

But for all that it gets right, the piece contains one line of argument that Christians should be on guard against.

I personally thrive on the intellectual arguments for and against Christianity.

He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.

If you hate them in the same way that you condemn them for being, it makes you no better than the Stereotypes you portrayed in your comment, so grow up, and use a logical argument, instead of the very hate Democrats decry, and the Tea Party embraces.Hate against any group of people you dis - agree is still hate and is not tolerable in my opinion.

The arguments for and against each of the WWII attacks that I note are well docu mented, so I won't go into them now.

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.