Sentences with phrase «argued this point before»

We've argued this point before, but the first couple of decades of the video game saw the medium taking most of its cues from the movies.

A draftsperson who wishes to avoid having to argue the point before a court might prefer to refer expressly to «negligence».

Not exact matches

«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.»

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.

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.

The people who simply wanted to argue about anything and everything would have stoned her to make a point, except for one thing: Jesus asked each one to judge himself before he judged her.

Up to this point, Paul's objector was trying to argue that only the Gentiles were guilty, and that the Jewish people had a privileged status before God.

I need only to ask: if you wash your feet before prayer, and when the last stoning was that you attended: to get my point across... but you did say I had to answer in a coherent manner...:) Yes, the jesus story... one of those that many love to argue about, even me at times in my life have i taken the position of «he never existed»... but most of us know he did, the only real question is his divinity.

[Aside: Anyone who still thinks that good Christians do not pick and choose, and wants to continue to argue this point, must answer the following questions before posting a comment: # 1 Have you sold all of your belongings and given them to them to the poor?

They somewhat argue that the journey of faith doesn't really begin until a person recognizes the existence of God, but even then, this point of faith is long before a person actually believes in Jesus for eternal life and becomes what we might call a «Christian.»

Many seem to share this point of view, and one can argue, that it is totally irrelevant to discuss anything else, before this problem is solved.

Even before his last few games and I've argued this point with you previously.

Even Roberts mentioned that when jbl came back he had changed, why are we so quick to point the finger at the one guy who argued back in character instead of the community that publically shamed ranallo for having difficulty immediately before he started having health issues?

Being likened to Ashley Cole is a huge talking point, with the former England international having been a key cog in the famous Invincibles side of 2004, before going onto win further honours with Chelsea including both European club trophies, and could have been argued to be the best left - back in the world for a number of years.

On the radio call ins a caller called in to point out the contrast between the referees getting aid from technology in the Rugby, before flicking over to see players arguing with the ref in the football, wasting more time etc. then in the rugby.

RB: In the interview that Anthony Barnett conducted on oD with William Binney, former Technical Director of the NSA, Binney says that fifteen years before the NSA, he and his colleagues were already arguing: «there's no point in collecting it all.

In arguing for a law that will allow the public — and legislators — to review the plan before its adoption, Lemmon pointed out the projects in the two - year DOT capital plan that was adopted last year are still a mystery.

Here's an interesting piece of trivia pointed out to me by a reader: Attorney Michael Carvin, who argued for the challengers during this week's marathon oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court has a connection to the Senate Republicans.

In fact, he used a variation of this routine to train for that 500 pound bench press - along with a 600 pound Squat and 300 pound Behind - Neck Press - all before steroid use entered into bodybuilding (and don't even think about arguing that point with me, I've spent years researching steroid history).

But, I show you all this to elucidate the point that despite all the semantics and nuances people argue over: calories apply to the human body and before you worry about anything else, you need to sort out your energy balance because

But, I show you all this to elucidate the point that despite all the semantics and nuances people argue over: calories apply to the human body and before you worry about anything else, you need to sort out your energy balance because regardless of how «healthy», organic, or gluten - free, a food is — if you eat more than your body needs, you're going to gain weight.

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?

I hope im wrong and there is more to it, but you cant seriously argue to me that knowing potential key plot points before you watch the movie enhances the story.

I really don't give a flying f*ck if you read my posts or not, but do try and at least muster the energy to read up on the point you're so eloquently arguing before arguing it.

In fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school system.

And while some would argue the new dash shapes don't flow visually quite as well as before, the free - standing 7.0 - inch LED touch - screen is delightfully concise and easy to use in conjunction with the console - mounted control dial, and all the major hard points — air vents, climate - control — are located pretty much in the same positions, with similar functionality.

In a way that you must have felt is clever and subtled l (it wasn't) you called me a hypocrite because I am stating that one medium (I assume your pet medium) is not more eco-friendly; I am calling your out for arguing in bad faith (or worse, someone who didn't bother to read a few short paragraphs before making a needlealss point).

As you're not arguing your own point, you need to make sure that you have a good understanding of the topic before you start writing.

Just before Christmas, John Authers of the Financial Times, in a piece entitled «Investment: Loser's Game» argued that this year, with more than 90 % of active managers on track to underperform their benchmarks, a tipping point may have finally been reached.

If you're arguing that Halo is only popular because it was daring to be a console FPS, before their popularisation, than you are sorely missing the other stronger points of the Halo franchise.

When confronted with a contrarian who argues that somehow global warming isn't taking place, I would point to the Arctic sea ice and glaciers — which have even lasted through the warm periods of the past two thousand years — and probably well before.

As you still argued the point with me, I suggested you try your luck on this site, not realising you had tried it before.

Even before this Hansen and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute argued that due to positive feedbacks and climatic tipping points global average temperature increases had to be kept to less than 1 °C below 2000 levels.

I pointed out that the world could well have seen these temps / rates before (in fact go back millions of years and it probably did, along with quite a few extinctions), but we're arguing about the warming today.

In nearly all defences of the deletion of the decline in spaghetti graphs that yield a rhetorical effect of coherence between the Briffa and other reconstructions in the last half of the 20th century, it's been argued that the divergence problem was fully disclosed in a couple of 1998 Briffa articles and that this disclosure in the original technical literature constituted sufficient disclosure — a point that I contested long before Climategate.

There is no way he could logically refute your points in that regard, but in my readings of these issues in the last 3 + years I would argue that that kind of rationality never got in his way before.

Few will argue that we can put CO2 into the atmosphere at present rates forever, either we'll run out of fossil fuels, or there'll be a point where adding further CO2 clearly will be the more expensive option, and in the extreme (there's plenty of carbon in the Earth's crust, and failing that the solar system) it'll turn the Earth into Venus eventually, and probably before that the CO2 itself would start getting toxic (at a few ten thousand ppm it ought to get to levels that'll kill us).

The good news there is the field is sufficiently complex to thoroughly exercise your gray matter (see, for example, David Fischer's analysis of the LinkLine litigation to be argued shortly before the Supreme Court), which means you're not just getting a job, but getting smarter too (case in point: before becoming an Internet marketer for lawyers I worked at Kaye Scholer and frequently saw Milton Handler, a name partner and guru of the antitrust bar, still coming to work well into his 90's).

I failed to make the point that a pro se creating on his / her own, a clear written motion will be much better prepared to argue that motion before a judge than attempting to «wing it» thereby often proving to a judge that indeed the defendant or a petitioner in civil court has the ability to proceed as a pro se.

Where the judge is satisfied he has all the relevant material before him and that the parties can argue the point fully, he ought to grasp the nettle and decide the point, since the question of whether or not there is a reasonable prospect of success will depend on the result of the construction issue.

While the matter will likely culminate in a Constitutional show - down at the Supreme Court at some point, Pro-Link GLOBAL believes the administration will first attempt to argue the merits of its case at the Circuit and District Courts before risking a permanent setback at the high court.

Roberts appeared to have been the office's point person on its strategy around the clinic violence issue — appearing twice before the Supreme Court to argue the Bray case and making media appearances to defend his office's position.

He recently acted before the Court of Appeal, in which he successfully argued a costs point in favour of the client.

On the contrary, it is the daily practice of this court, and of all appellate courts where they reverse the judgment of an inferior court for error, to correct by its opinions whatever errors may appear on the record material to the case, and they have always held it to be their duty to do so where the silence of the court might lead to misconstruction or future controversy and the point has been relied on by either side and argued before the court.

Indeed, this very point was argued by the member states before the ECJ in M&S but was rejected — as it had been in many previous cases — on the grounds that a reduction in revenue is not a justification for imposing restrictive tax measures on companies.

Where the judge is satisfied that he has all relevant material before him, and that the parties can argue the point fully, he ought to grasp the nettle and decide the point, since the question whether the claim has a reasonable prospect of success depends on the answer to the question of construction.

He argued that the ASD demand was not lawful because it was made 10 minutes after the time of driving (indicated on page 1 of the Report as 2:40 a.m.) He pointed my attention to R. v. Cleaver, in which Mr. Justice Dhillon stated that the detention of a driver by the police for 8 to 11 minutes before an ASD demand was made was contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Some researchers suggest that, in addition to increasing comprehension by sharpening the listener's attention, the placement of verbal fillers before new thoughts or ideas also helps to organize spoken language for listeners and give it a type of structure.95 Some linguists go even further and argue that verbal fillers are necessary elements in spoken discourse and that removing them for the sake of an ideal of fluency actually shortchanges listeners.96 In support of this theory, linguists point to the comprehension problems listeners encounter when written work is read aloud.

That said, if my uncle and I each had 35 pages to brief our points and then 15 minutes to argue before an independent judge, I would feel more comfortable with the exchange.