Sentences with phrase «arguing against better»

«No one is out there arguing against better human health,» he says.

Still, for «tweens and teens looking for adventure in cinema - land, it's hard to argue against this well executed film.

However, he also supports the idea that warming has recently stopped and has argued against some well - established points of climate science, such as observed sea level rise and glacier melting.

Be wary of: — Those pushing something unproven, asserting it's obviously got to help — Those arguing against well - founded remedies, asserting some unproven fear or problem

Not exact matches

«If you're arguing against A.I., then you're arguing against safer cars and being able to better diagnose people when they're sick,» Zuckerberg said Sunday.

Buchholz also argues against policies like France's 35 - hour cap on the workweek, conceived to promote a better quality of life among its citizens.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Dauman has sued to block his removal from the Redstone family trust, arguing that the move goes against the well - established plans of the 92 - year - old billionaire.

Few would argue against the idea that all advisers should act in their clients» best interests.

You could make an argument for 5 % in gold as a good diversifier — although I'd argue against it as compounding will become a huge factor for your son later in life and gold doesn't pay dividends.

$ 40,000 extra for six weeks worth of testifying and strategy is good work if you can get it, but perhaps SQN could have found someone who didn't previously publicly argue against trade action in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty petition filed in 2014 by SolarWorld.

You raise a very good point that escapes most theists and that is while they argue against atheists for not believing in their god, they forget that most of those arguments could be applied to them by somebody of another religion.

I well understood her decision and did not argue against it.

Legal academics have argued that this sort of harm strikes at the heart of the common good, and that judges should count it against the moral and religious liberty claims of those seeking to avoid complicity with others» sins.

In particular Michel Barnes argues against readings of Augustine which, on account of Augustine's alleged reliance on Neoplatonism, hold him responsible for a supposedly chronic trinitarian deficit in Western theology, only just now made good.

It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but sacrificial offering of a poor widow.

I'm not saying the unnecessary suffering of animals is good, or moral, but rather pointing out that your perspective on the subject is no more rational, no more based on fact, than that of the people you are arguing against.

The means by which we produce such abundance are good: Who would argue against making human toil easier by means of machines?

This article will summarise Fr Edward Holloway's arguments against contraception while also arguing that Natural Family Planning is a good but not «perfect» use of the marriage act.

For what it is, we could produce millions of people who would argue that they prayed for X and got X or something even better when the odds were against such an outcome.

Statements like the NCCB's well - known 1983 pastoral on peace and the Catholic bishops of France's 1979 declaration do not emphasize the doctrines of creation and human persons but argue against abortion by granting priority to the gospel.

Some argue that humanity did have a free will before Adam and Eve rebelled against God and fell into sin by eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

What Nye is arguing against is the literal, the - world - was - created - in -6-days-and-is-only-6000-years old, view, not the well - something - had - to - precede - the - big - bang - several - billion - years - ago, view.

Questions like this may well be taken as arguing against the general presuppositions with which Aquinas was working.

They argued against the despotism of God as well as against determinism and fatalism and put their whole trust in human reason, which to them was sacred.

Second, one may well argue against my view, that although the Hebraic development as consummated in Jesus won out over the decadent Hellenism of the first and second centuries, this tells us nothing of its relationship to the healthy Hellenism of the axial period.

Most of the alert ministers as well as the scholars admitted that socialism had correctly analyzed the situation, but they all argued against its solution.

In the sequel, Willard, with coauthor Gary Black, engages the ideas of the common good and moral leadership, arguing against the notion that leadership skills can be effectively compartmentalized apart from personal character.

This article will summarise Fr Edward Holloway's arguments against contraception while also arguing that Natural Family Planning is a good...

Dowd's argument against the teleology of marriage is equivalent to someone arguing that, «well, my car won't start» either because it broke down, or, heck, maybe because I yanked the spark plugs» so cars must not be for traveling.»

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

The book was so well argued that it is still widely credited, even by non-believers, for successfully rebutting this particular charge against God's existence.

as a theistic evolutionist, I do nt argue against common ancestry (as you are well aware), I'm talking about the great engineer Himself.

Right, people still in the system, who still buy into some of this stuff are the best to argue against those Southern Baptists — sad as that is.

Against Pareto optimality, one may argue that the benefits of gains to those lacking basic necessities add much more human well - being than the addition of numbers to wealth used only to create more wealth.

At any rate, we at Hopkins hold that official psychiatry has good evidence to argue against this kind of treatment and should begin to close down the practice everywhere.

You're just like people who don't believe in unicorns, except you run around all day rubbing it in peoples» faces like it makes you a better person, and while people don't have the head to argue against you, secretly most people wish you would just shut up already.

Habermas has argued specifically against trying to make such connections with concrete historical examples, suggesting that evolutionary theories are better viewed as normative guides toward the future than as testable theories.

There's nothing offensive or against the rules in my comment, but it is strongly critical, and I would like to think, well argued point against Biblical religions.

I do not believe Darwin proved Genesis wrong, because it seems to me he did not understand it well enough to argue against it.

Daly and Cobb (1989), as well as Eckersley, argue against free trade as it exists in the world today between national economies, because at present free trade destroys existing national and sub-national communities in the name of a mythical world community.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

Although the power of Congress to forbid slavery in federal territories was well - established, Sandford argued that slaves were private property of the sort protected by the Constitution against deprivation without due process of law, and that therefore Congress lacked any constitutional authority to ban slavery in the territories.

If your plan for when you stand before the Father is to argue that you didn't think He expected us to tend the sick together as government of the people — that your vote was against it even though you knew brothers & sisters would suffer for it... well, good luck with that one.

«Our best men argued against him as hard as they could.

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

You could argue that maybe Wenger doesn't have the personnel to carry out a defensive game plan, but I thought defensively we looked good today, which is something we haven't seen against the better sides in previous games.

Well, that's up for debate, but it's hard to argue against it being his most iconic.

Neither are among the best in their respective positions, and only Arsenal fans will try and argue against that.

I don't know many people who would argue against the notion that the Denver Broncos had the best defense in the NFL last season.