Sentences with phrase «arguing a point long»

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We have long argued that it is vital for investors to filter out the noise that creates short - term flash points and instead stay focused on the secular themes that are driving valuations over the longer run (such as demographic trends and technological innovation).

Reaching a Point of Absurdity: Illegal immigration has been embedded in American society for so long «that we have forgotten its intrinsic contradictions,» argues Victor Davis Hanson.

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.

As long as we Christians keep arguing about words, we are missing the entire point of the teachings of Jesus... and we should go immerse ourselves in His teachings some more.

In the same letter he argues that Catholicism will be the only lasting form of Christianity; this argument also appears in Democracy, as Peter mentions, but without mention of the letter's key point that Protestantism is a half - way house between «reason» and «authority» that can not maintain its contradictory position over the long run, and which thus must lose its adherents to these two poles.

Using these sale figures as a starting point, one could easily argue that Anita Bryant has more followers than Germaine Greer, that Pat Boone speaks to more important needs than David Reuben, and that Marjorie Holmes will be savored long after Xaviera Hollander is remaindered.

It goes without saying that the Psalms must be understood according to the canons of poetry, in which the point is often not to convey information or to argue grammatically and logically, but rather to express feelings of longing or anguish, adoration or revulsion through imagery, the juxtaposition of images and ideas, crescendos and climaxes of intensity.

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.

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).

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.»

This is on what these two are truly arguing; Wenger uses the cup as an example against Neville but Neville isn't really belittling our ability to win games, but rather, that in the long run of a whole season it is more likely for us to drop points due to relying purely on skill which is far more linked to form then something like physicality.

Not going to argue — all reasonable points, but City and United have tended to play with 2 up front so I would expect a longer, deeper list of players.

The authors argue that the results of their work point to the long - term benefits of optimizing employee performance via flexibility offerings, despite potential short - term stigmatization.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. >> The aging Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County will close within about four years under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who long has argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby.

When he does eventually leave the House of Commons the entire chamber will be worse off without this worker's son made good — perched in his trademark tweed jacket on the front corner of the Labour benches, belligerently arguing a point when others have long given up the ghost.

The Committee argues that the Government can not have it both ways, and that the Review's position on this point «sits in tension with the fact that elements of the relationship between the two Houses have long been governed effectively by convention and established practice».

Pointing to cost - cutting and operational improvements at the long - ailing Albany County Nursing Home, an end to short - term borrowing to pay expenses and two consecutive budgets without a proposed tax increase, McCoy argued he's steered the county out of the Great Recession.

He argues that the number of packs is beside the point as long as the wolves are doing well.

And this is something that physicists have been arguing about for a very, very long time, but what the authors of this article point out is that the work by John Bell, but also some more recent experimental work, seems to indicate that in fact there really is a deep nonlocality to the universe; that there really is someway in which there is not some sort of missing x-factor that if we just knew what it was that would explain everything; that we would see the dominos connecting, those invisible tiny dominos connecting those different particles and set up the effect of going one to the other.

But it seems a feeble defense to argue that its acceptable to be unclear in ones book as long as the point is clear in a reference (which readers may or not be able to readily find and which, if they do, may or may not actually offer the promised clarity).

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Academics and education reformers have long pointed to this data to argue that teacher pay should depend less heavily on experience.

They will point to the long - term benefits for both pupils and society, and will argue against viewing SEL as merely a means of achieving better exam results.

While some modern readers would argue that the collection is no longer complete, Eliot's primary goal is still achieved by The Harvard Classics serving aptly as a jumping off point for education and discussion; imagine what his joy would be, knowing they can all be held in the palms of our hands.

Self - publishing bestseller Hugh Howey pointed out that he didn't break out until his eighth book, and argued, «We [as an industry] don't appreciate yet the long tail of self - publishing.

Because this is a matter of the level of risk tolerance I think there is no point in arguing and trying to point out how over long run stocks outperformed the bonds.

While many will argue that borrowing money for a home or a college education will still pay off in the long run, David points to the struggling job market and slumping home values as a potential warning sign.

You might argue that a pension fund has a much longer time horizon than any individual — and that's true to a point.

Some would argue that Membership Rewards points are worth more than 1.7 cents and I would tend to agree if you would rather use your points for long - haul, first class awards on airlines such as Cathay Pacific or Singapore Airlines.

If you want to argue that Pavones, one of the longest left hand point breaks in the world, is the best point break in Costa Rica, we won't hold it against you, and we can arrange that trip as well.

Since then, the Zelda series has remained a huge selling point for Nintendo's systems, but I would argue that the series hasn't been revolutionary in a long time.

One may argue that, in contemporary art, appropriation has long been an accepted cultural strategy, to the point that it has now become part of the mainstream.

Or, in other words, if we assume that AGW necessarily implies that global mean surface temps will rise at some point in the future (although we might argue about estimated probabilities of the extent) on the assumption that mitigating natural variations will cancel out over the long term.

He then continued on for four more sentences, arguing that the «trend is quite close to the significance level» and pointing out that statistical significance is more likely to show up when one examines longer time periods rather than shorter ones.

Now, it doesn't go in the direction it sounds like you prefer, the long series of discussions on the science end up endorsing much of the core of the modern scientific consensus around the physics of greenhouse and global warming (though pointing out places where public media frequently argues well beyond the science).

And the view that the climate has not warmed for over a decade and a half is no longer controversial — only people assembled at the Guardian argue otherwise, albeit they argue the point with (far too much) vehemence.

However, I wouldn't call 30 years an incredibly long time in regard to climate trends, so I'm not sure what your point is here, unless you are arguing that a shorter period is preferable.

Plenty of people come to SkS and strongly argue their points without problem at all, even when they go against the scientific consensus position, as long as they play by the rules.

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.

So to argue for the insignificance of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its small mass and number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path of photons between interactions with air molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.

If you're interested in seeing what playing the player instead of the ball looks like, check out the alarmist site Only In It For the Gold, where Michael Tobis unleashes endless vicious ad hominem against any skeptics who raise their voice (his most recent was a long diatribe against Freeman Dyson, whom he apparently considers a geriatric buffoon), and opens threads on what names one should call «denialists», regularly bans commenters who argue a point too vociferously, or anyone claiming scientific credentials but arguing against «the consensus».

Litigants pay their respective attorneys outrageous fees to research and argue the same, narrow points of law based on the firm's credo: «the longer C & C fights on behalf of a client, the more C & C gets paid.»

Cuomo's office pointed to other criminal justice reforms he's enacted, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and naming the attorney general as a special prosecutor for police - related deaths, arguing he's long cared about the issue.

But there was a time not so long ago that francophone counsel would argue their cases in the SCC in English because they did not want to rely on the official interpretation to make their points to the judges.

First, he maintains that the immediate application of a longer limitation period would not affect the national identity; in this respect, as pointed out under p. 5, it is worth stressing that some commentators argue that limitation rules do not per se define the constitutional identity, but in the Italian legal order they are nevertheless subject to the principle of legality, that is definitely part of such identity.

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson makes exactly this point in a blog post Thursday, in which he argues that the economics around mobile platforms such as the iPhone and the iPad (s aapl)-- and other tablets, presumably — will likely come to look a lot like the economics of the web itself, in which closing off access to content via paywalls and walled gardens has not proven to be a very successful long - term approach (with a few notable exceptions such as The Economist and the Wall Street Journal (s nws)-RRB-.

One point Bitcoin Core developers continued to argue during the long - standing debate was that contentious hard forks are dangerous and can have unexpected consequences, such as splitting a blockchain into two competing blockchains.

It's difficult for couples to change long - standing relationship patterns by themselves because people tend to argue for their own points of view.