Sentences with phrase «argue against it by»

Dawkins, in his mediocre opinions in The God Delusion: -[1] Fails to support debunked assertions [i.e.can't defend his opinions when they are argued against by real scientists and Theologians!]

Whitney gave false testimony to try to argue against it by saying that children of gay couples are routinely abused, when statistics show otherwise.

Already argued against by numerous philosophers and put to rest a long time ago.

Opponents of the death penalty argue against it by citing America (where the system is misapplied, inconsistent and often takes decades before punishment is implemented), or by playing a neat conjuring trick with the UK figures.

For Ed Miliband, tentative early attempts to shift Labour's position on spending were argued against by Ballsites in shadow cabinet.

People argue against it by saying, «Hey, you know the carbon footprint of flying food thousands of miles is ridiculous so we should grow [things] locally» but the counter argument is, but if you can grow so much wheat sufficiently in Kansas even including the transportation for thousands of miles it's still more efficient in terms of resources.

This idea was effectively argued against by John Norstad.

Now I have been trying to argue against this by saying that eventually prices will be so high that interest rates on the mortgage alone can't be keept down, but somehow I always fail at convincing them.

Not exact matches

Moscow has tried to legitimize this course of action by arguing that the Taliban is helping in the fight against ISIS.

The billionaire argues that «it's precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker.»

Kimmel has since actively railed against Obamacare repeal efforts, arguing that various proposals being debated by the law's opponents would gut protections for people like Billy born with pre-existing conditions, either by rolling back Obamacare's mandated insurance benefits for certain health conditions or allowing states to set up rules that would let insurers charge sick people more for their coverage.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

Numerous other examples of Google influencing academics are highlighted by the Journal's report, including one from University of Michigan law professor Daniel Crane who declined to take money from Google to support his paper that argued against «antitrust regulation of internet search engines.»

The Paypal cofounder and Facebook board member also argued his bankrolling of a lawsuit brought by pro-wrestler Terry «Hulk Hogan» Bollea against media conglomerate Gawker, which ultimately drove the company into bankruptcy, was not a threat to freedom of the press.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

By contrast, LGBTQ advocates argue that violence and bias against transgender people is a very real problem exacerbated by prejudicial lawBy contrast, LGBTQ advocates argue that violence and bias against transgender people is a very real problem exacerbated by prejudicial lawby prejudicial laws.

Still, Khodorkovsky is urging people to «get off the couch» and vote next month, arguing against a boycott like that suggested by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Genworth's Vukanovich argues against shaking up the status quo by altering mandatory mortgage insurance.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

He used the term «tar sands,» one the advocates of Canada's bitumen sector have long argued is, by itself, biased against the «oil sands.»

This brought to mind a podcast I heard recently where the guy was arguing against having an emergency fund (in a typical cash - based vehicle as espoused by most).

The Department of Justice defended the rule when it filed papers in July in a Washington district court arguing against the case filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

Industry trade groups like the Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association have come out against state - run plans, arguing that they will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

«Rep. Young suggests guns could've saved Jews during Holocaust,» from Alaska Public Media: «Speaking at a conference in Juneau last week, Alaska Congressman Don Young [R] argued against gun control by suggesting Jews might not have died in the Holocaust if they had been armed.

Originally posted by the Financial Post By Anita Anand, Alexander Dyck, Cristie Ford, Richard Leblanc, Randall Morck and Stéphane Rousseau The Financial Post has offered various pieces of commentary that argue against Bill C - 25 introduced by the federal governmenby the Financial Post By Anita Anand, Alexander Dyck, Cristie Ford, Richard Leblanc, Randall Morck and Stéphane Rousseau The Financial Post has offered various pieces of commentary that argue against Bill C - 25 introduced by the federal governmenBy Anita Anand, Alexander Dyck, Cristie Ford, Richard Leblanc, Randall Morck and Stéphane Rousseau The Financial Post has offered various pieces of commentary that argue against Bill C - 25 introduced by the federal governmenby the federal government.

If anything, some U.S. analysts have argued that the November 4 midterms represented more a vote against Washington gridlock than the endorsement of the political agenda advocated by the Republicans.

$ 40,000 extra for six weeks worth of testifying and strategy is good work if you can get it, but perhaps SQN could have found someone who didn't previously publicly argue against trade action in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty petition filed in 2014 by SolarWorld.

Libertarian populism seeks to reverse that impression by arguing that higher taxes, greater regulation, and big government generally work on behalf of the politically connected and against the average person.

In court their lawyer Moshkani Farahani, who had previously argued against the charges faced by each of his clients at the last court session of this trial on 24 November, said they should be released.

Sidhak's father, Sagardeep Singh Arora argued that the school discriminated against his son, by not allowing him to wear the patka or have uncut hair - essential parts of his religion.

If 90 % of the country believed in the tooth fairy and thought we should all live by laws originating in the tooth fairy and run our country according to the tooth fairy's wisdom, you'd probably be on blogs dealing with the tooth fairy and arguing against the use of her existence as a basis for running society.

Here is a remarkably poorly argued and tendentious (not to say profoundly misleading) column by Marci Hamilton, making the case against religious hiring rights.

Or even when the Church argues against contraceptive use by Catholics, as that is effectively arguing for overpopulation.

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.

Yes, Hindu thinkers such as the first Hindu missionary to America Swami Vivekananda have argued against caste, and the Indian Constitution outlawed caste - based discrimination, but the caste system, both ancient and religious, will not be swatted away so easily by either reformers or legislators.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

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.

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.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf once argued for the mission and against ambition by saying, «Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.»

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

Part of the Ten Commandments, this passage has been used by many social conservatives to argue against Roe v. Wade and abortion rights.

Along the way, Mattes argues strenuously against all easy reductions of the doctrine: It is, he insists, the critical feature of Christian theology, and so it must not be compromised by programs of ecumenism or ethics.

Maudoodi entered the lists against the Muslim wing of the Indian National Congress by writing a book on Muslims and the Present Political Struggle, in which he argued so forcefully against the stand taken by the Muslim Congress that the Muslim Leaguers hoped he would come over to support the Pakistan movement.

This is clear when Cobb argues against Sherburne that even the visual field would have to be organized by the dominant occasion: «Probably we must be held to see different parts of the visual field successively, perhaps one color at a time» (PS 3:28).

The means by which we produce such abundance are good: Who would argue against making human toil easier by means of machines?

There were objections made against these «proofs» like the one made by Kant who noted that one can not argue from finite causes to the Infinite Cause, because from the finite all one gets is the finite.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

I wish someone had told that to the Reformers, some of whom were burned for translating the Bible into their native languages so people could read it, who argued for salvation by grace against a salvation by works Gospel, who argued for Jesus as the son of God, uncreated, instead of just one among many of «God's» created beings.

Over against all attempts to prove truth by a literal quotation from Scripture or by an appeal to an infallible leader, Bushnell argued that the difficulty arises from language itself.

observer You continue to argue against the attributes of God as recorded by the Chosen Ones in the Old Testament.