Sentences with phrase «argued in favor of»

Of course, this diversity within Ethereum's ecosystem for a large part resulted from Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin's vision — the same Buterin who, as writer for Bitcoin Magazine, argued in favor of a more diverse Bitcoin ecosystem.

Gref has long been a proponent of blockchain, and has even argued in favor of cryptocurrency.

I argued in favor of using short sentences and the active voice.

In reaching any opinion, courts generally examine an area of law, looking at all elements of a cause of action which will naturally contain some points that can be argued in favor of either side.

In 2015, in the West Virginia Supreme Court, he successfully argued in favor of a position that strengthened the ethical standard for all attorneys in that state.

In a series of recent cases, Duffy notes, the USPTO has argued in favor of imposing new restrictions on the scope of patentable subject matter.

There, Lea argued in favor of the «2 - degree» target for guiding global emissions policy.

One of the shining lights of Libertarianism was, like Friedrich A. von Hayek and Alan Greenspan also a student of Ludwig von Mises — a fellow by the name of Murray N. Rothbard — who argued in favor of anarcho - Libertarianism, in fact in favor of the idea that police forces could compete with one - another in offering their services.

Under that line of reasoning, some have argued in favor of the continuation of commercial whaling.

Landsea said that NOAA's seasonal outlooks focused on the other pieces of the puzzle that argued in favor of an above average to average season, namely the absence of El Nino and the presence of warm sea surface temperatures.

Metzen, so far as I can tell, was the main voice within Blizzard that argued in favor of the importance of lore and narrative.

Personally, I suppose I fall on the side of Let's Plays having a good case for a fair use defense and that a lot of factors considered can be argued in favor of LPs.

They also discuss comments recently made by Ben Bernanke, who argued in favor of the Fed looking into helicopter money.

Rothstein also argued in favor of using seniority to handle layoffs, which he says is a less costly, subjective, and controversial method than using annual performance evaluations.

During a recent panel discussion on testing, Rub argued in favor of judicious use of standardized testing — what she called «one of the most controversial and contentious issues in education.»

He has argued in favor of feeding your gut properly with pre-biotics and raw fruits and veggies in order to foster healthy good bacteria in your tummy.

Under that line of reasoning, some have argued in favor of the continuation of commercial whaling.

Cameron, with the Commuter Action Group, argued in favor of buses in a recent op - ed for Hearst Media.

Like his colleagues, Liu argued in favor of rent control laws as a council member.

Some elected officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and IDC Leader Jeff Klein, have argued in favor of recognizing Columbus Day as a means to honor the contributions of Italian - Americans in history.

Pictured left to right from the winning team, which argued in favor of eliminating cash bail, were City Council member Daniel Dromm (District 25) and Fortune debater Felix Guzman, joined by Khalil Cumberbatch, Associate Vice President of Policy, David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society.

She argued in favor of the Democratic governor's promised tax revenues considering a $ 160 million budget deficit that she says the administration inherited from Republican Gov. Chris Christie in January.

Officials on Wednesday argued in favor of the city's plan to rezone East New York, saying it will keep locals in the area and create much - needed affordable housing.

They argued in favor of counting slaves.

In a NYT letter to the editor, Speaker Silver argued in favor of moving the state primaries to coincide with the June congressional primaries — something the Senate GOP has refused to do.

In a book published in 1891, B. T. Roberts, founder of the Free Methodists, argued in favor of Ordaining Women, though his denomination did not capitulate until 1974.

The Mevlevis argued in favor of the ritual dance that dancing and rejoicing is common to all living beings; even animals jump, run, and play when they are happy.

In that earlier work, Locke offered a detailed refutation of the views set forth in Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarchia, where Filmer argued in favor of monarchial power exercised by rulers who have inherited their authority from Adam as the primal parent of the human race.

Those who had argued in favor of premarital sexual relationships — many of them Christians — had tended to make assumptions about human relationships which allowed them to avoid analysis and struggle.

While he was in the House of Representatives, Cotton signed a letter that argued in favor of restricting future low - skill immigration.

In a meeting at the White House, Mr. Sessions informed Mr. Trump that he would not defend what he considered an unconstitutional order in court, according to people familiar with the conversation, and officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have made the case to the president that his administration would look foolish if it argued in favor of preserving it.

The U.S. should listen to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, whose 2013 study «Filling the Gap» argues in favor of the U.S. allowing more «low - skilled» immigrants to come here legally.

My only problem with you people arguing in favor of transfer payments is when you try to justify it in terms of macroeconomics.

At the very least, these trends argue in favor of higher hurdles for new investment.

There is probably some truth here, but simple risk analysis argues in favor of the big familiar names like bitcoin holding leadership.

Though most opinionated economists would argue in favor of one possibility, the truth is prices could go anywhere; they could rise steadily after this temporary plummet, they could hover as they reach a fair valuation, or they could plummet even further.

It is amazing to see Santorum misinterpret, invent facts, and argue in favor of nonsensicle positions with a straight face.

It is interesting that those who argue so vigorously for new plants as ways of bringing jobs do not often argue in favor of substituting labor - intensive for energy - intensive means of production in either farm or factory.

In other words, the presence of multiple accounts of some incredible flood in ancient times would argue in favor of such an occurrence, rather than assume they all borrow upon each other.

He attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology by arguing in favor of the reality of change and development, of temporality and contingency, within the divine essence.

That Wyschogrod would seem to argue in favor of Torah observance among baptized Jews might strike some as quite incredible.

On the contrary, I am arguing in favor of Sherburne's view that God is not and can not be in Whitehead's system the ground of the givenness of the past.

The second reason Newdow deserves close attention is that, although the court did not officially rule on the pledge's inclusion of the God - phrase, some justices took it upon themselves to argue in favor of it anyway.

But Krauss simply can't see the «difference between arguing in favor of an eternally existing creator versus an eternally existing universe without one.»

Why use the quote attributed to a dead man to argue in favor of opening the doors to any seeker of a religious experience?

In the sixth of these Wellesley lectures, as it turns out, there is a mildly negative assessment of the concept of evolutionary emergence and «upward progress, arguing in favor of the greater significance of continuity with the «lower orders» of nature (MT 153).

The first argues in favor of total incorporation, based on a highly tendentious reading of legislative history.

One of my own teachers told me a long time ago to be sure to understand all sides of an argument (and my extension is even to the point to argue in FAVOR of the other side).

A variety of other, more secular, justifications were used instead to argue in favor of both Prop 8 and DOMA.

The purest of the purist can't argue in favor of a player heading halfway to the on - deck circle, tapping his helmet, adjusting his gloves, tapping his cleats, taking a half - swing or three, then putting one... foot... back... and... digging... it... in... then... the... second... foot....