Sentences with phrase «arguing against their authority»

@ Tom Tom: I'm not arguing against their authority on this one.

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I'd argue there are biases against such pressure among both the fiscal and monetary «authorities» — the Fed and the Congress.

Virtual currency business owner Theo Chino commenced an action against the State, arguing that the DFS does not have the authority to enforce the BitLicense.

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

My old friend Peter J. Leithart joins Tony Montanaro, Gary Inbinder, and Kelley Vincent to argue» each for different reasons» against my worries about the implicit claims of authority made when modern democratic states employ the death penalty.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

Carl Braaten takes on the problem of authority, warning against naive pluralism and arguing for the need to name and condemn heresy.

CNN: My Take: Catholic bishops» election behavior threatens their authority Vincent Miller, Gudorf Chair of Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton., argues that «By putting voters in a «with us or against us» bind, some of America's bishops have risked eroding their own authority.»

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.

The Illusionary Treatment Option» by Gary Reinl, a former personal trainer and the developer of an electronic stimulation device, in which he argues that ice delays healing from a sports injury, quoting no less an authority than Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who, it says, is credited with developing the rehabilitation acronym RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation), as now being against the practice because, he claims, icing «decreases circulation, so it slows healing.»

Having gained 47 per cent of the first round vote (on a turn - out of 26 per cent), Jarvis has a strong mandate to bring together the combined authority leaders and rubberstamp the city region's devolution deal to enact the manifesto he campaigned on, including making the case for a Yorkshire Mayor, which we would argue against making the first priority.

CSEA filed an improper practice charge against the authority arguing that ratification of a tentative agreement, being part of the bargaining process, is subject to the same standards of good faith as the bargaining itself.

In a filing with the board, Paul McQuillen, the upstate coordinator of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence had argued that Howard acted inappropriately when he lent official authority to what amounted to a political rally.

A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Aggrey Darko, has argued against calls for an extension of Ghana's presidential term limits According to him, a longer tenure in office might give persons in power a sense of entitlement which could translate into the inappropriate use of presidential authority.

Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

September 20, 2011 Food and drugs: Administer together A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places many patients at increased risk for an overdose and forces them to «flush costly medicines down the toilet,» argues Mark Ratain, MD, an authority on cancer - drug dosing.

On it's own merits though, West Of Memphis is a well - assembled, well - argued doc that shows how our advocacy model of trial law can lead to the state spinning stories they know are probably untrue, and then using their authority to stand strong against any alternate theory, no matter how many millions of people believe it.

Arguing the opposite case is the formidable South Australian Crown Prosecutor, Roderic Chamberlain (Charles Dance), but O'Sullivan soon learns that he is also pitted against the closed ranks of the constabulary, the judiciary, the State, and even the Catholic church, all as outraged that so much fuss should be made about the fate of a black man as they are desperate to stave off any undermining of their own authority.

After Superintendent White balked, arguing the governor lacked the legal authority to withdraw the state, Jindal joined a lawsuit against the state board of education (which has since been dismissed)..

As Vice Chairman of an area transit authority, Steve argued against an expensive street car boondoggle that he thought threatened to end in an economic disaster.

Spanning three generations, the show introduces emerging artists Kelly Akashi, Nevine Mahmoud, and Kathleen Ryan, alongside established artists Andrea Zittel and Amanda Ross - Ho, illustrating a shift in mentorship and aesthetic lineage that argues against longstanding — and all - too - gendered — systems of artistic valuation and authority.

One might argue that Monckton is simply using his opponent's argument against him, and that Monckton has no truck with the argument from authority, except that to top off his smackdown Monckton appeals to his own authority: the unnamed statistician.

Our major national radio system, for example, rarely provides an airing for any sceptic (I have been an exception), and argues that the weight of scientific authority against scepticism is so great that it would be simply wrong to give sceptics any more time.

It could be argued that stopping claims against local authorities is exactly what LASPO was all about.

On the third main issue, the Advocate General argued that on the facts of this case, including because in this case the applicable law is that of the Member State of the supervisory authority that wishes to exercise its powers of intervention, that Article 28 (6) of the Data Protection Directive should be interpreted such that the ULD is entitled to exercise its powers of intervention against Facebook Ireland with complete independence and without being required first to call on the Irish supervisory authority.

South West Strategic Health Authority served a defence and a Pt 20 claim against the boat company, arguing that the Athens Convention applied to the trip.

It argued that it had statutory authority to build and operate the dam, that the First Nations must first prove any Aboriginal Title as against the Crown and that the action was just a backdoor attack on the Crown's approval of the dam.

Defendants argue that this court should strike the two sentencing allegations for three reasons: 1) The allegations are prejudicial surplusage; 2) The government does not have statutory authority to include sentencing allegations in an indictment; and 3) Presenting sentencing allegations to a jury for proof beyond a reasonable doubt to increase defendants» sentences violates the constitutional principles of separation of powers and the prohibition against the legislative branch delegating its powers to the executive branch.

The price of bitcoin dipped below $ 3,000 in early trading Friday, shedding some $ 2,000 over the course of two weeks as Chinese authorities began cracking down on cryptocurrencies and J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon dubbed bitcoin a «fraud,» arguing that it was a matter of time before world governments began taking action against digital coins.

In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon vetoed a bill that would have underwritten child care for everyone, arguing that the bill «would commit the vast moral authority of the national government to the side of communal approaches to child rearing over against the family - centered approach.»

Ripplinger also said the association was faced with two immediate options after receiving the bureau's findings and proposed remedies: to argue against the bureau's proposals in front of the Competition Tribunal — a quasi-judicial body that has the authority to issue fines and prohibition orders — or to seek a settlement with the bureau.