Sentences with phrase «argue this point at»

Because of its importance for my own vision of the cosmos, I shall argue this point at some length.

But I am too intransigent in my sentimentality, perhaps, to argue the point at length.

Not exact matches

He argues the «whatever it takes» ethos that's been adopted by global central banks has to fade at some point, and notes stimulus is already drying up.

It is at this point analysts and economists invariably argue none of China's overspending and debt really matters.

Few could argue that Americans are a slightly rounder society at this point in time.

Though some experts argue that employee tenures at the top are decreasing, she points to U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, which find that managers stay with a firm an average of 6.1 years (up from 5.3 years in 1983), as proof that the jury is still out.

Prior to the market correction, which has reduced Tesla's 2018 gain to about 3 % ahead of earnings, there was no real major dip, so you could argue that the staggering losses and the capital obliteration — over $ 1 billion per quarter at his point — are, well, somehow rationally priced in.

With more than $ 1.2 billion backing it and Intel at its side, Cloudera claims the most widely adopted Hadoop technology in the world — although Hortonworks (which got $ 50 million from Hewlett - Packard (HPQ) over the summer) and MapR Technologies would probably argue the point.

Meanwhile, the two companies have also been the subjects of merger rumors, with Fortune even arguing at one point that DraftKings and FanDuel could join forces to defeat their legal problems and not have to also focus on competing with one another.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

The tipping point came in 1917, when President Wilson made the decision to enter World War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the franchise.

Ahead of earnings, there's been no real dip, so you could argue that the staggering losses and the capital obliteration — over $ 1 billion per quarter at his point — are, well, somehow rationally priced in.

But his bullishness is typical of how tech investors view Tesla: they argue that growth is all that matters and expect the company to at some point achieve a monopoly position in an industry that's among the world's most competitive.

«I would argue that the good companies that trade at expensive multiples are better quality companies and deserve a higher multiple,» she says, pointing to the example of retailer Dollarama Inc. (TSX: DOL), which trades at 28.8 times current - year earnings — seemingly rich even for its sector — with an enterprise value - to - EBITDA ratio of 19.8.

Law professor Eugene Volokh, who blogs about free speech issues at the Washington Post, has made the same point in the past to argue that Google's (GOOG) choice of search results are a form of free speech.

The Blinger plugs in to any electrical outlet at the point of sale and requires no additional integration with the existing POS system — a rejoinder to critics who argue mobile payment infrastructure is too costly and complex to achieve widespread penetration.

You might argue that the rail system will, at some point, reach a capacity constraint.

Over at WaPo, wherein I argue that a) when we hit the next recession, many policy makers will point to our higher - than - average debt / GDP ratio as evidence that we have too little fiscal space to engage in offset fiscal stimulus, and b) those policy makers will be wrong.

At this rate it would take 25 years for disposable household income to raise by 10 percentage points of GDP, which I would argue is the absolute minimum consistent with real rebalancing.

Imbalances can continue for many years, I argue, but at some point they become unsustainable and the world must adjust by reversing those imbalances.

At one point during the transition, Kushner had argued internally against giving Conway a White House role, these two people said.

«I'd argue it's more on the psychological side of things, whereby people see a new major policy pointed at the housing market and take a bit of a step back, temporarily reassess where they are in the marketplace before perhaps moving back into the market.»

Not only would it be starting ahead of schedule, he argues, but even at the market lows of a year ago the stock valuations were never as low as they typically get at turning points in secular market trends.

As we have argued before, structural factors may mean prices take longer to respond to the current higher levels of activity than would normally be expected at this point in the economic cycle.

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

I would argue that were are at that point right now.

The point is that after decades of touting his business acumen, his ability to negotiate tough deals and spot good investments, and after spending this entire campaign season arguing that he's qualified for the presidency based on his skills in the market, Trump nonetheless has an investment record that at best roughly matches and at worst underperforms the market.

Friday is showdown day between the activists who want board and management change at Crescent Point Energy and those who argue the current group needs more time.

Some people still argue that it is wildly improbable for a given self - replicating molecule to form at a given point (although they usually don't state the «givens,» but leave them implicit in their calculations).

Perhaps the shattering was inevitable, but those who follow these developments closely argue persuasively that his firm intervention at a number of points might have made a big difference.

Again, my concern at that point was to argue for profound transformation, not to argue against continuity.

Of course any reasoning person would not, those of you who would argue this are only, at this point ad hominem or ad argumentum.

So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.

Furthermore, I have argued that on some of these points the changing situation and growing knowledge of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would have led Wesley to come down at a different place.

Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».

But I am arguing that the hope of the world, at this critical point in history, lies in the increase of those who truly follow Jesus.

This can be regarded as a form of liberal theology; so at this point I will simply argue that Wesley would support no holds barred biblical scholarship and rethink his teaching in its light.

At that point, they typically invoke special pleading (the «un-caused cause»), arguing that the premise they initially relied on doesn't apply to their proposed solution and they effectively lose.

VocalAtheist should be embarrassed at being so obsessed with someone he never met, to the point of googling them around because he can't argue with them to defend his own ideas with anything but schoolyard social skills.

Ramsey argues that we care properly for the dying when we acknowledge that at some point their death is irretrievably upon them and should no longer be resisted, but he also argues that «care» can never include actions intended to cause death.

The real problem lies at the point of the fourteen years that Paul says elapsed between the visit he made to Jerusalem after his conversion and the time he argued privately with Peter, John, and James.

Now, as Nagel argues, this is not the sort of question that you can answer by looking at a few examples (bats for Nagel, Christians for us) and pointing and saying, «Well, being a bat (or a Christian) is like this.»

At this point Cobb might be tempted to make one last ditch stand, arguing that I have begged the question by merely assuming that a structured society can not be an enduring object, whereas what he is saying, when he says that one regional standpoint can include another, is that one enduring entity, one nonspatial, serially ordered society, can still be a structured society in that its temporally successive occasions can include the regional standpoints of the «narrower» actual entities which make up its subordinate societies and / or nexus.

At one point he argues, more sweepingly, that «sixty percent of Afro - American children are now being brought up without the emotional or material support of a father.

Despite the fact that everyone, at some level, knows this, the point needs to be argued because we are all also partly brainwashed by a theory that suggests that global capitalism strongly supports the overall well being of humanity.

Picking his way expertly through three centuries of scientific history, from Newton on gravity (the force that causes apples to fall and planets to stay in orbit is the same), through electricity and magnetism (aspects of a single reality), to the present search for a Grand Unified Theory, he argued that the coherence of the physical universe progressively uncovered by science points to a «unity principle» at its heart.

In the sermon, Keller points out the personal, spiritual, and social implications of the parable, while arguing that «The Christian understanding of hell is crucial to understanding your own heart, for living at peace in the world, and for knowing the love of God.

When he represents priests and parsons as oinking pigs gathered at the bedside of the dying freethinker, his point is less to argue that clergy are parasites than to strip them of their dignity.

D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.