Sentences with phrase «argue against the idea»

In a recent column for Politico, media writer Jack Shafer argued against the idea that the media are somehow to blame for the rise of Donald Trump.

Christopher Ragan, on the other hand, argues against the idea, insisting the Bank focus solely on inflation (and pushing down on the dollar would escalate inflation).

Few would argue against the idea that all advisers should act in their clients» best interests.

Boyd seeks to argue against the idea that faith is certainty.

First, in saying that it would be impossible for God to deceive us, Descartes was arguing against the idea that solipsism might be true, that our sensory impressions might not correspond to actual objects.

But everything argues against that idea.

Who could argue against the idea that the team that scores the most goals should be the winner?

While some Libertarians are against compulsion on principle, I know of no one really that would argue against the idea that education isn't necessary for republican forms of government in principle.

Transportation advocates and Fernando Ferrer, the MTA board's vice chairman and another Fix NYC panel member, argued against the idea that the plan was a regressive tax against lower - income, outer - borough car owners.

What is new in this book, however, is that I argue against the idea that the Communists won because they had a secret recipe for governance, and that their competition, the Guomindang or the collaborationist Wang Jingwei government were failures.

Dr Starkey advocated for «a serious focus» on British culture, before arguing against the idea of Britain's diversity by saying: «You think London is Britain.

And he argues against the idea that there is «dark money» at play here.

It is now hard to argue against the idea that the Lib Dems should have wielded their influence outside of government, holding the Tories to account in a more public manner than they could within.

«It's not my tunnel,» said Cuomo yesterday, in arguing against the idea that the state should play a role in paying for infrastructure used by Amtrak and NJ Transit.

But Ed Balls, Lord Mandelson and Douglas Alexander argued against the idea.»

(CNN)- A surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign said Monday the presumptive GOP nominee was taken out of context when he argued against the idea of hiring more fire fighters, police and teachers on the taxpayer dime.

They also, she says, argue against the idea that human - type laughter requires a bipedal posture, as neuroscientist Robert Provine of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has argued.

Also, regarding the satellite measurements: they do not themselves argue against the idea of anthropogenic global warming, as you may have suggested.

It's worth mentioning that Berkhan is one of the guys most responsible for the «I.F. movement,» and spent years arguing against ideas that many fitness pros (myself included) thought were «fact.»

Republicans have a significant opportunity in next year's election to win on the education issue by continuing their push for a reform - based education agenda and arguing against the idea that more money without real structural reform can fix the ills of our education system.

But in addition to a growing evidence worldwide a practical note, few teachers argue against an idea that reduces workload, admin, stress, and monotony, while reducing the number of students you're having to focus on.

(By the way: Maureen Downey, the education commentator for the Atlanta Journal - Constitution argues against the idea).

It's unlikely that very many people would argue against the idea that parent involvement in education is critical.

So even though a trade setup looks extremely profitable, your gut feel may be arguing against the idea.

Although many will argue against the idea of ignoring naysayers, as this is the Internet and our voices should be heard, apparently.

Also, regarding the satellite measurements: they do not themselves argue against the idea of anthropogenic global warming, as you may have suggested.

I would also like to argue against the idea that reducing anthropogenic GHG can be done at no cost or negative cost.

There's an interesting new article in Science by Damon Matthews and Susan Solomon that argues against the idea that worsening climate change is unavoidable, even if changes wrought by our past emissions can not be reversed.

This was a very significant case for women's equality rights as it gave LEAF and its coalition partners an opportunity to elaborate on the key human rights concepts of adverse - effect discrimination and the duty to accommodate, as well as to argue against the idea of «reverse discrimination».

It is hard to argue against the idea that lawyers should be charged for excess costs that they impose on others by making arguments that are without substantial justification.

Of course, very few people argue against the idea that copyright can be a useful tool to encourage authors to create and publishers to publish.

Some researchers, however, have argued against the idea that attachment is one of the primary factors implicated in the development of CD / ODD, citing biological factors as more important [56].

Not exact matches

Taleb is essentially arguing against stability, against the idea you can calculate and avoid risk or failure.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think people are arguing against the website itself, but the idea it represents, i.e. gender segregation.

In the sequel, Willard, with coauthor Gary Black, engages the ideas of the common good and moral leadership, arguing against the notion that leadership skills can be effectively compartmentalized apart from personal character.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

To say that the word became flesh (1: 14), to insist on Jesus» thirst and weariness, and the reality of his death (20:27), is to argue directly against the basic gnostic idea of the unreality of this world.

If all you've argued against was incorrect, it sounds like this idea scares you a bit, because you can't use your usual hammer.

But this idea is exactly what Peter is arguing against.

I argued this earlier in year and people here were totally against the idea of havinf gritty players in the lineup.

On Sept. 20, it will sponsor a live debate at NYU's Skirball Center in New York with ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams and journalist Hanna Rosin (you may know her from her controversial Atlantic article last year, The End of Men), who will argue for the idea, while feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers and Men's Health magazine editor - in - chief David Zinczenko arguing against it.

As Steven Weinberg points out here, the argument made against extremists ends up invoking a moral sense to argue that the religious ideas of the extremists are wrong, when the whole point of religion is that it should be the other way around.

Cuomo opposed that idea, arguing the creation of a special inspector general appointed by him would be a better way to guard against corruption.

Labour argued that it was not against the idea, but asked how it could be funded.

Critics are against evolutionary biologists accepting this money and argue that evolutionary theory already embraces the best of these ideas.

This does not, however, in itself argue against welcoming highly skilled immigrants and their ideas.

The findings argue against the conventional evolutionary psychology hypothesis that ideas of fairness and punishment are just evolutionary holdovers, says anthropologist of Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Faria et al show that samples from microcephaly cases are distributed around the evolutionary tree, which strongly argues against (although again can't absolutely disprove) this idea.

He wasn't having it, using every idea in the book to argue against it because he's heard so many people repeat it.

Late in the film, the subject argues against the latter in terms that are fully logical, but his thinking is too far ahead of its time for the person receiving the idea to understand.