Sentences with phrase «apologists for»

The UN Convention Against Torture, which Congress and President Clinton made law in 1994, says it is a crime to «effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture...» Apologists for extraordinary rendition — that is, apologists for torture by proxy — argue that our extraordinary enemy justifies extraordinary measures.

No doubt, apologists for factory farming argue along similar lines as GMO proponents that it is only with cruel industrialized, technologized, commodified, production of meat and dairy products that the growing human population can be fed.

It is yet more evidence that climate alarmists tend to be apologists for the current science establishment and to be particularly sensitive to anyone asserting that climate science, dealing with very small deltas in a very complex system, might be subject to bias.

Zeke and Nick and all the other apologists for NOAA data tampering claim that adjustments to US temperature are due to Time Of Observation Bias or some other sciencey sounding reason, But the reality is that the data is simply fake.

And unfortunately, the apologists for that system line up endlessly and say «Please give me more.»

And the apologists for the policies have been changing tack to «but it's a good thing anyway» to «redistribute» wealth (socialists) or stop «dependence on foreign oil» (warmongers) or «overpopulation» (Malthusians).

I am also returning to many of the comments above on this thread, since there is a lot of good commentary in response to a couple of angry apologists for Mann et al above.

Whenever the treaty's advocates, including the Clinton Administration, discuss global warming, they present the science as essentially settled and unchallengeable, and they compare dissenting scientists to discredited apologists for the tobacco companies.

Mr. Revkin, you are in danger of going down a dangerous road, that of the worst kind of apologists for fossil fuels — masquerading as environmentalists while throwing the public health concerns of the New Yorkers who are least politically and economically positioned to defend themselves to the wayside.

This entire sequence of postings reminds me of the zombie movie, «Night of the Living Dead»: Scientists are falling asleep and waking up as apologists for denialist blogs.

Apologists for climate criminals will not be curbed until the leaders of this «post normal» academic cult are jailed.

Of course, you'll find plenty of people acting as apologists for the system, but what else can they do if they want to keep their academic - government careers intact?

Clement Greenberg, the most influential of apologists for modern painting of the period, placed particular stress on the formal elements of abstraction, while artists» more otherworldly ideals tended to be played down.

Any intelligent person will realize that it is false to state that a dog will NEVER turn on an owner if its raised without any sort of abuse.This is what makes apologists for certain dog breeds like pitbulls hard to listen to.

It is time for those of us who support these bans to speak out against you apologists for these indefensible breeds....

To save rather than end the lives of half of all animals who currently enter shelters only to die, we do not have to reform the 310,000,000 Americans apologists for shelter killing consider «irresponsible» and to blame for that killing.

The Amazon - Hachette war didn't suddenly transform my (mostly progressive - leaning) author friends into right - wing apologists for razed - earth capitalism.

Apologists for the aforementioned not - to - be-named author notwithstanding, they're important.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.

Unfortunately for Connecticut's students, parents, teachers, public schools and taxpayers, these apologists for Governor Malloy and his corporate education reform agenda have gone unchallenged.

School board members will find this book useful in tearing apart the lies and pretensions of school superintendents and other apologists for school failures.

Bloomberg and Klein tend not to be apologists for a system even they acknowledge is failing.

Note: Apologists for the late -»90s Dave Matthews ballad «Crash into Me» will be delighted to learn of its enthusiastic support by the characters (and presumably, the filmmaker).

These women, friends of the deceased, act like a cabal, akin to apologists for a woman that may have acted inappropriately with a male student, Simon, who first discovers the dangling educator in his homeroom.

Apologists for MSG point out that it derives from glutamine, an amino acid needed for protein synthesis, immunity, liver health, detoxification and maintenance of acid - alkaline balance, among many other roles.

Apologists for mainstream nutrition, however, have generally been unwilling to condemn any dietary factors other than the usual suspects.

Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the «Hockey Stick» graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.

The trio are furious at Mr Corbyn's decision to sack shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden for criticising so - called apologists for terror.

Decisions are not made by Parliament but by «clowns pretending to be ministers» who are just «apologists for the quango state», whilst 7 out of 10 MPs effectively have a «job for life» because of an electoral system which allows the party hierarchy to award to the most supine and obedient of its members with safe seats.

The local apologists for the deal express the hope that agreeing to a constrained deal, once it success is acclaimed, will lead the rest of the North East local authorities to come on board.

Continue reading «Carl Thomson: Apologists for Saakashvili are doing more to undermine democracy in Georgia than Russia could ever hope to achieve»»

Both the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph also claimed that Jack Dromey MP (her partner) and former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt had offered support to apologists for the sexual abuse of children while they were working for NCCL.

What nonsense will apologists for MPs stoop to to spin against these Telegraph disclosures?

Moreover, although it seems almost de rigueur for apologists for soccer heading to comment that heading is much safer when proper technique is employed, I know of no empirical data that support the contention.

... so many apologists for Tony Romo... he had at least 2 teams that could have gone deep into a playoff run — deep.

there's no reason to equate, as you do, those of us expecting internal improvement from KAT (a group that admittedly includes yourself) with apologists for the current president or president of basketball operations.

It is particularly noticeable to me given that this team has played shockingly bad football all season, and the apologists for our bad football are the first to point to deficiencies in Rugani's game as if there wasn't a pant load of criticism to be handed out.

Despite being co-opted and misrepresented by apologists for the corporate market system, Smith said that government intervention is sometimes necessary: «especially when the object is to reduce poverty... When the regulation, therefore, is in support of the workman, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters.»

All I ask of apologists for the system is that they recognize the latter truth as also a consequence of globalism, and that they then ask the larger question of the compatibility of a capitalist culture with Christian values.

That said, I do happen to regard Bishop Wright as one of the most effective apologists for Christianity in this dawning century, not so much for his Simply Christian as for his magnificent trilogy on the historical Jesus, especially the last volume, The Resurrection of the Son of God.

Is it equally legitimate for Catholic apologists for legal abortion, and even its facilitation by public funding, to appeal to Aquinas» teaching about the toleration of evil, as Mario Cuomo, for example, has done?

I am absolutely staggered by all these apologists for biblical slavery crawling out of the woodwork.

Their chosen quote, and I hope you can read it with as much incredulous merriment as I did, «When the intellectual authors of the modern right created its doctrines in the 1950s, they drew on nineteenth - century political thought, borrowing explicitly from the great apologists for slavery, above all, the intellectually fierce South Carolinian John C. Calhoun.»

The Italian public intellectual Gianni Vattimo is one of the best apologists for this «end of history» consensus.

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).

Attempts by apologists for GLBTQ fornication to describe and adhere to a revisionist interpretation of the Bible continue to fall short.

And he was right from the start in exposing the sham of Western apologists for the evil empire of the Soviet Union.

These apologists for Islamic law are ridiculous.

Instead of acting as apologists for the divorce culture, West and Hewlett propose a Parents» Bill of Rights, a kind of work in progress outlined at the end of the book and on flyers abundantly distributed during their book tour.