Sentences with phrase «are powerful arguments»

These are powerful arguments but not dissimilar to those used in the past against the accreditation and regulation of professionals generally, and it was long ago decided that machinery to discipline lawyers and doctors etc, was essential in modern society.

The proposal tries to make this interpretation seem black - and - white but, as the Obama EPA showed, there are powerful arguments on the other side.

These are powerful arguments.

«But there's a powerful argument that the chance of extreme events is greater than people probably think, and now is sort of a strange time to be implicitly making the everything - will - be-OK argument.»

The pronoun «this» implies a connection between the bread and the Body, such that the substance of Christ's Body comes out of the bread.2 Finally, there is a powerful argument of fittingness.

It is a powerful argument in the minds of many to be able to say, «I am right and those people over there are wrong because they don't believe the Bible, and so you better listen to me.»

Given the horrendous failure at present to meet such needs and the prospects of hugely increased numbers of poor in the future, this is a powerful argument.

That advocacy was the hallmark of Frank Wolf's lengthy congressional career, which, like my old friend Henry Hyde's, is a powerful argument against term limits.

It's a powerful argument, ill - formed though it may be.

In addition there is a powerful argument to be made that three years of additional funding for schools that have been under - supported for so many years is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how much long - term support these schools really need.

Whatever else you can glean from this experiment, it's a powerful argument for school choice programs that allow families to enroll children in schools outside their zip code.

There are many possible reasons why literary fiction has fewer examples of successful self - published works, but perhaps the simplest answer is that readers of the genre are served sufficiently by traditional publishers (This is a powerful argument against self - publishing literary fiction to make money which means I'll have to do it to make art)

If you don't, that's a powerful argument in favor of the kind of mean reversion we persistently see in our Persistence Scorecards.

If HBP is able to defer capital gains and dividends until HXT is disposed, it will be a powerful argument in favor of owning the ETF.

It's a powerful argument against complacency.

I think projections reasonable close to matching the models is a powerful argument that the science is correct and we need to do something about global warming.

This is a powerful argument that the underlying trends and cycles have a much larger effect on climate than CO2.

If so, that would be a powerful argument against the «warmer = drier» hypothesis, as the Muslims were based in a part of the world that is arid at the best of times...

That would be a powerful argument — if it was true.

This is a powerful argument to unsheathe when opponents argue that licensure is the only regulatory mechanism that can be trusted to ensure competence in health professionals.

It's a powerful argument and one worth considering as your team grows and prospers.

Not exact matches

In closing arguments, Gowdy gave a powerful description of victim Ricky Samuel's last moments as he was lured to a pond by the accused, who posed as a preacher to get Samuel's confidence.

But the pragmatic argument for investment in comments is powerful in its own way.

Some privacy advocates also bristle at the idea that these new restrictions would help already powerful internet companies, noting that is a well - worn argument employed by tech giants to try to prevent future regulation.

Is it the number of jobs created and the impact on the unemployment rate that renders the most powerful argument for the Fed hawks?

Byfield's blog post made a powerful argument for why Bill 24 is necessary to protect LGBTQ students, wrote Postmedia columnist Graham Thomson.

We know Sullivan does not really believe this, because his entire argument in favor of legalized homosexual marriage hinges on the recognition that public law is the most powerful tool for shaping individual attitudes.

The detrimental argument is that which relies on the collective wisdom, the powerful hypotheses is that which can be put together by the masterful mind that can collectively rummage information from the great «information» super highway.

So then it becomes about who is the most powerful or makes the most persuasive argument.

That is a more powerful and generally applicable argument than she knows.

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.

«Perhaps the most powerful of the pro-choice arguments,» Ms. Crandall points out, was that illegality of abortion would leave America in «the dark ages when thousands of women died because of unsafe, back - alley abortions — between five thousand and ten thousand a year was the figure usually given» in the 1970s.

Science, Jews, and Secular Culture By David A. Hollinger Princeton University Press, 178 pages, $ 24.95 This short and eclectic collection of essays and lectures is weakly tied together by the argument» central in some chapters, marginal in others» that science was a powerful tool in the secularization of American culture.

@Vic: For the sake of argument, let's suppose the universe was created by an all powerful being who had existed for an eternity extending into the past in emptiness of the nothingness that was before he got bored and created the universe with its 170 billion or more galaxies and trillion trillion stars.

But once one has seen that the advocacy of education and science as solutions to the world's problems expresses the interests of those who are rich and powerful and that the actual effects weaken the weak and impoverish the poor, one discounts the arguments of proponents of the existing systems.

Probably the most powerful argument in favor of increasing production is that this is the way of bringing jobs into the community.

The argument for a system in which some people get very rich has always been that the lure of wealth provides powerful incentives.

there is no logical path that one can take that would lead one to the conclusion that an all powerful creator existed outside of space and time... that claim is nothing more than a god of the gaps argument.

The argument is brilliant and powerful.

I am sure it would be a powerful motivation for many if they were to realise that singing the texts of the Mass would mean that there need be no further arguments about which hymns should be chosen.

Silcox and Fisher agreed that «philosophical differences» among the groups they studied were powerful, such as in arguments over birth control.

There is no logical answer to an emotional argument — and faith is a powerful emotion indeed.

It might be argued that the survival success of a species which bases its immediate actions, especially those in which the survival of its individuals is at stake, on a particular experience constitutes a powerful argument for the general reliability of that experience.

It seems not to have occurred to Freud that his wish to live without illusions may have been so powerful as to have clouded his reason and infected his arguments about wish fulfillment.

It is this fact which, as in the early church so now, has been a powerful force in moving people toward the acceptance of the second part of the argument, namely, that there must be an authoritative church which will adjudicate finally, absolutely, and even infallibly on which interpretations should be seen as resulting from the Spirit's illumination and which should not.

For no matter how hard I try, however eloquent, dynamic, or (at desperate moments) guilt - inducing I may be on Friday afternoon, on Monday morning my arguments have fallen flat and sunk into the muck, idealistic words overwhelmed by a depressingly powerful reality: Sunday Mass at the parish.

My argument here is that the traditions of the oldline churches at their best do offer a powerful spirituality and a faith - based community that, in principle, constitute an adequate response to the continuing hungers of our culture.

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

The most powerful of the pro-choice arguments was that failure to legalize abortion would leave five to ten thousand women a year bleeding to death from coat - hanger abortions or dying from systemic infections incurred at the hands of «back - alley butchers.»

In framing arguments that are truly public and not limited to Christians, we have, of course, a powerful resource in varieties of natural law traditions.