Sentences with phrase «argued over by»

The climax of «Jeff» will be argued over by the film's fans — is it a too - big moment that punctures the amiability and shaggy - dog realism of the story thus far, or is it the ultimate point of what's gone before?

This sweeping agreement to move a central economic policy choice — argued over by politicians and economists alike for much of the last 80 years — out of the remit of democratic politics is an extraordinary moment in European politics.

Not exact matches

House Republicans sued the Obama administration over the plans, arguing that the funding was illegal since it had not been appropriated by Congress.

Harvard professor and business founder Clayton M. Christensen argues that to find success, you should change your common perception of how to conduct business by not always listening to your customers and how to know when to pick a smaller market over a larger one.

«I argued that active investment management by professionals - in aggregate - would over a period of years under - perform the returns achieved by rank amateurs who simply sat still.

Trump has been one of the more outspoken critics over the last several months, arguing that Apple should have helped the FBI obtain access to the iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook — something the iPhone maker didn't do.

While Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm has argued that people have always found ways to distract themselves and waste time, perhaps by watching television, the reality is they've never had this sort of fire hose effect before.

«Taking into account all these factors, the index actually dropped by 0.002 to 0.473 from 0.475 in 2011, the first decline over the past decades,» he argued.

The solution, it is widely argued, is to cut benefits — either directly by means - testing or indirectly by raising the retirement age or allowing inflation to erode their real value over time.

Moreover, we understand that you support entitlement reform, but do you believe that it is politically realistic for the Republicans to actually achieve your goal when it would entail asking seniors to sacrifice by cutting Social Security and Medicare shortly after Republicans argued that we could afford to add over a $ 1 trillion to the deficit for tax cuts that largely benefit corporations and high - income households?

The young investors who are looking to enter the market would likely be cheered by investors, who have long argued that millennials should get over what some have described as an aversion to equities — a byproduct of their coming of age and starting their careers during the worst of the financial crisis — and take advantage of a long - term, buy - and - hold strategy that allows them to benefit from compound interest.

Speaking of what he called a $ 400 billion «euroglut» of excess European savings over already - paltry European investment, Saravelos argued that the European export of savings was structural, driven by a (rational) refusal by European investors to invest in a stagnant Europe with rising debt and rising unemployment, and so the euroglut could not be undermined by a rising euro.

Jason C. Buckel (R - Allegany), noting that the Ways and Means Committee often argues at length over whether to raise a tax credit by as little as $ 2 million.

Thus, I would argue that the current «crisis» in Quebec over tuition fees has been largely created by successive federal governments that have defunded Canadian universities, indeed putting provincial governments «between a rock and a hard place.»

My recollection is by this point in the book he'd had to substitute a proxy scaled market, and argue for the applicability of the measures over short time scales, so this suggests to me a major re-jig of my portfolio would be premature.

Macleod argues that the correlation would remain valid in free markets but has been nullified by the destruction by central banks of free markets for money, the seizure by central banks of control over interest rates, which are no longer set by savers and borrowers.

You're arguing over the race of a cartoonish character which was mostly created by Coca Cola advertising and a wandering Jewish preacher from 2,000 years ago in the Middle East.

In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Michael Walzer Yale, 256 pages, $ 28 In the Bible, argues Michael Walzer, God casts a shadow over human politics, making it hard to see that human beings are at work.

Chicagoans still argue over the personal probity of the late Mayor, but there is no doubt that the Democratic machine he headed, and the Cook County government — which was sometimes controlled by Republicans — were theme parks of raider culture gone bad.

So we argue and condemn people over the issue of infant baptism vs. adult baptism, baptism by sprinkling vs. baptism by immersion, and whether a person should be baptized in the name of Jesus vs. in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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.

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

No, I believe that tough love means going down deep, to battle our own selfishness, our own anger, our own frustrations, our fears, our temptations to choose being right over being gracious, to give up on having he last word, to stop convincing by arguing and harsh invectives, pinches and pricks, to win at all costs.

He argued, in his inimitable style, for a «dead Constitution» — whose meaning is fixed until changed by formal amendment — over a «living Constitution» that a judge can manipulate into whatever shape he wishes.

David Blankenhorn, executive director of the Institute for American Values, argues for this kind of pro-family tax reform: Such a family tax credit would boost real income by about $ 750 per child for precisely the families who have suffered an economic squeeze over the past 15 years.»

There was the weekly Sunday morning service, preceded by Sunday School, and it was invariable, no more to be questioned or argued over than attendance at regular....

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.

There was the weekly Sunday morning service, preceded by Sunday School, and it was invariable, no more to be questioned or argued over than attendance at regular school on Monday morning.

We could argue that their books were written by several different authors over a period of several decades, all of whom had competing interests and goals, most of which involve self - advancing propaganda and fictional tales of the supposed author's life and ideas.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

More than 100 black Secret Service agents argued that the security agency discriminated against black people by promoting less - qualified candidates over them from 1995 to 2005.

From the extreme left who argue that the decline of Catholic faith and practice is due to the reactionary and intransigent leadership of an over centralised Roman bureaucracy, to the extreme right who argue that the same phenomenon is caused by the left wing leanings and excessive tolerance of the same bureaucracy in the face of a liberal ideology at variance with the true faith.

From its initial announcement, the Peters Projection has been surrounded by controversy: in over 40 articles on the subject, cartographers have vigorously denounced a number of Peters's claims for the map, while he and his supporters have argued that his is the only world map that meets the concerns of people interested in social issues.

Darwin saw himself as giving an explanation, by no means complete, of the variety and distribution of species around the globe; he argued for the superiority of his explanation over its competitors, including those that attempted to account for these facts by appeal to a divine intelligence.

Further, what is now considered cannon, was argued over, for a number of centuries by the church fathers... um, you know, the Eastern Orthodox ones?

@Chad «I have never seen anyone successfully argue that Hitlers actions were anything other than motivated by german nationalism, however, I do think horrendous theology in Christianity over the centuries has contributed a great deal to anti-semitism, so I do think we as Christians have an ownership of a great deal of the holocaust and I wont shy away from that.

Swinburne sets out to defend God's omnipotence and goodness (although he is weak on God's omniscience) by arguing that the evil in the world is necessary to the measure of good in the world, with good finally winning out over evil.

I have christian friends from other churchs and there women do these things and they do it because that is how they interpret the word.Its optional and not inforced by the church or by there husbands.They do it as an act of worship to the Lord.The point is how you interpret the word that was what i was getting at as we know the word is the inspired word of God to understand it we need the inspiration of the holy spirit otherwise the word is dead and brings no life.In the case of mother etta she was called to preach and God used her as an evengelist in her day her ministry grew she witnessed to thousands she healed the sick and saved the lost you can argue over a point but the proof is there that God uses women just as he uses men in ministry today.

We aren't picking apart Christian leaders by arguing amongst ourselves over Christian differences.

While could discuss, debate, and even argue over what the founding fathers might have meant, the Supreme Court, which was established by the Founding Fathers, declared exactly that: Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion!

Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

Along with Kant's most conservative followers, Royce argued that the existence of mental categories shows that the material substance of the world must be ruled over by an Absolute Mind, which is fully as active and independent in its universal sphere as human minds are in theirs.

The passage I cited is: the church members were arguing over who had the «right» to instruct them, according to the person by which they had been baptized.

At best it might be argued that certain of these basic ideas were taken over by later propagandists and used for their own purposes.

Meanwhile, the castaways are divided among themselves both personally and philosophically, constantly arguing over whether their lives on the island are governed by purpose or blind chance, and whether faith or reason is a surer guide in their strange circumstances.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

Who in their right mind can argue with this comment of his — ``... By giving Arsene Wenger a new contract in the summer it was made clear to the players and the fans that failure to win the title over the last 13 years doesn't matter,».

With the inflated fees being paid by everyone, resulting in over a billion being spent, it's hard to argue that Arsenal are probably the richest they have ever been.

It is hard to argue that Arsenal have got what we deserved over the last few weeks, with that late goal by Liverpool denying us a well deserved win and with the injury problems we have had all season finally hitting us hard.

Most of the youngsters who have been recruited or promoted to the first team has approached the manager's philosophy without the sort of baggage and hang - ups carried by many of the senior players, what with their years of service and past successes to argue over, all won through other, less alien ways of working.