Sentences with phrase «arguing from consequences»

Lawyers are not immune to arguing from consequences.

Second, it is arguing from consequences to assert that the best advertising is merely to represent the image of a competent, trustworthy lawyer.

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Given the flow of unintended consequences arising from the present regime, it is hard to argue with that view: so why are we still waiting?

The Norwegian Lutherans argued that in some circumstances we must accept the lesser evil if suffering and destructive consequences would ensue from a birth.

In several recent works, William Lane Craig argues that there is nothing to commend Hartshorne's view, that there are positive arguments against it, and that absurd consequences follow from it (PT 103; PS 16:201;...

Yet in Rhonheimer's hands this view seems plausible, in part because of his trenchant criticism of its consequence» you can not, he argues, deduce ethical norms from an understanding of human essence.

To establish his third point Peirce invokes the pragmatic shift of concern from origins to consequences and argues that knowledge is justified not because it has an absolute foundation but because it is a self - correcting enterprise which can put any claim in jeopardy though not all at once.

He argued that slavery is a social consequence of deep, depraved self - love, and that this could be overcome only by true holiness, which was a gift from God.

When kids know that they are supposed to hang their coat up when they come home from school or that they're supposed to do homework right after dinner, it can reduce a lot of arguing as long as there are clear consequences for misbehavior.

Jure Vidmar argues that Scottish exit from the EU is an inevitable consequence of separation from the UK.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

«Strikes are always the consequence of failure, failure we can not afford as a nation,» Mr Miliband argued, to heckling from some parts of the hall.

They had argued that the judgement barred members from leaving the party upon which they were elected to the House, saying that the consequence was to lose their seat.

Senator John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and chair of his chamber's education committee, argued that the bill shields teachers from consequences of the rough transition to the Common Core in the same way that provisions in the state budget hold students harmless.

Stephen G. Schwarz, an attorney for the plaintiffs, argued at the recent hearing that any disease someone develops from PFOA exposure is «a consequence of injury, not the injury itself.»

Given these complex interactions, Andreas Meyerhans and Jordi Argilaguet, both from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues argue that it is important to understand the consequences for Treg cells of blocking PD - L1.

In the journal PLOS Medicine, David Healy, now at Bangor University in Wales, argued that these types of ads «reach beyond those suffering from a mood disorder to others who will as a consequence be more likely to see aspects of their personal experiences in a new way that will lead to medical consultations.»

We should allow for a pause in the consequences associated with the evaluations, I argued, echoing a recent statement from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.178 While these activities make up a small proportion of L214's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.179 Investigations make up a larger part of L214's work and have sometimes led to a slightly different type of backlash in which industry and government respond by attempting to pass laws that target advocates, such as ag - gag legislation in the United States.180 While L214 tries to maintain good relationships with media and the government, and France does not have ag - gag laws, they have sometimes been the target of lawsuits by industry because their footage is taken without permission.181 L214 has sometimes suffered negative consequences as a result of these lawsuits, such as fines or the requirement to take footage down from their website.182, 183

And we argued over and over that the carbon consequences of bioenergy were far from «climate friendly» or «carbon neutral,» a myth that has been perpetuated by industry proponents and even parroted by many naive environmentalists.

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Two scientists who believe we are on the wrong track argue in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are going to deal with its consequences..»

Economy vs. Environment: We've Heard This Before The debate that has surfaced in Nunavut is not unlike ongoing debates elsewhere regarding the development of coal, oil, and natural gas: Some Inuit argue in favor of the economic development that would result from mining, while others worry about the environmental consequences.

In this personal injury case ICBC argued cruelly and unsuccessfully that a claimant with a meagre income should not be protected from the cost consequences of refusing a reasonable offer to settle.

[34] The defendant argues that Ms. Mariano's injuries should be consistent with a modest low impact accident and anything more than modest injuries from the accident are an unreasonable consequence.

Some argue that the availability of a costs award protects people from aggressive self - represented litigants who may be advancing spurious claims, but there is also the view that the cost rules benefit aggressive (represented, richer) litigants who litigate against (poorer) self - reps — because the represented litigants know they aren't at risk of costs consequences when they litigate the self - rep, so they can litigate with impunity.

For one thing, he finds, the respondents made the deliberate decision not to raise the issue at trial, and must now live with the consequences of their choices; although they say their financial situation prevented them from arguing the constitutional point at first instance, there is no reason to believe that it has now changed.

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