Sentences with phrase «appeal to authority when»

If you read what I wrote, I said that I appeal to authority when there is something that I don't have the knowledge or training to interpret and the authority obviously does.

Why appeal to authority when the person writing this article possesses only credentials that are easily trumped by many many scientists who would disagree with her.

But: (1) often, I see «skeptics» building straw men out of valid arguments that expertise should not be dismissed out of hand, and (2) I often see selective reasoning from «skeptics» where they denounce «realist» arguments as appealing to authority when they then turn right around and appeal to their own authorities.

Not exact matches

It is deeply unjust to use religion to legitimate your own authority, an authority which extends to commanding others to kill or risk death, and then, when it suits you, limit appeals to that source of authority from which you sought recognition and blessing.

Fourth, it's highly ironic that Brian appeals to higher denominational authority to review the «evidence», when he himself is unwilling to submit to any leadership, being an independent pastor (correct me if I'm wrong here please)

«When those cases are appealed up to responsible bodies of lawyers, judges and administrators, a vast number and even a sizable majority of them are thrown out, because these authorities are trained to examine evidence and to evaluate it.

Try not to use him as too large an appeal to authority, it's like when people only seem to know Einstein's name but Fermi, Dirac, Pauli, etc all seem to be mentioned by few, despite being as equally competent.

When interests conflict, it is natural to resort to force, since it is assumed that there is no higher authority to which appeal can be made for settlement of differences.

Paul and others will make an appeal to their authority as apostles when necessary, or they will say it is a custom, or a hymn; it's not that hard, really, when anyone reads the whole thing instead of just verses.

The appeal court added that since the House of Representatives or any chamber of the National Assembly lacked the power to conduct criminal investigation, its report «can not be used to prevent or shield any of the petroleum marketer and supply companies from being investigated by competent investigative authority upon a criminal complaint that it fraudulently received billions of naira as imported petroleum subsidy payments when it did not import or market the petroleum in Nigeria.»

NYCOM said the Court of Appeals got it right when it said «local governments should not be required to surrender their authority and negotiate disciplinary procedures under circumstances when the Legislature has expressly granted disciplinary authority to local officials.»

Public Advocate Letitia James has lost another lawsuit against a city agency when a mid-level appeals court restated on Tuesday that her office doesn't have the authority to sue.

Local and state education authorities could use it when assessing performance, for example, in hearing an appeal from a school that failed to meet its AYP goals.

The Washington Appeals Court ruled that the FAA has the authority to change its rules, including those for electronics on planes, when it wants to.

By some accounts, Google's 2010 purchase of the onetime Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Avenue, which occupies an entire city block, drove up commercial rents in the area, but this is a 10 - to -15-minute walk to the heart of the art district, an eternity when it comes to the storefronts that appeal to galleries.

There is a legitimate place for appeals to authority, when that authority has the necessary skills and applies proper scepticism and documents it.

I was in court when Ms Reilly's genial co-counsel made his argument for Mann, which was a straightforward appeal to authority: Why, all these eminent acronymic bodies, from the EPA and NSF and NOAA even unto HMG in London, have proved that all criticisms of Mann are false and without merit.

How can Rapley's epic appeal to authority be legitimised, when it is presented in such a way as to deprive it of the virtue that legitimises it?

As usual, when the proponents of CAGW have been unnterly defeated in the scientific argument, they come back to the «appeal to authority».

It pays to remember this when the nonsense about 91 % to 100 % consensus is thrown around, it is very much just a peer pressure version of appeal to authority.

When an argument invokes an authority and appeals to this authority, as Chewbacca's doing right now with the Auditor, questioning that authority is quite kosher.

Is appeal to authority valid when you are appealing to a view you agree with?

When the DC appeals court ruled that the EPA had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases on June 26, 2012, it brought to a close a process of regulation and court challenges that started in 1999.

All I'm asking is that when research is revealed to be flawed, the scientists defend themselves through open debate rather than bullying and cover ups and — yes — appeals to authority like the one we saw on Nurse's disgraceful, dishonest hatchet job.

«Why should I trust your opinion anyway, you claim to be more qualified than me to decide what treatment is best but that's just appeal to authority and I have a PhD myself you know, and you were a bit rude to me when I came in last time and I read that you were fiddling your taxes so how can I trust your professional judgement?

I have a PhD in Chemistry, can follow the gist of scientific argument, and can usually decipher when someone's blowing smoke (particularly wrt to «peer review» and appeals to authority), so my BS detector sometimes leads me into less constructive engagements.

Now when pressed to provide anything other than generalities you appeal to some unnamed authorities that it couldn't possibly have been 5 degrees warmer in the past and point us to «the literature» which you claim has been dismissed.

Not sure where this comment will fall, but is a response to eadler2 - when all your arguments are shown to be absurd, appeal to authority... but, but, 97 %.

Actually, kim, my point is that appealing to authority is often not fallacious, but that «skeptics» ignore that distinction on a regular basis; it seems that the working theory is that appealing to authority is never fallacious when they do so and always fallacious when «realists» do so.

Appeals to authority are fallacious when one claims that the person in authority can't be wrong.

However, a court may reduce (modify) to include any of the requirements relating to probation and community control, a legal sentence imposed by it within 60 days of its imposition; after the receipt by the court of a mandate issued by the appellate court upon affirmance of the judgment and / or sentence upon an original appeal; after receipt by the court of a certified copy of an order of the appellate court dismissing an original appeal from the judgment and / or sentence; or if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or when a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has written an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and / or denying certiorari.

Four issues had been identified by the parties: (i) whether the Court of Appeal had correctly held that the 2009 and 2010 care plan reviews were to be read as including a reassessment of the claimant's community care needs; (ii) whether the authority's decision to provide pads interfered with the claimant's Art 8 rights and, if so, whether such an interference was justified and proportionate; (iii) whether the authority had been operating any relevant policy or practice for the purposes of s 21E (1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) and, if so, whether that policy was justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, namely the equitable allocation of limited care resources; and (iv) whether the authority had failed to have due regard to the needs specified in s 49A of DDA 1995 (the general disability equality duty) when carrying out their functions in the instant case.

This appeal considered whether, when varying a consent order, the court should apply the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31, or whether it is constrained by Court of Appeal authority to apply a narrower approach, even if that is inconsistent with the children's inteappeal considered whether, when varying a consent order, the court should apply the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31, or whether it is constrained by Court of Appeal authority to apply a narrower approach, even if that is inconsistent with the children's inteAppeal authority to apply a narrower approach, even if that is inconsistent with the children's interests.

This appeal considered the scope of enquiries required of a local authority when making decisions in homelessness cases to which the Equality Act 2010, s 149 applies, and the standard of review to be applied by courts when reviewing decisions of the local authority in such cases.

When matters can not be resolved with the governmental authorities to our clients» satisfaction, we represent them in tax and trade litigation before all relevant courts, and at all levels of court, including before the Tax Court of Canada, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Noteable cases: J v Lambeth - in which the Court of Appeal confirmed the necessity for the local housing authority to send the applicant a «minded to» letter under Regulation 8 (2) when it had determined that the original section 184 decision was flawed.

Top DOJ officials have until March 8 to decide whether to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider its conclusion that Obama overstepped his authority last year when he used his recess appointment power to install three members on the National Labor Relations Board.

«[T] he weight of authority suggests that accurate news reporting — even when it is likely to have an adverse impact on the subjects of the report — usually does not give rise to an action for intentional infliction of emotional distress»: Yesterday, a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision affirming a federal district court's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.

The Court of Appeal set out, reviewed, analysed and applied the authorities going back to Swain v Hillman [1999] EWCA Crim 2251, [2001] 1 All ER 91 on the issue of when summary judgment was appropriate under CPR Pt 24.

The main thrust of her appeal was that in the light of the incorporation of the Convention into domestic law, by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) coming into force in October 2000, a local authority may owe a duty of care to a parent of a child when exercising, through social workers, its duties to protect children from their parents by placing the children on the child protection register.

A recent decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals quotes a local aphorism that underscores the importance of specificity when citing either to the record or legal authority.

«The FRDI Bill supersedes all previous Acts and there is no need for this Bill when we already have proper regulators like the RBI and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority», Das told this business daily, adding that the FRDA Bill will also snatch away workers» and companies» rights to appeal to the Courts.

In a recent decision, Santo v. Santo (citation not yet available), published July 11, 2016, the Maryland Court of Appeals confirmed a trial judge's authority to award one party tie - breaking authority, for legal custody, even when parents have an inability to communicate on major decisions affecting the health, education, welfare, religion of a minor child.

When we register your appeal we will send a copy to the Local Authority.

When a written application for benefits, an appeal or any other declaration under the legislation of a Contracting State is submitted to a competent authority or competent institution of the other Contracting State which is competent to receive similar applications, appeals or declarations under the legislation of that other Contracting State, that application for benefits, appeal or declaration shall be deemed to be submitted on the same date to the competent authority or competent institution of the first Contracting State and shall be dealt with according to the procedure and legislation of the first Contracting State.